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First Samuel chapter 18, you'll notice particularly if you were here with us last week that we spent our

time last Sunday studying the covenant that Jonathan made with David. We're going to pick up right

after that in verse 5 and read through verse 16, verse 18, verse 5, whatever Saul sent

him to do, David did it so successfully that Saul gave him a high rank in the army.

This pleased all the people and Saul's officers as well. When the men were returning home after David

had killed the Philistine, the women came out from all the towns of Israel to meet King Saul with singing

and dancing and with joyful songs and with tambourines and lutes and I want you to just picture that he can see

them. It's a parade before his eyes coming home dancing before him and then he begins to listen to what their

tune is saying and he hears them say, Saul has slain his thousands and then the next refrain is

David his tens of thousands. Let that fall on you for just a moment. All the dance, all the celebration,

all the welcome, Saul has slain his thousands but David, now David has slain his tens of thousands.

You and I have been studying for weeks the insecurity of Saul and you talking about something that tapped

in immediately to every insecurity he had. It says in verse 8, Saul was very angry. This refrain

gold him. They have credited David with tens of thousands he thought but me with only thousands.

What more can he get but the kingdom? Now do you see where he went from point A to B? I mean,

immediately and he says then in verse 9 and from that time on Saul kept a jealous eye on David.

Let me repeat that. From that time on Saul kept a jealous eye on David. The next day an evil spirit

from God came forcefully upon Saul. Now if you recall with us a couple of weeks ago we studied how that was

possible that God is absolutely sovereign and he works all things to his great purpose and if an evil spirit

comes to someone who has been in relationship with God it will only be because somehow God has permitted it

and that is why it says that he came from God. Not because God tempts us to evil.

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