Ben Lander and glad to be a pastor here at our church. For those of you who are new here in this room or new with us online, you have the opportunity this morning to finish with us. The book of first Samuel. We’ve been working for about 18 weeks through the book of First Samuel, and today we’re bringing it to a close, and so we’re going to have a short Easter series, and then we’re going to begin in the book of First Peter. And so that’s exciting. That’s what’s coming up, something to look forward to. But it’s been a really good journey. We’ve been going through this narrative, these stories of Saul and David, and I just want to remind you kind of where we’ve come from this. This story is connected to chapters 27 28 And so, just to briefly remind you of where we’ve come from Chapter 27 we see David take things into his own hands and he decides, You know what I am afraid of, Saul. I’ve been running from Saul for so long. I just I’d be safer if I could just get out of Israel and so in fear he acts and he decides to leave Israel. He runs back to the same guy, hawkish, the same philistine that he ran to before that. We looked at halfway through the book, the guy where David was acting like a crazy man and letting his spit drool down his beard and and a key. She’s like, I don’t need more crazy people around here to get out of here. Well, he runs back to the same guy and he doesn’t inquire The Lord. He doesn’t trust Lord, he just runs and he’s out of there. And then, um, he does some some wild things. He basically starts and engages in guerilla warfare, where he’s in Zeke Lag and him and his men then start to conduct these raids on these small, outlying villages of Philistines. And what they do is they commit genocide. They exterminate every single person, man, woman and child in these little villages because they don’t want any word getting back to a fish that this is happening. And so they are doing all of that. Chapter 29 picks up with all of the Philistine forces gathering together and getting ready to fight Israel. Okay, um, and they conduct this military parade, and so they have all of these different forces kind of trumped by the leaders of the Philistines, and they are kind of loosely connected. You know, Philistines are loosely connected as a group of people, but they really have a number of separate areas that are led by different men. And so they each ruled separately. But then they kind of gathered together and say, We’re going to take on Israel here in this battle. And the other philistine leaders see David and his men in a Kesha’s forces. And they’re like, Wait a second here. This is the guy. You know who this is. You know, they go to occasions like this. Is David the guy who took out Goliath, right? This is the guy who they sing songs about. Saul has killed his thousands. David his tens of thousands. And don’t you realize many of those thousands are us, right? They were not happy there, like this guy is going to turn on us. And so David and his crew get kicked out of this military parade and then and he’s just like you got to go home And so they head back to their temporary home in the philistine country called Zik Lag. Remember David’s doing his own thing. He didn’t consult the Lord, he didn’t. He just acted out of fear. And he took his men and all of their families, everybody, and packed it up and went to Zeke leg. So I’m going to pray, and then we’re gonna pick up. We’re gonna spend most of our time in First Samuel, Chapter 30. So turn with me there. While I pray when we pray that you speak to us this morning from your word, we pray that you would, uh, speak to us through these principles and help us help us open up the eyes of our hearts to your word. Today in Jesus’ name. Amen. Okay. So David and his men reached sic…