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Davids Mighty Warriors Outline.

The Scriptures are so fill with wonderful and rich stories of the people who wrote them, their transformation, their behavior and character, due to the assimilation of the Word of God. These stories would eventually come to our libraries in these generations, leaving us profound and wonderful teachings, in such a way that we can, not only respect such Biblical characters, but also to learn about their customs, especially when it was a question of a personal relation with our Almighty God. The Bible always surprises us with those stories and descriptions, sometimes in such a way that one can find them bizarre, a bit complex or difficult to understand, but in reality there are so simple. The message of the Bible was, is, and will be a simple message, of our Father in Heaven looking for His creatures on a daily basis, so they can repent, return back [TShuvah] to His Commandments. The most important and First step is this: Repent, for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Mathew 3:2, 4:17. ESV. Thats been the message of God through the Prophets and finally through His ultimate manifestation of His Love, His own Shekinah Yeshua HaMashiach. Read the verses. 2 Samuel 23:13-17
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And three of the thirty chief men went down and came about harvest time to David at the cave of Adullam, when a band of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim. 14David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then at Bethlehem. 15And David said longingly, "Oh, that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!" 16Then the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and carried and brought it to David. But he would not drink of it. He poured it out to the LORD 17and said, "Far be it from me, O LORD, that I should do this. Shall I drink the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives?" Therefore he would not drink it. These things the three mighty men did. 2 Chronicles 29:6. Then the leaders of fathers houses made their freewill offerings, as did also the leaders of the tribes, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and the officers over the kings work.
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2 There is a parallel text on 1 Chronicles 11. This text named the Mighty Warriors of David, more than 30 men who were fighting with David, even when he was not in the throne, but was already anointed by Samuel. There is also a fascinated story about three guys who transformed their lives from one day to another. King David is tired from a long day, is probably hot, and suddenly the King gets thirty and the Scriptures said the he said longingly, "Oh, that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate! Is not an other of a feudal king, he knows that he can not put his men on risk, this is just a desire, he probably just whispered to himself, his heart desired to have water from the well in Beth Lechem (the same well that probably was in use years latter when Messiah King was born, who knows, I can only speculate). These three men were so close to the king that they were able to hear what the king wanted, so they decided to go to the Philistine camp and get the water for his king. Having a military background I would imagine that this guys would have a plan to sneak into the camp, carefully aim the well, get the water and get out the camp without having an engagement with the enemy, if not needed (I assume that just as a plan of a todays group of special forces would have). But is not the case with these guys. The text said that the three men broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and carried and brought it to David I can imagine those guys looking at each other, and without any words they decided to run to the well and get the water for his king. But then, broke trough in other words they smashed their way, they cross over the camp. Thats probably making a lot of noise. I mean, what these guys were thinking? The Chronicles of the Kings of Israel mentioned these three men, and said that nobody were like this three.

3 See, there were probably 300 men on Davids personal guard. Only 30 to 37 are mentioned as his mighty warriors, but only these three men were more special. Why? Because nobody were closer to the king but this three men. But not only that there were not only loyal to their king. They had passion to serve him. That to me was a way to say: Here we are Philistines, we are the servants of king David, he wants water, and we are going to do anything to get it for him. Even at the expense of our own lives. Dont mess with us. And so they left body parts, guts, blood, people screaming after they did this little water pick up operation. But again, they were close to the king. That is the key to be successful in this life. A couple of my favorite movies are The Patriot and Braveheart, both by Mel Gibson, I know they are bloody and full of uncomfortable scenes, but the reason I like them is because of History and peoples way of sacrifice to have freedom, which apparently can not be find without blood shed. Blood. Sacrifice. Two important things to remember. Remember the price that someone else pay for my freedom. Can you imagine the way those guys broke through the camp of the Philistines? Some Commentaries of the Rabbis and other Scholars regarding to this verses. Why David do not wanted to drink that water? Hes was a Torah observant. Love your Neighbor as yourself. Not only he was worry about his men. But he was not happy about the lives of his enemies. He learn to Love his enemies. Why this story is special to me?

4 See, those guys were really close to the King. That is why they were able to hear his Kings desires. And, how they were able to what they do? They have passion for their king. They were able to whatever it takes for their king, even before hi asked them for it. And without hesitation they will carry out his kings orders. This story is special to me. Because it made me think about, How close I am from my King Yeshua the Messiah? Are you close to the King? How close are you? If you dont feel that you are close to the King tonight, Ill give some tips that Im pretty sure will help to be close to him: Tips to be close to the King: When you go home tonight, Id like you to be close to the King. 1. Shut all the electronics off (TV, Computer, games, etc.) 2. You need to pray. Pray three times a day. Shacharit, Minchat, Avrit. 3. Read and Study the Scriptures. Not only read but also Study your Bibles. I always recommended a verse before to read and study. Then he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you,that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled." 45Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures [Luke 24:44-45]
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4. Celebrate the weekly Shabbat, come early to the classes and services of Shabbat. And if you can: Get involve in your congregation. There are so many things you can do in here. Come and do something for someone. Ask yourself, what can I do this Shabbat to serve the others, can I pray for someone, or even just to seat down and listen to someone, change the person you are eating

5 with each Shabbat, get know new people, say hello to visitors, make them feel welcome, that itself is a lot you can do to serve the Kingdom of the Lord. 5. Celebrate Rosh Chodesh every month. Star fresh every month. You need to know the meaning of what you are doing. On the day of your gladness also, and at your appointed feasts and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. They shall be a reminder of you before your God: I am the LORD your God." [Numbers 10:10]
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6. Celebrate the other Shabbats of the Lord. Get involve in the High Holidays. They all represent our Messiah. Leviticus 23:
Feasts of the LORD

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2"Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, These are the appointed feasts of the LORD that you shall proclaim as holy convocations; they are my appointed feasts.
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[SPRING FEASTS]
The Sabbath

"Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the LORD in all your dwelling places.
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The Passover

"These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, the holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at the time appointed for them. 5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is the LORDs Passover. 6And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. 7 On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work. 8But you shall present a food offering to the LORD for seven days. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work."
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The Feast of Firstfruits

6 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 10"Speak to the people of Israel and say to them,When you come into the land that I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf ofthe firstfruits of your harvest to the priest, 11and he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, so that you may be accepted. On the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12And on the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb a year old without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD. 13 And the grain offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, a food offering to the LORD with a pleasing aroma, and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, a fourth of a hin. 14And you shall eat neither bread nor grainparched or fresh until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
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The Feast of Weeks

"You shall count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering. 16You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then you shall present a grain offering of new grain to the LORD. 17You shall bring from your dwelling places two loaves of bread to be waved, made of two tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour, and they shall be baked with leaven, as first fruits to the LORD.18And you shall present with the bread seven lambs a year old without blemish, and one bull from the herd and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to the LORD, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 19And you shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old as a sacrifice ofpeace offerings. 20And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.21And you shall make proclamation on the same day. You shall hold a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work. It is a statute forever in all your dwelling places throughout your generations.
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"And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the LORD your God."
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[THE FEASTS OF FALL]

The Feast of Trumpets

7 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 24"Speak to the people of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation. 25You shall not do any ordinary work, and you shall present a food offering to the LORD."
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The Day of Atonement

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 27"Now on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall be for you a time of holy convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves and present a food offering to the LORD. 28And you shall not do any work on that very day, for it is a Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God. 29For whoever is not afflicted on that very day shall be cut off from his people. 30And whoever does any work on that very day, that person I will destroy from among his people. 31You shall not do any work. It is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwelling places. 32It shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict yourselves. On the ninth day of the month beginning at evening, from evening to evening shall you keep your Sabbath."
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The Feast of Booths

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 34"Speak to the people of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths to the LORD.35On the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work. 36For seven days you shall present food offerings to the LORD. On the eighth day you shall hold a holy convocation and present a food offering to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you shall not do any ordinary work.
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"These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim as times of holy convocation, for presenting to the LORD food offerings, burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its proper day, 38 besides the LORDs Sabbaths and besides your gifts and besides all your vow offerings and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to the LORD.
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"On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of the LORD seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest. 40And you shall take on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the
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8 LORD your God seven days. 41 You shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month. 42 You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All native Israelites shall dwell in booths, 43that your generations may know that I made the people of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God." 44Thus Moses declared to the people of Israel the appointed feasts of the LORD. [OTHER FESTIVITIES] Purim and Hanukkah. We know that these ones are not establish by the Lord, but are in line with the traditions of salvation of the Jewish People, and we have evidence of at list one of them [Hanukkah] was celebrated by our Messiah. At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter, 23and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the colonnade of Solomon. [John 10:22-23]
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The Bibles festivities may be identified with the covenants and Messiah Yeshua: At Passover, we left Egypt [Sin] slavery, we receive the promised blessing, Jews and non/Jews went out together into the wilderness to form the nation of Israel. The death of Yeshua is on Passover. [Luke 22] The festivities that serve as a link to connect to Passover with Shavuot[bread without leaven, Omer, First fruits], are perfectly integrated with the Messiah. His resurrection and His Ascension happen is this period of time. Shavuot, the promise is revealed in the Torah, we received the Torah to be a nation "to remain faithful to the Lord" [Deuteronomy 4:1/8]. Is fulfilled the promise of the Master to send the Ruach Chacodesh to His Talmidin, to make them witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the Earth. Promise wich was given to the 120 and the 3000 pious Jews comoimng from all the nations who were in the Temple [Acts 1:8; and 2]. Yom Tera/Rosh HaShanah. The Reign of the dynasty of David from the Tribe of Judah. Yeshua is called the Son of David in the

9 Apostolic writings. Yeshua will come back again as King of Kings and Lord of Lords [Zechariah 14:4,9; Luke 1:11; Revelation 19:16]. Yom Kippur. Time to clean up our sins. The Jubilee year starts on Yo m Kippur. Time of the Final Judgement. We ensure that our names are registered in the books of life. [Revelation 20: 12-15;21: 27] Sukkot. We will live together with the Lord in the Sukkah. It is traditional in this festival to invite the Patriarchs to the Sukkah. Yeshua was born in a Sukkah [Emmanuel _ G-d with us]. Without a doubt, the Covenants, promises and the festivities, are one in Yeshua the Messiah. He is at the base of all. He is the hope of life after death, He is the resurrection and life. Are you close to the King? If you are not close to The King, hope you start to get close to him tonight. And if you think that you are close. You can get even closer and serve him with passion. With Love in Messiah, Ren Oswaldo Jaco, Congregational Leader.