Amen and amen. How we doing, church? Everybody good? Everybody's looking good. If you got your

Bibles and I hope you do, 1 Samuel chapter 24, we are in the last week of this series called

prophets, priests, and kings. Or if you have your journal, we are on page 64. By the way, who's still

got the journal? Who brought it with them? Raise your hands

high, way to go. All right, high concentration in the front here. I just want to point that out

to the heathens in the back. Well, whatever. We're moving for all people. Hey, listen, if you brought

your journal, if you kept up with it this whole time, we have a free gift for you in the Connect Center go and for a limited time only you can sign up for a disciple group for free

all right so please do that hey we're just going to dive right in here first Samuel chapter 24

beginning in verse 1 says this when Saul returned from following the philistines he was told

behold david is in the wilderness of ingeady if you hear last week, you remember we were way back

in chapter 18, and Pastor Adam did a phenomenal job talking about forgiveness. Didn't he do an

awesome job? We are blessed to have many, many good teachers here, and then there's me. And so

you may be going, so what happened? How did we get from David playing the harp in the presence of King Saul to now he showed up here in Getti? And you'll remember that what was going on is that in Chapter 17, David kills Goliath and then Saul gets super jealous of David. And so then one day he's overcome with jealousy.

He's all kind of mixed up with this ego and insecurity. And he throws a spear at David.

And when people throw spears at you, we are to dodge, duck, dip, dive, dodge. That's what we do.

And whatever we do, we do not retaliate and throw the spear back.

And Pastor Adam last week walked us through forgiveness for sure.

But sometimes you have to leave.

So I want to be very clear.

Reiterate what Pastor Adam said.

Yes, we forgive.

But if you are in a situation where you are being abused, you leave.

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