Nr. 256: Jonathan, a man of God who did not finish the race!

Nr. 256: Jonathan, a man of God who did not finish the race! Jonathan and Jonathan is a man's name formed from Hebrew jonathan, "Yahweh has given." Jonathan did not finish the race and his life's calling

2. Tim. 4. 7 I have fought the good fight, finished the race, kept the faith. 8 So when the crown of righteousness is ready for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day, but not me alone but all who have loved His appearing. 1. Samuel 14 24 While now the men of Israel were severely strained that day, Saul people swear, saying, Cursed be the man who eats any food in the evening, before I have avenged myself on my enemies! And it was none of the people tasted food. 25 Then all the people into the woods, and there was honey on the ground, 26 and with the same people came into the forest, they saw a whole stream of honey, but none of the people brought his hand to his mouth for fear of the oath. 27 But Jonathan had not heard that his father let people swear, and he stretched out his rod in his hand, and dipped the end of it in the honey and put his hand to his mouth, when his eyes were clear. 28 Then a man of the people answered and said, 'Your father has left the people to swear, saying, Cursed be the man who eats food today! And so people were exhausted. 29 Jonathan said, My father has troubled the country, just look how my eyes have become because I have tasted a little of this honey, 30 how much more would not slaughter among the Philistines have become if people today had eat of the spoil the taken from their enemies! 31 In the day they struck the Philistines, and chased them from Michmash to Ajalon, and the people were very faint 32 and immediately took hold of plunder, they took the sheep and cattle and calves and slaughtered them on the ground and ate the meat with the blood, 33 And there came anyone and told Saul, saying people sin against the Lord and eat meat with the blood, he said, I have carried you that transgressed; overturning now a great stone to me here! / 34 So Saul said, go around among the people and tell them that each of them will come to me with his ox and his sheep and slaughter them here and then eat, that they might not sin against the Lord and eat meat with blood in . They brought every man of the people with their own beef up the night and slaughtered them there. 35 And Saul built an altar to the Lord, it was the first altar that he built unto the Lord. 36 Then Saul said, Let us go down tonight and set by the Philistines and plunder among them until the morning dawns, and do not let a single man among them will be alive. They said, do exactly as you think! The priest said: Let us come near hither to God! 37 So Saul asked God, Shall I go down and pursue after the Philistines? Will you give them the hand of Israel? But he answered him not that day. 38 Then Saul said: Thread the hit all the chiefs among the people, that ye may know and see how it's down with the sin that is done today! 39 For as the Lord lives, who saves Israel, If so the blame is with Jonathan, my son, he shall surely die! But none of all the people answered him. 40 Then he said to all Israel: Stand In on the one hand, and I and Jonathan my son, standing on the other side. The people said to Saul: Do what you think! 41 Then Saul said to the Lord God of Israel: Let the truth come out! And the lot fell upon Jonathan and Saul, but the people escaped. 42 And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son! And the lot fell upon Jonathan. 43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what you've done! Jonathan told him and said, I took some honey on the end of the stick I had in my hand, and tasted it, here I am, I must die. 44 Then Saul said, God do so to me severely, now and since you do not now die, Jonathan! 45 But the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who have won this great victory in Israel? Far from that! As the Lord liveth, there shall not fall a hair of his head to the earth: for with God's help, he has done his work today. So the people rescued Jonathan from death. We sing in Sildiregn the week. 171 a song about this: King Saul commanded all the people food - Jonathan ate of the Lord barrels. He put his rod in honey ready. And his eyes had a luster so underbar. Chorus: In the rock honey is honey in the rock is - Abundance of honey in the rock are now. Come, taste and see that God is good. In the rock abundance of honey is. Rarely a good and interesting song that talks about what happened here in 1 Samuel. What really happened? We read in the beginning of the chapter, so that you can catch everything, so I scissors into the passage I took to begin with. 1. Samuel 14 1. So it happened one day that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the man who bore his armor: Come, let us go over to the Philistines' garrison there on the other side! But he said nothing about it to his father. 2 Saul was then the outskirts of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree in Migron, and the people by whom he had with him were about six hundred men, 3 where Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, the brother of Ichabod, son of Phinehas, the son of Eli , the Lord's priest in Shiloh, he wore the ephod at that time. But the people did not know that Jonathan was gone. 4 Among the throngs which Jonathan sought to reach through to get to the Philistines' garrison, there was a steep cliff on each side: the one called Bose and the other terraces. 5 One cliff rises steeply to the north opposite Michmash, the other to the south opposite Geba. 6 And Jonathan said to the man who bore his armor: Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised! Maybe the Lord does nothing for us, because nothing prevents the Lord from saving, whether by many or by few. 7 His armorbearer answered him, do whatever you have in mind! You go only! I will follow you wherever you want. 8 Then Jonathan said, Now we go over to the men there, and they will see us. 9 If they say to us: Stand still until we come up to you! - So we are standing where we are, and do not go up to them. 10 But if they say: Come up to us! - So we go up, for when the Lord has given them into our hands. We will have to sign. 11 So when they both had come so far that they could be seen from the Philistines' garrison, said the Philistines: Look, there comes the Hebrews out of the caves which they hid in. 12 And the men in the garrison called to Jonathan and his armorbearer and said, up to us and we'll tell you anything! Then Jonathan said to his armorbearer, Come up after me, the Lord has given them in the hand of Israel. 13 And Jonathan climbed up on hands and feet, and his armorbearer after him: and they fell for Jonathan and his armorbearer went after him and beat them to death. 14 In the first attack Jonathan and his armorbearer did, fell about twenty men on a stretch as half of the land that can pløies in a day. 15 When there was terror in the camp, on the ground around and among all the people, the garrison and ravage the flock was seized with fear. The earth shook, and there was a fear of God. 16 And when Saul's guards in Gibeah of Benjamin saw that the crowd loosened up, and that they were about to encounter and penetrate each other, 17 Saul said to the people who were with him: Count by and see who is gone from us! So they counted later, and it turned out that Jonathan and his armorbearer were not there. 18 Then Saul said to Ahijah, Bring the ark of God! Ark of God was at the time when the people of Israel. 19 But while Saul spoke with the priest, was the noise of the Philistines greater and greater, as Saul said to the priest, Let it be! 20 And Saul and all the people who were with him, gathered himself, and when they came to where the battle was, they saw that one had raised the sword against the other, and everything was in a bustle. 21 Also the Hebrews who now as before was with the Philistines, who went up with them and was around their camp, beat him with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan. 22 And when the Israelites who had hidden themselves in the mountains of Ephraim heard that the Philistines fled, even they are all set after them, and fought against them. 23 Thus the Lord helped Israel that day, and the battle drew away, past Beth Aven. Here were the children of Israel in violation of the Philistines as today's Palestinian Arabs have taken its name from. These were not Arabs, but the assumption respectively Greeks and from the islands around there that had migrated down to Israel and became so hostile to Israel. Jonathan showed courage, cunning and trusted in the Lord We see here how the young Jonathan and his armorbearer managed to go against the enemy and win victory while Israel was scared and tired back. Jonathan showed that the victory lay with the Lord, so he says the following: "Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised! Maybe the Lord does nothing for us, because nothing prevents the Lord from saving, whether by many or by few. " It had received indeed the experience, and killed several of the enemy so that it was a wonderful victory, while the enemy suffered a heavy defeat. Saul his father had refused to hear the whole foods, including Jonathan This said Saul, his father: "Cursed be the man who eats any food in the evening, before I get avenged myself on my enemies," and there was none of the people tasted food as he had sworn it. But "luckily" had not Jonathan heard this, so we read what he did: "Then all the people into the woods, and there was honey on the ground, and with the same people came into the forest, they saw a whole stream of honey, but none of the people brought his hand to his mouth for fear of the oath. But Jonathan had not heard that his father let people swear, and he stretched out his rod in his hand, and dipped the end of it in the honey and put his hand to his mouth, when his eyes were clear. " Jonathan was clear and bright eyes It is wonderful with these people who "do not know better." It's just the way the Lord uses, and that the religious hate and not understand. They behaves differently but are happy and always wins victory! While the common herd liver failure and many times is the world's children are better off than the great religious hop because it is in captivity! So it was then and this is today. Which voice you follow? And you have the "blind" eyes so that the Lord can use you, and always follow the crowd and become a spiritual cripple and confused? The choice makes you dear friend! Jonathan was rescued by the people when he had tasted of honey and had bright eyes We read that his father King Saul would kill him, but he was rescued by the people: "Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what you've done! Jonathan told him and said, I took some honey on the end of the stick I had in my hand, and tasted it, here I am, I must die. Then Saul said, God do so to me severely, now and since you do not now die, Jonathan! But the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who have won this great victory in Israel? Far from that! As the Lord liveth, there shall not fall a hair of his head to the earth: for with God's help, he has done his work today. So the people rescued Jonathan from death. " The religious spirit will always stop what is from God as it is with Satan Satan is very religious, even as religious and "from" that he believes in God. It also Pastors and Bishops around, they believe in God. But only those who obey God who promise to share in God himself. Acts 5:32 And we are his witnesses of these things, and likewise the Holy Spirit, which God gave them that obey him. Jonathan went with "deaf" ears and won the victory We read: "But Jonathan had not heard that his father let people swear, and he stretched out his rod in his hand, and dipped the end of it in the honey and put his hand to his mouth, when his eyes were clear." The more you go with "deaf" ears of the common herd and the religious leader, the more useful will be to the God of the whole. That's fine with community, at times. But also tiring because there are so many who want to dictate to you and say anything about you. Then it is much, much better to apply in the first place out alone with the Lord and be with the Lord, and an open Bible. It works wonders, and learn to blemish to God and know what he wants. You will win more than conquerors, be you sure. I can mention the thousands of experiences and an enrichment to be different and be knotted to the Lord. Psalm 91 14 For he is sticking by me, and I will deliver him: I will bring him to safety, because he knows my name. In the Hebrew it says that he is glued fast to me, wonderful! Jonathan was humiliating Jonathan was a man who counted on God and trusting firmly in the Lord. When one is humble. And he also showed that he was humbled when his father King Saul would kill him after he had eaten the honey. But fortunately, the people had to stop his father from making such a misdeed. Humility is probably the biggest problem among the believers in Norway today, in particular those who will lead the congregation. Thinking of what I have experienced as believers. There is no question about what the word of God says in the vast majority of questions. But to retain their positions, stay inside the heat and be correct with respect to the doctrine that is up and adopted tin any time. Is this humility? No it is anything but that! Jonathan, King David's best friend A covenant is an agreement between two or more people. It has been so committed to act and live by this Agreement. The Old Testament word for covenant, is the Hebrew "Berith". Directly translated it means "to cut so that blood is shed." The explanation for this is found already in the Garden of Eden. "And the Lord God made cloaks of skins for Adam and his wife, and clothed them." (1 Exodus 3:21) When the people had committed against God, He gave an innocent animal to die in their place, for "the wages of sin is death." To sin against God qualifies to lose your life! But the high animal skins should now cover their physical nakedness, as the animal's blood to cover up their "spiritual nakedness". And through the animal's blood was given forgiveness. THIS WAS THE FIRST BLOOD covenant between God and man! Then we find the same thing again in the story of Cain and Abel: "... Abel presented a sacrifice, he gave the first-born lambs in the flock and the Lord ....... then to Abel and his offering ..." (Genesis 4:2-5 1) God did not sacrifice to Cain, because it was only a vicarious LIFE BLOOD TO BE ABLE TO COVER OVER MAN SINS! Cain also knew this, but he refused to obey God, as he believed that the product of his work should be enough. From this we see that from the very beginning, was a covenant in God's eyes identical to a blood covenant. The blood could not be replaced by the fruit of man's own deeds! B: Covenant form and content A blood covenant can not be repealed. Those who enter into a covenant, must promise to give his life, his loyalty and his protection to each other forever - until death do them ad. We will look into this ... "After David's conversation with Saul were Jonathan's soul attached to David's soul. Jonathan loved him as his own life. The same day Saul took him out, he gave him no more to return to his father's house. And Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as his own life. Jonathan took off his outer jacket he was wearing and gave it to David, as war-clothes, yes, even the sword and bow and belt. So David went out. He lamented that the wise in all that Saul put him to. Saul set him over the war, his men, and he was well liked by all the people, even of Saul's servants. "(1 Samuel 18:1-5) Israel had a special ritual at the conclusion of a blood covenant. When two Jewish men met in such a covenant, this happened after a certain ceremony, in nine different phases. And all these ritual actions point towards Reconciliation of Jesus on the cross. 1. They replaced gown with one another. The robe symbolizes the person / owner. Through this action was said: "I ask my life and my property at your disposal." This points towards the Atonement. Jesus died and gave His life for us. We died to ourselves and live for Him. 2. They replaced the belt with each other. This belt made not to hold his pants up, but to retain their weapons, knife, bow, arrows and sword. Symbolic sets gave Mon apart everything that represented the strength and ability to protect each other. Was said by this action: "He who attacks you, attack me also. I will fight with you. I'll help you and protect you with everything in my power. I give my strength to you. If anyone comes against you, I undertake to fight with you. " "The Lord is my strength and my shield. To him have my heart set their trust, and I am helped. So rejoice my heart, and I will praise him with my song. The Lord is their strength. He is a salvation, protection of his anointed. "(Psalm 28:7-8) 3. Mon cut an animal along, so it was divided into two equal halves. These pieces allow you saw with the back side against each other, but with space between them for the covenant people. These two pieces symbolize a wall of blood on both sides, with the two covenant people in the middle. These were then back to back between the animal halves. In this way, was said to one another, "I die away from myself. I give up my rights. I do not just live for myself anymore, I live for you." This is a model that CHRIST DIED FOR U.S. AND LIVER AND IN THE U.S.! "I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. "(Galatians 2:20) ... And WE LIVE FOR GOD! "And God is not God of the dead but the living. For they all live to him. "(Luke 8:38 p.m.) "For none of us liveth to himself, and no one dies to himself. For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die unto the Lord. Whether we live or die, then we hear the Lord. "(Romans 14:7-8) 4. Matters were in a "figure eight" in between the bloody pieces. This "figure of eight walk" symbol of eternity. You would click on the center, face to face. They said therefore among themselves, "This covenant is eternal. Our journey together lasts until death do us part. If I die before you die, is my progeny committed to the Charter on. And if you die before I die, I am committed to meeting your offspring needs - whenever in my power. " (Wedding ring is actually a symbol that contains the same message that this figure of eight walk). Then said the curses upon themselves if they redeemed their covenant obligations. They pointed to the bloody beast that had been divided into two parts and said, "How may God do to me if I ever break this covenant." The walk forever pointing towards Calvary Covenant, which is an eternal covenant. "But the God of peace, who by virtue of an eternal covenant of blood caused great shepherd the sheep, our Lord Jesus from the dead, he must make you successful in everything good so that you may do his will, in that he works in us through Jesus Christ, what is good in his eyes. Him be glory forever and ever! Amen. "(Hebrews 13:20-21) 5. Mon held up his right hand, cut a small tear in the middle of the palm, and shook hands. While the blood was mixed, they swore allegiance to each other. They sealed the pact with the blood from their hands. This points towards Jesus' hands were nailed for our sake. 6. Mon renamed or had an additional name. (As with marriage). In this way, it was said: "You are a part of me and I am a part of you." Jesus has given us a new name through the Atonement. But this is only He who knows himself. "He who has ears, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches: He that overcomes, to him will I give of the hidden manna. And I will give him a white stone, the stone is a new name written which no one knows except the one who gets it. "(Revelation 2:17) 7. Mon knife warmed in the flame, and sealed his wounds (in hand) with the knife. The bar is now highlighted in their hands as long as they lived. This was an eternal memorial to the blood covenant. This mark should be reminiscent of the covenant responsibilities, obligations and rights. But this was also a testimony to others that they were not alone, but had a covenant partner. Anyone who would touch a covenant that was marked, must have expected to come into conflict with one that was stronger and more powerful than the first. Nail marked hands of Jesus is an eternal covenant mark of atonement on Calvary. When Jesus looks at his hands, he recalls the promises associated with the covenant. 8. So, eaten at a "covenant" meal. Usually, this bread and wine, with a symbolic significance. As the Lord's Supper the bread represented the body and blood wine. Man was thus "one" with each other. "Because there is one bread, we are one body we are many. For we all partake of the one bread. "(L Corinthians l0: 17) 9. Finally, traveled up a memorial on the covenant place. This could be a pile of rocks or tree that was planted, etc. This can also be likened to "erect a monument" of others. Jonathan betrayed King David when he needed him most 1. Samuel 20 40 Then Jonathan gave his weapons to the boy and said to him: Go and take them with you to town! 41 When the boy was gone, David came up on the south side [of stone], and he fell on his face to the earth, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed each other and wept together, and David sobbed. / 42 And Jonathan said to David: Go in peace! What we two have sworn in the name of the Lord when we said: The Lord be witness between me and thee and between my seed and thy seed for ever [it will be fixed]. 43 Then he got up and walked away, Jonathan went into the city. King David and his men fled from King Saul, the father of Jonathan. Here and Now said was oppbruddets hours to get to Jonathan, but he sought his solace and support in his father and his regime, which would kill David. It is possible for a time to ride two horses, but not in the long run. It's good to be a good diplomat, but here was Jonathan said goodbye to his cynical father, but he remained true against his father and was also killed along with his father in battle with the Philistines. Scripture says: 4 Numbers 32 23 But if ye do so, as sins against the Lord, and ye shall know that your sin will find you. What sin did Jonathan? Unnfallenhets sin. Scripture says: James 4 17 Therefore, the one who knows what he will do well and do not do it, for him it is sin. Jonathan had made a covenant with David, as he stood in full, there was his path. We can only hope that he was saved as by fire. But he was never completed their calling and ministry as he would be next after King David. He was not, but killed in the battle with the Philistines. 1. Samuel 31 2 And the Philistines were just on the heels of Saul and his sons, and they killed Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchishua, Saul's sons. 6 So Saul died and his three sons and his armorbearer and all his men on the same day. Jonathan fell - dead. King David fell and got up afterwards when he repented. Word. 24. 16 For seven times fall the righteous and stands up again, but the wicked of the calamity. Micah 7 8 Rejoice not over me, my enemies! When I fall, I will rise again, when I sit in darkness, the Lord light for me. Why "affected" is not this Jonathan? He had gone too far with his father, who dypes way is to follow the world and Satan. Therefore, when God calls you to break it is incredibly important to be obedient, if not the result can be disastrous! 2. Kor. 6. 14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers for what Samlaget have righteousness and iniquity, or what fellowship has light with darkness? 15 And what concord between Christ and Belial, or what cards and part has a believer with an unbeliever? 16 And what agreement has the temple of God, and between the idols? We're the living temple of God, as God has said, I will dwell among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17 Therefore, go out from them and separate yourselves from them, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you, 18 and I want to be a father unto you, and you shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord, the Almighty. God calls today from a people for himself, and not object to the Lord in some areas in your life. I can not say what God speaks to you and your heart, but never stand against God's call, but always say yes, would you betray - something we all do at times - so repent and confess it as sin. Have you first said yes to the Lord, he demands complete obedience. James 4 5 Or think ye that the Scripture speaks in vain? With the zeal of his desire, the spirit he caused to dwell in us, but the greater is the grace he gives. Will finally bring a true story. There was a lady who heard that her daughter had received a mission call, and paid too much for her mother. She said to the Lord, do not send her out on a mission field, take her either to you, I will not lose her. God heard her prayer, shortly afterwards, her only daughter died in a car accident. There is also saying no to God's calling. We see this with Jonathan, who had all the qualifications and had started on the road, but failed and was left behind, there was his path. Galatians 3 3 Is In so foolish? I started in the Spirit, are now made perfect by the flesh?