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[SPEAKER_00]: So let's flash back a little bit.

[SPEAKER_03]: We have been working our way through first Samuel, right?

[SPEAKER_03]: And before David ever wore a crown, he still doesn't have a crown right now.

[SPEAKER_03]: He was anointed in secret, marked by God while still a forgotten shepherd boy, even forgotten by his family.

[SPEAKER_03]: Remember?

[SPEAKER_03]: But that promise probably felt distant as he hid in caves hunted by a king threatened by his calling.

[SPEAKER_03]: Saul's downfall wasn't just about power.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was about pride.

[SPEAKER_03]: misplaced identity, and resisting the grace that had once lifted him up.

[SPEAKER_03]: By first Samuel, twenty-two, David is in the cave of Adulam, but he's not alone.

[SPEAKER_03]: The distressed, indebted, and discontented, they gather there as well.

[SPEAKER_03]: Turning that cave into more than just a hideout.

[SPEAKER_03]: It becomes a refuge for the broken and a seed bid for a new type of leadership, a new type of hope.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know, my dad, as a kid, instilled us as a grown woman, have a man cave in my parents' house.

[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe some of you have that.

[SPEAKER_03]: I know I have dreams of having a she-shed one day.

[SPEAKER_03]: If you come visit me, you'll see a little prototype of a pink and green sheet shed on my balcony.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, I believe in quiet places to get away.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was there where he gathered other people and other people gathered who came to our home.

[SPEAKER_03]: My dad's man cave had a huge wall still does.

[SPEAKER_03]: Completely lined with records and tapes in CDs, things we don't use today.

[SPEAKER_03]: Old sound systems eight track that span over fifty years of his curated archive of jazz and Motown and movies, all collected long before streaming and playlists existed.

[SPEAKER_03]: The space wasn't just about sound, it was about creating a community together for rest and restoration.

[SPEAKER_03]: We'd watch his favorite action movies.

[SPEAKER_03]: Things I probably should not have watched as a child.

[SPEAKER_03]: All the die hearts, citizen can, and because we love a good musical, the five heart beats.

[SPEAKER_03]: If you haven't seen it, check it out today.

[SPEAKER_03]: If you come to visit, if you make it to the kitchen, I have no doubt he's going to feed you, and he's going to invite you to come to that cave.

[SPEAKER_03]: And in many ways, that's what the church is meant to be.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's a cave for humanity, a place where distressed and disillusioned people come.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's where we gather, not just to simply escape, but to confess.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's a place of two things here, me clearly, refuge and reckoning, and it has to be both.

[SPEAKER_03]: And just about every Sunday, we come to a time in our service where we literally confess our sin and our suffering.

[SPEAKER_03]: in this place of refuge in reckoning, we do that.

[SPEAKER_03]: We who are believers and follow the way of Christ necessarily admit that we have once and still might be following the wrong king.

[SPEAKER_03]: To be a believer is to admit that I have once and I'm inclined to without God's intervention to follow the wrong king.

[SPEAKER_03]: refuge and reckoning.

[SPEAKER_03]: We who are believers tell the truth about that.

[SPEAKER_03]: And now by the grace of God, we follow, we try to y'all the way of Christ.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's who we are following.

[SPEAKER_03]: We want to chose pride.

[SPEAKER_03]: Sometimes we still do.

[SPEAKER_03]: We want to chose fear.

[SPEAKER_03]: Sometimes we still do.

[SPEAKER_03]: over trust in God.

[SPEAKER_03]: And we're tempted to do this as the storms and winds of life come upon us.

[SPEAKER_03]: But thanks be to God for the transforming grace of the Holy Spirit and submission to God's Holy Word.

[SPEAKER_03]: Did you know that an ancient Israel caves were not only shelters, but also places of burial where some things need to die?

[SPEAKER_03]: and refuge, symbolizing both endings and new beginnings.

[SPEAKER_03]: And that also happens in the church.

[SPEAKER_03]: Refuge and reckoning.

[SPEAKER_03]: So on this Father's Day, we remember the church is not a palace for the perfect.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's a cave for the confessing.

[SPEAKER_03]: A refuge for those ready to stop pretending and to start depending.

[SPEAKER_03]: In this sacred space, we declare our full allegiance to the one and only true King.

[SPEAKER_03]: Come what may.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I don't know about you.

[SPEAKER_03]: We are in come what may kind of time.

[SPEAKER_03]: There's a lot of come what may in happening in this world.

[SPEAKER_03]: We need our true and resurrected King to guide us.

[SPEAKER_03]: So today, we're in the cave.

[SPEAKER_03]: We're following David in the cave of Adulam.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then we're going to check out Saul in Gibbia at the Tamarish Tree.

[SPEAKER_03]: We've got two locations in much to learn in both of these places.

[SPEAKER_03]: This offers us a journey that we always need, a journey of self-examination.

[SPEAKER_03]: And we don't have just three points today.

[SPEAKER_03]: We have three confessions that we, the people of God, if we embrace this faith, are able to make together today.

[SPEAKER_03]: Not three points, three confessions, because our God is gracious and welcomes us to be a confessing, confessing community.

[SPEAKER_03]: So today I'm preaching from this theme, confessions from Humanities Cave.

[SPEAKER_03]: I think we have some things to admit, don't you?

[SPEAKER_03]: So here are the three confessions.

[SPEAKER_03]: Confession one, great stress and panic tempt us if we be honest.

[SPEAKER_03]: To forget our responsibilities and obedience to God's commands.

[SPEAKER_03]: There's nothing like burdens that'll make you shut that Bible.

[SPEAKER_03]: Confession number two, jealousy, jealousy will miss shape us and it can be lethal, lethal, destroying people, destroying institutions and destroying ourselves.

[SPEAKER_03]: Confession number three, lies linger and our fear makes us lie.

[SPEAKER_03]: But Christ is the truth, and He makes us truthful people.

[SPEAKER_03]: Y'all ready to get into these confessions?

[SPEAKER_03]: There's grace for each one, I promise.

[SPEAKER_03]: Confession one, great stress and panic will tempt us to forget our responsibilities and our obedience to God's commands.

[SPEAKER_03]: I want you to look at David in the beginning of this text.

[SPEAKER_03]: David is panic.

[SPEAKER_03]: He got every reason to be paniced.

[SPEAKER_03]: The king who has all power in this land, he's not Almighty, but he's powerful.

[SPEAKER_03]: is after him with the intention to kill him, not to talk, not to slander to kill him.

[SPEAKER_03]: I would be panic, wouldn't you?

[SPEAKER_03]: It's not just the king, it's his father in law, y'all.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's his mentor and his hero who is after him to destroy him because of the vicious outworkings of unchecked jealousy.

[SPEAKER_03]: Davis got every reason to be running, every reason to be panic, and every reason to be self-focused.

[SPEAKER_03]: Every reason to preserve himself.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yet he still fulfills his immediate purpose.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's got a long-term purpose to be king, but that does not subtract the immediate purpose is that he has.

[SPEAKER_03]: I want you to hear that.

[SPEAKER_03]: A long-term purpose is what God has promised does not neglect the immediate purpose is before us.

[SPEAKER_03]: And so David is panicked, but he still fulfills his immediate purpose and responsibilities.

[SPEAKER_03]: What are those you might say?

[SPEAKER_03]: We find in the very beginning of that chapter after David left Gappy escaped to that cave when his brothers and his father's household heard about it, they went down to him.

[SPEAKER_03]: And from them there, David went to Ms.

[SPEAKER_03]: Put in Moab and said to the king of Moab, would you let my father and mother come and stay with you until I learn what God will do for me?

[SPEAKER_03]: So he left him with the Kanga Moab, and they stayed with him as long as David was in the stronghold.

[SPEAKER_03]: These verses show us that David though in personal danger and distress.

[SPEAKER_03]: In a place where he could say, it's all about meat and my survival.

[SPEAKER_03]: He still chooses to take intentional steps to protect and care for his family, because that's his immediate purpose.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's a mark of his character as a faithful son and as a future king that what we do in private and public must be consistent or we should not lead publicly.

[SPEAKER_03]: But why Moab?

[SPEAKER_03]: Why would David go to Moab?

[SPEAKER_03]: Now you remember those who were here and those who weren't, you're welcome to check out the Ruth series.

[SPEAKER_03]: David is the great grandson of Ruth, a true biblical matriarch.

[SPEAKER_03]: And if you recall, Ruth Mary's Bowe's, an Israelite of Bethlehem, and they have a son named Obed, an Obed father's Jesse, and who does Jesse father?

[SPEAKER_03]: David.

[SPEAKER_03]: And David is one quarter mobile byte.

[SPEAKER_03]: His great-grandmother Ruth, a mobile-by-woman celebrated for her faith in loyalty to this day, left her home led in her homeland and her false gods to follow the God of Israel.

[SPEAKER_03]: This ancestry gave David a familial connection to the King of Moab.

[SPEAKER_03]: And so, when David fleeing for his life sought refuge for his aging parents in Moab, he was no stranger but a relative, although distant.

[SPEAKER_03]: In an intense political moment that shared lineage may have prompted the Moabite King to offer him protection.

[SPEAKER_03]: An act of mercy within God's providential care.

[SPEAKER_03]: Why prioritize his parents even while he's on the run?

[SPEAKER_03]: David knew Saul was unstable.

[SPEAKER_03]: He would threaten his own son's life, and we know that he would threaten David's family too.

[SPEAKER_03]: So David acts decisively to protect them.

[SPEAKER_03]: Raised in a faithful Israelite home, David would have known the commandment honor your father and your mother.

[SPEAKER_03]: So that your days might be long.

[SPEAKER_03]: I think he would really cling to that while he's running for his life.

[SPEAKER_03]: Israel's law was taught recited and lived daily just as Deuteronomy six instructs.

[SPEAKER_03]: David called a man after his own heart didn't just act out of strategy.

[SPEAKER_03]: His care for his parents that we see in this text was an expression of covenant obedience, worship, and his identity.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is who I am, not just what I do.

[SPEAKER_03]: People of God, but especially to the parents in the room today, we must be honorable people, not perfect, honorable.

[SPEAKER_03]: So that we are not a stumbling block to this command for our children.

[SPEAKER_03]: They are called with wisdom and appropriate boundaries to honor us.

[SPEAKER_03]: Let us seek to make that easy for them to do.

[SPEAKER_03]: So David is running for his life.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's exiled.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's hunted.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's in despair.

[SPEAKER_03]: But in the cave, he doesn't just collapse inward.

[SPEAKER_03]: Let me protect me.

[SPEAKER_03]: He remembers his responsibilities and he cares for his family.

[SPEAKER_03]: David shows us responsibility [SPEAKER_03]: without domination.

[SPEAKER_03]: He shows responsibility without having to have privilege and power.

[SPEAKER_03]: He humbly makes a request of the Moa by King.

[SPEAKER_03]: He humbles himself.

[SPEAKER_03]: He humbles himself to make a request of the Moa by King while he is on the run choosing care over control because he has no power, but he can still fulfill his responsibilities.

[SPEAKER_03]: So even when life caves in, and it does cave in you, godly people don't abandon their responsibilities.

[SPEAKER_03]: Your faith may tremble, but your calling remains.

[SPEAKER_03]: We're not just called to do stuff.

[SPEAKER_03]: We're called to be something.

[SPEAKER_03]: The kind of people that come what may, we seek to obey God's Word in loving each other.

[SPEAKER_03]: And we are in times that will test us.

[SPEAKER_03]: We are in times that will test us right now.

[SPEAKER_03]: And we who and who we are is revealed when we still honor God's Word in the times of distress.

[SPEAKER_03]: Who we are is revealed when times are hard and we still do what is right.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's how you know if you really believe it.

[SPEAKER_03]: We can do right one is easy, but it's when times are hard in challenging and demanding.

[SPEAKER_03]: We still choose to obey God's word.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's integrity.

[SPEAKER_03]: So has life, life's distress?

[SPEAKER_03]: There's a real question.

[SPEAKER_03]: Tempted you to set aside God's commands.

[SPEAKER_03]: has life's distress in his real distress for these days, has life's distress tempted you to set aside God's commands.

[SPEAKER_03]: Let's confess that today.

[SPEAKER_03]: And receive the grace not just to act, but to become, to become who God has anointed us to be.

[SPEAKER_03]: So that's our first confession.

[SPEAKER_03]: great stress and panic tempt us to forget our responsibilities and our obedience to God's commands.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's first confession.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm able to say it out loud.

[SPEAKER_03]: I hope you say it in your heart with me.

[SPEAKER_03]: The second confession and I believe this is the meat and potatoes of this particular passage is that jealousy will miss shape us and it can be lethal.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's a destroyer.

[SPEAKER_03]: It robs us of empathy.

[SPEAKER_03]: It robs us of reasonableness.

[SPEAKER_03]: It robs us of Godly community.

[SPEAKER_03]: It robs us of reverence which leads to rebellion.

[SPEAKER_03]: Ooh, jealousy.

[SPEAKER_03]: While David hides in a cave broken, desperate, and gathering, the wounded saw our next scene sits under the tamarist tree in Ghibia.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's got a spear in his hand sitting under a tree.

[SPEAKER_03]: He is big, big, big, big man.

[SPEAKER_03]: Surrounded by fearful officials.

[SPEAKER_03]: This contrast is striking.

[SPEAKER_03]: David is in a place of refuge in reckoning where God is shaping humble, faithful leadership from the confessing margins.

[SPEAKER_03]: Saul by contrast is trapped in delusion, y'all.

[SPEAKER_03]: Clinging to power, God has already taken away.

[SPEAKER_03]: The tamarist tree wants a symbol of shelter now represents false security and fading authority.

[SPEAKER_03]: Saul sits in this place, still claiming kingship, though God's presence has moved on.

[SPEAKER_03]: The spear in his hands says it all, his leadership is driven by fear, not by faith.

[SPEAKER_03]: While David humbles himself in the cave Saul isolates in denial.

[SPEAKER_03]: One space becomes a womb for new leadership, the other a tomb for leadership that refused to surrender to God.

[SPEAKER_03]: Souls weapon reflects a kingship ruled by paranoia and not by purpose.

[SPEAKER_03]: In contrast, God's intended leadership is grounded in God's word.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's not God's leadership unless it's grounded in God's word.

[SPEAKER_03]: And what do we know about God's Word?

[SPEAKER_03]: It's sharper than any double-edged sword.

[SPEAKER_03]: It penetrates, even dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow.

[SPEAKER_03]: It judges the thoughts and attitudes of the hearts.

[SPEAKER_03]: So, rejected that word.

[SPEAKER_03]: Through disobedience, deceit and unrepentance, choosing a physical sword, over the spiritual one, meant to shape his heart and his rule.

[SPEAKER_03]: Hear the word of the Lord.

[SPEAKER_03]: Verse seven, Saul said to his servants, who stood around him, here now you Benjaminites.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards.

[SPEAKER_03]: Will he make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds?

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, do you have a deal with him?

[SPEAKER_03]: Is he going to do something for y'all?

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm a Benjamin, y'all Benjaminites.

[SPEAKER_03]: Y'all should, we should be in this together.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's what he's saying.

[SPEAKER_03]: First eight, is that why all of you have conspired against me?

[SPEAKER_03]: You think I'll give you the hook up?

[SPEAKER_03]: No one discloses to me when my son makes a league with the son of Jesse.

[SPEAKER_03]: Not even calling them by his name.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know David Nane.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know when you big mad and bitter, you don't call folks by day name like you suppose to.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's a thing.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know that person's name.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know that person's title.

[SPEAKER_03]: Stop playing games.

[SPEAKER_03]: He says, none of y'all disclosed to me when my son was in league with him with this son of Jesse.

[SPEAKER_03]: None of you is sorry for me.

[SPEAKER_03]: This king under a tree with a spear, a grown man.

[SPEAKER_03]: None of you is sorry for me.

[SPEAKER_03]: Don't judge him.

[SPEAKER_03]: Because if we don't check ourselves, we can find ourselves functioning the same way.

[SPEAKER_03]: None of you is sorry for me.

[SPEAKER_03]: Or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servants against me to lie and wait, and he is doing that today.

[SPEAKER_03]: Do Ag the Edomite, who was in charge of Saul's servants answered, I saw the son of Jesse coming to know.

[SPEAKER_03]: To a Himalach of a high-tup, He inquired of the Lord for Him, gave Him provisions, and gave Him the sort of Goliath the Philistine.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's a plot twist.

[SPEAKER_03]: Paul's jealousy blinds him to God's truth, and Saul, we see, is at level ten of paranoia.

[SPEAKER_03]: And he has no egg.

[SPEAKER_03]: His sidekick, his height man feeding into his frenzy.

[SPEAKER_03]: Saul tries to stir in demand loyalty by appealing to tribal ties, but not the truth.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm a Benjamin.

[SPEAKER_03]: You're a Benjamin.

[SPEAKER_03]: Trying to shame them into following him simply because of shared identity.

[SPEAKER_03]: Jellacy distorts his vision.

[SPEAKER_03]: He won't even say David's name anymore.

[SPEAKER_03]: And have you ever been so angry that you've done that?

[SPEAKER_03]: Saul's soldiers refused to follow him blindly.

[SPEAKER_03]: They fear God and know that conviction must outweigh tribalism.

[SPEAKER_03]: Truth must trump tribalism.

[SPEAKER_03]: But dogg and outsider with no such reverence, fuels Saul's paranoia.

[SPEAKER_03]: He shifts from chief shepherd.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's his role.

[SPEAKER_03]: Dogg is the chief shepherd.

[SPEAKER_03]: We find that out in the last chapter.

[SPEAKER_03]: To very soon, becoming the chief executioner.

[SPEAKER_03]: Becoming the sword of Saul's vengeance for him.

[SPEAKER_03]: Dogg is the anti-David in this text.

[SPEAKER_03]: Where David protects the innocent, Dogg destroys them for gain.

[SPEAKER_03]: Saul is a dire warning of what happens when we will not.

[SPEAKER_03]: We won't.

[SPEAKER_03]: We refuse to receive wisdom, truth or correction.

[SPEAKER_03]: Watch.

[SPEAKER_03]: Watch it happen.

[SPEAKER_03]: Verse fourteen, then a Him-elect answered the king.

[SPEAKER_03]: Who among all your servants is so faithful as David?

[SPEAKER_03]: He's telling them the truth.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's telling him facts.

[SPEAKER_03]: He is the king's son and law, the truth facts.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it's quick to do your bidding.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's got your back.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's put his life on the line for you.

[SPEAKER_03]: And he is honored in your house, meaning everybody respects him.

[SPEAKER_03]: After all, he's married to you.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's today the first time that I have inquired of God for him.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's saying, I'm a priest.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is what I do.

[SPEAKER_03]: I pray for people.

[SPEAKER_03]: I point them to God.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is what I do.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's not special for this person only.

[SPEAKER_03]: By no means he says, do not let the king impute anything to his servant.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is correction.

[SPEAKER_03]: Do not let the king impute anything that is wrong.

[SPEAKER_03]: to your servant when it is not true.

[SPEAKER_03]: He states facts and he provides correction.

[SPEAKER_03]: And watch what happens.

[SPEAKER_03]: He says to him, for your servant has known nothing, nothing of this much or little.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then at verse sixteen, this is what Saul says to him, the man who told him to truth, the man who offered correction, the man that was clear with him, the priest that was only doing his job, he says to him, [SPEAKER_03]: You shall surely die.

[SPEAKER_03]: You and all your father's house.

[SPEAKER_03]: The king said to the guard who stood around him, turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because their hand also is with David.

[SPEAKER_03]: They knew that he fled, and he did not disclose it to me, but the servants of the king would not raise their hand to attack the priest of the Lord.

[SPEAKER_03]: Then the king said to do egg, you, you do egg, turn and attack the priest, and do egg the Edamite, the person that was the chief shepherd, now the chief executioner turned and attacked the priest.

[SPEAKER_03]: And on that day, he killed eighty-five who wore the linen ephod.

[SPEAKER_03]: and he's destroyed an entire city of priests, not just the priests, but their families, their wives, the men and women that were there, the children, the infants, the oxen, the donkeys, the sheep, all put to sword.

[SPEAKER_03]: Uncheck jealousy that cannot listen to reason, will destroy.

[SPEAKER_03]: A Himalach is stating facts, but feelers don't care none about facts.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm talking to us.

[SPEAKER_03]: Do your feelings really get about facts?

[SPEAKER_03]: I used to teach a class on change process.

[SPEAKER_03]: How do you get people to change their minds?

[SPEAKER_03]: It's not facts.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now when they got big feelings, oh no, you got to attend to the feelings.

[SPEAKER_03]: facts become more information, huh?

[SPEAKER_03]: That is then manipulated in use to build this trust when someone is committed to a false story.

[SPEAKER_03]: Facts do not change feelings.

[SPEAKER_03]: Because the truth requires something that we sometimes don't want to do.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe not a coin in here, but a loin in here over in Dorado neighborhood, not Bordo.

[SPEAKER_03]: Sometimes we know we wrong.

[SPEAKER_03]: But then we get too embarrassed to admit it.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then we start this thing that we teach in psychology, one on one, confirmation bias.

[SPEAKER_03]: Where everything we see is assigned to validate what we already think that we don't want to repent from.

[SPEAKER_03]: So Saul should have repented under the weight of the truth, the wisdom and the correction that the priest of God told him.

[SPEAKER_03]: But doing that would have mean that he would have to face what he's done.

[SPEAKER_03]: And what he's done is big.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh yeah, he's embarrassed himself in front of his family.

[SPEAKER_03]: In front of his son, in front of his soldiers, in front of his son in law, David, and most importantly before the Lord God Almighty.

[SPEAKER_03]: And all of that takes humility, the opposite of pride.

[SPEAKER_03]: And humility is the only cure for jealousy and discontentment.

[SPEAKER_03]: Humility is the only way forward.

[SPEAKER_03]: But the longer we delay, doing what is right, shame starts to whisper.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's too late to fix this mess.

[SPEAKER_03]: You end too deep.

[SPEAKER_03]: You're gonna look stupid if you say something now.

[SPEAKER_03]: So instead of humbling himself, Saul digs in.

[SPEAKER_03]: And honestly, don't we get that?

[SPEAKER_03]: Have you ever dug in when you needed to lean back, when you needed to pull up, when you needed to check yourself?

[SPEAKER_03]: He surrounds himself with yes men, like dogg.

[SPEAKER_03]: Who clearly don't fear God?

[SPEAKER_03]: Dogg, what are you doing in this story?

[SPEAKER_03]: Why are you in chapter twenty-two?

[SPEAKER_03]: It is proof that the scripture is true.

[SPEAKER_03]: That bad company does corrupt good character.

[SPEAKER_03]: And if you think I'm being hard on Do Egg, just know that this is how David felt about him.

[SPEAKER_03]: And we see that in Psalm fifty two.

[SPEAKER_03]: It paints a picture of Do Egg's deceitful destructive character.

[SPEAKER_03]: Do Egg was an evil doer.

[SPEAKER_03]: And David was done wrong, and he wrote a whole song about it.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's like the blue show.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's like a dish track, really.

[SPEAKER_03]: Do act, told Saul that David had received help from the priest and now, but in that song, David mourns the evil, but also declares confidence in God's justice.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's a lament, y'all.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's what a lament is.

[SPEAKER_03]: A lament tells truth about evil, but it doesn't lose sight that God's justice is coming.

[SPEAKER_03]: Versus one through four of Psalm fifty two.

[SPEAKER_03]: As David has this diss track about doggie says, why do you boast of evil?

[SPEAKER_03]: You mighty hero.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's sarcasm, by the way.

[SPEAKER_03]: Why do you boast all day long?

[SPEAKER_03]: You who are a disgrace in the eyes of God.

[SPEAKER_03]: You who practice deceit, your tongue plots destruction.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's like a sharpened razor.

[SPEAKER_03]: You love evil, rather than good.

[SPEAKER_03]: Falsehood, rather than speaking the truth.

[SPEAKER_03]: David talked about Do Egg.

[SPEAKER_03]: In verse five, he says, I want to remind you all that justice is still going to prevail.

[SPEAKER_03]: He says, surely, [SPEAKER_03]: Certainly, you can bank on it.

[SPEAKER_03]: You can be confident in it.

[SPEAKER_03]: You can rest in it.

[SPEAKER_03]: You can stand on it.

[SPEAKER_03]: God will bring you down to everlasting ruin.

[SPEAKER_03]: He will snatch you up and pluck you from your tent.

[SPEAKER_03]: He will uproot you from the land of the living.

[SPEAKER_03]: David warns that divine judgment is inevitable for the wicked.

[SPEAKER_03]: And Dox Power is temporary.

[SPEAKER_03]: And God will cut him off, no matter how successful he seems in the moment.

[SPEAKER_03]: David sees Do Egg as a warning.

[SPEAKER_03]: Those who trust in their own strength, their wealth, their manipulative power will fall.

[SPEAKER_03]: People of God hear me today.

[SPEAKER_03]: Those who trust in their strength, their manipulative power, and their wealth to do that which is wrong will fall.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's just a matter of God will let your eyes see it or not, but they will fall.

[SPEAKER_03]: As sure as God sits on a throne of justice and righteousness, the dough eggs of this world, they're gonna fall.

[SPEAKER_03]: So we can sing, we can sing with David this morning that blues and distract, turn to a gospel song.

[SPEAKER_03]: For what you have done, I will always praise you.

[SPEAKER_03]: In the presence of your faithful people, God sees, God judges, God vindicates, those who remain faithful hold on hold on hold on hold on don't be tempted, hold on to being faithful.

[SPEAKER_03]: Even when betrayed by the powerful, [SPEAKER_03]: God sees and God will do something about it.

[SPEAKER_03]: This story shows us the brutal fall out of jealousy and unchecked power.

[SPEAKER_03]: When unresolved pain and we all got some is combined with influence and affluence and power, the results can be catastrophic.

[SPEAKER_03]: You got to get your healing, yo.

[SPEAKER_03]: You got to get your healing.

[SPEAKER_03]: Back in twenty twenty one, we started watching Wanda Vision.

[SPEAKER_03]: Those who know, no, they about, at least a quarter of this church of Marvel fans, at least, maybe fifty percent.

[SPEAKER_03]: Somebody clap.

[SPEAKER_03]: See, that's looking at the people excited, Marvel.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, also get excited for the world of God too, y'all.

[SPEAKER_03]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: Wanda Maximoff.

[SPEAKER_03]: If you know it, and you know what?

[SPEAKER_03]: Look up.

[SPEAKER_03]: Ooh, she's a heck of a woman.

[SPEAKER_03]: That Wanda Maximoff is grieving the loss of her partner, her boo vision.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, her boo.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's her boo, human.

[SPEAKER_03]: Is he, is he alien?

[SPEAKER_03]: He's alien.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's fine.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's her boo.

[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, watch out.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, [SPEAKER_03]: She creates an alternative reality in Westview, New Jersey, because she's got grief and unchecked power to do it.

[SPEAKER_03]: She uses something called chaos magic.

[SPEAKER_03]: Come on, y'all.

[SPEAKER_03]: Don't necessarily crazy.

[SPEAKER_03]: And don't we feel like we're in a world sometimes that a whole lot of chaos magic happening?

[SPEAKER_03]: She builds a dream life for herself.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's all fake.

[SPEAKER_03]: She builds a world of lies.

[SPEAKER_03]: She literally builds a house from her tears and from her pain, literally reshaping the entire town into a sitcom that shifts through the decades.

[SPEAKER_03]: One that tries to cope with loss by controlling reality and other people.

[SPEAKER_03]: She's really hurting.

[SPEAKER_03]: She's really in pain.

[SPEAKER_03]: But come on, Wanda.

[SPEAKER_03]: Do you get to control all the reality and try to control all the people?

[SPEAKER_03]: Because of your pain.

[SPEAKER_03]: Her deep wounds mixed with deep power lead to chaos.

[SPEAKER_03]: Her pain blinds her to the suffering she causes, residents are actually trapped.

[SPEAKER_03]: Their forced to play roles in the story that she has created in her own world while they are silently hurting and want to don't care.

[SPEAKER_03]: Wanted doesn't care.

[SPEAKER_03]: But I'm so glad that God sees our pain.

[SPEAKER_03]: And even with our pain, we are still accountable for how we steward it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Pain may explain our actions, but it doesn't excuse them.

[SPEAKER_03]: Legitimate grief never justifies hurting others or disobeying God.

[SPEAKER_03]: We must stew it our suffering.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's real.

[SPEAKER_03]: We confess it.

[SPEAKER_03]: We confess it every week.

[SPEAKER_03]: Our sin in our suffering.

[SPEAKER_03]: It is real and God receives it.

[SPEAKER_03]: It is the God.

[SPEAKER_03]: He is the God who suffered.

[SPEAKER_03]: Our great high priest knows what suffering is.

[SPEAKER_03]: We're not told to pretend that we're not suffering, but we must stew it our suffering and not unleash it on others.

[SPEAKER_03]: Saul is in legitimate pain.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't doubt that.

[SPEAKER_03]: Saul is in legitimate pain from his illegitimate jealousy.

[SPEAKER_03]: In jealousy, y'all, it robes us of empathy.

[SPEAKER_03]: It robes us of empathy.

[SPEAKER_03]: Think about the arrogant revenge that wiped out all the priest, all the intercessors.

[SPEAKER_03]: As if sinful folks don't need intercession, [SPEAKER_03]: Even their families, men, women, and children were a massacre without hesitation.

[SPEAKER_03]: We wonder today how leaders can drop bombs, how they can use drones on innocent civilians, how they can rip kids from classrooms, how they can let thousands starve today.

[SPEAKER_03]: We wonder how that can be.

[SPEAKER_03]: But the same unchecked jealousy that they have, combined with power, lives also in our hearts.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is why it's got to be uprooted.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is why we have to confess it.

[SPEAKER_03]: We must confess it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Because if it's not confronted, it can turn us into destroyers of people, communities.

[SPEAKER_03]: and even churches.

[SPEAKER_03]: It robes us of reasonableness, jealousy does that.

[SPEAKER_03]: Led by feelings that are not subject to reality and more importantly not subject to the word of God, reasonableness, reasonableness flies out the window.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I gotta tell you something, I always think I'm reasonable and I'm not.

[SPEAKER_03]: Do you always think you're reasonable?

[SPEAKER_03]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_03]: You're not.

[SPEAKER_03]: Somebody's got to be in your world to be like, hey, pull up.

[SPEAKER_03]: Chill.

[SPEAKER_03]: Take a breath.

[SPEAKER_03]: Breathe with me.

[SPEAKER_03]: Four count, breathe in, seven count, hold, eight count, slowly release.

[SPEAKER_03]: Call yourself down.

[SPEAKER_03]: But jealousy will do that.

[SPEAKER_03]: Feelings have told facts to hush up.

[SPEAKER_03]: And by the way, to learn more about this topic of working with people in unreasonableness, read Dr.

Allen Godwin's book.

[SPEAKER_03]: Receive that commercial, Dr.

Allen.

[SPEAKER_03]: Listen, it robes us of Godly community.

[SPEAKER_03]: Jellacy does.

[SPEAKER_03]: Saul's jealousy left him isolated, surrounded by people who feared him not that didn't love him.

[SPEAKER_03]: They feared him because he had a weapon in his hand.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then there was joy, who didn't fear God.

[SPEAKER_03]: and took Saul's twisted jealousy even further than Saul intended.

[SPEAKER_03]: Sin cannot be managed.

[SPEAKER_03]: Don't play with it.

[SPEAKER_03]: It will play you every single time.

[SPEAKER_03]: And one of the first things that does is cut us off from Godly community.

[SPEAKER_03]: You cannot be the strongest believer in your circle.

[SPEAKER_03]: All the time, you have got to have somebody who is teaching you.

[SPEAKER_03]: There will be a gap.

[SPEAKER_03]: If you're always the voice of reason, [SPEAKER_03]: And finally, jealousy robs us of reverence which leads us to rebellion, where there is not reverence for God in the things of God.

[SPEAKER_03]: They are absolutely will be an open door to rebellion.

[SPEAKER_03]: We are called to fear God.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's not a typo in Scripture.

[SPEAKER_03]: We are called to fear God.

[SPEAKER_03]: The God who loves us.

[SPEAKER_03]: We are called the friends of God.

[SPEAKER_03]: God is our Father.

[SPEAKER_03]: All this is true.

[SPEAKER_03]: The God who delights over us.

[SPEAKER_03]: The God who loves us.

[SPEAKER_03]: But don't get it twisted.

[SPEAKER_03]: We are called to fear God.

[SPEAKER_03]: Fear, reverence of the Lord.

[SPEAKER_03]: And if we don't, we will resent God and we'll hurt people in due time when we don't fear God.

[SPEAKER_03]: If you care about people, and we got a lot of folks in this church who have worked that they have done for decades, I'm one of them that surround caring for other people that do legitimate political injustice work.

[SPEAKER_03]: I get it.

[SPEAKER_03]: But if you care about people, you need to fear the Lord.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's the beginning of wisdom, according to God's word.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it will teach you how to love other people.

[SPEAKER_03]: We need God, and we need to reference God if we're going to love people.

[SPEAKER_03]: Carnal leaders surround themselves with Carnal voices.

[SPEAKER_03]: Godly people recognize they need Godly community.

[SPEAKER_03]: So who speaks into your life?

[SPEAKER_03]: And they are they drawing you towards reverence or to rebellion.

[SPEAKER_03]: because you and I, we can't always be the mature ones in our circle.

[SPEAKER_03]: So we've made two confessions today and I'm winding up.

[SPEAKER_03]: Confession one, great stress and panic will tempt us to forget our responsibilities and [SPEAKER_03]: obedience to God's commands.

[SPEAKER_03]: Confession to jealousy will misshape us and it can be lethal.

[SPEAKER_03]: But here's the last one.

[SPEAKER_03]: Lies, even lies that are prompted by our fear.

[SPEAKER_03]: They do linger.

[SPEAKER_03]: They have kickback.

[SPEAKER_03]: They have consequences.

[SPEAKER_03]: But Christ, the truth, is the better way.

[SPEAKER_03]: And he makes us truthful people.

[SPEAKER_03]: Does anybody want to be a truthful person in here today?

[SPEAKER_03]: My man.

[SPEAKER_03]: Many commentators believe that back in chapter twenty one, David just straight up lied to the priest.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's right, David.

[SPEAKER_03]: Not just David, but David and the Bible.

[SPEAKER_03]: David lied to the priest, a Him-elect.

[SPEAKER_03]: In first Samuel, twenty-one, one, to me, no one is to know anything about the mission I'm sending you on is that's what he said to the king said to him, this is lie, lie, lie, lie, lie.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's all lies that David is saying.

[SPEAKER_03]: David is afraid.

[SPEAKER_03]: David wants some bread.

[SPEAKER_03]: David is a weapon.

[SPEAKER_03]: He is saying what he thinks will get him what he needs in the moment.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's still alive.

[SPEAKER_03]: It still has consequences.

[SPEAKER_03]: David falsely claimed that that he was on a secret mission from King Saul and that his men were meeting him elsewhere.

[SPEAKER_03]: In truth, David was fleeing from Saul, not carrying out a royal mission.

[SPEAKER_03]: And Dox saw it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Dox, the itemite, the chief shepherd.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now the chief executioner, he saw it.

[SPEAKER_03]: And he told Saul.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it made the priests all look like a bunch of liars.

[SPEAKER_03]: And they paid with their lives, their families paid with their lives.

[SPEAKER_03]: And David, because leadership requires this, David is not the one who killed those people.

[SPEAKER_03]: But David still owns the part that is his fault.

[SPEAKER_03]: He says in first Samuel's, twenty-two, twenty-two, I am responsible for the death of your whole family.

[SPEAKER_03]: He tells Abithar, the son of the slain priest.

[SPEAKER_03]: He did not pick up a weapon to harm anyone.

[SPEAKER_03]: But he owns that he is at fault.

[SPEAKER_03]: Note that David could have said, what I would have said.

[SPEAKER_03]: Salt and dough egg are crazy, and they did this.

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, that's what I would have said.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what you would have said, but I would have been like, it was them.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's so sad, it's terrible.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry, they did that to you.

[SPEAKER_03]: I would not have been looking for my part in that, like I didn't slaughter the town, but that is what leadership required him to do.

[SPEAKER_03]: Even if his part was not the person who did the killing, he knows that his life still was wrong.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so he owns responsibility.

[SPEAKER_03]: Christian maturity owns responsibility, even in unfair situations.

[SPEAKER_03]: The world we live in has lots of unfair circumstances.

[SPEAKER_03]: But Christian maturity owns responsibility, even when it's not fair.

[SPEAKER_03]: So David's lie, perhaps meant to protect.

[SPEAKER_03]: It has serious consequences.

[SPEAKER_03]: It reminds us that even God's anointed can fall short.

[SPEAKER_03]: And fear driven deception often leads to collateral damage all.

[SPEAKER_03]: Little lies still cause big harm.

[SPEAKER_03]: Every lie reflects a lack of faith.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's what a lie is.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's what a lie exposes.

[SPEAKER_03]: Our lies expose our lack of faith.

[SPEAKER_03]: So, yes, Saul and Doe Egg were likely bent on injustice no matter what.

[SPEAKER_03]: But David's lie didn't help those priests.

[SPEAKER_03]: He was trying to save his own life, not lay it down.

[SPEAKER_03]: But thanks be to God.

[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks be to God that there is grace even for fearful liars.

[SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm.

[SPEAKER_03]: And thank God for the greater David.

[SPEAKER_03]: Jesus, who spoke costly truths.

[SPEAKER_03]: Nobody spoke truth more costly than Jesus.

[SPEAKER_03]: Truths that do own overcome lies, even when it led him to the cross into the tomb.

[SPEAKER_03]: Truth is costly, y'all.

[SPEAKER_03]: But it's still right.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's still the only thing that sets us free.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's still the only thing.

[SPEAKER_03]: So in conclusion.

[SPEAKER_03]: As we reflect on this chapter, we'll remind it that it is not just simply ancient history.

[SPEAKER_03]: It walked down this aisle today in twenty twenty five and more over its redemptive history.

[SPEAKER_03]: David, God's annoying to king on the run becomes a type, a shadow of the Redeemer of all history, our Lord Jesus Christ.

[SPEAKER_03]: And in part, what David lived, Jesus fulfilled in perfection.

[SPEAKER_03]: In Jesus we find the fullness of faithfulness, the true king who cares for his people, even in the darkest caves of life.

[SPEAKER_03]: Jesus like David watched the story, cared for his family, even in his greatest moment of suffering, not in the cave, but on a cross.

[SPEAKER_03]: As impending death was upon him, Jesus saw his mother there and the disciples whom he loves standing nearby and he said to her, [SPEAKER_03]: woman here is your son.

[SPEAKER_03]: And to the disciple, here is your mother.

[SPEAKER_03]: From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.

[SPEAKER_03]: Just as David, though in crisis, Jesus honored his responsibilities.

[SPEAKER_03]: In the agony of a cross, he may provision for his mother, showing that faithfulness in the in between, includes sacrificial love.

[SPEAKER_03]: So how is Jesus the greater David?

[SPEAKER_03]: Jesus gathered the broken, forming a new kind of kingdom.

[SPEAKER_03]: And when I say broken, I mean really broken and can admit it, the confessing margins.

[SPEAKER_03]: Luke five, Jesus answered them, it is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.

[SPEAKER_03]: I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

[SPEAKER_03]: David became commander of the discontented and distressed because they demanded a king, and he was a whole mess.

[SPEAKER_03]: Saul was a mess.

[SPEAKER_03]: As the prophet had already foretold that he would be, there was no surprise there.

[SPEAKER_03]: But David is a better option, but he's not the greater option.

[SPEAKER_03]: Christ is the greater option as our king.

[SPEAKER_03]: Jesus calls the weary and burden, forming a church, this cave of refuge and reckoning, not of the powerful, but of the poor and spirit, those who find refuge in the Lord Jesus Christ.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know, during the horrors, the century long horrors of American chattel slavery enslaved Africans on plantations found their way to places called Hush Harbers.

[SPEAKER_03]: They would sing, they would pray, they would weep, and they would dare to hope freely.

[SPEAKER_03]: And these were spaces of deep pain, but there was still profound power in that pain.

[SPEAKER_03]: They were not safe in the eyes of law, of the law, and they were shunned and disbanded by the ways of white supremacy, but they were sacred spaces in the eyes of the Lord.

[SPEAKER_03]: And in the hush harbor, they brought their despair, their dreams, their unanswered questions, why has my child been sold away?

[SPEAKER_03]: Real hardship, real questions, and they brought their shaky, but yet unshakable faith?

[SPEAKER_03]: And in those hidden places, much like David's cave, God meant them, sustained them.

[SPEAKER_03]: And he birthed political and spiritual movements that actually worked, that actually yield their results, that actually had staying power.

[SPEAKER_03]: The church, the real church, must be a hush harbor.

[SPEAKER_03]: It must be a hush harbor.

[SPEAKER_03]: It doesn't matter if this world is a wicked plantation.

[SPEAKER_03]: There is a hush harbor for us.

[SPEAKER_03]: And let us remember that Jesus, unlike Saul, resisted jealousy and he embraced obedience.

[SPEAKER_03]: Philippians, too, says, in your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus.

[SPEAKER_03]: Who being in the very nature of God did not consider equality with God something to be used to his advantage?

[SPEAKER_03]: Rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness and being found in the appearance as a man.

[SPEAKER_03]: He humbled him, so there's that word again, humbled himself.

[SPEAKER_03]: By becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross.

[SPEAKER_03]: We're so clung to power, and descended into jealousy, manipulation, and murder, Jesus emptied himself, obeying the Father all the way to the cross.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's a mobility it's y'all.

[SPEAKER_03]: And Saul's rebellion costs others their lives, like David's lie as well.

[SPEAKER_03]: But Jesus' obedience, it gave truth in his life to save others.

[SPEAKER_03]: So finally, Jesus is not just our commander, like David was, that read is us for war, although we are being made ready for spirit to war today.

[SPEAKER_03]: He is our high priest, because we still need intercession.

[SPEAKER_03]: The only folks that kill priests of people who don't think they need intercession.

[SPEAKER_03]: But Jesus is our high priest, and Lord knows we still need His intercession power.

[SPEAKER_03]: Folks that kill priests of foolish in this way.

[SPEAKER_03]: Hebrews chapter four, therefore, since we have a great high priest in His name as Jesus, who has ascended into heaven, the Son of God, let us whole firmly to the faith we profess, whole firmly to the faith we say we believe.

[SPEAKER_03]: For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way.

[SPEAKER_03]: Just as we are, yet he did not sin.

[SPEAKER_03]: And let us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence, y'all, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

[SPEAKER_03]: David was a leader of misfits, a leader of outcasts, but he couldn't cleanse him.

[SPEAKER_03]: He couldn't intercede for them.

[SPEAKER_03]: David needed those things for himself.

[SPEAKER_03]: We need salvation and sanctification more than we need a strong man and a warrior.

[SPEAKER_03]: We need a worthy intercessor.

[SPEAKER_03]: And in Jesus we have a high priest who was killed but arose again who enters our caves like the tomb he walked out of.

[SPEAKER_03]: And he sympathizes with our weaknesses.

[SPEAKER_03]: He doesn't mock us in our weaknesses.

[SPEAKER_03]: He sympathizes us with us in our weaknesses and lifts us into the presence of God for holy healing and transformation.

[SPEAKER_03]: So today I invite you to make this confession with me.

[SPEAKER_03]: There is a God in his name as Jesus.

[SPEAKER_03]: And his grace is sufficient for me.

[SPEAKER_03]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_03]: Amen.