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2 Samuel 11 (Part 1) Bible Study | Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  It's always great to see you on a Friday evening.
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  And I'm glad that you're here tonight for this particular
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  chapter. Because it is a very important.
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  One for many reasons, as you will discover that the subject
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  of our study, this evening is perhaps the most infamous scene
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  pertaining to David's life. You have heard me say different
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  points throughout our studying first and second Samuel, that
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  when we come to a certain event or occurrence, I mentioned how
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  this will be a pivotal moment for David and in some cases for
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  the nation of Israel as a whole and I'm going to say that again
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  tonight. I'm going to say that again for
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  this chapter and add to that that what is going to take place
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  in these verses. Will bring about results unlike
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  anything else before after this notorious episode and it won't
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  be for the good. After you and I complete chapter
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  11 and chapter 12, you're going to notice something for the rest
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  of. The second Samuel, what you're
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  going to see is that there will be a heightened.
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  And heartbreaking series of crimes scandals.
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  Betrayals feuds division. And it will have an impact
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  Beyond David's own household. It will Ripple into society
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  itself and you might be wondering, why will that be the
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  case and a major contribution to the chaos that will ensue is
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  because David is about to now execute a series of Unthinkable
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  actions. That will trigger a lifetime of
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  repercussions. This is a serious chapter 2
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  solemn chapter. It's a dark chapter.
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  David is going to have a moral failure.
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  And this moral failure will indeed breed tragic fruit.
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  In fact, it will come to the point of his final breath and
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  even beyond that. And that is the power of sin.
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  And all of this is is going to be an upsetting reporting as
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  upsetting as it is. It's just a testament to the
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  Integrity of the word of God. The Bible is not just a book of
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  Truth. The Bible tells the truth, And
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  the Holy Spirit because we believe this book is inspired by
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  the holy spirit because he is the true author and he has used
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  human vessels throughout time, he in his power and his wisdom
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  potentially restricted, the authors of this book to hide the
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  failures of their hero Heroes and even their own shortcomings
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  and we should praise God for that because it's through these
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  failures and these descriptions of Falls that we get to glean
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  wisdom. Mm, and we get to prevent these
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  disasters from occurring in our own lives.
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  If we if we have ears to hear And so, what's going to happen
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  in second Samuel chapter 11, is that this is going to be a
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  serious Crossroads for the rest of this narrative and it's all
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  going to begin with the act of adultery.
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  Where a man will take somebody else's wife and engage in
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  Intercourse and our intimacy. That is illegitimate, that's
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  where it's all going to start. And the pursuit of wisdom
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  tonight is what we Endeavor to do because we want to look at
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  this and realize, this is this is given to us for a purpose.
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  And so we don't choose our topics for Friday nights.
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  That's the beauty of verse by verse preaching.
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  We just honor what God puts before us as we go through a
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  book and we stick to it, no matter how difficult it may be
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  to hear know how difficult it may be to to comprehend or to
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  apply. And we trust that God has the
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  best in mind for us and we just we endure what he has to say.
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  So I want to say this from the from the beginning before I read
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  because our Bible study tonight, it's only going to be the first
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  five verses we can rush to this. But you know the model here we
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  don't do that. We take our time to digest all
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  that God has to say. I want to say, by mentioning
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  this that the sin of adultery is Never by accident, it's never by
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  accident. It is.
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  Only the ugly fruit of previous unchecked failures that have
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  overtime work together to cause a collapse.
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  And the purpose of this study tonight is to examine the
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  contributions to this. Great fall in David's life.
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  You see what the Holy Spirit does by giving us these details
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  is to show us what went wrong before this wrong and that's
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  important for us to grasp because as we examine these
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  things, we will in return. Be able to examine what can
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  corrode and what can actually influence our ability to resist
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  all temptation, especially the tent.
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  Tatian in regards to the category of sexual immorality.
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  Sexual morality is a growing struggle, not just in the world,
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  but in the church statistics are staggering staggering.
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  And when I learned early on in Ministry, of what people in the
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  church are indulging in and what even pastors are indulging and
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  they say, 50% of pastors are involved in.
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  Pornography 50% And then we wonder perhaps, why are we not
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  seeing the power of God? Like we should be.
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  And so this is vital because in my personal study of the first
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  five verses I was able to find five factors that contributed to
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  this moral failure. And as we carefully examine
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  these contributions to this agonizing sin it will help us be
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  prepared, be guarded, be alert, but that's how I want you to
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  have a lens. As I read these verses as it is
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  our practice. I'm going to read these five
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  verses and you they mention other details but I want you
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  with eyes to see what is it? That went wrong and David's life
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  at this point of his life and maybe before this point of his
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  life that encouraged him to embrace this sin.
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  So freely and so pay attention. I hope you have a copy of God's
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  word in your hand and we're going to pray and ask the Lord
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  to help us with this study and trust that it will build our
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  faith for his glory. Lord, we know that this text is
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  dark. It may be disturbing.
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  But you have given it to us because love warns.
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  And we just thank you in advance for why you have given us this
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  tax and how in your Providence it has come before us on this
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  Friday evening. So Lord we just pray for a
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  special assistance from the spirit of wisdom and revelation.
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  That it may rest upon the ministry of the word and that we
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  may be built up. As a result in Jesus is
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  matchless precious glorious. Holy name.
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  We pray. Amen.
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  Second Samuel chapter 11. Verse 1.
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  In the spring of the year, the time, when kings go out to
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  battle, David sent joab, and her servants with him and all
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  Israel. And they ravaged the ammonites
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  and besieged. Rabbah, but David remained a
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  Jerusalem. It happened late one afternoon
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  when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of
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  the King's house that he saw from the roof.
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  A woman bathing And the woman was very beautiful and behold,
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  rather than David sent and inquired about the woman.
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  And one said, is this not Bathsheba the daughter of eliam,
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  the wife of Uriah, the hittite. So David sent Messengers and
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  took her and she came to him and he lay with her, she had been
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  purifying herself from her uncleanness and we should she
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  returned to her house and the woman conceived and she sent and
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  told David. I am pregnant.
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  Not very inspiring but very instructive.
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  Is there anything that stands out to you in those verses?
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  Yes. Mmm, David sent his men out to
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  war, but he remained at home. We're going to see why that is a
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  problem in a moment. Anything else?
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  Yes. Yes, that is a huge problem.
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  He committed adultery. Is there anything that you see
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  there that led to that? Okay.
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  So the in the gate indication here is not that he saw her and
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  that he bounced his eyes and realize, that's a woman bathing
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  in her in her own home. There seems to be prolonged
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  gaze. Absolutely.
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  Because he was able to register that.
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  She was beautiful and we're going to see how a look can be
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  extremely dangerous. Yes.
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  Even upon the report of The Men Who informed him who she was
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  that did not deter him from pursuing his lust.
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  Yes, Yes. It's not a good sign for you to
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  be laying around in your couch until the evening.
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  That's a dangerous sign. These are wonderful.
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  You guys are touching on all these points.
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  Yes. Isn't that interesting that the
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  servants, they're not stupid if they didn't pick up?
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  On, what's Happening early on? Surely something must have
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  registered when a woman came to David by herself to be with him
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  by themselves. And there's a lot to say about
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  that. And one of those things is that
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  it's very difficult to correct, somebody in power, isn't it?
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  For a lot of people it is, especially when that person is a
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  man of God, and they have a history where they have done,
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  much for God, it's very difficult for people to be able
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  to stand up for righteousness and to correct somebody who has
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  influence. That's a great observation.
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  The servants seem to be complying with what's happening.
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  Yes, Very good observation. We're putting all the blame on
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  David here. Are we not?
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  And yes, it's true. That he is the instigator but
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  Bathsheba seems to show very little if any Resistance.
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  It takes two to tango my friends, doesn't it?
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  Yes. Yes, worries.
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  Yes. Yeah, that's right.
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  And as I said earlier, you don't just fall into the sin of
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  adultery or sexual morality for that matter.
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  Yes. Yeah.
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  Isn't that interesting? I was originally sent wonderful
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  to come to Bible study to find answers to these questions.
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  Why is it mentioning here at the end of verse at the end of verse
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  4 that she was? She had purified herself from
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  her uncleanness? Well that's a law.
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  That's a levitical law and it's an indication of well, you'll
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  find out, you'll find out but good, good observation, maybe
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  one or two more. Yes, Carl.
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  Yeah, that's an interesting observation to.
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  Well, I think their shame here think there's embarrassment
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  here, think there's regret, I think there's grief and this is
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  just the beginning of the pangs of what is to come.
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  And as maybe we find one more if the guys can help with the
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  buzzing here there's a buzzing on my right side.
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  Maybe you don't hear it but I do hear it.
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  And maybe as I go along, they'll disappear as I get louder.
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  Maybe that won't happen. But yeah, if you can help with
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  it, I'd be wonderful. Maybe one more observation.
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  Yes. Say that again.
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  Oh, what? So you have to speak up if you
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  don't mind. When he was bored.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  That's great. Yeah, boredom.
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  Yeah, there's boredom. You're absolutely.
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  And you had something sister. Yes, he does have a few wives.
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  In fact, a numerous amount of wives, great observation.
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  Why? I think you guys just finished
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  the Bible said I don't really need to continue.
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  We can just wrap up sing a couple songs and go home but we
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  won't because we're going to expand on the very things that
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  you just mentioned. And so I told you today that
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  there is five factors not just in here.
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  I mean I would say four of them are here but one is connected to
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  To what's happening here. That is completely related to
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  David. And so if you're a note-taker or
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  if you just have this wonderful gift of retaining things in your
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  mind, pay attention because we want to look at these failures.
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  That contributed to this ultimate failure and failure.
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  Number one, Is not found in these verses, but it is
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  something that is observed when you have an overarching view of
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  David's life and that is this, the failure to deal with
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  unrestrained passions, early on the failure to deal with
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  unrestrained passions, early on, we have familiarize ourselves
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  with David enough to know as our sister just said that although
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  he was a spiritually strong man, he did find himself. if wanting
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  in one very important aspect, this man had great conviction
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  for much of the law. But if there was one thing that
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  he failed in it, it was in his perception of God's design for
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  marriage. He fell short and he's
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  commendable for his convictions and other places.
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  But when it came to the blueprint of marital Covenant,
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  he was somebody who was severely lacking in the number of wives
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  that David had and accumulated over his young life into into
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  his adult life is telling its evidence that he did not have
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  self-control in the area of sexual desires.
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  And so we look at this and we realized that it started with
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  having two wives and having to let to having multiple and who
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  would have thought that having multiple lives would eventually
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  lead him to taking somebody else's wife?
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  And you and I have to begin in our analysis of David's fall
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  here because it is absolutely foundational.
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  See, when we see what happens with his coveting of uriah's
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  wife, that is not something spontaneous, that's not
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  something that just spring up out of anywhere.
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  It is a result and it stemmed from a serious defect in his
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  whole belief system. And here is where I need you to
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  pay attention tonight that who you are today, and what you
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  invest in yourself or lack of investment.
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  Today will determine who you'll be tomorrow.
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  That includes what you believe and that includes how you
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  behave. That is a rule for every element
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  and every aspect of life including how you and I deal
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  with sexual Temptation. Now If you are a person who
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  struggles and who is weak in the area of succumbing to passions,
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  whether it's promiscuity, whether it's pornography,
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  whether it's being inappropriately, flirtatious and
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  think that at some point that's just going to disappear.
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  When you, when you realize you need to settle down, you are
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  dangerously mistaken, dangerously mistaken.
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  Lust is something that can never be satisfied.
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  When it is fed. When you try to fulfill its
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  urges, I'll tell you what happens.
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  Your only strengthening your appetite You're only
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  strengthening your appetite. Only when you give yourself to
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  God's design for sexuality will you know the fruition and the
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  blessing of it, when you step outside of those boundaries, you
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  inherit messiness and that is why people who are addicted to
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  pornography. They find themselves over time,
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  exploring and in an opening themselves up to very strange
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  and extreme versions of it. Because what happens is they
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  blunt their appetite and then they need to go for another kind
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  of That brings a shock to them. And so what you see here with
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  David is a prime example that if you think you will actually calm
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  that Temptation down by giving into it realize that this man
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  could snap his finger and have any woman at his command and it
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  still left him wanting and chasing and planning and
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  scheming. And here's why many people fail
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  in this area because they view sexuality purely on a physical
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  level. So what do they do?
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  They look for a physical Outlet to deal with it.
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  When at its core, it's a spiritual issue.
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  And so we come up with strange Solutions, the worst of them is
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  just giving into it because we think that sexual desires is
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  equated to being thirsty or being hungry, you can't survive
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  by not drinking or by not eating, you can survive by not
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  giving over into yourself into this desire, you can survive as
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  tormenting as it might be to. You can actually, you can
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  actually survive to your dying day without giving in to this at
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  any point. But see, we've been fed from
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  this culture that you can't live without it.
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  That this is the, the prime Ecstasy of all other pleasures.
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  And so people just, they just give in and you have other
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  people who have innocent Solutions Who think that, you
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  know, they can just give themselves into Reckless
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  Behavior, but oh, once they get married, all of it will be
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  solved. Listen, marriage is not your
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  savior for sexual sin Christ is Marriage, isn't once you find
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  that person and you and you you consummate and you're intimate
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  with that person. If you don't realize that what
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  you allow, previously is not dealt with your bringing that
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  into your marriage and that's why I tell single people all the
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  time. If you are bound particularly to
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  pornography and you have the same time are Desiring marriage
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  Kill that thing before you even consider a spouse.
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  Kill that thing before you even consider a spouse because I'm
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  telling you the spouse will not save you.
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  Only the Holy Spirit can. And so you have to deal with
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  these things early on, because if not subdued, by the spirit,
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  natural means will not work and what we learned before we even
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  come to, these verses is a universal principle that God has
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  established in Galatians 6:7, whatever one shows that will he
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  also reap And for so long, he's been sowing whenever I want
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  something. Whenever I want something new
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  and exciting whenever I see a woman giving me attention and
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  compliments me and gives me, gives me this feeling of
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  excitement and exuberance and I give into that, I marry her and
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  I add her to the list of my roster of woman.
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  Because he's been doing that for so long.
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  Now it's manifesting in a new level, see what David is able to
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  do here is because of his lack of conviction from his teenage
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  years. and so realize again, that your War would sin today is
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  an investment for your Victory tomorrow and your leniency for
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  sin today could be the investment of great collapse
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  that is unforeseen failure, number one that led to this Was
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  the inability to restrain passions early on by the power
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  of the spirit. Now let's come to the second
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  failure in verse 1 and the spring of the year, the time
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  when kings go out to battle Davidson job and his servants
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  with him and all Israel and they ravaged the ammonites and
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  besieged. Rabbah, but David remained at
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  Jerusalem. That first part of this verse,
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  we're going to touch on at the end, but for the sake of our
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  assignment tonight, let's underscore the last phrase here.
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  The last sentence of this verse. But David remained.
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  At Jerusalem the same verse informs us, why?
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  This is a problem when kings. David is a king go out to
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  battle. He stayed at home.
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  David had to duty. And his duty was to go out into
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  the battlefield. Why in the spring it was easier
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  to go to war. It's like things in life that
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  every year, have seasons. And this time, they didn't have
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  the technology to go to war during the winter.
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  Or during stormy Seasons, they went.
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  When the ground would be drying, there is more favorable.
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  Weather seems strange to us. But that was the case.
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  David was supposed to be out on the battlefield and instead he's
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  staying in his bedroom. Why?
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  I mean, we can, we can give many reasons why regardless it's not
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  justified. He's supposed to be there and
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  maybe he's getting old and he thought to himself, I'm not into
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  this anymore. I can't move like, I used to,
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  but he still was a commander and he needed to be with his men.
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  And instead, he's sitting on the couch watching TV.
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  And here's the thing that we have to understand, that David
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  is neglecting his god-given responsibility.
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  And here's the point here, when anybody has a casual attitude
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  towards the will of God, they always leave the door unlocked
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  for temptation to kick, open. There is something extremely
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  protective when you and I are actively engaged in what God has
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  called us to do when you go beyond this idea, that God just
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  saved me so I can get to heaven. But he also deposited something
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  in me so that I can serve him on the earth when you get to that
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  point, that's a wonderful motivation unto righteousness.
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  She realized that you've been commissioned by a holy God, from
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  Heaven here on Earth. And you realize that there is
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  something of me that has been fashioned to fill a position
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  that nobody else does or can. That's that's awesome.
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  There's Hope there their Zeal there.
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  There's there's purpose there and when you fail to perceive
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  that, here's what begins to happen.
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  You begin to become open to settle for empty Pleasures or
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  vein passions. So people who don't take the
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  will of God, seriously are the most susceptible to the world
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  seductions and fleshly impulses all the time all the time.
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  And so I think here, this is a great place to ask a very
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  pressing question for all of us at this Bible study, you ready?
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  Am I where I'm supposed to be? When it comes to the will of God
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  for my life notice. I didn't say are you perfect?
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  I'm asking you what path you're on.
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  What path are you on? What do you see?
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  Even though you can't see the future?
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  What steps are you? Taking that can give you the
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  confidence that I am in the will of God.
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  What's your relationship with the word of God?
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  Like You know Kings were called to write down the law and to
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  read it day and night. They were supposed to have a
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  copy of God's word. And if we're royalty according
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  to Christ, and we should adopt Royal principles and
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  disciplines. What's your relationship like
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  with the word of God? What's your relationship with
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  prayer? What's your prayer life?
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  Like, ready for this one? What's your relationship with
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  the local church? What's are you obeying?
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  The will of God and how you should relate to the local
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  church. Are your gifts collecting dust
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  or are they opening up and being used to build other people?
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  See you have to consider that and if you can't say, I don't
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  know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, you're in
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  jeopardy. You're in Jeopardy.
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  David is in a dangerous place right now because David is not
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  where Christ called them to be and Christ promises you.
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  And I a particular joy that can only be found on the path of
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  obedience, and when you don't walk in obedience, you miss out
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  on that joy. And when you miss out on that
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  Joy, you are willing to make room for false happiness.
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  In other things to satisfy you. In January this year, it will
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  be. I believe, 11 years of walking
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  with the Lord for me personally because I got saved the 2012 of
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  January. Can I tell you something these
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  11 years? He's never failed to satisfy me.
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  Never never failed. I can tell you 100 failures of
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  the false promises of this world but I can guarantee you that
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  Christ has never failed to fulfill me.
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  Am I different? Am I an alien?
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  No, I'm Flesh. And Blood just like you and I
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  testify confidently that Christ satisfies.
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  And here's a principle that I give people, especially in the
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  area of sexual Temptation. And I hope that this is a life
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  verse for you in the Book of Proverbs, it's in chapter 27 and
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  verse 7, and I want you to see it in your own Bible so that you
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  can have it embedded on your soul.
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  Chapter 27, verse 7 of proverbs. 27 verse 7, one who is full
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  loathes honey. But to one who is hungry.
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  Everything bitter is sweet one. Who is full loads honey, but one
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  who is hungry, everything bitter.
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  Is sweet. When people begin to feel the
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  intensification of exploration of worldly, Goods.
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  I know one thing about that person.
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  They're hungry. And the substance that should be
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  filling them in Christ is lacking.
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  And we are all wired to know contentment.
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  Or else, what's this Pursuit of Happiness that people are on?
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  The the pursuit is not wrong, it's the object that's wrong,
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  right? But the person who is full in
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  God, he can walk by a buffet of Temptation and not even look
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  twice because he's already at rest.
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  And so here is the joy. He is the, here's the goodness
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  of God, that when you are satisfied in him, it keeps you
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  from lurking and looking for things that even if you know,
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  it's bitter but because you have nothing else going on, you need
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  to fill that void. So you begin to now taste here
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  and there and it's actually poisonous, it's bitter.
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  So the solution here is deeper than then, this is right, and
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  this is wrong, you're not satisfied, you're not satisfied.
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  Well, it's because my wife has been like this lately is because
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  my husband's by Lego City. No, no, you're not satisfied in
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  God. It's as simple as that.
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  Don't give me any excuses down deep inside.
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  That's the core reason why you are flirting with this sin.
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  And so you. And I have to understand here,
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  that David being outside of the will of God is a recipe.
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  For something that he's about to indulge in that will hurt him
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  and bite back failure. A failure to be diligent in the
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  duty that God has called him and his called you the closer you
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  are to the will of God, the further, you will be away from
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  temptation. But the moment you Veer off,
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  you're in dangerous territory. So here's the thing, people ask
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  me. Do you have devotion?
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  I didn't feel like it's not a matter of what you feel.
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  Can I tell you what? It's a matter of survival, I
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  don't feel like it, who cares, huh?
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  Doesn't matter. It's a matter of you surviving.
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  That's what it is and if you have that mentality realized,
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  what if I don't cling to you if I don't stay close to you, I
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  will invite things. I I'm capable of doing anything
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  all know David here. This is King David, the
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  psalmist, the worship leader. The Men Who had Faith.
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  Unlike any other Israel. This man was susceptible being
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  outside of the will of God. Be careful, stay close to him.
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  Stay close to him. That's the second failure.
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  A failure to be diligent in our duty.
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  The first one was a failure to deal with unrestrained passions
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  early. On now we come to the third one.
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  The third failure that led to this ultimate failure, a failure
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  to conquer idleness. It's very similar to the second
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  point, but it's worth mentioning on its own.
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  It Happened One late afternoon. When David arose from his couch
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  some translations as we heard says evening.
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  It's not uncommon than nor is it in different parts of the world
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  today, for people to wake up, very early, work hard.
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  And then to have a siesta, a nap, the hottest period of the
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  day and wake up and go back to work, but the holy spirit is
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  very specific in highlighting that David resting on his couch
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  is not a result of a long, an early day of work because he's
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  not at work one and two It Happened.
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  One late. Late afternoon close to the
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  evening time that we find David on his bed.
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  Laziness doesn't always lead to lust but it definitely
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  encourages it. See what we see here.
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  Is this man is lounging around the house.
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  He's extensively sleeping. He's browsing in his Palace and
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  you've often heard it said that. If the devil can't make you bad
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  he'll make you busy, right? Have you heard that before the
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  devil can't make you bad? He'll make you busy, but you got
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  to realize there's another side to the issue.
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  And here it is. If you and I are not hard at
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  work, we give the devil some work to do.
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  So there's two extremes, right? We can become so busy with our
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  worldly responsibilities that we forget our Heavenly calling, but
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  you and I can also be So distracted, so laid-back that
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  the lack of work in our lives, the lack of the sweat of the
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  brow, the lack of being focused on having a mission and
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  assignments, gives Satan something to work with.
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  I don't think we consider that as a danger.
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  But can I tell you something at this bible study this Friday
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  night. Yes, lazy Christians are
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  dangerous. Lazy Christians are dangerous.
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  There are danger onto themselves and they are a danger to the
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  health of the local church. You have to just read the
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  Epistles to see that if there is a disruption or a distraction in
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  a home, in a circle of friends are in a congregation.
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  There is a high chance that the source you ready for this is
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  someone who is not given to daily responsibilities.
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  And has a lot of time on their hands.
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  I want to show you how that's true, not just for sexual sin.
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  I want to, I want to show you how it's true even for different
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  types of sin, go to the epistle. First Timothy in chapter 5.
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  A failure to conquer idleness. in 1st, Timothy Chapter 5 and in
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  verse 13, Paul is speaking about young widows in the church and
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  he's giving Timothy instructions of who to enroll and who not to
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  enroll in the financial support Ministry and Paul reserves.
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  The younger widows who have lost their husbands from being a part
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  of that contribution system for different reasons.
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  And he speaks about the danger of their youth and the danger of
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  their single status. And in this verse, in verse 13,
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  he's going to mention something about the manifestation of their
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  lack of maturity. And it's really an insight about
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  the danger of idleness. So, you're there in first,
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  Timothy 513. Let's read besides that, they
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  learn. It's talking about the young
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  widows to be idlers going about from house to house and not only
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  idle hours but also God. Ships and busybodies saying,
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  what they should not. What Paul is saying, Timothy, be
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  careful and enrolling younger widows because, look, how they
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  use their free time instead of caring for The Afflicted.
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  Instead of washing the feet of the Saints, instead of utilizing
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  that free time to be devoted to the Lord, and being like Anna,
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  who came to the temple. And she was an older Widow, but
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  she fasted and prayed. Instead of doing those things,
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  they are on a campaign of going from house to house to house and
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  in our contacts, ready for this from group chat to text group to
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  this or that. From Instagram to Snapchat, too.
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  I don't know what else is out there.
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  And are saying things that they shouldn't be saying.
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  And here he highlights. That this is dangerous because
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  their free time is luring them to be nosey to be investigative
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  to look into the Affairs of other people's lives and because
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  they don't have much going on in their own lives.
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  They are caught up with what people are doing with their own.
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  And so, they sit and they talk, and they bring reports and, and
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  then gossip and shoes and now slander comes and fabricated
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  stories. And all of us in here, know the
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  capabilities and the collateral damage that can come from a
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  group of people who can sit down and say things that they
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  shouldn't be saying. And Paul is warning about this
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  danger, because they have nothing to do.
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  They're going to do something often times.
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  When you're not doing something good and idleness, simply means
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  avoiding to do work. When you're avoiding genuine
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  responsibility, god-given conduct, you're going to embrace
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  other other vices. And so, he wants to avoid this
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  problem because he knows the power of this in a negative
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  sense in the congregation. So, you know, what Paul solution
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  is you ready for this? It's not, well, they better be
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  praying and fasting. Well, if they're not given the
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  Themselves to spiritual discipline if they're not called
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  to celibacy. If they don't have the gift of
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  singleness verse 14 is a solution.
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  So I would have younger widows marry Bear, children manage
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  their households and give the adversary no occasion for
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  slander. And when he tells Pastor Tim to
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  do Pastor Tim, tell the young ladies to engage in pursuing and
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  finding a spouse. Here's the translation, it's
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  very difficult for Satan. To work through you when you're
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  worn out serving your husband and your children.
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  It's very difficult, you give no occasion to him, and you might
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  be thinking, well, I know some woman who can still slander and
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  gossip and they have a husband and they have plenty of kids.
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  Can I tell you something? Even that, that may be the case,
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  they're doing it wrong. They're doing it wrong.
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  Because clearly, they're not finding satisfaction and
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  discipling their children and serving their husband.
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  If they still have time to go from house to house to how
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  they're doing it wrong. And so look at the preventive,
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  wisdom here. They need to get busy, they need
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  to get an alignment with a high call of being a wife.
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  And if they can't have God Wills to being a mother, let them in.
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  Let them get caught up in that. So that Satan can see.
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  I can't deal with this person's already fulfilling what God's
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  call them to do. They're managing the household.
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  They're, they're they're serving their family and so he moves on
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  and here's the point. It's a principle that a healthy
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  work ethic provides an extra layer of protection.
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  Ian on the shield of our sanctification, when we are
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  resisting, the suggestions of the enemy.
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  But listen, when we do not have that work ethic, I'm not talking
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  about Ministry, I'm talking about life, making a living
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  endeavoring to do things to to to make your mind at work.
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  Your hands at work for the glory of God, you weaken.
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  Your ability to resist and you invite some overpowering ideas
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  that can make you captive to the enemy and actually use it as a
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  tool to hurt the church and in David's case, can I tell you
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  something? It would have been much, much
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  harder for him to look and behold at a naked woman.
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  If his eyes were at War, If his eyes were, if he was focusing on
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  the ammonites and strategizing with his men, this would never
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  have occurred. And so I get very concerned when
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  I learn of people who have nothing going on in their lives
• 38:58
  because something is about to occur, it just needs a little
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  bit of time. This is true for men.
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  This is true for women. Get busy serving God, get busy.
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  Doing what you're called to do as a Christian in society.
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  Too much free time is not good time.
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  Leisure is good. Only to strengthen to go back
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  and do what God's called you to do.
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  But if you're wondering and just bouncing around in life, you're
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  a liability, a failure to conquer idleness.
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  Actually. Contributed to this awful
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  decision, A failure to deal with unrestrained passions, early on
• 39:39
  number to a failure, to be diligent in the duties that God
• 39:43
  has called you to do. Number three, a failure to
• 39:46
  conquer idleness. Number for the second part of
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  verse 2. It happened late one afternoon
• 39:56
  when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of
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  the King's house that he saw from the roof, a woman bathing
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  and the woman was very beautiful Here's David we have no idea
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  what he's doing on his roof. I know one thing he's bored.
• 40:14
  And he's probably surveying the city.
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  Remember he's a king, he's at the top of the hill.
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  He has a few, unlike anybody else and as his eyes are
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  scrolling left to right? And up to down in his vision,
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  comes what a woman bathing. And the impression that we get
• 40:30
  here is not that he sees her and turns away, but that he's Caesar
• 40:35
  and he stops. And he begins to study her and
• 40:40
  he begins to consider her and the conclusion in his mind is I
• 40:43
  want her. I want her. and so, what we
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  learn here is that these Irresponsible.
• 40:54
  Eyes, turn into thoughts and those thoughts eventually
• 40:58
  morphed into a planned action get her for me.
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  So it begins with a look, there's a knot.
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  And David himself, knew of the power of indulging in that,
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  which is worthless Through the Windows of these eyes, and he
• 41:17
  failed to take his own advice. And I want to show you how David
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  literally pens what he should have done.
• 41:26
  But he fails to do this is a beautiful reference to right in
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  your Bible. If you do right in your Bible,
• 41:32
  right beside 2nd Samuel, 12, it's in Psalm 101 verse to Psalm
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  101. Verse 2 and verse 3, this is
• 41:39
  like heartbreaking to know that David wrote, this under the
• 41:43
  inspiration of the Holy Spirit and at some point because he had
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  an open-door failed to remember what it meant for him.
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  Psalm 101 verse 2. Here's what David writes.
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  I will ponder the way that is blameless.
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  Oh, when will you come to me? Just pause it.
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  That's a man. Who's hungry after God.
• 42:06
  Oh, when will you come to me? Lord, when will you make
• 42:08
  yourself known? This is a man who is, who is in
• 42:11
  the presence of God, but notice what he says, I will walk with
• 42:16
  Integrity of heart within where My house.
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  I will walk with Integrity of heart within my house.
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  Now, look at verse 3. I will not set before my eyes.
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  Anything that is worthless? Do you see the connection that
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  David is making here? There is a link between having a
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  heart of integrity and the discipline of not setting
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  worthless things before your eyes.
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  And we can all agree that what you put in this mouth in terms
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  of food will inevitably have an effect on the health of your
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  body. And as that is digested and your
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  stomach distributes, It Whatever substance goes in there, whether
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  it's good or bad. It's going to, it's going to
• 43:07
  affect you one way or another. And in the same way a major
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  contribution to our spiritual health, is what we indulge in
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  with our eyes. What you allow your eyes to
• 43:22
  Feast on will have a great effect on the overall spiritual
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  condition of your pursuit of Holiness.
• 43:30
  Holiness, is simply your spiritual health.
• 43:35
  And David here, knew that listen are unassisted imaginations, are
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  enough trouble on their own. To add to that, visual
• 43:45
  stimulation will guarantee a strengthening to that, which we
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  must silence and subdue. And so, when this man says, I
• 43:56
  will walk with Integrity of heart, what he had in mind was
• 43:59
  in the privacy of my home. I will not even give myself to
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  looking at that which will harm this integrity.
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  And I want to say something very serious, but I feel like this is
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  lacking much of the sexual bondage that people are in
• 44:14
  today, began with a prolonged look Much of the sexual bondage
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  that people in our today, began with a prolonged look, would it
• 44:23
  be a shock to you for for me to say?
• 44:27
  That a person who looked at one inappropriate Instagram, post
• 44:31
  long enough, LED them into daily / nog, Rafi exposure. and
• 44:38
  because of that free filth in enlarged and appetite where that
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  same person where they started with one Instagram, post are now
• 44:46
  paying for a prostitute, too fat to satisfy their fantasies It's
• 44:51
  real, it's real. And we were living in an evil
• 44:55
  age that has no shame in exposing things, to grip your
• 44:59
  mind, burn those images there, so that you have nowhere to run.
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  The first look, nobody can escape the second one.
• 45:10
  The third one is our responsibility.
• 45:13
  And it's hard to imagine, but remember what I just said there,
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  how one social media posts can lead to picking up somebody?
• 45:20
  That you don't even know if you think that's far-fetched.
• 45:23
  Remember that the psalmist of Israel and the privacy of his
• 45:26
  balcony from this time, is actually going to now have a
• 45:30
  murderous Scandal on his reputation.
• 45:34
  This is not an extreme example. This can happen and just because
• 45:39
  it's not in the history books for all to see it happens more
• 45:43
  often than you can imagine. So, here's what I want to say,
• 45:47
  and it's important that if you and I are a people who can't
• 45:50
  control these eyes, then you will not be able to control your
• 45:54
  body. It starts with the eyes.
• 46:00
  If like job, you don't make a covenant with these eyes where
• 46:03
  these eyes go, what they allow, what they entertain will
• 46:07
  eventually guide your body. And that's what we see here with
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  this man and that may seem like a hopeless message and in the
• 46:15
  age of indecency, but don't let unbelief.
• 46:19
  Don't let on believe in. Don't let what happened?
• 46:21
  What's happening? The culture to crush your hope,
• 46:24
  remember, in that same passage that we read.
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  In 1st Thessalonians, rather 4:8 that whole chapter at least the
• 46:33
  first part of the chapter deals with the subject matter at hand
• 46:37
  and and Paul ends his argument. He ends his charge by the Holy
• 46:42
  Spirit by telling the people of this church, listen therefore
• 46:47
  whoever disregards this and what's he saying is that if you
• 46:50
  read the prior versus, he's calling him to Holiness in the
• 46:53
  area of sexual immorality, and he ends his thought by saying,
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  whoever disregards, this disregards, not man, but God,
• 47:01
  but God who gives his holy spirit to you.
• 47:06
  Now, some have limited that verse to say.
• 47:09
  Yeah, if you don't listen to Paul standards for sexuality,
• 47:11
  you're not really ignoring Paul, you're ignoring God true but
• 47:15
  there's there's hope in this. What he's saying is listen,
• 47:19
  don't let the standard of the world or your brothers and
• 47:23
  sisters who are not taking their Holiness, seriously.
• 47:25
  Don't let that determine the potential Purity that you can
• 47:29
  walk in because the instructions that I'm giving you I'm also
• 47:33
  giving you the resource that's able to make those things.
• 47:36
  Own the Holy Spirit. Don't disregard this, don't not
• 47:40
  believe this, don't just brush it off.
• 47:42
  Don't just wallow in your failure, embrace the standard,
• 47:46
  believe it and realize that the Holy Spirit.
• 47:49
  Now is here to empower you to walk in it.
• 47:53
  So that's the hope that we have as Christians that we can
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  actually know a Grace that comes from Heaven, to be able to walk
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  in this protection and preservation for True pleasure
• 48:03
  in God in the design that he has for our sexuality.
• 48:07
  So Paul says, don't disregard this because by disregarding
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  this, you're actually also pushing away.
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  The very power that can help you realize it.
• 48:17
  We have a supernatural faith and we have to believe it before we
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  can actually experience it. So that's the fourth failure.
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  The fourth failure is the failure to realize the danger of
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  a prolonged look and now we come to the final failure.
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  The final failure is in verse 3. And David sent and inquired
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  about the woman. And one said, is not this
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  Bathsheba the daughter of Al. I am the wife of Uriah, the
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  hittite, The fifth and final failure, do not limited to these
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  things. Is the failure to take heed to
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  God's warnings. The failure to take heed.
• 49:10
  To God's warnings. We don't know how long it was
• 49:13
  before David called his servants to inquire about this mysterious
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  woman that enticed him. But when the news came back, his
• 49:22
  men were successful in providing a detailed report of her
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  identity. And some say, well this is David
• 49:30
  finding out if she was single so he can just add him to the
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  roster of his Harem and just another number with the others.
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  We've lost count of how many wives he had.
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  As though, that is a justifiable reason.
• 49:46
  But what is really stunning? Is that what he found out about
• 49:50
  this woman should have repelled him.
• 49:53
  He's already gone too far but this should have stopped him in
• 49:58
  his tracks when he realized who her father was and he realized
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  who, her husband was the fact that she had a husband.
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  First Corinthians, 10:13, we are promised.
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  That in all and in every Temptation, God will provide a
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  way of Escape. What that means is that you can
• 50:23
  never ever justify a sin by saying that it was too powerful.
• 50:29
  To turn away from in Temptation. God has supplied us everything
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  that we need to be able to endure it, right.
• 50:39
  It doesn't say immediate ejection from it but to endure
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  it and then eventually Escape it.
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  God has given us everything that we need.
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  So part of that is being in preparation for that temptation
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  to come watch and pray. Lest you fall into temptation
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  but you know, God is so good. God is so good that he often
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  even even warns us in creative ways while we are being tempted.
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  While we are being tempted. And one example there are many
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  in the scriptures, let me give you one.
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  Remember when I'm Alec took Abraham's wife And Abraham was
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  telling everybody. He's use my sister hey, he
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  doesn't want to be killed, his wife is beautiful.
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  I mean, she must have been beautiful.
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  She was, she was called beautiful and her older older
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  years. And this King takes her.
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  He puts her in his bed and then God visits him in Genesis 20 in
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  a dream. And here's the paraphrase.
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  You're a dead, man. You're a dead, man.
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  Because you took somebody's wife.
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  And I am Alec is like, I didn't know.
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  He told me, he told me, it was a sister.
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  And God says, yes, I know that you did this out of a place of
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  not knowing what was going on, but I'm giving you a warning.
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  If you don't give her back, you're finished and he does he
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  repents, right? So God can at times, grab our
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  attention attention, even in the pursuit even in the plot of
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  doing that, which is wrong. Here's the problem.
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  Many people don't pay attention. You know, like a bible study on
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  a Friday night. Right.
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  And we just happen to fall on this, I don't know what's going
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  on in your personal life. God knows, you don't need to
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  tell me even but if you know that you're heading towards a
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  path, you realize that you are failing in the areas that were
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  just mentioned. Here's God, giving you a way
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  out. You know, what the way out was
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  for David. Hey, they could have just said
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  this is Bathsheba know. They said, this is Bathsheba the
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  daughter of a lion that doesn't mean much until you realize that
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  bathsheba's father'll. I am was the son of a man named
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  a heath offal. Who is David's favorite
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  counselor in his Administrative Office. more than that, he
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  realizes that he He's inquiring about a woman who's married to
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  one of his mighty men? You are is just not one soldier.
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  Uriah is, in that list of Mighty Men.
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  At the end of second Samuel. You're going to see it.
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  His name is, there engraved among the Great.
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  And that should have startled him.
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  You know what registered in his mind when he heard this?
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  Oh good. Her husband isn't home.
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  That's what he registered. And when I look at this, I think
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  of a new testament principle, you heard from first
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  Thessalonians 48. But look at Paul and what he
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  says to encourage Holiness in this area in 1st Thessalonians,
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  4 6. I want you to see this because
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  it's profound He's pleading with his brothers.
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  Listen, learn to control your own body.
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  And Holiness, don't be like the Gentiles who do not know God and
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  are given over to their passions.
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  Then he says this in verse 6, That no one transgress and wrong
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  his brother. What do you mean by that?
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  And no one, transgress and wrong his brother in this matter
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  because the Lord is an Avenger and all these things.
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  As we told you beforehand and solemnly, warned you.
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  By the way, he's not talking to non-believers, he's talking to
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  Christians. That no one transgress and
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  wrong. His brother.
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  I believe what Paul is saying in part here, is that when a man
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  specifically considers another man's wife or when a woman
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  considers, another woman's husband.
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  That. The engagement of that sin
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  between two, people does not just affect those two people.
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  What Paul is saying here is, Hey listen, don't wrong your
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  brother. In this meaning, I believe in
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  part, not just the person that you were sitting with but the
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  person that, that person belongs to Do you realize?
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  Yes, you Christian in the church.
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  That's somebody's daughter. Do you realize that?
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  That's somebody's husband. Do you realize that sexual sin?
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  Always affects a community. Always.
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  When it's exposed, it hurts a lot of people, it hurts.
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  A lot of people. I'll give you proof of that.
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  How do you feel when you hear of a church leader falling into
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  sin? It hurts.
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  Doesn't it? The people are hurting the
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  fellow Elders. Are hurting.
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  Everybody's hurting everybody who has a soft heart does.
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  At least And here's what Paul is saying because this is how
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  pathetic we can become in our own pursuit of Holiness.
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  If you have no care about that person that you're wrong.
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  And would you at least have some kind of a thought for the person
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  that might be hurting. Who belongs to that individual?
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  Who is in Covenant, with that individual.
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  That's not just limited to marry people.
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  You single. People hear me out.
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  When you're considering somebody else, who you're not married to
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  do you realize that you are violating a potential Covenant,
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  that is to come? They realize that that person is
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  gonna have a husband. One day that person is going to
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  have a wife. One day, don't wrong.
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  That future brother. Don't wrong that future sister
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  because you want a short-lived fantasy to be fulfilled.
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  Realize that this goes beyond you, it goes beyond that
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  individual that you're conspiring with and you're being
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  secretive with. There are others who are going
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  to be affected by this. You know what David should have
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  thought, how could I do this to? I felt full How could I break
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  his heart? How can I?
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  I'm such a fool. Uriah is wife.
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  So shame, then he should have fell on his face and quoted.
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  Psalm 101 verse two and three again.
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  Lord, I want I want to have integrity in my heart within my
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  house. Again, help me never ever to set
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  my eyes on that which is worthless that would have been a
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  glorious glorious ending to this chapter.
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  But unfortunately, He fetches for her.
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  A failure to take heed to God's warnings.
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  It's sad. It's sad to realize how people
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  can hear God. Who's putting obstacles in their
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  paths. Because they're so empty inside
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  because they've been so deceived by their own flesh that they
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  bulldoze through the warning signs.
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  And say, I want what I set my eyes on I wish David did here
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  what he did with those Mighty Men Who heard him say, while he
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  was in war. Oh, that somebody would get me.
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  Water from that. Well, in Bethlehem, by the gate,
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  And a few of them looked at each other and said, what do you
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  think? I love David.
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  I love him too. Let's do it.
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  And they go through the Garrison of the Philistines and they
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  scooped up. Some kind of container filled
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  with that Hometown Water that I'm sure David drank from.
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  So at so many points in his earlier years and they come back
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  to Dave and they say, here, David, we got you the water that
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  you asked for And David and second Samuel, 23:17 second,
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  Samuel, 23:17 said, far, be it from me.
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  Oh, Lord, that I should do this. Shall I drink the blood of the
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  men who went at the risk of their lives.
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  Therefore, he would not drink it, these things, the three
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  Mighty Men did, And he pours out that water.
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  I wish you did that with his lust.
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  When you realize how can I drink from somebody else's fountain?
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  That's not my wife. I will not do it.
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  I will not say cheap. This sinful impulse.
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  I pour it out and I turn away from it.
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  If you want to know when a pleasure, any kind of pleasure,
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  no matter how much it overtakes you and convinces, you any
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  pleasure that is illegitimate, is a pleasure that dishonors
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  somebody else in any way. Any pleasure that dishonors
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  somebody else is illegal. Never forget that.
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  If it harm somebody degrades them.
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  No Crossing pour it out, and turn away five failures on this
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  Bible study. I know, it's a very heavy one.
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  But what's heavier is to not hear about it.
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  And to experience the consequences of it, So we come
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  to the concluding verses in verse 4 and 5, and we'll end
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  here. So, David sent Messengers and
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  took her and she came to him and lay with her, he lay with her.
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  Now, she'd been purifying herself from her uncleanness, so
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  brother. And are you asking about this
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  and in levitical law, when a woman was undergoing her monthly
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  flow, there was a protocol for her to regain a clean status so
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  to speak. And we don't have the time to
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  explore that in detail. And so there was a time of
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  refraining from intercourse for a certain amount of Of days
• 1:00:41
  after that, after that time. And so what we were being told
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  here also is that she just had that time of the month.
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  She now is free to do what she can do.
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  And the indication here is to prepare us for verse 5, that
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  bathsheba's pregnancy is surely from David, not from her
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  husband. So it's preparing us to say.
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  Nothing happened before. What's what's about to
• 1:01:13
  transpire? Here is a direct result of an
• 1:01:18
  illegitimate intercourse. But there's something else you
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  want. I thought about it and it's this
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  Bathsheba was being faithful in observing the ceremonial law was
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  scheana and some even say that the bath that she was taking was
• 1:01:30
  part of that observance. I don't know, it doesn't say but
• 1:01:34
  so here's what's interesting. This woman is willing to adhere
• 1:01:38
  to the ceremonial law, but when you read about it she shows no
• 1:01:43
  hesitation To defiling herself with a man that's not her
• 1:01:47
  husband. Isn't that strange isn't that
• 1:01:49
  strange? It's incredible, because it's a
• 1:01:54
  picture of a faulty Holiness where we get to pick and choose
• 1:01:57
  what we want to obey, what we don't want to be, or you can
• 1:02:00
  even say it's it's this deception where well, I've done
• 1:02:03
  this for the Lord. So so I can do this and he'll he
• 1:02:06
  won't mind, right? It reminds me of the Pharisees
• 1:02:10
  when they arrest Jesus and it says there in John that they
• 1:02:13
  refused to go into Pilots headquarters less, they defiled
• 1:02:16
  themselves before the Passover feast and here they are plotting
• 1:02:20
  to kill an innocent, man. Oh, you don't want to defile
• 1:02:23
  yourself so that you can eat of the feast.
• 1:02:24
  But you're going to actually have a man crucified for doing
• 1:02:27
  nothing like it PHA crasy, produces Twisted conduct, it's
• 1:02:33
  scary. And the people who are in, it
• 1:02:36
  are convinced that it's right. So, here's baths.
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  But yeah, I'm ceremonially clean.
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  But now she's about to come into a man's room that that is going
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  to defile her morally. Picking and choosing what you
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  think is, right? Or what you think is wrong, what
• 1:02:51
  you think is, okay? We that's just that's just
• 1:02:53
  dangerous. Verse 5, we read and the woman
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  can see, then she sent and told David, I am pregnant before
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  that, we reach, she just returned home.
• 1:03:04
  Like it seemed like things are just going to go on.
• 1:03:06
  As normal now Bathsheba goes home.
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  David stays at home, A one night stand.
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  That's it. We just blow off some steam and
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  nothing's going to happen. And we read.
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  In fact, something does happen. And this is just the start. but
• 1:03:27
  before we end tonight, but back at verse one, in the spring of
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  the year, the time, when the Kings, go out to battle, David
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  sent joab and his servants with him and all Israel and they
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  ravaged the ammonites This war is a continuation of chapter 10.
• 1:03:42
  Remember the ammonites were the ones who harass David's
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  ambassadors. And more than that, they started
• 1:03:48
  a war. They hired the syrians and they
• 1:03:50
  said, let who does this David think that he is?
• 1:03:53
  He thinks he can spy on me, totally wrong assessment.
• 1:03:56
  They try to go to war job and his men show up the syrians,
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  flee that I manage realize it, and it says that they Retreat
• 1:04:02
  back to their City, they closed the door and they hold on for
• 1:04:06
  dear life. Hoping that David will never
• 1:04:07
  show his face. Face again.
• 1:04:10
  And so, here are these men who sinned against David and time
• 1:04:15
  goes on thinking that David forgot.
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  And then we read in the spring of the Year, few months go by
• 1:04:26
  and what are we read? David, make sure is that they
• 1:04:28
  are going to pay the price for what they did.
• 1:04:34
  And he's going to ravage them. And here's the thing that I take
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  from this that unfortunately you have Sinners who are like the
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  ammonites who think that and interpret God's momentary
• 1:04:46
  silence as either forgetfulness or like-mindedness.
• 1:04:51
  And so his silence seems to be approval.
• 1:04:53
  So they continue and they think that God has not registered what
• 1:04:56
  they have done. And unfortunately, the children
• 1:04:59
  of God think the same way that just because there is an
• 1:05:02
  immediate consequence than surely, it's not that big of a
• 1:05:05
  deal and they fail to realize that God loves you too much to
• 1:05:09
  not discipline you in one way or another.
• 1:05:13
  And what the ammonites are about to learn about David is what
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  David and the remainder of this chapter and the next chapter is
• 1:05:23
  going to learn about God. That unrepentant sin will never
• 1:05:29
  be ignored by God. It won't.
• 1:05:35
  There is a chilling verse that we will get to maybe in a week
• 1:05:40
  or two. Look at the last verse.
• 1:05:43
  The last part of the last verse but the thing that David had
• 1:05:47
  done displeased the Lord that like when I I almost get chills
• 1:05:52
  whenever I read that because you have this long chapter of
• 1:05:56
  David's little schemes and his cover-up plans and all that
• 1:05:59
  stuff. And when I read that verse, you
• 1:06:00
  know what I sense God was watching the whole time.
• 1:06:05
  God was watching the whole time and the time would come because
• 1:06:09
  David concealed his transgression instead of
• 1:06:12
  confessing and forsaking it, because of his concealment, a
• 1:06:16
  prophet is going to come. Just like, David came at one
• 1:06:19
  point in the spring and says, listen you can't get away with
• 1:06:23
  what you did. Can't get away with what he did.
• 1:06:28
  So, my brother, my sister, I don't know where you're at
• 1:06:30
  tonight. I don't, God knows, I hope
• 1:06:32
  you're doing well in the Lord. I hope you're a strong.
• 1:06:35
  I hope that these failures are not present in your life, but if
• 1:06:38
  they are, this is the chance to take heed to God's gentle
• 1:06:42
  warning to saying, don't don't do it.
• 1:06:46
  And realize the danger ahead of time.
• 1:06:49
  Realize that the failure to deal with unrestrained.
• 1:06:52
  Passions will serve as a sewing. And realized that a failure to
• 1:06:59
  be diligent in your duty for the Lord opens up a foothold for
• 1:07:03
  Temptation. And realize that if you don't
• 1:07:05
  conquer idleness, some kind of sin will conquer.
• 1:07:08
  You believe that if you fail in believing that a prolonged look
• 1:07:15
  can actually open up to a thought pattern that can
• 1:07:17
  actually evolve into a plan action, believe that if you
• 1:07:21
  don't nip it there, at the site of the thing that it can, it can
• 1:07:25
  transform it to something that will Monstrous.
• 1:07:30
  And realize that a failure to take heed to God's warnings.
• 1:07:36
  God can't do anything else. More than that.
• 1:07:41
  He will now override your will if you want to go, he'll let you
• 1:07:44
  go. But if you're truly a child of
• 1:07:47
  God, he will do something about it when you go.
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  Let's pray. Lord.
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  We thank you for tonight's Bible study.
• 1:08:22
  We thank you that your word before us today.
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  Was understood and its purpose and design.
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  And Lord, we just ask. That in this place, as a result
• 1:08:40
  of this Bible study, new levels of Victory will be realized.
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  But we pray for the grace to retain the elements that we
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  have. Explored in these verses and
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  that they would register in US deeply.
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  And we asked, oh God, that you would be worshipped tonight in a
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  special way. For how you've spoken to us.
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  Protect our marriages, protect our household, protect us in an
• 1:09:15
  age of disgrace. And Lord we pray Proverbs 27 7
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  that we would all be so full in you that we would loathe the
• 1:09:27
  honey of this life. The bitter things that try to
• 1:09:31
  persuade us that will fill us, Lord help us detect it, not just
• 1:09:35
  with head knowledge but with experiential knowledge, I am
• 1:09:39
  satisfied in God. I am filled with the joy of the
• 1:09:43
  Lord. I have fellowship with the king,
• 1:09:48
  I will not cheap in myself to something that will ultimately
• 1:09:52
  bite back and disgrace me in the Lord that I serve.
• 1:09:55
  O Lord, may that be the heights that we reach because of you and
• 1:10:00
  your promises for those who hunger and thirst for
• 1:10:03
  righteousness. They shall be filled.
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  So fill us a fresh. Let Faith arise that there is
• 1:10:10
  more pleasure in your presence than what pornography has to
• 1:10:14
  offer. When loose Partners have to
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  offer than what external beauty has to offer, your presence is
• 1:10:21
  more than enough, you are able to conquer our wandering hearts.
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  And so we just pray that we would know that in a real way
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  tonight. In Jesus name, we pray.
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  Amen. Amen.
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  Let's stand and worship as we close sing to the Lord before
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  you head on home.