Episode 320: Do Not Harm the Lord’s Anointed

You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo

ACTS XXIX

Detroit, Catholic, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Evangelization, Fr. John Riccardo, Parish Transformation, Acts Xxix

4.9 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Fr. John and Mary reflect on how convicted they are by David’s extreme reticence to harm King Saul, a man who is actively trying to kill David, and offer an examination of conscience to consider focused on how we think and speak of others.

Scripture | 1 Samuel 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to you were born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo and Mary Guilfoyle.
0:06.8	We're a couple of missionaries at Acts 29.
0:09.5	And this is the podcast where we talk about how acquiring a biblical worldview brings us great hope in the God who created and rescued this world in order that you and I can be agents of transformation and recreation.
0:23.5	Greetings, Mary.
0:25.0	Good morning, Father John. You sound and look like you're feeling much better.
0:28.4	Oh, antibiotics are kicking in and I'm loving life again. Thanks be to God. And you need more
0:33.3	coffee. Yeah, sorry about that. Sorry, I could use a little bit more gas in my tank this morning, so pray for me.
0:40.0	I will give you some of my energy, which is pretty hyper right now.
0:42.7	Oh, it's good to see you having it, Father John.
0:44.4	Hey, you know, we talk all the time at the intro to this podcast about how what we're trying to do is soak in scriptures is soaking scriptures so that we can learn how to see biblically, and not only so that we can learn
0:55.6	how to see biblically, but so that we can then be agents of transformation. And I think what we're
0:59.9	going to talk about today, I find at least personally, extremely convicting. And I pray it will be
1:05.3	powerful for others as well. So what's our topic? So our topic for today is do not harm the Lord's
1:11.9	anointed. Pause, pray in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
1:20.3	Our gracious Father, we just ask even now for your Holy Spirit to be upon us as we have this conversation
1:27.3	as we reflect upon your word, as we share with
1:30.8	others what you've put on our hearts. We ask, Father, that you would drench us all with your
1:37.9	Holy Spirit in such a way that we can see each other and speak about each other the way we should help us to know when we're supposed to
1:49.4	bite our tongues when we're supposed to speak most especially enable us to love as you love
1:58.8	we ask all this in jesus's name amen in Amen. In the name of the Father and the Son and the
2:04.5	Holy Spirit. Amen. I'm going to ask you to open us up with some big news for the archdiocese of Detroit.
2:09.6	So, you know, we are an apostle that comes right here out of the Archdiocese of Detroit. We were founded in
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