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Learning how to encourage yourself in the Lord, don't turn there.
But in First Samuel, there's a most interesting account of
two men of God who faced the worst crisis in
their life in two different ways. And these are the
two different ways that you and I, when we're in
our crisis, react to our problems and our difficulties. Both
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of these men were chosen by God and when they
came to this probably the worst crisis in their lifetime,
completely overwhelmed. It's interesting to see how these two men reacted.
I'm talking about Saul and King Saul and David. Now,
every one of us at times face crises, hard, difficult crises,
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and there comes a time when despair tries to take over,
just overwhelms you. Doesn't seem like there's any way out.
It seems like you've come to wits end and you
just don't know what to do, and there's nobody there
to give you a word, there's nobody to encourage you.
Man fails, there's nothing inside resources perhaps, and you just
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feel like the heavens are brass, and you have a
tendency or temptation to just resign to despair. At King
Saul were going to talk about him first. King Saul
found it absolutely impossible to encourage himself in his worst crisis.
He had nothing in him to self encourage himself as
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David did. He had put himself beyond all possibility of
being encouraged and finding comfort from any source, not from man,
not from God, not from himself. His life is so
full of lessons. And when I've been studying the life
of Saul this past week, was absolutely amazed at how
this man caught himself off from any possibility of being encouraged.
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There was no source anywhere, placed himself beyond the possibility
of being encouraged loved. What would you do without a
word from the Lord? What would you do without the
Holy Ghost comforting you? What would you do without that
kind word that comes from the voice of the Holy Spirit,
even through people, when your heart is open and when
you're living fully for in the life of Jesus Christ,
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this man had none of that. He cut himself off completely.
Don't turn them In the first time of the twentieth chapter,
we find Saul facing a confederated army of Philistines, and
they're coming against him with chariots and a huge cavalry
of men on horseback and a huge infantry. These are
a number of confederated warlords, and they're marching toward Israel.
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And Saul scouts bring him these frightful reports of this
massive army that's coming. And the Bible says they gathered
their armies together, and when Saul saw the host of
the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled
in him. Now, this man who stands out looking from
the mountaintop at this huge, massive army coming at him,
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this is the same man who is anointed by God,
chosen by God, touched by the Holy Spirit, counseled by
a great prophet. And yet this man who once chased
the Philistines had been fearless chasing them. He'd never fear.
He was a mighty warrior. But now this man stands
on the mountaintop, trembling, frightened, doesn't know where to go.
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He's confused. Something has happened to this man. He's trembling
in great fear. The Bible says, he's confused, has no purpose,
there's no direction in his life. Now. Now, what turned
this mighty warrior into a coward? What made him power
before his enemies Saul listened to me. Please. Saul had
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allowed a seed of envy, anger, jealousy to take root
in his heart against David, a man of God. Message. Today,
I'm going to attempt to prove to you, beyond any
shadow of a doubt, that if you allow in your
life a single seed a bitterness toward anybody, anyone in
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the workplace, anyone in the ministry, in your family, if
you have envy in your heart or jealousy of any
kind and it creates anger, I want to show you
that it's going to lead to a spirit of murder.
And I'm going to tell you then that you cut
yourself off from all possibility of ever being comforted, because
the moment you allow the seed of envy to enter
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your heart, the Holy Ghost departs, absolutely departs. And I'm
going to prove that to you, Saul. Bible says the
women of Israel began to sing this song. Saul has
slain his thousands, but David is ten thousands. And Saul
was very angry when he heard it, and he said,
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they've given credit to David for ten thousands, but to
me only thousands. What more can he have but my kingdom?
And Saul enved David from that day on forward. He
allowed envy, jealousy, anger, bitterness to take root in his heart,
and it began to obsess him and consume his life,
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absolutely consumed him. The Bible said in verse nine, listen
to this please in verse night, chapter twenty eight. And
Saul envied David from that time on. Now that's verse nine,
and the next very verse, verse ten says this, And
the next morning an evil spirit came upon Saul. He
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became demon possessed. The night before, he allows a spirit
of envy to take root, anger, jealousy. The next day
an evil spirit possesses him. And all what happens to
this man his downwards file because the very next day,
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while David comes in to play his harps, Saul has
a javelin in his hand. In Verse eleven says, and
he cast the javelin, and he swore, I will kill
David and smite him to the wall. There's a spirit
of revenge. Now, there's a murderous spirit. Anyone who holds
a grudge against someone else. I'm thinking about your boss
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on your job. I'm thinking of a co worker. I'm
thinking of somebody in your family. I'm thinking of a
male friend or female friend, somebody that hurts you, wounded,
you said something about you, and you allowed a spirit
of envy or another brother sister is advanced in Christ
and growing of the Lord, and you're still stagnant. And
you see that growth, you see the blessing of God,
and you become jealous over the blessing of God in
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somebody else's life. That seed is planted and begins to
grow in you. Folks. I've heard from Heaven on this message,
and I want to hear because I'm going to God
by his truth and gonna set you free and save
your life. Damnation and hell. You've got to hear this
in the spirit. If that is not cast out, it's
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going to become an evil obsession, and you open the
door to satanic possession. The Bible says, where envy and
strife is, there's confusion and every evil way. You open
yourself up to every evil thing out of the pits
of hell. Now, what happened to Saul as a result
of this envy and bitterness in his heart, this jealousy,
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what happened to him will happen to every Christian who
allows the same thing in their life. Now, those who
become obsessed with envy or jealousy or bitterness, revenge or grudge.
They begin to infect everybody in their circle, their family,
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their friends. It's a poison that affects everything around them
because they are so eaten with it. Now, that's all
you hear night and day coming from their mouth, because
what's in the heart's going to come up the mouth.
You hear all about every bit of gossip, every little tidbit,
how I was misjudged, how I was treated, how he
did this to me, or she did that to me,
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and we go back about our rejections, and that's all
you hear. The kids hear it, the friends hear it,
until they get sick and tired of it. You don't
want to be around them anymore. They're obsessed with That's
all they talk about because the bitterness is in their heart. Grudge, envy, jealousy,
It affects everything. And when you have that in you,
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you begin to mistrust everybody. You begin to think that
everybody's against you. You see it in the life of Saul.
He becomes mistrustful for every he thinks everybody, not only
David is against him, but now his son Jonathan is
against him. Here's a godly young man that loved his father.
He'd made a covenant with David. But it's because he's
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a peer his own age, and he was a friend
with him. But he loved his father. In fact, he
died with his father in the battlefield. But listen to
Saul speaking to his own son, Jonathan. Then Saul's anger
was kindled against Jonathan, his son, and he said, unto him,
thou son of a perverse, rebellious woman. Now we have
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a curse word for that. Today he was cursing his son.
He said, do you think I don't know that you've
chosen David above me, his own son. I know you,
you'll perverse man of an unmarried woman. He said, you've
turned against me, You've turned to David. Why don't you
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go with David? And what he read he said in
the next verse, if you already loved him, you'd bring
him to me. Let me kill him. He let me
put a javelin through his belly, because he's after your kingdom.
You're going to inherit my throne. He's after your throne.
Jealousy rage now has taken old a spirit of murder.
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You say that couldn't happen to me? Oh, yes, it is.
It's a spirit of murder, because the Bible said he
that hates his brother's a murderer and cannot inherit the
kingdom of God. Same spirit, he turns against his own
daughter Macaw. He turns McAll and said, Michelle, brother. He said, Michelle,
you've conspired against me. He said, why hast thou deceived me?
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So you sent away my enemy. Remember she was protecting
David and let him escape from her father. And he said,
you've deceived me. Can you imagine this? She's just saving
her husband's life, and he calls it deception. He turns
to his own captain Abner. He turns to all of
his bodyguards, and listen to what he says. He's saying,
you're all against me. Listen to it. You have all
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conspired against me. There is none of you that feel
sorry for me. Listen to your pastor listen to me.
This is life and death. I'm telling you. If you
sit in this house this morning and I see it
with fear and trembling and yet glow, if you have
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a single root of bitterness, a single thought of revenge,
a single grutch, any envy, any jealousy toward husband or wife.
God help the man who lives with the wife who
is jealous. God helped the wife who lives with a
husband who's jealous. The Bible said, who can stand against jealousy?
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Who can stand against envy? There's no defense against it,
but all it will destroy you, It will consume you.
It will bring a spirit of murder. And today we
murder through slander and gossip. We will slander until we
bring down our enemies. We will talk about them. We
will talk about it night and day. And Kear Saul
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wakes up every morning he has to put his side
the business of the kingdom because the first thing he
got on his mind is David getting even. He lays
down at night and he's conspiring in his bed. I've
been mistreated. Nobody's for me. Everybody's against me. Do you
know people like that? Nobody feels sorry for me, nobody
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understands me. Oh, God, help us to deal with this
in the light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And
that's the Holy Spirit to pluck that out of our hearts.
He now starts as downward spiral because he's a consumed man.
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He's got the spirit of murder on him. Folks, we
have all seen the awful destruction of sin and those
that have been bound by vicious habits like drugs and alcohol,
perverted sex, gambling, and so forth. Who in this building
who comes to church walking through these streets of New York,
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You've seen it, and I've seen it. You've seen these
poor creatures, lunatics walking these streets, who've blown their mind
on drugs, just blathering nonsense. You've seen the hollowed eyed women,
the prostitutes who are still trying to work a trick,
and then turn around the corner and you see them vomiting.
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They're so sick, physically beaten, just wrecks of humanity. You've
seen the skeleton men walking these streets, victims of aids,
and you've seen them looking for one more empty hour
of pleasure. And your heart goes out and say, all
the wages of sin. Yes, that's an ugly sight. Those
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are horrible pictures that we've all seen. But let me
tell you there's nothing worse. There's nothing worse than seeing
a Christian going downhill. Somebody who had been anointed and
chosen by God, somebody knew him and touched by the
Holy Spirit, and to have this seed in them, and
to watch them go downhill, to watch how they begin
to come apart, and how they become obsessed. Listen to
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their language. There's no more joy, there's gloom, there's doom. There,
there's nothing thereof the Spirit of Christ anymore. Absolute bitterness
pours out of the innermost being. You see, when you
have this spirit upon you, you close the door to
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any possibility of encouragement of any kind. It curses the
very life out of you. It's a curse. Saul's obsession
with bitterness had reduced him now to a man who
had no place to turn for comfort. And when Saul
inquired of the Lord, the Lord answered him not neither
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by dreams, nor uripe, nor by the prophets. He tried
to pray, and he couldn't pray, He couldn't turn to
a priest. Didn't kill them all. This is the same man,
the Bible says the Lord had departed from In Firse
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tem eighteen twelve, the Lord departed from Saul, the Bible said,
when the evil spirit came upon Saul, he prophesied in
the midst of his house. If you look at the
original hebrew says he bellowed like a madman all through
his house. It wasn't some spirits of prophecy. Evil spirit
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was on him now. And this man through the night
didn't sleep. Even his servants were alarmed. They said, there's
an evil spirit in the house. This man doesn't sleep.
He goes through all the rooms in his palace, in
his home, and he bellows, I'll kill him. He bellows,
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and he screams his rage. That's what it comes to, folks,
till it eats and consumes your very being, brings madness. No,
Saul's on his own now. And I'm gonna tell you,
when you go this path, you're on your own. Where
are you gonna turn? Where's Saul gonna turn to now?
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He can't go to the priest he killed him. He
can't go to the prophet. Samuel knows it. He's been
rejected by God. He can't go to Abner, his captain,
because he doesn't trust him. He can't go to his bodyguard.
He can't go to his son Jonathan. He can't go
to his daughter Michelle. Where is he gonna go? Here's
no place to go. He can't go to God. He
can't pray, he can't go to the Holy Ghost. Where
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do you go? Where do you go when you keep
this sin in you? Where do you go? And you
can't pray? When he can't talk to the Holy Ghost
and praacher can't help. I can't help you because you've
been given over to your sin. Nobody that knows Jesus
and who's a good polyghost counselor's got a word for you.
Because your ears set in your heart is hard. There's
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twenty one way out of that, and that is to
acknowledge your sin and cry out as you've never cried
in your lifetime. God, I have this sin in my life.
Pluck it out by its roots. So where does the
man go? When? Remember he's not a heathen, he's chosen,
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he was anointed the prophet, He was under the guidance
of a prophet in his first years, had won many
great victories. And now he's going downhill and downhill, So vast,
where do you go? You go to a witch? This
is the man, same man who had put away the
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scripture said those that had familiar spirits and the wizards
of the land. He'd killed most of them. But now
he's saying, go out and find me once surely there's one,
and kill listen to the scripture. Then, then said Saul
to his servants, go seek me out a woman that
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has a familiar spirit, that I may go to her
and inquire of her. He turns to the service and says,
God doesn't talk to me anymore. Samuel doesn't talk to me.
Nobody talk to you. Have nothing to say to me.
Go find me somebody in the occult. Go find me
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somebody in the occult, He said, Brother Dave, I would
never do that. I would never, no matter how bitter
I am, no matter what kind of grudge I have,
I would never go see a which I would never
turn to the occult. Oh no, no, no, don't don't
think for one moment that you can't wind up in
some little room with with with some unkempt woman with
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straggly hair, and stick your palm out and try to
get a word from God. I've known preachers that have
gone to seances and gone to these places because they
didn't hear from God. They weren't praying anymore, and they
went to somebody in they'll cult. If you don't listen
to me. Now, this week's magazine. Life Magazine this week
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front page, the lead article Astrology. The lead article says,
why so many of us now believe that the stars
reflect the soul and that the whole articles about astrology
the rise of astrology. And here's what the article says.
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Astrology is experienced its biggest boom in four hundred years.
Twenty years ago, there were an estimated one thousand professional
astrologers in the United States. Today they're over five thousand.
Twenty million books on astrology now sell each year in
the United States because now it's becoming we have come
to a time of reckoning with destiny. Can you imagine
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that we have come to a time of reckoning with destiny?
But listen further, soothsayers of all sorts are having a
filled day. And this astrology has its roots all the
way back to Babylon. Astrology is now becoming the therapy
for millions. How many of you pick up the newspaper
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and go to the horoscope. You so, I'm just curious.
I just want to see what my day says. No, no, no, no, no,
that's dabbling with the occult. I've got to go on
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worse than going to which you said I would never
go to which I would never go to the occult.
You know what happens, There's something even worse than that
that happens to them who carried this spirit in them.
It's that they begin to hear voices, and they mistake
those voices, which are the voices of demon powers. They
miscape those voices, those sweet, small, still voices, as the
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voice of God. And they're being misled so that they
believe a lie to be the truth. They can tell
what they have heard, I heard God speak. Listen, you
have envy, jealousy. You don't hear God speak. He does
not speak to you in that film, other than to
repent and come and I'll restore you. He's not mad
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at you, but he will he'll stand by you. Don't
hear from God. You hear your own desires. You hear
from hell. You hear from the devil. You say, that's
too strong, Brother Dave, that's Bible, that scripture. I'll back
it up. I'll back my very ministry on this because
I see it so clearly in God's word. And they
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hear these voices, and they'll do some of the strangest, sinful,
wicked things and say, well, God told me I heard
a still small voice saying, it's all right, it's all right,
like a pastor, a well known pastor who was in
a motel with a woman. He said it was all
right because we pray together, and we fast together, and
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we get revelations together, and trying to justify the sin.
A voice. It was not God. God does not send
a married man into a motel room with another woman.
This man ends up committing suicide. Now I know he
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was wounded by the arrow, but the arrow didn't kill
and the Bible said he was just wounded. Therefore, Saul
took a sword and fell on it, killed himself. His
sons had already died. His three sons were laying dead
on the battlefield, and he's wounded, and he's laying on
the edge of the battle and leaps on his own sword.
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But the night before he dies, he's consorting with the witch,
and supposedly Samuel appears. I want to tell you the apparition,
the Samuel that appeared was not the real Samuel, because
there are no writs in the world that can bring
Samuel out of the bosom of my heavenly Father. There
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was an apparition. It was the devil faking the voice
of Saul of Samuel. Why because the devil's a murderer,
and the one mission the devil hadn't mind for Saul
was to kill him. He's a murderer, of the Bible says,
and he's out to kill you with envy and strife
and bitterness. He wants to damn your saw and kill you.
He wants you to die in a rage. Like the
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man who was in the paper last five years. He's
lived in revenge because his brother was a police officer
who was murdered on the streets. And the man only God,
I think ten years or so, and the man's been
living in rage, and he died recently. In his last words,
I hope Johnny rotts in hell. He was full of
rage and bitterness and he'd eaten enough for five years.
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That's all they heard. I know a sister, a Christian sister,
who got so mad at God for taking a loved
one some twenty years ago. For twenty years, she's lived
in a rage and bitterness, and that's all you here,
night and day. She's one of the meanest persons you
ever saw. And when I have been in the rooms
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when people die full of bitterness. I've been there. You
can feel the evil spirits, you feel the gloom, you
feel the doom, you feel the despair, and you see
them going out into eternity and a rage. I have
walked out of rooms where people were dying like that
because I did not want to be in that room.
And even family and friends would walk out. They didn't
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want to be in a room. It is, it's so suicide.
God has promised me today he's going to deliver a
lot of people, not only in this service, but everyone
who sees this tape and everyone here's the audio, Many
many people going to be delivered. I pray the fear
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of the Holy God, good your heart, by the fear
of the Lord, men depart from evil. But now let
me give you the other side. Talk about David. Now,
David reacted to his worst crisis in a very different way. Hallelujah.
His story follows immediately in personally, immediately, while Saul was
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consorting with a witch, David's on his way with six
hundred of his men to zick Lag. Now that was
his home base. He'd been chased by Saul. Remember he'd
run off two years before to King Akish and he
had joined the Philistines, and the Philistines were preparing to
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go against Saul. This is the army that saw saw
coming at him. And David's in the hinder part of
this great army. And he says, I'm going with you
Aikish to the battle. And the warlord said no. In
the heat of the battle, he might turn on us.
So David and six hundred men are rejected. The warlord said, David,
you and your army get out, go wherever you want
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to go. Go, but you're not with us. And so
he makes his way back to Ziklag. And when they
get there they see us get near it that it
took about It's a three day journey. And when they
got there, attired and weary, all they could see was
the smoking embers of a ruined city. It was gone.
Their town was burnt, all of their family members, all
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their cattle, everything was gone. There's nothing left. David is
now standing in the middle of these ruins. An amazing
thing happens here. These mottless, mottley army of his that
he had led and guided and fed and marvelously prayed over.
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These are people men who'd been in debt. These are
family members, included brothers and relatives, many of them that
were discouraged under Saul, and many that were fleeing from
their debts, and they found a safe haven with David.
And now David's standing there and he looks at all
of his family members and his army, and they're picking
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up stones, and they're in a rage because they're full
of grief. And David was greatly distressed for the people
spake of stoning him because the soul of the people
was grieving. And they're angry at David, no doubt, because
they said, David, why didn't you leave a few hundred
of us back, at least one hundred and fifty two
hundred protector fan, Why you took us on a three
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day there? Three days back and now we were rejected
as it was. Now look what's happening. They have stones
that had they're ready to kill David now in the flat.
When you look at this scene, David has every right,
every reason in human flesh, in the way of human thinking,
has every reason to despair, every reason to question God.
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Because he stands here, remembering that he'd been anointed by Samuel.
He still feels the oil running down over his head.
He remembers the word of Samuel, the prophet, God has
chosen you to be the king in Saul's place. And
now that sounds to him like mockery. It sounds like
a hoax to him, because here he is Israel's turned
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him down, sauls turned him down. And now not only
a sault turned him down, but the very Heathen themselves
don't want him. Of all people, the Philistines, these ungodly
Heathen warlords say David get out. Not only that his
family is gone. He has no family left. He doesn't
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know whether they're dead or alive. He has no possessions,
no hope, he has nothing. He stands there empty. And
not only that, but he gets work. This is the
same man that remembers having risk his life to save
that the city of Kila. And he learns that those
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people after he'd risk his life, and he moves into
the city that they'd sent in the midnight hours. They'd
sent word to Saul, we've got David, come and get him.
He was being betrayed by those to whom he'd risk
his very life. And now his own family, his own army.
He is ready to stone him. Bible said, David was
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greatly distressed. We talk about our crisis, folks, I'm giving
you a crisis here. We're seeing a real crisis. No
man has suffered much like that, other than our Savior.
He could stand there talking about how he was misjudged
and how he was slandered, mistreated. He could have talked
about all the thing things he did for these people.
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But he stands there listen to what the Bible says.
But David encouraged himself in the Lord. David encouraged himself
in the Lord. David looks in his situation, he looks
around and he sees ready stone, and so what can
he do? He says, Lord, I resigned. He lifted his
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hands and began to praise the Lord. He said, Lord,
you're the one going to have to preserve me. No
way out of this. Lord, it's all yours, live or die.
I'm gonna trust you right now, and he began to
encourage himself in the Lord. Now, folks, how does a
man do that in the face of a bad Because
many of you say, Pastor Dave, I'm going through a
crisis of my life. Where do you get that inner strength?
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He encouraged himself in the Lord. He was not a superman.
He was a man of like passions. Oh, yes, he was.
He had so much in his life that was unlike
the Lord. Oh. But there was something about David in
a time of crisis, he reached out to the Lord.
There was nothing in himself. It was the spirit of
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God in him. It was his communion with the Heavenly
Father that now was bearing forth fruit. Folks, it pays
to be shut in with God. It pays to have
commune with the Lord. It pays to know him because
in a crisis you can depend on him. You go
to your heavenly Father, because he's not a stranger to you.
You see, if you harbor envy in you, the first
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thing that suffers is your prayer life. People who have envy, jealousy,
hate and revenge and these things like this, they don't pray.
They can't pray, and when they don't pray, they lose
fellowship with the Lord. And so when the hard times come,
there's nothing to draw on. You can't encourage yourself in
the Lord. David, I said, Lord, how did he do it?
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And folks, I found I found it. It is so
wonderful the sixteenth Psalm turned. Get your bibles out Psalm sixteen,
because here is the secret to learning how to encourage
yourself in the Lord. Amen, put your seatbelts on. How
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many want to learn to encourage yourself in your hard
times in the Lord? Raise? Wave it at me right now, yes,
praise God. Now here's the truth that sets you free.
Here's the good part. Now, by the way, you know
that David recovered everything, didn't He Not only did he
recover all, he recovered more than he lost. He recovered
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so much he was giving it away to everybody. He
had an overflow. Hellelujah. Now if you look, if you
have a King James, it says in the front of
the chapter, the micktim of David. You know what that means,
The golden Psalm one that's to be committed to memory.
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You to commit this to memory. Now I have a
hard time with that because that's a poor memory that
I read it. I'm going to read this every day
of my life. God helping me. That's what it means.
It's a golden Psalm. It's the secret. Now, many theologians
believe David wrote this. Why I was in the wilderness
I believe clearly that this was written during this time.
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The first thing that David says, preserve me, o God,
for indeed do I put my trust. And in the
original Hebrew it reads guard me, o Lord. In other words,
guard me from these stones, guard me from my enemies,
guard me from all of this. For I have taken
shelter in thee. I have put my life in your hands. Hallelujah.
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David had said the Lord, Oh Lord, you are my
hiding place. You will preserve me from all trouble. You
will accompass me about with songs and deliverance. Look at many, folks,
David is saying, I didn't turn to the Lord as
a last resort. I turned the Lord as a first resort.
I didn't try to call somebody. I didn't try to
call it prophet. But I didn't try to call somebody.
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I turned to the Lord. Folks, get off the telephone,
get into the sacred clauset, Get along with God. He's
the only one that can preserve you. Go into the
shelter from the storm. Hallelujah. Verse two, Oh my soul,
thou has said, unto the Lord, thou art my Lord,
my goodness, extendeth not to thee, but to the saints
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that are in the earth, and to the excellent, and
whom is all my delight. Now listen to me. Let
me interpret that for you. Look this way, please, what
he's saying, Lord, My charitable works were not done for thee,
to thee, but for the saints you're upon the earth,
for them who are excellent, and who was all your delight.
You know what, Paul, You know what David saying, Lord,
I can forgive all of them. I can forgive everybody.
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I don't have to hold a grudge against any because
everything he could have said, well, wait a minute. I
risked my life for Quila, and they turned on me.
I played the heart for Saul. I fought his battles,
and he turned on me. He could look at all
of these things, he said, even the heathen Warlord's turned
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on me. All the good things I've done for people,
and I get no respect, I get no thanks. Have
you ever helped so many people and nobody said thanks? Oh? Yes,
write a book on that. But David, say, wait a minute,
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I didn't do this to merit something with you, Lord,
I didn't do this to get to heaven. I did
it because it's the right thing to do. And that's all.
I don't have to expect any thanks. I can forgive
everybody because I wasn't doing it to get to heaven
by it. Folks, you don't. All of those things that
you do, you're supposed to do them because you're a
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servant of Jesus Christ. You're supposed to love your brother
and do good to all mankind, not to get to heaven.
We get to heaven by the mercy of Jesus Christ
and the grace of God. All our good works are
filthy rags. He said, Lord, it's all filthy rags. Anyhow,
I did it just because it's the right thing to do.
So I forgive everybody. Oh hellylujah, can you forgive? Told
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you it's good? And you know what, you know what
he says the next verse, he said, And the reason
he said, I can forgive because their sorrows are going
to be multiplied. There's they're gonna God keeps books. Lord,
I'm not gonna add to their sorrow. And he says
what he's saying. He said, I don't want to even
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mention their idolatry on my lips. He said that in
the verses. I don't want to get involved in this
kind of living. I don't want to get involved in
this mess. I don't want to get involved with talking
to people that have bitterness in their heart. I don't
want to be a part of it. Folks, you listen
to bitterness, it's gonna get into you. It's gonna poison you.
Do you ever hear of secondhand smoke? Secondhand gospel will
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kill you just as sure a straight gossip. Next, the
Lord is the portion of my inheritance and my cup
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of my cup, Thou maintainest my lot. Oh, this is
wonderful what David's saying. He's standing there with none. He said, Lord,
after all, I haven't lost anything because I haven't lost you.
My house is gone, everything's gone. But Lord, my life
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is not based on things. You're my life. You're my inheritance. Lord.
They can have it all, Just give me you. You're
my lot in life, You're my inheritance. A couple of
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weeks ago, a spirit of despair tried to get a
hold of me and to bring me down into despair
and feeling blue. And I stopped him, and I said,
wait a minute, Lord, it doesn't matter if everything I
have is lost. Nobody on the faceless earth, in heaven
or hell can take away my Jesus out of my heart.
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This is not the real world, folks. You see this building,
it's a mirage. It's made up of atoms, and those
atoms are gonna burst one day and they're all gonna
be gone. This pulpit's not real. It's heavy, but it's
not real. The real world is an eternity in Jesus Christ.
This is not the real world. David said, not one
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single thought of envy, not one thought of bitterness, no
thought of anger, nothing to rob my fellowship with my Lord. Hallelujah,
Glory beat of God. That's the one reason I don't
allow any bitterness or anger or wrath in my soul.
Jealous I don't allow it. In the name of Jesus.
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I pray the Holy Ghost give me power of the
time it tries to rise up, because I know to
rob me of my fellowship with the Master. Then he
goes on. He says, the lines have fallen Verse six.
The lines have fallen unto me in pleasant places. Yet
I have a goodly heritage. He said, Lord, you gave
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Israel possession of the land, but he said, I've got
a new Jerusalem. I'm going home. Folks, when you look
at the last five verses from seven to eleven, let's
read them out loud, and then I'll explain to well, no,
you can. It's self explanatory. And I'll tell you what,
why don't you stand if you have King James. We're
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gonna start reading verse seven to the fortune four verses.
You're gonna see how David says. You're gonna talk about
the rains that instruct him the night season. That means
his inner man. I'm gonna show you too, he says,
I'm not going to Hell, I'm going to Heaven. Okay,
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Verse seven, let's start reading. I will bless the Lord,
who hath given me counsel. My reigns also instruct me
in the night seasons. I've set the Lord always before me,
because he is at my right hand. I shall not
be moved. Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoice.
With my flesh is also rest in hope. Thou wilt
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not leave my soul in hell. Need you without suffer
thy holy wonder see corruption, Thou willt show me the
path of life in thy presence is fullness of joy,
and at that right hand there are pleasures forevermore. Hallelujah,
Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus, hallelujah. You see, that's
the reward of those who work with the Holy Ghost
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to pluck all these things out of their life, guidance, pleasure,
and enjoy forevermore. In the night season, God speaking to
you in your bed, telling you how much you love,
how much he loves you, speaking words of direction and counsel,
the inner man being strengthened with My truth and the
inner man, and then the Lord's giving you this wonderful
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promise you'll never be cast into outer darkness your mind. Oh,
the glory and the joy and the victory of those
who cast aside by faith in Jesus' name, every root,
every semblance, envy, anger, wrath, jealousy, probably the most danger.
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That's your position you can be in. With this I close.
Let everybody hear me clearly. If you don't hear, if
you hadn't heard clearly in your spirit yet what I've said,
hear this. If you're blinded as you stand in God's present.
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Now you're blinded, you stand here, say I don't have
anything like that, and yet you're covering something. That blindness
is probably the most dangerous condition you can be in
a veil over your eyes. And the only way to
break through that veil, the only way to break through
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that blindness, just say, Oh God, send the Holy Ghost
search my heart? Lord? Is there something in me that
is there and I'm covering and I'm hiding. Is there
somebody that I have been envying, someone I've been jealous of?
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For as there someone Lord I've been angry at? What
about husbands and wives who just don't forgive one another,
that anger that keeps building and building till that destroys
your relationship. I can't make anything happen here this morning.
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I could work you up into some kind of an
emotional HI, and some of you might call emostionly, but
it can't work that way. It has to be the
Holy Spirit dealing with our hearts, the Holy Spirit himself.
I'm going to open these altars. No one's going to
ask you what it's about. But if you're up in
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the balcony, you go to the stairs on either side
and come down any aisle, and those that are here,
if you say, Pastor David, this message was sent from
heaven to my soul. And I'll not walk out of
this building with this thing in me. It script me,
lay hold of my heart, and I want to be delivered.
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If you want deliverance, God's going to deliver you. He's
going to deliver you. But Bible says you're going to
confess it first. He said, confess it openly, confess it
before the Lord. Get out of your seat and come
right now. If you're backslid, if you're not right with God,
come and join these that are coming. If you don't
know the Lord, if you're strayed from the Lord, you
follow these that are coming right now. Folks, don't hide
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from the Holy Spirit. Be honest with him. Look at
the people being honest right now. Follow these. You're among many,
many people that are coming up in the balcony. Move
wherever you're at. I don't care if it's in the choir,
I don't care. It's anywhere, all of us. Let the
Holy Ghost deal with your heavenly Father, deal with us
in love. Holy Spirit. You're trying to bring victory. You're
trying to bring back the prayer life. You're trying to
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bring back Lord. A relations ship of communion with the heaven,
he fathered with Jesus. Lord, these things break the communion God,
You're going to break these chains and set people free. Amen?
Right now, will you stand here to make something right
with somebody? Is it a mother in law? Is it
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a husband? Is it a wife? Is it a child?
I heard of a mother recently, a well known mother,
she's nationally known, hasn't talked to her son in over
a year. I don't know how she's a Christian. I
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don't expect. I don't understand how she ever expects to
get to heaven. I don't understand that at all. While
you're here now, whoever, that person is that objective You're envy,
that objective, that bitterness, that grudge that's there. I don't
care who wronged you. I don't care what they did.
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You can't hold to it, and you have to acknowledge
here right now it's sin. I will not put up
with it. I'm not going to hold it anymore. There
has to be something in you right now that says
it ends today, Right now, it ends it's over. I
can't carry this and walk with Jesus. I can't do
it now. The Lord's here to deliver you. The Lord's
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here to set you free. And the reason he wants
to be free because he wants you back in fellowship.
He wants it's not that he's angry at you. He's
angry at that sin, and he gets angry at it
because he knows what it does to you. It makes
you hide from him. It robs you of your prayer life,
It robs you of communion, It robs you of peace,
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because there's no peace to people that have this in
their heart. You say, well, I just can't do that.
You don't know the situation, brother Dave. You don't know.
I don't have to know. There are no conditions on heaven,
in heaven or earth or in hell. They're no condition
whatsoever that you can hold on to envy, bitterness, or grudge,
or hate or anger. You can't hold it. It has
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to go if you're ready to let it go. God's
ready to come now and rush in by the power
of the Holy Ghost and deliver you and give you
power to do what he asked you to do. He
doesn't send you on a trip without giving you the
enduement and the power to do it. He's faithful. Look
at me, please, I know in my heart some of
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you could have been destroyed because this thing opens up
so many other sins that you would have gone off
in some awful, wicked direction. This would have consumed you.
And the Lord said no, and his love brought you
a message. Now God wants to deliver you. There may
be some in the audience you didn't come forward, but
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you know in your heart this message is for you.
I want everyone your hands to the Lord that came forward.
Everyone came forward to raise your hands to the Lord Bible.
I would have men everywhere lift holy hands. We're holding
through the rights of Jesus. Only pray this from the gut,
from inside, deep inside, Jesus. I come to you now
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to confess this thing in my soul. I hate it.
I want to be free of it, and I bring
it to you Jesus, to humble myself. I admit that
what I've done and what I've thought is a sin.
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It's a sin before you God, and I admit it,
and I repent of it. I ask you God to
send the Holy Spirit and give me power over it.
Break this chain that binds my soul. Forgive me and
help me, Lord to make it right. Keep your hands raised.
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What I pray. I come now in Jesus name against
every spirit of envy. I come against spirit of bitterness, anger, hate, wrath, revenge, jealousy.
These chains from hell, God sever them, cut them. I
speak the word of faith in Jesus name, because these
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are the works of the flesh. These are the works
of the devil, and they have no right, no dominion,
for sin shall not have dominion over God's people. Lord,
break these chains. Hallelujah. Now I want you, by faith
to reach out and thank God that he's gonna do
what he said he would do. Just thank you, Lord.
I believe you're gonna do what you said you'll do,
and you're gonna go with me. You're gonna set me free.
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You will set me free. Hallelujah.
Learning how to encourage yourself in the Lord, don't turn there.
But in First Samuel, there's a most interesting account of
two men of God who faced the worst crisis in
their life in two different ways. And these are the
two different ways that you and I, when we're in
our crisis, react to our problems and our difficulties. Both
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of these men were chosen by God and when they
came to this probably the worst crisis in their lifetime,
completely overwhelmed. It's interesting to see how these two men reacted.
I'm talking about Saul and King Saul and David. Now,
every one of us at times face crises, hard, difficult crises,
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and there comes a time when despair tries to take over,
just overwhelms you. Doesn't seem like there's any way out.
It seems like you've come to wits end and you
just don't know what to do, and there's nobody there
to give you a word, there's nobody to encourage you.
Man fails, there's nothing inside resources perhaps, and you just
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feel like the heavens are brass, and you have a
tendency or temptation to just resign to despair. At King
Saul were going to talk about him first. King Saul
found it absolutely impossible to encourage himself in his worst crisis.
He had nothing in him to self encourage himself as
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David did. He had put himself beyond all possibility of
being encouraged and finding comfort from any source, not from man,
not from God, not from himself. His life is so
full of lessons. And when I've been studying the life
of Saul this past week, was absolutely amazed at how
this man caught himself off from any possibility of being encouraged.
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There was no source anywhere, placed himself beyond the possibility
of being encouraged loved. What would you do without a
word from the Lord? What would you do without the
Holy Ghost comforting you? What would you do without that
kind word that comes from the voice of the Holy Spirit,
even through people, when your heart is open and when
you're living fully for in the life of Jesus Christ,
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this man had none of that. He cut himself off completely.
Don't turn them In the first time of the twentieth chapter,
we find Saul facing a confederated army of Philistines, and
they're coming against him with chariots and a huge cavalry
of men on horseback and a huge infantry. These are
a number of confederated warlords, and they're marching toward Israel.
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And Saul scouts bring him these frightful reports of this
massive army that's coming. And the Bible says they gathered
their armies together, and when Saul saw the host of
the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled
in him. Now, this man who stands out looking from
the mountaintop at this huge, massive army coming at him,
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this is the same man who is anointed by God,
chosen by God, touched by the Holy Spirit, counseled by
a great prophet. And yet this man who once chased
the Philistines had been fearless chasing them. He'd never fear.
He was a mighty warrior. But now this man stands
on the mountaintop, trembling, frightened, doesn't know where to go.
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He's confused. Something has happened to this man. He's trembling
in great fear. The Bible says, he's confused, has no purpose,
there's no direction in his life. Now. Now, what turned
this mighty warrior into a coward? What made him power
before his enemies Saul listened to me. Please. Saul had
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allowed a seed of envy, anger, jealousy to take root
in his heart against David, a man of God. Message. Today,
I'm going to attempt to prove to you, beyond any
shadow of a doubt, that if you allow in your
life a single seed a bitterness toward anybody, anyone in
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the workplace, anyone in the ministry, in your family, if
you have envy in your heart or jealousy of any
kind and it creates anger, I want to show you
that it's going to lead to a spirit of murder.
And I'm going to tell you then that you cut
yourself off from all possibility of ever being comforted, because
the moment you allow the seed of envy to enter
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your heart, the Holy Ghost departs, absolutely departs. And I'm
going to prove that to you, Saul. Bible says the
women of Israel began to sing this song. Saul has
slain his thousands, but David is ten thousands. And Saul
was very angry when he heard it, and he said,
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they've given credit to David for ten thousands, but to
me only thousands. What more can he have but my kingdom?
And Saul enved David from that day on forward. He
allowed envy, jealousy, anger, bitterness to take root in his heart,
and it began to obsess him and consume his life,
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absolutely consumed him. The Bible said in verse nine, listen
to this please in verse night, chapter twenty eight. And
Saul envied David from that time on. Now that's verse nine,
and the next very verse, verse ten says this, And
the next morning an evil spirit came upon Saul. He
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became demon possessed. The night before, he allows a spirit
of envy to take root, anger, jealousy. The next day
an evil spirit possesses him. And all what happens to
this man his downwards file because the very next day,
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while David comes in to play his harps, Saul has
a javelin in his hand. In Verse eleven says, and
he cast the javelin, and he swore, I will kill
David and smite him to the wall. There's a spirit
of revenge. Now, there's a murderous spirit. Anyone who holds
a grudge against someone else. I'm thinking about your boss
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on your job. I'm thinking of a co worker. I'm
thinking of somebody in your family. I'm thinking of a
male friend or female friend, somebody that hurts you, wounded,
you said something about you, and you allowed a spirit
of envy or another brother sister is advanced in Christ
and growing of the Lord, and you're still stagnant. And
you see that growth, you see the blessing of God,
and you become jealous over the blessing of God in
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somebody else's life. That seed is planted and begins to
grow in you. Folks. I've heard from Heaven on this message,
and I want to hear because I'm going to God
by his truth and gonna set you free and save
your life. Damnation and hell. You've got to hear this
in the spirit. If that is not cast out, it's
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going to become an evil obsession, and you open the
door to satanic possession. The Bible says, where envy and
strife is, there's confusion and every evil way. You open
yourself up to every evil thing out of the pits
of hell. Now, what happened to Saul as a result
of this envy and bitterness in his heart, this jealousy,
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what happened to him will happen to every Christian who
allows the same thing in their life. Now, those who
become obsessed with envy or jealousy or bitterness, revenge or grudge.
They begin to infect everybody in their circle, their family,
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their friends. It's a poison that affects everything around them
because they are so eaten with it. Now, that's all
you hear night and day coming from their mouth, because
what's in the heart's going to come up the mouth.
You hear all about every bit of gossip, every little tidbit,
how I was misjudged, how I was treated, how he
did this to me, or she did that to me,
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and we go back about our rejections, and that's all
you hear. The kids hear it, the friends hear it,
until they get sick and tired of it. You don't
want to be around them anymore. They're obsessed with That's
all they talk about because the bitterness is in their heart. Grudge, envy, jealousy,
It affects everything. And when you have that in you,
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you begin to mistrust everybody. You begin to think that
everybody's against you. You see it in the life of Saul.
He becomes mistrustful for every he thinks everybody, not only
David is against him, but now his son Jonathan is
against him. Here's a godly young man that loved his father.
He'd made a covenant with David. But it's because he's
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a peer his own age, and he was a friend
with him. But he loved his father. In fact, he
died with his father in the battlefield. But listen to
Saul speaking to his own son, Jonathan. Then Saul's anger
was kindled against Jonathan, his son, and he said, unto him,
thou son of a perverse, rebellious woman. Now we have
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a curse word for that. Today he was cursing his son.
He said, do you think I don't know that you've
chosen David above me, his own son. I know you,
you'll perverse man of an unmarried woman. He said, you've
turned against me, You've turned to David. Why don't you
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go with David? And what he read he said in
the next verse, if you already loved him, you'd bring
him to me. Let me kill him. He let me
put a javelin through his belly, because he's after your kingdom.
You're going to inherit my throne. He's after your throne.
Jealousy rage now has taken old a spirit of murder.
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You say that couldn't happen to me? Oh, yes, it is.
It's a spirit of murder, because the Bible said he
that hates his brother's a murderer and cannot inherit the
kingdom of God. Same spirit, he turns against his own
daughter Macaw. He turns McAll and said, Michelle, brother. He said, Michelle,
you've conspired against me. He said, why hast thou deceived me?
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So you sent away my enemy. Remember she was protecting
David and let him escape from her father. And he said,
you've deceived me. Can you imagine this? She's just saving
her husband's life, and he calls it deception. He turns
to his own captain Abner. He turns to all of
his bodyguards, and listen to what he says. He's saying,
you're all against me. Listen to it. You have all
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conspired against me. There is none of you that feel
sorry for me. Listen to your pastor listen to me.
This is life and death. I'm telling you. If you
sit in this house this morning and I see it
with fear and trembling and yet glow, if you have
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a single root of bitterness, a single thought of revenge,
a single grutch, any envy, any jealousy toward husband or wife.
God help the man who lives with the wife who
is jealous. God helped the wife who lives with a
husband who's jealous. The Bible said, who can stand against jealousy?
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Who can stand against envy? There's no defense against it,
but all it will destroy you, It will consume you.
It will bring a spirit of murder. And today we
murder through slander and gossip. We will slander until we
bring down our enemies. We will talk about them. We
will talk about it night and day. And Kear Saul
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wakes up every morning he has to put his side
the business of the kingdom because the first thing he
got on his mind is David getting even. He lays
down at night and he's conspiring in his bed. I've
been mistreated. Nobody's for me. Everybody's against me. Do you
know people like that? Nobody feels sorry for me, nobody
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understands me. Oh, God, help us to deal with this
in the light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And
that's the Holy Spirit to pluck that out of our hearts.
He now starts as downward spiral because he's a consumed man.
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He's got the spirit of murder on him. Folks, we
have all seen the awful destruction of sin and those
that have been bound by vicious habits like drugs and alcohol,
perverted sex, gambling, and so forth. Who in this building
who comes to church walking through these streets of New York,
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You've seen it, and I've seen it. You've seen these
poor creatures, lunatics walking these streets, who've blown their mind
on drugs, just blathering nonsense. You've seen the hollowed eyed women,
the prostitutes who are still trying to work a trick,
and then turn around the corner and you see them vomiting.
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They're so sick, physically beaten, just wrecks of humanity. You've
seen the skeleton men walking these streets, victims of aids,
and you've seen them looking for one more empty hour
of pleasure. And your heart goes out and say, all
the wages of sin. Yes, that's an ugly sight. Those
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are horrible pictures that we've all seen. But let me
tell you there's nothing worse. There's nothing worse than seeing
a Christian going downhill. Somebody who had been anointed and
chosen by God, somebody knew him and touched by the
Holy Spirit, and to have this seed in them, and
to watch them go downhill, to watch how they begin
to come apart, and how they become obsessed. Listen to
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their language. There's no more joy, there's gloom, there's doom. There,
there's nothing thereof the Spirit of Christ anymore. Absolute bitterness
pours out of the innermost being. You see, when you
have this spirit upon you, you close the door to
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any possibility of encouragement of any kind. It curses the
very life out of you. It's a curse. Saul's obsession
with bitterness had reduced him now to a man who
had no place to turn for comfort. And when Saul
inquired of the Lord, the Lord answered him not neither
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by dreams, nor uripe, nor by the prophets. He tried
to pray, and he couldn't pray, He couldn't turn to
a priest. Didn't kill them all. This is the same man,
the Bible says the Lord had departed from In Firse
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tem eighteen twelve, the Lord departed from Saul, the Bible said,
when the evil spirit came upon Saul, he prophesied in
the midst of his house. If you look at the
original hebrew says he bellowed like a madman all through
his house. It wasn't some spirits of prophecy. Evil spirit
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was on him now. And this man through the night
didn't sleep. Even his servants were alarmed. They said, there's
an evil spirit in the house. This man doesn't sleep.
He goes through all the rooms in his palace, in
his home, and he bellows, I'll kill him. He bellows,
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and he screams his rage. That's what it comes to, folks,
till it eats and consumes your very being, brings madness. No,
Saul's on his own now. And I'm gonna tell you,
when you go this path, you're on your own. Where
are you gonna turn? Where's Saul gonna turn to now?
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He can't go to the priest he killed him. He
can't go to the prophet. Samuel knows it. He's been
rejected by God. He can't go to Abner, his captain,
because he doesn't trust him. He can't go to his bodyguard.
He can't go to his son Jonathan. He can't go
to his daughter Michelle. Where is he gonna go? Here's
no place to go. He can't go to God. He
can't pray, he can't go to the Holy Ghost. Where
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do you go? Where do you go when you keep
this sin in you? Where do you go? And you
can't pray? When he can't talk to the Holy Ghost
and praacher can't help. I can't help you because you've
been given over to your sin. Nobody that knows Jesus
and who's a good polyghost counselor's got a word for you.
Because your ears set in your heart is hard. There's
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twenty one way out of that, and that is to
acknowledge your sin and cry out as you've never cried
in your lifetime. God, I have this sin in my life.
Pluck it out by its roots. So where does the
man go? When? Remember he's not a heathen, he's chosen,
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he was anointed the prophet, He was under the guidance
of a prophet in his first years, had won many
great victories. And now he's going downhill and downhill, So vast,
where do you go? You go to a witch? This
is the man, same man who had put away the
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scripture said those that had familiar spirits and the wizards
of the land. He'd killed most of them. But now
he's saying, go out and find me once surely there's one,
and kill listen to the scripture. Then, then said Saul
to his servants, go seek me out a woman that
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has a familiar spirit, that I may go to her
and inquire of her. He turns to the service and says,
God doesn't talk to me anymore. Samuel doesn't talk to me.
Nobody talk to you. Have nothing to say to me.
Go find me somebody in the occult. Go find me
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somebody in the occult, He said, Brother Dave, I would
never do that. I would never, no matter how bitter
I am, no matter what kind of grudge I have,
I would never go see a which I would never
turn to the occult. Oh no, no, no, don't don't
think for one moment that you can't wind up in
some little room with with with some unkempt woman with
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straggly hair, and stick your palm out and try to
get a word from God. I've known preachers that have
gone to seances and gone to these places because they
didn't hear from God. They weren't praying anymore, and they
went to somebody in they'll cult. If you don't listen
to me. Now, this week's magazine. Life Magazine this week
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front page, the lead article Astrology. The lead article says,
why so many of us now believe that the stars
reflect the soul and that the whole articles about astrology
the rise of astrology. And here's what the article says.
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Astrology is experienced its biggest boom in four hundred years.
Twenty years ago, there were an estimated one thousand professional
astrologers in the United States. Today they're over five thousand.
Twenty million books on astrology now sell each year in
the United States because now it's becoming we have come
to a time of reckoning with destiny. Can you imagine
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that we have come to a time of reckoning with destiny?
But listen further, soothsayers of all sorts are having a
filled day. And this astrology has its roots all the
way back to Babylon. Astrology is now becoming the therapy
for millions. How many of you pick up the newspaper
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and go to the horoscope. You so, I'm just curious.
I just want to see what my day says. No, no, no, no, no,
that's dabbling with the occult. I've got to go on
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worse than going to which you said I would never
go to which I would never go to the occult.
You know what happens, There's something even worse than that
that happens to them who carried this spirit in them.
It's that they begin to hear voices, and they mistake
those voices, which are the voices of demon powers. They
miscape those voices, those sweet, small, still voices, as the
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voice of God. And they're being misled so that they
believe a lie to be the truth. They can tell
what they have heard, I heard God speak. Listen, you
have envy, jealousy. You don't hear God speak. He does
not speak to you in that film, other than to
repent and come and I'll restore you. He's not mad
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at you, but he will he'll stand by you. Don't
hear from God. You hear your own desires. You hear
from hell. You hear from the devil. You say, that's
too strong, Brother Dave, that's Bible, that scripture. I'll back
it up. I'll back my very ministry on this because
I see it so clearly in God's word. And they
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hear these voices, and they'll do some of the strangest, sinful,
wicked things and say, well, God told me I heard
a still small voice saying, it's all right, it's all right,
like a pastor, a well known pastor who was in
a motel with a woman. He said it was all
right because we pray together, and we fast together, and
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we get revelations together, and trying to justify the sin.
A voice. It was not God. God does not send
a married man into a motel room with another woman.
This man ends up committing suicide. Now I know he
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was wounded by the arrow, but the arrow didn't kill
and the Bible said he was just wounded. Therefore, Saul
took a sword and fell on it, killed himself. His
sons had already died. His three sons were laying dead
on the battlefield, and he's wounded, and he's laying on
the edge of the battle and leaps on his own sword.
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But the night before he dies, he's consorting with the witch,
and supposedly Samuel appears. I want to tell you the apparition,
the Samuel that appeared was not the real Samuel, because
there are no writs in the world that can bring
Samuel out of the bosom of my heavenly Father. There
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was an apparition. It was the devil faking the voice
of Saul of Samuel. Why because the devil's a murderer,
and the one mission the devil hadn't mind for Saul
was to kill him. He's a murderer, of the Bible says,
and he's out to kill you with envy and strife
and bitterness. He wants to damn your saw and kill you.
He wants you to die in a rage. Like the
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man who was in the paper last five years. He's
lived in revenge because his brother was a police officer
who was murdered on the streets. And the man only God,
I think ten years or so, and the man's been
living in rage, and he died recently. In his last words,
I hope Johnny rotts in hell. He was full of
rage and bitterness and he'd eaten enough for five years.
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That's all they heard. I know a sister, a Christian sister,
who got so mad at God for taking a loved
one some twenty years ago. For twenty years, she's lived
in a rage and bitterness, and that's all you here,
night and day. She's one of the meanest persons you
ever saw. And when I have been in the rooms
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when people die full of bitterness. I've been there. You
can feel the evil spirits, you feel the gloom, you
feel the doom, you feel the despair, and you see
them going out into eternity and a rage. I have
walked out of rooms where people were dying like that
because I did not want to be in that room.
And even family and friends would walk out. They didn't
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want to be in a room. It is, it's so suicide.
God has promised me today he's going to deliver a
lot of people, not only in this service, but everyone
who sees this tape and everyone here's the audio, Many
many people going to be delivered. I pray the fear
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of the Holy God, good your heart, by the fear
of the Lord, men depart from evil. But now let
me give you the other side. Talk about David. Now,
David reacted to his worst crisis in a very different way. Hallelujah.
His story follows immediately in personally, immediately, while Saul was
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consorting with a witch, David's on his way with six
hundred of his men to zick Lag. Now that was
his home base. He'd been chased by Saul. Remember he'd
run off two years before to King Akish and he
had joined the Philistines, and the Philistines were preparing to
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go against Saul. This is the army that saw saw
coming at him. And David's in the hinder part of
this great army. And he says, I'm going with you
Aikish to the battle. And the warlord said no. In
the heat of the battle, he might turn on us.
So David and six hundred men are rejected. The warlord said, David,
you and your army get out, go wherever you want
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to go. Go, but you're not with us. And so
he makes his way back to Ziklag. And when they
get there they see us get near it that it
took about It's a three day journey. And when they
got there, attired and weary, all they could see was
the smoking embers of a ruined city. It was gone.
Their town was burnt, all of their family members, all
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their cattle, everything was gone. There's nothing left. David is
now standing in the middle of these ruins. An amazing
thing happens here. These mottless, mottley army of his that
he had led and guided and fed and marvelously prayed over.
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These are people men who'd been in debt. These are
family members, included brothers and relatives, many of them that
were discouraged under Saul, and many that were fleeing from
their debts, and they found a safe haven with David.
And now David's standing there and he looks at all
of his family members and his army, and they're picking
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up stones, and they're in a rage because they're full
of grief. And David was greatly distressed for the people
spake of stoning him because the soul of the people
was grieving. And they're angry at David, no doubt, because
they said, David, why didn't you leave a few hundred
of us back, at least one hundred and fifty two
hundred protector fan, Why you took us on a three
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day there? Three days back and now we were rejected
as it was. Now look what's happening. They have stones
that had they're ready to kill David now in the flat.
When you look at this scene, David has every right,
every reason in human flesh, in the way of human thinking,
has every reason to despair, every reason to question God.
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Because he stands here, remembering that he'd been anointed by Samuel.
He still feels the oil running down over his head.
He remembers the word of Samuel, the prophet, God has
chosen you to be the king in Saul's place. And
now that sounds to him like mockery. It sounds like
a hoax to him, because here he is Israel's turned
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him down, sauls turned him down. And now not only
a sault turned him down, but the very Heathen themselves
don't want him. Of all people, the Philistines, these ungodly
Heathen warlords say David get out. Not only that his
family is gone. He has no family left. He doesn't
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know whether they're dead or alive. He has no possessions,
no hope, he has nothing. He stands there empty. And
not only that, but he gets work. This is the
same man that remembers having risk his life to save
that the city of Kila. And he learns that those
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people after he'd risk his life, and he moves into
the city that they'd sent in the midnight hours. They'd
sent word to Saul, we've got David, come and get him.
He was being betrayed by those to whom he'd risk
his very life. And now his own family, his own army.
He is ready to stone him. Bible said, David was
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greatly distressed. We talk about our crisis, folks, I'm giving
you a crisis here. We're seeing a real crisis. No
man has suffered much like that, other than our Savior.
He could stand there talking about how he was misjudged
and how he was slandered, mistreated. He could have talked
about all the thing things he did for these people.
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But he stands there listen to what the Bible says.
But David encouraged himself in the Lord. David encouraged himself
in the Lord. David looks in his situation, he looks
around and he sees ready stone, and so what can
he do? He says, Lord, I resigned. He lifted his
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hands and began to praise the Lord. He said, Lord,
you're the one going to have to preserve me. No
way out of this. Lord, it's all yours, live or die.
I'm gonna trust you right now, and he began to
encourage himself in the Lord. Now, folks, how does a
man do that in the face of a bad Because
many of you say, Pastor Dave, I'm going through a
crisis of my life. Where do you get that inner strength?
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He encouraged himself in the Lord. He was not a superman.
He was a man of like passions. Oh, yes, he was.
He had so much in his life that was unlike
the Lord. Oh. But there was something about David in
a time of crisis, he reached out to the Lord.
There was nothing in himself. It was the spirit of
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God in him. It was his communion with the Heavenly
Father that now was bearing forth fruit. Folks, it pays
to be shut in with God. It pays to have
commune with the Lord. It pays to know him because
in a crisis you can depend on him. You go
to your heavenly Father, because he's not a stranger to you.
You see, if you harbor envy in you, the first
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thing that suffers is your prayer life. People who have envy, jealousy,
hate and revenge and these things like this, they don't pray.
They can't pray, and when they don't pray, they lose
fellowship with the Lord. And so when the hard times come,
there's nothing to draw on. You can't encourage yourself in
the Lord. David, I said, Lord, how did he do it?
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And folks, I found I found it. It is so
wonderful the sixteenth Psalm turned. Get your bibles out Psalm sixteen,
because here is the secret to learning how to encourage
yourself in the Lord. Amen, put your seatbelts on. How
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many want to learn to encourage yourself in your hard
times in the Lord? Raise? Wave it at me right now, yes,
praise God. Now here's the truth that sets you free.
Here's the good part. Now, by the way, you know
that David recovered everything, didn't He Not only did he
recover all, he recovered more than he lost. He recovered
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so much he was giving it away to everybody. He
had an overflow. Hellelujah. Now if you look, if you
have a King James, it says in the front of
the chapter, the micktim of David. You know what that means,
The golden Psalm one that's to be committed to memory.
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You to commit this to memory. Now I have a
hard time with that because that's a poor memory that
I read it. I'm going to read this every day
of my life. God helping me. That's what it means.
It's a golden Psalm. It's the secret. Now, many theologians
believe David wrote this. Why I was in the wilderness
I believe clearly that this was written during this time.
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The first thing that David says, preserve me, o God,
for indeed do I put my trust. And in the
original Hebrew it reads guard me, o Lord. In other words,
guard me from these stones, guard me from my enemies,
guard me from all of this. For I have taken
shelter in thee. I have put my life in your hands. Hallelujah.
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David had said the Lord, Oh Lord, you are my
hiding place. You will preserve me from all trouble. You
will accompass me about with songs and deliverance. Look at many, folks,
David is saying, I didn't turn to the Lord as
a last resort. I turned the Lord as a first resort.
I didn't try to call somebody. I didn't try to
call it prophet. But I didn't try to call somebody.
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I turned to the Lord. Folks, get off the telephone,
get into the sacred clauset, Get along with God. He's
the only one that can preserve you. Go into the
shelter from the storm. Hallelujah. Verse two, Oh my soul,
thou has said, unto the Lord, thou art my Lord,
my goodness, extendeth not to thee, but to the saints
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that are in the earth, and to the excellent, and
whom is all my delight. Now listen to me. Let
me interpret that for you. Look this way, please, what
he's saying, Lord, My charitable works were not done for thee,
to thee, but for the saints you're upon the earth,
for them who are excellent, and who was all your delight.
You know what, Paul, You know what David saying, Lord,
I can forgive all of them. I can forgive everybody.
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I don't have to hold a grudge against any because
everything he could have said, well, wait a minute. I
risked my life for Quila, and they turned on me.
I played the heart for Saul. I fought his battles,
and he turned on me. He could look at all
of these things, he said, even the heathen Warlord's turned
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on me. All the good things I've done for people,
and I get no respect, I get no thanks. Have
you ever helped so many people and nobody said thanks? Oh? Yes,
write a book on that. But David, say, wait a minute,
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I didn't do this to merit something with you, Lord,
I didn't do this to get to heaven. I did
it because it's the right thing to do. And that's all.
I don't have to expect any thanks. I can forgive
everybody because I wasn't doing it to get to heaven
by it. Folks, you don't. All of those things that
you do, you're supposed to do them because you're a
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servant of Jesus Christ. You're supposed to love your brother
and do good to all mankind, not to get to heaven.
We get to heaven by the mercy of Jesus Christ
and the grace of God. All our good works are
filthy rags. He said, Lord, it's all filthy rags. Anyhow,
I did it just because it's the right thing to do.
So I forgive everybody. Oh hellylujah, can you forgive? Told
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you it's good? And you know what, you know what
he says the next verse, he said, And the reason
he said, I can forgive because their sorrows are going
to be multiplied. There's they're gonna God keeps books. Lord,
I'm not gonna add to their sorrow. And he says
what he's saying. He said, I don't want to even
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mention their idolatry on my lips. He said that in
the verses. I don't want to get involved in this
kind of living. I don't want to get involved in
this mess. I don't want to get involved with talking
to people that have bitterness in their heart. I don't
want to be a part of it. Folks, you listen
to bitterness, it's gonna get into you. It's gonna poison you.
Do you ever hear of secondhand smoke? Secondhand gospel will
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kill you just as sure a straight gossip. Next, the
Lord is the portion of my inheritance and my cup
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of my cup, Thou maintainest my lot. Oh, this is
wonderful what David's saying. He's standing there with none. He said, Lord,
after all, I haven't lost anything because I haven't lost you.
My house is gone, everything's gone. But Lord, my life
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is not based on things. You're my life. You're my inheritance. Lord.
They can have it all, Just give me you. You're
my lot in life, You're my inheritance. A couple of
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weeks ago, a spirit of despair tried to get a
hold of me and to bring me down into despair
and feeling blue. And I stopped him, and I said,
wait a minute, Lord, it doesn't matter if everything I
have is lost. Nobody on the faceless earth, in heaven
or hell can take away my Jesus out of my heart.
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This is not the real world, folks. You see this building,
it's a mirage. It's made up of atoms, and those
atoms are gonna burst one day and they're all gonna
be gone. This pulpit's not real. It's heavy, but it's
not real. The real world is an eternity in Jesus Christ.
This is not the real world. David said, not one
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single thought of envy, not one thought of bitterness, no
thought of anger, nothing to rob my fellowship with my Lord. Hallelujah,
Glory beat of God. That's the one reason I don't
allow any bitterness or anger or wrath in my soul.
Jealous I don't allow it. In the name of Jesus.
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I pray the Holy Ghost give me power of the
time it tries to rise up, because I know to
rob me of my fellowship with the Master. Then he
goes on. He says, the lines have fallen Verse six.
The lines have fallen unto me in pleasant places. Yet
I have a goodly heritage. He said, Lord, you gave
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Israel possession of the land, but he said, I've got
a new Jerusalem. I'm going home. Folks, when you look
at the last five verses from seven to eleven, let's
read them out loud, and then I'll explain to well, no,
you can. It's self explanatory. And I'll tell you what,
why don't you stand if you have King James. We're
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gonna start reading verse seven to the fortune four verses.
You're gonna see how David says. You're gonna talk about
the rains that instruct him the night season. That means
his inner man. I'm gonna show you too, he says,
I'm not going to Hell, I'm going to Heaven. Okay,
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Verse seven, let's start reading. I will bless the Lord,
who hath given me counsel. My reigns also instruct me
in the night seasons. I've set the Lord always before me,
because he is at my right hand. I shall not
be moved. Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoice.
With my flesh is also rest in hope. Thou wilt
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not leave my soul in hell. Need you without suffer
thy holy wonder see corruption, Thou willt show me the
path of life in thy presence is fullness of joy,
and at that right hand there are pleasures forevermore. Hallelujah,
Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus, hallelujah. You see, that's
the reward of those who work with the Holy Ghost
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to pluck all these things out of their life, guidance, pleasure,
and enjoy forevermore. In the night season, God speaking to
you in your bed, telling you how much you love,
how much he loves you, speaking words of direction and counsel,
the inner man being strengthened with My truth and the
inner man, and then the Lord's giving you this wonderful
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promise you'll never be cast into outer darkness your mind. Oh,
the glory and the joy and the victory of those
who cast aside by faith in Jesus' name, every root,
every semblance, envy, anger, wrath, jealousy, probably the most danger.
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That's your position you can be in. With this I close.
Let everybody hear me clearly. If you don't hear, if
you hadn't heard clearly in your spirit yet what I've said,
hear this. If you're blinded as you stand in God's present.
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Now you're blinded, you stand here, say I don't have
anything like that, and yet you're covering something. That blindness
is probably the most dangerous condition you can be in
a veil over your eyes. And the only way to
break through that veil, the only way to break through
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that blindness, just say, Oh God, send the Holy Ghost
search my heart? Lord? Is there something in me that
is there and I'm covering and I'm hiding. Is there
somebody that I have been envying, someone I've been jealous of?
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For as there someone Lord I've been angry at? What
about husbands and wives who just don't forgive one another,
that anger that keeps building and building till that destroys
your relationship. I can't make anything happen here this morning.
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I could work you up into some kind of an
emotional HI, and some of you might call emostionly, but
it can't work that way. It has to be the
Holy Spirit dealing with our hearts, the Holy Spirit himself.
I'm going to open these altars. No one's going to
ask you what it's about. But if you're up in
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the balcony, you go to the stairs on either side
and come down any aisle, and those that are here,
if you say, Pastor David, this message was sent from
heaven to my soul. And I'll not walk out of
this building with this thing in me. It script me,
lay hold of my heart, and I want to be delivered.
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If you want deliverance, God's going to deliver you. He's
going to deliver you. But Bible says you're going to
confess it first. He said, confess it openly, confess it
before the Lord. Get out of your seat and come
right now. If you're backslid, if you're not right with God,
come and join these that are coming. If you don't
know the Lord, if you're strayed from the Lord, you
follow these that are coming right now. Folks, don't hide
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from the Holy Spirit. Be honest with him. Look at
the people being honest right now. Follow these. You're among many,
many people that are coming up in the balcony. Move
wherever you're at. I don't care if it's in the choir,
I don't care. It's anywhere, all of us. Let the
Holy Ghost deal with your heavenly Father, deal with us
in love. Holy Spirit. You're trying to bring victory. You're
trying to bring back the prayer life. You're trying to
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bring back Lord. A relations ship of communion with the heaven,
he fathered with Jesus. Lord, these things break the communion God,
You're going to break these chains and set people free. Amen?
Right now, will you stand here to make something right
with somebody? Is it a mother in law? Is it
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a husband? Is it a wife? Is it a child?
I heard of a mother recently, a well known mother,
she's nationally known, hasn't talked to her son in over
a year. I don't know how she's a Christian. I
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don't expect. I don't understand how she ever expects to
get to heaven. I don't understand that at all. While
you're here now, whoever, that person is that objective You're envy,
that objective, that bitterness, that grudge that's there. I don't
care who wronged you. I don't care what they did.
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You can't hold to it, and you have to acknowledge
here right now it's sin. I will not put up
with it. I'm not going to hold it anymore. There
has to be something in you right now that says
it ends today, Right now, it ends it's over. I
can't carry this and walk with Jesus. I can't do
it now. The Lord's here to deliver you. The Lord's
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here to set you free. And the reason he wants
to be free because he wants you back in fellowship.
He wants it's not that he's angry at you. He's
angry at that sin, and he gets angry at it
because he knows what it does to you. It makes
you hide from him. It robs you of your prayer life,
It robs you of communion, It robs you of peace,
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because there's no peace to people that have this in
their heart. You say, well, I just can't do that.
You don't know the situation, brother Dave. You don't know.
I don't have to know. There are no conditions on heaven,
in heaven or earth or in hell. They're no condition
whatsoever that you can hold on to envy, bitterness, or grudge,
or hate or anger. You can't hold it. It has
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to go if you're ready to let it go. God's
ready to come now and rush in by the power
of the Holy Ghost and deliver you and give you
power to do what he asked you to do. He
doesn't send you on a trip without giving you the
enduement and the power to do it. He's faithful. Look
at me, please, I know in my heart some of
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you could have been destroyed because this thing opens up
so many other sins that you would have gone off
in some awful, wicked direction. This would have consumed you.
And the Lord said no, and his love brought you
a message. Now God wants to deliver you. There may
be some in the audience you didn't come forward, but
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you know in your heart this message is for you.
I want everyone your hands to the Lord that came forward.
Everyone came forward to raise your hands to the Lord Bible.
I would have men everywhere lift holy hands. We're holding
through the rights of Jesus. Only pray this from the gut,
from inside, deep inside, Jesus. I come to you now
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to confess this thing in my soul. I hate it.
I want to be free of it, and I bring
it to you Jesus, to humble myself. I admit that
what I've done and what I've thought is a sin.
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It's a sin before you God, and I admit it,
and I repent of it. I ask you God to
send the Holy Spirit and give me power over it.
Break this chain that binds my soul. Forgive me and
help me, Lord to make it right. Keep your hands raised.
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What I pray. I come now in Jesus name against
every spirit of envy. I come against spirit of bitterness, anger, hate, wrath, revenge, jealousy.
These chains from hell, God sever them, cut them. I
speak the word of faith in Jesus name, because these
(49:25):
are the works of the flesh. These are the works
of the devil, and they have no right, no dominion,
for sin shall not have dominion over God's people. Lord,
break these chains. Hallelujah. Now I want you, by faith
to reach out and thank God that he's gonna do
what he said he would do. Just thank you, Lord.
I believe you're gonna do what you said you'll do,
and you're gonna go with me. You're gonna set me free.
(49:47):
You will set me free. Hallelujah.
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