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2 Samuel 11 (Part 3) Bible Study | Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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Do you have a copy of God's word in your hand?
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We live in a time where that is available.
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Can you imagine being in the times of the Apostles where if
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you wanted to see something in the scriptures, you have to run
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to your local synagogue and sit there patiently because they
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didn't have references for chapters and verses and peel
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through different Scrolls. Somebody in Authority had to be
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there in the presence to point to a prophecy that you're
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interested of or something of the sort today.
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Day you can get God's word. Would skin leathered and there's
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various other options. So we have no excuse not to have
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a copy of it. Meet me in the copy that you
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have in 2nd Samuel 11 as we are now coming to the final
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installment of this chapter together.
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And put your finger there in verse 15.
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Second Samuel, 11 verse 15. Who would have thought that
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David's neglect? Of being in the will of God and
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the beginning of this chapter would evolve into David,
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becoming a murderer by the end of the chapter.
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I'm sure the study of this man's life.
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Especially at this point has been nothing short of shocking.
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For many of us, especially for someone who is as remarkable.
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And as praised as King, David was but the idea that we have
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here is that David Proves that sin is no respecter of persons.
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Sins. Aim is the same for the lowliest
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of the palace as it is for the ruler of the Kingdom.
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Its goal is to survive long enough to wreak, havoc in you
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through you around you, and before you and its primary
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source of strength in our lives to create that ripple effect is
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through our tolerance Ace of it. Through our justification of it
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through our pleasure in it. And unfortunately what we're
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seeing here is just that we are witnessing the downfall of a man
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of God and what David is trying to do is bury his sin but what
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he's not realizing is that he's also burying himself.
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He is also leading himself into a deeper pit of pain and misery
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that he will unfortunately have to sit in for quite some time.
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And as we come to this point, we realize that the consequences of
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his actions could have. Could have been put to a stop.
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If he had just confessed his sin as early as possible, all he has
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been doing is adding fuel to the fire through his concealment,
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that concealment Is Like Oxygen to a fire and it is only growing
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more and more and more and is becoming more and more severe.
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And David, we see here learned that as we saw last week, could
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not could not get Uriah to be with Bathsheba and a physical
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sense so that he could, he could cover his sin through the
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explanation of natural means. And because of this, instead of
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taking it as a hint of Divine Providence, trying to put him in
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his place, he instead now comes up with a Unthinkable
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heart-wrenching scheme. The conclusion that David makes
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at this point of his plan to try to save face is to kill an
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innocent man, it's to murder Uriah He wakes up one morning
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and he is quick to execute. He does not waste any time
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because time is not in his favor, the longer, he waits the
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longer he delays, the more suspicious, he looks And so he
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does not hesitate to write the death warrant of this man to put
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it in his hands and to have them walk with it to the very place
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that he will be executed unjustly.
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And you can almost read. David's thoughts.
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When we learn that, he woke up that morning, what it must have
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been like, for him, internally the night before, as he was
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tossing and turning contemplating what to do,
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because this meant Integrity is getting in the way of his
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attempt to try to seem righteous and clean and innocent.
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It's almost as though something along the lines of fine.
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Fine. You don't want to be with your
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wife so that it could seem like this baby is yours.
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Then I will be the husband of your wife.
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And if it means to get rid of you, then, so be it.
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And that's essentially what he is doing.
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He is now going to try to take you riah's place as the husband,
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so that it can seem like this baby, that would come into the
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world came through the confines of a righteous marriage.
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When everything about this is totally, totally unrighteous And
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so I'm going to read these verses as we conclude this
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chapter and we're going to do what we usually do.
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Open it up for you to make some observations and then we're
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going to try to in a concise way, get to important matters of
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this tax that the Holy Spirit has given to us.
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So they were there in verse 15, I hope In the letter, he wrote
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Set Uriah in the Forefront of the hardest fighting and then
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draw back from him that he may be struck down and die.
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And as Joy was besieging the city he assigned Uriah to the
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place where he knew that there were Valiant men and the men of
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the city came out and fought with joab and some of the
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Servants of David among the People Fell.
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Uriah, the hittite also died. Then job sent and told David all
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the news about the fighting and he instructed the messenger,
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when you have finished telling all the news about the fighting
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to the king, then, if the Kings anger Rises.
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And if he says to you, why did you go so near the city to
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fight? Did you not know that they would
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shoot from the wall who killed Abby Malik, the son of Gera
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Boucher that djerba sheth the not a woman cast an upper Stone
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on him from the wall so that he died at the Bez.
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Why did you go so near the wall? Then you shall say your servant
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Uriah the hittite is dead. Also.
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So the messenger went and came and told David all that job had
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sent him to tell the messenger said to David, the men gain an
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advantage over us and came out against us in the field but we
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drove them back to the entrance of the gate.
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Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall.
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Some of the king's servants are dead and your servant Uriah the
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hittite is dead. Also, David said to the
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messenger, thus you shall say to joab?
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Do not let this matter. Displease you for the sword
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devours? Now one, and now, another
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strengthen your attack against the city and overthrow it and
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encourage him. When the wife of Uriah heard
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that you are, her husband was dead.
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She lamented over her husband. And when the morning was over,
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David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his
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wife and bore him a son, But the thing that David had done
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displeased the Lord powerful, anything jump out to you.
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Anything significant important. Yes.
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Yeah. Is that an interesting attitude?
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That's okay though. It is just happens.
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You just this just this is what war is about.
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Yes that's it. That's a strange response to the
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death of an innocent man. Yeah, he kind of Skips the part
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of David, potentially getting angry and he just says, hey,
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you're either had his dead just so avoid that awkward
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confrontation. Sure.
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That's an observation. Yes.
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Yeah, you ride the hittite so we're seeing that the background
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of this man repeated to us. Remind us that this is not an
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Israelite and what a terrible witness to this man, what a
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terrible treatment of a man who trusted not just the god of
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Israel but the people who claim to be the people of God, sure.
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Anything else. Very good.
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Now, job is involved in this mess.
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Now you have an accomplice. Now you have somebody joining in
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in your effort to try to cover your mess.
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Yeah. Absolutely job is now included
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in all of this. Makes you wonder if job smelled
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something fishy? This is really strange.
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What's happening here? Yes.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Now now they're just playing Secrets, right?
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And and they're trying to now jobs in on this and he's trying
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to conceal it through the messenger and they're they're
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both not working together to try to make this seem like it was
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some accident and David just wants to put it at rest and he
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just says, let's just get over it.
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Move on the job is done. They're speaking almost encode
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to one another. Yes.
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Yeah, this is starting to get really, really?
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Disappointing in many ways because there's collateral
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damage. Now, now you have other innocent
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parties that are getting affected and we're going to
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touch on that in a moment. Yes.
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Very, very good. Observation job seems to be
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acting upon very little information and it makes jobs
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character, not shine as much as it should have well touch on
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that as well. Yes.
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Could it be that job is using this to one-up on David for
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maybe his past mistakes? And so he's willing to allow it
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to happen. Ah, now we're getting it to
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politics, right? Yes.
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Peter and then Laurie. Yeah.
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Yes, right, that happened in. What book?
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Who remembers what book that happened in judges?
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That's right. Did you want to add to that law?
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Yes. Hmm, interesting thought very,
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very good observations. Yes, right. so, I'm thinking
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potentially You could have. But the submission of Uriah.
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Yeah, he was a mighty man. He was a valiant man, he was a
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warrior. He was a strategist himself.
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I mean he was he was promoted to be among the 30.
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So maybe even Uriah himself saw that.
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This isn't probably the best of advancements, but I'm going to
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submit to my commander and it was, it was a death of him but
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that's, that's humility. Yes, David.
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Yeah. Makes you wonder if she knew.
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I don't think she knew what David plotted.
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It makes you wonder if she was even with scripture doesn't say
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if she was slightly relieved, we do see that she lamented?
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We can take that for what it is. That she was genuinely broken
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that her husband had passed. Yes, really.
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That's right. It is a long time to think you
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got away with something. Yeah.
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Yeah, that's right. Good.
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Good, very good. And that's going to be an
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important reminder. As we come to next week's, study
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to see that some time had passed before David was exposed.
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Yes, last one. Not so many people would have
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died within. Yes, absolutely.
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We're going to find out exactly why it is that people died in
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this story. It could have been avoided,
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could have been avoided. Are we ready?
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Let's come together now, to verse 15.
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It's clear that David here is attempted to make you riyas.
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Death seem like an accident of War.
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We talked about that last week, but it's worth bringing up again
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that when you and I try to cover our sin and concealed Our
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hypocrisy, it will always include the adoption of some
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level of deception. And in David's, case to
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deception is only increasing. And it is only extending and
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touching more people's lives Even parties that were not
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initially involved with the Scandal.
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And so now he is, he's affecting other people, inviting other
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people, and other people are being influenced.
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All they want nothing to do with this matter.
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And you have to you have to think it is an exhausting and
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miserable way of life to try. To convince others that you are
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righteous. It's just it's it will drain
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you. Some people have more stamina
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for it than others but regardless what we see here in a
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very subtle way is that the fate of such people is the same and
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it is this that in the pursuit of clever cunning lies at some
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point at some point. You will be exposed at some
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point. And we actually already see that
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to some level here in this verse might be wondering, how David is
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not being very clear. Is he with this charge?
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He's not, he's not giving enough reason for such a drastic
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decision to be made. And so when job receives this
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letter, a very short short and straight to the point kind of
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instruction, there's there's too much missing here that leaves
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the The possibility for great doubt to arise even, enjoy,
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even. Enjoy job was an intelligent,
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man, as well. He was very, very, very
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intelligent. He was a strategist, and he knew
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David and he knew his men including Uriah, and it just
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didn't line up for Uriah to be set up intentionally so that he
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can be in a very vulnerable position to the enemy's attacks
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and be left for dead. And so this this should have
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raised Steve Jobs, eyebrow. We're not told his thoughts,
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were not told exactly what he thought in this moment, but it
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does make you wonder if this meant put the pieces together,
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when he would hear down the road, that David married,
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uriah's wife And if he investigated just a little bit
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of you were to realize that the timing of this is just, it's
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creating a scenario that you would hope is not true.
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And then the timing of the birth of that child job wasn't inside
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Circle. He was not an outsider.
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He was not, he was not somebody distant, he was very much
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involved with the Affairs of the King's life.
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He would have known, he would have received the exact details.
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And if this man was an intelligent, man, as we have,
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every reason to believe he would have put it together.
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Do you see what's happening here?
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And David thinking that he's actually achieving success in
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his deceit. He's actually getting sloppy,
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he's getting sloppy. And the principle here is so
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loud and so clear. And it is this that even the
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most talented of deceivers, we'll end up at some point
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exposing themselves unintentionally.
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And David here is already doing that.
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Never mind, trying to fool God and think that you and I can can
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trick him. But sin is able in a creative
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way to even tell on us to others.
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Unsuspecting people, it is quite fascinating to see how sin has a
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way of surfacing before some that we never thought it would
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come too. And find its way around to the
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people that it matters. There's so many examples of this
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in the scriptures are from cover to cover.
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So many things were crashing in my mind and one of the clearest
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examples of this is with a man that you wouldn't think would
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succumb to a life of deception and it is it's Abraham's son.
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What's his name? Isaac?
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And like, father like son, right there is a plague that hits a
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famine that hits and he goes to pagans and he takes Refuge among
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them. And he has a fear that his
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father had. He also had a very beautiful
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Wife and he was in a society that did not fear God.
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And so this, this strategy arises, I will convince the
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people who live under the reign of Abby Malik.
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And I will tell him that that my wife is who she's my sister.
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She's my sister so that that has nothing to do with me.
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I'm not responsible for, I don't oversee her.
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She's not, she doesn't belong to me.
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So, I'm just going to throw her under the bus and whatever you
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want to do. You can do, but just just keep
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me out of it. And so he tells the people, she
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is my sister and then I want you to see this actually turn to
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Genesis 26. I want you to see the wording
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that the Holy Spirit provides for us in Isaac's attempt to
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like David conceal. Something that is that is true
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to be something that is not true.
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And the consequences of this varies depending on the nature
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of the light itself. A look at 26 of Genesis verse 6.
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So Isaac settled in guerard, when the men of the palace asked
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him about his wife, he said she's my sister.
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For he feared to say my wife thinking less, the men of the
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place should kill me because of Rebecca because she was
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attractive and appearance. Now, look at verse 8, this is
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the point that I want to try to make when he had been there a
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long time. Abby met, like King of the
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Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac laughing
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with Rebecca. His wife the King James says,
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what my King James people sporting, and they weren't
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playing foosball or anything. The where there is some kind of
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an innuendo. It's there is caressing.
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There is a flirting things that you don't do with your sister
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essentially. But do you see the wording here?
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We're told in verse 8 when it had been a long time when Isaac
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had been there a long time. You know, it's possible.
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To be living a lie for a long time.
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It's possible to convince people of a lie for a long time.
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The Bible is very honest about that.
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But that like I can't last forever, that's that's the point
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here. And many people take comfort and
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thinking that something has been going on in the background for a
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long time and nobody seems to have caught on but then what do
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we see here that at a particular moment when they thought they
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were in private, when they thought that they were
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succeeding benefiting from this Kingdom, avoiding a plague and
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Isaac being safe from any harm. IV, Malik.
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Just happens to come to one of his windows out of the many
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windows that he had and looks out.
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And at that specific moment. He sees Isaac sporting with his
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sister. What do we call that Divine
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Providence? That's what we call that.
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This is not coincidence. It's not happenstance.
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This is not random. This was God in some way and
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thus, with his invisible hand, without a miraculous
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intervention, so to speak, allowing his precious child to
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be exposed so that he can be closer to the place of
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repentance and be in the will of God and that includes
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transparency. And walking in the light.
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Divine Providence is always at work.
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My brother, my sister Divine Providence is always at it.
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Ever is put on pause, never, it's always playing.
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And here's the thing when we're walking in conscious obedience,
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it's always in our favor, always God moves the pieces so that we
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can move and graduate in godliness and in his will for
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our lives. But when we are outside of his
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will intentionally It works to discipline us.
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And what you see here with Isaac is that he thought after a long
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time he would get away with it. But here is a man who sees them
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they don't see him and they're caught and the confronted and
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they have to come to a place of confessing the truth or else you
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would be in a different kind of trouble.
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So, what's happening here? This is one of God's laws of the
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universe at work and it never stops working just like the law
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of gravity. You can, you can count on this
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law being always in effect. As a law of gravity is
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continually in effect that when we conceal it will eventually be
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revealed. That's it that's a log that's
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that's a lot of strong as any other scientific law.
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This is a law that is continually in operation.
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But it's more than just God's Divine Providence here.
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There's also something to be said about the weakness that we
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develop the foolishness that we inherit when we are living in
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darkness listen, when you and I walking in righteousness, we
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have enough blind spots of our own is that not true?
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When we intentionally want to be true Disciples of Jesus Christ,
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there are some things in our lives that we don't see that, we
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need the church, the the corporate body to help us
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identify how much more when you and I are living in darkness.
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How much more do we miss? How much more is our judgment
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clouded? And so we see here with Isaac,
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just like, with David as consistent, as they thought they
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were eventually, because you have God's Providence was is
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enough and the sloppiness that we inherit because of our sin
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things are going to happen. Things will be exposed.
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Things will slip and sin is very slippery.
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You think you can hold on to it? You think you can have a grip on
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it but at one point it just you lose that grip.
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It tends to make a mess. So we see here even in this
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letter that he's creating some red flags and verse 16 of our
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chapter. We read and his job was
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besieging the city. He assigned, you a ride to the
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place where he knew that there were Valiant men.
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Now we see something on job side, we've already made mention
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of it, the orders come from David.
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And job complies like, there's no questions.
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There's no hesitation, there's no.
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Why is this being given? No, no request for any kind of
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clarification. He just gives in right away and
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some would excuse jobs pliability because they would
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say he's just taking orders and he's under pressure, and he
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doesn't want to question authority, but if you and I are
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familiar with jobs history with David.
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Then you will know something about Joy.
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He did not find it difficult to stand up against David when he
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did. Not agree with him is that not
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true many many times when David asked for something job would
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stand up and disagree. And so we know that job was a
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man who had his own opinion. We know that job was a man who
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knew what was right in knew what was wrong.
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Can I prove that to you? You're in second, Samuel lemon,
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go to 2nd Samuel 24 David at that point, once the senses to
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be made for Well, he wants to know how many men he has in his
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army. And he calls job as one of the
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leaders of this project and job in verse 3, of second Samuel,
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24, look what he says here. But job said to the king may the
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Lord your God and to the people 100 times, as many as they are.
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While the Eyes of My Lord, the King still see it.
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But why does my Lord the king the light in this thing?
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He's pushing back. He's questioning he's trying to
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hold him back from committing this grave sin which included
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pride. And when we get there, another
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scene that people miss that has to do with the book of Exodus.
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And so we see draw is willing to stand up against the king for
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righteousness sake. So how do we explain this?
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How is it that when this innocent man, you ride Joy of
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knew, who Uriah was job knew, his Integrity job knew his
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conviction. How is it that he's so willing
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to give in to this order without pushing back without any
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protest. Here's the thing we have to be
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honest, the Bible doesn't tell us the Bible doesn't tell us
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about Bible study helps. What do I mean by that?
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When you survey the scope of joy, Jobs resume.
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What you will notice is that job did not find it very difficult.
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To kill people, right? He killed people.
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He killed innocent people. And he was willing to do such a
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thing, never mind, never mind war, never mind Justified,
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reasons for killing. I'm talking about killing
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innocent parties. Whenever you see job doing that
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it is often motivated. By personal interest.
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In other words, whenever job recognize that somebody in his
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field was a Potential Threat to his position or his status, he
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was more than willing to remove them from the scene.
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We see that with Abner member Abner.
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We're going to see that in a few chapters with another man named
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a Mossad. Whenever there was somebody who
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rose up that could potentially push job out of the way and
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replace him, this man was so caught up in his status.
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His identity was so wrapped up in his title that he was willing
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to Slit. Somebody's throat if they even
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considered taking his position. and we don't know why he was
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willing to kill your eyes so quickly, but it makes you wonder
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if he had no problem allowing a mighty man like Uriah be
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slaughtered Could it be that? It's just one less person to
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worry about yes bro. Absolutely, absolutely.
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It's the same Spirit. It is the same reasoning that
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saw was willing to chase down David and get rid of him because
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he saw him as a potential rival to the throne.
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But here's what's happening with joab.
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Job is willing to reach so low because the severity of sin is
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often placed in the shadows of self interest.
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The severity of our sin, the severity of any sin is often
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veiled and pushed into the Shadows.
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While it is being eclipsed by self-interest murder, doesn't
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seem like such a big problem if it means that you get to keep
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what you really want. And job here seems to have no
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value or conviction concerning those who are created in the
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image of God. If he can hold onto the image
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that has been granted to him by David as the commander of his
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army. So he's willing to say, yes.
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Now we come to verse 17 and the men of the city came out and
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fought with job and some of the Servants of David among the
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People Fell Uriah, the hittite also also died.
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Something stands out here and it's worth mentioning because it
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has a profound principle. In order for joy.
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To blur the evidence of assassination.
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Look how clever he is, he sends and sacrifices other innocent
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servants. So that what is intended, for
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one person would make it seem like it was a mission gone bad.
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If he had just sent Uriah that would have, everybody would have
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caught on there something off here, but if you send Uriah with
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a platoon and they all die or most of them die, then it just
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looks like a bad leadership call and that's it.
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This is getting messy. This is getting very nasty.
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Okay? We have a man who is willing to
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kill one man, so he can, he can cover himself but it didn't stop
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there. Now, you have to kill more men.
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So your I was not the only one who died in this whole process.
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Now, you have other people other wives who lost their husbands
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other mothers who lost their sons, other siblings, who lost a
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brother. Because of one man who did not
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want to confess his sin and the point is so obvious.
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Is it not? oftentimes the entertainment of
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sin, Includes the pain of people that we did not intend to harm.
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The reach-in, the extent of our sin goes beyond what we planned
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and hoped for. And that is just the reality of
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the nature of sin. And one of the ugly fruits of
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selfish ambition when it lives, and when it thrives, is that it
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does not consider announce the well-being of others.
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A person who is dominated by self-interest is willing to
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bulldoze through the, through the piles of people before them
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without even thinking a second thought, there's no hesitation.
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There is no sense of this could actually do something.
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Now when somebody is absolutely consumed with satisfying, a
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desire that only considers that person, they are prepared to
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harm people along the way they are prepared to do so and that
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is exactly Lee what is happening here with a man?
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Like joab, who was completely consumed with self-interest and
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now David and you put these two guys together and it's going to
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get ugly. And it, is it, we're happy.
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We're seeing it right here. But listen, one of the signs of
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a healthy conscience. One of the fruits, one of the
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evidences of a Spirit Led heart and mind.
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Is that there is a constant consideration of others in the
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pursuit of our decisions and our planning's in our thoughts.
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That's how you know that the holy spirit is dominating your
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heart. And one way there is a radar
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that doesn't Just Have Your Existence bleeping on it.
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As it scans through your heart. There are other people that you
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have in mind when it comes to what it is that you want to do,
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or what it is that you don't want to do.
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And here's the thing, I mean, we see here in the context of War,
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we see it here in the context of actual physical War, right?
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People really losing their lives and you've heard me say this
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many times before, but one of the most detrimental ingredients
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to it. Local body moving forward in
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advancing and winning the battle.
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Battles of the spirit is selfish ambition, and it doesn't have to
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be in leadership. It does not have to be in
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leadership. I shared this verse a few weeks
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ago in a message, but you heard me Satan announcements
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repetition, is really good. I want to, I want to I want to
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tell you that in your marriage and your household in the local
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church that you're part of persistent.
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Peace is possible. It is you can no constant and
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not just constant maintenance, you can know a growth.
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In love and fruitfulness and peace and reconciliation but it
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requires one thing to be omitted.
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One thing to be eliminated, constantly washed away, cleansed
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targeted and shot down every single day.
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And Paul tells it it's in Philippians 2 in Philippians 2.
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He makes it so clear of the one poison.
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That needs to be drained constantly, in order for a same
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mind, Same Love, same goal to be realized with all of us who have
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different backgrounds, different personalities, and different
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issues in Philippians 2 to look what he says.
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Complete my joy. Complete my Joy by being of the
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same mind. Pause, it's possible to be of
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the same mind. It's possible for all of us with
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our different Ministries and different leadership skills, and
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different ideas of how things should be done.
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It's possible to be of the same mind, that's what he's saying.
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But not just that, having the Same Love.
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Having a mutual love and appreciation for others is
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possible in the church. Being in full Accord, not part
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Accord, not sub Accord full Accord.
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Can you imagine that? Can you imagine that once the
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excitement of a new ministry comes or a move of God, comes
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and Things become routine and people settle in and we do life
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with each other more and more because it's usually time that
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reveals trouble when people get comfortable one another.
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But can you imagine that as time goes on?
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There's still constant full of chord among the Brethren.
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It's Possible full Accord. And this is the, this is the
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reason. This is the this is the way it's
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possible. Verse 3, do nothing from selfish
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ambition. Do nothing from selfish ambition
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or conceit. That is how you achieve.
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One Mind One Love full of court. But the moment selfish ambition
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comes from any direction. Is a moment that that Foundation
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of such a possibility begins to be weakened.
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And even the most beautiful Ministry, the beautiful church
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family that knew so much history of love and joy can be corrupted
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and destroyed. Do nothing from selfish
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ambition. Nothing.
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Nothing nothing, nothing, nothing.
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Nothing. Not one thing can be done in
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selfish ambition or conceit but in humility count others, more
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significant than yourselves. And you will know the joy that
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Paul is speaking of this, remember that?
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Remember that, and you and I will know, Heaven on Earth.
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Even in Chicago, Illinois, believe it or not.
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But when a heart is hardened by self like what we see here, what
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an ugly picture murder happens and that's why James says you
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guys are killing each other. You guys are actually killing
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each other in James chapter 4. And he gives one of the reasons
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because you're eaten up by your passions.
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So Civil Wars, erupt and casualties are cause and splits
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happen, and people leave. And people that we love and that
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we were going to do this thing together forever with, and up
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disappearing from our life. Why?
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Because somehow, some way selfish ambition, got in the
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mix, got in the mix. That's what we're seeing here.
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People are dying literally dying because of one man, who would
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not let go of his sin who would not confess and it Come clean
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before God. That's come back to verse 18.
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then job sent and told David, all the news about the fighting
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and he instructed a messenger and he tells them what to say,
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And David here is unfortunately only going to provide more
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evidence of just how dark his heart has become.
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And it's shown here and how jaw prepares the message for the
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messenger to approach him. And he tells them, these
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Specific Instructions and job seems to be anticipating a very
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negative response to the news of a botched Mission.
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And so he's giving a heads up to this young messenger saying he
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might, erupt so get ready for that.
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And and the wording that he's giving implies that he knows
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David so well that he can almost predict exactly what he's going
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to say. That's how connected job was
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with David. But job also developed a new
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insight about David that revealed something he knew about
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him. And it was this, if you want to
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calm him down, all you have to say is Uriah is dead.
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Just say that Uriah is dead and I know, I know David, he will be
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at ease. He'll be calm and you will be
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spared from any Wrath of bringing bad news.
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This is how far David has come, that the news of the death of a
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man like Uriah would actually put him at peace.
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Think about that, he's become so warped by his iniquity that
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something such as this. Would actually bring him to a
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place of tranquility and rest is this the same guy?
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Who is this person? Now here's what's fascinating.
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When you go to chapter 12, you'll see David's reaction to a
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different Injustice. That was given in the form of a
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parable. So here's what's going to
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happen, Nathan. The prophet is going to come.
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He's going to call David. Hey, David, are you busy this
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afternoon? I just need to make a visit.
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He makes a visit and he gives David a parable and the
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summation of that. Parable is a rich man who had so
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much flock. If a guest comes over the rich,
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man does not take one from his own, but he finds a poor man who
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had one little ewe lamb, and that little ewe lamb was like a
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daughter. It was fed in his arms.
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It was, it was like family. Some of you have pets and that's
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true for you. And this rich man, takes that
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one little ewe lamb kills it, so that he can feed his guests and
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Nathan gives that Parable to David.
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And this is so strategic from the man of God, because David
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was a shepherd Bird. Oh, this would have made David,
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especially angry. And so, when David hears this,
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remember he's still hiding his sin.
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He thought he got away with his transgression.
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Look at his reaction in chapter 12 here in verse 5. then David's
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anger was greatly kindled against the man and he said to
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Nathan as the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves
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to die and he shall restore the lam for fold because he did this
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thing and because he had no pity, I looked at that and I
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thought to myself how interesting is it that David and
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his attitude when it came to responding to this man was some
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kind of expression of righteous Zeal but when it came to his own
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iniquity he seems undisturbed unmoved unconcerned And this is
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especially troubling, you know, why?
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Because the sin that David committed was much more severe
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What? This Parable was all about his
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sin was much more severe. He stole much more than just a
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beast. He stole the man's wife, he
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stole life. He stole so much in order to
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satisfy his lust, the lust that visited him.
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And yet. he is so quick to be able to judge somebody else's
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sin because, listen, a hardened heart is not only capable A
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failing to see the severity of their own wrong for some reason,
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it develops some strange boldness to be able to call out
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other people's sin and to judge other people's wrong and there
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are shortcomings and that kind of attitude provides a deceiving
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sound sense of justification because in that moment you are
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able to identify what is right and wrong.
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Only in others though not in yourself.
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And not only that listen, the hardened heart gets so gets so
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crazy and out of whack that not only is a person who is in
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willful sin. Not only is that person able to
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get up and preach on sin. So powerful, and convicted lie,
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for example, But is often harsher and more severe in the
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way they cracked. The whip of supposed
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righteousness and conviction on others.
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So what happens is? Hypocrites, often become
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legalistic Hippocrates often are accompanied with the
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characteristic of being legalistic and they project that
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legalism on others though they would never ever ever live.
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According to that same standard. And if they do, it's a standard
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that doesn't matter. According to the word of God and
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it's all a smokescreen for a genuine sin at they're
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committing. David in the response to this
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Parable from Nathan, what is he? What's the verdict that he
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makes? Let him die.
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Let him die. Nowhere in the law.
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Did God give the instruction for capital punishment for stealing
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somebody's animal. The instruction was restoration,
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but David takes it up to another level.
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He says, kill him. Kill him, hang him.
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That was unnecessary. But here's what happens when sin
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comes in. It makes us cold.
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It makes us harsh and makes us unfair when Christ comes in
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dominates our hearts, it creates a compassion and mercy Justice.
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Yes, But True. Justice.
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Even for the one who is in sin, there is a careful examination
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and a careful calculation. That's an operation.
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With the person who is truly having Christ dominating their
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lives by the spirit. But a person who attempts to
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teach or project or discipline or rebuke, others Is hardened by
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sin, will often replicate David's attitude and be more
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harsh, more severe, more unforgiving and more quick.
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To say things that not even God would say.
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This is this is getting complex as a not, but this is the whole
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point is to show us what happens.
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So that we would be afraid to ever entertain the idea of a
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duplicity life. It creates all these nasty
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cancers that erodes so powerfully.
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Yes, brother. Yes.
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Yeah, yeah that's a good observation to why does God
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allow these things to go on for so long?
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And you have people who are victims of other people's sin or
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a spouse's unfaithfulness or the hurt of a church leader,
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whatever the case may be, and often the question that comes up
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and I've heard this question, why did God wait for so long or
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why didn't God removed me from the scene or when God stops?
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So and so before they committed that and the case that I make is
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based on this, this study God has been trying.
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God has been through, providential means, God, has
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been putting up obstacle after obstacle after obstacle to try
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to get David's attention and at the same time we have we come to
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the, we come to the simple understanding of how God gives
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us autonomy to the extent of making our own decisions.
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The word has already been given to David, he knows what his
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right. He knows the Commandments of
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God. He was a man who cherish the law
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and yet still with the Revelation.
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He was given he chooses to go. The opposite way.
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God has done all that he can to get his attention and many, many
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ways and eventually it will come with a strong word in chapter
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12. So we don't know really all the
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reasons why but I just give you a couple of reasons why and I
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argue I make the case that God often does when a true child of
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God pursues in Attention all sin and plans to send both from
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scripture, I can prove this and even from personal experience
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God, often gets that person's attention before they go.
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There he provides ways of Escape as First Corinthians tells us
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and what we do, we just shut those doors and we just had long
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go forward until he makes it very clear what we done was
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wrong. So now we come back.
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What do we see here? This is troubling.
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How draw was able to predict? What would calm David down?
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But we come to verse 25. And we see his actual reaction.
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David said to the messenger, thus, shall you say to joab?
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Do not let this matter. Displease you for the sword
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devours. Now one, and now, another
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strengthen your attack against the city and overthrow it and
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encourage him. Pause.
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Think is this the first time that David has ever received a
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report of someone that he knew dying?
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Is it? Or has David been the recipient
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of tragic news before? Saul, who else?
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Abner, good Jonathan. Let's put Jonathan aside,
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Jonathan makes sense, right? Saul Abner now, think about how
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he responded to the news of their death, where they allies
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to David, or they Predators, they are enemies.
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They wanted him dead. And what makes me?
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So startled by this verse is contrasting.
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His reactions to those people when they departed and this man,
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when he was put to death, The Brokenness, the fasting, the
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Weeping, The Wailing, the pounding, the writing, the
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recording, the songs. For unjust men.
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For men who didn't deserve it in a natural and here is a man
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upright filled with Integrity. So loyal to the cause of the
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kingdom of God and the King that God has established and he's put
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to death and David doesn't bat an eye.
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David doesn't even bat an eye. Not one tear.
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We shed not one. Verse was written, not one day
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of fasting. Nothing.
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Again, it just reinforces the truth that you and I have been
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hearing throughout this study, the absolute hardness that
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develops When sin is tolerated, even in the life of a child of
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God, the indifference the insensitivity.
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I sometimes I've seen it throughout the years, just
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unmoved by things that should move you just rock hard.
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And what it's going to take for somebody who becomes so
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rock-hard is forgot to smash that rock.
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Not to wound. But to awaken And so here's what
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sin does the same way you and I, and we should preach Faithfully
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that Jesus can transform you and make you into something that you
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never thought you would be by his grace and by his blood and
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by his word sin has the same power, but the opposite effect,
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it can make you unrecognizable. Because that's what we see here
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at David that we do not recognize his attitude is
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different. His Outlook is different.
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The way he registers events is different.
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All for one reason. Because he chose to conceal
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instead of confess. Who would have thought remember
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thou this all started from one decision.
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In the beginning of the chapter refusing to be in the will of
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God. Now, this is what we're seeing
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and what we just Trace, just follow the tracks.
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You come back and it all started with David making the decision
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to stay at home when he was supposed to be out on the
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battlefield. So you do you see the
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trajectory, do you see the potential of where a true
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servant of God can go when they step outside of the will of God
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long enough? When they refuse to uphold the
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commands of God for their lives. When they do not see the
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necessity of being with the Church of God, consistently,
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when do not see the necessity of being disciplined and meeting
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with the Lord spending time with the Lord, when they do not
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intentionally be zealous for good works.
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When we step outside of that path, that leads to very dark
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places. Here's David now who for up to
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this point showed such tenderness when even an enemy of
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his was taken prematurely. And here's a man who deserved a
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parade for his death. And David is able to go to bed.
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So soundly that very night. It's heart-wrenching it's
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heartbreaking. Why am I, why am I teaching?
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I want you to hate sin. That's why I'm curious to know
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how many times. The word sin was mentioned in
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this Bible study, and there's a reason for that, you know,
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Jesus, according to Hebrews 1 was anointed with the oil of
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gladness. Do you know why?
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For two reasons? We're told there that he loved
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righteousness and what was the second thing?
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He hated iniquity. We think our job as Christians
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is just to love righteousness. Know, it's also to hate that
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which God hates. And so if you want to know what
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it means to grow in righteousness, it's loving what.
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God loves and also parallel to that hating what he hates.
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One of the signs of growth is just that not that you just
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adore what he adores but you also abhor what he abhors.
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And so I want you to be in that place where there's a righteous
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rage for that which hurts God's reputation hurts God's people
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and hurts other people as well. Verse 26, the wife of Uriah
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heard that you write her husband was dead.
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She lamented over a husband that season of sin.
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Sweetness quickly became sour. Hebrews tells us that the season
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of sin is but fleeting It is fleeting, it is not lasting that
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one night, stand, turn into many nights of morning.
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And it's a picture of what you and I can expect when we think
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that we will be satisfied, it will always come back like a
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scorpion sting to zap you and leave a greater Mark than
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whatever pleasure you enjoy for a brief moment.
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But look here, verse 27. and when the morning was over, David
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sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife
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and bore him a son, Like mission accomplished.
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Mission accomplished. No questions, asked David, not
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only saves himself from embarrassment, from the possible
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confrontation of bathsheba's husband.
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That's done away with he. Now acquires a very, very, very
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beautiful woman as another wife and it's Haram So he had this
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man, who now acquires a beautiful wife, who has a son
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and two somewhere, undiscerning, you know, what happens?
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He seems like a hero here is a man now who takes a widow into
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his care. Oh, look how sweet David is.
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Look how he's a look, how he takes care of his men when they
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die in war. He takes their with their wife,
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and he brings a man and he nurtures her.
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And what a great man. I'm sure some people who heard
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the news of this new marriage thought that But to the
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Discerning maybe like job, like this is weird.
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This is really, really weird. There's something off here,
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we're not told that I can imagine.
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It seems like all is well, seems like everything happened.
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It seems like David's family is just growing.
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Maybe he told himself I'll never do something like that again.
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Thankfully nothing was exposed nothing exploded and then this
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final haunting phrase, as you know, but the thing that David
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had done displeased the Lord, God was silent.
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As you mentioned, brother? God was citing this entire time.
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Now, one thing was mentioned for the first time in this chapter,
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the Lord is brought up and all that.
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We are told about the Lord is that he was displeased with what
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David had done. Here's the point to make When
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God seems silent and he often is that there's not mean he's not
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seeing, because he always is when God seems silent, which he
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often is. It does not mean he is not
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seeing because he always is I just try to picture that.
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I just I just kind of stepped back and I try to Envision this
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whole series of things playing out.
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And God, I don't know how it looked but God just watching it
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silently. And taking it all in and
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throwing, providential nudges along the way.
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It's a, finally, the commentaries given to us that
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this displeased the Lord, you know, it's the same word that
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David used in verse 25. Look at verse 25, Again, David
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said to the messenger that she still stayed a job, do not let
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this matter. Displease, you Don't let this
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matter displease you it's the same word don't let it grieve.
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You don't let it upset you. What a contrast, what David was
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trying to console job with and even himself was in total odds
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against what God thought about it.
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Men, often approves what God disapproves men often Praises,
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what God often condemns? Men often makes unclear what God
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has made. Absolutely clear.
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This is, this is one of the main problems between mankind.
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And his creator. Don't let this displease you job
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and perhaps he was trying to tell that to himself.
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And yet we are told that God was displeased with it.
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Something happens when you read your Bible and you continue, go
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to 1st Kings and this is our last verse, but look at 1st
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Kings 15. And look here in verse, look at
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verse 4. Nevertheless for David's sake,
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the Lord. His God gave him a lamp in
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Jerusalem, setting up his son after him and establishing
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Jerusalem. Because David did what was right
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in the eyes of the Lord. And did not turn aside from
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anything that he commanded him all the days of his life except
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in the matter of Uriah, the hittite.
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Except in the matter of Uriah the hittite.
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What an insightful verse The reason that this is being
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brought up is because average am one of the kings of Judah has
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sinned against the Lord, and this is just one of the
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beginnings of the cycles of the Kings of Israel and Judah and
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we're being reminded by the Holy Spirit but God would not cut off
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the Covenant that he made with David God would only God would
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continue based on one thing and that was the promise he made to
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David that we studied in second Samuel chapter 7.
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But for some reason in the reminder of the Covenant that
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God made with David and how that was going to be.
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Perpetually held onto regardless of the unfaithfulness of his
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successors. We're also being reminded of the
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sin that he committed with and against Uriah What's the point
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of that? You know, if you read that on
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the surface level it can haunt you because what it can, it can
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communicate and it would be the right thing.
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Is that? God remembers their sin.
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Especially the heinous ones, especially the very offensive
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ones. Especially the ones that deal
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with other people and their death or whatever the case may
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be. God remembers, he'll never
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forget and he'll bring it up from time to time.
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That's not what we're being told here.
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I believe, the reason why this is being brought up so that when
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God was reminding us through the spirit in his word, that he
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would continue to be faithful to the kingdom of Judah.
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It was because he was faithful to David even despite David's
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failure. Yes, it's a reminder of Davidson
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but I believe another message is being communicated here.
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Is that David did Sin? And God's covenant, with David
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being protected, was not because David was perfect because you
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get that impression. If there is a period after did
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not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the
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days of his life. You would think the reason why
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God is faithful to David is because David out performed
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everybody and David was so impressive to God.
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That God says, you know, what you stand out from all the other
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bumbling fools. So I'm going to keep my promise.
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As with you, David your performance was so outstanding
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that I'm actually going to keep my word even for generations to
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come. And yet the Holy Spirit
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interrupts that potential thought by reminding us.
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Hey, he really messed up at one point.
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He messed up at other points but he really royally, no pun
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intended, messed up. So in the past three weeks in
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these studies, you and I have been being hammered by the word
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of God. Concerning the subject of sin,
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hiding sin, concealing, sin. God, who is incredibly able to
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reveal that sin? And we can be just washed with
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overwhelming daunting, terrifying, truth.
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And there's an element of that, which is healthy.
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But I want to end on this note. God.
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Is willing to hold on to his promise regardless of what
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you've done. if you are in Christ, if you are in Christ,
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That's, that's what I want to end on.
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That no matter what stain you have in your past, just like
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David. The same Holy Spirit.
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Who kept the promise to this, man?
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Forever. Is the same promise keeper.
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Who sees in whom you hide. And will look past the sin.
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And will keep his promise to you for Christ's sake, forever, and
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ever and ever. Yeah, Davidson was brought up
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again in the Bible but can I tell you one book in which your
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son will never come up again? You know, it That precious Book
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of Life. That is only reserved for those
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who have been redeemed by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
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in that record. When Christ will I believe in
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some way read our names to assure us that we have his
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presence forever? I can guarantee beside your name
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is not one mention of any sin. You have committed It will be
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blank. Because it's been washed by the
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blood of the Lamb. That's what you and I have.
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And so, this is for our instruction.
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But this is also a reminder for you, listen in, Jesus Christ, no
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matter how grade that sin wise, even if that sin was murder, I
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know that doesn't mean much for church, people. but if you
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remember a few years ago, for those who are doing Ministry out
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there, I forgot where I was riding me by Joliet.
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Yes. imagine doing Bible study with a bunch of teenagers, who
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have murdered And sitting across the table from kids, who learn
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how to shoot a gun before, having any kind of idea of how
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to drive a car. Knowing how to sell drugs before
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knowing how to make a sandwich. That means a lot.
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Yeah, you might have murdered and your might be blood on your
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hands even if your hands have not been developed yet.
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But there is someone who shed his blood for you, and he can
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wash every single record of that wrong clean.
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Simply because of your repentance and faith in him.
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And so today, if you are a person who has a stain, there's
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something you're ashamed of their, something that Even the
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thought of it servicing to your mind, makes you want to bang
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your head against the wall and maybe that very wrong has never
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been materialized. It's only been imagined but it
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is so perverse and so ugly and so despicable that that that
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thing there alone can make death seem sweet so that you don't
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have to replay it in your mind. Even if it's that The blood of
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Jesus is so powerful that it can be washed under that tide and
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God will never hold it against you.
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When you come and you hide in him.
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And so I want I want you to be comforted by that truth.
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That God does not hold that against you.
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If you come to his son and if you confess it and if you're
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broken and if you're genuine you come to him.
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You confess it and let him throw it in that.
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See forgetfulness and move on. And enjoy his favor and his
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Blessing over your life. We will continue in this subject
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but I pray that that truth of Grace would give you some kind
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of breath to breathe as you have perhaps in these past few weeks,
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Ben Uptight with this tense subject.
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God is good, he is so, so good. And he has given this to us to
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remind us. Even if his goodness in the
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midst of tragedy. We do love you.
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Lord, we do love you. We love you.
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We love you. We thank you for the blood.
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We thank you for the forgiveness in Jesus, we thank you for
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Calvary. We thank you for the cross.
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We thank you. That there is not one sin that
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you did not have in mind when you died.
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You've considered all iniquity, all trespass, all lawlessness.
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Saul Rebellion, when you died and Lord, we just thank you that
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we have been made clean. And we thank you that there is
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not one thing you choose to remember a hold against us.
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And Lord we we Relish in that truth.
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But we also want that truth to keep us anchored so that we
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would never pervert the grace of God moving forward, help us
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through the life of David and second Samuel 11 to remember.
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That sins promises are all lies. And that Lord what you have for
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us. In righteousness, is for our joy
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as much as it is For Your Glory. Well, we just ask that as we
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worship you on this Friday night, our hearts would be
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refreshed refreshed, not just with that promise.
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We heard at the end of the study, but even with the
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warnings that we've been receiving throughout this night
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and Lord, for the person here, who is not really in Jesus
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Christ and because they are not in Christ, is due to a
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hesitation of a sin in their lives.
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That is convincing them of a false promise or perhaps of
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guilt for something that was committed and is holding them
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back like a iron ball of chain around their ankle, Lord, met
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their eyes be open to see that you are willing to cleanse them
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and receive them and restore them completely that you want to
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like a physician heal them of that disease.
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It's your eager desire, Lord, may that be a resounding truth
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that rings in the ear of that Soul too.
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Eight and what we worship you with this song as we are close
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to sleep. Lord.
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Tonight, we just want to, we want to finish this night off
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with a song, on our lips. And with these truths in our
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heart, we ask these things in the name of your living, son.
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The resurrected Christ. The Returning King, amen.
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And amen. But stand.
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And sing to Jesus Christ. And sing to Jesus Christ.