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2 Samuel 11 (Part 2) Bible Study | Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  What a couple weeks has been a couple weeks since we met here
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  on a Friday night. Feels like two years.
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  Well, we're still in second Samuel.
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  Nothing has changed. We're still in that Infamous
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  chapter of second Samuel. So let's go there together and
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  second Samuel in Chapter 11. Second Samuel, 11.
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  And Lord, we do ask that you would bless this time in your
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  word and that there would be a sense of your nearness and our
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  hearts would come alive a fresh in you.
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  Oh Lord. We are in continual need of your
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  Restorative mercies and we pray that you would restore our
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  passion for you. And that you would take it to
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  new heights. Lord, you would open up our
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  appetite again, for righteousness, for wisdom, for
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  the knowledge of our God. And so Lord, may this be a time
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  where we sense the leading of the Holy Spirit?
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  Even now, as we come to this word, we pray that you would
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  speak. So specifically into each of our
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  lives. And so Lord, we just pray that
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  you would shatter all distraction.
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  All unbelief, anything that would be an obstacle to your
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  word, having its way in our very lives.
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  We trust in you Lord, we thank you for a house on a Friday
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  night that is eager to be in your presence.
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  We bless you for that in Jesus name.
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  Amen. The final words of our last
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  Bible study, which was about three weeks ago, Were the
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  dramatic heart-stopping words of a woman named Bathsheba who
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  declared very simply. I am pregnant.
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  Now, usually, that news is a company by joy and excitement,
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  but not in this case. This woman who gave this report,
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  gave it to not her husband, but to another man, and we know from
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  our study in the beginning of second, Samuel, 11 to that man
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  was King David. The nation's leader, the nation
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  psalmist, the man after God's heart.
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  And why is David receiving the news of uriah's wife's
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  pregnancy? And the answer is very simple
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  because he is the father Undeniably he is the father of
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  this child. And when you think about that
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  alone, you realize that the evolvement of these events is
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  really a picture of house in evolves in our lives.
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  You see, this was just a secret night of passion between two
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  people and now it is morphed into a scandal that could easily
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  make national news and put so many people to shame.
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  And sin, the DNA of our iniquity.
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  When it is conceived, does not stay in that embryo stage, it
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  will grow, it will continue to grow and the direction of its
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  growth is domination. It wants to dominate your life.
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  It does not just want to stay in a nice little corner where you
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  can visit it from time to time. It wants to own the house and
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  from there it also wants to bring as much destruction as
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  possible in your life. James tells us that When sin is
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  Sieve, that doesn't stay there. It wants to bring forth death.
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  And if it's not dealt with early on, you would be amazed to know
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  what once in can do to a life, what it can do to a marriage,
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  what it can do to your finances, what it can do to your body, how
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  we can prematurely bring death and Untold measures this is why
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  God put this in our Bible. So that what we see in David's
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  life at this point, would burn in our memory so that we would
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  never ever, ever for a moment. Think that we are impervious to.
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  ^ sin, scripture warns us if anyone thinks he stands.
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  Now pause, if you're in this place sitting excited because
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  you realize you have a desire to be here on a Friday night, look
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  how holy you are. Look how look all close.
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  You are to the Lord. The Bible says, if you think you
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  stand, let that person take heed.
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  Lest he falls in other words, when you're doing just right,
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  that's when you should be the most cautious and David, Really
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  did not take heed and we're going to see what he's going to
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  do with this news because you and I heard a few Bible studies
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  ago that there are only only only two options when any of us
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  are caught in any transgression. Do you remember those two
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  options? To they both start with the
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  letter c that helps. Confess it confess it.
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  Yes. What's the other one conceal it
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  very good. Those are really the only two
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  options that you and I have, when we are in a pit, we either
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  confess and along confess, repent of that sin or we conceal
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  and oftentimes continue. In that sin.
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  David has those two choices when this report comes to his front
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  step. And unfortunately, he will
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  choose the latter. He will choose to conceal it.
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  And because he will conceal it. The rest of this chapter is
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  going to explain what will happen.
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  Here's the thing, the reason why we are so tempted to be
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  magnetized towards concealing, our sin is because the path of
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  concealment seems to promise the least pain.
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  Right. The least pain of Shame of
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  hurting others of hurting our ministries of hurting our
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  reputation. That's why we concealed, there
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  is a false promise of an easier way of Escape.
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  When we choose to hide and put our sin in the dark instead of
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  coming clean before the Lord and before people that need to know
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  about that sin and say I need to, I need to turn, I need the
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  Lord to help me. Can you help me?
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  David's not going to do that. And what we're going to see is
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  the outcome of his concealment, it's going to really be a study
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  of the devastation that comes when you and I choose to not do
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  it God's way when it comes even to our failures.
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  And again, let me say this, I hope that the imagery that will
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  be brought before you today will be something that you will hold
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  on to. So that you would never ever
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  ever trust in human wisdom when it comes to your sanctification.
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  I thought we were going to finish this chapter, there's
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  just no way unless we just really do an injustice to this
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  text. So here's what I'm going to do.
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  I'm going to read from verse 6, down to verse 13, you're going
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  to follow with me in your Bible and then I'm going to ask you
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  what stands out to you in our part. 2 of second, Samuel 11.
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  And let's see, where the spirit leads us.
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  Remember the last three words? That drop the curtain on our
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  last Bible. Study was I am pregnant.
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  Now we come to verse 6. So David sent word to joab.
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  Send me Uriah the hittite and job sent Uriah to David and
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  Uriah caned. Him?
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  David asked how job was doing, and how the people were doing
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  and how the war was going. Then David said, to her I ago
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  down to your house and wash your feet.
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  Uriah went out of the King's house and there followed him a
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  present from the King. But Uriah slept at the door of
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  the King's house, with all the Servants of his Lord, and did
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  not go down to his house. When they told David, Uriah did
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  not go down to his house, David said, to Uriah, have you not
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  come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your
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  house? Your eyes said to David, The
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  Arc, and Israel, and Judah, dwell in booths, and my Lord
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  Zhao have in the Servants of my Lord are camping in the open
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  field, shall I then? Go to my house to eat and to
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  drink and to lie with my wife, as you live and as your soul
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  lives, I will not do this thing. Then David said to Uriah remain
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  here today also. And tomorrow, I'll send you back
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  So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next and David
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  invited him and he ate in his presence and drank so that he
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  made him drunk. And in the evening, he went out
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  to lie on his couch with the Servants of his Lord.
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  But he did not go down to his house.
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  Whoever says, the Bible is boring.
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  Shame on you. How can you say that this is
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  riveting. I've always said, if had the
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  budget, I would totally make either a movie or a series on
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  some kind of channel of the life of David.
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  This is, this is fascinating. Well, what sticks out to you
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  from these verses that we read today, anything?
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  What a contrasting character this menu Riya has to David.
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  He will not budge. I'm committed to the mission
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  that God has called me to you. I'm committed to my God, he he
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  just can't move from that place. Absolutely.
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  Yes. David
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  Again, that's a great observation, the contrast
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  between David and Uriah David stayed home during the war,
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  Uriah would not go home because of that same War.
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  Not amazing. Interesting.
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  Yes. Anything else.
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  Deception. Very good observation.
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  There is deception a lot of it and it is unfortunate.
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  Yes, John got him drunk. It's a very nasty strategy but
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  it's a very common one. Yes.
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  Anything else? He made him get comfortable as
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  much as possible. And comfort did not make him
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  waiver. Yes.
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  Exactly. So David's influence is to bring
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  him to the same level of where he was at at this point in his
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  life. Yes.
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  Yeah, that could be true or is David wanting Uriah to go home
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  to cover his tracks? Oh yeah, interesting.
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  Yes. Very good reputation and Status
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  does not equal character. Absolutely, Very good.
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  Well, shall we continue? Let's look at verse 6.
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  So David sent word to joab. Send me Uriah.
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  The hittite strange request and jobs sent Uriah to David.
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  Now, right there in that verse you, and I have an idea of the
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  great power and the great Authority.
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  That David possess this man, by one word can tell somebody to go
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  tell somebody to come, No questions asked, and no reasons
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  to give any answers to his commands.
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  This is the jurisdiction. This is the kind of position
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  that David possess and it was granted by God.
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  In fact, you're going to realize very soon that David had such
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  overwhelming Authority that by the word of his mouth.
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  He can determine whether a man lived or died.
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  And again this is an awesome thing that the Lord permitted
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  and you know the the well-known saying with great power comes
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  what great responsibility. Let me add to that.
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  With great power comes great temptation.
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  Great Temptation the temptation of those who hold any kind of
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  position of influence is to abuse that power in order to
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  satisfy selfish feets. Even at the expense of those who
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  trust that you are operating in integrity.
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  And so David here, he's done much good as a king but you're
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  seeing something in him here that you don't really see on
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  this level when he was a servant.
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  When he was a servant, he was very cautious.
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  He had a very soft conscience here.
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  Now, as a king, I believe a great part in What tempted him
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  was his ability to remove or Escape or to get rid of things
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  that might make him look bad. And so I want to just say this
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  right off the gate, if your person who craves position,
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  craves titles, crave status, you have no idea what you're getting
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  yourself into. I actually believe that the Lord
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  concerning his children doesn't bless them.
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  This might take a shot at the Prosperity Gospel, but good
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  doesn't give the same amount even of success.
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  In terms of monetary gain, because he knows as a father
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  that this will destroy this person.
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  God gives Grace to callings, right?
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  And if you don't have that Grace and you can actually be destroys
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  enough trouble. Even operating and what God's
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  called you to do, even if he's giving you the grace, never
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  mind. Trying to explore something that
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  doesn't belong to you or that you can't handle.
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  And so we see here that David is operating with a power and
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  that's giving us a set up to what he's going to do with that
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  power. Now, here's what's fascinating.
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  What I thought about when I came to?
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  This was Moses was told when he was the only only really judge
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  of Israel to hire or to raise up more judges to be able to lead
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  the nation of Israel and his father-in-law comes on the scene
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  and gives him. Gives him a list of qualities
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  can to consider for the future Prospect of Israel's leaders.
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  Does anybody remember one of the main features that Moses should
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  look for concerning a man who would judge the nation?
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  If you want to reference its Exodus 18:21, I'll read it to
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  you and you can mark it if you want.
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  But listen to these words when Moses was advised, here's the
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  type of people that you want in different spheres of power who
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  overlooked the responsibility of shepherding people.
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  Here's what I want you to find in people, he says in Exodus
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  18:21. Moreover, look for able men, so
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  there's ability from all the people men who fear God, Men who
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  fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe.
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  And place such men over the people, as Chiefs of thousands,
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  that's one sphere of hundreds, that's another of 50s and of
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  tens. So, whether it's 10 or 1000,
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  what you need to find, Moses is men who fear God.
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  Now, listen, this is not a very exhaustive list for a resume and
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  I think that's by Divine Design. Here's why.
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  Because if you can find somebody who fears God, you don't need to
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  really look for much else. If you can find a person who
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  fears the Lord, you don't really have to look for anything else.
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  Because a man who fears, God Is So preoccupied with their
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  behavior with their decisions, both public and secret, doing
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  everything before the Divine much more, much more of a
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  concern than their reputation before mere mortals.
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  A man who fears, God has a sense that he is accountable.
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  And he is responsible for the almighty before.
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  Anything else. He realizes that God is the one
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  who dictates his own life and his motivation to please.
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  God is so strong. Listen, he says those who are
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  trustworthy and hate a bribe, I believe those are the byproducts
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  of fearing. God, when you fear God, you are
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  trustworthy when you're when you fear, God no amount of threat or
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  no amount of invitation. No matter of Temptation will
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  sway you, your rock solid because You live before God, you
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  don't live before a price tag. You don't live before the
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  threats of men who are dependent upon every breath, granted by
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  the very God, that you fear. And so, we see here that men who
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  fear God woman, who fear God is a wonderful quality you have and
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  you don't need much else to ensure.
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  Listen to this humility and Justice in high ranks.
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  Now, if that is true, and I thought about that in my study,
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  I asked this question. Well isn't David a man who
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  fears? God When we all agree, that
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  David was a man who feared God. Absolutely.
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  So if that is the case, if the great antidote is to fear the
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  lord, then how do we explain David's Behavior at this point?
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  How do we explain his conflicting convictions and all
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  God is good. A verse that I've read in the
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  Book of Proverbs shot into my mind and I didn't remember the
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  reference not to pull out of my Bible, not to look into the
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  pages and I found it but you glad I found it.
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  It will really help if you have the ESV, if you don't, I'll
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  explain but it's in Proverbs 2814.
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  And that's a verse that I'm going to invite you to turn to
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  and Proverbs 28 14. We read something very
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  insightful in light of the fear of God, the application of the
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  fear of God. Proverbs 28 verse 14.
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  Reads blessed is the one who fears the Lord.
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  When always But whoever hardens his heart will fall into
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  Calamity. Now, the Hebrew does not include
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  who fears the Lord. It just has who fears or who is
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  always reverent. And I believe the translators of
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  the ESV included the Lord. Because when you consider the
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  entire consensus of the Bible, there is no fear that the Bible
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  encourages you. And I to have unless it's a fear
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  towards God. And unless it's a fear towards
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  the authority that God has appointed.
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  And so, I think that's okay. Your to understand.
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  This verse says, blessed is the man who fears the lord always,
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  and the key word in this verse is what always adult time in all
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  circumstances, in all contexts fear, God always, which tells me
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  it's possible to fear God sometimes In some places before
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  some people wink, wink pastures. In some areas, wink week, like
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  in a place where we're at tonight.
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  If you think that this verse is hard to understand, it's very,
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  very simple. I'll prove it to you.
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  How easy is it for us to switch on?
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  Reverence, for God, when we walk into a sacred place like this,
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  but when we switch to write off, when we go into a place, like
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  our living room, we know how to switch on and off the fear of
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  the Lord. I've seen heathens do it.
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  I've seen heathens cuss and do all these things, and once they
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  come to an ancient Church in some historical site, then
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  realize we're going into a church building.
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  Oh, let's just be quiet. People know how to turn this
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  thing on and off, huh? And the Bible says, no fear.
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  God always when you're alone, when with your friends.
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  When you're with your spouse, when you're not with your
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  spouse, when you're on the business trip, when you're on
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  the family trip, fear God all the time.
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  And that will ensure you great protection and Grace at all
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  times. And David unfortunately did not
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  take heat to this proverb, and you would reap the Sorrows of
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  it. So you, and I have to make a
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  conscious decision. There has to be a discipline
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  where we live in light of the presence of the All-Seeing
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  all-knowing. God everywhere everywhere.
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  So, when you go on vacation right in the summertime, when
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  you go on vacation, this winter, you're not taking a vacation
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  from God. See what I'm saying.
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  You're not not spiritual there and then you come back and you
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  get spiritual again. That doesn't work.
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  That's not going to get you blessing.
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  That's going to get you in trouble.
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  It's gonna get you in trouble. Wherever I go, God, is with me.
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  Hey, you're gonna invite me over to house, Guess who's coming?
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  Jesus? I'm not going to be somebody
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  different from the pulp and off the public.
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  Jesus is coming with me. So if you want me to come, Jesus
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  is coming along, I hope you have an extra seat.
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  I hope every believer has that caliber of faith that that's
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  what's going to make us holy and strong and bear consistency for
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  the glory of Jesus Christ. So we see that.
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  David then if you're God here, he let it go.
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  He brought it down and it would cost them much.
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  Now we read in verse 7, when you ride came to him, David asks how
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  job was doing and how the people were doing and how the war was
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  going. This verse infuriates me, It
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  infuriates me. I don't know about you because
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  we heard it from our sister. Here's a man who summons a
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  faithful servant into his presence who organizes this
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  meeting disappointment. And he pretends to be concerned
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  about this war and he makes inquiries for clarification.
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  Listen, David. If you were so concerned about
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  the war, why aren't you there? So here's a man who just coats
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  his his words and his heart by pretending to make this about
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  some kind of evaluation of a war.
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  When in reality it was a scheme. It was a scheme to make you
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  write unsuspicious of an Allure meant to bring him into his home
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  after a journey being away from his wife and to hopefully see
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  his wife and him come together and to enjoy their rights.
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  Rights within the confines of marriage.
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  And cover the tracks of adultery.
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  That's what this man is doing. And when I looked at this, how
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  he has Joe, how's job doing it. How are the people doing?
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  And this is deception. And here's the point that I want
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  to make in light of our theme tonight that when you and I
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  choose to conceal our sin when we choose to hide it and not
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  repent of it and not confess it to those who need to know about
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  it. The adoption of deception is
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  guaranteed. You will become a liar, you will
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  you lie to yourself, you lie to your friends, you'll lie to your
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  parents, you'll lie to your pastors, and here's what happens
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  when a person conceals their sin.
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  When there's something going on, that people are not aware of,
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  you learn to play pretend And you pretend like everything is
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  okay. When in fact, it's not and
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  that's exactly what this man is doing.
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  And it's a sad single thing to see because it only adds to the
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  pain when it will be exposed notice.
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  I said, when not, if it will be exposed, God loves his children,
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  too much to leave us in our sin and to think that we can succeed
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  in concealing it. In love God exposes so that we
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  can receive the healing and the grace and the restoration that
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  we need, and he will not be mocked additionally.
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  Its, this is very painful to see because when we refuse to
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  confess our sin, what we also do is Rob ourselves of the grace
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  and the guidance that we can receive from those who will are
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  willing to embrace us in our sin, And say, look I admire your
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  humility look, we got to learn to be a people.
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  God forbid, that we would be caught in sin, but we need to be
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  a people who learn how to confess before were caught.
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  Don't wait till it's exposed and then you, you confess.
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  Again, God forbid, I want to Echo the words of John.
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  If anyone is in any transgression, if not, when if
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  Just deal with it, immediately deal with that as soon as
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  possible come to the lightest quickly as you can because it's
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  going to happen, you're going to see that, no matter how clever
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  you and I are God knows how to pull the sheets.
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  And they were you are right? And we only add to the problem.
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  You only add to the issues when we do things like lie and sadly.
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  The deception only continues in verse 8 because now he
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  encourages Uriah you can says hey why don't you go down to
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  your house and wash your feet and other while in other words,
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  Stay Awhile. Wash your feet.
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  Relax, kick back, hang out. I'm giving you a leave of
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  absence. I'm letting you be removed from
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  the war so that you can spend time at your house and then, you
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  know what he does, he gives him a gift, the king sends Uriah
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  with a gift. So that when you ride comes with
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  this great honor from the King, it would put him and his wife in
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  good spirits. Right.
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  And make them just feel honored and excited.
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  And we just only add to the possibility of them.
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  Embracing embracing one another. And that's, that's quite
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  insightful. Because when those who are in
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  sin, when those who are concealing sin in their lives,
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  they don't just don't just apply the facade, that all is well.
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  They do more than that. Sometimes they add to that.
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  A layer of a presentation of Charity and goodness and
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  kindness to try to fool others. Right.
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  And so what happens is you put on another level of a show
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  especially to those who you really don't want to know about
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  what is going on. And it's a false sense of
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  fruitfulness. And so, We do what we're told
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  and we serve in our Ministries and we even sometimes go the
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  extra mile and be and be extra nice and what we're trying to do
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  is the same thing we've been trying to do in the beginning.
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  Just fig leaves covering our shame and think that we can
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  mislead God and mislead others so that they don't see our
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  nakedness. They just see what we are able
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  to produce when in fact we're trying to bury ourselves Under
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  some kind of form of distraction.
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  Even if that distraction is some kind of public display of
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  righteousness, People do I did you see how I love the Bible?
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  I love the Bible because I can't think of any other book in the
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  world that has surgical Precision in determining and
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  explaining human behavior. It's incredible.
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  No other book can expose the depths of the evil of the human
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  heart. I mean, this is an ancient story
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  from hundreds and thousands of years ago and yet we still see
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  the same patterns being repeated and 2023.
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  Because we're all infected with Adam, sinned curse and fall.
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  So he does that it's go, here's a gift, enjoy yourself.
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  And the sad verse that, we just read is now juxtaposed with an
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  inspiring one. We just saw it when we read it
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  together verse 9, but Uriah slept at the door of the King's
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  house, with all the Servants of his Lord and did not go down to
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  his house. You've been away from home for
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  so long. Even been, given a green light
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  from your boss that you can now go home and you can see your
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  wife and you can go into your comfortable room.
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  And this man. Refuses.
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  You're going to see why in a couple of verses, but right from
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  here, we realize that he upheld righteous conviction, even
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  listen above comfort and gratification.
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  That's what makes a real Soldier and you and I are called to be
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  soldiers in the faith. According to second Timothy, The
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  sense of Duty and Mission taking primary place above, what can
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  satisfy you. That's what makes Christians
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  effective here. We see this man, who exemplifies
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  that? And you would think you would
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  think that this level of character this level of
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  character from Uriah one of David's, boys.
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  One of the guys that he's raised up and use and worked with.
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  You would think that would move the heart of the man after God's
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  heart, but it doesn't. Now only does it not move him?
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  You ready for this? It bothers him.
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  It bothers him to the point of verbal criticism.
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  So he hears you Ryan didn't go home.
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  So he brings you right in again, and then he says something to
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  him in verse 10. He says Have you not come from a
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  journey? Why did you not go down to your
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  house? He was disturbed by this.
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  Why, here's why you ready for this?
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  Because those who choose to walk in the flesh.
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  Cannot tolerate. Those who walk in the spirit.
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  They can't those who choose to walk in the flesh.
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  Cannot tolerate those who walk in the spirit.
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  And this is a reminder and an example that the presence of men
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  and women, who have principal, who really have principal, who
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  really walk with this level of Devotion to God.
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  Irritate people who want to send comfortably.
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  They do. And the reason is because their
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  very presence and their habits and their convictions expose
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  those who like, David want to play both roles and they do it
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  unintentionally, like, Uriah is not trying to expose David your
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  eyes, just Uriah and here's David just agitated by the fact
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  that Uriah will not succumb to the very same level of
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  compromise that he gave himself to And so he's disturb, you know
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  what he's going to do then we're going to see in a very real way.
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  He's going to push Uriah away and want nothing to do with him.
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  Instead of praising somebody for for displaying such an example
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  of righteousness you know, that's why some people don't go
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  don't go to a Bible preaching Church, understand that that's
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  why some people will not come to a Bible preaching church because
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  the words that are being spoken, even though that person doesn't
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  know what's going on, that person's life for the people in
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  that church. Don't know what's going on.
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  That person life, they have a tendency not just their words
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  but their life to make that person uncomfortable.
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  Because they want to be comfortable and their sin and so
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  they avoid it, they avoid it. And I'm sure the news of Uriah
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  sleeping outside instead of going into his home into his own
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  bed. Struck, David Soul.
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  Because as you heard here is a king, you ready for this, a king
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  who refused to go to war so that he can stay at home.
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  And now, here is an inferior who refuses to go home because of
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  that war This man is just shook. And this is not just speaking
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  about unbeliever to the believer.
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  I'm talking about those who profess godliness, but they want
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  to embrace worldliness at the same time.
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  They can't stand people who live for the glory of God or concert,
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  they can't do it. In fact, sometimes they will go
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  to the extent of joining, the disapproval of the world, and
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  criticize, those who are truly, holy, David David, David?
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  So, what happens? Unlike the king who gave in to
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  Temptation your eye doesn't, and that's quite remarkable.
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  You know why? Because David was not just a
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  leader, David was an Israelite. How are we introduced to Uriah
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  in verse 3 of this chapter? Go back and see it just right
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  there, Uriah the hittite. And then in verse 6, The Holy
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  Spirit repeats it, Uriah, the hittite, where Hittites Jews,
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  they were not native born Jews. They were a part of that
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  Collective group, who occupied the promised land?
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  Before Joshua's Conquest, you know what the holy spirit is
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  trying to tell us about Uriah. He was once a pagan worshipper
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  and now he converted and now is worshipping the true Living God.
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  Think about that. Now that just adds to the sting
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  of this whole thing here, is a man who worshipped false gods,
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  became a proselyte who changed and repented and joined himself
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  to the true and living God. And he is towering and
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  comparison to David in terms of his ambition, to glorify the
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  Lord. despite his background, we see that this man is in
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  comparison outshining to a person who was and Israelite and
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  we see here that Uriah gives his explanation to why he would not
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  go home. You read it, but let's see it
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  again in verse 11, your eyes said to David, The Ark in Israel
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  and Judah dwell in booths. My Lord job in the service of my
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  Lord, I camping in the open field.
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  Here's translation. How is it that the Ark of God,
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  which dwells in a tent? And my people, my fellow
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  warriors were out in the fields, dwelling in their tents and War.
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  How is it that these Things. And these people exposed to
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  danger and threats, Well, I would entertain comfort and
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  gratification may it never be, may it never be and what I love
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  is you ride the first thing that comes to his mouth as what they
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  are. God God that's the first thing.
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  The Forefront of his mind is explanation is the Lord.
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  This man had God in his mind. First God in his explanation.
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  First God it's centered around the Lord.
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  And second to that was the mission that he was called to.
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  This is a mission that I'm called to and there's something
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  deeper here, right? Do you remember what David said
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  to a? He Malik the priest when he was
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  initially running from Saul and he was asking for some food.
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  What did I? Hey, Malik asked if him and his
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  men were. What were you guys are U, guys.
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  Holy, are you guys consecrated? And you remember, David's
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  response, go to First. Samuel quickly.
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  I want you to see this in verse 5 of chapter 21.
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  Look at David's. Explanation.
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  I believe it helps explain uriah's decision and first
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  Samuel 21 verse 5. First Samuel 21:5.
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  And David answered the priest truly woman have been kept from
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  us. As always, when I go on an
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  expedition, the vessels of the young men are wholly even when
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  it is an ordinary Journey. How much more today whether
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  vessels are. Holy, here's what I see from
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  this apparently in David's Squad, when it came to his
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  military, there was a code of conduct.
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  And one of the code of conducts was that when they were on a
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  military Expedition that they were to keep themselves from
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  engaging in relations with women, what's wrong with
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  engaging with women? Well, I think what helps is and
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  you don't have to turn there when you go to Leviticus right,
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  you see in chapter 15 that there are instructions, given to those
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  who give themselves a sexual relations and it, and it, it
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  provides ceremonial obstacles that can bring a hindrance to
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  the effectiveness of their expeditions as they are serving
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  in war. Does that make sense?
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  They're all these things that you have to observe and do if
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  you do engage in relations in such a way.
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  So it's just a, it's just better, not sinful, just more
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  helpful to refrain from such things so that you can be more
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  focused and alert and given to the task at hand.
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  All Uriah is doing is practicing the protocol that I believe he
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  was discipled into having David as a leader.
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  Perhaps that's the reason why Uriah comes so strong with his
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  answer. Maybe it was shocked by the fact
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  that David even question him not going home, this is your thing,
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  this is what we do. And what I love here is that
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  Uriah and some sense gives us another illustration of a
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  Christian principle. One that Paul the Apostle taught
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  to the church and teaches us today from First Corinthians,
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  you don't have to turn there and First Corinthians in a very
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  well-known passage in chapter 6, verse 12, he says all things are
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  lawful for me, but what not all. Things are helpful.
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  All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful.
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  That's the standard of Christianity that Paul wants to
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  bring us to by the spirit. It's not just to look at
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  something and say, is this inherently illegitimate is this
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  evil? Is this out of bounds?
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  Is this wrong? Paul wants you to ask another
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  question, is it helpful? Is it helpful?
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  Is it helpful to the season of life that I'm in?
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  Is it helpful and me becoming more fervent and passion for the
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  Lord. Is it helpful?
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  When you begin to ask those questions, I assure you, you
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  will put a stress on the muscles of the spirit in a way where you
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  will see growth like you've never seen before.
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  Is it helpful not just? Is it sinful?
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  Does it help me run faster longer or does it create wait in
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  my life that hinders me from being all that I can be in Jesus
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  Christ? I want to tell you something,
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  personally in the seasons and I hope that God would keep me
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  asking these questions, but in the seasons where I've been most
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  intentional about, is it helpful?
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  Alive scene. The most I've experienced the
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  most in God, and here's the thing, that's the reward of
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  answering that question is that there is more in him, is more in
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  him and he Syria doing it. There's nothing wrong with being
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  with his wife, there's nothing wrong.
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  Suspect, the king even gave you permission and yet he's so
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  focused on the assignment that he's been called to.
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  He's so caught up in fulfilling the call that he has been called
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  to that. He goes, yeah, it's fine.
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  But at this time, I'm not going to engage in that.
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  What a soldier, what a soldier. So much of our devotion is
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  determined by whether it's comfortable, whether it's nice,
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  what, go beyond that and watch what God can do through your
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  life. You're right here is really,
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  really putting David to shame. And what is David going to do?
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  Once he hears This, I Believe In This Moment.
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  You know what's happening? Providence is happening?
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  I believe that this is a very providential moment for David
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  because, you know, what happens, the initial plan didn't work, it
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  didn't come to fruition. He wanted to bring Uriah into
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  that house, Uriah wouldn't. And on top of that, look at you
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  riyaz words. He's so clear in his explanation
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  to why he won't go in the second part of verse 11.
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  Shall I then go to my house to eat and to drink and to lie with
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  my wife? You would think you would think
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  that, after saying to lie with my way, he didn't have to say
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  that, but he does unknowingly. Now, you have some people that
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  believe you ready for this? That Uriah was suspicious, I'm
• 40:05
  not in that camp, but you have some people who believe that you
• 40:08
  write actually is figuring things out.
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  He's look, you know, when somebody is acting very weird
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  and you're putting the pieces together, I'm away.
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  Why did you want me to go home so badly?
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  Some believe that Uriah is sniffing something.
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  Now, if you believe that, that's fine, I don't hold to that.
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  I just believe that this man is just brimming with conviction
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  and it's just shooting out of him like arrows.
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  And here's David, he hears it right to lie with my wife.
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  And you would think that the alarm would go off.
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  You would think in light of the failure of his attempt and the
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  reminder, the reminder that here is a man, you ready for this?
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  Here's a man who would not engage in his rights as a
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  husband. As someone who entertain
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  something that was not my right. Do you think that would stop him
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  in his tracks? You would think that he would
• 40:56
  put the charade down and come clean.
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  This is God's Providence. This is God.
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  I believe getting David to stop and confess before he sends a
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  prophet to say you are the man. And I believe, when we are in
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  sin, when any man of God, woman of God isn't sin, God will do so
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  much before he exposes them. He'll he'll send warnings in
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  different ways and, you know, some of these big-name guys that
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  if they're that they fall and becomes a scandal, you think
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  that just God does that right away.
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  I believe there's so many warnings beforehand and then he
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  exposes them. Here's this man.
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  He has an opportunity, but the the example of his stubbornness
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  is really a commentary on our own because how many of us
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  rarely are able to detect when God is inviting us, or warning
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  us when we are in sin, How many of us are able to detect that
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  God is able to communicate more than just a supernatural
• 41:59
  Revelation, being given to somebody say, you're in sin, get
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  up. You do, you have to see beyond
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  that? He gives, gentle nudges.
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  He pulls on you in different ways and here it is.
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  And here's the scary part, some fail to detect it.
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  Others who are able to see, you know, this is something for me.
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  God is trying to get my attention and they brush it off.
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  They brush it off as just coincidental, they ignore it,
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  and they dig their heels in the ground, and they make a greater
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  bolt towards the Rebellion. It's scary.
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  Scary. God will give you a sermon
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  before he exposes God will have somebody call you go.
• 42:38
  I'll have somebody text you saying brother.
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  I don't know what's going on in your life, but I'm, I'm just
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  praying for you. Listen, this is not just a point
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  inside of there. I've seen it.
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  I've seen it. It's scary.
• 42:50
  God is real. God is very, very real.
• 42:54
  And if there is, there is a list of evidences of the realness of
• 42:58
  God in my own life, as I observed throughout Ministry,
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  it's how God is able to get someone's attention, while
• 43:05
  they're in sin. It's incredible.
• 43:09
  It's incredible. That's how much love he has for
• 43:11
  his children. David doesn't take heed.
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  He doesn't listen to the shepherd, is trying to rescue
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  him. And pull him out of this pit.
• 43:24
  So what does he do? Verse 12, then David said to
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  your I remain here today also in tomorrow and I'll send you back
• 43:31
  It's sad for me to say this, but what David is doing here?
• 43:35
  Is just an example of what the tempter does to us.
• 43:40
  What's Happening Here? Stay in the premises.
• 43:44
  He just finished saying, I want to be there.
• 43:47
  I want to be at the war where I'm supposed to be, and you
• 43:51
  know, what? David says, just stay a little
• 43:53
  bit longer, stay a little bit longer and here's the strategy.
• 43:59
  Perhaps if you stay long enough, you'll change your mind.
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  Perhaps if you stay in close proximity to your house which
• 44:07
  isn't far from the palace. How do we know that?
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  Because you're right because David was on the roof and he saw
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  Bathsheba bathing. So I mean it doesn't have
• 44:16
  binocular vision. Must be very close, Uriah
• 44:19
  obviously knows that just a few steps away from that Palace.
• 44:23
  So, David tells Uriah just stay a little bit longer and here's
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  the plan, maybe you'll crack. And maybe you'll give in, and
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  maybe you'll change your mind and maybe you can cover the
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  tracks. So just stay You know, the
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  temperature of our souls. Does not give up easily to
• 44:47
  entice us. He has many tricks in his bag.
• 44:52
  He'll try one thing, and when it doesn't work, he'll try another.
• 44:54
  He'll come at one angle. When that doesn't succeed, he'll
• 44:58
  come at another angle, and then he'll revisit that initial angle
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  that didn't work. He's very, very tricky.
• 45:04
  We see it with the master in the wilderness.
• 45:06
  First thing that Satan does is point to some rocks and bring
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  attention to Jesus hunger. That didn't work.
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  So he takes a verse out of context and he tries to tempted
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  to do something silly. Try to get the 10 God and that
• 45:20
  doesn't work. So he then he shows him the
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  world and he tries to get him to worship Him.
• 45:25
  And then when that didn't work, he says that he left for another
• 45:27
  opportune time, until another opportune time here, David in a
• 45:31
  very human way, is exemplifying how Satan operates in our own
• 45:35
  lives. The thing that you said, no to a
• 45:39
  few weeks ago, he'll reintroduce into your life today.
• 45:44
  Even years ago, even years ago, that thing hasn't been in your
• 45:48
  life for years. You haven't watched it in years,
• 45:50
  you haven't tasted it in so long and an offer.
• 45:53
  A sudden here he comes, especially when you're at your
• 45:56
  weakest. You remember this?
• 46:00
  Remember what this felt like. Remember how this made you
• 46:02
  escape your troubles and your pain?
• 46:04
  Here it is. And even the fact that David was
• 46:09
  as willing to have Uriah, wait shows even the Relentless
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  patience of the enemy, the Relentless patience.
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  He he has no problem waiting. You know what's so amazing about
• 46:21
  the world, the world has no problem being persistent and
• 46:26
  inviting you to sin. Some of you have friends like
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  that. They once it comes to Friday
• 46:31
  afternoon. You can almost prophesied.
• 46:34
  Here comes the text message. What are you doing tonight, huh?
• 46:39
  And they're just evangelist for worldliness.
• 46:41
  So don't be ashamed. If you're consistent with people
• 46:43
  to bring them to church, the world has no problem inviting
• 46:47
  you into their scum. So here's David saying, why
• 46:51
  don't you just wait a little longer and Uriah doesn't budge
• 46:55
  again, you ride this in budget and so he to attempts and they
• 47:00
  failed When are you gonna get it?
• 47:04
  He's not, his heart has become so hardened.
• 47:07
  Because remember that verse, right?
• 47:09
  That if you don't feel the lord, always, you make yourself
• 47:13
  available to a hardening of the heart.
• 47:15
  And David here is just hardening it more and more.
• 47:18
  And so he comes to another strategy.
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  He takes it up a notch, he has some kind of a feast and you
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  read it. He sees Uriah is like this
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  Great. Oak Tree deeply planted in the
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  convictions of God. He can't move it.
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  So he says, let's get him intoxicated.
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  Let's weakened his ability to reason and to make clear
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  judgments. and so he brings this man, and somehow just keeps
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  feeding him, keeps feeding him keeps feeding him, and this man
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  may be trying to be polite just indulges indulges indulges, and
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  to the point, where he loses sobriety, He loses sobriety.
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  And unfortunately David continues to illustrate how
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  Satan works and people's lives to get him into deeper sin, the
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  enemy knows the absolute value and strength that comes from
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  being sober minded. Being Sober.
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  Minded, you know why the Bible Absolutely discourages and
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  commands against any substance or behavior that would that
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  would tamper with clear-headedness.
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  Because God Champions self-control, he Champions
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  self-control and he wants you. And I to be a control at all
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  times, over our Behavior, our actions, our reactions,
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  everything. Because we are his ambassadors,
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  we represent him and there's an interesting verse and Hosea.
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  411, I've quoted this many times to explain some particular
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  behaviors in the Old Testament. And here I come again to Hosea
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  411. Here's what the prophet says you
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  guys doing, alright. That's not what the prophets
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  are. That's what I'm asking.
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  Hosea 4:11, you ready for this whoredom?
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  Wine and new wine. Which does what take it away
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  understanding. Horton.
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  Wine wine. Here's what Hosea is saying,
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  alcohol among other things. Rob's you one of the things that
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  robs you of, Is Judgment your ability to make precise and
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  clear actions. And that is a, that is an
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  indictment. That is a whoa for us to be
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  controlled by anything apart from the holy spirit of God.
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  He is the alternative. That's why Paul makes that
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  command and Ephesians 5. Right, you know what I find.
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  So interesting. The spirit of God Partners wine
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  with what whoredom. Whoredom promiscuity sensuality.
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  Isn't that interesting? I mean, not all the things that
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  you could put together, you include whoredom with wine and
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  there's a reason for that. The reason for that is because
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  lust itself has an intoxicating Factor That also like wine is
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  able to Cloud our judgment and make us make stupid decisions
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  lust. You know what's so amazing?
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  Here's a man who's trying to intoxicate his friend to make
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  him do something. Whereas he was Intoxicated by
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  lust just a few verses earlier and did what he was not supposed
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  to do. And so we talked about.
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  Yeah be sober with alcohol, a beast.
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  Don't do that. Don't smoke that don't take
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  those pills. Fine, that's wonderful.
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  But how often do we talk about being drunk with lust?
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  And what's one of the dangers of unbridled passions?
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  One of the dangers, is that you don't think clearly, you don't
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  think clearly. and so the proverb there and Proverbs 632
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  makes sense and Proverbs 6:32, we are told he who commits
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  adultery lacks sense. Lack sense.
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  In other words, they do not calculate or consider.
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  The effects of this decision. They don't consider the damage
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  that can be done and that's really what follows Proverbs
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  6:32. The consequences of such actions
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  and so, You and I have to be able to learn not to be Mastered
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  by these impulses that come and visit us no matter how strong
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  they are. You know what the world parrots.
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  Well, it's an instinct, it's human nature, when you feel it,
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  you should do it to relieve yourself and they equate.
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  That passion that desire on the same level as food and drink you
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  can survive without sex, you can't survive without food,
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  long-term or water. And so we have to understand
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  here, that there is a clear call to be warned about how when we
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  allow our imaginations to run rampant, you can actually come
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  to such a place you can cross a line just like having one extra
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  glass that takes you over where you now begin.
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  Lose your reasoning and you begin to make plans and schemes
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  and decisions and rendevouz that are absolutely dangerous.
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  Just like a car wreck. It's like a DUI.
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  Be careful, be careful and allow the Holy Spirit to bring control
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  in your life. And here is a man who tries to
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  get another man to come under a very similar influence that he
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  was under guess what? It doesn't work.
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  I need to see David's face as you write as stumbles.
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  He's like there it is. There it is.
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  Yeah. Go go go.
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  Go there go. There and just makes a U-turn
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  and goes right back to where he slept a couple nights before,
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  huh? What does it say about a man
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  that even when you're intoxicated?
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  Not that saying try it. God forbid that your convictions
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  are so solid soul. I can just like as iron anchor
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  that even when substances are pumped into your subconscious
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  tells you to stay committed. Fascinating to me.
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  And so this man doesn't move. Strike 3, David.
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  What are you going to do? Providence is knocking on your
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  door. Your cleverness is not working.
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  Do you think David slept that night?
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  That's what I wondered when I was thinking about this passage.
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  Do you think he, you think you just went to bed in just closed
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  his eyes? I don't think he slept a wink.
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  I think he tossed and turned. I think he tossed and turned.
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  Because you read something here in verse 14, in the morning,
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  David wrote a letter to joab and sent it by the end of Uriah.
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  whether he slept or not, we're not told but what we do know is
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  that he woke up early in the morning, Wrote a letter meaning.
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  Some kind of plan was conjured up as he was laying in that bed
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  and lows of midnight hours. And he did not hesitate to make
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  his move time was against him. and so he writes a letter and in
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  that letter was uriah's death, warrant, do you think David
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  thought about murder when he was scaling and walking on that
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  rooftop earlier in this chapter? You think murder came to mind.
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  Think, you know what? I'm going to sleep with
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  Bathsheba and if it goes wrong, I'm going to kill her husband.
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  No. Piece by piece.
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  That's how it works. One more Soul, another morsel
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  and another morsel, that's exactly what is happening here.
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  And it happened so fast. There was so much included in
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  his thinking that he didn't even consider where he was going.
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  And you read here in verse 15. What the letter said.
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  In the letter, he wrote Set Uriah in the Forefront of the
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  hardest fighting. And draw back from him that he
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  may be struck down and die. Looked, as I said is this the
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  same guy? Who went a man was hunting him
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  down, like an animal. Felt a prick in his heart when
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  he cut a piece of his robe. Is this the same guy?
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  Now he that same guy. Is taking one of his most
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  Faithful Men. and his signing a death sentence, puts it in his
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  hand, you ready for this and so trust in the Integrity of Uriah
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  That he would not open that letter between then and his
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  destination. Only for him to be killed.
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  Such is the potential of sin. When it is not dealt with early
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  on, it has the ability to warp that which was created in the
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  image of God and to make it into a hideous Beast.
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  That is worthy of great scorn. Sin can flip your world upside
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  down. Ken.
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  Jesus can for the good but sin for the worst and David sunk at
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  the such depths. That even took advantage of
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  uriah's. Sensitive conscience and
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  commitment. Again if I had the budget, I
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  think, if I had the budget and I could direct it, the scene would
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  be for a long time. Uriah, they're walking back to
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  the ranks with a smile on his face.
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  Holding his very death, warrant. And David scaling back to that
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  scene of David, just his feet on some desk, unmoved, twiddling,
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  his thumbs? Hoping that job would say yes to
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  that. Unbelievable.
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  But it's real. And here's what rushed through
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  my mind when I thought about Uriah walking back.
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  To his post integrity. Integrity.
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  It might get you killed. But it's better to die with
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  Integrity than to live without it.
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  Integrity. It might get you killed it,
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  might get you fired. You might lose that promotion.
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  You might not be invited to the biggest and best conferences.
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  Because you have conviction to the word of God.
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  You're not be liked or loved by people, you might be invited to
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  the events integrity. Might kill you.
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  But it's better to die with it. That's a live without it.
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  I pray that we would be men like Uriah.
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  And here's the thing, God can do such a work in you.
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  No matter your background, like Uriah, the hittite of all
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  people. To be a man of God, a woman of
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  God. I guess we're gonna have to wait
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  till next week to see what happens next.
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  You see? There's so much content left.
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  But we have enough meat to chew on tonight at the digest by the
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  grace of God. Shall we pray before we conclude
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  tonight? And as the worship team
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  positions himself, I don't want to pray while they're walking up
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  there. But just in your own Hearts,
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  whatever it was that touch your heart.
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  Maybe maybe. Maybe maybe.
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  Maybe tonight was even a providential push from the Lord
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  to get your attention in love. I say this, maybe you are
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  concealing sin or you're trying to continue in sin.
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  And the Lord is trying to get your attention before you head
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  towards decisions and situations that are unfathomable, just hear
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  the voice of the Lord through this Bible study and and Trust
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  the wisdom of God to end it. Now, to come before him and
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  people that you trust that you know won't judge you to say,
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  here I am, I'm broken here I am, I've been foolish.
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  Can you help me and trust that the Lord will help you trust
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  that God's people will help you If you are in this place and you
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  examine your heart racing by the grace of God, I can rejoice in
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  the season that I'm in. Oh praise God, for that and ask
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  God to keep you and to not let you be puffed up with pride and
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  to be low independent even more dependent than if you were
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  failing or if you felt yourself slipping.
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  Lord, we come before you tonight at this time, rejoicing in the
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  richness of your word, we thank you that it is surely alive and
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  it makes us come alive. And we do ask oh God that You
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  would help us in whatever season that we may be in for those who
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  are feeling the pull because they're on a rooftop somewhere.
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  And they're not supposed to be where they are.
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  And they sensed the strength of an invitation to go somewhere
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  where they never thought they would go Lord, let your voice be
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  louder than my voice on this microphone.
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  And for those who are strong and steady, we pray that you would
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  only reinforce that strength and that we would be all the more
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  serious about making sure that we do not fall.
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  Lord. Help us also believe, help us
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  also believe that you've given us everything we need.
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  According to Peter's words to never fall, you can keep us from
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  Scandal and betrayal. And pain, Lord.
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  You have given us what we need to be in Victory and we praise
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  you for that. And what we just praise you
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  through song. Now as we Rejoice over your
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  word, giving you glory and thanks that, you were the God
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  who cares for us. And you give us stories like
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  this to help us avoid crisis. We bless your name now and this
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  Friday evening in Jesus name we pray.
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  Amen. Shall We Stand?
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  Let's Stand Together. Worship God.
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  Shall We Stand? Let's Stand Together.
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  Worship God.