Did GOD Lie? | 1 Samuel 16 | Christian Sermon | John Giftah

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0:43 Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. I want to just take it forward to give you another context of what is mentioned in for Smit of the sixteen and I want to help us remember something and take some things into our life so that we will live the kind of life that God wants us to live. First, Samuel's up to sixteen. Now, the Lord said to Samuel, just to give you a contact. I'm reading from the n Lty version and it says you have mourned long enough for Saul. I have rejected him as king of Israel.

1:18 So I want you to go to the House of Jesse and I have selected one of Jesse's sons to be my king. Okay, paraphrasing it to the point was too says, But Samuel asks, how can I do If Saul hears about it, he will kill me. Saul is going to kill me. And then God says, take a heap of with you and say that you're come to make a sacrifice to the Lord. Invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you which of the sons to anoint to be the king. Look at this, God is giving this idea to Samuel. Samuel is saying, if I go to annoying the next king, King Saul is going to be mad and he will kill me.

2:03 Because King Saul is a mad guy. He's gone off track. He's doing everything that's he will, He's doing things that you're not supposed to do. He is not looking after the Lord. He's not he's not looking at any way of getting back on track. And I'm sure that he's going to kill me. This is this is a real issue. This was a real problem. This was a you know the intensity. Think about this. The king, the king of this country. He has the right and the power to kill That's not what he should do. It's not the right thing for him to do, but he can do it because he's the king.

2:37 And here is Samuel worried about it and says, how can I go and annoint the next king? And here's the thing God is not saying, listen, don't you trust me? Don't you trust that I'm more powerful than King Saul. Don't you know that I'm able to protect and rescue you? How can you be of little faith condon say any of that to Samuel? God in even say, listen, that's none of your business, because even if you're killed, it's all part part of my plan and my purpose. So I want you to just take a step of faith, and I want you to go and anoint.

3:10 I will take care of David. I will protect him, I will watch over him. Did God say any of that? What did God say? God is saying, go and say that you'll come to make a sacrifice to the Lord. Was God lying in that place? Was God scared of being saulved that God was giving this idea to lie? Listen? If anybody else had come up with this idea, they would say that is not from God, because lying is a sin. Yes, I understand the Bible is very clearly I'm not giving you the ability or giving you the right or the you know, the permission for you to go and lie.

3:45 I'm not saying go and live a life where you lie. That's not what I'm saying. But I want you to understand the context here. This was not a man saying. If anybody else said this in the Bible itself, people would say, goden do this, God and say this. So you see, this was a human mystic. That's why they said, go and give this kind of a you know, a reason, say that it's it's just a sacrifice. But this was not a man. This was not Prophet Samuel, this was not anybody else. This was God giving this word.

4:19 And God was saying, go and say that they come to sacrifice. And on the pretext of sacrificing, I want you to anoint the next king. Why did God choose to play it safe? Because you need to understand, guys, there is a place to stand up. There's a place to stand firm, there's a place to speak up. There's a place to do what is right against all odds, even though you're you know there as the moments you need to stand firm for your faith. All of that is true, but you need to go back to that place where you understand are you doing what God wants you to do?

4:57 You doing that? See, sometimes what I see is people do something stupid and end up in trouble, and then they think that what trouble they're going through is persecution.

5:09 Sometimes there is the persecution came because of your stupidity, not because you did what was the right thing to do or the wise thing to do. I know, we want to, you know, be open and vocal, and we want to say, you know what, I'm like those apostles, you know, standing foam against the opposition and the persecution. You know, some of the times we listen to preachers who say all of these things, but if you look at their own life, they don't do that. Guys, they know how to be wise when when needed to be wise.

5:43 We're not We're not underlining or going to the place we are saying, you know what, hiding the truth. But we're being wise. You know how much of persecution, so to speak, persecution can be stopped or would reduce if Christians were not being stupid. But we are being wise listening to what God was saying you can, you can say, you know what, I'm going to go open and go and condemn other religions and I'm going to preach the truth about Hell. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that. You know. That's why Christ and you you're being you know, people are running away.

6:20 They don't want to listen to you, they don't want to have anything. You know. In the last couple of days, I've had conversations with so many people of other faiths where they say, you know what, I'm scared of Christians because their only mission is to convert, their only mission is to come and you know, tell you know, I'm going to Hell and all of these things. You know, in a in a I'm telling you guys, sometimes you need to go undercover. Undercover. God was saying, go go in the go as the sacrifice, and on the pretext of the sacrifice, go and anoint the next king.

6:57 I don't know who needs to hear this word, but some of you need to get to that place where you say, yes, God, maybe I don't need to be as jumpy and worcal as somebody else. Maybe I need to go calm, you know, put out a different phase sort of put. No, I'm not saying being lying or manipulating people. That's not what I mean. But maybe you can be in a different way. You can still end up doing the right thing. You may for example, you know, I always wanted to be like you know, as a minister known as a minister.

7:30 But then now as the days go by, as sometimes you know, in places where they won't call in a preacher, you know, I go into comedy or I do motivation. What I do is I'm going as a motivational speaker. I'm going as a comedian. I do what I can do and then bring out a message may not be the message of you know, go guys, you know you're all going to hell, not like that, but you know, maybe a message from God's word without telling it's from God's word. It and people's lives are blessed, and then they start following my content and they receive the word of God.

8:06 If I go there and say, you know what, I'm a preacher, listen to me, that's stupidity. Are you getting what I'm saying today? I pray that you know you'll understand that God was not lying here, but God was also understanding or speaking from a place of wisdom where you can do things in a better way or a different way. He sort of you know, maybe God could have said, you know, you know what, Okay, it's fine, and then it becomes a big news. Saul gets mad, constant tension, and of course that happened later on.

8:42 I'm not saying didn't happen, the tension between Saul and David. But then this was not a moment for that to happen. This was not the time for that to happen, because so David was a little boy still and if that happened now, it would have been a big problem for David. So sometimes you see, it's better to plead safe. So today I pray that God will give you the wisdom to understand win, to plead safe and win, to be strong and vocal and sound. And you've been listening to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta, we hope you were blessed and inspired to live the life that God has for you.

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