The Sure Mercies of David

Join us around the table today as we go a little further into ACTS 13 with Bro. Ernie...unapologetically.  

David’s name gets used as a shortcut for greatness, but Scripture refuses to airbrush his story. We start with Acts 13 and the line that stops a lot of readers cold: God promises “the sure mercies of David” and ties that promise directly to Jesus’ resurrection. So what are those mercies, and why would God build a covenant thread through a king who made so many mistakes?

Around the table, we talk honestly about the church today: growth, hunger for the Word, and the need to read the New Testament epistles without disconnecting them from the Book of Acts. We also address something every Christian seems to face sooner or later: spiritual pushback. When conversations turn into debates and insults, we remind ourselves to keep the message simple and steady: Jesus Christ crucified, Jesus resurrected, Jesus as Savior. Conviction does not require cruelty.

From there we jump into Deuteronomy 17 for a leadership gut check. God tells Israel what a king must not do: chase power, multiply wives, or worship silver and gold. We apply it to discipleship today, including Jesus’ “no looking back” call in Luke 9 and the practical reality that our inputs shape our holiness. The Word is not a relic on a shelf; it is meant to be read daily, carried into our decisions, and ultimately written on our hearts, just as Hebrews 8 describes in the new covenant.

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Transcript

Welcome And Community Updates

SPEAKER_03 0:13

Hey y'all, welcome to Silver Mission Filters. I'm your host, sister Diamond. Thank you so much for joining me on the journey today. So crappy a snack. Let's open the word and see what Jesus has to say today. Hey, welcome to Simple Discipleship Unfiltered. I'm your host, Sister Diana. So good to be with y'all today. How's everybody doing? Good. You have a good weekend.

SPEAKER_01 0:48

Thank you, Jesus.

SPEAKER_03 0:50

Good weekend. Very busy weekend, Sister Audia and Sister Ann's team, the United in Prayer Movement had a prayer event out here in our city to pray for our city and our county and our state and our nation. And we're grateful for the people that showed up for that. And man, it was hot. It was hot. You know, if you don't know if you want to know Jesus or not, come to Texas in the summer. Right? You'll realize real quick that you know which side you want to be on because uh 10 minutes in the heat, you're ready to repent. You know, and I saw on the the uh thing this morning that said for the next seven days it's over a hundred every single day. And some I think there's two days it's over a hundred and six.

SPEAKER_01 1:38

Yep, water grass every night.

SPEAKER_03 1:41

Every night, every night is just so hot, so hot. But anyway, uh we're grateful that you are here today. Around the table, we got Sister Audia. Good morning, we got mama, good morning, brother Ernie, Sister Ann, good morning, in the back. We've got Sister Joyce, Sister Sandy, and Sister Tammy. And so uh we pray for Sister Helen. Her little dog is not good, and they're taking it to the bed. So pray for that little dog. Um, because that's just so sad. We get so attached to our pets, don't we? Yes, they become like another child. They do, they really do. And so today we get to celebrate early birthday for Brother Ernie. Thank you, Brother Ernie.

SPEAKER_01 2:24

That's what I needed one more year.

SPEAKER_03 2:27

What will the calendar say your age is?

SPEAKER_01 2:31

We're not putting any candles on the cake. Well, we don't have that many, but um we want the fire department coming out.

SPEAKER_03 2:39

So, how old will you be on Monday?

SPEAKER_01 2:41

75.

SPEAKER_03 2:42

75, big 75. That's awesome. And then we're celebrating Sister Joyce. Birthday, hers is Sunday. How old will you be, Sister Joyce? 56. 56. Just bragging about your youth. So we're so grateful that everybody's here today. We uh we're getting to continue our study in the simple presentation of the book of Acts. And brother Ernie's gonna take us on a journey today into what's it say, the sure mercies of Jesus that goes along with David. Of what? David. Oh, David, let me see. You know, and I typed it. That's the sure mercies of David, which goes right along with Acts 13 that you you've been talking about. So we're so excited that we get to to do this with you today.

Why Acts Anchors Our Theology

SPEAKER_03 3:36

What do you see? Let me just kind of get a commentary for you before we go into the lesson. Where do you see us at right now as the body?

SPEAKER_01 3:45

Uh I I see that the church not only has a lot of growth to do, but is experiencing a lot of growth. Growth. People are hungry for the word of God, and I think that's good. People are stretching. We're wanting to become this church. And I think it's imperative for us to remember the book of Acts is a history, it's a history of the church, the foundation of the church. So our foundation should be found laid in the book of Acts.

SPEAKER_03 4:21

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:21

And then when once you get to the other epistles to the churches, we should never interpret those epistles apart from the book of Acts experience.

SPEAKER_03 4:34

Oh, I love that. Oh, I think.

SPEAKER_01 4:36

Okay, because they're written to churches that were founded during the years when the book of Acts was being experienced and then written. Yeah. And so we we read so many scriptures in in the epistles, and we make determinations about them forgetting that these are the churches that were established in the book of Acts. Yeah. So there should be commonality and consistency in our interpretation. The Bible should always agree. And when one scripture doesn't agree with another scripture, the culprit is between my elbows. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You know, that that means I have to seek the Lord because his word is in harmony.

SPEAKER_03 5:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:20

So that means I have to seek the Lord. And I learned early in my walk with Christ that a lot of things that I thought were so, even though I had read the scripture, as I reread it and reread it and began to get a larger perspective on what I was reading. I had to change a lot of things I believed. And if you're not changing what you believe, maybe we're not rolling.

SPEAKER_03 5:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:48

And and and I don't mean changing the word of God, but changing our understanding. You know, a four-year-old doesn't look at a history book the same way a high school student does. And we shouldn't look at the Bible the same way. After two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve years. We should look at the Bible differently. It should mean more to us.

SPEAKER_03 6:21

Yeah, there you go.

SPEAKER_01 6:22

It it should mean more to us. And we need to be ready. Here's a good scripture for you to look up. To be ready to always give an answer to every man who asks you a reason for the hope that is within you.

SPEAKER_03 6:39

Yeah, yeah.

Contending For Faith Without Debates

SPEAKER_03 6:40

Yeah, we had a, you know, with the with the United in Prayer thing when we put those fires out. Well, there was such intense warfare that went on with that. I was, I, I, I was really shocked. I mean, it was like rough stuff, you know, coming against us, coming against the pages that we posted this to, and and and sister Audia was still getting stuff, you know, late last night, you know, just challenging every single thing about what we believe in and all of that. And I told her, just stay with the message. The message is still Jesus and Jesus crucified, Jesus was resurrected, and that's what we believe, right? He's our savior. The reason why we do all that we do is because of what he's already done.

SPEAKER_01 7:23

Amen.

SPEAKER_03 7:24

Right? So our the focus should still always stay on that.

SPEAKER_01 7:28

My myself, I like to avoid debates. Oh, yeah. And I've I've I used to listen to a guy who was brilliant at debate. I mean he was terrific. But sooner or later within the debate, the two people debating, they they kind of get coarse with one another. You know, and so uh what happens is when you're in a debate, you're not listening to understand. You're you're listening, looking for a weakness. Right. You're you're you're listening so that people don't pull your notes away.

SPEAKER_03 8:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:08

You're and you're listening for an advantage. There's a difference. You know, it's just like when spouses are arguing and listening to one another, what they're hearing is the insults. Right. That's what they're keying on. But when they're listening to understand, yeah, is when they're making progress.

SPEAKER_03 8:25

Yeah, yeah. Always said there's nothing good that's gonna come out of an argument. When you get into an intense fellowship argument like we talk about, is is the other person is just gonna try to up and hurt the other person more than the in than they're, you know, and it just goes back and forth. So nothing good is gonna come out of it.

SPEAKER_01 8:43

You know, you can agree to disagree, but then To earnestly contend for the faith doesn't mean that you have to insult people you're talking with.

SPEAKER_03 8:50

No, no.

SPEAKER_00 8:51

No, no, and can I just say that when it gets to the point that people start calling me names, then I'm ready to shut it down because it's off topic then.

SPEAKER_01 9:03

And you're not listening and they're no longer listening.

SPEAKER_00 9:06

Well, I'm listening, but when it comes to them, the the brutality of the names that we were called, I was like, this is over. I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_03 9:16

Because they talked about my mama, and I was like, my mama, you wouldn't say that to my mama face, you know. So yeah, so anyway, you can get your mama with that mouth. Yeah. So anyway, let's get into this study. Really

Acts 13 Reading Through The Resurrection

SPEAKER_03 9:35

excited about going into this a little further. I love that you've added this commentary part to this, and on the sure mercies of David.

SPEAKER_01 9:46

All right, so we are going to do some reading in Acts 13, and then we're going to shift gears and jump back into the Old Testament just a little bit. So we'll start with Acts 13, verse 21. And afterward they desired a king, and God gave unto them Saul, the son of Kis, Kish, or in the New Testament, sis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years. And when Yes?

unknown 10:18

Go ahead, go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 10:20

And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king, to whom also he gave testimony and said, I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfill all my will. Of this man's seed hath God, according to his promise, raised unto Israel a Savior, Jesus, whom John had first preached before his coming, the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. And John fulfilled his course. As he fulfilled his course, he said, Who think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose. Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of salvation sent. For they that dwell at Jerusalem and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him. And though they found no cause of death in him yet, desired they Pilate that he should be slain. And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a sepulchre. But God raised him from the dead, and he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people. And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children. In that he raised up Jesus again, as it is also written in the second Psalm, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. And as concerning him that raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine holy one to see corruption. For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep and was laid unto his fathers and saw corruption. But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruptions. So this that I want to talk to you about today, there are two references that Paul makes to David as we continue through this sermon that he is preaching after his invitation in the synagogue to speak.

Sure Mercies And David’s Repentance

SPEAKER_01 13:34

And he talks about the sure mercies of David. So I think we need to understand David just a little bit more before we go back and start again reading verse 21 and then carry on as far through the chapter as we can get. But today I want to ask a simple question. How many mistakes did David make in life? Now pause and think about this. When you look at Abraham and you say, how many mistakes did Abraham make? Do you know what? We only know the big ones that are written in Scripture. He got up every day, as it were. He put on his tunic one leg at a time. You know, we say britches. But he went through every day, just like us. We must remember the people we read about in the Bible. The Bible only speaks of one man other than Jesus so highly. That's Enoch, who had this testimony that he pleased God. And so God took him out of this world. And then one other that I should mention, Daniel, the scripture says Daniel had an excellent spirit. But only one man was able to present his body as a substitutionary sacrifice for the sins of everyone from the beginning of time to the end of time. And that's Jesus. But let's talk about David. Earlier in the chapter here, let's back up a little bit in Acts 13. So verse 21, and afterward Israel desired a king, and God gave up to them Saul, the son of Sis, which say in the Old Testament, Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of 40 years. And when he had removed him, he raised up to them David to be their king, to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfill my will. What a statement about David, a man after God's own heart, a person who touched the emotional core of infinity. What was it about David? That God would say, This is a man after my own heart. He didn't even say that about Enoch. And Enoch he didn't let die. He took out of this world. Elisha, he took out of this world. Daniel, he said he was a man with an excellent spirit. But none of them is it written that they were a man after God's own heart. That just reverberates in my being. That means at the core of God's emotion and intellect, David found a spot. He found a sweet spot. How did such a thing happen? And then verse 23 tells us, of this man's sea, had God, according to his promise, raised unto Israel a Savior Jesus. You know what I recommend? I recommend you go back and you find where God made this promise to David. And I'll tell you, start reading in 1 Samuel. And find where God made this promise to David. So you can use any reference Bible you've got. Probably if you've got a Thomson Chain reference Bible, you can use this scripture or an encyclopedia reference reference Bible or a Schofield reference Bible. One of them should be able to direct you to that. Now, David was not a perfect man. And we're gonna talk about him just a little bit as a king.

Deuteronomy 17 Standards For Kings

SPEAKER_01 18:12

So we're gonna look in Deuteronomy chapter 17. Let's turn in your Bibles to the book of Deuteronomy. And we're going to go to chapter 17. We're gonna read just a few verses there. We're gonna start with verse 14 and read through to verse 20. Then we'll talk about them. The book of Deuteronomy is the second testimony that Moses has given as far as the law of God. He knows he's about to die. It's his farewell speech. It's the principles of the law being summarized again, all the law that was given at the end of Exodus and into Leviticus, the commandments that were given. Here, summarized in the book of Deuteronomy, starting with verse 14. This is what Moses says. He says, When thou art come to the nation of Israel now, when thou art come unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein and shalt say, I will set a king over me. Now you've read already that when Israel demanded a king, Samuel said, What you want a king for? You got God. They said, We want to be like the rest of the nations. Lord, don't let us ever want to become. The church is not to become like the rest of the world. There needs to be something different about us. Something different about the way we look, something different about the way we talk, something different about the way we work, something different about the way we treat strangers and we treat one another. We are in this world, but not supposed to be of this world. Here, Israel is saying we want to be like all the other nations that are about us. Verse 15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee. God knows they're gonna do it. Moses is all but prophesying, whom the Lord thy God shall choose. One from among thy brethren shalt thou set over thee. Thou mayest not set a stranger over thee. So it was never the will of God for Israel to be subservient to an Edomite, or what the New Testament calls an Idom, to the family of Herod, the kings of the Idommeans, the Edomites. Thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother. But let's look at some things now. Let's look at 16. But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses. For as much as the Lord hath said unto you, ye shall henceforth return no more that way. So when Moses first talks about this, it's because if they've got horses, multitudes of horses, they're stronger than mules and donkeys, they're ready for war. Also, mules are not ready for war, they're just beasts of burden. Oxen are beasts of burden and used for sacrifice, but horses are not only used for transportation, but they're also used to make war. They're also a statement of wealth. And they were delivered from Egypt. And who chased them into the Red Sea? Pharaoh did with his what? With his chariots and his horses. We must not leave room in our lives to turn back to our sin. That's how that relates to us today. A good uh reading for review on this would be 1 Corinthians chapter 10. You should read like the first 10 or 12 verses there when you're studying this on your own. We must not leave room in our lives to turn back to our sin or go back to the places God called us out of.

Discipleship Means No Looking Back

SPEAKER_01 23:23

Now we have a few scriptures here. We have Luke chapter 9, and we're gonna read verses 57 through 62, but let's get uh 57 through 60 first, and we'll we'll check those out. Luke chapter 9. And we'll read 57 through 61st. Jesus, his life history done according to Luke and his research. And it came to pass that as they went in the way, a certain man said unto him, said unto Jesus, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nest, but the Son of Man hath nowhere to lay his head. And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead, but go thou and preach the kingdom of God. Wasn't that a harsh saying? There is a principle here that Jesus is teaching, not that you have to be crude to your family to love him, but you must choose him over and above all others. There can be no one who commands loyalty and love from our hearts that we would give to God. I remember my wife and I weren't very long, long married. I was barely back to work, and we had like three weeks of leave when I got married. And she was standing across the room, and we're suffering from honeymoon Igis, you know, nobody complains about that. And she points at me a bony little finger and says, You know, if it ever comes a choice between you and Jesus, you know it's Jesus, right? And I'm thinking to myself, you know, we're living together like we never have before. This is great, this is a honeymoon, and and she's fixing meals, and she's sweetening this time alone, and all that stuff is one. Why are you talking like this? But she wanted me to say it. And I said, Yes, I know that. I know that. And I think one of the reasons that we're still married after 53 years is because she had the strength and the wisdom to remind me, no one comes before Jesus. Doesn't matter how great the honeymoon is, no one comes before Jesus. We can't go back to where we came from. We can't do that. Jesus is saying it here, love me more than others. Then we're going to read verses 61 and 62. And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee, but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at my home, at my house. And Jesus said unto him, No man having put his hand to the plow and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God. My only reference for that when I first read it, you know, was watching Westerns on TV. And when you saw the guy plowing the field, he was trying to plow a straight line. He had a mark at the other end, he's looking at it, and he's keeping the bull or the cow or the oxen, whatever, headed for that mark. If you look back, it would get a crooked, you know, and uh I've since learned a little bit more about that, you know. But my my point is, it sounds hard. Jesus says, if you're following me, you can't look back at the life you led.

SPEAKER_04 27:50

Right.

SPEAKER_01 27:51

Jesus says that. We can never go back to the places God called us out of. David, you can never go back to the sheepcoat. You can't do it. You've been caught to leadership in the kingdom of God. You can't go back to sheepcoat ways. You are now leadership for God's people.

Desire And Wealth Kept In Place

SPEAKER_01 28:23

All right, now let's go to verse 17 back in Deuteronomy, chapter 17. Y'all have been following with me, you know I've been trying to get skilled at using this Kindle instead of my Bible because my handheld Bible, because the print is so much friendlier. Because bifocals work good according to how long your arms are and how big the print is.

SPEAKER_04 28:51

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 28:52

You know that that's how you make them work really well. So we're at Deuteronomy chapter 17. And now we're going to look at verse 17. So we looked at 16. He shall not multiply horses to himself. In other words, you can't have a vision to go back where you came from. And it's not your goal to conquer all the world. You can't go back the way you came. The king cannot look back. We can't look back either, church. Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away. Neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. All right. Neither shall he multiply wives unto himself. But sexual desire was ordained by God. He told Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis, he said, Multiply. I created you, but you multiply. We need to be careful sometimes because we blame God for our activities. People are not born blind because God is wicked. People are not born deformed because God is wicked. And this is something I wrestled with when I first began to contemplate it. Adam and Eve and you and I are responsible for procreation. And when God gave the command for procreation, he gave Adam, Eve, and Eve Adam. They had everything they needed for procreation. Adam didn't need another wife. Adam didn't need any concubines. All he needed was what God provided. But there is something about us that we won't be content, even with what God gives us. And this is what leads to sin. Sexual desire was never a curse. Sexual pleasure was never a curse. It's a part of God's design. But outside of God's design, that's where we have problems. Outside of the covenant of marriage. Imagine it like this. You have a stack of burning logs in your fireplace, and you're nice and warm and cozy, and you're having a pleasant evening, and you're even maybe making popcorn over the fireplace, and one of those little old popcorn makers like we used to have, and mama's sticking it in the fireplace and making popcorn.

SPEAKER_00 31:47

I remember those.

SPEAKER_01 31:50

Yes, and you shake it with your hand. What happens though if you take those burning logs out of the fireplace and put them in the middle of the living room?

SPEAKER_00 32:02

Burn your house down.

SPEAKER_01 32:04

The fire was never bad. But the fire in the fireplace, it gave warmth, it gave comfort, it gave heat, it helped you cook your food, it could purify your water. It's a good thing. The fire is a good thing. But there's a location where fire blesses. And there's a location where it can burn down your house. And we've got a society that has taken sexual pleasure out of the covenant that God built to house it. Therefore, we have single mothers many times. They don't think they need to get married. The man don't think he needs to get married. But when the child comes along and needs a dad, so David himself, he goofed up. I'm going to ask you some questions about David and his wives and his life. But that's going to be after this lesson is done. Neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. It is God who gives us the ability to earn a living, right? So it's not wrong to earn a living. It's not wrong to have a nice living. When you look at what Abraham gave Sarah as wedding gifts, you look at what Isaac gave Rebekah. These were not poor people. It's not having wealth that's bad. It's something about you can't be satisfied even when you are wealthy. I heard a preacher talking about an article he read where a journalist or a news reporter had asked John D. Rockefeller, just how much more money do you need? And Mr. Rockefeller said, just a little more. No king can identify more with his wealth than he does with his God or with his people. Look at 1 Chronicles 29, verses 16 and 17. Have you got that, Mom?

SPEAKER_02 34:54

I do. Could you read that for us, baby? O Lord our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee and house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand and is all thine own. I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart and hast pleasure and uprightness, as for me in the uprightness of mine heart, I have willingly offered all these things, and now have I seen with joy thy people which are present here to offer willingly unto thee.

SPEAKER_01 35:30

Listen to me. David had amassed some wealth. How did he protect himself from becoming like the mythical king Midas? He gave his wealth away. He didn't refuse to celebrate it, but he celebrated it by giving it to the Lord. And when you read about the feast that these kings provided for other people, they had generous hearts. So when we talk about David, we're not talking about a miser. And the Lord is telling Israel through Moses: when you choose a king, he must not be a miser. He cannot worship wealth. I am the Lord your God. You shall have no gods before me. Anything that you worship, you turn into a God. I said to mama yesterday, just one of those times where you know I was making her swoon. I said, Don't swoon now, baby. I said, You shut up. I said, I said, Mama, I love you. But you know it's never right to love the gift more than the giver. She let me know that early in the marriage. You can't love the gift more than the giver. This is why when a child breaks something that was a gift to you, you can get so angry because you can forget about the love of the giver and you think about the item because you'll always have the love of the giver.

unknown 37:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:31

But every item we have will turn to dust. Every sentimental thing that we treasure will turn to dust. We should not choose a king in Israel who will multiply to himself wives, or who will focus on his wealth silver and gold, become the cornerstone of his life. Verse

Write The Word And Live It

SPEAKER_01 38:05

18. We're still in Deuteronomy 17. And it shall be when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law, meaning the book of Deuteronomy, which is before the priest and the Levites. He shall write it. Do you know that some of the people who became disciples in the day of Jesus? Jesus, they weren't chosen to be disciples until they had memorized the law. Famous rabbis would not choose a disciple who hadn't memorized the law. I would have never cut it. Some of us ain't got past Jesus wept. But there are some scriptures we should have memorized, right? Like, for God so loved the world, can you quote it? Everybody, for God so loved the world that gave his only begotten son. Come on.

SPEAKER_04 39:18

That's good.

SPEAKER_01 39:19

What about Acts 2.38? Then Peter said unto them, Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall labor and get good enough and work hard to be filled with the Holy Ghost.

SPEAKER_02 39:40

No, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 39:41

No, you shall receive the gift. You shall receive the gift. These are scriptures. There are some that we should really be able to recall. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father who is above all through all and in you all, even as you are called, in one hope of your calling.

SPEAKER_04 40:00

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 40:01

There are cornerstone scriptures that you should find that mark your life, that maybe your brothers and sisters don't have memorized, but you got them. Because in the midst of your trial, in the midst of your tribulation, in the midst of your seeking God, he brought you to that scripture. And it's a cornerstone in your life. Truly, the first scripture I memorized was from the Gospel of St. John. I saw it on the back of a letter when I was moving mail in Vietnam. It came from the bush into Saigon. And I read on the back of the letter, you have to turn those letters upright to cancel them properly. And someone from the bush who was seeing bullets and grenades and rockets, I don't know how often, sent a letter home to their loved one and on the back wrote, My peace I give you. My peace I leave unto you. Not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. This person in the fog, in the blood, in the guts of war, leaned on a scripture. The king has got to lean on the word of God. So you know what? He's got to make his own copy. He's got to write his own copy. Do you know? I don't read where Saul did that. I don't read where David did that. I don't read where any of the kings did that. The only one that I'm thinking possibly might have done it, and I didn't read it about him, Josiah or Hezekiah. Hezekiah is another one. Ah, but we want to write it somewhere. Look at Deuteronomy, chapter 6. We're going to look at verse 18 now. And it shall be when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, he shall write him a copy of this law in a book of that which is before the priests and Levites? He's got to have supervision. Deuteronomy chapter 6, verses 1 through 9. Moses laying the smack down, as it were, on Israel. Which one of you wants to read that out loud? So the microphones will pick you up.

SPEAKER_00 42:39

I can.

SPEAKER_01 42:39

Read it out loud, Audia. We're so proud you can read. God bless you.

SPEAKER_00 42:44

Every day. Six through one through what?

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One through nine.

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Nine. Now this is the commandment, and that and these are the stat the statutes and the judgments which the Lord your God has commanded to teach you that you may observe them in the land which you and your and your crossing over possesses. That you may lead sorry, I'm having my glasses are giving me a trouble. That you may fear the Lord your God to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, and your sons and your grandson in all the days of your life, that your days may be prolonged. Therefore, here, O Israel, be careful to observe that it is that it may be well with you, that you may multiply greatly, and the Lord your God of your fathers has promised you a land flowing with milk and honey. Here, O Israel, the Lord our God, is our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your your God with all your heart, with all your soul. and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach you shall teach their ch there diligently to your children and shall talk to of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way when you are when you lie down and when you rise up you shall bind them as a sign to on your hand and they shall be in as fruitlet for frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on on the doorpost of your house and on your gates.

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Mama focus on verses four through six you want me to read that Deuteronomy four through six.

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Here, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.

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Teach this diligently go ahead.

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Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all thy soul and with all thy might teach this diligently unto your children. And these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart.

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Teach this diligently to your children. Verses 7 through nine read them.

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And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children.

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Diligently.

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And shall talk of them when thou sittest in thine house talk about the word of God and when thou walkest by the way when you're sipping on iced tea and when you're going to work and when thou liest down before you go to bed and when thou risest up when you get up in the morning thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand.

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When you work any labor you do let it be in line with the word of God and shall be as frontless between thine eyes. Whatever you think about in your mind let it be based upon the word of

New Covenant Law Written On Hearts

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God.

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Thou shalt write them upon thy posts of thy house and on thy gates I don't read where any king did this no matter how blessed they were let's look at Mark 12 29 through 31 you got it mama all right read for us Mark 12 29 through 31 and Jesus answered him the first of all commandments is hear O Israel the Lord thy God is one God.

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This is the foundational of commandment of all commandments the Lord our God is what?

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One Lord. There's only one Lord one faith one God and Father who is above all through all and in you all thou shalt teach love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul with all thy mind and with all thy strength this is the first commandment.

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This is the foundational of all commandments verse 31 and the second is life namely this that thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself there is none other commandment greater than these if the king doesn't know this if the king isn't putting this in his heart he's not doing right it was first said in Deuteronomy Jesus says it is foundational for the kingdom of God all right and Hebrews chapter eight turn to Hebrews chapter eight and I'm going to read verses seven through thirteen for if that first covenant had been faultless then should no place have been sought for the second so the first covenant was not intended to be permanent for finding fault with them he saith Behold the days come saith the Lord I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel because he found fault with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. He's quoting from Jeremiah because they continued not in my covenant and I regarded them not, saying the Lord this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days saith the Lord I will put my laws into their mind and write them in their hearts and I will be to them a God and they will be to me a people and they shall not teach every man his neighbor and every man his brother saying Know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least to the greatest for I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. Oh thank you Jesus in that he saith a new covenant he hath made the first old now that which is old decayeth and waxeth old and is ready to vanish away why did Jeremiah prophesy that and you'll see that in your notes in Jeremiah 31 31 through 34 why did God speak that? Because this covenant is supposed to be written on our hearts and according to what we're reading in Deuteronomy in in chapter 17 verse 18 the king that they choose is supposed to hold this law in his heart. It's not enough to have it written down it's supposed to change the way you live and the way you think and the way you act it's supposed to change not only our actions but our reactions our reactions are different when the love of God is what we respond with. Look at verse 18 again and it shall be when he setteth upon the throne of his kingdom that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priest the Levites he got to get the book from them and it appears to me they have to approve of it he's got to copy it right verse 19 we're talking about the king and it shall be with him oh you shall carry do you carry your Bible do you carry a Bible do you reference your Bible during the day when the word of God comes to you when when when you want to cuss that person who cussed you can the word of God stop you it's got to change not only our actions but our reactions verse 19 and it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the days of his life isn't that what we read in Deuteronomy chapter 6 when you wake up when you go to bed see it on your doorpost on your gate as you're coming and going from your home when you rise up when you lie down when you're talking with your children when you're walking by the way I'm telling you something if you don't consume the word of God on a regular basis it will not change your life and it is a life changing word. But it's just like biscuits and gravy if you leave them in the plate they'll never affect you got to eat them you got to consume the word of God as you're reading through some prophecies you're going to find where God speaks to a prophet about a scroll which is a book and says eat the book eat the scroll what does that mean digest the word of God you can't do it you can't do it if you never turn off the TV and pick up the book you know we all like a little entertainment but if the book doesn't come first then we can make our entertainment an idol if you're not in the word of God daily you can make your television your laptop your Kindle your phone you can make those things an idol start your day with prayer and with the word of God you're the king of Israel if you're not setting this example for the people to follow are we making disciples what we do is more important to them than what we say do they feel like we're in the word of God always do they feel like oh if I call them for prayer I know they're gonna be praying they're not gonna forget me it shall be with him all the days of his life to fear the Lord his God Proverbs 9 and 10 who's got that I do okay mama the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. You

Fear Of God Plus Closing Homework

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get the knowledge of the holy by two experiences you get the fear of the Lord by two experiences one is his presence the other is his word without his presence and his word you will not have the fear of the Lord in your life remember that David remember that Saul remember that Solomon well if you're called to ministry you're called to be in a position of that kind of leadership you're called to be an intercessor you're called to be a student you're called to be a teacher you're called to be patient and kind you're called to protect those you disciple from influences that will damage them how by teaching them and guiding them in the word of God Psalm 111 and 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom a good understanding have all they that do his commandments his praise endureth forever how do we have all that if we're not in his presence and in his word Acts chapter 5 verses 11 through 14 I'm sorry I did give you the list of scriptures then they sub suborned me then they suborned men which said we have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God is that five Acts chapter five we got six the book of Acts chapter five there you go verses 11 through 14 and great fear came upon all the church and upon as many as heard these things this is after Ananias and Sapphira died great fear came upon the church I guess so and by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch this kind of fear and awe inspired faith and the church multiplied all the way through to verse 14. And of the rest there's no man join himself to them but the people magnified them and the believers were the more added to the Lord multiply multitudes both men and women so this fear of God is not worried that he's gonna turn around one minute and turn me into a pile of ashes but it's God do not take your hand off of my life lest I end up like Ananias sense of fire. Do not remove your protection and your grace from me.

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David said take not thy spirit from me create in me a clean heart O God renew in me a right spirit all right 2 Corinthians 7 and 1 having therefore these promises dearly beloved let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of God we need to cleanse ourselves of some things there there's certain things watching the TV you don't want to flood your mind with because you don't want to think that way.

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No when they're glorifying sin and magnifying sin and you feel it in your heart even if even if your brother or sister can watch it you know you can because it provokes things within you. So you have to be able to hear individually from heaven so that God can say to you change that radio station that song you know it's not long wrong to sing you know I'll be coming round the mountain yeah but there's a lot of other things out there that we don't want to be putting those concepts in our hearts and minds a king can't afford it language media what we read jokes we tell we have got to be cautious. You know there's a lot of things that I'll say to my wife and we'll laugh and giggle I'll never say to you it's inappropriate and it doesn't do any good for my testimony and it would hurt you and you would think less of me you know if I saw you in Walmart you would say oh I want to introduce you to Brother Ernie he does our podcast and he teaches us he's a teacher for us all the time brother Ernie and I show up in a pink bikini you're not gonna be happy I would not be calling you over my point is common sense says I have to present myself in a manner that society doesn't look at me and think he's rude he's crude he's immoral I have to remember that I represent Jesus okay I don't want you to buy my wardrobe and I'm not gonna buy yours but we need to understand God is not opposed to common sense certainly denies a lot of people of it he did not you think yeah but makes you wonder huh? Yes the fella thought the Lord said trains when he said brains and so he went to the station I so often wonder if if that's a gene that gets missed especially when you're driving on 635 right so verse verse uh 20 now in Deuteronomy 17 instructions for the king that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren that he turn not aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom God will establish him if he will do these things. He had his children in the midst of Israel now I told you I was going to talk to you about something I think you have this page already y'all have this praise this page about David how many wives okay you look I'm gonna talk about some of these questions and I'm gonna tell you I want you to look up this information use a reference Bible if you don't have a good enough reference Bible Google it but if you Google it make sure you check out the scripture to be sure that yes that is correct because as good as Wikipedia is and these other sources thing perfect they're done by people all right so I asked the question at the top of your page how many wives did David have and what was said we'll we'll get it to you we'll get it to you we don't have that okay we'll get it to you what was said not to multiply to yourself wives so I want you to look up how many wives did David have in their names how many concubines what order he married that in then the birth order of his children where they were born and the birth order of there were some born in Hebron and some in Jerusalem and then I want you to find out how it was chosen who would inherit the throne you're gonna find as you study David's life he made plenty of mistakes the sure mercies of David were because he was going to be a mistake riddled human being you will only read in scripture about some of the big ones yeah but he put on his tunic every day just like everybody else yeah okay so when you're reading about the sure mercies of David remember he was a man after God's own heart because he knew how to repent.

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A righteous man falls seven times but the wicked go to destruction so he falls seven times because he keeps getting back up he knows how to repent that was David's weapon all right sister wow what a great word we had to I'm sorry we got to close it up but we're already past an hour. Oh sorry yeah we we get so excited in here and and one of the things you touched on I I wanted to just say real quick is that the word is just it's alive you know and and I think that sometimes when we see it as just an old relic book up on a shelf um I think we we truly cannot be in a true relationship with the Lord and I tell the ladies this all the time without having that relationship with the word you can't separate the two things you can't have the intimacy that you can have if you have if you don't have the word and so I love that you know we we we teach a lot about you know you said to go in there and grab your word that God shows you something in the word and you grab on to that word and I and I just tell him that's your promise what he has written and he says to you for your time and for the moment that you're going through that's your promise go stand on it. Amen you know that and you're going through depression or you're going through you need healing or whatever it is and the Lord brings those scriptures to mind that's your promise to stand on until you see the manifestation. And so I love that I love that you know the word is just alive it's it's powerful. Thank you brother so much for today all right all right so we're gonna go into another study in a little bit but go ahead.

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Let's do another podcast today just a brief one yeah and I'll talk to you all about why I believe that the word of God is true.

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Yeah yeah I love that let's do it let's do it all right so if you have not listened to any of the other podcasts especially on this subject of a simple presentation of the book of Acts I encourage you to go and start from the beginning as Brother Ernie is taking us through this journey we're not trying to rush through it you know we're trying to just dig into it and and get it all sorted out. Get it you know we want to say we want to be the exchurge but we've got to break that down and know what that means you know and so I love that you're taking the time to do that and adding these commentaries and all of that. So all right we've got to wrap it up just for time's sake but but look forward to the next uh thing that we're gonna attach to this all right so we're gonna end with our slogan everybody loud and proud ready go show some love show some compassion give mercy and go be Jesus today hey stu family if you have enjoyed this podcast today would you please like follow and share our podcast link and we would love to hear your feedback and your podcast topic suggestions to do that simply go to our website at www.m3mi.org scroll to the more tab and select contact us also if this has been a blessing to you you can also go to our website and select sew a seed there are several ways that you can give whether it's Zelf, Vinmo, Cash App, or if there's an address to send a check or money order. All your gifts are tax deductible and we thank you so much for sewing your seed with us. I want you to remember this last person once said that if a person has given you their time they've given you their most precious gift because they can never ever give it back thank you for sharing this day with me. We love you we'll see you soon