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Grace,
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mercy and peace to you from God
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our Father and from our Lord
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and Savior Jesus Christ.
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Amen.
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Second Samuel begins with
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Saul being dead.
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The King of Israel,
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the very first king of Israel,
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is dead.
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And David had had the
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opportunity a couple of
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times to kill Saul,
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and yet he wouldn't do so.
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Instead,
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an Amalekite who finds Saul in
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battle wounded. Fatally wounded.
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Nearly fatally wounded,
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the Amalekite puts Saul
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out of his misery
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and takes the crown off
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King Saul's head.
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He runs with great joy and
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excitement and kneels
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before David.
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And with hands outstretched,
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with great pride,
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he offers David the crown.
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This was not wise.
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David,
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with great fear and trembling,
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asks this Amalekite,
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who are you to stretch out your
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hand and destroy the Lord's
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anointed One?
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Who do you think you are?
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Because the Amalekite had
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stretched out his hand in great
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pride to help King Saul
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to his death.
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Because the Amalekite,
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with great pride,
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had taken the crown off Saul's
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head. Because the Amalekite,
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in his great pride,
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had offered the crown to David,
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David puts the Amalekite
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to death.
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Oh,
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wow.
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Who is this David?
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Later,
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in chapter one of Second Samuel,
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David sings a song,
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a somber song of lament for
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the Lord's anointed One,
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who now rests with the fathers,
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and for Jonathan,
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David's very best friend,
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who also fell with
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his father Saul.
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In chapter two,
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after singing this lament,
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David humbly goes before
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the Lord to inquire
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what is my next step?
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What, O Lord,
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would you have me do?
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How do I, O Lord,
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fit into the story of Israel?
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And God says, Go to Hebron.
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Hebron?
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Really?
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Hebron,
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the burial place of Sarah,
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the resting place of Abraham,
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Isaac, and Jacob.
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That Hebron is where you want
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me to be crowned king,
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O Lord.
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Yes.
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David goes to Hebron.
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And so in Second Samuel,
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three after David
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is crowned king.
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In our text today,
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there's a war going on,
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a war between the
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people of Saul,
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the very first king of Israel,
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the Lord's Anointed,
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and David,
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the newly crowned king.
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War between these two factions
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who know God's plans,
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who think they have it
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all figured out.
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And then we have a strange list
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of David's sons. There is Amnon,
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the first born,
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and Kileab and Absalom,
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you know, Absalom.
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And then
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Adonijah and Shephatiah.
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And Ithraim David's sons,
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the son of David,
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who will be the son of David.
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It's as if the writer of Second
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Samuel wants us to be dwelling
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upon and meditating upon the
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question who will be
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the next king?
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Who will sit on David's throne?
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The whole text of Second Samuel
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is a story about who
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will be next.
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And it's almost as if the writer
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of Second Samuel puts this
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Amalekite at the beginning of
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his narrative to put a warning
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sign up for us,
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a sign that says,
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Beware
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as you wonder about who will
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be the next king of Israel,
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don't be like the Amalekite.
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Don't think that you have God's
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plans all figured out.
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Don't think you understand where
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God's story is going.
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Dear brothers and sisters,
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you who have come here to
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Concordia Seminary to study
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Greek or Hebrew or to learn
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in a PhD class.
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About the creed or about
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hermeneutics or you,
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who have come with someone to
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Concordia Seminary to watch them
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and support them as they do
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their studies or as you work
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here in this place.
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I want to reflect on this
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question today.
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Where do we fit in God's story?
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Last week
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I was in Glacier National Park.
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Northwestern Montana.
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My son Noah and I were doing
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some hiking and we were on the
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trail to Iceberg Lake.
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I was telling Noah,
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my twelve year old son last
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week on this trail. Noah,
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23 years ago,
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in the summer of 2000,
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I hiked this very same trail
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when I worked at Glacier
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National Park all summer.
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And Noah, on this very trail,
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I saw a grizzly bear.
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True story.
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Noah and I hike a little bit
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further and we come across
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this young couple.
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We're laughing,
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having a good time.
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And this young man says, Shh.
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Look.
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We couldn't yet see it.
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We got a little closer
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and he said,
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It's a grizzly.
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Sure enough,
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50 yards off the trail,
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a huge grizzly bear digging
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in the dirt. No problem.
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Razor sharp claws, huge bear.
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And what do I do?
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I take out my iPhone, of course.
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We snap a pic of the grizzly
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bear I showed Travis right
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before chapel service started.
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And then I said, Noah, Noah,
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you know what we got to do?
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We got to get a selfie
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with the bear.
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I turn around and the bear is in
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the background and
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I snap a selfie.
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Great idea.
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We get back and I'm telling this
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story to some students.
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Their eyes get big and they kind
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of look at me and I can see
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the look on their face.
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Are you stupid or something?
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It wasn't so bad that I dipped
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Noah's hand in honey and made
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him go down to the cute teddy
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bear to take a cute
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little picture.
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I wasn't quite that dumb,
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but I took a selfie with a
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grizzly bear. What in the world
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was I thinking?
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Sort of like the Amalekite
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stretching out his hands to
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offer the king the crown
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in all his pride.
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Dear brothers and sisters,
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I think sometimes
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as Christians we stretch out our
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hands with great pride
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and we have no idea
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who this God is and what
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we're dealing with.
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Sometimes you'll hear religious
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people, people like us,
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say things like,
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oh, if I know who God is,
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I think God would do
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such and such.
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Selfie snapped.
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I got God figured out.
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Or If Jesus walked on
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this earth today,
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I think he would do dot, dot,
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dot.
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Selfie snapped.
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Or Why do I even need to learn
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the Hebrew Niphal paradigm
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or the Greek participle,
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or the history of the Nicene
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Creed? Selfie snapped.
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Or you get this text,
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second Samuel, chapter three,
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and you read it and you
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think to yourself,
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what in the world am I supposed
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to do with this text?
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You roll your eyes.
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Selfie snapped.
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It's not a good idea to snap
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selfies with grizzly bears
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or with the living God.
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And so as we hike a little
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bit further,
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I want to introduce
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you to another man
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in Mark's gospel in
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Mark chapter ten,
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as we hike along with Jesus.
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We've just been walking with
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Jesus and some of Jesus
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disciples just like us,
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who love to snap selfies of
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themselves and love to believe
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that they have God's plan
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all figured out.
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These disciples are debating
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with themselves and who's going
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to sit on Jesus throne
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when Jesus dies?
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Will I sit on his left
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or on his right?
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Will it be me to take his place?
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I'm pretty sure that I know how
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this story goes and I'm pretty
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sure I know where it's going.
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And Jesus says,
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to them.
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For the Son of man
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came not to be served,
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but to serve and to give his
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life as a ransom for many.
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And then we meet him.
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It's a man who's crying
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out on the fringes,
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a man who sits at the margins,
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and he cries out this blind
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beggar named Bartimaeus.
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He cries out, Jesus,
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Son of David,
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have mercy on me.
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No iPhone taken out,
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no selfie snapped with Jesus.
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This blind beggar Bartimaeus
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knows that he is in the presence
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of the King of Israel,
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Son of David
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he calls him.
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The Lord's
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Anointed.
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He doesn't expect anything
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from him.
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He knows that he's in the
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presence of an Almighty One,
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and he cries out for mercy.
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And Jesus loves to have mercy
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on those who need mercy.
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Jesus heals blind beggar
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Bartimaeus,
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he says,
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your faith has healed you.
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Bartimaeus had taken up this
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little phrase, Son of David,
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which is such a strange
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little phrase.
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It hardly shows up anywhere
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in the Old Testament,
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it hardly shows up anywhere
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in the New Testament,
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it hardly shows up anywhere
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in our liturgy.
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But I have a hunch that blind
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beggar Bartimaeus sat
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in the synagogue
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and listened intently
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to Second Samuel,
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wondering and waiting for the
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Lord's anointed the
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next Son of David.
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Like the Bereans whom Luke
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praises in Acts 17,
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because they searched the
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scriptures daily.
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Blind Bartimaeus took up these
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words jesus, Son of David,
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with great faith and with great
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humility before the Scriptures.
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Brothers and sisters,
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you've come to Concordia
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Seminary
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because in this place we take
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the Scripture seriously,
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because we don't have to run out
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real quick to take care of a few
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things for God before we sit
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and listen to His Word.
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We pay great attention to Niphal
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participles, Greek
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participles, to the history
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of our Lord's Church,
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waiting and wondering and
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with great humility.
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Only with great humility and
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after great study do we take up
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our place in our Lord's story to
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share his work among
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people today.
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And our Lord is gracious.
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He laid His life down for
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you as a ransom for you.
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He delights in you
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and He loves you.
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Listen to these gospel filled
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words from Psalm 72,
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the very last psalm
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that David pens.
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As David thinks about himself
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and about his coming son,
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David writes give the king that
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is King David your justice,
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O God,
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and your righteousness
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to the royal Son,
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the Son of David.
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May he judge your people with
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righteousness and your
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poor with justice.
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Let the mountains bear
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prosperity for the people and
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the hills in righteousness.
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May he defend the cause of
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the poor of the people,
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give deliverance to the children
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of the needy and crush
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the oppressor.
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May they fear you while the sun
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endures and as long as the moon
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through all generations.
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For he delivers the needy when
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he calls the poor and him
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who has no helper.
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He has pity on the weak and the
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needy and saves the lives of the
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needy from oppression
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and violence.
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He redeems their life and
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precious is their blood
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in his sight.
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Dear brothers and sisters,
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what a joy it is to be here to
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study the Scriptures alongside
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Bartimaeus.
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In the name of Jesus,
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the Son of David.
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Amen.