S4:071 1 Samuel 16-17
Join The Journey
Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX
5 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
What are we to make of the spirit of the Lord departing from Saul? What is the harmful spirit tormenting him? In today's episode, Emma Dotter discusses 1 Samuel 16-17 and shares insights into this story.
Additional References:
Exodus 35:8; 1 Kings 6; 1 Corinthians 3:16; John 16:7-11; John 3:8; Ephesians 1:13-14
Link to Got Questions: https://www.gotquestions.org/evil-spirit-Saul.html
Link Watermark's doctrinal statement on the Holy Spirit: https://www.watermark.org/about/full-doctrinal-statement
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, grownups. |
| 0:02.3 | Thanks for joining. |
| 0:04.0 | Happy Monday. |
| 0:05.5 | We're going to learn about the Joy, the Journey Jr. |
| 0:08.3 | Podcast. |
| 0:09.1 | It's out now. |
| 0:10.1 | You can find the link in today's episode, description. |
| 0:14.3 | So you can listen with your kids and talk to them about the Bible. |
| 0:20.4 | Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to Join the Journey |
| 0:24.9 | podcast with your host, Emma Daughter. Thanks for joining. Today, we are reading 1st Samuel 16 through |
| 0:32.3 | 17, which hopefully you've already read before tuning into the podcast. But if you haven't, |
| 0:38.5 | pause the episode, |
| 0:43.4 | go read those chapters or listen to them on the Join the Journey app and then jump back in. |
| 0:50.1 | We're going to be focusing in this episode on 1 Samuel 16, but we're specifically going to be looking at verses 14 and 15, which read, now the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and a harmful spirit from the Lord was |
| 0:58.8 | tormenting him. |
| 1:00.0 | And Saul's servants said to him, behold now, a harmful spirit from God is tormenting you. |
| 1:06.7 | So there are really two questions here. |
| 1:10.1 | How could the spirit of the Lord leave Saul? what's the deal with these harmful spirits or what's really going on? |
| 1:16.7 | And I want you to think about when you first learned to ride a bike, or really before you even learned how to ride a bike. |
| 1:23.1 | Most likely, before you learned, you had a bike with training wheels. |
| 1:27.4 | And during the training wheel era, that bike was never going to fall over. |
| 1:31.7 | Even when you weren't on it, it was going to stand up straight. |
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