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Genealogy of Jesus part: 6 ( part 2 of King David) · The Living Freed Podcast

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Hey y 'all, I'm Hannah Liz, a Coastal Living,
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Jesus Living, NC native, and this is the Living
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Free Podcast. where we discuss intentionally
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living our lives to the fullest that God has
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intended, having those late -night, open -heart
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friend combos, not letting others, ourselves,
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or ideas hold us down, allowing Jesus to free
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us of the chains that we didn't know we were
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holding onto. You can see the full show notes
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girly pops? Welcome back to another episode of
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the Living Freed Podcast. I hope you're having
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a wonderful day because I definitely am. The
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sun is shining. It is no longer 100 ,000 degrees
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outside anymore. The humidity is leaving the
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air so we can actually breathe again and not
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feel like we're drowning. And I am taking full
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advantage of it. Speaking of full advantage,
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this past weekend, I did make it to the Bachelorette
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in time. In fact, I beat the bride there by like
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10 minutes. So I believe if you beat the bride,
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you're doing okay. So I beat her by 10 minutes.
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It was chef's kiss. But we got the best weather.
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Like truly could not have been better because
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the weekend before, all it did was rain in Wilmington.
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And now it's been nothing but sunny. I'm loving
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it. All the girls that came, because there's
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like four of us from Wilmington or two, I don't
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know. But there's a couple of us from Wilmington
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that also came and we were just telling everyone
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how lucky we are because the sun is shining and
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we just hadn't seen the sunshine in a hot minute,
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especially without heat coming along with it.
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Though, speaking of... you know, the batch. Let's
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do weekly updates. So yeah, went on the bachelorette.
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We went to a wild horse rescue non -profit farm
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place and it was so much fun. I was having the
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time of my life. If you look at the photos, you
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would have no idea that I was having the time
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of my life because my RBF is so real. But I,
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on the inside, I was smiling. I was having the
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best time. In fact, I thought I was smiling in
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all the photos, but I wasn't. So those will not
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be making it to social media, at least not on
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my side. Um, we also ended up going out to Bald
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Head Island and doing dinner and karaoke one
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night and we met the craziest group of older
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ladies. There was like 12 or 13 of them and they've
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been going on this yearly trip for the last 26
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years. They were so freaking funny, though. They
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did every karaoke song. And every once in a while,
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they would let us join and pull us up. But these
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ladies took over the whole place. I'd never seen
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anything like it. And you could definitely tell
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who were introverts in their group and who was
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not. And by the end of the night when we left,
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which was 11, only two of them were getting up.
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And one of the two did not want to get up there.
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There was really one person who was the ringleader.
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And you could tell she needed... the attention
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and she thrived on having fans and she I will
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say she had some fans we were a whole bachelorette
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group next to them and we were fans I was a fan
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yeah I really I don't know I enjoyed them but
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then one of them ended up in my chair on Tuesday
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I was giving her a blowout and we were talking
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about what we did this weekend and she was telling
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me and I was like wait a second I was at bald
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head and we connected the dots and she was in
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that group which was so crazy and those women
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are aging so well i needed to ask them their
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secrets because i want to age like that that's
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a dream they said the oldest one looks the youngest
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in the group and she was 72 years old and she
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did she looked like she was probably in her late
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50s it was amazing like honestly goals um okay
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after that we oh my gosh actually okay so yeah
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we were there for halloween night and the bartender
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of the restaurant was dressed up and one of the
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most authentic Beetlejuice costumes I've ever
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seen and he even did his hair and makeup I've
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never seen a man go to those lengths and we're
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waiting at the ferry for the ferry to come get
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us and all we see is Beetlejuice walking through
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the fog getting closer and closer and closer
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to us and it was a movie scene for sure um someone
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was like who said his name three times uh okay
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yeah and then we had the bridal shower and it
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was absolutely gorgeous she's a beautiful bride
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the shower is phenomenal the food at the shower
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was phenomenal and it was just so good to spend
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time with everybody there and get to know the
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other girls that will be at the wedding because
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we're only a couple weeks away and let's see
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what else have I been up to oh I dropped my roommate
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off at the airport she is in England right now
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with my old roommate And they are hanging out
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and having the best time. And I gave strict instructions
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to send me Snapchat videos. But I haven't received
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any yet. So, yeah. I don't know. Maybe I won't
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receive any. I did get a FaceTime video. And
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I loved that. So, Caitlin, Clara, if you're hearing
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this, you need to send me more. Because I want
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to live vicariously through you. and then um
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after that I went and stopped by my sister's
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house and saw her and the babies and they are
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so cute and so sweet and the newborn is just
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you know doing newborn things which is breathing
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air and being alive which is all you can hope
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for I think um I don't know I don't have children
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and newborns make me nervous but he seemed like
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he was doing really well and thriving and his
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older brother is definitely thriving. He was
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cracking me up. So it was just really fun to
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get to see my sister and the babies. Okay. Let's,
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let's, you know, move along. Let's talk about
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what is in. What is in is decorating for Christmas.
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Hands are up. Sue a girl. I will be decorating
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for Christmas while my roommate is out of town
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because I already have the decor and I want to
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put it up. And Hobby Lobby was doing 50 % off
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y 'all. 50 % off. I already bought three things.
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and only spent 14 i feel like i robbed the place
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so now i need to go back and buy more stuff so
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yeah i um i'm freaking pumped because um when
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you are single and don't have children it's really
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the little things in life and the magic of christmas
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is what's in for me i love the magic of christmas
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we have already watched a christmas movie i have
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played a couple christmas songs Um, so yeah,
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sue me. I'm decorating for Christmas and I have
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zero regrets whatsoever. Okay, what is out? This
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kind of goes with the Christmas thing. Driving
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to Raleigh is going to be so out. Like, I have
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to do it, so it can't really be out, but it's
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going to feel like it wants to be out. It's going
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to be officially out when January comes and I
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don't go back for four months because basically
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starting today, I will be driving to Raleigh.
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once or twice a week for the next six weeks until
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we get past Christmas. Yeah. Only because this
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marks when my brother's birthday happens. He
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was born in November. So it's really like, oh,
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sometimes Halloween. Sometimes I start going
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for Halloween, but I didn't this year. So it's
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like birthday, Thanksgiving, events, babies,
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all the little things, and then Christmas Eve
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and Christmas Day. And yeah, it's just a lot
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of driving that way. But I do love my family,
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so I will be doing it. I just will not be enjoying
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the driving portion. Yeah. So that's what's out.
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That's just not the vibes, you know? Just really
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not the vibes or the paying for gas. And next
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week I have to go back twice because I have to
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pick Caitlyn up. I get to pick Caitlyn up from
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the airport, come home, and then it's my brother's
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birthday. So then I'll go in for his birthday
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and then come home. And then it's like a week
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and then I go back. Or something. I don't know.
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Anyways, that is all I have for you today. We
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are going to dive into this week's episode. This
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week's episode, we are going with the genealogy
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of Jesus, which is perfect because we are getting
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closer to Christmas. So welcome to part two of
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David's story. If you remember where we left
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off, David and his men had just basically slayed
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a whole army by themselves, saved the wives,
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the children, and everything that belonged to
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them. In 2 Samuel, we know that Saul and Jonathan
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died, and that is when God has David begin his
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official reign over the people of Judah. But
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humans had other ideas, like they usually do,
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so those ideas take place. And one of Saul's
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other sons, um, kind of takes over Israel to
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be king. So obviously war was going to break
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out between the two because literally nothing
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else would make sense. Let's be so for real.
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David, it gets stronger because, well, God was
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on his side. and Saul's side just gets weaker.
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Saul's descendant that was sitting on his throne
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gets murdered, and David becomes king over all
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of Israel at like age 30, and David gets stronger
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and stronger because God is still with him. He
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has even more wives, so he has even more children.
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Now, we're going to jump into chapter 7. I'm
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going to read some verses for you, and we'll
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pick back up. This is verse 1 in chapter 7. Now,
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when the king lived in his house, and the Lord
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had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies,
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the king said to Nathan the prophet, See now,
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I dwell in the house of Cedar, but the ark of
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God dwells in a tent. And Nathan said to the
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king, Go, do all that is in your heart, for the
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Lord is with you. But that same night the word
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of the Lord came to Nathan, Go, tell my servant
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David, thus says the Lord, would you build a
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house for me to dwell in? I have not lived in
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a house since the day I was brought up out of
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the, brought up, With the people of Israel from
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Egypt to this day. But I have been moving about
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in a tent for my dwelling. In all the places
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where I have moved with all the people of Israel.
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Did I not speak a word with any of the judges
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of Israel? Whom I commanded to shepherd my people
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Israel saying. Why have you not built me a house
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of cedar? Now therefore thus you shall say to
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my servant David. Thus says the Lord of hosts.
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I took you from the pastures. From following
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the sheep. that you would be a prince over my
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people Israel. And I have been with you wherever
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you went, and have cut off all your enemies from
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before you. And I will make for you a great name,
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like the name of the great ones of the earth.
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And I will appoint a place for my people Israel,
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and will plant them, so that they may dwell in
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their own place, and be distributed no more.
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And violent men shall afflict them no more as
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formerly. from the time that I appointed judges
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over my people Israel, and I will give you rest
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from all your enemies. Moreover, the Lord declares
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to you that the Lord will make you a house. When
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your days are full and you lie down with your
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fathers, I will rise up your offspring after
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you, who shall come from your body, and I will
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establish his kingdom. He shall build a house
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in my name, and I will establish a throne of
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his kingdom forever. And I will be to him a father,
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and he shall be to me a son. When he commits
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iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod
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of men, with the strips of the son of men. But
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my steadfast love will not depart from him, as
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I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before
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you. And your house and your kingdom shall be
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made sure forever before me. Your throne shall
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be established forever. Okay, so here we see
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that God made a covenant with David. And it's
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kind of like a continued covenant to what God
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made with Abraham, David's great, great, great,
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great, great, great, great, great, great, great
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grandfather. That should be like 13 greats, by
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the way. Anyways, David continues to defeat his
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enemies, or rather Israel's enemies, and gets
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stronger and stronger because God is still with
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him. And in chapter 9, David finds out one of
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one of Jonathan's sons is still alive. David
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honors his friendship to Jonathan and honors
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God by giving Saul's grandson Saul's old lands
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and a place to eat at his table, which is basically
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to say like he's welcomed in his house and to
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be honored and respected. So after doing so many
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amazing things and asking God again and again
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and again if he should basically even breathe,
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David takes a metaphorical left turn without
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talking to God first in chapter 11. Let's pick
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up in verse 1 and we're going to read to verse
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5. In the spring of the year, the time when kings
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go out to battle, that's important, David sent
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Joab and his servant with him and all Israel,
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and they ravaged the Amorites and besieged Raab,
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and David remained at Jerusalem. It happened
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late one afternoon when David arose from his
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couch and was walking on the roof of the king's
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house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing,
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and the woman was very beautiful. David sent
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and inquired about the woman, and one said, Is
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this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Elam, the
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wife of Uriah the Hittite? So David sent messengers
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and took her, and she came to him, and he laid
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with her. Now she had been purifying herself
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from her uncleanliness. Then she returned to
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her house. And the woman conceived, and she sent
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and told David, I am pregnant. So, one, David
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was clearly meant to be at war, but was staying
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home for whatever reason he told himself. Two,
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David was looking at a woman. That was bathing
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in the privacy of her roof when she was cleansing
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herself from her period. So he knew why she was
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cleansing herself. And three, he got the info
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she was married and still decided to take her.
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He 100%, trigger warning, SA'd her and then sent
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her home. So you can assume, as we just read,
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he did not clear any of this with God. He wasn't
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where he was supposed to be, and he wasn't doing
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what he was supposed to be doing, and basically
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was living in opposite world. David is told she
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is pregnant, sins for her hubby, and he does
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his absolute best to get this man to sleep with
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his own wife while he is home. And you have to
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imagine, this man has been away from war, away
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at war, probably, I would hope, misses his wife
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and the comforts of her, comes home, gets the
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opportunity to see her, and honestly is like
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being instructed by his king to see her and he
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doesn't because the hubby is so committed to
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his king and his job that he slept at the door
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of David's house, okay? The door. He wasn't in
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the comfort of his bed. He wasn't in the comfort
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of his wife. He slept at the door of David's
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house after just being at war for who knows how
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long because I don't have a timeline. David then
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tries to get this man drunk. and then tries to
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get him to go home again to his wife, but this
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man still refuses to go. He does not go. I don't
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know about y 'all, but like if you've ever been
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drunk or been drinking, the best place to be
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is your own bed, okay? Well, and imagine if you
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are married or some of you might be married.
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I'm sure you like to be with your significant
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other, and he still refuses to go. So then David
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does some sketch work behind the scenes and gets
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Bathsheba's hubby sent to the front lines on
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purpose and purposely placed in harm's way to
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be killed. Terrible, right? So he does die. And
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this tells me that David doesn't seem much like
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a man after God's own heart anymore. But that's
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probably because he isn't really chasing after
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God's heart anymore. When Bathsheba finds out
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her husband dies, she is distraught and goes
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into mourning, but when her mourning period is
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over, David calls for her and makes her his wife,
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seemingly doing the right thing now. Um, this
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is where I want to talk about another trigger
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warning for infant loss. Because after all this,
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Nathan the prophet comes in and tells David a
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story of an injustice that had happened in his
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land. And David gets so upset about this injustice.
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And Nathan is like, aha, you are the villain
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of this injustice. And David's like, OMG, I'm
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so sorry. And I repent. And Nathan's like, that's
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great and all, but God, God loves it. Don't get
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me wrong. God loves that you repent and that
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you're sorry. But there's still consequences
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for your horrible actions so the baby will die.
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And David fasted and wept for the child's life
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for days. But the baby still passes. And I don't
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want to blow over this loss of the baby like
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it's nothing because it isn't nothing. But I
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do want to say that when we sin, our actions
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have consequences. And sometimes those consequences
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will affect innocent people. Okay, so now after
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all this and Bathsheba loses her baby and has
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lost her husband and has gone through the trenches
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with this man called David, she does get pregnant
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by him again. And this next child is named Solomon,
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who is going to be the next one in line for Jesus.
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During David's 70 years on the earth, he reigned
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over Judah for seven -ish of those years. and
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over all of Judah and Israel for 33, bringing
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his full reign to a total of 40 years. David
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went through times of rejection, persecution,
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and harassed. David might be a man after God's
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own heart, but he was also a murderer, a poor
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father, was guided by pride, didn't punish people
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when he should have, was quick to judge others,
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And he lacked discernment when he didn't go to
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God first. He is a really great human example
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of what it looks like when we don't seek God
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first. And these are all things, hopefully minus
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murder, that we all fall into. David was a man
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of faith, though. A faith in his God and faith
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that his God is faithful. He was bold, compassionate,
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repentant, respected authority, and often walked
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in humility. He had his moments of pride. but
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he more often than not walked in his humility.
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Through David's story, we see our next Christ
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-like representation. He was picked last by man,
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but picked first by God. He was rejected and
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harassed. He was compassionate, respected authority,
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and walked humbly. David shows us why we should
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seek God first and not rely on ourselves or humans.
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His story also shows us that we might be called
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or chosen for something, but it will happen on
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God's timeline and not our own. David is where
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the lineage of Mary and Joseph both come from,
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actually. Joseph coming from Solomon and Mary's
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coming from Nathan, not the prophet. but Bathsheba's
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other son. So both of them sharing the same father
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and mother. Okay, anyways, I know that one was
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a little shorter, but I know that genealogy has
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been a lot to take on. So hopefully you'll tune
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in for the story of Solomon next. Let's pray.
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Dear God, thank you so much for having these
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records put in place where we can see where your
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stories come from. The buildup, the tension buildup
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of... where Jesus comes from, the humanity behind
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it all, the faults behind it all, the horrific
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stories behind it all, but that you have a greater
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plan and purpose and there's always redemption
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in the end. Thank you for choosing us and loving
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us and giving it an opportunity for us to get
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to know you and your story and your son's story
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better. In Jesus' name, amen. All right, that's
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all I have for you today. Thank you so much for
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'all. Thank you.