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2 Samuel 20 Bible Study (The Rebellion of Sheba Against David) | Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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if you have your Bibles go to second Samuel, chapter 20 with
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me second, Samuel chapter 20, I'm going to read a few of these
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verses with you and then we will do what we always do.
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And that's learn what these verses were intended to say to
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us as Christians. The New Testament tells you, and
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I that the Old Testament has been given to us more than just
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to prove that. Jesus Christ of Nazareth is the
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Messiah that's been foretold hundreds of years ago.
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The Old Testament has also been given to you and I for our
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instruction, for our guidance to provide the best illustrations,
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and knowing how to apply New Testament, New Covenant
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principles. And that's why we come here
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because we want to be further furnished to know exactly what
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it is. That God God requires of us and
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what it is that we can do to honor and glorify and honor him.
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And so when we come to this chapter, believe that God has
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something to say. That's what we believe every
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single week. Let's read it.
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Beginning in verse 1. Now, there happened to be there
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a worthless, man, whose name was Sheba.
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The son of bichri Benjamin night.
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And he blew the trumpet and said, we have no portion in
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David and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse, every man
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to his tent. So Israel, so all the men of
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Israel withdrew from David and followed Sheba, the son of
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bichri but the men of Judah, followed their kings steadfastly
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from the Jordan to Jerusalem. Let's pray, Lord, this is your
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word. We are your people, we believe
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by faith that you have something to say to us, not just as a mere
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study, but they you would speak directly into our lives into the
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details of our existence and that we would conform ourselves
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to the wisdom. And the truth that has been
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presented and preserved in these very versus.
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And for this we give you glory and honor.
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Let there be a special Grace from the spirit of God teaching
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this and hearing this and more importantly and applying it in
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Christ's name we pray. Amen.
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Does it surprise you? That after dealing with a man
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who caused an uprising and attempted to divide the nation
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of Israel. After Absalom was done away with
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that, there would be. So soon, another attempt by
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another man to try to bring about severance, And disunity
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among the people of God, it shouldn't surprise you.
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And the reason why it shouldn't surprise you is because division
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among the people of God, is one of Satan's most favorite and
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repeated schemes against the Saints.
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He is the one who sows Discord among the Brethren.
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He's the one who inspires men who give a foothold to him to
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do. Just that among those that are
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called to not just a Unity, but a supernatural Unity.
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Now, I know we just started here in second, Samuel, 20.
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But I want us to go quickly to Ephesians 4.
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I want you to see something so important in the New Testament,
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in light of this, in Ephesians, chapter 4, and verse 30, If you
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want to know how Paul wrote his Epistles, he had a common
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format, he would be very theological up front, he would
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teach and he would go deep concerning matters of the Gospel
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of the Cross of the person of Jesus Christ.
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And then the second half of his letters, he would get intensely
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practical. And, so, he would say, okay,
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here's all these wonderful truths.
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These gems about who God is, and then he would hinge that with.
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Therefore, now, this is what it means for your life, and that's
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what he does. Exactly here in Ephesians
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chapter 4. Verse chapter 12 and 3 is is
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dense with Rich truth and in chapter 4 is very heavy on
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practical application. Look what he says.
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In verse 1, I therefore a prisoner for the Lord urge you
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to walk in a manner worthy of the calling of which you have
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been called because chapter one is about you being called you
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being called you being called, right?
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And he builds upon that leading up to chapter 4 and he says,
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okay, you're called right. That's a theological truth.
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With that's a position that you enjoy because of Jesus Christ.
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Now that you're called you should walk in a certain manner
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that position is just something that it's not just something you
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tucked away in your brain. You tuck away in your statement
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of faith and in just live the way you want, no because of
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these things now you should walk in a certain way.
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How should I walk Apostle Paul refers to with all humility and
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gentleness with patience bearing with one another in love?
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Yes, you got to do that with your good if you're going to
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live with other Christians, bear with one another.
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But look at verse 3, eager to maintain the unity of the spirit
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in the bond of peace. Eager to maintain now.
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What's fascinating here is that we have a truth here about the
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experience of unity Unity. When there is Harmony, when
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there is mutual love, when there is unselfish service given to
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one another, in a group of people like this.
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That is a work of the spirit of God.
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It is the Holy Spirit who connects you, who providentially
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leads you to be in a group of people though.
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They represent various backgrounds but who have the The
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same Lord and to enjoy that perpetually.
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That's a holy spirit work. That's a miracle.
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It's nothing short of a miracle. I mean, I look at this place
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week after week more than once a week.
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And he see different shades of skin, different backgrounds,
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different ages, different Generations, different
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testimonies. And yet when service is over, or
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right before the service, even starts, I love when this place
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is filled with the sound of laughter and the site of hugs
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and people laying hands on each other's shoulders and praying
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for them young and old old giving advice young, energizing
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the old What is that? That's a work of the spirit of
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God. And it's a work of the spirit,
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God, more now than ever in a culture.
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That is so fragmented and divided.
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We can peek in here week after week, and not just in this place
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but across the globe and witness a work of Heaven, each time,
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they'll take it for granted. We're told here that the unity
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of the spirit, the author of unity in the church, is the Holy
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Spirit. And yet you have a
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responsibility in nurturing that.
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And so do I, because Paul tells us by the spirit, you must be
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eager to maintain that. So the Holy Spirit, ignites it.
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The Holy Spirit can help us walk in and continue in it but there
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must be a diligence and there must be a reverence and there
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must be an awareness on our part to protect what the spirit of
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God has started. And what the Holy Spirit wants
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us to continue in. What does that require well?
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Usually, where our minds? Go to is forgiveness, right?
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And that's right. We should we should be quick to
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forgive whatever faults because you need to bear with one
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another in love. We're going to step on each
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other's toes. It's going to happen eventually.
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It's going to happen at some point.
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It's going to happen. It's more people come in, but
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it's more than just forgiving. It also includes hear me
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carefully. Overlooking what?
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I mean by that Because of are non-essential preferences
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non-essential convictions if we want to promote a Holy Spirit
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Led unity and it's going to require us to not give in to our
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selfish ambition or desires or ideas but to be willing to
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discern. What it is that is important
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what it is and that is not important and then to walk with
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people hand-in-hand for a greater cause And some people
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are not willing to do that because unfortunately what you
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have even among the church in the local church setting is no
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shortage of individuals who are easily given into the campaign
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of this Unity for justifiable reasons in their own eyes.
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And that's exactly what you. And I just read in this chapter,
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we read of a man among the camp of Israel named Sheba.
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And this man Sheba took advantage of a situation.
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He trumpeted his voice and decided to try.
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To separate the tribes of Israel yet again, and you're thinking
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to yourself. Why is this man doing this?
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And it's because people take advantage of vulnerable
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situations, especially among the people of God and that is
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exactly what's Happening Here. Notice the timing when Sheba
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this worthless, man, that's what the Bible describes him.
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Me sometimes people people think what we preach here is bold and
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straightforward, not as much as the Bible.
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Worthless worthless. The Bible is not saying that he
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has no value as a person created in the image of God.
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The Bible is saying using that word that he has no conviction
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or character and that is the kind of person that Satan uses
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to breed Discord. You heard about Absalom when we
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learn that in second, Samuel chapter 15 that division is bred
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in the hearts of Unholy men and it's no different.
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There were no different with Sheba but when does he do it?
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We didn't cover this last week. So this going to be very
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insightful. Look at the last verses of
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chapter 19. Look at verse 41 down and you
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get the context of when Sheba decides to open his mouth and
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Lead astray a group, verse 41, then all the men of Israel came
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to the king and said to the king, why have our brothers and
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Men of Judah, stolen you away and brought the king and his
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household over the Jordan and all David's men with him.
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Pause, What's Happening Here? Judah initiates the project of
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bringing David back From the Jordan into Jerusalem.
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David is waiting there at the border Judah and the elders
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agree with him, the Elders of Judah to come, and to bring him
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back and who trails along the northern tribes of Israel?
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How many tribes in the northern part represented Israel, the
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northern part of Israel, 10 good.
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And how many in the southern? Well if you know how many tribes
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to, right? So the northern tribe of Israel
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always represents 10 of the tribes this Or the tribe of
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Judah rather instead of the Southern Kingdom, you can use
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that from time to time. But the tribe of Judah, read the
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kingdom of Judah is represented by two tribes.
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And so we see here that Judah represents that Kingdom and the
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men of Judah, stolen you away and brought the king and his
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household over the Jordan, all the men's with him.
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This is their problem. Why did you do this without us
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and verse 42 and all the men of Judah, answer, the men of Israel
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because the king is our close relative.
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Why then are you angry over this matter have we eaten at all?
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The king's expense or has he given us?
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Any gift and the men of Israel answer.
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The men of Judah. We have 10 shares in the king,
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and in David, also, we have more than you.
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Why then did you despise us where we not the first to speak
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of bringing back our King? But the words of the men of
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Judah, were fiercer than the words of the men, as of Israel.
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It's like the author there by the spirit, just after that,
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Initial conversation, just sensors.
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What else was said? Clearly, it was very fierce
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fierce enough for us to know the details of what was
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communicated. Okay, that was a mouthful.
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So let me explain what's happening again Judah and the
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Elders of that tribe. Come and bring David back.
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The ten other tribes learn of this.
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They trail behind and they're upset.
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Here's what they're upset about, you didn't include us in this
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process. We want to be in this parade.
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We want to lead this parade, and so they begin to criticize the
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tribe of Judah. Why didn't you call us?
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Why didn't you invite us? Why didn't you include us?
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And you would think that the immaturity of the in tribes
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would have been wet with wisdom. Remember, when Gideon went to
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war and Ephraim comes and they say, why didn't you include us
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in this battle and and Gideon answers with such wisdom that he
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he squashes any beef, right? He quiets, they're selfish ideas
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and they're aroused flesh, because he was, he was very
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gentle, and his answer. We would hope that Judah would
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do the same, but unfortunately, they met Match the immaturity of
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the northern tribes with their own immaturity.
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So look back at what the line of argumentation is here.
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Look at the debate, the men of Judah, verse 42 say, he's our
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close relatives, like he's part of our tribe.
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So, we have claim on him and this is expected of us.
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And how does Israel answer verse 43?
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We have 10 shares. We have more numbers.
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There are more of us that represent Israel so naturally,
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because there are more of us. Then we should have the
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privilege of bringing him back because this is what it's all
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about. Who is the one leading him back?
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Who's the one that's responsible for assuring the king back to
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his throne. This is silly.
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This is extremely silly. How do you equate this with a
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church context? I thought about it.
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Well there are many ways our our family gives more to this
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ministry. And we because because we give
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more this ministry, we should have more say in what happens
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here. We've been here longer than
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everybody else. We have more history here.
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We're one of the founders, actually.
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We were there from from day one. And so it's obvious that we
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would have access to more of what happens in the background
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of the operations here. and so, what you have here is fleshly
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strife This is not essential, this is petty, this is
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insignificant, this is not, this is not important, this is about
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who's first who's there and you would think like well no I mean
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it is kind of rude for them to not consider the ten tribes of
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Israel. Okay.
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But are these tribes really concerned about honoring?
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David answer? No one because in just a moment
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here, they're going to divide from David in a Split Second.
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What they are concerned about here is that they were not
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honored in their pursuit of honoring David.
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It's amazing, what we try to defend concerning our pride.
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We want to be a part of this. Not so that David can be exalted
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but that we can be associated with his exaltation.
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And so we can share it somewhat in that exaltation, it's about
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me, it's about me, it's about what I desire and what I want
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and that's the start of much trouble.
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Is it not whenever you have even one person in a group that
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thinks that way Some kind of turbulence is on its way.
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And in the same way that Shiva appears on the scene, when he
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calculates and sees this very weak moment in the nation, it's
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no different with Satan. When Satan smells and senses in
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a group of people who are called to a higher standard, giving
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over themselves into the things of the flesh.
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The thing that the world gets concerned about position and
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prominence and me and us he comes when he comes, he stirs.
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And when he stirs who usually finds a person who is worthless
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To take the torch and to manifest what he has been doing
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for thousands and thousands of years.
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Do you know how we can eliminate that Potential Threat do the
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opposite of these men? I thought to myself if you were
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really about the honor of David, you tribes of Israel.
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Would it concern you? Why does it concern you who's in
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front of the parade? In, who's not?
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Because David is being honored, David is being exalted, remember
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fetishes. He's like zebra can take my
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land, your back, and your kingdom is back.
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That's all that matters to me. This is the opposite of that
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spirit. And if you just keep your eyes
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on Christ, you won't get caught up with who gets promoted in the
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church. Who is recognizing, who is not
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whether your acknowledged, your love your praise or not because
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of Christ is being blessed. Anyway, then what's it to you?
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You should be filled with joy. In fact, you go beyond that, you
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would be able to rejoice in the gifts of others rejoice, in the
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opportunities of others, because your object is him being
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glorified, whether you're the immediate instrument or not.
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But when that's lost. So is the the unity among the
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people of God, Shiva reared, his ugly head and he tries to
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promote Division and he does with his words.
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We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the
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son of just that's disrespect. He's the king.
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No, mention of the king. An appeal back to his humble
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beginnings. This is the son of Jesse is the
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farmer's, boy. Let's get out of here and notice
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verse 2. So all the men of Israel
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withdrew from David and followed Sheba, the son of a bitch.
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Me just like that just like few verses ago you were Furious.
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That you were not included in the reinstatement re installment
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of King David and all it took was the persuasion of one man to
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have your opinion, altered concerning that same man that
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you claim to love and adore. What do we learn from this?
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Yet again, another biblical example laid out for us for you
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to realize the fickleness of man's praise and support.
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It is week. It is unpredictable.
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It is all the ways. Vacillating That's true in the
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Old Testament. Let me prove it to you in the
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new go to Acts chapter 14 quickly.
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Acts chapter 14. Paul and Barnabas are preaching
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together as a Ministry. Team, a miracle takes place.
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A man is able to walk. He sprang up and the crowd saw
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this. And in verse 11, we read in Acts
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14. And when the crowd saw what Paul
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had done, they lifted up their voices saying and like own Ian.
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The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men, Barnabas.
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They called, Zeus and Paul Hermes, because he was the chief
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speaker. So notice what happened, a
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miracle takes place at the hand of Paul, and the people see this
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and they declare them to be divine.
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These guys are Gods. They've come to visit us and so
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they ascribe Paul to be Zeus incarnate and they ascribe
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Barnabas here. Excuse me, Barnabas Jesus, and
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Paul to be Hermes. And so, now they exalt them to
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godhood, they're literally ready to worship them and they tend to
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and the men ran their garments and They begged them not to, but
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I want you to see this for a moment.
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How much higher can you esteem? A man than this, your from
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heaven? You're a God.
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There's No One Like You unparalleled.
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And then you scroll down. And almost seamless transition
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verse 19 occurs and it's just stunning.
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But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium and having persuaded the
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crowds. They Stone Paul, and drag them
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out of the city other than last very long did it.
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One moment you're a God. The next thing is you're stoned
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and you're thrown out of the city like trash.
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So why do you get all hot and bothered?
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When somebody says they don't like you, for no justifiable
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cause why are you so concerned? When that person unfollowed you
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on Instagram? Why are you so moved even when
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adoration is showered upon you who cares?
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Those opinions are just as valuable as what we see here,
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with David and with Paul, aim for the honor and the
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Commendation that comes from God.
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Not only will, you know maximum-security you will know
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maximum Delight, you will know a name of just an immovable sense
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of peace and joy and strength when your object is him and him
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alone. You look to men even men from
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your own from your own tribe tribe, a faith and you try to
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pull out of them and fish for compliments to try to make you
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feel more valuable and work and worthy.
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You're in trouble. Keep your eyes on him and you'll
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be safe. So, these men one day, they
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praise in the next day, they part ways.
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And look at verse 3, and David came to his house at Jerusalem
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and the King took 10 concubines. The 10 concubines whom he left
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to care for the house and put them in a house on regard and
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provided for them but did not go into them.
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That's it. That's a Biblical way of veiling
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sexual relations. So they were shut up until the
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day of their death living as if in widowhood, the seems like a
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very strange placement. For this scene, you have a man
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who creates division of a man who's trying to cause an
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uprising. And you would think now we're
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going to continue in that theme and all of a sudden, now, we're
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transferred over to David going into his house and dealing with
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matters of his own home. And this is not random.
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This is not poor authorship, there's a design behind this.
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There is something for us to consider before we move on.
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Up to this point we have seen David weather and endure severe
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chastisement from God. The Lord has been disciplining
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David and that discipline is still continuing actually it
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will until the day he dies. And what you see here is that
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when David returns home, he had his many wives and concubines,
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right in that home, they were defiled by Absalom and David
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respectively, and Tenderly, put some aside, put some in place,
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provides for them and he tries to do what he can to extend love
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and compassion. Absalom sun' ruin, not just his
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own life, but the lives of others, that's what's intends to
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do. And these women are permanently
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altered for the rest of their lives.
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David chooses to refrain from engaging with them.
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And I think that's the main point.
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The Holy Spirit highlights, he did not go into them.
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He did that know them in that way.
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You know, what's amazing? Unless I missed it, there is not
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one mention. After this chapter of David,
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adding to his wives or acquiring more concubines, you will not
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see it. And I think the reason why we're
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seeing this here is to show the fruit of the chastisement.
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That David was undergoing. He's becoming a new person.
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In the very same house where David's unbridled lust was acted
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upon, do we see David returning to?
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But as a new man, he returns to his home and he is a different
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conviction, is a different frame of mind and if there is any
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indication that he has close relations with a woman, we see
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that even the Holy Spirit tells us then like we see in First
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Kings chapter one with abishag, right?
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The shunammite who's assigned to David to keep him warm in bed.
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In his old age, we're told even there but David did not know
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her. To reinforce David really did
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change. He did become a new person, one
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of the reasons, the Lord chastises his children and it is
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this for our good and that we might share in his Holiness.
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That's the ultimate goal that when the Lord chisels you as
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painful as it may be when he afflicts your body when he
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causes disruption, to bring you to your knees to get your
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attention. It's because he wants you to
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become like him. And David is doing that.
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David is submitting and yielding to the discipline of God and
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it's actually working Here's the thing.
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God doesn't just want you to acknowledge sin.
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He wants you to abandon it. Early in my Christian walk.
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I've met some people who do not believe in the doctrine of
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repentance because they believe that to repent means to work.
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And so if you repent of your sin and Believe on, Jesus Christ,
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that is a work based gospel. There's a whole camp that
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believes that. So if you ask these people, what
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do you believe about repentance well though?
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Go to the Greek and say it's the word metanoia, and the word
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metanoia, simply means change of mind.
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So when the Bible says, repent is really synonymous with
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believe, change your mind about Christ and believe that you
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can't work for your salvation that he did it for you and
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that's it. Oh, that's a big part of it but
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you can't change your mind about Christ unless you're willing to
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also change your mind. Sin and you can't change your
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mind about Sin and not affect the way you deal with sin.
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I don't understand where they're coming from.
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So you're expecting me to change my mind about who God is and who
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I am. And that not affect the way I
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live. It's absurd.
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It's contrary to the will of God, David acknowledged before
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the prophet I have sinned. But God doesn't just want you to
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be able to label what is sin or confess your sin.
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He wants you to walk away from it.
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He wants you to change your attitude toward it.
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And that's what we see here. This man recognised his sin he
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recognized what his loose standards concerning women and
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marriage brought him to. And so now after a season of
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being under the heavy hand of the Lord, he comes back and He
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sets his Affairs in order not for the sake of these woman but
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to show I'm a different man so we get that Insight.
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Wow. What's happening with David?
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At least we should and now we continue back to the main theme
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in the main story verse 4. And the King said to a masseuse
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call the men of Judah together to me, within three days and be
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here yourself. So amasa went to summon Judah
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but he delayed beyond the set time that had been appointed to
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him, who was the original commander of, David's Army,
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joab, but job was replaced by his cousin, I'm Assad.
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So David now, some enzyme assay says, listen if we don't get to
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this quick, we're in trouble. We got a quench.
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This fire that Sheba sparked. Let's deal with this time is of
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the essence. Here's what I'm asking you to
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do. Go.
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And recruit the men, you have three days.
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I need you to be here with all of them, you got it?
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Yes, sir. And he makes his way out.
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You and I have already established concerning Sheba are
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scuse me current concerning. I Masa that David made a choice
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to electing him and promoting him to the general of his army
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for two reasons. One was what Politics.
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And the other one also starts with a P, personal good.
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Set aside the personal for a moment because the personal
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reason is because he wanted to get back at Joy, you killed my
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son, you're no longer because I know how much you love your
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position job. So I'm replacing you with
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somebody else and he does, but that's a secondary reason.
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The primary reason is because in order to reconcile with this
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nation of rebels, that sided with Absalom, David wanted to
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prove his willingness to forgive and he does.
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So by using Amazon has an example.
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Look, I'm willing to take the guy that worked with Absalom as
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his General and make him my own, huh really?
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Hey look if he's willing to do that.
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Then surely he's willing to reconcile with us and that was
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it that was a major motivation for a masseur to be where he's
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at. That a mistake.
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Yes, we are. Rio determined that because
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David was willing to dismiss the lack of qualifications, in
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amasa, for political Gain, No matter how good that political
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game might have been, it ended up coming back to bite him.
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And so a Masai here, Was not set up to be a leader of an army.
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How do we know that? Exactly.
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When he works for Absalom with a much larger army with many more
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resources, he still couldn't defeat David and his forces.
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And David was willing to overlook that David was only to
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say come on my team. And when he does, it hurts him.
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Is there a lesson here for us? Absolutely, especially for
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leaders. And here's the lesson, leaders
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have to be careful. Of ignoring God's Blueprints and
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his standards. For how his church should
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operate pertaining to positions of pertaining to practices in
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the name of helping, the people of God, because like a Mossad
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whenever we compromise, no matter how good our intentions
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are it will end up hurting. The people of God, more than
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anything else. Is that understood?
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David, I believe David's reasonings were very good.
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He wanted to manifest kindness and he did so by doing
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something. He shouldn't have done only to
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satisfy some immediate goal. And in time the very same people
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that he tried to appease were the very same people who are now
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put in danger. It ain't different in the
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church. My friend, it's not But we want
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to bring in more people, we want to, we want to let their guard
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down, we want them to see that we are just like them.
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We want them to understand that we are human.
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We're not holier than thou and so we make all these decisions.
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We apply all these strategies thinking that they will come
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thinking that they will absorb thinking that they will end up
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believing when in reality, you've created a greater mess
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than what you started with. Because if you bring in people
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for carnal reasons, then you must keep people with carnal
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methods. and I've seen this, I'm not just seeing this from
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Beyond, I've seen this firsthand with people, and I've heard the
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woes of some Elders, realizing the trouble that they've gotten
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themselves into because now they have to make one of two choices
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one to either again, to keep the people to maintain that tone of
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compromise to maintain that tone of something, Beyond with the
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scripture demands, Or to make a decision.
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At this point, we have to say something true.
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And the Temptation is not too because they know they're going
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to lose two-thirds of their people.
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So David's relations with Amazon.
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Here's a wonderful illustration of ensuring, listen to this,
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even in your own life, you may not be a pastor, but you're a
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person who makes decisions about people.
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To make a decision. Hear me.
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Hear me hear me? Trust the truth.
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All the time. Trust the truth all the time.
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What does that mean? Disassociate, your feelings and
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disassociate your human wisdom when it comes to what God has
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clearly said about a particular situation or person abandoned
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self and cling to God's mind and heart and you will know success
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You will know success just trust his blueprint, no matter how
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difficult, no matter how. Every fiber of your being says,
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it could be better if we go this way.
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Don't don't. He's God's word is true, and let
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every man be a liar, including you and me.
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Notice no amens but it's true. Anyhow.
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Amazon delayed. A mr.
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Delayed. He proved his incompetency.
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He didn't show up. Now, there's debate about why he
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delayed but it left enough time for people to speculate.
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And notice what David says, exactly the point that I was
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making verse 6 and David said to abishai now Sheba, the son of
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bichri will do us more harm than Absalom.
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Take your Lord's servants and pursue him less.
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He get himself to fortified cities and escape from us.
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Think about that, Sheba? The son of bichri will do us
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more harm than up, some more harm than Absalom.
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David is aware of the capability of Sheba, and he was aware that
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I masses weakness and inability to be who he was called to be
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contributed to a potential catastrophe.
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That could have been avoided if David just bit his tongue. if
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David put aside his political motivations and put aside his
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personal ambition and just trusted simple wisdom, So, what
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happens? He has to replace.
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Amasa ain't no way that he's going to choose joab.
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So he goes with abishai, abishai.
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Is given David enough headaches, right?
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But he's better than joab abhishekam here.
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Listen, I need you to deal with Chiba, all right?
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Fetch for him. And you know what to do.
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If we don't, it's going to get ugly.
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Time is of the essence, every minute matters, go.
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Abishai goes and their verse 7 went out after him jobs men and
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the Cara thights in the pellet fights and all the Mighty Men.
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Why doesn't anybody make it movie out of David's life?
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Like a long extended more a series please.
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If you're going to put your money on that thing, if you're
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going to put your money in any kind of entertainment, let it be
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God's most amazing. Insight about a man's life.
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In the Old Testament. That's debatable.
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I guess they went out from Jerusalem and pursue Sheba the
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son of bichri. Now something interesting
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happens because joab here sees an opportunity himself, amisom
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messed up. This is my chance to reclaim my
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position. And so, you're going to see a
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shift of the balances of power here.
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Abishai, replaces a Mossad. Remember those names, right?
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Joab. Realizes, this is my chance.
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And so, you're going to see now just in a very subtle way, job
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is going to take the prominent Place.
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Although abishai was put in charge and it's all going to
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take place with an encounter with amasa Verse 8, when they
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were at the great stone. That is in gibeon.
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A Masa came to me that this guy just shows up out of nowhere.
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Like, where have you been, you just appears out of the forest?
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I don't know how it happened. He just shows up, like I think
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we're called to come here, right?
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He hears the news maybe of what's Happening of the new
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mission. This is interesting.
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Now joab was wearing a soldier's garment look out descriptive.
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The Bible is here. And over it was a belt with a
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sword in its sheath fast and on his thigh.
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And as you went forward, it fell out.
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Wonder if it looked accidental, I wonder if he made it look
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accidental. The sword kind of falls out.
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Obviously he has to grab it. So doesn't look that suspicious
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that you're just picking up your tool.
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Picks up the sword with his left hand and job set to amasa.
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Is it well with you, my brother? And job took amasa by the beard
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with his right hand and to kiss him.
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But Emma said do not observe the sword that was in jobs hand.
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So job struck him with it in the stomach and Spilled his entrails
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to the ground without striking a second blow and he died.
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I have a feeling this is not a Sunday School Story.
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It's detailed. But it's not just for the sake
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of being detailed, it's instructive job.
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Already has a reputation of being a man who resolves to
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murder when it comes to his conflicts in life.
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He hasn't just proven it here. We've seen him deal with a
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another General early on in the reign of David.
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What's his name? Starts with the letter, A as
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well who remembers Abner Abner, right Abner.
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And what makes this man job, even more ruthless, not, not
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only his willingness to kill someone on site, but his
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implementation of deception in order to accomplish it.
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What did job do in order to cause Abner to let his guard
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down? How did he kill him more
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specifically? Where did he kill him?
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Who remembers that bible study? All very good David.
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I would expect that from David and our study of David He brings
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him to the gate of the City of Refuge in Hebron and he kills
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him there. How grotesque, how evil, how
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Wicked that in a proximity where you're supposed to be safe?
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For the very same crime, you committed, you kill a man.
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And we see this man committing, a very similar crime, though,
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with a different shade of this deception, he approaches amasa
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and notice his language, notice his actions.
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First thing he does, is he greets him with a sense of love
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and tenderness and affection. He asked about his well-being,
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is it? Well with you, my brother?
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And then he leans in. Remember, you can just imagine
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the site. Perhaps, the weapon just
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stumbled out. He picks it up, he approaches
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him, is it well with you? My brother, he takes his right
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hand. Grabs him by the beard and
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kisses him. Now, that might be strange to
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you, but it ain't for us middle easterners, right?
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Men, great men. That way woman, great woman.
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That way your culture might do it to you.
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Probably seen in wonder what's Happening Here?
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All right. And so he leans in and he kisses
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him as a form of salutation. But in doing that, with his left
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hand, he thrust into the very core of, emesis, being this men
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must have been very strong because he didn't need a second
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strike and kills him with that one.
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Blow. The deceptiveness of Joy up
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here. Speaks of the trickery of sin
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temptation greets you with a kiss but in its heart and its
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desire and it's mine is to put you to an end.
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And like Amazon's inattentiveness, if we are not
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walking in the spirit, if we are not filled with the word of God,
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if we are not discipline ourselves to fellowship with the
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Lord and know the Lord, then we too can fail to see the
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deception of sin in our lives. How it approaches?
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How it creeps in? How it is packaged, and it looks
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like a warm embrace. When in reality.
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It has a knife in his hand. I don't I don't just say that
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about obvious sin. I think this is true for
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Antichrist, Audiology 's and philosophies and mantras and
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agendas and narratives. If you are not sharp with your
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your discernment that comes through a regular exercising of
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the word of God, a life of prayer, you'll look at the lips
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but you won't see the hands and you let your guard down and when
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you let your guard down how do you let your guard down in New
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Covenant sense? Jesus said Watch and Pray.
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Watch and Pray. Be aware be aware.
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How many of us this is just this is just a test and we don't
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answer it but how many of us are daily aware?
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Not the moment you step out of your front door, but the moment
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you open your eyelids on your bed Warfare is ready.
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How many of us really think like that?
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How many of us are fully convinced in aware that every
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single waking moment, Satan and his minions, especially, if
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you're walking in active obedience to the will of God,
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wants to find a way to hinder you and to taint, your
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testimony. I don't know.
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But here we see, amasa was not where he was supposed to be in
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terms of his understanding of his surroundings of the people
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of the threats around him, and it cost him his life.
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It cost him his life, but I learned something else hear
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about jobs. Packaged friendship.
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Go to Romans chapter 16 quickly. Since we're talking about
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kissing. Let's go to Romans chapter 16.
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In verse 16. What is Paul tell this church to
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do? Greet one.
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Another with a holy kiss, All the Churches of Christ, greet
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you. This is not the only place where
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we were told in the New Testament to greet one another.
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With a holy kiss, there is actually a total of how many
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times do you think, who says twice?
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Who says Thrice who says for? Nobody's going to participate.
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There is a total of five times. That the New Testament
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encourages the saints of God to greet one another with either
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kiss, a holy kiss or a kiss of love, right?
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Now, here's the thing. I already mentioned that in
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David's time, it was a cultural norm for men.
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And men woman woman to greet one another in this way to express
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love and affection in a very pure manner, right?
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We see that even cultures today and it was true of Paul's day,
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it was true for them. It was true for the surrounding
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Gentiles that he dealt with, so seems strange That how many
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people interpret this verse, as make sure that you greet one
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another in a very pure and unromantic and very honorable
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fashion when it was something that they just did.
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Shirley Paul though. That could be part of what he's
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saying. There is something that he has
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in mind that's deeper than hey, don't be inappropriate with
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people in church. Could it be that when Paul says
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greet one another with a holy kiss?
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That he's instructing the people of God who interact with one
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another on a regular basis to be free from deception and
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Apocrypha. See and how you deal with one
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another In other words, when you hug that brother, who walks
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through those doors, one of the time, the pastor says, well, why
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don't you just greet one another?
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Before we sit down and you turn around and you give a hug to
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that lady and you ask her, how she's doing and you ask her
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about her children and you asked about what's been going on in
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their lives and their walk with the Lord.
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That, at the same time, your heart doesn't have Envy toward
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them. Jealousy.
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Hatred criticism. that while you smile at them on Sunday morning,
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Tuesday, night with the gals, you're murdering their
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reputation. You're slandering their name and
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dragging it in the dirt. You kiss them on the cheek but
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you have a sword in your left hand.
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Could it be that what Paul is saying is, don't be like joab.
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Don't be a Judas who hailed King Jesus but wanted to arrest him
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the very same tonight. Greet one.
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Another with a holy kiss, let your greeting be genuine and
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that's why Paul though he says, holy kiss over and over Peter
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says in First Peter 514 to give a kiss of love.
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It's synonymous love. Let there be sincere, love among
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the Brethren that there be a transparency.
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Don't be one thing. Outwardly in something else.
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Inwardly don't be like joab. Who can say how are you brother?
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But you Really want to kill them.
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That's what I think. Giving a holy kiss means, it's
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not about figuring out whether or not we should kiss each other
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in the 21st century, okay? Something much deeper than that
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and I think we have biblical examples of what an Unholy
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Kisses. One of the main ones is joab
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here. So we come to 2nd Samuel 20
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again. And see here in verse 10.
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But I'm a sudden observed, the sword, right?
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And we continue in verse 11, and one of jobs, young men, took a
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stand by Amazon and said, whoever favors joab and whoever
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is for David, let him follow joab.
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And I'm a suddenly wallowing in his blood in the highway and
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anyone who came by seeing him stopped.
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And when the man saw that all the people stopped, he carried a
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messiah out of the highway into the field and through a garment
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over him. When he was taken out of the
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highway, all the people went on after job to pursue Sheba the
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son of Dorothy. And so the sight of this man's
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murder was just horrific. There he is wallowing in his
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blood and these men who are called to pursue Sheba couldn't
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move forward because they were absolutely stunned by what just
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happened. Like we just killed our
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commander. Specifically Joy.
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I've just killed our commander and they were, they were
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paralyzed. Perhaps by the the sheer evil of
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what just took place and the man realized he's like okay this is
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obviously hindering us so he wraps his body and he throws him
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out to a field and out of sight out of mind, right?
46:51
That's what they try to do in Canada.
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I don't know what happens here. I don't go to gas stations to
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too often I guess, but when you, when you go to gas stations in
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Canada, this happened years ago, they put the cigarettes Behind
47:02
these drawers and they think they thought, psychologically,
47:05
if you don't see the cigarettes, then you're not going to want to
47:08
ask for cigarettes or not going to be as tempted to want to
47:10
smoke. And so they try all these ways
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of keeping these things out of your vision so that you would
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not entertain it further. And so we see here that there is
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an obvious obstacle here with this evil and so let's just try
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to bury the evil and we don't want joab to be reconsidered as
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our new leader. And so let's just hide away the
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evidence and let's just move forward in and people today are
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willing to ignore the evil that others commit because they
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promised so much. That's why people are willing to
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follow so many politicians in certain directions and are
47:45
willing to follow so many celebrities and their way of
47:47
thinking. And they're willing to look over
47:49
all these Other evil things. Because they want something else
47:56
and that person has something to offer and that's exactly what
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happens, right? They followed job verse 14 and
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sheba, passed through all the tribes of Israel, to a bow or
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able of Beth maachah and all the big critz assembled and followed
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him in how many tribes joined Sheba.
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When he first said, we have no portion in David and we have no
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inheritance in the son of Jesse. 10, 10 and no more than three
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days in a little bit when we are reintroduced.
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Toshiba. what are the support dwindle down to Look at this.
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And she passed through all the tribes of Israel and look and
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all the big critz assembled and followed him in the only people
48:45
that followed him were the people of his own Clan.
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You went from ten tribes not to people from your own family, not
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very impressive. Maybe he wasn't as persuasive.
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Absalom was we don't know. I'd like to believe that in
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great part David swiftness in dealing with Sheba Hindered him
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from becoming more effective in organized and trying to convince
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and persuade others to join him. The willingness of David not to
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delay any longer. But to deal with this leaven
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right away, perhaps contributed to his early success and you and
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I should have the very same attitude. when it comes to all
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the other obstacles in our Christian Life, when sits in is
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in seed form, when it's just a thought that keeps reoccurring
49:41
and visiting you, when it keeps you up at night, when it has you
49:46
browsing on the internet when it has you looking on things where,
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you know, where this can lead to, but you just want to out of
49:52
curiosity, know something, when you see an issue at hand
49:57
relationally and you can sense the tension when somebody comes
50:01
in and I have doctrinal level or 11 or more 11, and it doesn't
50:05
seem to be a problem at first, but you can, you can sense it.
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Have the attitude of David, we must deal with it immediately.
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I must conquer this now. Now, I must see the threat for
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what it is. Sheba was, not that big of a
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threat at this point, but David had enough insight to realize
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that, if we don't get ahold of him, it will be worse than what
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Absalom did. And we need the wisdom of God's
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word, to be able to filter. All that we see all that we
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experience all that, visits us, all the problems around us and
50:39
to know, when to execute went to refrain and went to jump on the
50:42
opportunity. And again, you're not listen,
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hey, this is not going to apply to you unless you have a
50:48
revelation of the Warfare that you're in, it's not if you just
50:53
think individually and you don't think beyond your own life.
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If you think that being a Christian simply means to have
50:58
an easier life than those Wicked people there that are banging
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their heads against the wall and can't figure out what a woman
51:03
is. Your Christian life is going to
51:06
be extremely hindered. You got to look beyond that and
51:10
see how God frames your life, and then you'll be able to
51:13
understand and evaluate the things in your life.
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So this man was a very successful and I think in great
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part, he realized that job was on his tail.
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David did not hesitate to jump and to reach him.
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And so he fled he flees rather and he goes into this one city
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called able and he tries to hide their now, look what happens.
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And all the men who were with joy came in besiege them.
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In a bowl of Beth maachah, they cast up a mound against the city
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and its stood against the rampart and they were battering,
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the wall to throw it down. Then a wise woman called, from
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the city. Listen.
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Listen, tell, joab. Come here that I may speak to
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you and he came near and the woman said, are you joab?
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He answered, I am. And she sent them listen to the
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words of your servant and he answered I'm listening.
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And she said, they used to say in former times, let them but
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ask Council a table and so they settle the matter.
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I'm one of those who are Peaceable and faithful and
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Israel, you seek to destroy a city that his mother, a mother
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in Israel. Why will you swallow up the
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heritage of the Lord? I just love this interaction.
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You have this woman. With no name and she appears on
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the scene. And she deals with this
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bloodthirsty man, who probably had the blood of amasa still
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staining his hands. He goes.
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Where's Joe have joy and joy of comes and she goes, you willing
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to listen to yourself. Yeah, I'm willing to listen,
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it's just like, this strange shift of authority.
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Right. And so she's like confronting,
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but we're told she's a wise woman.
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And there are elements of wisdom here that we can we can apply to
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our own lives. Notice the humility of this
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woman. She didn't yell at job.
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She didn't curse job. She didn't insult.
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Joy should, are you willing to listen to me?
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Are you willing to listen to your servant?
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And so she submits herself and with the specific tone is able
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to win his attention. I know you're hot blooded and
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you think the louder you are and the more Force you use and the
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more intimidation you have, the more persuasive, you'll be
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that's not wisdom. This woman is wise, and so she
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gets this man's attention and he has, she has his ear and he
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says, in verse 20 Job, answer far be it for me far.
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Be it that I should swallow up or destroy.
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That is not true but a man of the Hill Country of Ephraim
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called Sheba. The son of bichri has lifted up
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his hand against King, David, give up him alone and I will
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withdraw from the city and the woman said to draw a behold, his
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head shall be thrown to you over the wall.
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Who is this lady? Then the woman went to all the
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people in her wisdom and they cut off the head of Sheba, the
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son of bithia, and threw it out to joab.
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So he blew the trumpet and they dispersed from the city, every
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man to his home and job returned to Jerusalem to the king.
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So much to unpack here, which I won't for the sake of time, but
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there's one point that I want to drive here.
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You have Sheba, run into this fortified City with his little
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Clan. Obviously, they convinced the
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city To hide their in to borrow anybody, namely job and David's
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men to enter in job sees this and he says, you know what,
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let's create a Siege. And what a Siege was, an Army
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surrounding a city, and you were essentially try to starve them
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out, you wouldn't let anybody go in, you wouldn't let anybody go
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out, let them run out of food, let them run out of water and
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then they eventually they'll surrender.
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That's what a Siege is, but he doesn't even wait for that.
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He creates a Siege and he's like, let's just tear the wall
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down and so they begin to Ram against the wall.
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This Woman's walls are probably shaking.
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Who knows? She obviously hears about it
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comes and confronts David or confronts Joy.
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Why are you going to destroy this whole city?
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What's the issue? Well, you have a guy in there
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that needs to be given up and so we're willing to cease from this
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destruction, doesn't have to come to this city.
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If you're just willing to give up Sheba that worthless man and
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we will move on Done. She doesn't wait another day.
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She doesn't win. Another moment.
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She goes to the other people of that City.
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He says let's just give up his head.
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If we don't give up Shiva, we're all dead.
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We're all finished and his beautiful home of ours.
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This beautiful city with a glorious reputation will be
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brought to Rubble. There is no hesitation.
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They gave up Shiva. And the lesson is this.
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That When sin enters into our lives as represented by Sheba,
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it wants to make a home with us. And you and I have to make a
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decision. to Harbor that sin or to give up that sin and if we
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choose to justify our sin just like they could have Justified
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Sheba, Then you and I too will, no further destruction.
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That could have been avoided. If we had just made the decision
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to give it up and when you choose to give up sin, make sure
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that you do. So with a decisiveness, and the
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promptness that this woman displays, How do you deal with
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sin? You don't negotiate with it.
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You don't try to come up with a deal with it.
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You cut off its head, you're not living anymore.
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You're not supposed to be here. The longer you stay here.
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The more destructive, it will be for us.
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You're out of here. And with a collective effort,
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they put Sheba to death and they resumed in their peace and joy
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undisturbed from the anointed ones, discipline expressed
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through joab. Be that aggressive.
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Don't tolerate it. Don't let it Live Another Day.
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Go for the jugular And you will know blessing.
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Wow, what an interesting story, a guy wallowing in his blood on
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the side of the street. Another man, losing his head
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Hawaii's woman engaging in a conversation with another
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murder. In the Bible.
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Exciting who says, the Bible is boring.
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Verse 23. And again, it seems like a very
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strange way to end this chapter but it's not, it's strategic.
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Now Joy was in command of all the Army of Israel, Benaiah, the
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son of jehoiada idea, where jehoiada was in command of the
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carrot sites in the Pella tights and a Duran was in charge of the
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forced labor and Jehoshaphat the son of a.
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He loved was the recorder and Shiva was secretary and zadok
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and abiathar were priests and Ira.
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The Jerry Wright was also David's priest.
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That's an interesting. Ting.
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Last verse isn't it and Ira the gyre right was also David's
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priest, the nasb would say a priest to David.
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There isn't much commentary on that.
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You know what? Some would say that there is
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something here about IRA. Playing a role in David's Life
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as a spiritual mentor. He was a priest to David, or
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David's priest. Now, if that's true, I think
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that's quite fascinating that even a man, like, David, who had
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such a connection with God. Still had somebody in his life.
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Speaking into his life. Perhaps providing instruction
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and counsel. If that's true for David.
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You spiritual person, right? How much more you and I do.
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We need overseers in our lives. Do we need mature?
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Believers who can speak into us and to guide us and correct us
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and watch over us. You will never graduate in your
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spirituality, you will never graduate from accountability.
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And your greatest accountability.
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Yes. Is the fear of God because your
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accountability partner can't go with you certain places.
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But still God has instituted that you and I would have people
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to encourage us and warn us and love us and speak into our
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lives. You can never outgrow that in
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the moment. You actually think you can is
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where you're in spiritual Danger.
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But there's more here and these are the kind of verses that were
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just like, you know, everything was so excited and we're winding
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down. So you doze off and you don't
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really consider the details. But listen to the application
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here. Look at verse 23.
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Now job was in command of all the Army of Israel.
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What? Huh?
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I thought it was a messiah. Guaymas is no longer there.
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Well, what about abishai? Well, there's a matter because
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job took over Job forcefully took back his position.
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What he always defended, what he always longed for he now has
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again, was it? Through just means, was it
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through a fair election? Was it through reconciliation
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with David? No, it was through bloodshed.
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This man was promoted. To the very existence of his
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life. The very reason why he lived,
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what he prized more than anything else by killing.
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Somebody is that fair. No.
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And we live in a very sinful World, whereas, you peek through
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this window and you look out and you see how evil and perverse
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men with great power or great ability.
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Don't get punished for this and they get promoted.
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Are not shun for their iniquity. They're celebrated.
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Are not hindered in their financial gain, they expand, and
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they blossom. And it doesn't seem right.
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Well, would you expect anything less in a very sinful broken
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world? But what we see with job here in
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his self-promotion, unbothered unchallenged by anybody.
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What we see with joab here is what we will see with all men
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who choose to live in sin job, has a Day of Reckoning.
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There is a precise appointment with Justice for job, and there
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will be for every single person who is outside of Christ.
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No matter how, well, they seem to be doing no matter how
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unbothered and unchallenged they are in this life.
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It's only in this life. There is a Time coming where the
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king will have the final say not.
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King, David King, Jesus. And Ecclesiastes tells us though
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the consequences of sin are not executed speedily men continue
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in their iniquity. Enjoy up here.
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Seems to only be winning even though he sinning.
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But that winning will come to an end.
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And the best place to be in this life.
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Is not the position that you desire.
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It's not the riches that you long for is.
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Not the praise that you get from Men.
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It's to be in the will of God and that's what I see.
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Also, with these final verses, we have a commentary of the
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restoration of the kingdom of David Wright with all the
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turbulence has with Absalom and then which Chiba that brief
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flare, The author brings us to an acknowledgement that David's
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government still stands and that's the joy of those final
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verses that the turbulence is in the trials.
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And the tests are many. If you are in the will of God,
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like David was at this point in his life, nothing can overthrow.
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And nothing can take you away from God's purposes.
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Stay there. Stay there, no matter how
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difficult it is, no matter the prices.
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You pay. Because God will hold you, he
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will keep you, you will be firm, and he will hold you till the
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end. Let's pray.
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Father, it is our great joy to explore the word of God.
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And thank you again for illustrating to us.
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That there is not one part of this Bible, your word that is
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void of instruction. Some things or perhaps were
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repeated some things might have been knew.
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Regardless, help us apply it, help us revisit it.
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Help us to examine ourselves. we want to be in your will and we
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pray that if this Bible study did anything, Made only Inspire
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us again to love you. And to give you our devotion, a
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fresh load of our hearts are cold tonight.
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If we've been lukewarm these past few days or weeks or
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months, what we're just caught up in the busyness or the
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silliness of this world. Please Lord rescue us, please
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Lord, rescue us, make us white hot.
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To be a worshipper to be active in obeying you to know.
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You were to study it, to eat it and look for things.
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That we are entertaining. Help us today with a new
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motivation, to put it to death to cut off its head to not
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delay. Any further that might be a
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relationship with somebody that we shouldn't be in a
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relationship with that. Might be a habit that we have
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justified in our conscience has become numb towards it.
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That might be are delaying giving you our whole complete
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heart. That might be something that we
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know we ought to do but we are not willing to do it because
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like David We Trust in our own wisdom than the wisdom that has
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been laid out for us. But whatever the case may be, we
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ask that this. This Bible study would not just
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have been an entertaining and informative time, but that Lord,
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it would have pressed on our hearts and that we would have
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sensed your voice. Because oh God, we need your
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voice. Oh Lord.
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I don't want to live without the holy spirit's influence.
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I pray that that would be the desire of every person that you
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would be real to us. And you would be close to us
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that we would walk with you Lord.
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Oh, rescue us. If we are dry fill our cups and
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let us overflow with love again, we look to you now as we close
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as we sing together the conclusion of this evening.
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Oh God, made it only in Rapture our hearts to be madly in love
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with Christ in Jesus name. Amen!
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Amen. There was a little verse ready
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for Bible. Study part 2. there's a little
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verse in that chapter that I loved, you know, the thing with
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Bible study and you can stand if you want Because we're going to
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sing in a moment. But it says here.
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In verse 2 of that, same chapter saw the men of Israel, withdrew
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from David and followed Sheba, the son of bichri but the men of
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Judah, followed their kings steadfastly from the Jordan to
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Jerusalem. I love that verse the majority
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of the tribes walked away. But Judith says here, they
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steadfastly followed their King steadfastly uninterrupted,
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unchanging unwavering Devotion to the king despite the despite
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the letdowns despite people's issues, you'd only people become
1:07:04
unsteady fast when people from their own group, Cause problems,
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or create division. You know, trials do a lot of
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things. They expose people's wickedness
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and they expose people's Faith. I've seen that in my own life.
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I've seen people's True Colors surface when there are real
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problems among the people of God.
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And I've seen people shine bright for the glory of Christ
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in the darkest moments of their faith.
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And as you sing tonight, if you're a serious follower of
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Christ, I want you to ask the Lord, no matter who walks away.
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I'll want to be steadfast to my king.
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You got to determine that. That is the level of
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discipleship, that Jesus requires just as the ABCs of
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discipleship. If anyone would be my disciple,
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you got to say, love you, Mom, love you Dad, brother sister,
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friends that I grew up with. If you're not coming with me,
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I'm going alone. That is the quality of
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discipleship that Christ requires on a basic level.
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And I pray that, that would be the caliber of Christians in
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this place. Let's sing to the Lord together.