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1 Samuel 21:10-15
Pastor Christopher Chelpka
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[00:00:00] Let's pray.
[00:00:02] Our Heavenly Father, we thank you for the comfort that you give to us in Christ. Christ preached to us through the Old Testament and the New, the great Promised One, the deliverer, the Messiah, the anointed king who rules over his people in salvation and in redemption.
[00:00:21] Lord, we ask that you would encourage us this morning and strengthen us in his rule and reign. And as we consider this one who came before him, King David, who foreshadowed the things that were to be, and who points the way that we might put our faith not in him, but in the promised Son that would come to him, even the Son of God.
[00:00:47] Lord, we ask that you would bless us in these things today. And we pray this in Jesus name. Amen.
[00:00:56] Well, let's remain standing and hear God's word. From 1st Samuel 21 is where we'll begin.
[00:01:26] So 1st Samuel 21, beginning at verse 10, David began to flee from Saul, made a pit stop in Nob, where we read last time, where he got some bread, and then also the sword of Goliath, an amazing thing. And now he continues to flee to Saul, leaving even the land of Israel.
[00:01:53] So verse 10.
[00:01:55] And David rose and fled that day from Saul, and went to Achish, the king of Gath.
[00:02:01] And the servants of Achish said to him, is not this David the king of the land?
[00:02:07] Did they not sing to one another of him in dances?
[00:02:11] Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
[00:02:16] And David took these words to heart and was much afraid of Achish, the king of Gath.
[00:02:21] So he changed his behavior before them, and pretended to be insane in their hands, and made marks on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle run down his beard. Then Achish said to his servants, behold, you see the man is mad. Why then have you brought him to me? Do I lack madmen that you have brought this fellow to behave as a madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?
[00:02:47] And this ends God's word. Here let's turn to Psalm 34, Psalm 34, not only a great psalm, but also providing understanding and context for this event.
[00:03:19] We have this superscription here. It says of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away.
[00:03:28] I will bless the Lord at all times.
[00:03:31] His praise shall be shall continually be in my mouth.
[00:03:35] My soul makes its boast in the Lord. Let the humble hear and be glad.
[00:03:39] Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.
[00:03:43] I sought The Lord and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.
[00:03:48] Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed.
[00:03:52] This poor man had cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him and delivers them.
[00:04:01] O taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
[00:04:07] O fear the Lord, you his saints. For those who fear him have no lack. The young lions suffer want and hunger, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
[00:04:18] Come, O children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of the Lord. What man is there who desires life and loves many good days that he may see good.
[00:04:29] Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. Turn away from evil and do good. Seek peace and pursue it.
[00:04:37] The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous and his ears toward their cry. The face of the Lord is against those who do evil to cut off the memory of them from the earth. When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
[00:04:58] Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He keeps all his bones, not one of them is broken.
[00:05:07] Affliction will slay the wicked, and those who hate righteousness will be condemned. The Lord redeems the life of his servants. None of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.
[00:05:20] Praise God. Please be seated it so we have this morning this small story, verses 10 through 15.
[00:05:57] I say story, but of course we're talking about history here, the history of David, this epic history of David, the Lord's servant, who is on the run at this particular moment and he finds himself in this difficult situation with a little bit of food and the sword of Goliath. David and his men now flee west into the territory of the Philistines.
[00:06:21] But if we pay attention to the details here in 1st Samuel 21, this is not just any territory of the Philistines. This is a very interesting place he's going to. He's going to Achish, the king of Gath. And do you remember where Goliath was from?
[00:06:36] Gath.
[00:06:37] So here's David with the sword of Goliath going into the territory of Goliath, Goliath's hometown. He would have passed by or even gone through the valley of Elah where the battle had happened, where these things went on.
[00:06:55] Now a similar thing is going to happen in chapter 27, let's go ahead and turn there, actually.
[00:07:05] And there he explains his reasoning, which I think is probably the same in chapter 22.
[00:07:14] In chapter 27, we read this beginning of the chapter. Then David said in his heart, now I shall perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than I should escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand.
[00:07:34] So David arose and went, and he and 600 men who were with him, to Achish, the son of Maac, king of Gath.
[00:07:42] And then he ends up staying there. He ends up working it out. He ends up getting his own city, Ziklag, where he stays for a little more than a year. It seems like that's David's first attempt, or that was David's second attempt. And here we have his first attempt to do that. He is fleeing Saul. He's trying to get away, just as he is in 27. He goes to the same place.
[00:08:06] But of course, he faces a problem.
[00:08:10] The problem is that the king of Gath has some good advisors.
[00:08:15] And they say, we know this guy.
[00:08:18] This is the. They call him this interesting phrase, the king of the land.
[00:08:24] It's a phrase that's not used elsewhere. And it's interesting partly because it's unique, but also because David is the king who doesn't actually have land, right? Saul has Israel, Achish has Phlicia, or at least Gath in Philissia.
[00:08:43] But David is actually the king of no land.
[00:08:45] But the Philistines.
[00:08:47] The Philistines say that he is trouble, and they call him this king of the land. They say, is this not the one whom their enemies sang and danced? Saul has struck down his thousands and David his ten thousands.
[00:09:04] Well, David realizes that he is in trouble.
[00:09:08] The king's servants have identified him not only as a general enemy, but as the enemy.
[00:09:16] And we read his reaction here in this instance is to become afraid.
[00:09:22] He becomes afraid, he changes his character, it says, and he acts crazy before their eyes and in their hands are. He changes his behavior.
[00:09:40] What does he do? It says that he makes marks on the doors of the gates and lets spittle run down his beard.
[00:09:49] One possible way to read this, marks on the doors of the gates is that when it says he was insane in their hands, it means that he was captured somehow. Maybe he was in some kind of holding some kind of place place, and he's, you know, marking the doors or maybe clawing at the doors or something's going on in this place that he's in that's not normal.
[00:10:12] Meanwhile, he's. He acts as if he's out of control of his body. As he lets spittle roll or drip down his beard, he pretends to be someone that he's not. And Achish, in this, I think, funny way, he's sarcastic and sort of annoyed with his advisors, but also, we could say, a little bit of a fool for not listening to them.
[00:10:39] He says, you see that the man is mad. Why then have you brought him to me? Do I lack madman that you have this fellow to behave as a madman in my presence? Or brought this fellow?
[00:10:50] And David in verse chapter 22, departs from there and escapes away to a cave. And we'll hear more about that next time.
[00:11:00] And so what David does in this moment, first of all, he becomes afraid.
[00:11:05] And then he gets very crafty or shrewd, or to use the word Proverbs uses, or is, as translated, sometimes prudent.
[00:11:14] But it also could mean crafty. So, for example, when there were people that wanted to make a covenant with Israel in Exodus, they acted as if they'd been on a long journey. You remember this? And they. They made their bags look like they were all worn out. And the Scriptures say that in this they were crafty. Same word that I'm describing David here. As in Proverbs, it talks about the wisdom of the Lord being partly this, a shrewdness, being able to see one's circumstances and navigate a way through it.
[00:11:53] Sometimes the Proverbs talks about this shrewdness as being silent.
[00:11:57] The shrewd person knows when to keep his mouth shut and his life is lengthened.
[00:12:03] And there's other things to think about that maybe we'll do that during Sunday school.
[00:12:09] But here what we see doing is David being shrewd.
[00:12:14] He doesn't show pride, right?
[00:12:18] He doesn't say, I am that man, right?
[00:12:22] But he hides himself at the same time. There is something weird going on here.
[00:12:29] David defeated Goliath, this Philistine warrior, with a sling and a stone. And he didn't seem very afraid back then, right? In fact, he was given armor from Saul. He was given ways to do that. And he says that his faith is in the Lord of Israel, and in that faith he would defeat this enemy.
[00:12:50] Now he has the sword of that enemy that he defeated.
[00:12:55] Why is he so scared?
[00:12:58] Why does he not come up against this Philistine king and just say, I'm not afraid of you? You know, and do what I say, or something like that. I'm not entirely sure.
[00:13:08] But one thing does seem to be true about life in general is that those who have very strong faith in some seasons don't always have that same strong faith.
[00:13:18] And yet at the same time, when we read Psalm 34, we see that David, despite the weaknesses and despite the struggles and put yourself in his shoes, the incredible difficulty of this moment.
[00:13:32] He does look to the Lord, and the Lord does deliver him.
[00:13:38] We're going to look at Psalm 34 for the rest of our time in the Word here this morning.
[00:13:46] And what I want you to notice is how David does not say, look how super smart I was and I got out of this.
[00:13:58] You don't hear almost anything except for the superscription about this thing that he did, right? You don't hear about his planning or how it worked or how he learned how to do this or anything like that. He takes this, this shrewdness, this wisdom, and he. He characterizes it all in terms of the deliverance of the Lord.
[00:14:24] Something to think about as we go through. So let's turn to Psalm 34 and think about how David, to use a modern term, processes this moment, how he thinks about it, how he understands it, and what he wants us to think as well.
[00:14:43] And as we read Psalm 34 and go through this, let's remember these are not just David's words. These are the words of the Spirit of God, giving us understanding about our own times of difficulty and. And trouble and how we might see the Lord in them.
[00:15:00] So let's walk through this, brothers and sisters. If you have your Bibles, you can open up to Psalm 34. It might be easier for following along.
[00:15:08] If not, that's fine too. I am going to try and make it really clear where we're at and what's going on.
[00:15:15] So the psalm begins. Psalm 34 begins with an introduction to the state of his soul. I will bless the Lord at all times. Praise will be in my. My mouth continually. He has confidence, right?
[00:15:27] That's how the psalm starts, with this confidence. And then he gives a hint at the reason why.
[00:15:33] In verse two, he says, let the humble hear and be glad.
[00:15:38] It's just a little hint as to why his soul is happy. And he's going to develop this throughout the psalm. But in this moment of weakness before this king, in the moment of weakness before Saul not having a land being on the run, David is being humbled.
[00:15:56] He finds him in place, in a. In a state of great humility. Or humiliation.
[00:16:02] And he finds gladness despite all the suffering, despite all the difficulties.
[00:16:09] But we'll think about why.
[00:16:11] But verse three, we have another key to this psalm, which is an invitation.
[00:16:16] So he talks about the state of the soul. He talks about how the Lord makes him glad in his humility. And then he says, he gives this invitation, oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name forever.
[00:16:31] So this is the Christian way, right? It is. You receive the salvation of the Lord and then you call others to join you in it, right? Right. There is a little summary of who we are and what we do.
[00:16:46] So now we come to verse four, and he gets a little more specific.
[00:16:51] He says, I sought the Lord and the Lord answered me. He delivered me from all my fears.
[00:16:57] Now, we don't read, we don't hear all of that in 1st Samuel 21, but here he tells us more information, right? We hear more of what's going on. Sometimes this happens in books, right? You have a moment, and then later on you learn more about it.
[00:17:14] And something like that is happening here and the Bible. And as God pulls all of these things together, he tells us that in this moment, in his fear, in his panic, in his cell, as he's hearing these things, his mind goes to the Lord and he's praying for deliverance. He's asking, he's seeking for deliverance, and God hears him.
[00:17:44] And that in itself is an amazing thing we could spend a lot of time on. We won't but just pause for a moment and mark the fact that the Maker of the heavens and the earth hears you, wants to hear you and answers you, even though we are just little creatures of his.
[00:18:05] An amazing thing.
[00:18:07] Our prayers don't stop at the lights, right?
[00:18:10] The Lord hears them and he responds.
[00:18:16] Verse 5 says, those who look to him are radiant. Their faces shall never be ashamed. Now, that's quite a contrast, isn't it, with the moment that he's in, right? Imagine David there, you know, drool going down, his beard acting like he's out of his mind. This is not the face of a radiant man.
[00:18:37] Outwardly, right?
[00:18:39] Outwardly, he's pretending like he is not in control, like he is suffering under various mental strains.
[00:18:51] But what is actually going on is he is radiant. Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces, this promise, shall never be ashamed. In this moment, he's humiliating himself, but he's doing so, believing that his face will not be ashamed as it stands, as he stands before the Lord.
[00:19:15] He's beginning, you're beginning to see here how he's thinking about this moment through a very particular lens. And it's not a lens that only accounts for the external facts that he might see. It accounts for promises, it accounts for hopes, it accounts for the character of God. And he's going to go on to talk about this more as he goes to verse six. We go back to the incident. This poor man has cried, the Lord has heard him. And then in verse seven, we have this other contrast between the way things look and the way things are.
[00:19:51] The way things look is that David is in Philistine territory, right in the place of his enemy, right where he had killed Goliath. And now he's in there on, you know, home court advantage, all of that in their hands.
[00:20:08] And he's afraid.
[00:20:11] But verse seven says the angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him and delivers him.
[00:20:20] So David is seeing two things. He sees one thing with his eye, his physical eye, and he sees another thing with his eye of faith.
[00:20:30] He believes and trusts that his circumstances, his visible circumstances, is not all that there is. That's not the only thing that's happening. Yes, he's trapped. Yes, he's scared. But at the same time, the angel of the Lord is with him and delivers him.
[00:20:55] Then we come to another invitation, right? David having sort of unfolded this perspective, this way of seeing both one's reality and need for deliverance, but also the power of God and his angelic host to do that work. He then speaks to us and says, oh, taste and see that the Lord is good.
[00:21:15] Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
[00:21:21] Even the most powerful, the kings, the young lions, suffer, want and lack. But those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
[00:21:30] Now again, this is another kind of contrast, right? On the one hand, he is suffering, right? He previously needed bread and a weapon, and now he needs freedom and protection. He's on the run from Saul.
[00:21:45] And yet he also says he lacks no good thing. He believes as he trusts in the Lord, his Maker, his Redeemer, his helper, that he has every single thing that he needs in that moment. He lacks nothing.
[00:22:05] And it's true. And that's why he invites us to come and taste and see the goodness, the goodness of these things.
[00:22:16] In this way, these words, taste and see. We have a call not just to hear about God's goodness, but to experience God's goodness.
[00:22:26] To use the metaphor of food, right? Food is a very. I don't know how to put it exactly, but a personal thing, right? If it's poisoned, you're going to die. If it's putrid, you're going to get sick, you're going to spit it out. If you. But if it's delicious and nutritious, it's going to be pleasurable and make you live. Right? That's what I mean. It's very personal. It's not just this thing out there somewhere. When you taste, when you see, when you experience the Lord, we come to find a delight in him. We come to find personally that we find refuge in him.
[00:23:06] So taste and see that the Lord is good. This, of course, reminds us of Jesus, who says that he is the bread of life.
[00:23:14] He's the bread of life who comes down from heaven on whom we will live and never die.
[00:23:21] This is what we're called to. This is our deliverance. And this is the promise that God will bless those who take refuge in Him. He will not be poisonous to us. He will not be putrid, but he will be life giving and delightful and pleasurable, even in moments of affliction, even in moments of great difficulty.
[00:23:46] This is the truth David is calling us to.
[00:23:50] So whatever it is we're trying to seek refuge from, whether it's enemies like David, heartbreak, discouragement, doubts, internal, external, wherever we are, with that along, even our own bodies, we can taste and see that the Lord is good as we take refuge in him. And as we do so, we will lack no good thing.
[00:24:13] So then he goes on.
[00:24:15] We need to keep moving here. Verse nine. He says, oh, fear the Lord, you saints, for those who fear him have no lack.
[00:24:25] A lot of times we fear lacking things.
[00:24:29] We lack money, we lack friends, we lack a plan. We need control, right? And we want to be okay by gaining these things.
[00:24:38] But what David is saying, what the scriptures say us, is that when. Tell us is that when we fear God, we have no lack.
[00:24:46] He is the One above all things that we must care about. He's our chief end. He's our first priority, and we ought to look to him.
[00:24:57] Come, O children, listen to me and I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
[00:25:03] Verse 12 asks this rhetorical question. What man is there who desires life and loves many days that he may say good? And everyone says all of us, right? It's not no man, it's every man is the answer. Every man desires these things. Everyone desires these things. It's a way of kind of getting our attention, right?
[00:25:24] Grabbing our ears and saying, is this what you want? Of course it's what you want. So here's what to do keep your tongue from evil. Don't speak deceit. Turn away from evil. Seek peace and pursue it.
[00:25:37] Why? Because in verse 15, the eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous and his ear toward their cry. This is God wants righteousness and God rewards righteousness.
[00:25:52] The opposite is true. In verse 16, the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
[00:25:58] He's against those who do evil. He will cut off their memory from the earth.
[00:26:05] But to the brokenhearted, to those who lean on him, he saves. He's near to the brokenhearted, verse 18, he saves the crushed in spirit, verse 19, though, gives a kind of a however, not a however. But in case you were tempted to misread what we've been hearing, remember verse 19.
[00:26:28] Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.
[00:26:35] So as we read this psalm, what God is saying to us, he's not saying, be righteous, trust in me, and you won't have any problems. He's saying, many are the afflictions of the righteous. And however, I will rescue you, I will save you. You will lack no good, no good thing.
[00:26:59] These afflictions that we have are certain, and you know them. You experience many troubles. But here's some of the good news that we have this morning. Encouragement for you.
[00:27:10] God is not so weak that he has to remove all of our troubles before we can delight in Him.
[00:27:19] God doesn't need to resolve everything in our lives in an external way before our hearts are changed and we can trust Him.
[00:27:29] That's an amazing thing. His goodness, his salvation is so good that we can taste and see his goodness. We can delight in him. We can experience him even in the midst of our many afflictions, even in the midst of our many troubles.
[00:27:45] This, of course, requires something very, very big.
[00:27:50] And it's that God has to save us.
[00:27:54] This is not something that we can do on our own. Internally, you can't conjure up salvation. It's not a power that's internal to us.
[00:28:11] There is in our lives great struggles, but God does overcome them, and he overcomes them through righteousness. Now, David is here to prefigure that. And during Sunday school, as I hinted at earlier, we'll get into this a little bit more.
[00:28:31] David is growing in the wisdom of God. He's becoming this king.
[00:28:37] A number of things are happening there, but he doesn't compare to Jesus.
[00:28:43] David is going to stumble. David is going to fall. The salvation that David brings to Israel is good eventually, but it's temporary. And there's A lot of bloodshed along the way.
[00:28:54] Jesus sheds his own blood to save a great multitude from every tribe and tongue and nation. And he does, and he saves them in a way that's permanent and lasting.
[00:29:09] This song teaches us that the hope of God is tied to righteousness. But that creates this conundrum because we're not righteous and we lie and we steal and commit adultery and are idolatrous and all of these other things, even from birth, which David confesses in another place, being conceived in sin, it's like we're trapped. Or to put another word the scripture uses, enslaved to our sin in our flesh, even from our birth, we're trapped in this unrighteousness. We're unable to save ourselves. If God looks on those who do well and saves them and blesses them and rescues them, and we see ourselves as not that person, as not those ways, well, how in the world are we going to call on the Lord and find salvation?
[00:30:06] Well, here he tells, it's very simple. He just says, put your faith in me and I will save you.
[00:30:14] As the Bible continues to develop, as the Holy Spirit continues to reveal things about those promises, we. We come to find out more and more specifics about that.
[00:30:24] We come to find out that David's grandson, great, great, great, et cetera, is the one who will finally accomplish these things, who will bring us salvation and solve this problem of righteousness in order to save mankind permanently from our broken hearts, our broken lives.
[00:30:44] God comes into this world, humiliates himself, enters into a state of humiliation in order to save us.
[00:30:53] And like David representing Israel, the Lord represents Israel and not just Jews, but Gentiles also, all who put their faith in him, he was a better David.
[00:31:10] If David's righteousness earned sort of temporal blessings and things like that for his people, the. The Lord's righteous, the Lord Jesus, righteousness. Our king, the King of the land, might think of Matthew 28, all authority in heaven, on earth, has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, right? The King of the universe, right? He comes into this world. He dies for our sins, and he lives this perfect life to save us, to rescue our hearts out of this trap that we're in so that we can be righteous in him.
[00:31:50] So when we hear about the Lord rescuing the righteous, we say, well, that's me.
[00:31:56] Not because I live perfectly in every way, but because I'm in Christ, the perfect righteous one. And when he says, the Lord says to call on him and be saved. We do that. When we call on on him. In the name of Jesus.
[00:32:13] And as we finish this psalm, just as God rescued David out of this difficulty without even a broken bone, right, we see in verse 20, he keeps all his bones and not one of them is broken. David gets out of dodge, right? He gets out of Gath.
[00:32:32] Jesus was also rescued.
[00:32:35] This verse is remarkable because it speaks of the crucifixion, where not one of his bones was broken.
[00:32:43] However, and this is remarkable in light of the fact that Jesus was crucified. If you remember from my sermon on Easter, a lot of times, in order to speed up the death of a crucified person, a guard, the executioner, would come along and break the legs so that the person would collapse and die within a few minutes.
[00:33:05] That didn't happen to Jesus, which meant he suffered more, he suffered longer. And so there's a little bit of a tension in this verse. Like, well, yeah, okay, his bones didn't break, but it just meant his suffering was even longer.
[00:33:19] However, don't forget, Jesus rose from the dead.
[00:33:24] Sure, David escapes Gath. What did Jesus escape?
[00:33:28] The grave.
[00:33:30] Death escapes, lives, and is victorious over these things. How free are you from the penalty of sin and condemnation? As verse 22 says, the Lord redeems the life of his servants. None of those who take refuge in him will be condemned. How free are you from that? How free are you from the law? How free are you from the enslavement and the power of sin?
[00:33:56] As free as Jesus is from the grave, as uncondemned or as justified as Jesus is in his justification, as righteous as Jesus is in his righteousness. That's how free you are.
[00:34:15] And that's how we become the servants of God, the children of God. To use the language of this psalm.
[00:34:24] The Lord redeems the life of his servants. None of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.
[00:34:34] So in 1st Samuel 21, we definitely see David's shrewdness, his quick thinking, his cleverness on display.
[00:34:47] But in Psalm 34, another layer is added.
[00:34:52] Right, another layer is added in which we see that it's ultimately God who is saving him and God who can save us too.
[00:35:03] So let's hear David's invitation and respond.
[00:35:06] To come, to taste, to see that the Lord is good.
[00:35:11] Let's humble ourselves in Christ and seek salvation and refuge in Him. We will not be put to shame. Your faces will be radiant.
[00:35:24] Let's pray.
[00:35:28] Our Heavenly Father. We suffer with much of the wrong kind of fear.
[00:35:34] We fear our broken hearts. We fear our enemies. We fear our lack of control. We fear our lack of money. We fear our.
[00:35:44] Our own sin. We fear the devil.
[00:35:47] We fear storms and dark places. And on and on and on the list goes.
[00:35:55] Lord, teach us to fear you, to put our faith in you above all things. To recognize that even the mighty angelic host doesn't even begin to compare to the infinite power of you who made them and us, Lord, in all of your power and might, in all of your goodness and perfection and righteousness.
[00:36:24] Oh Father, you sent the Son into the world, anointed him with the Holy Spirit, declared him to be the Christ the Messiah, so that he might take away the sins of the world and even our sins.
[00:36:41] And because of him we have no lack. Because of him we don't need to be afraid because of Him. We know that the eyes of you are toward us. And you hear our cry in the midst of our many, many afflictions.
[00:36:57] You also tell us these afflictions will one day come to an end.
[00:37:03] That one day the greatness of your salvation will be consummated and made manifest in such a way that it will be obvious not only to our eyes of faith, but even to our external eyes, the eyes that see the visible things of this world, that we shine with the glory of God.
[00:37:26] Lord. We ask that as we consider King Jesus victory and salvation for us, his people, that you would build us, build our confidence in him.
[00:37:39] And let us share that news and call out to others, to our friends, to our families, and even to our enemies.
[00:37:49] Magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together.
[00:37:55] We pray this in Jesus name, Amen.
