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 --> 00:00:12.560 practical ways. The death of Saul. 4 00:00:13.880 --> 00:00:17.559 Whoa welcome, Thanks you for tuning in. 5 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:21.160 I just wanted to start the podcast a little different 6 00:00:21.679 --> 00:00:29.280 morbid Yes, bump on today Saul dies on the podcast. No, no, no, Hey, 7 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:32.159 welcome to the Bible Guys. We just thought we'd wake 8 00:00:32.200 --> 00:00:36.640 you up. But I'm Chris, He's Jeff, and we are 9 00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:38.280 just a couple of guys that like to talk about 10 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:41.399 the Bible. And today we are actually bringing to an end, 11 00:00:41.479 --> 00:00:45.600 or wrapping up or putting a bow on Saul's rain, 12 00:00:45.679 --> 00:00:46.920 the very first king of Israel. 13 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:47.359 That's right. 14 00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:50.439 But before we do that, we have a segment, and 15 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:52.159 this is one of my favorite segments. I like these. 16 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:52.759 Do you like these? 17 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:53.640 Do you like them? 18 00:00:53.719 --> 00:00:54.719 Who's most likely? 19 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:56.240 And we have to do it quick. That's right. 20 00:00:56.640 --> 00:00:57.320 I haven't read these. 21 00:00:57.399 --> 00:00:58.039 I have not read these. 22 00:00:58.079 --> 00:00:59.320 I haven't even contemplated them. 23 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:01.560 And we just sort of like ask a question, or 24 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:04.359 actually desiree asks questions. Yes, and then you and I 25 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:05.920 have to either vote me or you. 26 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:07.359 Okay, right, yes, all. 27 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:08.840 Right, So I'll take the first one. 28 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:09.400 Okay. 29 00:01:09.799 --> 00:01:13.319 Who's most likely to buy something ridiculous online and then 30 00:01:13.359 --> 00:01:18.120 pretend it was a joke? Mmm, I don't know. 31 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:21.000 I don't know. I don't buy much on the line. 32 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:23.120 I mean neither, But I'll just maybe say me. 33 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:25.239 Okay, I'll vote for you too. 34 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:29.400 Okay, you're voted only because you get one only because 35 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:30.239 it seems like. 36 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:31.040 That's an odd one. 37 00:01:31.120 --> 00:01:34.879 I'm a little bit more ridiculous with no purpose than you. 38 00:01:35.519 --> 00:01:36.959 Okay, would you agree with that? 39 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:40.760 Yes, I'm gonna get two votes, two votes for that, 40 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:41.560 two thumbs up. 41 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:42.840 Okay. 42 00:01:43.079 --> 00:01:45.799 Who's most likely to adopt a pet rock and treat 43 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:46.599 it like royalty? 44 00:01:47.239 --> 00:01:47.560 Hmmm? 45 00:01:48.120 --> 00:01:49.200 Did you have a pet rock? 46 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:52.480 I did? I had many rocks when I was a kid. 47 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:54.280 Okay, but then I'm going to vote for you. 48 00:01:54.400 --> 00:01:55.799 Yeah, I'm gonna vote for me too. 49 00:01:56.280 --> 00:01:57.519 Yes, I had. 50 00:01:57.799 --> 00:01:59.480 I had somebody give me a pet rock, you know, 51 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:00.000 one of the ones. 52 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:01.200 Were the official ones? 53 00:02:01.319 --> 00:02:02.480 Yeah, in a box. 54 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:04.599 Yes, And I remember looking at it then and going 55 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:08.719 what Yeah, somebody put Google eyes out of rock and 56 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:09.280 sold it. 57 00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:10.800 To you, and they paid money for this. 58 00:02:10.919 --> 00:02:13.479 They were very popular. That guy was laughing all the 59 00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:16.479 way to the Yeah. Yeah, he literally found the rocks, 60 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:18.199 and all he had to do was buy Google. 61 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:19.400 Eyes and put him in a box. 62 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:22.360 Yeah, by the way, I I bet you I had 63 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:26.919 four or five legitimate Google eye pet rocks. And I 64 00:02:26.960 --> 00:02:31.800 had a collection of rocks for years and years. Wow, 65 00:02:32.120 --> 00:02:33.240 like boxes of rocks that. 66 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:36.439 Were cool, like like just things that captured you attention. 67 00:02:36.439 --> 00:02:40.560 Like you know, legitimate no, no, no, legitimate geology. Just 68 00:02:40.599 --> 00:02:42.000 be like, look at this one. This one's green. 69 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:45.000 Cool, that kind of thing, collecting rocks. 70 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:47.159 Yeah, I had a collection of rocks. 71 00:02:47.199 --> 00:02:48.599 I have fossils in my office. 72 00:02:48.919 --> 00:02:50.199 Oh well that's better. 73 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:52.360 Yeah they're rocks. 74 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:56.039 Sure, sure, petrified and fossils. Okay, here's the third one 75 00:02:56.400 --> 00:02:59.960 who's most likely to think they're really good at karaoke 76 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:01.479 but actually aren't. 77 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:04.080 Well, you really would be, So it's gonna have to 78 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:04.319 be me. 79 00:03:04.879 --> 00:03:06.479 I'm gonna I'm gonna say you then. 80 00:03:06.439 --> 00:03:07.520 Yeah, it's gonna have to be me. 81 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:09.080 I don't think i'd actually really good. 82 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:11.800 I don't think I would be really good at karaoke personally. No. 83 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:14.319 Okay, have you ever done karaoke? 84 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:17.039 Of course I've never done Carrio? What never? 85 00:03:17.240 --> 00:03:18.360 Who has never done Karrio? 86 00:03:18.599 --> 00:03:20.719 Never done karaoke of any kind ever? 87 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:24.319 I've done karaoke fifty times. 88 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:26.639 Yeah, publicly, No, I've never I have. 89 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:27.840 A video right now karaoke. 90 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:28.400 I believe you. 91 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:31.400 I believe I'm not gonna play it, but I've done it. 92 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:33.240 Okay. Well, then maybe you're the one that thinks you're 93 00:03:33.240 --> 00:03:33.639 really good. 94 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:38.840 Maybe it could be fifty times, Yeah, could be. 95 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:39.360 Okay. 96 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:42.439 Who's most likely to invent a new dance move that 97 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:45.960 becomes an Internet sensation? That's definitely you. 98 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:46.919 Yeah, that's pause. 99 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:48.000 You've seen my dance moves. 100 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:51.560 Yeah, but I but I'm right there with you, though. Boy, 101 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:53.719 I think that the only way it would be a 102 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:57.000 sensation if it's like the Carlton dance from from a 103 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:00.240 Fresh beell Air, Right is that one? It's like be 104 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:05.560 something goofy like that. Yes, it wouldnt be an actual sensation. Okay, Well, 105 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:08.639 then here's the last one. Who's most likely to lose 106 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:10.159 their phone in the fridge? 107 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:13.599 Oh me, I have Oh wow, I've lost my phone 108 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:14.080 in the fridge. 109 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:16.279 I've never done that. Yeah, well that's definitely you. 110 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:18.480 I just set stuff down when I walked somewhere, I 111 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:20.639 sat stuff down. I forget where it was, so I 112 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:23.160 was going through some stuff. All of a sudden, I 113 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:25.079 needed to move some things from one shelf to another 114 00:04:25.079 --> 00:04:26.600 shelf to get stuff in, set. 115 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:28.279 My phone down, do it all. Then I'm walking I 116 00:04:28.319 --> 00:04:29.519 cannot find my phone. 117 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:32.720 And then we were sitting in the dining room area 118 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:35.240 and somebody called me and you could hear it buzzing 119 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:35.839 in a fridge. 120 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:38.240 Oh my goodness, my phone. Then you get right, how 121 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:39.000 long was in there? 122 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:40.839 Not enough to long enough to make it cold? 123 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:44.680 Okay, that's so funny. I've definitely never done that, and 124 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:46.879 nor will I do. I ever think I would actually 125 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:47.600 set a phone in. 126 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:50.079 A fridge, like I just set stuff down. 127 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:52.000 I know I do too, but I think if I'm 128 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:54.000 in a fridge and I'm moving stuff and I'm like, oh, 129 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:56.639 I've got something in my hand, I just don't think 130 00:04:56.680 --> 00:04:58.240 instinctively I would set a phone down. 131 00:04:58.319 --> 00:04:59.959 I wouldn't have found it either, But it happened. 132 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:03.040 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 133 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:03.759 Yeah, that's what you used to say. 134 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:05.920 I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my body, 135 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:07.240 right like you'd lose it. 136 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:08.199 You'd lose your head. 137 00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:12.279 Well that's definitely me at times, for sure. Yeah. Well, 138 00:05:12.920 --> 00:05:15.480 my wife says, My wife says, how can you have 139 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:18.839 such an incredible memory on some things, and then like 140 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:20.199 not know where your keys are? 141 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:25.639 Always my keys, my wallet, my phone. Yeah I'm always 142 00:05:25.639 --> 00:05:26.399 missing one of them. 143 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:29.680 Yes, yes, yeah, and you know what, Liz, men need 144 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:30.480 men purses. 145 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:32.000 No, I don't think we do. 146 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:35.160 I know, but I'm saying like I wish I sort 147 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:36.680 of wish that was a stylish thing. 148 00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:40.480 Well kind of is. Now you get the like the shoulder. 149 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:42.439 Bags, well not for real, man, not for. 150 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:47.680 You have to have a bun, you have to have any. 151 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:49.319 Chest, right and then and then we look like you 152 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:52.439 always need a shower always always okay, right, and unshaven. 153 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:54.360 Then you can wear a man purse. 154 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:59.519 Okay, immerse, immerse. Yeah that's all right. Now you're really 155 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:00.360 going to get the hate mail. 156 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:07.399 I know, I know I really can carry. Yeah right, okay, 157 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:09.439 that's what's coming. When I was a youth pastor, we 158 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:12.720 used to have this thing where all the football players 159 00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:16.680 would tease cheerleaders because we knew that they worked hard, 160 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:18.560 you know, like because you know in youth group, she 161 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:20.480 had both the cheerleaders and in the in the uh 162 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:23.399 in the football players. But I had two football players 163 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:26.040 that came to my youth group. Specifically, they used to 164 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:28.959 tease the cheerleaders because they wouldn't call them real athletes. 165 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:30.920 So they would do a cheer. No, they would do 166 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:32.839 a cheer and they woul they would pack their knees 167 00:06:32.839 --> 00:06:34.360 and they would go. They would just do this, they 168 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:37.560 would go, cheerleaders are athletes too. 169 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:45.079 Oh no, oh no, okay, so just send uh, send 170 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:48.120 all of your hate mail to I didn't say the 171 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:49.879 guys dot com didn't say. 172 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:53.319 It was me. I think cheerleaders are incredible athletes. 173 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:54.399 Yes, okay, I'm just. 174 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:56.759 Telling you that that was a funny thing that they did, 175 00:06:56.959 --> 00:06:59.839 y Bible guys dot com. Oh, I frowned on it. 176 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:03.279 I frowned on it. I disapproved of that. Now that 177 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:06.720 you told this story and laughed about it. Okay, Well, 178 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:08.040 speaking of death. 179 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:14.240 Right right right? There's no transition to this, none at all. 180 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:21.199 So you know, yesterday we talked about Samuel warns Saul 181 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:22.199 that he's going to die. 182 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:22.560 Yes. 183 00:07:22.879 --> 00:07:25.720 Then a few pages later, all kinds of things happen. 184 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:29.439 The Philistines finally kicked David out of the out of 185 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:34.439 their camp. People start coming to David, Lots of soldiers, 186 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:37.720 lots of people in Israel start to shift their loyalty 187 00:07:37.839 --> 00:07:41.600 over to David. David winds up actually destroying the Amalekites. Finally, 188 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:45.480 the ones that Saul did not. David goes through and 189 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:48.079 God uses him to bring judgment on the Amalekites. And 190 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:51.399 then after that, even more people come and start joining 191 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:56.240 David's army. And then but the Philistines were a perpetual 192 00:07:56.319 --> 00:08:01.319 thorn in Saul's side. And here's what happens. In First Samul, 193 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:06.240 chapter thirty one, it says, now the Philistines attacked Israel, 194 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:09.120 and the men of Israel fled before them. Many were 195 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:12.639 slaughtered on the slopes of Mount Gilboa. The Philistines closed 196 00:08:12.639 --> 00:08:14.399 in on Saul and his sons, and they killed three 197 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:20.480 of his sons, Jonathan and Benedab and milk Ashua. Wow, Malkashua, Yeah, 198 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:22.319 I don't know that I've even heard that name. 199 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:25.680 Oh so it sounds like he's from Hawaii. 200 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:30.120 Malkashua. Yeah, Polynesian, Yeah maybe so, I don't know. 201 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:32.159 Polynesian. Sauced chick fil Asia. Really good. 202 00:08:32.200 --> 00:08:32.519 They go. 203 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:36.799 The fighting grew very fierce around Saul, and the Philistine 204 00:08:36.879 --> 00:08:40.200 archers caught up with him and wounded him severely. Saul 205 00:08:40.279 --> 00:08:42.720 groaned to his armor bearer, take your sword and kill 206 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:45.440 me before these pagan Philistines come to run me through 207 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:48.000 and taunt and torture me. But his armor bearer was 208 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:50.080 afraid would not do it, so Saul took his own 209 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:53.159 sword and fell on it. When his armor bearer realized 210 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:55.080 that Saul was dead, he fell on his own sword 211 00:08:55.120 --> 00:08:58.279 and died beside the king. So Saul, his three sons, 212 00:08:58.320 --> 00:09:00.600 his armor bearer, and his troops all together. 213 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:02.279 That same day, when. 214 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:04.320 The Philistines on the other side of the Jezreel Valley 215 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:06.480 and beyond the Jordans saw that the Israelite army had 216 00:09:06.519 --> 00:09:08.679 fled and that Sal and his sons were dead, they 217 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:11.639 abandoned their towns and they fled, so the Philistines moved 218 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:14.159 in and occupied their towns. The next day, when the 219 00:09:14.159 --> 00:09:16.240 Philistines went out to strip the dead, they found the 220 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:18.799 bodies of Saul and his three sons on Mount Gilboa. 221 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:21.159 So they cut off SAAL's head and stripped off his armor, 222 00:09:21.480 --> 00:09:23.720 and then they proclaimed the good news of Saul's death 223 00:09:23.759 --> 00:09:26.200 and their pagan temple and to the people throughout the 224 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:29.559 land of Felictia. They placed his armor in the temple 225 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:33.240 of the Astorreths, and they fastened his body to the 226 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:36.320 wall of beth Shan. But when the people of Jabesh 227 00:09:36.360 --> 00:09:38.759 Gilly had heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, 228 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:41.360 all their mighty warriors traveled through the night to beth 229 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:43.759 Shan and took the bodies of Saul and his sons 230 00:09:43.799 --> 00:09:46.600 down from the wall, and they brought them to Jabesh, 231 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:48.759 where they burned the bodies, and then they took their 232 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:51.639 bones and buried them beneath the Tamaris tree at Jabesh, 233 00:09:51.720 --> 00:09:53.200 and they fasted for seven days. 234 00:09:55.279 --> 00:09:58.879 Now have you ever been to the city of bet Shan, Yes, so, 235 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:03.000 know that the old city where I've actually seen the wall, 236 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:06.279 the remnants or the foundation i should say, of the 237 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:10.879 wall of where Saul's body was hung right right, because 238 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:15.639 this particular fortress would have been uh and and the 239 00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:19.639 remnants are still there on the top of this hill. 240 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:21.360 So there was sort of like there was like Old 241 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:26.200 Testament Betian, and then there was like New Testament Roman Roman. Yeah, 242 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:30.799 and the Roman one is vast magnificent. It's magnificent. 243 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:34.519 Did you go in the public toilets? Yes, yeah, yes, 244 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:37.799 there is, so it's pretty crazy. They had the rich 245 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:41.440 people's public toilets, and then the poor people's latrines. Rich 246 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:45.360 people had like polished marble seats. But there's no there's 247 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:48.600 no there's no block between, there's no there's no no stalls. 248 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:50.360 Right, so you just come in and do business. 249 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:54.159 Literally, that's where the phrase doing your business comes from, 250 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:56.879 is that the wealthy Romans would all come in to 251 00:10:56.960 --> 00:10:59.759 use the same toilet to sit and sell, you know 252 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:02.840 euse shops and do business. I've got some things to sell, 253 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:04.639 I'll buy them, right, and they do business right there 254 00:11:04.679 --> 00:11:06.240 in the in the toilets hysterical. 255 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:09.200 So that's there. But that's in the Roman area. 256 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:11.879 There's a big Amphitheater there, there's a bunch of shops there, 257 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:16.039 there's a main street, there's like hot tubs. 258 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:18.480 There's a huge, a huge colisseum. Did you already say that, Yeah, 259 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:22.240 yeah yeah, Amphatheats Amphitheater is massive, Yeah, absolutely massive. 260 00:11:22.279 --> 00:11:24.480 But then and that's the Roman part. You've got this 261 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:27.960 main street there, it's pretty impressive. But then up on 262 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:31.600 a hill above is where the ancient right, well, the 263 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:34.399 Roman was ancient, but the Old Testament version. 264 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:38.120 Of quite small too. Actually, right, but did you hike 265 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:40.519 up there? We didn't, Yeah, so I hiked up there 266 00:11:40.840 --> 00:11:43.600 and uh and you know, and and what you saw 267 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:46.440 was the actual foundation of the entire castle. Oh and 268 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:48.919 then there's like like you know, foundations where the walls 269 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:51.559 would have been, right and uh, and it's smaller than 270 00:11:51.559 --> 00:11:55.799 you would think. But all that to say this, if 271 00:11:55.840 --> 00:11:59.320 they were to well they did hang Saul's body from 272 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:02.799 the wall, that meant everybody saw it. 273 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:05.759 Yeah, because this hill it's not in the hilly area. 274 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:07.519 It's kind of flat, just south of the Galilee. 275 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:10.360 Yes, but this one hill just juts out of the 276 00:12:10.399 --> 00:12:13.240 plane pretty steeply. There's a picture of it here in 277 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:14.399 the Life Application Study. 278 00:12:14.440 --> 00:12:15.559 But oh yeah, I know for sure. 279 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:18.279 Hey, if you don't have a Life Application Study Bible, 280 00:12:18.360 --> 00:12:20.559 go online. We don't make any money for promoting these, 281 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:23.200 but grab one. You know a lot of people like 282 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:25.960 to get these chronological life application study Bibles. I don't 283 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:29.039 know how practical that is for actual Bible study. It's 284 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:31.000 practical for us in the way that we're doing this thing, 285 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:35.000 but for you go get a traditional life Application study 286 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:37.120 Bible and oh yeah, there you go. 287 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:38.320 There's pictures, there's the walls. 288 00:12:38.440 --> 00:12:41.720 Yeah, so there's the foundation of the walls. I mean, 289 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:43.519 that's quite a lot left isn't it. 290 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:45.519 Yeah, huh, you know, it's really amazing. 291 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:47.440 Yeah. So, I mean I know that the people can't 292 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:47.960 see it, but. 293 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:50.519 There's there's some pictures in there in the Life Application 294 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:51.720 Study Bible all that kind of stuff. 295 00:12:51.720 --> 00:12:52.240 It's pretty great. 296 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:53.519 Yeah. Cool. 297 00:12:53.639 --> 00:12:57.679 So anyways, here's Saul Man and he sees that this 298 00:12:57.879 --> 00:13:01.919 time is up. His sons have died, he's already been 299 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:05.200 wounded mortally, he's been shot multiple times apparently by the 300 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:07.919 by the archers, and he's begging. 301 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:11.159 His armor bearer to kill him, please kill me. 302 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:16.440 Yeah. And you know what I actually appreciated. Well, you know, 303 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:18.360 I remember like reading this for the very first time, 304 00:13:18.879 --> 00:13:22.440 and I thought, gosh, is David. After David says I'm 305 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:25.919 not going to put my hand against God's anointed twice, 306 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:29.000 you know, that's recorded. Who knows, maybe he did it 307 00:13:29.120 --> 00:13:33.879 even more, you know, but I actually thought to myself 308 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:37.080 when Samuel said tomorrow you're going to die, I thought, oh, 309 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:39.480 like David is going to have to actually kill him, 310 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:42.759 you know. And then come to find out it wasn't 311 00:13:42.840 --> 00:13:46.200 David that killed him. God was able to use the 312 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:51.320 Philistines to take out Saul, and thank goodness, right because. 313 00:13:51.080 --> 00:13:54.840 Paul took himself up. What do you mean self committed suicide? 314 00:13:54.879 --> 00:13:55.720 He fell on his own stuff? 315 00:13:55.799 --> 00:13:58.519 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, but I mean he took himself out. 316 00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:01.799 I think the picture is Saul had ruined his own life. 317 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:02.240 Right. 318 00:14:02.320 --> 00:14:05.679 Oh's god, right, you have nobody to blame but yourself soul. 319 00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:09.840 Right, right, and and and so you know it's it's 320 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:14.320 such a sad tale, but it's important, right because just 321 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:18.080 like you said at yesterday's podcast, Saul was all about 322 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:22.039 himself from beginning to end. Everything was about him, right, right. 323 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:25.039 And when we live our lives for ourselves, it's a 324 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:28.360 wasted life. And if you you know, I understand, we 325 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:29.919 all have to take care of ourselves. We all have 326 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:33.200 to put ourselves and our mental health, you know, in priority. 327 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:37.080 But when we decide that we are more important than 328 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:39.879 God and than others, right, and we and we live 329 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:43.480 our lives just for ourselves. Listen, there will be moments 330 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:46.720 of pleasure, there will be moments of happiness, but in 331 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:48.279 the end, we're going to get to the end of 332 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:50.120 our lives and our lives are going to be empty. 333 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:53.639 Our lives are going to not have purpose or meaning 334 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:57.799 or fulfillment. Because when you live a life for yourself, 335 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:03.159 it's a wasted life. Yeah, and only when we decide to, 336 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:07.080 you know, trust God and put God first and put 337 00:15:07.159 --> 00:15:10.120 others first and realize how God designed us that others 338 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:12.559 are a part of the equation, when we realize the 339 00:15:12.679 --> 00:15:15.840 fulfillment and the blessing, and you know, just the richness 340 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:21.159 of life, because we're only truly fulfilled when we are, 341 00:15:21.279 --> 00:15:23.840 you know, living out the way that God designed us 342 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:24.519 and created us for. 343 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:28.399 Yeah, it's such a sad ending because he had all 344 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:34.080 the things on the surface when the when Samuel anointed Saul, 345 00:15:34.600 --> 00:15:37.000 you would have thought this guy's God at all. He's tall, 346 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:41.120 he's handsome, he commands a lot of respect, he's rich, 347 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:42.039 all these things. 348 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:43.200 He's going to be great. 349 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:45.519 He's a great warrior, he's talented. 350 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:48.279 He's taller than all the rest of us, he's everything 351 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:49.559 about him is just better. 352 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:52.759 And instead he never lived up to his potential. 353 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:55.200 Never like like, I don't know that the Bible shows 354 00:15:55.240 --> 00:15:58.320 hardly any days in his entire Early on, he had 355 00:15:58.360 --> 00:15:59.960 a couple of victories where he did what God said, 356 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:01.759 and then he just began to just run am up 357 00:16:01.840 --> 00:16:04.000 and serve himself and do what he wanted to do. 358 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:08.840 And he just failed miserably. He never lived up to 359 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:11.279 his own He may be a potential, he may be. 360 00:16:11.279 --> 00:16:13.559 A person who is a victim of believing his own press. 361 00:16:13.919 --> 00:16:15.000 Yeah, absolutely right. 362 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:17.480 And so you know here he is early on, like 363 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:19.759 you just mentioned, and he had a few victories, and 364 00:16:19.799 --> 00:16:22.559 he's listening to Samuel, you know, and he's recognizing that 365 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:25.480 it's a humbling position to be annointed as the first 366 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:29.440 king of Israel. And and then later on he lives 367 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:32.480 for himself. It never says so, but it could be 368 00:16:32.879 --> 00:16:35.600 that maybe he started to think how great he is. Right, 369 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:37.799 in other words, stop thinking, you know, hey, we're not 370 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:39.679 going to give God the credit. We're going to take 371 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:42.399 the credit. And actually that's a pretty good lesson for pastors, 372 00:16:42.440 --> 00:16:45.759 isn't It's a it's a good lesson for everybody, because 373 00:16:46.360 --> 00:16:48.919 we've seen people who think that they're pretty important in 374 00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:50.840 major volunteer positions at church. 375 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:51.799 Absolutely right. 376 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:54.799 And you know, hey, I'm an elder, I'm a deacon, right, Oh, 377 00:16:54.960 --> 00:16:58.440 I'm a I'm a Bible leader. You know, it's my 378 00:16:58.559 --> 00:17:00.879 parking space, he move over, this is my spot on 379 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:05.400 the pew. Right. We've seen that as kids, and and 380 00:17:05.440 --> 00:17:07.720 I think it's a victim. It's it's easy for anybody 381 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:10.920 to start believing their own press. It's but it's very, 382 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:13.559 very dangerous, and sometimes we don't even realize we're doing it. 383 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:16.359 A number of years ago, I'm not going to say 384 00:17:16.400 --> 00:17:18.440 his name, I'm not going to say the country, but 385 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:20.519 a number of years ago, I was in a meeting. 386 00:17:21.079 --> 00:17:24.079 We had a state dinner at a country in Africa, 387 00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:27.920 with the president and his cabinet, a bunch of other people, 388 00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:34.200 and he was struggling through because he's a dictator and 389 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:38.319 I have mixed feelings about how he leads. But he 390 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:41.200 was struggling with some faith things because he was kind 391 00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:44.440 of leaning towards Christianity and all those kinds of things, 392 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:46.319 but struggling with how how do you lead? And he 393 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:48.680 made a statement, he was given a speech. He said, 394 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:52.200 in this world, there's good kings and bad kings, right, 395 00:17:52.279 --> 00:17:54.680 That's that's what exists. Was he's a president, he's elected, 396 00:17:54.720 --> 00:17:57.960 but there's good kings and bad kings. And he said 397 00:17:58.000 --> 00:17:59.480 the difference between the good king and the bad king 398 00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:02.079 is a good king king believes he's the king and 399 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:03.039 can do whatever he wants. 400 00:18:03.720 --> 00:18:04.359 That's a bad king. 401 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:07.000