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All right, let's grab our Bibles and turn to 1 Samuel 16.

1 Samuel 16.

If you don't know what that is, it's right after 1 Samuel 15.

Hope that helps.

The title of my message is,

The Men After God's Own Heart.

Years ago when my son Christopher was a little boy,

we had this tugboat.

It was sort of a bath toy and then we used it in the pool as well.

It was this big tugboat that was basically unsinkable.

I would take it to the bottom of the pool

and try to hold it down and it always popped to the top.

So this thing was around for a number of years.

And then Christopher got older.

And one day I said to him, Christopher,

would you like to blow up the tugboat?

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