WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:07.480 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:14.240 Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys. I'm Chris. 5 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:16.519 Let's get to it. Chris. This is a big day. 6 00:00:16.559 --> 00:00:18.519 And he's Jeff, I guess, and he's in a hurry. 7 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:21.640 So as the Jeff of the show, Yes, I'm going 8 00:00:21.679 --> 00:00:25.399 to push it forward because it's Friday and as such, 9 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:29.399 and you know we are all dying to discover, Yes, 10 00:00:29.519 --> 00:00:32.880 what made Chris mad this week? Well? I have one? Really, Yes, 11 00:00:33.159 --> 00:00:34.159 we didn't see that coming. 12 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:36.399 I didn't even have to think for a second. 13 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:40.520 Well, you wonder why this is a segment, and it's 14 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:42.960 because when we ask what made Chris mad this week ago? Oh, 15 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:45.240 I know, I've got one. Two days ago, I was 16 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:47.520 so angry. Here's what happens. 17 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:50.479 So, Okay, this was actually tragic and this has nothing 18 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:52.880 to do with why I was mad at all. Okay, Okay, 19 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:54.159 So what I'm about to tell you is not what 20 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:54.719 made me mad. 21 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:55.079 Okay. 22 00:00:55.920 --> 00:01:00.520 We were traveling from you know, Michigan, Detroit, Michigan, down 23 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:02.920 to Canton, Ohio to do this video shoot at the 24 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:06.760 Pro Football Hall of Fame and we get delayed two 25 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:08.159 and a half We sat in traffic two and a 26 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:10.599 half hours because there was a tragedy. There was a 27 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:13.840 car tracking trailer, a big car accident. People actually lost 28 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:17.680 their lives, and so we were in this uh literally 29 00:01:17.719 --> 00:01:20.400 I put in park and we sat in the truck 30 00:01:20.599 --> 00:01:21.840 for two and a half hours. 31 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:24.680 Well just in park. People were left. 32 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:26.680 Their cars that were walking along the freeway and it 33 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:28.159 was not that was a turnpike. 34 00:01:28.519 --> 00:01:31.040 So and so then nowhere else you're stuck right. 35 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:33.319 Right, because you know, if you're on the freeway, people 36 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:35.439 can like make their way to the next exit. But 37 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:37.439 there was no exit, so there was like it was 38 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:39.799 like fourteen miles between two exits or something like that. 39 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:42.640 Something crazy. So anyway, that's not what made me mad. 40 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:46.519 Here's what made me mad is that the GPS, the 41 00:01:46.599 --> 00:01:49.079 GPS could have done a better job and because of that, 42 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:50.359 I could have avoided all of it. 43 00:01:50.519 --> 00:01:53.280 Oh so you made it the GPS. Correct, Okay, yes, 44 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:56.439 bring it, because I'm on your team. Now, Okay, here's 45 00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:57.000 what happens. 46 00:01:57.280 --> 00:02:00.359 So we're traveling and if you've ever traveled the turnpike 47 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:03.239 across Ohio, it pretty much like slices Ohio. Like right 48 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:05.319 at the top, right, it pretty much runs as a 49 00:02:05.359 --> 00:02:08.520 straight line from Toledo all the way through Youngstown. Right, 50 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:11.360 you know, it comes comes zippity zooe, you know, do that. 51 00:02:11.560 --> 00:02:13.800 It's just it's one straight line. There's no there's no 52 00:02:13.879 --> 00:02:18.759 quicker way across Ohio. Right. So, uh so we're here, 53 00:02:18.759 --> 00:02:20.680 we are traveling on this, you know, on this, on 54 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:23.439 this turnpike, and all of a sudden the thing reroutes 55 00:02:23.479 --> 00:02:26.840 and it shows, it says, it says, no, take this route. 56 00:02:26.960 --> 00:02:28.879 And it has me, I'm not even kidding listening to this. 57 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:29.599 It has me. 58 00:02:29.719 --> 00:02:32.840 Leaving the turnpike and going all the way up to 59 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:36.840 Sandusky in the tippity top of the tippity parts of 60 00:02:36.879 --> 00:02:40.159 like those little islands. It has me going that way right, 61 00:02:40.199 --> 00:02:41.680 and then like and then like going through all these 62 00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:45.919 back roads and then zooming down of some freeway or something, 63 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:49.680 and then finally emerging, you know, somewhere you know, closer 64 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:51.919 to like Akron or something. Right, and I'm thinking to myself, 65 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:54.680 what is happening? And it says you're gonna lose twenty 66 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:57.039 one minutes. It says twenty minutes, twenty one minutes lower 67 00:02:57.240 --> 00:02:59.520 But here's what it didn't do. What it didn't do 68 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:02.360 is it didn't tell me why you would think of 69 00:03:02.439 --> 00:03:08.960 modern technology. It could have said, just show red, show something, right, 70 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:09.560 but it doesn't. 71 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:11.439 Everything's blue. What were you using? 72 00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:14.400 I was using Apple Maps? 73 00:03:14.479 --> 00:03:16.159 Apple Maps really yes, wow? 74 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:20.879 But however Wesley turned on Google Maps and it didn't 75 00:03:20.919 --> 00:03:23.479 show it. It didn't show ready either, didn't show red. Wow, 76 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:25.400 because they're tracking your phones everybody. 77 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:26.199 That's how they know what. 78 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:28.199 They have track phones on Apple Maps. 79 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:30.240 Too, yeah, I know, and they it didn't show that 80 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:32.280 it was read. It didn't show red. Wow. You should 81 00:03:32.319 --> 00:03:33.439 have been using Ways. 82 00:03:33.319 --> 00:03:35.879 So maybe Ways, maybe that would have worked. But you know, 83 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:38.159 but it shows blue and then it shows this other 84 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:40.319 blue and it says, oh, take this one twenty one 85 00:03:40.360 --> 00:03:40.879 minutes lower. 86 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:42.560 Well, who's going to take that one? Right? 87 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:44.360 And I'm like, I'm like, why is it doing this? 88 00:03:44.439 --> 00:03:46.360 And we kept on asking. And so here's what I 89 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:49.319 should have done. I should have literally pulled over, because 90 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:51.759 knowing that I was on the turnpike, hindsight being twenty twenty, 91 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:55.039 I should have pulled over and said, let's examine, let's 92 00:03:55.039 --> 00:03:57.919 analyze truly before we make this mistake of committing to 93 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:01.520 this fourteen hours, fourteen miles stretch between exits, right, But 94 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:02.000 I didn't. 95 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:04.199 I was like, this is so goofy. 96 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:09.039 We're traveling. I'm like, look at this thing. And I 97 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:14.280 just passed everything until finally we So, Apple Maps tried. 98 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:16.600 To warn you and you refused it. It didn't and 99 00:04:16.680 --> 00:04:17.199 now you're mad. 100 00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:20.360 I tried to give me an absurd suggestion without telling me. 101 00:04:20.439 --> 00:04:26.759 Why was it wrong? The suggestion? Yes? No, no, but 102 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:29.399 it was not communicating. Tried to it just didn't write right. 103 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:32.279 The robot didn't communicate in your love language, and you 104 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:37.279 couldn't hear. How about pertinent information? How about essential reasons? Why? Yeah? 105 00:04:37.480 --> 00:04:37.519 So? 106 00:04:37.959 --> 00:04:40.680 Does? Does? Do you have the serie talk out loud 107 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:43.399 to you on your maps? I can? And what kind 108 00:04:43.399 --> 00:04:46.639 of voice do you use? The normal one? Yeah, the 109 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:50.680 typical one is the normal the lady? Yeah, the lady. Yeah. 110 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:54.639 So my wife got a hold of Ways and she 111 00:04:54.759 --> 00:04:57.720 recorded her voice over Ways. Yes, so now it's always 112 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:01.319 my wife here. You go, have a pleasant drive. Oh 113 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:06.439 what happened? Took it off? I say that thing that 114 00:05:06.519 --> 00:05:08.839 sound like BONDI to me? Is it it did? That'd 115 00:05:08.839 --> 00:05:11.600 be weird. Here we go, let's see if it doesn't now. 116 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:14.759 Yeah, anyways, but but I've heard her. 117 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:18.839 I've heard her give you instructions on that, and she 118 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:21.639 was such a surprise. She even yells at you too, right, yeah, yeah, 119 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:24.480 it'll be like like if if I miss my turn, 120 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:31.279 she'll go, oh, brother, turn around, that's so funny. 121 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:35.040 So anyway, so I just think with modern technology the 122 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:37.959 way that it is, the Apple Maps could have done something. 123 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:46.959 What turn right, Yeah, that's so good. Make a U turn, 124 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:50.199 that's so good. Yeah. So now my wife gets to 125 00:05:50.199 --> 00:05:51.319 tell me what to do everywhere I go. 126 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:51.959 That's right. 127 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:54.160 You can't escape her. That's right, you can't escape. So 128 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:57.560 then the yeah, so then if if if that had 129 00:05:57.560 --> 00:05:59.480 happened to me and it told me to go another 130 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:00.800 way and I did and do it, I couldn't come 131 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:04.040 home and complain because she tried to warn me, right right, Well, 132 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:04.720 I got to tell you. 133 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:08.000 I just think with a modern technology, they should have 134 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:10.519 done something other than saying, hey, I have an idea, 135 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:13.399 lose twenty one minutes for no reason all. And both 136 00:06:13.399 --> 00:06:16.920 of them are blue, they're both they both look like 137 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:19.439 they're going to work, but take the longer route. 138 00:06:19.519 --> 00:06:21.879 You would do that. That's true with with it being 139 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:24.600 red or blue instead of red. It just hadn't updated 140 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:27.120 yet on that thing, correct, but it was updating that. Hey, 141 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:28.360 you probably are going to want. 142 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:31.600 This, yes, yeah, and so in hindsight I would have 143 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:34.319 taken twenty one minute loss versus. 144 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:36.399 A two and a half hour loss. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. 145 00:06:36.439 --> 00:06:38.639 It was pretty rough man. Okay, so that's what made 146 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:40.639 you mad this week? Yes, I'm mad. Do you need 147 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:43.079 to call somebody you want to? I want to straighten 148 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:43.399 this out. 149 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:45.399 But I'm really hoping is that somebody will forward this 150 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:48.800 episode to the leader of Apple Maps. 151 00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:50.920 Okay, so if you know him, could you or her 152 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:53.040 send it? Just send it, send it and say, hey, 153 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:54.759 there's got to be a way where you can inform 154 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:56.480 us why we're being diverted. 155 00:06:56.639 --> 00:06:59.439 Yes, please, yes, okay, maybe, man. 156 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:02.199 We thank you Chris on behalf of all the rest 157 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:05.160 of us that you're irate for. We cannot thank you 158 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:07.399 enough for the sacrifices you make for the rest of us. 159 00:07:07.480 --> 00:07:09.879 On behalf of everybody in that line, that's right, that 160 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:10.399 was with me. 161 00:07:10.600 --> 00:07:13.319 Thank you, Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Welcome, 162 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:18.519 You're welcome, buddy. Okay, well we are we are In 163 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:22.319 First Samuel chapter twenty three lots has happened, but it's 164 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:25.560 all the same kind of stuff. David goes out, has victories. 165 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:28.199 Saul starts getting freaked out. He decides he's going to 166 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:31.160 kill David. David has to go hide, then David. Then 167 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:34.519 Saul apologizes, come back David. All these things. But at 168 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:37.360 the same time, David is starting to kind of rally 169 00:07:37.439 --> 00:07:39.800 the troops. Some of these really tough guys start coming 170 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:42.800 towards him to him at this time. And so there's 171 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:45.920 David is a great leader of Saul's army, but he 172 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:48.639 also kind of has a special forces group, David's mighty men, 173 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:51.160 six hundred of them. And so here's what it says, 174 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:55.680 or in our first Samuel, chapter twenty three, verse thirteen, 175 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:57.920 it says, so David and his men, about six hundred them, 176 00:07:57.920 --> 00:08:01.720 now left Kila and began roaming the countryside. Words soon 177 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:03.800 reached saw that David had escaped, so he didn't go 178 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:07.040 after Quila or go to Quila after all. David now 179 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:09.279 stayed in the strongholds of the wilderness and in the 180 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:13.000 hill country of Ziff. Saul hunted him day after day, 181 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:16.839 but God didn't tell let Saul find him. Oh, I'm 182 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:22.120 having troubles today. One day near Horash, David received the 183 00:08:22.120 --> 00:08:24.199 news that Saul was on the way to Zif to 184 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:27.079 search for him and kill him. Jonathan went to find 185 00:08:27.120 --> 00:08:29.399 David and encouraged him to stay strong in his faith 186 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:32.720 in God. Don't be afraid, Jonathan reassured him, My father 187 00:08:32.759 --> 00:08:35.200 will never find you. You're going to be king of Israel, 188 00:08:35.320 --> 00:08:37.120 and I will be next to you, as my father 189 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:39.960 saw is well aware. So the two of them renewed 190 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:43.240 their solemn pact before the Lord. Then Jonathan returned home, 191 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:47.000 while David stayed in Horash. But now the men of 192 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:50.440 Zif went to Saul in Ghibea and betrayed David to him. 193 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:53.159 We know where David is hiding, they said. He's in 194 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:58.799 the strongholds of Horace, in the hill of Aquilah. Yeah, sure, sure, 195 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:04.039 which is in the southern part. Jesshamon, Oh, okay, come 196 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:07.399 down whenever you're ready, o King, and we will catch 197 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:10.799 him and hand him over to you. The Lord bless you. 198 00:09:10.879 --> 00:09:14.360 Saul said, at last, someonet is concerned about me. Go 199 00:09:14.399 --> 00:09:16.879 and check again to be sure of where he's staying 200 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:18.919 and who has seen him there, For I know that 201 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:22.039 he's been very crafty. Discover his hiding places and come 202 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:23.600 back when you're sure, and then I'll go with you, 203 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:25.639 and if he's in the area at all, I'll track 204 00:09:25.720 --> 00:09:27.639 him down, even if I have to search every hiding 205 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:30.559 place in Judah. So the men of Ziph returned home 206 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:34.120 ahead of Saul. Meanwhile, Dave and his men had moved 207 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:38.360 into the wilderness of Maeon in the Araba Valley south 208 00:09:38.399 --> 00:09:41.600 of Jeshamon. When David heard that Saal and his men 209 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:44.200 were searching for him, he went even further into the wilderness, 210 00:09:44.440 --> 00:09:46.440 to the Great Rock, and he remained there in the 211 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:51.080 wilderness of Maeon, but Saul kept after him. In the wilderness, 212 00:09:51.480 --> 00:09:54.039 Saul and David were now on opposite sides of a mountain, 213 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:55.720 and just as Sal and as men began to close 214 00:09:55.759 --> 00:09:58.120 in on David and his men, an urgent message reached 215 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:00.840 Saul that the Philistines were raiding Israel again, so Saul 216 00:10:00.919 --> 00:10:04.840 quit chasing David returned to fight the Philistines. Ever since 217 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:06.799 that time, the place where David was camped has been 218 00:10:06.799 --> 00:10:09.960 called the Rock of Escape. David then went to live 219 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:11.639 in the strongholds of Bengetti. 220 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:17.840 Well, so it's really an entire half a chapter about 221 00:10:17.960 --> 00:10:23.240 David running yeah, and he has good support from great men. 222 00:10:23.559 --> 00:10:26.720 Yep, He's got six hundred of them who are loyal 223 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:27.159 to him. 224 00:10:27.559 --> 00:10:30.399 He still has the favor of the people, he still 225 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:34.360 has the favor of the nation, quite honestly, but Saul 226 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:38.159 has the power. Saul's gotten to the point where he's passed. 227 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:39.679 He's dropping all pretenses. 228 00:10:40.120 --> 00:10:40.559 He is. 229 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:47.159 Unashamedly you know, hunting him now, right, So it's not 230 00:10:47.240 --> 00:10:50.919 like he's pretending to wrestle with Oh, play music for me. 231 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:52.440 No, I'm going to try to kill you. Oh, I'm 232 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:53.159 so sorry. 233 00:10:53.480 --> 00:10:55.960 I've repented, which, by the way, he did, he repented 234 00:10:56.200 --> 00:10:58.480 several times. I try I'm trying to kill you and 235 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:01.080 I don't know why. I'm so jealous. Come be my 236 00:11:01.159 --> 00:11:04.000 friend again. So it says the King play you know, 237 00:11:04.120 --> 00:11:08.360 all that stuff, and it actually says that poor David. 238 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:11.440 Actually we skipped over it, but poor David had actually 239 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:13.919 had to retreat to one of the philistine hometowns of 240 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:16.960 gaff You remember that, and he acted crazy, remember that. 241 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:17.679 That's a great one. 242 00:11:17.759 --> 00:11:20.840 Yeah, And we skipped over that. But like David, actually, uh, 243 00:11:21.240 --> 00:11:22.879 I was so afraid of Sault that he had to 244 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:27.799 run to one of the towns of the Philistines of 245 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:30.480 his enemies. And now we know it's a town of 246 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:32.600 his enemies, because we literally just read that a couple 247 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:34.679 of days ago in the Bible, guys, where it said that, 248 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:38.240 remember they said when Goliath was killed, they ran as 249 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:40.799 far as the city of Gath, remember that, and and 250 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:43.000 they and you know, the bodies fell all the way 251 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:45.440 to Gath. Well, this is where David ran. And then 252 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:48.759 it actually says that while he was there trying to hide, 253 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:51.440 and by the way, props to him that we would 254 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:53.799 ever expect to look for him there, right, But it 255 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:57.039 says while he was there, the king of that region 256 00:11:57.960 --> 00:12:00.879 noticed that that was David and actually said, isn't this 257 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:04.240 the man when they say Saul was killed, killed in 258 00:12:04.279 --> 00:12:07.000 his thousands and David killed in his ten thousands, isn't 259 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:09.000 that him? And it says when David heard this, he 260 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:11.720 became afraid, and then he started acting like a madman. 261 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:14.879 And it says he started scratching the door, and he 262 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:17.000 started acting like this crazy person. 263 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:18.879 Himself. 264 00:12:19.399 --> 00:12:21.759 And then and then to where the king just said, Hey, 265 00:12:21.759 --> 00:12:24.519 I've got enough mad men here. I don't want another 266 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:26.759 mad man. Get rid of him, get him out of here, right, 267 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:28.799 and he's not going to execute a mad man. 268 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:31.639 It wasn't fun. No, it stopped being fun when like 269 00:12:31.720 --> 00:12:33.840 this guy's nuts, right, And. 270 00:12:34.279 --> 00:12:36.639 But but you know, I mean, think about all David 271 00:12:36.679 --> 00:12:39.919 had gone through. How humiliating are all of those things? 272 00:12:40.120 --> 00:12:41.759 And then it said he went to the cave of Adullum. 273 00:12:42.279 --> 00:12:44.440 And then and now he's in the wilderness. So there 274 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:46.559 was a place where he actually had had hidden in 275 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:48.960 the cave. God did this great work in the cave. 276 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:51.720 He actually wrote another psalm while he was in the cave. 277 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:53.919 We skipped over that, and then and then all of 278 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:57.159 a sudden, he's back in the wilderness and we're. 279 00:12:56.960 --> 00:12:58.080 About to see that. 280 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:01.240 God does this miraculous thing saying that's gonna be on Monday. 281 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:04.320 In the Bible, guys, God does this miraculous thing. 282 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:06.360 You know, you don't want to miss Monday. 283 00:13:06.399 --> 00:13:09.039 You don't want to miss Monday. So it's right around 284 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:12.879 the corner. But isn't that true that so many of 285 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:16.600 us we can't see what's around the corner, and so 286 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:18.919 we don't know if it's going to be Monday, or 287 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:20.559 we don't know if it's going to be next year, 288 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:24.399 because we're still in the wilderness. When you find yourself 289 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:27.320 in the wilderness. You know, it's tempting to think that 290 00:13:27.399 --> 00:13:30.320 God's not there, that God doesn't see, that God gave up. 291 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:34.240 But God still sees you. God still loves you, God 292 00:13:34.279 --> 00:13:37.320 still knows you. And believe me, God is still working 293 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:40.720 behind the scenes. And that's exactly what he's doing in 294 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:43.200 the life of David. And guess what, that's exactly what 295 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:46.080 he's doing in your life as well. He's not forgotten 296 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:48.679 you and he's with you always. 297 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:51.639 There's two big things that David did, and I think 298 00:13:51.879 --> 00:13:55.080 he was really wise in doing them. One, he pulled 299 00:13:55.080 --> 00:13:56.960 a bunch of support around him. He has these six 300 00:13:57.080 --> 00:13:59.960 hundred Special Forces guys. These are the elite of the elite. 301 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:03.080 David's mighty men wind up coming out of this group. 302 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:06.399 But he has some great fighters and so he pulled 303 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:09.360 some resources around him to help him. That's one. The 304 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:14.080 other one is he has a great friend in Jonathan, Right, 305 00:14:14.360 --> 00:14:17.879 so Jonathan is Saul's son. But Jonathan to see the 306 00:14:17.879 --> 00:14:19.840 writing on the wall and was like, hey, God has 307 00:14:19.879 --> 00:14:21.399 his hand on David. David's going to be king and 308 00:14:21.399 --> 00:14:24.240 I'm going to support him. My dad is walking away 309 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:27.120 from God, which means I'm going to lose. I'm not 310 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:29.639 gonna be king. But David is walking with God and 311 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:31.559 support him. And they made a promise. They made a 312 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:33.919 pack then no matter what happened to either of them, 313 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:37.000 the other would take care of the other one's family, right, 314 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:39.840 And they kind of they made this promise. Eventually David 315 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:44.360 fulfills that, which is really incredible. But Jonathan, they encourage 316 00:14:44.360 --> 00:14:47.360 each other in each other's faith, not just in hey, 317 00:14:47.399 --> 00:14:49.279 it's going to be okay, and I'm on your side, 318 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:53.200 but they're building each other's faith. They pray for each other. 319 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:55.559 They encourage one another to be strong in your faith. 320 00:14:55.919 --> 00:14:57.840 And this may have been the last time that Jonathan 321 00:14:57.919 --> 00:15:02.600 was with David. He and you know, so there's this 322 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:06.799 kind of a sweetness to the friendship. And you know, 323 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:09.519 I think it's one of those those things that as Christians, 324 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:12.559 it's why it's so important for you to invest in 325 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:15.480 having a godly group of people around you. It's not 326 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:18.879 for the easy times. Quite honestly, a bunch of friends 327 00:15:19.240 --> 00:15:22.320 when things are good sometimes can just get in the way. Man, 328 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:25.759 You're busy, you got to be out another night. You're investing, right, 329 00:15:25.960 --> 00:15:28.919 you're cultivating this friendship. It's when things get bad, that 330 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:31.159 you need this army around you when things get bad 331 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:33.039 is when you need a friend like Jonathan who sticks 332 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:36.399 closer than a brother. Right, that you need these things. 333 00:15:36.440 --> 00:15:40.000 You invest in relationships for the times when you need 334 00:15:40.039 --> 00:15:42.240 a safety net around you, when you need some help. 335 00:15:42.440 --> 00:15:45.320 And so you choose to be that person for others 336 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:48.399 when they're in their trouble, and then when you need one, 337 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:50.960 God's going to bring those people back to you. And 338 00:15:51.240 --> 00:15:53.159 that's what he did. I think there's so much wisdom 339 00:15:53.559 --> 00:15:57.879 in investing in those kind of godly relationships. Yeah, and 340 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:01.360 that's what carried him through. He's not alone in his struggles. 341 00:16:01.559 --> 00:16:02.879 Yeah right, Yeah. 342 00:16:02.919 --> 00:16:04.879 And you know we read I think it was yesterday 343 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:06.960 and yesterday or the day first podcast where we talked 344 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:10.600 about uh it said Jonathan loved David as much as 345 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:14.480 he loved himself. What a description and and and uh 346 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:16.399 and I know that I have to say this because 347 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:19.759 I know there are hundreds of listeners, uh listening to 348 00:16:19.799 --> 00:16:22.639 this and they've probably heard uh. You know, people try 349 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:25.879 to take this example and make the relationship something perverted, 350 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:28.759 like like something that it wasn't right. And yet and 351 00:16:28.840 --> 00:16:31.720 yet these are the same words that Jesus used for 352 00:16:31.879 --> 00:16:34.480 all of us to say, the greatest commandment is to 353 00:16:34.519 --> 00:16:36.440 love the Lord your God with all your hearts, on mind, strength. 354 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:39.399 And then the second greatest commandment is to love your 355 00:16:39.480 --> 00:16:41.919 neighbor as you love yourself. 356 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:42.879 That's what he's doing. 357 00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:48.200 He's he's loving Jonathan, or Jonathan loves David like like, uh, 358 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:50.039 my best buddy Jeff. 359 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:50.600 Who lives in Ohio. 360 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:52.559 When we get off the phone, we say, a man, 361 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:56.559 love you, right, and so we're expressing this friendship that's 362 00:16:56.600 --> 00:16:59.480 closer than a brother and uh and then and and 363 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:02.600 that's that's the friend that David has in Jonathan. And 364 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:04.400 then when he says I'm going to be beside you, 365 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:08.000 that doesn't mean in the relationship capacity. It means in 366 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:11.720 the traditional capacity when when he says, hey, you're the king, 367 00:17:12.240 --> 00:17:13.720 and I'll be beside you. 368 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:15.799 I'll be your prime minister of your chamberlain. 369 00:17:16.359 --> 00:17:19.599 Because every time in the scripture when we talk about 370 00:17:19.640 --> 00:17:23.799 thrones and kingship and positions, it talks about the person 371 00:17:23.880 --> 00:17:25.599 who sits on the right hand side of the king 372 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:28.559 is the second most powerful person in the world. Right, 373 00:17:28.680 --> 00:17:30.839 which is why Jesus sits on the right hand side 374 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:33.160 of God the Father, which is, which is the reason 375 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:36.640 why James and John came to Jesus and said, let 376 00:17:36.680 --> 00:17:38.839 me sit one on your right and one on your left. 377 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:41.559 You know the best positions in the Bible. Where you 378 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:45.119 sat was you know, it mattered, and so think about 379 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:47.839 the if you think about it in that respect, think 380 00:17:47.880 --> 00:17:51.759 about how awesome that phrase was. You know, for Saul 381 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:56.279 to be hunting David, very jealous, saying my regime doesn't 382 00:17:56.279 --> 00:17:59.319 support your regime. And then for the son of that king, 383 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:02.680 who by the way, was first in line, he was 384 00:18:02.759 --> 00:18:05.960 the king, he says, no, no, my regime will support 385 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:09.440 your regime. I believe that you are anointed by God 386 00:18:09.720 --> 00:18:11.079 to be the next king of Israel. 387 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:14.079 I don't agree with my father. I agree with you. 388 00:18:14.079 --> 00:18:14.839 You're my friend. 389 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:17.880 I love you closer more than I do a brother, 390 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:20.079 and I will support you, and I will be at 391 00:18:20.119 --> 00:18:24.640 your side, supporting you. And this is what's going to happen. 392 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:27.039 Don't be afraid. Saul's never going to find you. My 393 00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:29.960 Dad's never going to find you. God's with you. And 394 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:34.079 I'm telling you there couldn't be a better support system 395 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:35.559 for David than Jonathan. 396 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:39.319 You know, the Bible, says Solomon says in proverbs, a 397 00:18:39.359 --> 00:18:43.240 man that has friends must first be friendly, right, I 398 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:48.200 don't know that David, in his whirlwind fame, he went 399 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:51.119 from being a kid playing a harp out in the 400 00:18:51.160 --> 00:18:56.200 backside of some little valley somewhere and fighting fighting lions 401 00:18:56.200 --> 00:19:00.000