welcome back to the Bushnell project John Bushnell here as we continue to encourage one another in reading God's word finding peace in the midst of a storm maybe and a really getting to know God's the story of God and we' in the middle of the story of David and Goliath and Jonathan and Saul, but it's it's God's story. And so it can get confusing. We talked about how sometimes it's written we're gonna get some clarity here as we continue in chapter 18 our first Samuel.ond this relationship with David and Saul, David had been in Saul's um employment, if you will, playing the harp to sue the spirit that was upon him, a spirit sent from God a a evil spirit and so that that's going on and then they all go to war and so David's not doing that and so he's helping his father with the sheep and his father sends him after 40 days to go find out what's happening and to take some provisions to his brothers. He does that he seizes Goliate, he takes out Goliate. and Saul's impressed who is this guy, Jonathan knits his soul, basically his heart. soul to the Bible's his soul, so souls will go with that to David. and and now we're gonna have basically the parade..oliias and the Philippines beams. being destroyed. So that's we're at chapter 18 verse six is they were coming home when Davy returned from striking down the philistine. the women came out of all the cities of Israel singing and dancing to meet king Saul with tambourines with songs of joy and with musical instruments, and the women sang to one another as they celebrated Saul has struck down his thousands, and David, his ten thousands. Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, they have ascribed to David 10 thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands, and what more can he have but the kingdom? and so I David from that day on the next day a harmful spirit from God rushed upon soul, and he raved within his house, while David was playing the lyre as he did day by day, Saul had his spear in his hand, and Saul hurled the spear, for he thought I will pin David to the wall, for David evaded him twice. Saul was afraid of David because the Lord was with him, but had departed from Saul. So Saul removed him from his presence and made him a commander of a thousand, and he went out and came in before the people, and David had a success in all his undertakings, for the Lord was with him, and when Saul saw that he had great success, he stood in fearful awe of him, but all of Israel and Judah loved David, for he went out and came in before them. and we'll stop there, 16 so many know the story. This is that time when King saw throw a sphere at David. misses him or David evades it as the Bible says, and then he tries with the can, so says twice there was it twice in a few seconds or was it twice in a few hours. Nevertheless, David is now going to be in charge of a thousand men. command over a thousand men, so that he's not in Saul's presence playing the lear more. or the liar. So David's fame is growing rapidly, and Saul is very, very jealous. And one of the things to realize here is this this jealousy, this rage, all this comes from a man who no longer as the spirit of God. And but this rage and his anger is going toward a man who does how the spirit of God and notice David's response, he doesn't he doesn't defend himself. He doesn't attack back. He doesn't. uh repel the evil with evil. and for us, I think today us Christians that's a good thing for us to look at is how do we press on a life even when people treat us wrong or people treat us in a way that they shouldn't. yet how do we respond to that? What our our response for people who are filled with the Holy Spirit, who know that they are saved by God's grace because of what Jesus did on the cross outside of Jerusalem, and that God raised him from the dead and that he is seated Jesus at the right hand of the Father, interceding for us, so that when people do something wrong to us, why should we lash out? We know t