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[Music] How many are ready for a word? I don't see those in the back. A little light, man. People who are like hidden back there, keeping a low profile. Greet someone and tell them, "You look great." Tell them, "You have grace, abundance, a blessing. Hallelujah!" There is a word that I released on Sunday here. How many came on Sunday? Nothing comes. Do you think they are the same ones who gather on Sundays and Thursdays? On Sundays, it's another church. On Sundays, we have another church. And there are those who come on Thursdays and Sundays, who are the ones who raised their hands. Yes, yes! A round of applause for those people from Thursdays and [Music] Sundays. The Lord put it in my heart that by His mercy and grace, I would preach that word to you who don't come on Sundays. Of course, God is so good that He threw in a few more things, eh, from what I said on Sunday. So you will receive that word by grace, and those who received it on Sunday will receive double. Amen. Hallelujah! Let's tell the pastor to come here so she can read me this biblical passage. It's Second Samuel, my love, chapter 16, from verse 5 onwards. The word says, "When King David arrived at Bahurim, a man from Saul's family came out from there. He was the son of Gera, and his name was Shimei. He was cursing and throwing stones at David and all his officials. And although the king was protected by the people and his personal guard, Shimei cursed him, saying, 'Get out of here, you wicked murderer! The Lord has punished you for all the crimes you committed against Saul's family to reign in his place. Now the Lord has handed the kingdom to your son Absalom, and here you are, a victim of your own wickedness, for you are nothing but a murderer.' Then Abishai, son of Zeruiah, said to the king, 'Why should this dead dog offend Your Majesty? I will cut off his head right now.' But King David replied, 'This is not your concern, sons of Zeruiah. If he curses me, it will be because the Lord has ordered him to, and in that case, who can hold him accountable for what he does?' Then, addressing Abishai and all his officials, he said, 'If even my own son tries to take my life, how much more one from the tribe of Benjamin? Let him curse, for the Lord will have ordered him to. Perhaps when the Lord sees my affliction, He will send me blessings instead of the curses I hear today.' Amen. Say with me, Amen. Amen. Thank you very much, my love. It was long, so I had to import an Argentinian with perfect diction for you to understand. Well, let me put you in context with what we just read. I want you to have a lot of patience with the introduction of this message because, eh, the foundation we are going to lay will be elemental for you to receive the principles, the principles we are going to unleash. Amen. Look, King David had many good seasons in his life and very bad seasons too. He started as a simple, forgotten sheep herder, and suddenly God's grace fell on him, oil anointed him, a prophet made him king. After being anointed as king, they took him to work in a palace. He was there for a while, then they persecuted him. David's life was like an up and down. But all those battles were like a sign of the projection of what he was going to receive from God. That is, many times the indicators that what we are going to receive from God is great are the battles we are receiving. Amen. The level of battle we are receiving sometimes indicates how great the blessing we are going to receive will be. Amen. There are battles that are provoked, eh, by circumstances beyond our control. There are others that are caused by decisions we make. That is, not everything that comes to us badly is because God interfered. There are things that are coming to you because you did something. You nudge someone with your elbow and they say, "Don't do that to me." Yes, yes, yes. So David is now experiencing a very difficult moment. Why? Because after he was at his peak, up there, in the place anyone would want to be, he was king of a blessed people, God's grace was with him, his enemies killed each other. David was at a level where he no longer had to go out and fight. He sent the ark, which typifies God's presence, and the army commanded by Joab, a cousin of his, a murderer, a hitman who took anyone down. They would go and bring victory. At that moment, David's carelessness entered. At the moment when everything was going well, there is a moment in your life, I know there are many people like that here in this church, that you go to the supermarket and buy, and you don't even look at the bill for what you did. Amen. There is a moment when your problem is not that. There is a moment in your life when there is no worry about the electricity bill. I don't even know how much it is. Pay it, pay it, pay it, pay it, pay it. You are ready. The problem is not economic. The problem is not attention. The problem is not sentimental. You are too relaxed there. That's when he takes advantage to get in, because when there is no battle, we tend to fall asleep spiritually. Hello. It says that the ark was under a tent on one occasion, and David was so relaxed that he started walking around the palace. He said, "You guys fight," and suddenly I see a young woman bathing, and he said, "Wow, and what a blessing this is! She came to me." Look, she's not your wife, David. But he's seeing her bathing, coveting her, desiring her. And it says that in that moment of relaxation, he feels the freedom and the power to send for that young woman. You know who I'm talking about, Bathsheba. Say with me, Bathsheba. Say, "The Bathshebas and the Bathshebas," because there are both. They are the trigger for countless problems. That combined with our illusion that God is my father and that everything will be fine, that is a trigger for countless problems. Grab that, because that is the origin of David's problem. David commits that. A few nice things happen. He forgot about it. David has his grown children, and they are all there, calm. And there is a son who falls in love with a half-sister. I know David had many wives. Listen, levels of madness! Now there is a son named Amnon who falls in love with a daughter of David named Tamar, whom he had with someone else. And Amnon rapes Tamar. David, as a father, is a bit severe with Amnon, but not like Absalom, who is a full brother. He waits for David to behave. David, David said, Absalom said, "This is not the judgment I wanted to be passed. This guy raped my sister, and my father did nothing." What does Absalom do? Ask me what Absalom did. He killed Amnon, avenging his sister. He made a procession. Listen, where the mess started, to put you in context of what you just read. No one here makes a procession and says, "Let's get my father out of the reign, my father is useless." The young man started working quietly and began to win over the officials, the warriors, the captains, he began to win over the elders, the tribal chiefs, everyone. He started to put them in his pocket. One day David went to sit on the throne, and there was no throne for him anymore. His own son had taken the throne. Repeat this word with me and say, "When the battle is within the house." All of David's enemies were outside, but he had an enemy within the house, and it was his own son. When David's enemies, including the hidden ones, those who were his reluctant friends because he was powerful, saw that David was in decline, they showed their true claws. There are people who pretend to be your friends because they cannot touch you where God has placed you. But in the descent, you will know who is who and who is not. It says that David was walking with his army because David lost many people, but he had about 300, who were 300 barbarians. I want you to know that David killed Goliath alone. Among those 300, there were people who finished off Goliath's brothers. There are some of them, Abishai himself, I think the Bible says that he once fought in a war and fought so much that his sword got stuck, he couldn't open his hand. They were war-hardened men. There was Joab, who was a mercenary. And it says that on that path, as they were going up, a young man from the tribe of Benjamin rose up. So you know that King Saul, who was David's predecessor, came from that tribe. He was family. This young man, from the servants of King Saul, and when he sees David in this condition, he begins to connect the dots. Pay attention, please. There are people who will always look for the cause of your misfortune according to the context they understand of what happened to you. There are people who, if you stumble, will say, "That's because you didn't lend me the 100 pesos I asked for." Look, this flu you're getting, it's because that guy asked you for medicine, and God is now making you sick with this flu. There are people who connect the dots. There are people with whom you have disagreements right now, that you don't stumble, you don't have an accident, that they will all attribute it to a divine judgment. Hello. This guy, Shimei, his name was Shimei. He sees David in decline, without a throne, wandering around, looking for help, support in his political meetings to see if he can return to the throne. And this guy starts shouting on the road, "Murderer! It's good that what happened to you happened. It should have been worse! Because of you, Jonathan died. You were the one who killed Saul." And it says that on the road, he was throwing stones at him, and on the road, he was throwing dirt at him. And you, that dirt, imagine, put yourself in the movie. Stones were falling on David, and dirt was falling on him. And it says that even though there were people protecting him, the guy kept cursing over the people. Abishai, who doesn't have much patience like David, says, "Master, why is this dead dog shouting here? Doesn't he know that from the moment he threw the first stone, he's dead?" He wants him to cut off his head right here. This is where the message begins. David says, "Don't lay a hand on him. Let him keep cursing. Let him keep wishing me evil. But David, I just had a revelation that God is ordering him and allowing him to curse me." Listen carefully. There are people who have risen against you and have targeted you, and you have to wish them blessings even though they are wishing you curses. Listen, David unleashes a mystery to these mercenaries who only know how to chop off heads and says, "Listen carefully, young man, you have to understand that if I rise with the strength I have now, I will damage the divine process. What I need is to finish being afflicted, what I am going to be afflicted with, because it may be that in the midst of this affliction, the Lord will look at my condition and turn all his curses into blessings for me." Raise your hand, I'm going to prophesy to you. Please, when you humbly accept the things that come from God, the Lord turns even the stones that are thrown at you into blessings. And the next thing that will happen to you is that what many wanted to happen to you, the misfortune they prepared, God will transform it into a blessing for you, for your house, for your children, and for your children's children. Someone clasp your hand like this and say, "Amen. I receive it in the powerful name of Jesus." Look, we're getting to the point. David here unleashes a few principles that, when you grasp them, you will put yourself on a higher plane than normal people who act under almatis. They are almatic. Number one: Move with a pacifist spirit. Repeat with me and write it down. Those who came on Sunday already have this principle. Put it down: "I have to learn to move with a pacifist spirit." A pacifist person is not the same as a peaceful person. Jack Michael, but they are not the same. A peaceful person loves peace but is at peace because there is no other option. Jack Michael, and what is a pacifist? A pacifist is someone who has the means to retaliate but still doesn't retaliate. A pacifist, you say a bad word to them, and they know more bad words than you and swallow them. A pacifist, you cut them off in traffic, and they come to talk to you, saying, "You cut me off." They come to talk to you with a machete. He has a pistol up there, but he doesn't take it out and says, "Let's leave it at that. We don't even need insurance." The pacifist has a special quality that the peaceful person doesn't have. Ask me what. The ability to cause chaos. David could have rolled that head. David could have finished that right there. "I don't want to hear you. Chop off that guy's head." But he decided not to. The Lord will allow many circumstances to arise until you develop a pacifist spirit. Touch the person next to you and tell them, "You see me like this, but I have the means to retaliate, but I will keep it. I will not retaliate." Yes, yes, yes. There are people sitting here who have things said about them, that if they opened their mouths and said what they know about others, they would cause chaos. But you know why? Because you are a pacifist. David, what did he do? He began to move in that spirit. "I have the ability to end all of this. I have the ability to kill my own son, but I am appealing to something else." What am I appealing to? Say with me, "Divine judgment." Because divine judgment and divine clemency will always be greater than my aggressive attitude. Amen. Number two: Try to understand the context and the cause of your battle and assume the chaos with humility. Write it down. "I have to learn, I have to learn to understand the context and the cause of my battle and assume the chaos with humility." What chaos? The one that is the product of my own causality, the one that is the product of something I caused. Do you know why David didn't bother to tell him who this guy was talking about him? Because when David analyzes the context, he knows that this guy is speaking with a legal, spiritual power that was granted to him. Because if David hadn't slept with Bathsheba, this wouldn't have happened. Jack Michael, what does Bathsheba have to do with what's happening now? And why did you start the message there? Now you're going to understand why I started the message there. The thing is, that's where the trigger for everything comes. When David slept with Bathsheba and realized that Bathsheba was pregnant, he didn't want to take responsibility for that child and wanted her husband, who was serving him in the war, to go back and sleep with her to pass off the child as his. David is evading problems, but there are problems that the more you evade them, the bigger they become. You have to face certain problems and cut them off because they are a snowball. And I don't know who God is speaking to today, but say, "At least there is... Ay, ay." Look, David was covering up the hole. He sends, "Send for this boy. What was his name? Uriah the Hittite. Send for Uriah because I need this boy so they don't say he's the king's son." He sends for Uriah, gets him drunk, gives him a lot of rum, as they say in the neighborhoods. And when he sees Uriah very drunk, he says, "My dear brother, I've had you here because I heard about your service there in the war. Thank you for defending the nation of Israel. Eh, go sleep with your wife. You don't have to fight anymore." David says, "I solved this problem." My dear brother, I went back. We're not in the story from the beginning. I'm talking to you about the cause of understanding the cause of the context. When David sends the guy to sleep with her, he says, "I've solved it." Well, the next day, when the rooster crows and he's leaving the palace, he finds that the guy never went to sleep with his wife but stayed to guard her. And he says, "I didn't tell you to sleep with your wife." "No, we are at war. I cannot sleep with my wife and leave you alone," he would say. Wow, I'm gaining points with the king. And the king says, "Wow, I'm going to send him a decoration with Captain Joab. He's right, this boy. We're going to promote him." Joab, put the guy in front. In the war, in the front line, and make sure that wherever you put him, they take him down because there's a problem. There's a problem that it seems we won't be able to solve. And Joab was of this type of friend. You know there are two types of friends. There's a friend you tell, "It's a person," and they say, "Man, I'll help you with the car." And there's another type of friend who calls the police. There's a type of friend who, you tell them, "I made a mistake, I killed someone," and they say, "Let's dig a hole to bury him." Others say, "Well, turn yourself in, man. I'll take you." Joab was one of those who dug the hole to bury Uriah. Joab, when he sees Uriah, says, "My brother, and how? And why did you come? Weren't you with the king?" "No, he sent you this letter." "I'm cold with that man, man. Put him in front so they kill him. Come on, give me some armor. Change this sword. Give me a different spear. Put that guy on the front line." So it was done. They sent him to the other side, my brother, in first class. They killed him. And David said, "I solved my problem again." But the more we cover it up, the bigger it gets. Time passed. The young woman's belly was getting big. The guy was going to take charge. She was a widow. Everything was fine. A prophet from God comes and falls on David and says, "David, listen to me, because what I'm going to unleash now, I hope it's that, but I think it will save your life. What I'm going to unleash now can save your life, because from this story, I analyzed one of the ways divine sentences come to us." Say with me, "Divine sentences." "Divine sentences." Did you know there is a divine tribunal? There is a divine tribunal, and there are sentences and judgments. And one of those judgments comes down. It's not simply that God says, "Let this be done, and let that be done." There are judgments that are different. There are judgments where God puts the judgment in your mouth. How so, Je Michael? Yes, He puts things that look a lot like you, but in another way. Because you know that sin in others is like, it's uglier. Sin in others is uglier. There are people who have a mistress and criticize another who has a mistress. There are people who stumble on a stone and then criticize the other who stumbled on that stone. So you have to be careful when you are going to issue a judgment about something that resembles what you are going through. Say with me, "Ooh, here comes the prophet Nathan." And he tells David, "Tell me, prophet of God." "There is a man here who received a visitor. He is a millionaire. He has many sheep. And he wanted to kill a lamb for the visitor. But instead of killing one of his own, he decided to take one from the neighbor who only had one little lamb." "How?" "And the neighbor gave it to him?" "The neighbor is foolish? No, he stole it." "Oh my God! But that man, he has to be... Wait, David, because when the neighbor went to claim that lamb, the man killed him." David became indignant, the kind that gets into you when you see that abuser, and it happens four times worse. And David, and the prophet told him, "It was to tell you that man is you, David. That having many women, you took the only woman that Uriah had. And when he claimed it, you killed him." Touch someone and say, "That man is you. Before you criticize someone, think that that same person is you. That person is you." Look, when he said, "Let it be four times worse," he himself said the sentence through his mouth. David's first child died. The first one who died was the one in Bathsheba's womb. One dies, Amnon. Two die, Absalom, later. And there is another who dies here, and since I'm mentioning names, I have to mention that name. Hallelujah, my soul praises God. Adonijah dies. Say with me, "Four times worse." He said it would be four times worse. So the hammer came down from above. You, that is his sentence. Jesus, listen to me. Jesus, protecting you and me from that. Listen to what Jesus says in the New Testament to protect you from that matter: "Do not judge, so that you will not be judged, because with the same measure you measure..." Oh, you didn't feel it, man? Listen, with the same measure you use to measure is the same measure you will be measured with. That's why, before you issue a judgment, always think that there is a hammer in heaven that can come down against you, because it may be that you are worse than the person you are criticizing. Give a round of applause to the Lord and take it easy. [Music] So, in principle number two, which is that when you try to understand the context and the cause, you begin to assume the consequences with humility. You have to assume it with humility. When David does that retrospective, that story I had to go into to make you understand, David says, "No, but this is nothing. Let them be. In truth, God is allowing him to curse me, and I deserve worse than what he is doing to me." Because the judgment the prophet sent was, "The sword will not depart from your house. Your sons will kill each other." When David is seeing this consequence, he says, "I have to assume it with humility." What happens? Principle number three is unleashed. Principle number three: Write it down. Do not follow the advice of Joabs and Abishais. Joab and, I already told you, they were two hitmen of David, captains of his guard. Do not follow them, because they are loyal to you, but they are not wise. Hello. There are people who are loyal to you but are not wise. So you cannot base your decision on following the advice of a person simply because they are loyal to you and have always been there. "It's that I have to go by him because he's always been there." No, there are people who have always been there but only serve to inflate your ego. Sometimes you need people who tell you, "Hey, you're not doing it wrong. Don't act that way." You have to know that Abishai and the Joabs have a specific function, which is not to advise you. Write it down, even if it's in your heart. Do not follow their advice, because their advice will interrupt God's purpose in your life. And who does this guy think he is to speak ill of you? So-and-so, no, no, no. Don't flatter me. I discovered a long time ago that in most cases, almost 98% of the cases, those who flatter you today are the ones who will step on you tomorrow. You understood that, right? Number four: Do not curse those who curse you. Do not curse those who curse you. Does anyone here know of someone who might be cursing those who curse them, who want to see them fail? Raise your hand like this. Here are people who... No. There are people who didn't raise their hands. There are people who are on another level of glory because they don't realize that. Glory to God for the one who doesn't realize it. Glory to God for the one who doesn't realize it. I realized it. Look, when God inspired me with this message, I posted a video on Instagram that says, "I was walking and it occurred to me to say, 'May God bless you, and may God keep you, may God cover you, may God put you under His hand, and may your phone ring with good news, and may you be spoken of at the table of important people.'" Amen. And someone commented, "Shut up, false prophet. Why do I want to be spoken of at the table of important people?" The Joab inside me, and the Abishai inside me, told me, "But curse that daughter of..." A rabid dog was going to get inside me and say, "She will die today." I was going to curse her, and God came upon me and said, "Bless her, man." "Lord, she's fresh, but this woman..." I went to her wall. When I saw that woman's face on her wall, that's when I felt pity. There are people you are angry with because you haven't seen their face. You see their face, and you say, "Father, have mercy on them. Do not hold against them what they are saying. It's the battle that has them deviating." Because you who use social media think that everyone who has a cell phone is mentally well, and you think that everyone who has a cell phone thinks like you. There are people, my brother, who were given a cell phone, and it was the worst thing they did. You look at their eyes and you say, "No, I understand." Yes, yes, yes. "May God bless you, may God keep you." The more you bless those who curse you, the more God's grace falls upon you. The more you bless those who curse you, the more God's mercy falls upon you. Do not enter into battle or war with anyone, because that is not your battle; it is God's battle. Look what the book of Luke says. The same Master Jesus speaking. This is a principle I didn't invent. This is a principle that Yeshua Jesus Himself says in Luke chapter 6, verse 28: "Bless those who curse you, and pray for those who slander you." Listen, to the one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and to the one who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic either. Why? Ask me why. Because the more mercy you express, the more your things are released from heaven. Listen, everyone gives from what they overflow with. The one who gives curses is because they are full of curses. But the one who expresses blessings is because what is inside them is favor, grace, mercy, and God's love to distribute. Five. Never forget this. Put your sword in its sheath and drink your cup. Jesus had a scene similar to David's. Abishai wanted to cut off Amasa's head, and David told him, "No, no, no. Don't cut off his head." But Jesus in Gethsemane, when the soldiers came, remember that Peter drew his sword. Peter had a killer's vein, because the others at least asked if they should cut off heads. When Jesus came to see, Peter had brought one of them his ear, had done a bad haircut to one. And Jesus says these words to him: "Peter, put your sword in its sheath, because the cup that the Father has given me, I must drink it." There are times when we are looking for people to defend us and get involved in our process, and it's because we haven't understood that there is a cup that we have to drink ourselves. There are people who have the ability to get you out of the problem you are in, but if they get you out of the problem you are in, they nullify the purpose God has for you, because in that problem is where you will learn and acquire the tools to move forward. So there are people you will have to tell, "Put your sword in its sheath. What you were going to do for me, don't do it. The comment you were going to make in my favor, don't make it. Don't defend me, because I have a lawyer in heaven." [Music] David told Abishai, "Leave him alone, don't kill him. I have the feeling that it is God who is making him speak what he speaks." Principle number six: Are you ready? Practice "I am nothing." Let's practice that. Say with me, "I am nothing." "I am nothing." Put your hand here on your heart and say, "I am nothing." "I am nothing." And now practice: "No one owes me anything." "No one owes me anything." There are people for whom you did something, and they paid you back with evil. That part of accounts receivable, we empty it today. Look, close your eyes. Close your eyes. Everyone who wronged you, everyone who betrayed you, who broke your heart, who bit the hand you fed them with, today they must be forgiven. That round: "I am nothing. No one owes me anything. I am clean." Listen, you will feel a peace. Take a minute. You will feel peace. There are people who betrayed your trust. There are people you gave love to, and they bit you. Today, discharge that part. "I am nothing, but I am surrounded by the One who is everything. God's mercy is all I have, and divine grace is all that keeps me standing." Amen. Drain all ego at this moment. Take a minute. Drain all ego. All ego that tells you, "How me? And why me? And how can they do this to me?" No, no, no. "I am nothing. Everything that is written from God can happen to me. Jesus was greater than me, and He had to die on a cross." "I am nothing. God's mercy is all I have, and it is all I glory in." Grace, favor, and mercy. Repeat with me: Grace, favor, and mercy. Amen. It is very important that you practice that, and I'm going to tell you something, and I hope you don't lose the anointing with this. Because the only one who won't feel God is Julio. I said it on Sunday, and I have to say it. Julio, the hand of Domino in an application we have. And why was Julio so cheap? I used to have a name, like "Old Ja," "The Best." And Julio would come, pa, pa, pa, pa. And I said, "I'm going to change my name." "I am nothing." Jack Dotter can tell you, like in the tournament, I'm up there, beating everyone. My holy brother, and when I win, I say nothing. I say, "I am nothing." Julio saw my strategy. See, the man isn't losing, and he changed his name. "The Humble One," he calls himself. Julio calls himself "The Humble One," and it worked for a while, but it wore off because the victories kept the man going. And suddenly I see Julio climbing again, and it's because the man changed his username. "Duchess," he calls himself. You didn't know why he called himself Duchess. It's because of that. He's further down from humility. Give him a round of applause, Julio, man. But the ego, speaking outside of that game, the ego prevents us from reaching the levels we need to reach. It puts a ceiling on us. And today, I want the ceilings that were preventing you from rising to fall. The higher you rise, the less you are. The further God takes you, "I am nothing." Give a round of applause to the Lord, for He deserves it. Number seven, and this will be quick. Be shrewd and start changing the divine sentence. If you know that in one area you are weak, and everyone around you are people who fail in your area, instead of stepping on them, start declaring good things for them and lifting them up. Then what will happen in the spiritual world is that the good you are sowing in the area where you are weak, God will repay you with strength. And the day it's your turn to be rewarded, God will have mercy on you because the only thing you have sown is mercy. Forgive whom you can. Lift up whom you can. Give a positive word to whom you can. Help whom you can, because what you sow, that is what you sow. Number eight. I only... I only said seven on Sunday. You have eight. This one, you have it. Those who came on Sunday, pay evil with good. Love, forgive, and forget. Love, forgive, and forget for your emotional health. Love, forgive, and forget so you can sleep well. Love, forgive, and forget. Ah, pastor, I've done so badly in romantic matters. I don't know if I'll love again. You will love again. The only thing is that this time, God will give you the wisdom to love the right person and to have the patience not to pour yourself out on cups that don't deserve you. Amen. But you have to learn, for that, first, to forgive, to forget, and then to start loving. Then, when those who hurt you arrive, repay them with good for the evil they did, and you will see how the levels of grace, abundance, and favor grow in your life. Amen. Thank you for that enthusiasm, man. Look what happened. David, this guy was at his peak. How is it that David is at a low point? He's kicked out of the throne, people are leaving him, he's only with his hitmen, with Joab, with Abishai, with 300 head-choppers, but there's no reign, no army. This guy took advantage of that low point to say, "You were a murderer." "Things are going badly for you." David achieved what he wanted. David became so small, so much nothing, that God began to transform all those curses into blessings. And suddenly, young Absalom, David's son who was pursuing him, dies. And the hearts of all the people begin to turn back to David. Everyone begins to understand that God was with David, that God was with David. So there is a biblical quote. Welfin, do you remember? Because we put it up last time. There are no screens today. Well, let's go. It doesn't matter. No problem. Let's find someone to read it here. Come on, someone with perfect diction. The pastor is busy. Who offers? He arrived. Look at him. Let me see. Let's read. This is Second Samuel, chapter 19, verse 16 onwards. Yes. So, look what happened. Continue. "And Shimei son of Gera, of the tribe of Benjamin, who was from Bahurim, hastened and came down with the men of Judah to meet King David. With him came a thousand men of Benjamin. Also Ziba, the servant of the house of Saul, with his fifteen sons and his twenty servants. They crossed the Jordan before the king and passed over the ford to bring the king's household and to do whatever seemed good to him. Then Shimei son of Gera fell down before the king when he had crossed the Jordan and said to the king, 'Let not my lord impute iniquity to me, nor remember the wrong that your servant did on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. Let not the king bear in mind that your servant knows that I sinned, and I have come today, the first of all the house of Joseph, to descend to meet my lord the king.' David replied, 'Abishai son of Zeruiah, and said, "Should not Shimei die, because he cursed the Lord's anointed?"' Then David said, 'What have I to do with you, sons of Zeruiah, that you should be adversaries to me today? Shall anyone be put to death in Israel today? For do I not know that I am king over Israel today?' And the king said to Shimei, 'You shall not die.' And the king swore to him. Wow. Take out your phone. Come on. Don't take it away. Hallelujah. Don't take it away, because everything is written down here. Look, do you remember the guy who was throwing stones? He saw now that David was coming with the people, and the guy said, "Oh my mother! So many stones I threw! I did throw stones and dirt! Oh my God!" The guy was wise and threw himself on his knees. David, "My father, my boss, forgive me. If you want, kill me, and whatever you want, but I shouldn't have thrown that stone." Wow, he seemed Dominican. He bent down, and one of David's choristers comes out, Abishai. I told you, one of the strongest hitmen. And they say, "Wow, look where God put him on his knees to cut off his head." Remember, don't listen to Abishai. Abishai is seeing divine justice. Look here, "Let's kill him." And David says, "Let's not kill him, because we have to repay evil with good. Let's not kill that poor crazy man." Remember, we saw his profile picture. Don't get involved with this boy. He told him, "My son, I forgive you." It was unleashed that David, not only when you read this chapter we just read, David began to forgive everyone who turned against him. A season comes where, for God to unleash what He is going to unleash for you, you will have to forgive everyone who turned their back on you and everyone who turned against you. David began to give chances, as if it were on sale. There was an issue of chances. "I have to forgive you. I forgive you. And I forgive you. I forgive you. And I forgive you." Why? Because when David cleared that accounts receivable, what came down from heaven was that his kingdom became more powerful, richer, more stable, more fruitful. Why? Because when we sow mercy, what flows from above is mercy. Look, I don't know if you remember the story of Mephibosheth, a son of Jonathan, David's best friend. He died with his father, Saul. There's a song called "The King Sent for You." How many have heard that song? "The King Sent for You." It talks about Mephibosheth. Mephibosheth was... there was a rumor, a very big one, because David had given Mephibosheth a chance. He sent for him with Ziba. Before all this mess, all this turmoil, he had seated him at the king's table, given him his father's land, kept him well. But David now sees that Mephibosheth is not at the reception. He's not at the reception. And why isn't Mephibosheth, son of the former king, here? And Ziba, who is the same one who let him fall when they wanted to rescue him as a child, so he wouldn't be killed by David, and left him crippled, Ziba, the same one who picked him up after David sent for him, tells David, "Mephibosheth didn't come because he's holding a political meeting. Supposedly, he's going to be the next king because he's from Saul's lineage." And you know, Abishai, Joab, Ugh, finally! We'll get to chop one of them. Finally, one will fall. Finally, a head will roll. That ungrateful person, and that rumor sounding good. Mephibosheth arrives on a horse, on a donkey. His nails, it says, he hadn't cut his hair, and his clothes were dirty.