The Bible Provocateur
The Bible Provocateur
LIVE DISCUSSION: Abigail & David - (PART 2 of 3)
Discover the beautiful gospel typology hidden within the story of David, Nabal, and Abigail in 1 Samuel 25. This compelling analysis reveals how David's peace offerings to Nabal mirror Christ's extension of grace to a resistant world. When David sends ten messengers with words of blessing, he demonstrates extraordinary humility—much like our Savior who humbled himself to reach us.
The parallels are striking: David's messengers speak only his exact words and then cease, teaching us how we should faithfully communicate Christ's message without embellishment. Nabal's dismissive response—"Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse?"—echoes the world's rejection of Jesus, reminiscent of the Pharisees questioning, "Isn't this just the carpenter's son?"
What makes this study transformative is seeing how the Old Testament consistently foreshadows the gospel. As one participant noted, it's like searching for Christ in every passage and discovering He's been there all along—the treasure hidden in the field worth seeking.
This episode provides practical wisdom for believers sharing their faith in a resistant world. We learn when to speak, when to move on, and how to represent our Master faithfully. David's immediate preparation for judgment after rejection illustrates a profound truth: if we reject God's peace, what remains but consequences?
Whether you're a seasoned Bible student or new to studying Scripture, you'll gain fresh insights into God's character and our calling as His ambassadors. Looking for Christ in unexpected places transforms how we read the Bible and share His message with others. Listen now and join us in exploring how the entire Bible tells one unified story pointing to Jesus.
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Because Nabal ain't going to take it easy. But Nabal is going to show how much of a fool he really is.
Speaker 2:I made a just very quickly. It reminds me of the parable of the three servants that went out. They went in the name and then it was not received. Right when they went in the name, and then it was not received.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:When they went. And then he went and he said surely if I send my own son, then you know Amen.
Speaker 1:See, you guys are getting me excited here. I like this. I like this. This is how we should be dissecting the word of God and extrapolating all these things and applying them to our lives and our understanding of what it means to be faithful ministers, what it means to understand our mediator, what it means to understand what peace is all about. But this gives us.
Speaker 1:Verse six says this and thus shall you say to him that lives in prosperity. In other words, david is telling his 10 ministers, his 10 servants um, go to him that lives in prosperity, nabal, and say to him peace be to you, peace be to your family. Message should be to the lost. I come in peace. I'm not trying to break you down, I'm not trying to judge you. I come in the name of the Lord of hosts, the Lord and his son, jesus Christ. I come in his name and he wants me to tell you that you can be at peace with God. You can be at peace, you can find rest in your souls if you turn to the Lord, jesus Christ. And all too often we think that our mission, like some people really believe that their ministry is to go around and always be rebuking people. Those kinds of people I can't stand. You know, there's an element of people who really believe that rebuking people is a ministry.
Speaker 4:Oh, man, you just knocked out a whole class in one of my seminary years.
Speaker 1:But you think about it, it really is. We all know people like this right. They think it's their mission in life to rebuke everybody else. Well, a sinner, all they know is sin, like we did before we came to Christ. That's all we knew. You can't make sense of them fighting fire with fire.
Speaker 1:David went to this foolish man and he says I come in peace, I come in peace and I'm offering you, I'm extending to you blessings and I'm sending you my people. First, so that you know that I'm not trying to come here and ambush you, I'm not trying to secretly ambush you. So this is what's going on with you. So this is what's going on in verse 6. And in verse 7 it says and now I have heard that you have shearers verse 7, for those who are just getting in 1 Samuel 25, verse 7. And now I have heard that you have shearers, now your shepherds, which were with us. We didn't hurt them, Neither was there any missing unto them while all the time that I was in Carmel. So David is saying this David is saying that your own people, your own people, have been with me and I brought them no harm, them no harm. There are people that you know that work for you, that have experienced and have encountered me, and they can tell you, they can vouch for me, that I have done you no wrong. So you should be willing also to meet with me and let's have a meaningful discussion about how we can collaborate. Is everybody seeing that so far? Yeah, because so he is saying David is saying your people, if you've got your phone on, please mute it because it's really loud. That might be you, candy Girl, I'm not sure there you go. Sorry about that, sister.
Speaker 1:So now David is saying to Nabal, david is telling his people to tell Nabal. He says listen, I'm cool with you and just so you know, in addition to the blessings that I'm extending to you, understand this. David is saying your own people, people that you know, people that work for you, people that love you maybe they've been with me for a while and I know about the things that they say about you and he says that they I treated them good and he says all you have to do is ask them, says all you have to do is ask them. Now, what picture can we see painted here? David has some of Nabal's men working with his people. David is telling him I treated them well.
Speaker 1:David is also telling, telling Nabal, in his message if you don don't believe me, just ask them. Ask them how I treated them. David wants Nabal to know I am not coming to harm you. I'm coming to you for your good, for my good, our good, our mutual good. So, greg, what do you see in this part of the scenario? See in this part of the scenario, how would you apply? How would you apply this to our, our lives today as servants of Christ, and how we understand what God is doing and how he wants to communicate his message?
Speaker 4:Are you there?
Speaker 1:brother Greg. All right, todd, how about you? Are you there? Everybody's shining nice.
Speaker 5:I know I'm here. I was just trying to get my workout done and listen, so here let me get to it.
Speaker 1:You want me to call you back? No, no, no, no.
Speaker 5:I was just looking at it. I was just looking at it. I'm here on my screen. Ask your young men and they will tell you they've been with us and have not harmed them. I'm kind of feeling that those are believers already, right People? Maybe not necessarily believers, but that you witnessed to them.
Speaker 1:Don't second guess yourself. I like where you were going, but go ahead and say it, because the whole point is to use this as something analogous to what we're going through today.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I get it. It's a catalyst and so I kind of see it where it's either believers, you know, people have already accepted christ uh, that were with them, but they were still, you know, kind of like part of the family, like who doesn't, who doesn't have a little consternation in the family when you become the only born-again christian in the group at first, right, you know I'm saying and basically, hey, I come in peace. I mean there's, you know, when I witnessed to my family, it was like really negative, right, and it's like you know, if that was God speaking, the Lord tell them like, hey, I'm a born again Christian, you don't have to fear me, you don't have to, I'm not a bad guy. Lines, even if they weren't believers but just people that associated with the 10 or the people of David.
Speaker 1:There's a sort of comfort, basically like hey, if we wanted to unalive you, we would have done it already, right, and he's saying and if I were going to do that, I would have started with the men that you have with me right now, right, Exactly that's what I'm getting at.
Speaker 5:Yes, yep.
Speaker 1:So does anybody want to add to that?
Speaker 3:Because I think that what he said is profound, profound. It really is. Anybody else want to add to that? I don't want to add, I just want to agree.
Speaker 1:It's beautiful. It's beautiful, it really is, because that really is the picture. So you have. You have these guys, these 10 guys that that that are going to tell nabal says listen, not only am I wishing you the best, before I get there, I'm sending, I'm sending my emissaries there to greet you, to tell you that everything is great, but he said, if you don't believe that, then listen to the. Listen to the guys that work for you or that belong to your household, because they've been with me for a while. And he says they will vouch for me. So you have these people that came from Nabal's household. Somehow they got connected to David.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and can I add something to what Todd was saying there that occurred to me? I believe, I truly believe, that the vast majority of people that are believers are afraid to tell others what they believe. Oh, absolutely, that's big, because they're afraid they're going to be killed. Oh, absolutely, that's big, because they're afraid they're going to be killed. You know, I mean whether they're going to be canceled out, doxed. You know, in some countries, heck, they can go to jail. You know Right. And you know, ask them, and you know, draw them out from, from, and maybe by by doing that, maybe they will get off their fear factor and begin to tell others what all of this Jesus and God and you know belief system is all about. You know Right.
Speaker 1:So my sister, my sister, she said their testimony. So these guys, they work for Nabal. They were from Nabal's household, but now somehow they got connected with David and now they have a testimony about David. So David is sending them back to Nabal, or sending sending them back to Nabal, or sending his messengers to Nabal saying look, if you don't believe what I'm saying, if you're worried, if you think I'm succumbing to trickery, he goes just ask your own people about me.
Speaker 1:Isn't this the same way between us and Christ? Isn't this the same way? We are sent out as messengers of Christ, and we were on. We were sinners too, just like all those who we witnessed to, you know. So we have to go to them, being sent by Christ, Like David's message has been sent by David, David who's an emblem and a living emblem of Christ himself. We go to people and we say our Lord says peace. He has nothing but peace for you, he hopes nothing but the best for you and he's coming. But he sent us in advance to tell you it's all right to trust him.
Speaker 7:Amen.
Speaker 1:This is. This is what is happening here. David knows his power, he knows his reputation, he knows how he's perceived. So he sends his emissaries before him and says listen, go, tell them it's all right. And if my word is not enough, have him take the word of people who came to me from his own household. Yep, you see what I'm saying. So it's just so.
Speaker 1:Every one of us here belongs to a family of people. We all here belong to a family of people and we are sent as Christ's ambassadors to share the gospel with everybody, especially those of our household. So Christ is telling us you go and witness to your household, witness to your family and your friends. You witness to them, let them know that I'm alright, let them know that I'm here to serve them, not to bring you harm. But this is the what we, as believers, are to do. But we also know that more often than not, people do not respond in kind. We know that and we're going to see that happen here. My sister meg I know you're out there, sister, but we are in first samuel, chapter 25, the whole chapter, and we're trying to draw a correlation between just by refresher, we're drawing a correlation 1 Samuel, chapter 25, the whole chapter, and we're trying to draw a correlation between just by refresher, we're drawing a correlation between the events that took place between David, nabal and Abigail, and between us, the world and Christ.
Speaker 4:So now, and I got to go.
Speaker 1:I don't mean to interrupt, but I got to go.
Speaker 4:I don't mean to interrupt, but I got to go. It's always a blessing to be on here.
Speaker 1:God bless you, man, have a good night. Whatever it is, you got going on. You got it bye, bye.
Speaker 3:Alright.
Speaker 1:So now I want to get down to verse. I'm in verse. I'm in verse. I'm in verse eight. So David tells in his message to Nabal, in his message to Nabal, by his 10 servants, he says he tells Nabal ask your young men in verse eight, and they will show you Wherefore. Let the young men find favor in your eyes, for we come in a good day. Give, I pray thee, whatsoever comes to thine hand unto thy servants and to thy son David. So verse 9,.
Speaker 1:And when David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David. And it says and they ceased. In other words, they gave the message of David and nothing more. They gave the message of David and ceased, meaning they gave his message and nothing more. So we see here in verse 8 that David is trying to compel Nabal to pay attention to what his own men, nabal's own men, that is, who worked with David pay attention to what they say. All right and so.
Speaker 1:And then he says in verse 9, it says and when David's young men came, they conveyed the message, the gospel. They conveyed the message to Nabal according to all the words of David, in the name of David. So they only said what David said and it says, and they ceased meaning that they only used David's word and that was it. What does that tell you about us as witnesses of Christ? If David is Christ, if he is the typology, the figure of who Christ is, and we are the servants and we are the ones that are going back to convey this message to Nabal and the sinners of the world, or the Nabals of the world, what does this tell us? They spoke to Nabal according, nabal being the sinner. They spoke to him according to all the words of David and that was all he spoke. Go ahead, meg. What are you going to say, meg? Go ahead recording.
Speaker 9:Um, so I mean, what that tells me is like when somebody comes, when, if we look at david's example, we better come with the word and it better be of truth, because if david's a typology of jesus and jesus is the word, and when the word's given, that's it, and the other thing I see from it is that God cannot go against his word.
Speaker 1:Oh, he can never do that.
Speaker 9:No, he can never do that.
Speaker 1:But one brother wrote in the comments speak the words of Christ. And this is what and this is this is it, you know? Because we have to understand that, when it comes to the word of God, it is not meant to be confusing, it is not meant to foil anyone, it is meant to. It is meant to, yes, brian, 1 Samuel 25. It is meant to be simple, as simple as it can possibly be.
Speaker 1:David could not have been more forthright with Nabal. We already know that Nabal, his name, means fool, churlish, one evil, one stingy, mean, rude. He's the guy that we would call a narcissist. We'll see it here. But David goes out of his way to convey to this man I come in peace. He sent emissaries, he sent words of blessing and then he told David. Then David tells him I even treated your guys well. If you don't believe me, take their word for it. So you have this picture that when God wants to get his people, when God wants to get his people, he goes out of his way to do it. He tries in a way we see in Christ the humility of God, humbling himself, humbling himself to the point of the death of the cross, in order to convey to us his real concern for us. When you think about it it's insane, but yet the Lord, god Almighty, took pleasure in those of us whom he has redeemed by the death of his son. He went out of his way and when and when all else did not bring about the result, he sent his son to die on Calvary.
Speaker 1:You cannot read First Samuel 25 and not see the gospel in this passage and not see the gospel in this passage. And you shouldn't look at any part of the Bible and not be looking for Christ Somewhere in that passage, somewhere in that chapter, somewhere in that book. Look for Christ everywhere, Everywhere, because he is everywhere. Look for where we are as sinners. Let me get off my high horse for a minute. Get back to the scriptures. So david went through all these, took all these measures and precautions to make the possibility of a worthwhile relationship between him and nal one that is palatable at the very least. But in verse 10, lisa, you got your Bible with you. You still there, yes, sir.
Speaker 7:Read verse 10. Verse 10. But Nabal answered David's servants and said who is David and who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants today who are each breaking away from his master.
Speaker 1:Now let me tell you guys something. This is a heavy verse, heavy verse, heavy.
Speaker 7:Denying, denying the name of David. David did all these.
Speaker 1:David did all these things. He went through all these machinations to tell this guy no, this is gonna be great I'm. I got nothing but good thought towards you. I'm sending you blessing. That's in my people. I'm sending your people. They're all giving you a great report. I come in peace. I'm blessing your family. I'm sending your people. They're all giving you a great report. I come in peace. I'm blessing your family. I'm blessing you. I'm blessing all that you have. David is showing himself and treating. He's acting not like a king. In some regards he's acting like a servant. He's treating this man as though he is above him. But that's how our Lord is, isn't it? That's how our Lord is. He's the king of all kings, lord of all lords, but he serves us. He has showed himself to be our servant and our Lord. If we get to act any kind of way we feel we want to. But when he responds to the way we respond, things change.
Speaker 5:May. I add something, Go ahead.
Speaker 1:Todd, sorry, go ahead bro.
Speaker 5:I didn't mean to interrupt you, my bad, but what I see in that too is that the breaking away of servants from the master, I almost the master. His master is singular but servants is plural, and it makes me think of false teachings in the day to day. Yes, right, you have all this falling away, all these false denominations and all that.
Speaker 1:Right, absolutely, and that's a great point. And so Nabal is crazy. So he goes. He answered David's service and he says who is David? He's not saying he doesn't know who David is. You know what he's saying. He's going who is he? To me, this is what he is saying. He goes David, who's David? That's like. I don't know if some of you guys have seen some of the news. I do watch the news every now and then and there's always this thing that goes on between you know, I hate to bring the carnal world into this, but between Mariah Carey and J-Lo, where Mariah Carey always acts like she doesn't know who J-Lo is.
Speaker 3:Hey brother, can I add to that too? Because I also want to add, if you're sitting here noticing it, that's the same attitude that the Pharisees has when Jesus was right in front of them as well. All of that right there, I mean, it's just so beautiful to see how everything is just the same message over and over and over again. Over and over and over again. Nothing new, nothing new.
Speaker 6:She took the words out of my mouth. That's exactly when the Pharisees spoke to Jesus, if you remember, they said who is this? Ain't he just a carpenter's son? Absolutely, that's that same exact attitude.
Speaker 1:He came from Nazareth. You know what I mean. He was in Galilee. Who was this guy? You know what I mean. We know his mother and father. You know what I mean. We know his mother and father. You know you know what I mean, and so, but this is, but see, this is exactly see. You guys are getting me excited because this is exactly what I'm hoping that believers will start to read the old testament and see this stuff, because when you see it, it's beautiful. And not only that. What I try to do is try to use, like when I read the new testament, for example I'm just saying this by way, just to be a tool for some of you guys that I like to take the. I like to read and study the New Testament, as I do, but I like to draw. I like to get my illustrations that bring home the points made in the New Testament from the Old Testament. That's how I study.
Speaker 3:I would say because I take. That's the best. I would say because I take the Torah class as well. So I go deeper into that part where it's like oh, you see Jesus, I'm looking for Jesus everywhere. It's like where's the gospel? Where's the gospel? No, it's like where's Waldo? It's like it's so awesome and I just sit there.
Speaker 1:Is that the treasure in the field we're seeking? Yep, and that's what that's what this is about. But this guy, nabal, he's like he didn't just go to, he did. This is what he. Listen to what he says in verse 10, first samuel 25, verse 10 nabal answered david's servants. So we, as christians, are servants of christ, service of the Lord Right. So, just like David's servants, he sent to Nabal. So Nabal tells David's servants, he says who is David? Just like when you witness to people, why do I need to worship Christ? What is, what is Jesus? What has he done for me? You know what I mean. This is the world. But he goes further. He says first of all, who is this David? You can see this guy picking his teeth with his pinky. Who is David? You know what I mean? Who is this guy? I mean, I know who he is, but who is he to me? And then he goes a step further. He doesn't just insult David, he says who is the son of Jesse? So what are we talking about now? Panel.
Speaker 9:I think we're talking about Luke, chapter 4 in the New Testament, where Jesus was in the temple and he was reading and he was saying today the scripture has been fulfilled. But right after he says that the people in the temple make the statement, isn't he the carpenter's son?
Speaker 1:take it.
Speaker 9:Take it a little bit further, oh and so, and because of their unbelief, they didn't receive him.
Speaker 1:But who is Jesse? Who is Jesse?
Speaker 2:Who is Jesse to David Would be his father, his father, the father.
Speaker 1:He's his father. So Nabal wasn't just rejecting David. Who else was he rejecting the?
Speaker 7:father.
Speaker 1:Come on, relate it, Somebody relate it. Make the connection please.
Speaker 9:So he was like if you've seen me, you've seen the father. If you don't have the son, then you don't have the father, as also.
Speaker 1:And if you insult the son, you insult the father. Amen, that's what I was. That's what I'm getting at, I agree. Does's what I was. That's what I'm getting at, I agree. Does anybody disagree?
Speaker 9:Hallelujah.
Speaker 6:No. I don't disagree, but it's exactly the parable. You know, when it talked about they abused the servants, and then at the end he said I will, I'll send my son.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 6:You won't reject him yeah.
Speaker 9:You Go on to verse 11. I'm excited to get to 11. You better slow down.
Speaker 1:All right, we're going to get there, meg. So now Nabal answers we see this. But then he says and then it says there be many. Nabal says there be many servants nowadays that break away every man from his master. Now this will be a little trickier, but I shouldn't have said that because it might make you look for the trickery. But he says that who is David and who is his father? Basically, who are they that I should pay them any respect? And then he says there are many servants nowadays, and he even says nowadays, as if it's like things were different in the old days. But nowadays there's many servants out there that break away every man from his master. What does this sound like? What does it sound like in modern terms, in today's society?
Speaker 9:There were people that depart from the faith. They're all apostatized.
Speaker 1:But what he says is there be many servants nowadays that break away from their master. So yeah, go ahead. Go ahead, meg. What are you going to say?
Speaker 9:I mean, that's what I would say is that there's in today's. There's many people that like hold on to false gosp gospels and and they don't know the truth, and that's what causes them to fall away. They're hearing the doctrines of demons and getting led astray.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. What else does it say to you? I'm coming to you next candy.
Speaker 6:It's. It's what it says about. There's many Christ, okay, you know, there there's. There's lots of crisis when out in the world that all people are following. That's why the gospel is so essential that we get it right. If you're following a different gospel, it's like the scripture says, you're actually following a different God. There's not another gospel, but you're following this other one absolutely, Sister Candy.
Speaker 1:What do you say?
Speaker 8:I just say you're not following God's word, you're not following the real Christian entity, part of it Like false prophets.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 8:That's what I say. False prophets there's many of them, and they're teaching different things and taking away and adding to which we're not supposed to do. So yeah, Mariah what? Do you think?
Speaker 1:supposed to do.
Speaker 2:Mariah what?
Speaker 1:do you think so? He says there there be many servants nowadays that break away every man from his master. What would you equate that to? In modern times, People saying what when we try to present to them the gospel?
Speaker 2:There are many ways that you can get to the Father. There are many ways that were on the tip of my tongue, but see, here's what Nabal is saying.
Speaker 1:Here's what Nabal is saying. Nabal is saying there are, in other words, david, you sent your servants to me, jesus, you sent your servants to me. Why should I listen to you? Why should I listen to your Jesus? Why should I listen to your father in heaven? Because there are many servants out there nowadays that break away every man from his master. So he's speaking in a very negative sense, in other words, he, but what he's saying is this why? What makes me, why should I believe that? That your servants are telling me the truth?
Speaker 9:you know what verse that reminds me of brother jonathan?
Speaker 1:what's that?
Speaker 9:the verse that says they went out from us, but they were not of us, for if they were of us they would have stayed. But they went out that they from us but they were not of us, for if they were of us they would have stayed. But they went out, that they made themselves manifest that they were not of us.
Speaker 1:They were not of us, and this is true. But here's something else that I want to add to this, because that's definitely right. Well, what I add is this when we talk to people, forget about that, you know. You know the thing about it is people say today a lot. They will say things like well, you know what?
Speaker 1:everybody's a christian and everybody has a different interpretation and everybody has, you know this, this kind of thing. Everybody has a different denomination. Everybody that preaches christ preaches differently than the last guy. Some say he's god, some say he's not. Some say he's the mighty god, some say he's not, some say he's the mighty God, some say he's not almighty. So all these things, you know what I mean. But but the point is I think everybody gets the point, which is that there are Nabal is saying, like every sinner does, they will say anything to disregard what the true servants of God are really communicating to them, and they're in there and they will be they.
Speaker 1:What they try to do is try to distract from the message of their true servants by saying well, I've heard a whole bunch of other servants and how do I know that you're any different than any of them? You know what I mean. And this is what people do. They people who don't want to hear the truth. They always appeal truth. They always appeal to those who they knew were not true. Just like he says here, there are many servants nowadays that break away every man from his master, but David's servants didn't break away from him. In fact, Nabal's own servants were with David at this time. So the whole point is is that there are a lot of people in the world that when you try to witness to them, they will say and do anything to avoid dealing with the truth. So they will talk about how other people have misled them or misleading other people, and they broke away from their own masters and basically created their own messages and can't be trusted.
Speaker 2:It just reminds me of like from, kind of from nine Sorry, that's all right, nine. That also, like you know, chapter Corinthians 115. For I have preached to you first of which I have received myself. Lest you have believed in vain, excuse me. And it goes on. And it just reminds me, like in 11, like you just said, there are many people who do many things, but many people have believed in vain as well. Right, so I guess I just kind of tied it back to nine and the gospel, because they said that then they ceased.
Speaker 1:Perfect, that's a good observation, sister.
Speaker 6:That really is Well something else that you'll see as you go on is it's such an encouragement that we're going to face a whole lot of neighbors, neighbors when we're out there sharing the gospel oh yeah, oh yeah, boy, there is some abigails out there there's a lot of them.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of them, but but as we go through this, I want, I want to appeal to all of you to start thinking about who you think Abigail represents in this story. Who would she represent? So we'll go on. So Nabal, verse 11, says shall I then take my bread and my water and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers and give it unto men whom I don't know where they're from? So David's young men turned their way and they went back again and came and told David all those things that he said, that he said so and notice, david didn't try to do any more than what David said. As soon as Nabal gave his answer, they turned around and they went back to their master.
Speaker 1:Again, another lesson that we should glean from this whole thing when it comes to our witness, we don't need to spend too much time with people when they're rejecting Christ. There's a point where it becomes obvious that it's not going to happen. They don't want to hear it and a lot of times people feel like they need to go overboard and continue and continue, and sometimes today just might not be the day. It just might not be the day, but shake the dust off your feet and keep moving, and keep moving. So David's men, they told they gave this message, which was a message of grace, it was courteous, it was polite, it was genuine. And David went through all the different possible scenarios to make sure he could give this man total comfort, that he meant him no harm. And what does he say? Why should I give you my bread and my water and my meat? Who are you? You know, I don't know where these guys come from. So David's young man went back to David and told him everything, verse 13. Lisa, you want to read verse 13 for me?
Speaker 7:Sure, hang on, let me just get it. I just lost my spot. Then David said to his men each of you strap on his sword. So each man strapped on his sword and David also strapped on his sword and about 400 men went up behind David, while 200 stayed with the baggage.
Speaker 1:Read verse 14.
Speaker 7:Now, one of the young men told Abigail Nabal's wife saying behold. One of the young men told Abigail Nabal's wife saying Behold, david sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, and he spoke to them in anger. Yet the men were very good to us and we were not harmed, nor did anything go missing, as long as we went with them. While we were in the fields, they were a wall to us, both night and by day, and all the time we were with them tending to the sheep. Now, then, be aware and consider what you should do, because harm is plotted against our master and against all his household, and he is such a worthless man that no one can speak to him. He's a idiot, he's going to kill. Exactly, he's an idiot, he's gonna kill exactly.
Speaker 3:You know, jonathan, I have one of these, uh, hebrew, hebrew, uh jewish study bibles and it says here the way it says it in mine is hilarious it says that it says that after it says his whole house what he says, but he is so mean and no one can tell him anything.
Speaker 1:Yeah that's what it is he's. He's a son of the devil for sure. He's the kind of person you cannot reason with. You can't reason with him.
Speaker 1:He's unreasonable. But this is what we're dealing with in the world as believers. This is what we deal with, and we were such people right, all of us at one point. But notice this, but notice this In verse 13, david immediately says everybody gets trapped. We're going in. This is what David is saying. He's like we're not going to play around with this guy. In other words, david is like we're not going to play around with this guy. You know he in other words he, david is like we've done. We've done all that we can do. We've done what we can. Now there's nothing left but the sword.
Speaker 1:I chose to be at peace with you, but you refuse, and now there's nothing left for me to do but put you to the sword. And here's what I don't understand, because so many people are always talking about on on social media platforms or whatever. I hear so many talking about, so many people talking about how unfair god is. If you reject peace, what are you asking for exactly if you, brother greg, are you asking for Exactly Brother Greg? Are you there? I don't know if he's there or not. Yeah, I'm here. If you reject peace, what are you?
Speaker 4:asking for what you already have, which is we're already at war, at enmity with God, or we were, as unbelievers, Right as unbelievers.
Speaker 1:So the reality is.