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April 22 - 2 Samuel 12 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean. Here it is, Monday the 22nd of
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  April 2024. Welcome to a new week.
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  Thanks for inviting me in. I hope that your day is looking
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  good and your week is looking even better.
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  Huh. I wonder what lies ahead for
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  you, friend. It might be a big week coming
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  up, or it might be a calmer one like my place where lots of
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  people are still on school holidays.
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  Good on you. Or you might not even have
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  thought about your week as it looms ahead.
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  And wherever you are on that spectrum, friend, great.
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  Great to have your company as we carve out a little moment to
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  come before God and hear what He has to teach us today through
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  His Word. And if technology has done its
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  job, you would notice that we have updated our logo.
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  This is now our 4th year and the logo had remained the same.
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  So it was time for a little bit of a refresh, a little bit of an
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  update and somebody even suggested to me, hey Sean, you
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  should make a new logo that matches the book of the Bible
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  that you're currently reading a lot is an amazing idea.
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  I'm not sure how we'd pull that off, but we won't rule anything
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  out at this stage. But all that aside, let us do
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  what we have gathered together to do as we continue to read
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  through the story. If you remember from last week,
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  we finished off the story with David and Bathsheba.
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  David doing the wrong thing and he still doesn't realise what he
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  has done. And today Nathan the prophet is
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  going to come to him and in a stroke of absolute brilliance,
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  convict him of his wrongdoing before God.
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  So let's read it together, shall we?
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  Let's read together Second Samuel chapter 12.
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  So the Lord sent Nathan the Prophet to tell David this
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  story. There were two men in a certain
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  town. One was rich and one was poor.
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  The rich man owned a great many sheep and cattle.
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  The poor man owned nothing but one little lamb he had bought.
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  He raised that little lamb and it grew up with his children.
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  It ate from the man's own plate and drank from his cup.
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  He cuddled it in his arms like a baby daughter.
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  One day a guest arrived at the home of the rich man, but
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  instead of killing an animal from his own flock or herd, he
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  took the poor man's lamb and killed it and prepared it for
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  his guest. David was furious.
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  As surely as the Lord lives, he vowed any man who would do such
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  a thing deserves to die. He must repay 4 lambs to the
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  poor man for the one he stole and for having no pity.
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  Then Nathan said to David, You are that man.
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  The Lord the God of Israel says, I anointed you king of Israel,
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  and saved you from the power of Saul.
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  I gave you your master's house and his wives and the kingdoms
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  of Israel and Judah, and if that had not been enough, I would
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  have given you much, much more. Why then have you despised the
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  word of the Lord and done this horrible deed?
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  For you have murdered your Uriah the Hittite with the sword of
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  the Ammonites, and stolen his wife.
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  From this time on, your family will live by the sword because
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  you have despised me by taking your Rio's wife to be your own.
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  This is what the Lord says. Because of what you have done, I
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  will cause your own household to rebel against you.
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  I will give your wives to another man before your very
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  eyes, and he will go to bed with them in public view.
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  You did it secretly, but I will make this happen to you openly
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  in the sight of all Israel. Then David confessed to Nathan.
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  I have sinned against the Lord, Nathan replied.
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  Yes, but the Lord has forgiven you, and you won't die for this
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  sin. Nevertheless, because you have
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  shown utter contempt for the word of the Lord by doing this,
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  your child will die. After Nathan returned to his
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  home, the Lord sent a deadly illness to the child of David
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  and Uriah's wife. David begged God to spare the
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  child. He went without food and lay all
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  night on the bare ground. The elders of his household
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  pleaded with him to get up and eat with them, but he refused.
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  Then on the 7th day, the child died.
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  David's advisors were afraid to tell him he wouldn't listen to
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  reason while the child was ill. They said what drastic thing
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  will he do when we tell him the child is dead?
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  When David saw them whispering, he realised what had happened.
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  Is the child dead, He asked. Yes, they replied.
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  He is dead. Then David got up from the
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  ground, washed himself, put on lotions and changed his clothes.
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  He went to the Tabernacle and worshipped the Lord.
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  After that he returned to the palace and was served food and
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  ate. His advisors were amazed.
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  We don't understand you, they told him.
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  While the child was still living.
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  You wept and refused to eat. But now that the child is dead,
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  you have stopped your morning and are eating again, David
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  replied. I fasted and wept while the
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  child was alive, For I said, perhaps the Lord will be
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  gracious to me and let the child live.
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  But why should I fast when he is dead?
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  Can I bring him back again? I will go to him one day, but he
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  cannot return to me. Then David comforted Bathsheba,
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  his wife, and slept with her. She became pregnant and gave
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  birth to her son, and David named him Solomon.
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  The Lord loved the child and sent word through Nathan the
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  Prophet that they should name him Jedediah, which means
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  beloved of the Lord, as the Lord had commanded.
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  Meanwhile Joe was fighting against Rubber, the capital of
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  Amman, and he captured the royal fortifications.
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  Joab sent messengers to tell David, I have fought against
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  Rubber and captured its water supply.
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  Now bring the rest of the army and capture the city, Otherwise
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  I will capture it and get credit for the victory.
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  Sir David gathered the rest of the army and went to rubber and
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  he fought against it and captured it.
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  David removed the crown from the King's head and it was placed on
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  his own head. The crown was made of gold and
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  set with gems, and it weighed 75 lbs.
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  David took a vast amount of plunder from the city.
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  He also made slaves of the people of Rabba and forced them
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  to labour with sores, iron picks and iron axes, and to work in
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  the brick kilns. That is how he dealt with the
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  people of all the Ammonite towns.
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  Then David and all the army returned to Jerusalem.
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  Oh, Lord, there's so much in this chapter for us, so much as
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  we learn about Your mercy and Your grace, Your faithfulness to
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  promises, but ultimately the fact that our actions still have
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  repercussions. And Lord, also at the end of
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  this story we hear of this incredible, faithful general
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  Joab, who refuses to take glory for himself but always offers it
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  up to his King. Lord, may we be the same as
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  Joab. May we every time that you grant
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  us victory, every time you bless us, help us always give the
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  credit back to you. It's so easy to claim it for
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  ourselves as the world looks at us and congratulates us for a
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  job well done. But we know that it's only
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  through Your grace that we enjoy what we enjoy in our lives.
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  So, Lord, may we always point back to You.
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  May we always offer you the glory.
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  And so we do that now. We just praise you and give you
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  the glory for all of the good things that you give us in our
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  lives. We are so grateful for them and
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  we are so grateful for the skills and the talents that you
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  have given us to be able to do what we do.
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  But let it always be done in your name, for your honour, our
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  wonderful, mighty God, and we pray all these things in the
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  saving name of Jesus. Ah, man.