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1 Samuel 19:18-24
Pastor Christopher Chelpka
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[00:00:01] Our Heavenly Father, we thank you that you do walk with us. You guide us, you protect us, you provide for us. You lead us into all the places that we must go.
[00:00:12] Sometimes these places are very dark. They are scary. We don't know where we're going.
[00:00:19] But we know that you know where we're going. We know that your light shines a light on our paths, that we might see the next steps that we ought to take. And we take them in faith, trusting in you, your plans for us as we do so. Lord, as we walk in you through faith, we ask that you would conform us more and more to the likeness of Christ, that you would make us to shine with the glory of the good news of the Gospel and the love of God, that others might see and join with us in our walk as we follow you. Our Heavenly Father, we ask that you would continue to bless your word to us, that you would speak to our hearts even now through this passage in First Samuel. Bless the preaching of your word, and we pray this all in Jesus name. Amen.
[00:01:18] Let's remain standing and turn to First Samuel, chapter 19.
[00:01:28] First Samuel 19.
[00:01:31] I'll begin reading at verse 18.
[00:01:39] Last week we heard about how Saul continues to go after David and the various ways in which David is protected by the Lord. Here we have more of that. It's a twofold thing. We're seeing both the Lord's protection of his, of his Chosen One of David, and also the descent and the fall of Saul, which is a sad thing and is also a warning and good things for us to learn about ourselves and about God.
[00:02:14] So let's give Our attention now first Samuel 19 beginning at verse 18.
[00:02:20] Now David fled and escaped and he came to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and lived at Nioth. And it was told Saul, behold, David is at Nioth in Ramah. Then Saul sent messengers to take David. And when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying and Samuel standing his head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul. And they also prophesied. When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers. And they also prophesied. And Saul sent messengers again a third time, and they also prophesied. Then he himself went to Ramah and came to the great well that is in Seku.
[00:03:04] And he asked, where are Samuel and David? And one said, behold, they are at Naioth and Ramah. And he went there to Naioth and Ramah. And the Spirit of God came upon him Also. And as he went, he prophesied until he came to Naioth and Ramah, and he too stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel and lay naked all that day and all that night. Thus it is said, is Saul also among the prophets?
[00:03:32] This ends the reading of God's word. May he bless it to us. You may be seated it.
[00:04:07] When Saul was first called by God, there was a something similar that happened, but different also to what we just read.
[00:04:18] It happens back in First Samuel, Chapter 10. In First Samuel, Chapter 10, Samuel meets with Saul. He pours a flask of oil on his head and kiss him and says, the Lord has anointed you. He. He puts it in the form of a question, but the Lord has anointed you to be prince over the people of Israel, rule over them. And he gives them instruction, gives Saul instructions, and then tells him that there's going to be this sign that would prove these things, prove the words of the prophet Samuel. If you've been with us, and if you are super paying attention, you might remember that back when that happened, the sign was this, that as he, as Saul goes, he's going to see these three men. I'm in verse three now of chapter 10 if you want to look at it. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there. One carrying three goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine. And they will greet you and give you two loaves of bread which you shall accept from their land, and that after that you shall come to Gibeah Elohim, where there is a garrison of the Philistines. And there, as soon as you come to the city, you will meet with a group of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute and lyre before them, prophesying. Then the Spirit of the Lord will rush upon you and you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man.
[00:05:39] Now, when these signs meet you do what your hand finds to do, for God is with you.
[00:05:45] So this is how things begin. And this is what happens as we continue to read on the chapter. Sure enough, Samuel, who is this true prophet of the Lord, not only is able to tell the future, but is able to give signs that testify to the reality of what he says. And so Saul's going along the road and there he meets this group of people, these men who are prophesying.
[00:06:08] Now, the word prophesy has a lot of different meanings. At its core, it means something like to say the word of God or to speak the word of God. And so there's lots of different forms of that, of course, because God speaks in lots of different ways. A lot of times when we use the word prophesying, we use it to mean sort of future telling, right? To tell and predict or not predict, but tell what the future will be, right? That's different than a prediction, right? To tell the future is one form of prophesying. And if God, who of course knows the beginning and the end and all things, tells you what the future will be and you tell the future, then you this is one way of prophesying, but there are others, right? We can prophesy when we speak of the work that the Lord has done in the past, when we read the Bible to each other. This is a way of prophesying, right? We are speaking the word of the Lord, telling the word of the Lord. Sometimes people, to remember this, will talk about future telling versus forth telling, right? Just as a way to remember that, we could also say that there's a way in which the praise of God, the worship of God has a kind of form of prophesying, as we've done here today. When God speaks to us of his goodness, his greatness, his faithfulness, and when we speak those things back to God in praise of God, there's a kind of prophesying there. When our hearts are conformed, aligned to his, and we sort of speak his thoughts after Him. You are great, you are glorious, you are wonderful. We can say that to other people, right? As in preaching, for example, or in Bible studies in our group discussions. And that's a form of prophesying. But if we say, if we turn that speech from a person to God, it's still the same thing, essentially, except now we might call it praise because of whom it's directed to all that to say. We see something like that last thing happening here. These men are coming down praising God. They have instruments with them, harp, tambourine, flute and lyre. They're prophesying. And likely, although Samuel, it doesn't say what's exactly happening in 1st Samuel 19, but because of these parallels, it's probably the same thing.
[00:08:40] To my mind, then, it's likely that what Saul goes to and what these men go to is something of a worship service. They go to this place where the prophets are gathered and they are worshiping God.
[00:08:53] Now, there's a few other things to note about this. First, in 1st Samuel, chapter 10, the distinction between who Saul was and who Saul becomes is so great that what does it say, says you will become another man?
[00:09:09] Right? Now, there's obvious ways that that doesn't make sense. And we know it's not true, right? We don't call Saul. I don't know Jack.
[00:09:19] Because now he's a different person, right? He's still Saul. That's not what it means. He doesn't transform into another human being. What it likely means is that he is calling. It changes as he moves from this ordinary citizen to a king to a prince. It also means that something happens inside of him as the spirit of God comes upon him and he becomes different.
[00:09:46] Different in a way, in a way that's infected not just through an external call, but an internal change, such a way that people will recognize what Saul is doing and say, is he among the prophets? Something has happened with him.
[00:10:03] Well, this is a good start for a king under the Lord's authority, right? To have the spirit of God to be anointed by a prophet and now to be prophesying and joining with others in the speaking and submission to the word of God.
[00:10:19] But as we know from 1st Samuel 10 to this point here, where we are now in 1st Samuel 19, this has not stayed the same, right? Saul has over and over again rejected the word of the Lord. Instead of speaking and testifying to the truthfulness of God, instead of praising God for the things that God is doing, instead of resting on God and his Word, Saul has been fighting. He has been fighting against God, fighting against all the things that he's been called to do as king. And as a result of that fighting and setting up his own kind of kingdom in his mind, Saul is falling.
[00:10:59] He's falling and he's following, falling more and more and more and more. And this is why I say, it does break my heart. It's sad to read about these things. It's sad to read about this man who is so consumed with jealousy and discontentment, frustration.
[00:11:21] And yet instead of seeing where those problems are coming from, he just seeks to solve them by doubling down, going harder, going faster. You know, he sends these messengers, right, to go get David, just like he did when, in the last bit of this chapter when David was with McCall. And he sends messengers, he sends messengers. It's not working. Similar thing. David escapes, Saul sends messengers to go get him. And these messengers, instead of doing what the king had asked him, end up praising God, prophesying, being with these prophets, speaking the word of God, sends another set of messengers and another set of messengers. Until finally, Saul, instead of saying, I think maybe God has Something different here for me, right? I think maybe God has something different here for me. These men, these people that I'm sending to go get this one that God keeps protecting, keeps blessing, they keep prophesying to the Lord.
[00:12:21] I think there's a way in which Saul doesn't need some kind of special intuition or special knowledge of David's anointing to see what's going on. He just has to look at what's around him. Think about this from Saul's perspective. What do we know that he knows for sure? What do we know that he knows? We know that he knows he's been disobedient. He knows that the kingdom has been taken away from him and will be given to another. Those things are really clear. He also knows that he's been called over and over again to put his faith in the Lord.
[00:12:58] And we know that he sees that the Lord has given him these amazing blessings in this man, David.
[00:13:06] And these are amazing blessings because not only is David doing well, not only is David successful in that. What he sends his hands to, but he's successful in doing the things of God. Destroying the Philistines, giving good counsel, being loyal to the king. Everything that you could want, right, that you wouldn't, would want according to the will of God, David, that's happening in David. Why would you. Why would you fight against that? Why would you try to destroy that? Would you want to keep your servants from prophesying? Would you want to keep David from being loyal? Would you want to keep David from fighting the Philistines? None of that makes any sense.
[00:13:48] But Saul is going against reason.
[00:13:51] He goes against reason. He goes against good cause, good sense. He goes against the will of God, and he continues to pursue the Lord's anointed one.
[00:14:02] And so ultimately, Saul goes himself, as we see here, and he ends up prophesying.
[00:14:10] There's a couple different ways to take the last part of this chapter. One is that this worship is so ecstatic and so unusual that Saul takes off his clothes and, as it's translated here, lays naked all day and night, caught up in some kind of ecstatic experience.
[00:14:31] Another possibility is that he is stripping off his kingly garments. Not all of his clothes, but he's taking off those clothes which mark him as king. Perhaps his armor, perhaps certain regal robes, these kind of things. And in that we see his being removed as king.
[00:14:55] One of the verses that comes to mind is job 1 21.
[00:15:00] When I think about Saul here, the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away.
[00:15:07] Blessed be the name of the Lord.
[00:15:10] Job goes on, he says, naked I come into the world, naked I leave. There is this way in which God is humbling Saul here.
[00:15:22] And in all this, we see a really, really important thing that we are inclined to forget. When we act like Saul, when we think that our wealth and our intellect, the people that follow us, the institutions we're part of, if you think these things will save us.
[00:15:38] The thing that Saul is forgetting is that God's sovereignty is irresistible.
[00:15:46] God's authority and his power is absolute.
[00:15:51] If we live our lives and we think that we're just kind of on our own doing our own thing, and God kind of pops in and out every now and then and helps us out or doesn't, you know, and we kind of cajole him into that or whatever, we are not living in reality.
[00:16:07] The reality of this life, of our world and everything in it, is that God is God, a God, and the God, the only God. And we are under his authority. And his authority and his sovereignty and his power is, as I said, it's irresistible.
[00:16:29] Imagine somebody in your workplace who is living in this alternate reality that they are not the boss or that they are the boss and they don't have any boss over them, right? Imagine somebody, whether this is an employee of yours or a co worker or something like that, that just decides to go to work every day and think and act as if they were not accountable to anyone.
[00:16:55] Think about how disruptive that would be. Think about how quickly they would lose their job. Think about how terrible it would be for all that's going on. Or think about a child in a household that just decides. As I said, unfortunately various times, you're not the boss of me to my mom and to my dad, right? That didn't go well. Because it's not true. It's just not true. The more a child resists the authority of their parents in this natural way, the more difficult things are.
[00:17:27] If a citizen of a country says, I don't have to obey these laws, I can do what I want when I want, it will be, life will be difficult for you. And these are just at a human level, right?
[00:17:42] In all of these examples, these are authority figures that God puts over our lives. He is the ultimate authority. And if we live our lives and we just say, well, I'm doing what I want when I want, it's going to be disastrous because God doesn't step back. God's not threatened by me. He's not threatened by you. He doesn't look at our lives and say, well, that's really impressive. I better do what Christopher says.
[00:18:07] He's God. He is the ultimate, ultimate authority above all things. He gives us life. He takes away life. He gives us jobs, he takes away jobs. He gives us family. Takes away family. He gives us possessions. He takes away possession. It's all under him.
[00:18:26] Everything.
[00:18:27] And the sooner that we recognize that and realize that, the better it is.
[00:18:33] Especially when we recognize that the only way to come under his authority with any kind of peace, with any kind of happiness, with any kind of blessing, is to do so through his grace, do so through his forgiveness.
[00:18:48] Because we're not just under him, brothers and sisters. We've also been disobedient to him and we need his work in our lives. Saul is not recognizing this. Saul thinks he's in control. And he does have a lot of power. Even still at this point. He's got loyal David, right? He's got Jonathan, his son, who's trying to help him. He's got loyal troops. He's got messengers who, you know, keep even. Can you imagine being the third string? Okay, right. He's got the all kinds of people around him who are supporting him, helping him. His country is prospering. Things are going well. They're going well. God is blessing him. And in. But instead of seeing those as God's blessings on his life, he sees them as things that he has to be anxious about and keep controlling and keep using to protect these things that he was given in the first place.
[00:19:50] And so he resists the Lord and he resists and he resists and he resists until finally the Lord shows him how irresistible the Lord's sovereignty is. And Saul ends up prophesying just like his servants did.
[00:20:09] God can overrule human resistance in so many ways. There's other examples of this in scripture from Nebuchadnezzar or Balaam, the false prophet going to curse Israel. And then just like starts blessing them or Pharaoh, you will not take the people. Moses, you will not go, go, take the people. Right? The Lord is powerful and he can overrule and does overrule human resistance. Now, if you are have got your mind set on being your own person and your own God and living life in your own way, then as I said, this was going to be terrible for you. And God will ultimately overrule you.
[00:20:56] The Lord will come in judgment, the dead will rise, the sheep and the goats to his right hand and to his left hand, the just and the unjust. And those who are in Christ will go into paradise and find Safety and protection forever. And those who have resisted and refused the good news of the gospel will go to hell, be under his judgment and wrath forever.
[00:21:23] There will be no amount, nothing that you can do to resist the sovereignty and the power of God.
[00:21:33] And so for his enemies, this is. This ought to be terrifying. This ought to be a fearful thing. But for those of us who know that we need his help and do not want to resist him, but instead come under his protection, the fact that God can overrule human resistance is our hope.
[00:21:56] The fact that God has come into my life and come into your life and is tamping down our sins and is changing our hearts so that we will, you know, raise our hands and raise our voices and say, I believe in God the Father Almighty, so that our wills are conformed more and more to the heart of Christ, so that we grow hungry for the Word of God and to speak the Word of God and praise the Word of God. Where does this come from?
[00:22:25] It comes from the sovereign, irresistible grace of God.
[00:22:32] It's a good thing that God saves us from ourselves, that God can overrule our resistance, our pride and our arrogance.
[00:22:43] And so what we need to hear is not just about God's sovereign, irresistible power, but. But also his grace and his promises to protect those who flee to Him. And that's what we see in David.
[00:22:59] If resisting God, like Saul is doing, leads to humiliation and judgment, what leads to exaltation, submitting to the Lord and His will, particularly in his promises of hope, his promises of grace, and his promises of forgiveness and protection.
[00:23:18] Notice what David does.
[00:23:22] David is about to lose his life. Saul has attempted to murder him multiple times. He's got all kinds of people after him. He's on the run. And in this particular moment, he decides to go to Saul or, I'm sorry, Samuel. He goes to Samuel, this one who first anointed him, this prophet of the Lord is a good place to go. And not only does he go to Samuel, but he also goes to this company of the prophets that Samuel is with.
[00:23:51] David goes to Samuel, and he is going to find confirmation.
[00:23:56] He's going to find encouragement, and he's going to find worship in the Word of God.
[00:24:04] Psalm 20. Let's turn to Psalm 27.
[00:24:08] Read a few words there.
[00:24:25] Let's read 1 through 6. Psalm 27.
[00:24:30] Psalm of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear?
[00:24:37] You hear his attitude there. His heart, his confidence. The Lord is the stronghold of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
[00:24:47] Excuse me. When evildoers Assail me to eat up my flesh, My adversaries and foes it is they who stumble and fall. Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war arise against me, yet I will be confident. One thing I have asked of the Lord, that I will seek after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. For he will hide me in the shelter.
[00:25:20] In his shelter in the day of trouble, he will conceal me under the COVID of his tent. He will lift me high upon a rock. And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me. And I will offer in his tent sacrifices. With shouts of joy I will sing and make melody to the Lord.
[00:25:38] Isn't that beautiful?
[00:25:42] That's a beautiful passage.
[00:25:45] David has in his heart, in his mind, because of the grace of God in his life, something about he sees reality. He sees God's sovereign, irresistible power, his awesome strength. And instead of resisting it or seeking to become his own God or be in control of his own life, he humbles himself and he says, that's where to hide, that's where to find shelter. David recognizes himself as weak, as struggling, as in danger. He recognizes that he has problems all around me. But even if an army encamps against me, I will not fear. And that actually happens to David. He will not fear. And he will not fear because he seeks the Lord. And notice also too, when he seeks the Lord. He has this particular way of expressing that it's not just a knowledge of the Lord, but presence with the Lord. And also we can add worship of the Lord.
[00:26:49] What does David say in verse four? He says, one thing I have asked of the Lord that I will seek after. This is what he's seeking. That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. Then in verse six, I will offer in his tent sacrifices. With shouts of joy I will sing and make melody to the Lord. David wants to be in worship. He wants to be with the people of God. He wants to be in the presence of the Lord, gazing upon his beauty, on his splendor of rejoicing, the splendor of worship and holiness and of God's divine, irresistible power.
[00:27:36] God protects those who trust in these words. God protects and keeps those who flee to him in the midst of trouble.
[00:27:46] We cannot always see what God is doing. We cannot always know what he will do. But we know that this is who he is and this is what he promises to those who flee to him.
[00:27:58] So not only is God providing for David's present in protecting him with Samuel, I think we can also say God is training David for the future.
[00:28:07] He has been called to lead this kingdom, and he's teaching David through these hardships what it means to fear the Lord, what it means to love the Lord, what it means to believe the Lord.
[00:28:19] And we can learn similar lessons in our own lives and for our own families as we go through our own hardships, as we go through our own trials, and we face the real enemies that are around us. Sometimes individual people and things like that, and sometimes spiritual ones, including the flesh that is in us.
[00:28:41] The question to you is, where will you find shelter?
[00:28:44] Where will you find protection? Will you double down on your sins and on the things that you think are going to help you and protect you? Will you double down on anger or discontentment or pride or seeking after your lusts? Or will you flee to the Lord to gaze upon his beauty, to know his splendor, to be protected by him, held by him? We got chickens recently, as I think many other people have. We've had them for a while, but we got some new chicks. They're amazing. The way that those little tiny chicks crawl under that mother hen.
[00:29:25] They kind of dive bomb under her breast, under her chest. They dive bomb and then they're gone. You cannot see them. There's 10 of them under there, and she just fluffs out really big. Fluffs out really big. And then every now and then, you'll see a little, little head pop up, kind of look around and then back underneath. And how can she fit so many under there?
[00:29:48] And they love it. That was a few weeks ago. And they're getting bigger now. They're kind of in that awkward teenage stage. No offense, teenagers, we all went through it, but they're kind of, you know, they got these sort of scruffy necks and they're big, and they still go under there. They still go under there. They're still seeking that protection of that mother hen. And it's good that they do now. There will come a time, right, for them to be on their own and be their own hens and that kind of thing. But that's not true for us in the Lord.
[00:30:22] There's never a time we say, okay, I got it. I figured out my life, and now I'm going to go do my own thing apart from God, right? He. He is always our Mother our hen. He's always our Father, who protects us and shades us and keeps us safe.
[00:30:44] Where do we find Him?
[00:30:47] How do we dive bomb under Him? How do we get snuggled in and close?
[00:30:54] Well, we do it by hearing his word, by not resisting the promises that he has made, particularly in Jesus, where He says, here is my Messiah, here is my Christ.
[00:31:09] Trust in him and you will be okay. Trust in him and you will be protected from all of your enemies, and more importantly, his enemies, because you are in Him.
[00:31:23] Jesus faced very similar situations to David and worse.
[00:31:28] In John 15:25, we read, they hated me without cause.
[00:31:38] Why are these people going after Jesus, trying to kill Him?
[00:31:43] There's not a good reason.
[00:31:46] There's not a good reason.
[00:31:48] People's resistance to the will of God becomes irrational sometimes, maybe all the time. It's not rooted in truth. It's not rooted in reality. It's not rooted in reason. It's rooted in rebellion, just rebellion.
[00:32:03] That's how they went after David. That's how they went after Jesus. But Jesus, because He perfectly and always was abiding in His Father.
[00:32:14] He tells us that all who abide in him will live forever, protected forever, bear fruit forever.
[00:32:25] Let's turn to one more passage as we Conclude Isaiah, chapter 55.
[00:32:32] It speaks of the work of the Lord as he fulfills his promises to David and Jesus.
[00:32:39] And as you think of this and as you hear this, these promises of the Lord, the protection, the provision of the Lord, I want you to hear these words that are for you.
[00:32:51] Words that call us to put our faith in Jesus, in the Son of David. Because of God's promises to David which came true and were fulfilled in Christ.
[00:33:03] Hear these words.
[00:33:09] Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters. And he who has no money, come buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread? Why do you labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligent to me, diligently to me. And eat what is good and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear and come to me here that your soul may live. And I will make with you an everlasting covenant. My steadfast sure love for David. Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples. Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that you did not know shall run to you. Because the Lord your God and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you. Seek the Lord while He may Be found, call upon him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
[00:34:21] For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than yours, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there, but water the earth, make it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth. It shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I send it. For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace. The mountains and the hills before you shall break forth in singing, and. And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands, instead of the thorn shall come upon, shall come up the cypress, instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle, and it shall make a name for the Lord, an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
[00:35:24] Psalm 22:3 says that God is enthroned on the praises of his people.
[00:35:31] What a remarkable verse. God is enthroned on the praises of his people.
[00:35:37] We find refuge by trusting in the Lord's Messiah, in the Lord's Word, and in the Lord's worship. We find refuge when we come together with the people of God and speak the Word of God to one another, pray the Word of God with one another, preach the Word of God, hear the Word of God, receive the Word of God which the Lord plants in our hearts and is able to bring forth so much fruit.
[00:36:05] Isaiah 55 Is this beautiful picture of God's generosity and his security, free resources, milk and joy and wine.
[00:36:16] Signs that are given everlasting as everlasting promises that we are not cut off.
[00:36:23] So, beloved, don't be deceived by the things of this world.
[00:36:28] You don't need money to buy the grace of God. You don't need power, you don't need followers. You don't need anything. You just take it and enjoy it.
[00:36:40] Don't be deceived by these things that would say and by the ones that would tell you. You have to have these things and you need to fight for them and cling after them in order to. To be okay, in order to be glorified and have peace.
[00:36:57] God promises that Those who put their faith in him, in his presence, in his word, in his worship, that we will find peace. We will find refuge and protection against all of his and our enemies.
[00:37:14] So let's flee to him now in prayer.
[00:37:18] Our heavenly Father, we praise your name and we thank you for these promises that you give to us in Christ.
[00:37:25] Predicted and foreshadowed in these ways by David.
[00:37:31] Lord, when we see the army encamped against him and that he does not fear, we are reminded of our Lord, who did not shy away from the cross even as Judas kissed him, this sign of betrayal. He did not run away even when his disciples abandoned him, even when the whole world came against him. He entrusted himself to you. And in that he is our great champion. Destroying, destroying an enemy a thousand times greater than Goliath.
[00:38:12] Putting to shame open shame and public humiliation. The devil taking the sting out of death and being and giving to us peace with God.
[00:38:27] Oh Lord, help us to rest in Jesus Christ. Lord, help us to put our faith in him and continue to do so all of our days as he rules over us as our King.
[00:38:39] Your word has gone out of your mouth, has worked in our hearts and has brought us from death to life.
[00:38:46] Continue to persevere us, continue to make us shine. Continue to help us to follow your paths and your ways.
[00:38:57] Lord, the work that you are doing is beyond understanding, beyond comprehension. But we do see that it's amazing. And we desire to worship you with one another now and forever. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
