S2:158 1 Samuel 16

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Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Bible, Devotional

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🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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How could the spirit of the Lord leave Saul? What's the deal with these harmful spirits? In today's episode Emma Dotter discusses old coventant era and how that helps us understand 1 Samuel 16.

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0:00.0	Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter.
0:08.8	Thanks for joining. Today, we're reading First Samuel 16, which you should have already read. If you haven't, pause the episode, go read it, and then jump back in.
0:17.8	We're in First Samuel 16, but we're specifically looking at verses 14 and 15,
0:22.8	which read, now the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul and a harmful spirit from the Lord
0:28.6	tormented him. And Saul's servants said to him, behold, look, now a harmful spirit from God
0:35.4	is tormenting you. So there are really two questions here.
0:39.2	How could the spirit of the Lord leave Saul and what's the deal with these harmful spirits?
0:45.1	I want you to think about when you first learned to ride a bike, or really, before you even started
0:50.0	learning.
0:50.7	Most likely, you had a bike with training wheels.
0:56.7	During the training wheel era, that bike was never going to fall over. Even when you weren't on it, it was going to stand straight up.
1:01.7	It was dependable. You felt safe. It was comfortable. That's how the spirit interacts with us today.
1:09.3	Just like a bike with training wheels will always
1:11.8	stand up straight, so too will the Holy Spirit always live in believers. Today, as we live in the
1:18.2	New Covenant era, when you become a believer, you are sealed with the Holy Spirit. Once you're saved,
1:24.3	and you're always saved, the Holy Spirit is not going to leave you.
1:28.9	Living in the New Covenant era is like a bike with training wheels.
1:32.4	It's dependable, and it's not going to fall over.
1:35.7	Plus, we can't do this life on our own strength.
1:39.1	Much like a little kid can't ride a bike all on their own, all on his or her own, we need the spirit like a kid needs
1:46.4	training wheels. But then there's the Old Covenant era. That's the era in which Saul lived.
1:54.0	Not all of God's people got the Spirit and the Spirit could come and go. It wasn't a guarantee.
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