1 Samuel 24 (Part 2) Bible Study - Pastor Daniel Batarseh

I'm eager to open up the word of God with you.

And so, please meet me in the book of 1st Samuel, chapter 24,

As I was studying today, I was thinking to myself.

I can't believe we're almost finished this book.

Just a few more chapters before we enter into the second part of

this Grand Story in second Samuel, but we are taking our

time, and that's why we're still in the same chapter as we were

last week. So meet me down in verse 8.

If you've come to Bible study tonight, you've come to an

exciting portion of the book of 1st Samuel.

And the reason is because For the First Time, in about five

chapters, Saul and David are going to meet face-to-face,

they're going to have a conversation.

For the longest time it seems like it's been so normal to see

David just running from this predator and he has been for

good reason but at this moment The Fugitive is going to change

directions and he's actually going to approach the very man

that is trying to kill him. And for good reason, this daring

move might seem to be unwise for some, but there seems to be this

confidence that David Acquired and I think it has to do with

what he experienced in the cave that you.

And I read about last week. I think David realized something

that God at any moment can disarm and subdue his enemies.

And a moment, he just saw how weak saw could become in a

moment. How vulnerable?

How susceptible, God brought salt to David, on a silver

platter. And I think there is something

energizing about that, where he felt, he felt the need and the

grace, to be able to, now peek out of that cave, and to

confront Saul, And as we read these verses, as we finish this

chapter today, there is so much in here, but I think there's a

theme and that is just insights of how to confront someone when

they are in wrong. How to approach someone when

they are in sin, how to deal with someone who has wronged,

you And that is very important to our god.

That is important to the head of the church Jesus has given

instructions of how you and I ought to deal with others who

have sinned against us. That that tells us that you.

And I as Christians you're most likely going to be wronged and I

want to I want to just tell you how to time, it's going to

happen more than once. This might even further

disappoint you. It might happen more than once

from the same person and that could happen with multiple

people. So multiply that with every

person that you know, even if they're Christian.

So it begs us to know. Lord, how do I deal with this?

How do I go about this? If I'm asking you to actually

make me like like your son then surely, I need to know how to be

like your son when I've been treated with with so much evil

and wickedness. And it's not as black and white

as you and I might think. And so I know we prayed but I

think it's good to pray again. Let's ask the Lord to help us.

Lord, we need you in this Bible study.

We are grateful that we have the word of God in our hands but we

need the spirit that helped us understand it.

Thank you for this family. Laura, thank you for bringing us

in the same place to expound the scriptures.

Lord. We know that this can easily

become a sermon but we wanted to be a study and so energized, our

minds and create Opportunity by your perfect wisdom for

conversation and for shared insights Lord.

We just pray that you would lead us and conduct this meeting to

your pleasure. I'll or we need you to help us

because this can easily become a dead teaching session, but we

know that your word is life. We also know that your word must

be assisted by the power of the Holy Spirit.

And so we back in you, we ask that this would be true on this

Friday evening. At this Bible study, we trust

that you will do it because you're faithful and you're eager

to speak to us in your name. We pray these things.

Amen. Let's read verse 8.

After word. After word, after that whole

incident in the cave where David sauce on those men, convinced

him to kill him once. And for all after all of that,

David didn't do it. But he does something here,

afterward, David also arose and went out of the cave and called

after saw my Lord the king, and when Saul look behind him, David

bowed with his face to the Earth and paid homage And we can just

stop there for a moment. Consider this at David in that

cave, did not exercise his sword with vengeance but David still

is going to do something about Saul and what David is going to

do in this moment is utilize a different instrument, a

different weapon, a weapon that God encourages you and I to use

when we are being treated with such contempt and wrong and that

is the weapon of returning good for evil.

That is the response of doing. What doesn't make sense to the

Natural mind to the most undeserving?

And so he approaches him at a safe distance.

We have reason to believe because even saw later on the

chapter, he can't really recognize David's voice and

either. That's because of the distance

or his mind has been. So damaged that he can't even

understand who's speaking to him, but it seems like David is

acting and wisdom and there's a distance, and he comes up and he

calls he calls for Saul now, here's my question in these two

verses. What what kind of phrase that's

all repeatedly used? when it came to identifying

David, That son of Jesse. With humiliation and mind with

an attempt to bring such contempt of his lowly because of

his lowly upbringing and his background that son of Jesse

that nobody up to this point we've seen that being used

repeatedly, son of Jesse, son of Jesse, son of Jesse but then

when it comes to David addressing Saul, what does he

say? My Lord, the king.

My Lord, the king. He didn't say you rascal.

He didn't say you evil Wicked King.

He didn't say you lunatic, he didn't say, you maniac.

He said, my Lord, the king. Is he showing face here?

Is he just pretending? Is he just trying to seem Pious?

Absolutely not. Because, before this we know

that in private, he addresses salt to those men that really

didn't feel. The best way about Saul, he's

still the Lord's anointed And so even behind his back he was it

was respecting this man and Shirley before his face he was

honoring. This man, how do we make sense

of this? What do we make of this?

Is he condoning? Saul sin?

Is he ignoring his pure wickedness?

No, he's actually, he's respecting the office.

And the position that he has though, he might be unfaithful

in it, there is a loss of the sense of respect for authority

in our culture, even for those who are doing, right?

Even for those that are doing what they should be doing there,

still this growing loss for respect and honor and that is a

dangerous sign. Of where we stand and in our

morality. But here we see that there is

still sense of respect and honor that is demanded.

And what's important about that is you and I and life might be

failed by those who are in positions of authority.

You might be let down by a father but you have to

understand He's still your father.

You might be disappointed by spiritual leader by a pastor by

someone, who teaches a Bible class, whatever it may be.

But regardless that person is still holding a position of

authority. You might be caught up in the

frenzy of people who are doing much to, to the names of

politicians, including the president.

But regardless, he's still the president.

He's still a president even though he's not serving as some.

What many would say as a faithful politician consider

that consider that, as you prepare to confront someone in

their wrong, that there is still has to be a level of respect and

dignity and the way you approach that individual That is

important because no matter how true something is no matter how

sobering the confrontation might be, it should never cross the

line into ridicule and into mockery.

And David proves that with such balance and I'm fully aware that

there's a temptation to maybe not kill someone with an actual

sore. But with the sword of your

tongue and yet this man, still restrains that weapon because he

is still walking in the fear of the Lord.

And so he calls out my Lord, the king and saw hears this voice

and this must have been confusing because he thought he

was alone in that cave. So very quickly, I'm sure he

turns around only to see the very that you've been looking

for for who knows how long And the moment that David realizes

that he has Saul's attention, not only did he address him with

respect, but with with a posture of humility, he takes his his

face and he bounced before boughs before him as a way of

saluting, somebody who is Superior in rank.

And it reinforces again, the absolute necessity that you and

I in our confrontation and even in our communication of

conviction it has to come from a posture of great great.

Respect and humility. And this man is displaying that

ever. So clearly, It may be so with us

because we can lose the the power of what we want to say,

when the package, when the package is Given In the Flesh,

even if the message is spiritual, even if it lines up

with God's word and what we see here is after he gained Saul's

attention and after he already is showing himself to be a man

who really reflects the character of God.

He asks his first question And it is, it is insightful when you

meditate upon the question that he brings its found in verse 9.

And David said to Saul, why do you listen to the words of men

who say behold David seeks your harm?

Why do you listen to the words of men, who say, behold David

seeks your harm? It seems like David is fully

aware that the fuel to Saul's crazed Pursuit after him was the

words of others who were instigating and who were

encouraging him to continue to pursue David and Amanda to kill

him. And we studied that with a man

named who do a grammar, do idea to might David was Aware that

the main cause for these priests to be slaughtered and for salt

to be ever. So motivated to pursue the

innocence of this man is because of what another person said now

you and I know the deep-rooted reason why Saul is doing this,

this wasn't just suggested, this was only fueling.

The slander was only fueling, but this was something birth

within his own bosom. This was something that went all

the way back to 1st Samuel 18, when a bunch of women of Israel

began to saying that David was more Victorious than Saul and so

you know this we've been studying it that the reason why

Saul is doing this is because he has a jealousy.

There's Pride. There there's there's a hidden

Evil Within his heart that was not tamed by the power of the

Holy Spirit. And because of that, it, let

loose into all this carnality But what's so amazing here is

that, I think that David is not addressing that with great

wisdom. One would say he's not aware of

the reason. Okay.

But could it be that David is not going to spend his time.

Pull pointing at the motives of Saul and is instead going to

just deal with the clear evidence for the wrong that he

is performing? Instead of trying to investigate

things that are hidden. He instead goes to the things

that cannot be denied. And I think this is very

important. There's great wisdom here

because you and I, as Christians, we are not called to

make judgments on people's hidden motives. as tempting, as

it may be to try to figure out why it is, people do what they

do, unless it is clear, unless there is evidence, unless it is

obvious you and I actually commanded not to judge the

things that only God can determine And and looking at

what David is doing here though, we can debate, why he's asking

this question primarily there is still a practical wisdom in this

theme tonight of how you and I should deal with other people's

wrongs against us and if you want proof of what I'm saying,

it's in it's in the New Testament, which Comforts a lot

more people because when it's old it's like, yeah.

New Testament. 1st Corinthians chapter 4.

Look, what. Paul says to Christians and I

want you to see this for yourself and I mean, talk about

the pursuit of Holiness, how these things are so specific.

To our lives. We read here.

Paul says therefore do not and First Corinthians 4:5 do not

1 Corinthians 4:5

pronounce judgment before the time.

He's talking to Believers and he's actually talking to

Believers that are judging Paul's Ministry and questioning

his motives. Do not pronounce judgement

before the time before the Lord comes, who will bring to light

the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the

purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his

Commendation from God. There is a Time coming my

brother. There's a Time coming.

My sister were the Lord himself will investigate with perfect

Justice and perfect evaluation. The reason why some people do

that, which is wrong. And more than that, the Lord

will also reveal. Why the people standing before

him did good. And what Paul is saying here is

leave that kind of judgment. To the Lord, don't get yourself

occupied with something that solely belongs to God himself.

Because that is a great Temptation, not just to look at

people who are doing evil and saying, why are they doing that?

But even looking at people who are doing good and be like, you

know, I think, I think he's a pastor, because he does this, or

he wants this, Paul says, don't do that.

That solely Belongs to the Lord because how embarrassing it will

it be for you on Judgment day when you were wrong.

And you actually told other people, the reason why you think

they're doing it and it all comes to light and you, you're

the one. Who will find rebuke from the

Lord? It's pastas resist that

Temptation, resist it with everything within you, by the

power of the Holy Spirit, leave that to the Lord.

Now, when you come back to this text others, believe that the

reason why David is speaking about the slander of men rather

than addressing Saul since straight up is because in love,

he wants to cover sauce in and he's willing to shift the blame

on others so that there can be clear communication between two.

I think that's reading way too much in the And it's clear from

the text itself. That's that David is not trying

to dismiss all is wrong. He's actually questioning his

wrong when he brings up the lies of others.

Read the verse slowly and realized that Saul is guilty.

Saul is guilty and how he responded to what other people

were saying. Falsely about David, go back to

the verse, what does it say? David said to Saul, why do you

listen? Why do you listen?

For salt to entertain, for salt, to believe, and to act upon the

false statements made by others about David.

Listen is no less of a crime than the slander itself.

For salt to entertain, for salt, to believe and enforce.

All to act upon what other people were saying, is no less

of a crime than those who instigated the lives to begin

with. you and I are stewards of many things in this life and one

of the things that you and I are responsible for is what we do

based on what we hear, what you and I do based on what we hear,

the Lord will hold us accountable for And there are

many people who do certain things that are wrong and then

when they realize they're wrong, they will point to the

misinformation. That was given to them thinking

that that somehow justifies it and it doesn't a failure to

investigate a failure to be Discerning, never excuses, doing

something wrong or treating somebody differently based on

something that you're not sure about the understand.

This is an extremely important. I'm trying to Save You Tonight

from destroying things that can be A bird and could be a

blessing. We see here that saw was held

responsible because of why he listened and he believed, and he

moved based on that and you and I have to understand very very

carefully. That there is just as much

trouble for the person who acts upon false information in the

person who sharing that false information to begin with

example potiphar. Not notice, I didn't say,

Potiphar's wife. I said potiphar part of his

wife, framed, an innocent man and part 2.

Fur threw him into prison. And we always focus on

Potiphar's wife. What about the man who believed

something that he should have investigated be very careful in

your Christian walk? You and I will be held

responsible for what we do based on what we hear.

And I think a lot of people don't believe that, but we see

that here by Holy Spirit and so David.

David confronts him about this but we see what he does.

In the next verse behold verse 10, this day your eyes have seen

how the lord gave you today into my hand and the cave and some

told me to kill you but I spared you.

I said, I will not put out my hand against my Lord for he is

the Lord's anointed. and so David now goes from questioning

him, To now, actually bringing something to his attention that

he did not know. David, I was going to prove his

innocence. He's going to show how all those

lies were wrong and what saw was doing was not just wrong.

It was sin and it was wickedness.

And so he says behold do you not realize I'm translating here?

Do you not realize what God just did right here right now.

And saw was completely unaware of the fact that his casual

visitation to the facilities was actually the Lord setting them

up in a way for him to learn that he had escaped yet another

intervention of possible judgment.

I mean, so many episodes where God had spared saw one after the

other. And here is another one that

David is highlighting to Saul. You missed it.

If it wasn't for me approaching you right now, you would have

not understood this. The Lord set you up. the Lord

made this show possible for me to actually deal with you once

and for all and Saul was blinded by this saw was unaware of this

and this isn't, this isn't deal with the theme that we're

speaking about in this chapter, but it's a wonderful point that

consider nonetheless. It is a wonderful illustration

of how those who are in sin are blinded by the the mercies that

follow them though. They are undeserving of those

Mercies Speaks of those who do not acknowledge the lordship of

Jesus Christ. And he speaks of those who fail,

to a tribute to him all the wonderful things that they

enjoy. Like Saul, who didn't know what

just happened moments ago. There are sinners tonight who

have healthy bodies and full bank accounts and great

families. And successful businesses that

do not realize that, though, they deserve to be judged

eternally at this very moment. They are instead.

Swimming in the grace of God. And I see something here about

David that speaks to the responsibility of the Christian

like David here, who is making known to solve the goodness of

God. So you and I are called to

highlight what God has done to those who are unaware of his

goodness. You realize that you deserve

judgment and yet God is giving you Mercy.

Do you realize that yet while you're an enemy Christ?

Came and died for you? David is highlighting the mercy

of God, to an undeserving Sinner and you and I have the same

responsibilities as we communicate this gospel to

souls. There are walking around going

in and out. Not realizing that.

There is a God and his providential love, who is even

providing for them, protecting them to a certain extent and

David makes that known. But let's come back to this this

theme. Now we came here, it's come back

here. The theme of how we should deal

with people that wrong us or who are in sin.

David says, something in here that a lot of people Miss

Supply. And the in the Christian world

look here at the second part of verse 10, the last part.

But I spared you. I said, I will not put out my

hand against the Lord for. He is the Lord's anointed.

Have you ever heard the phrase? Touch?

Not. My anointed.

Have you ever heard the statement, have you ever even

been warned? Do not touch the Lord's,

anointed anybody here heard that?

Wow, I was expecting way more to hear it, you've never heard it.

Okay, it's a common phrase, It's a common phrase, among many who

misinterpret not just in this text but in different parts

where it's kind of its kind of a code touch not The Lord's

anointed. And how people have

misinterpreted that is that leaders, spiritual leaders

should never be confronted. Should never be corrected,

should never be rebuked, should never be approached, should

never be criticized. In fact, they are above all that

because if you say something against somebody who's in

spiritual leadership, God will judge you for that.

And they use David exam as an example here to how David would

not touch the Lord's. Anointed, even though saw was in

so much wrong, David dare not do anything to say something.

This is how they interpret it to criticize or to speak about a

man of God. Even though he's in wrong,

Here's the problem. None of those things and we can

go to different portions of scripture.

That Echo what David is saying. None of those things, entertain

for a split second that you and I cannot confront approach or

deal with someone who is in a leadership position.

When they are in sin, when David says, I will not touch the

Lord's. Anointed.

He's speaking about physical harm.

I got killing him. In fact, the very context just

destroys that argument, he is confronting him, he's dealing

with his sin head on. And so many of you haven't heard

it, I can tell you of some places where they use it all the

time and even leaders teach about it.

This is not the same thing. People mistakenly warn others

with a text like this. That leaders are excluded from

accountability or examination wrong.

Is there a way to do it? Absolutely.

And there is specific. There's a specific protocol of

how to do it, but it doesn't say that they're exempt from it,

completely that may not be beneficial to you.

Now, it may come At a future time.

And if somebody warns you about it, just just remember, it's not

talking about you stabbing somebody with an actual sword.

And so we come back to this verse, behold this day, your

eyes have seen how the lord gave you today into my hand in the

cave. And then we come here and we see

something else. And verse 11.

See my father, notice how he calls him my father.

See my father, see the corner of your robe in my hand for by the

fact that I cut off the corner of your robe and did not kill

you. You may know and see that there

is no wrong or treason. In my hands, I have not sinned

against you though. You hunt my life to take it.

So now David is not trying to give an appeal with words now.

He pulls out evidence, he pulls out the briefcase and he takes

his ziplock bag with the strongest piece of evidence that

would just make this irrefutable he takes a piece of the robe,

the robe that he cut, and he says here, What you going to do

with this? Is this not clear enough for

you? Do you not see the evidence?

And I look at that, and I see a practical application here.

And here's the practical, application believer.

The Believers duty is to ensure that by the wisdom of God, by

walking with the Lord, by living in the fear of the Lord, that

there is no evidence that we can give Satan to muddy our

testimony When is Satan's tactics and he's done it to so

many men of God in the scriptures and Men of God.

And women of God today is to make the testimony of a

Believer, especially those who are affected for the kingdom of

murky and questionable. So that their message and that

their Ministry would be hindered from being fully effective.

It's a very despicable practice but it's one of his tactics,

nonetheless. And David, he remember going

back to verse 9, he's dealing with people that are saying

things about him and yet in this moment, he has evidence that

will shut all of their mouths. And the application here is you

and I should not be overwhelmed or concerned or busy ourselves

with hunting. Every lie that somebody says or

every exaggeration or the spread of misinformation don't occupy

yourself with these things. If you're going to busy yourself

with anything, it is to live with a clear conscience.

I'm telling you this not for you to be fearful, but I'm telling

you to be prepared. For those who serve the Lord,

one of the enemy's strategies is to make sure that he can.

As we heard Sunday, poison, the minds of others.

Don't busy yourself trying to unpause in them.

Busy yourself with making sure that you are walking in the

light. That's all you have to do.

That's all you need to do. And what I think is so

incredible is people just don't realize the seriousness of what

I'm presenting that this is. This is a tactic.

It happened with Joseph at happened with Daniel at happen

with our Lord. And it happened to Paul that man

experienced that throughout his ministry.

And I want to show you just how important it is to ensure that

you and I have a clear conscience so that when these

tactics of Satan surface you'll be ready.

You'll be ready. So come with me to the book of

Acts and look with me here. Paul found himself in court, I

believe in America, we're going to see many more Christians in

court in the next few years. And here in chapter 24, listen

to this, he's standing for governor Felix, and there's a

whole court case. And this man took two lists is

sophisticated. And he begins to accuse him in

front of the governor and other people look here with me and

verse 2. And when he had been summoned to

to this began to accuse him saying and let's just scroll

down here. And verse 4.

But to detain you, no further. I beg you in your kindness to

hear us briefly for we have found this man.

Paul a plague one who stirs up riots among all the Jews

throughout the world and is a ringleader of the sect of the

nazarenes. He even tried to profane the

temple, but we seized them by examining him yourself.

You will be able to find out from him about everything of

which we accuse him. Wow, pretty confident guy.

Accuse everything that you're going to find out, you

investigate it. You're going to see that.

What we're saying is true. You're so bald, man.

So here's here's Paul standing before Governor.

Here's Paul at the brink of his ministry, potentially being

hindered and this is what I love and the same chapter.

You come down to verse 13. And look at the answer that Paul

gives Neither. Can they prove to you what?

They now bring up against me. Yeah, that's right.

They can't prove it. They can't.

What a wonderful Shield Integrity is.

What a wonderful protection living in the fear of the Lord?

Is it provides a boldness and a courage.

It does not make one frantic. When there are things being said

no no they are steadfast because that is the power of a

conscience that is in the clear. Would you like to know how Paul

can say such a statement like this?

Without being shaken without without stuttering, in his

words, while the inside is in the same chapter, look at verse

16. So I always take pains to have a

clear conscience toward both God and man, that's how I take great

pains. I make sure that I am in right

standing in the presence of God. Yes, Jesus position, he makes us

right, but practically, I make sure that there is no offense.

There's no disobedience in my walk with the Lord first.

Notice the order, a clear conscience before God first, and

then, man, not the other way around.

And then to my fellow man. And if there's any wrong that

I've done before the Lord, any wrong that I've done to my

fellow man I take great pains to ensure that I clear my record

that I make right what I have done wrong.

And that is what you and I inherit when it comes to these

satanic accusations in our lives, this conviction for a

clear conscience will protect you, it will guard you.

And it will keep us from doing what. bringing blasphemy to the

name of God before the Gentiles, like Paul said to the Romans, In

this world where the media and the culture is just drooling for

another scandal in the Evangelical world.

It's just waiting for another failure.

Just waiting for another moral hypocrisy.

You and I can can do what David did back in this verse and verse

11, 3 times, he repeats the same word you know what it is.

Si si si si. In other words, just look at my

life. I have nothing to hide from you.

I have nothing to be embarrassed about, have nothing to be shy

about have nothing. I had nothing si si, oh, what a

wonderful testimony that is for those who would want to defame

our faith, for those who would want to through the enemy's

conviction. Bring about a hindrance to our

Ministries and unfortunate. I want to bring you a heads up

to this. It might be true.

It might be true. That there is great power that

when you and I have through a holy life, a blameless life, a

life that reflects the character of God though, not perfect

blameless. Still, the enemy is a clever

fellow and he can still he can still gather evidence against

you and I Saying, what are you talking about?

So here's David holding a piece of Saul's rope to prove his

innocence and I'm asking you to reflect on a story where

somebody else was holding another piece of garment that

condemned an innocent man. Who is that very good?

Joseph. And so there you see a different

Paradigm to this? Joseph was innocent, Joseph was

right, and yet it looked like it looked like there was evidence

against him. These see how tricky this is,

the see how it's not black, and white and Christianity.

So then what are you doing? It just everything you just said

about walking route. So you're saying that no matter

what you do like Joseph, even though you stand for God and you

choose to obey him when nobody's looking, you can still be

falsely accused. What am I supposed to do with

that? Then this is intimidating.

No, don't be intimidated. Even though that garment and

that woman's hand, symbolize a man, it was a trophy of a Man

Who Loved and honored God she Twisted it sure.

So then what's our duty then if we can't predict these things

very simple do what David does back in verse 12 of 1st Samuel,

24, May the lord judge between me and you.

May the lord judge between me and you may the Lord avenge me

against you but my hand shall not be against you.

I've talked to different people who have been Disturbed in their

Christian experience because of things that have been said about

them, but it is a verse like this, that should encourage you

to know how to rest. In God's sovereignty.

And to be completely committed to the judge will bring all

things to the light. Trust yourself in, trust

yourself into his hands at all times.

As tempting as it is, sometimes to to defend yourself into

unconvinced people and to convince people, don't worry

about that. Don't get so caught up in that.

Learn to just leave it to the Lord. that is important, because

There is a day as you heard earlier when we're God is going

to gather all the evidence and this is so comforting and he

will show, who is right? And who is wrong.

And that's why Paul in that same scripture where he says don't

judge before the time earlier. He says it is a little thing to

be judged by you, or by any human court.

It's a small thing to me. It's a, it doesn't affect me

very much. Why?

Because he says, that in verse 3, of First Corinthians for Nana

verse 5, he goes the Lord's going to bring out the light,

like, you got to believe that. You got to really believe that

and there's a lightness to that. There's a confidence to that

even if you're thrown in jail for 15 years, Just trust the

Lord really trust, like, come on, like, trust the Lord.

Amen. I trust the Lord, I trust you

with my okay, trust them. Then really trust them like when

it gets ugly, trust them. Like you let your soul actually

commit. These things to him.

I give it to you. Lord deal with it.

Do that. Don't just think about it, do it

and experience The Liberation from it, where you can say,

like, Paul, it's a little thing. He looks at Saul from a

distance. He goes, look, I have evidence.

Even if you have evidence that God is going to, God is the one

who will bring all things. So, I'm leaving this into God's

hand. What a wonderful thing it is to

know to lead people into God's hands.

We can continue with the verses following to this.

He kind of repeats himself in different ways to emphasize his

point, but I think it's good to get to Saul's reaction now.

Aren't you? Eager to know what's always

going to do? How is Saul going to respond to

this, to this presentation? That is immaculate?

That, I mean, how do you argue against this?

I don't know if this is saying the text, if you looked at the

corner of his robe and he looked, and he says it's real,

it's legit, he actually did this, we don't know, but we see

his response and it is quite telling.

It's Very, very, very shocking. Join with me, come to verse 16

as soon as David had finished speaking, these words to Saul

Saul said, is this your voice? My son, David.

And so lifted up his voice and wept.

We have to read slowly. How did how did he address

David? my son, David, not the son of

Jesse, My son David, wow. Seems like somebody's heart is

softening. And I think the iciness of this

man's heart is melting here because now it's translating it

to actual tears. There's an outburst, he's

weeping. He's weeping out loud audibly.

I don't know if it echoed Into the Wilderness into that cave.

I don't know, but he's broken. I mean this is not what we saw

earlier when Jonathan confronts his dad and he says what are you

doing with David? And and you can tell that he's a

little convicted and he goes you know as the Lord lives I will

not put him to death and he comes back and then he ends up

doing what he did before this time.

There's actual tears. There's like visible remorse.

This is exciting. In fact, it gets even more

exciting, because look what he says in verse 17.

He said to David, you are more righteous than I for you, have

repaid me. Good.

Whereas I've repaid you evil. This is like Revival happening

right now. you are more righteous than I Is this

confession? This is, this is admitting that

he's in the wrong. This is admitting this, the

righteousness of this man, eclipsing, his Darkness.

You've repaid me with good while I'm treating you with evil and

it breaks him. and when I read this today, I looked at that

phrase, you are more righteous than I And this is why reading

the Old Testament or reading the scriptures with rearview

mirrors. Brings about Revelation, I've

seen that phrase before. I've seen this phrase before.

If you know where this phrase is found it, I'll give you a

high-five after the service. who else said you are more righteous

than I Before we're talking before this moment, we're

talking about, we're talking about early in the book. let me

let me make it more specific, she is more righteous than I

Very good but you're a pastor. So now joking has nothing to do

with you being a pastor. You read the word of God.

Did you hear his answer? Come with me to Genesis chapter

Genesis 39 · chapter mention

39. I'll still give you a high five

after the service. Genesis 39.

Excuse me, 38 Do you remember the story between Judah and

Tamar who here knows of the story?

Lift your hand just so I can know how much to go in depth

with this. Remember Judah, one of the sons

of Jacob? He goes into He goes into an

area that he shouldn't be going into and he marries somebody.

You shouldn't be marrying, he has.

He has three sons with a Canaanite woman, the first to

die and Judah kind of interprets this and he goes, there must be

something wrong with her because whenever she marries one of my

son's they die. So I'm going to keep the

youngest one and he promises her when he's old enough.

I'll give him to you. Why is that happening?

Because, you know, that in the Old Testament, there is a law

that when a man dies The brother should fulfill a certain

responsibility and providing Offspring to that Widow.

And so, when Judah reserves the youngest for Tamar that was that

was sin. And so tame, our takes things

into her own hands, she kind of knew her father-in-law enough

and and that's unfortunate because she dresses herself up

as a prostitute. She hides her identity and this

man goes into a certain place and he requests for her and she

says, yes, but upon a condition, she asked for a certain things

from him because he didn't have payments.

So she would hold on to those things until he provided

something for in a future time. And the things that he gave

Cigna and Accord. It's almost like a modern

driver's license. It's a piece of identification.

It was undeniable. Some say there is there is

inscriptions on these things. Initials something that made it

so obvious that this belonged to so and so and so she not because

she was in lust but because she wanted to fulfill The Vow, she

wanted to fulfill what belonged to her and he was not making it

happen. So she does this.

He goes, he tries to gets payment, he bring he comes back

to the area, she's not to be founding asked around to like

there was no prostitute here, we don't know who you're talking

about now, come here to verse 24 in Genesis 38, about three

months later. Judah was told Tamar, your

daughter-in-law has been immoral.

Moreover, she is pregnant my immorality.

And Judah said, bring her out and let her be burned, not

knowing that he was the one who impregnated her.

As she was being brought out, she sent word to her

father-in-law. Now look at this, by the man to

whom these belong. I am pregnant.

Wow. So here she is with a little

bump that preparing the very steak where she's going to be

burned. And she brings out the elements

of his identification. And she goes, you want to know

who did this? Whoever this belongs to Just

like David, there is evidence. There is evidence.

Now, you know what Judah could have done to save face?

I don't know who that belongs to your dying today.

Men no room for excuses. The bump is enough.

Let her be burned. But as he's confronted with

evidence, something happens to him and look what he says.

She says please identify whose these are the Signet and the

court and the staff verse 26. Then Judah identify them and

said she is more righteous than I Since I did not give her to my

son. Sheila.

And he did not know her again. The paralleling situations,

right? Evil done evidence.

Given both response with conviction.

I mean you can even say that Saul was much more emotional

weeping and all these things and see this is this is what it

means there is, there's a confession of wrong.

But there's a difference. There's a difference.

What's the difference between judah's repentance and Sol's?

Did you say we're going to say the same thing?

Did you see the last part of the verse here in verse 26?

And he did not know her again. In fact, I challenge you to read

you the story from Genesis 38 to the end of book of Ghent, the

end of the book of Genesis. You will see a different Judah,

not just in the fact that he didn't sleep with her again but

in the fact that he treats the whole situation with Joseph and

Benjamin, he's willing to make himself a slave instead of

Benjamin. There's a different person after

this moment. when you compare Judah with the same words, with

with the appearance conviction there, there's a difference with

the sincerity of the remorse because he actually changed Saul

won't Saul said the right things, he had that he had the

right emotions, you can even say, but when you follow Saul,

after that moment, you will not see a difference, all you will,

in fact see the same Saul. Go back to 1st Samuel, I'll

prove it in just two chapters. First, Samuel 26:2.

And first name, a 26 to look what happens two chapters later.

So Saul arose and went down to the Wilderness of his, if, with

3,000 chosen men of Israel, to seek David in the wilderness of

Zin, if he's literally doing the same thing that he has done,

before the moment of his confrontation, the exact same

thing, the same amount of men, the same area, everything the

man didn't change. What happened to him them with

David? What many people do and

services, they were challenged. He got emotional.

He felt genuine conviction. But what he did here is, what

James warns, Believers not to do and that is to look intently

into a mirror. and then to turn around only forgetting what you

saw in that mirror, that's what it says.

And James says that after saying, do not be hearers only,

but doers of the word. And if you don't, it's like you

looking into the mirror, seeing who you are with, with the

mirrors, not lying to you. You're seeing what you get, is

what you see and then you go away and you forget what you

saw. And that's exactly what happened

with Saul. When that environment was left,

when the evidence was in there, when the emotion waned away, as

he moved on, as you went back home, that conviction died, more

and more and more. It was never responded to.

And so was a useless thing. It was impressive at first, but

it didn't really actually bring about change.

And so we have to beware of that of ourselves.

The measure of true repentance is not the tears that I cry or

the feelings that I have in the moment.

It's what happens to you after what happens to you after Judah.

He said the same thing as Saul but Judah we are told by Holy

Spirit commentary. He did not know her again.

Why would he say that? Why would the Lord put that in

there? Why is that important for us to

know to show us? He changed though, he admitted

that he was not as righteous. He strive by God's grace.

To pursue righteousness. So we come back to this text or

more closing in a moment here. So this man weeps and he cries

and he screams and he confesses and he says beautiful things and

we're going to find out in just after the next chapter that he's

going to do the same thing that he was doing before.

This is a sad sight indeed but what happens is as we come to

this point, he makes another confession and this confession

is quite impressive as well and verse 20 and now behold I know

that you shall surely be king and that the Kingdom of Israel

shall be established. In your hand.

Now, I know, but didn't know before.

Didn't-didn't, Jonathan say my, my father saw knows, you will be

king. He did know the whole time, but

now it's just, it just reinforced even more.

I know. Not like now it's like, I know,

I know, We would applaud him, but this reveal something

disturbing about saw, what does it reveal about salts in?

He was willingly sinning, he was in Sydney ignorance.

He knew what God's word said about David and he still tried

to go against it and you and I have to understand that the

Bible provides a principle in life, that men will be judged

based on the degree of Revelation that they've been

given. They will be the more light you

receive. The more judgment will be in

accordance to that light. And so the more an unbeliever

receives understand the amount of gospel, that they have known,

that will be Take it into consideration on the final day

saw, here is knowing what he's doing is wrong and he's still

attacking, he's still resisting, he is still fighting against

God, and that's a scary thing, but it makes me wonder.

Ooh, it makes me wonder if the visual visualization of the

whole thing. Brought back a memory?

Do you remember what solid the Samuel a few chapters ago when

Samuel confronted him in his sin?

What does he do? He grabs Samuel.

The Prophet by the robe and what does he do?

After that? He rips it.

He rips it off of the profit and Samuel says, something quite

haunting. It was a prophetic word.

The Lord has torn the Kingdom of Israel from you.

This day. And has given it to a neighbor

of yours who's better than you. So imagine that.

Just imagine that with me and first time in 15, he grabs His

Garment, he rips the prophets garment and he has a piece of

his clothing and his hand and Samuel looks at him as this

shirt is all messed up and he goes God has torn the Kingdom

from you. And he's going to place it into

the hand of a neighbor of yours. Who's better than you fast

forward, David is standing before Saul, and he has a piece

of the Kings robe in his hand. Symbolizing his authority.

And Saul looks. And perhaps I'm not saying this

is like dogmatically true but perhaps that's the guy he knew

it before but now he's like that's the guy.

It's amazing. How artistic the Bible is. and

this man here says to David, I know that you're going to be

king. What's so encouraging about

this? Is that has a prophetic ring to

it? No matter how much salt fought

against David, no matter how much salt try to keep David from

the throne, no matter how much he tried to set up conspiracies

his efforts were all in vain and there came a time where he

acknowledged that David was the king.

From his own lips. And all the Sol's in history.

Who've attacked this gospel who try to contradict this gospel

who try to malign who've tried to bury who try to dismiss the

lordship of Jesus Christ. There is a day coming where with

their own mouths, they will confess that, he is the king of

kings and that he is the Lord of lords, that's what we're seeing.

There was a time that even the greatest enemy to David had to

confess, you are the rightful King, and I can't wait for that

day. We're all the princes and

presidents prime ministers. Will helplessly confess.

Jesus of Nazareth, the king of the universe.

That's going to happen. Let me end with this.

No. Psalm verse 21, says, swear to

me therefore that you will not cut off my Offspring.

He was so convinced that he's like just please make a promise

a similar promise that you made to my son just be be ever.

So merciful to my offspring. David agrees.

But look what David does in verse 22 David's wore this the

saw then Saul went home but David and his men went up to the

stronghold. you know, David confronted Saul and his sin

David was respectful saw apparently confessed.

He was remorseful, he was broken.

But they don't go back home together.

In fact, we're going to see in chapter 26, saw is going to

invite David to come back. Hey, return.

With me. I'm not going to do you harm

anymore. Was David wrong and not going

back. Or you can have to come to the

next Bible. Studies, to find out.

Let's pray. Louis, thank you for the word of

God. Oh, how rich it is?

We are amazed Lord how you can speak into our lives from a text

that seems so irrelevant. Lord Jesus.

As challenging as these truths. Are, they are extremely

difficult to perform a part from your power?

We are all susceptible of doing the exact opposite of what David

has presented us. And so, Lord, we just pray.

Help us be like Jesus. Help us be like Jesus.

Help us to know, to return good to those who do evil.

We don't know what that looks like.

We don't know what that. Manifest itself to be every

situation is unique. Or help us to be.

Among those by the grace of God, to live with a clear conscience

before you and before, man. so that even when there are

accusations, There would be a life filled with evidence of the

contrary. Again, Lord, we know that this

is not possible without your help below with our short lives.

We long to make it extremely difficult for the enemy.

To hinder our testimony For Your Glory.

Louis, thank you for Jesus Christ.

We thank you that he is the true king that no matter who is

Accused them accused his people. No matter who's try to argue

against them, try to prove other things to be true.

They will confess. They will confess the Lord.

Tonight, we confess, gladly, you're the true Risen.

Lord, you love us. We love you.

We worship you because of these truths tonight.

We worship you for the people that you've allowed us to walk

this journey with Blessed. Be Your Name.

We ask these things in the name of the one who can only save

that name. That saves any man who is

willing to be saved in Jesus name, we pray.

Amen, let's stand and worship. if the Lord together,