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2 Samuel 10 (Part 2) Bible Study | Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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Good evening. Yes, I greet you in the name of
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the resurrected, Jesus Christ. It's good to see you on a Friday
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evening. It's good to see that there are
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not some, but many Christians who aren't afraid of the cold.
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I hope that will continue. I saw a funny.
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Somebody sent me a funny thing where was a I guess it was a
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meme where one side. Somebody said I can do all
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things through Christ. Who strengthens me and the next
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section says you can't even go to church when it rains.
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I think there's some truth to that all joking aside meet me in
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the book of second. Samuel in chapter 10 and as I
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said during the announcements, we weren't here together last
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week. So feels like more than a week.
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It feels like a month and so there is there is Importance in
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reflecting on what we touched on in this chapter before we
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continue. So let me give you summary David
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King, David was on a quest of kindness.
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He showed it to a man. Mephibosheth and chapter 9 but
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didn't stop with Saul's. Descendants didn't stop.
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Just with his covenant made with Jonathan, he wanted it to go
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beyond the borders of Israel. And so, he reaches out to the
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ammonites and he reaches out to the king of the ammonites hanoun
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and his father passed away. And so David long to send,
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Ambassadors to console him from a genuine place but
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unfortunately High Noon had some advisors who poisoned his mind
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by assuming that David had ill motives and was attempting to
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spy instead of really show love. And unfortunately, the king
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believed that and he does something very humiliating.
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He takes David's ambassadors, he cuts off half their beards and
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he trims their clothing in a very embarrassing way.
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And then kicks, Them out and tries to send it back into
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Jerusalem. Blushing, David recognize, what
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was done. He tells him to wait in a
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specific location namely Jericho until they grow back their
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beards, and they come back to Jerusalem as though nothing had
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happened. And that's where we stopped.
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We learned a lot in those few verses, but where we are
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beginning tonight is in verse 6 and we will read the next few
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verses. I'm going to ask you what you
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see. I'm not going to read the
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remainder of the chapter. Just the first few verses and
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we're going to Explore what we see, what gems Sparkle on a
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surface level reading and then we will dive in in a deeper way
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and we will trust. God has much to say to us and so
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with that in mind, your bibles are open before you.
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I trust. Let's come now to verse 6 of
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second, Samuel chapter 10 and let's read.
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When the ammonites saw that, they had become a stench to
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David the ammonites sent and hired the syrians of Beth Rahab
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and the syrians of Zaba 20,000 foot soldiers, and the king of
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Makkah with a thousand men and the men of tub or taupe 12,000
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men. And when David heard of it, he
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sent joy and all the host of The Mighty Men and the ammonites
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Came out and Drew up in battle array at the entrance of the
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gate, and the syrians of Zaba and of Rahab.
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And the men of Tobin Monica, were by themselves in the Open
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Country. When George saw that the battle
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was set against them both in front.
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And in the rear, he chose some of the best men of Israel and a
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raid them against the syrians, the rest of his many put in
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charge of abishai. His brother.
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And he arrayed them against the ammonites and he said, if the
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syrians are too. Too strong for me, then you
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shall help me, but if the ammonites are stew strong for
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you than, I will come, and help you be of good courage.
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And let us be courageous for our people and for the cities of our
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God and may the Lord do what seems good to him.
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This is the word of the Lord. Is there anything that stands
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out to you in these? These verses?
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Remember Friday nights are training nights want to train.
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Our eyes to know how to read the scriptures especially the Old
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Testament? What stands out to you?
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You have something, okay. Yes.
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Okay, so here we have Job saying, may the Lord do what
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seems good to him and is he is he, is he missing something, is
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he not inquiring of the Lord perhaps?
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But that, that phrase we're going to touch on because I
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think it's something we should admire about joab.
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So we will visit that. Yes, great observation.
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Anything else? yes, Vivian
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So joab says to his brother. Listen, if I'm being
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overwhelmed, you got to come and help me.
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And if I see that you're being overtaken, I'm here to help you
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that's good. Oh, that's really good.
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There's so much in there for the believer.
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Let me say this. There's so much in there for
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believers. You got it, good.
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Anything else. Great.
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Great observation. Maybe a couple more and then
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we'll continue. The second time yes that's a
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good observation to. So he sends Joe about the first
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time but when the syrians come back again David himself faces
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his enemies. And I think that's going to be
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more important for next week or the week after I don't know.
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Next week, we have us. Yes, I think so.
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We do, we do. Yes.
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Next week when we explore chapter 11, we were going to see
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that. David doesn't go to war again.
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So this is not a good habit, that David is developing but
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we're going to save that for next week.
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Good observation. One or two more, maybe one more
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Definitely Maybe Two. Anything else?
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Yes. Very good observation.
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What he had just said was that there was a promptness on
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David's end on how to deal with the ammonites and the syrians
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very good. Yes.
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So there was a quickness there was a there was an immediacy of
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his action to dealing with a Potential Threat, one more and
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that will continue. Anything else?
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These were wonderful observations.
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Yes. Yeah, that's a that's a good
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question. So some change locations will
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look at it differently in terms of what we'll get to.
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I think at one point we'll do like a huge segment on
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translations because which transition do you have if you
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don't mind me asking 1984 out of it.
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Yes. So when it comes to the
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different kind of groupings, it can be a manuscript thing where
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different families of manuscript might say something else.
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But when it comes to the ESV, we have the syrians and some
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believe that they could be somehow connected that they're
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from that general area. But we're going to do a session
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one day about translations and why things say things
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differently. So I'm going to reserve a longer
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answer for that if you don't mind for a particular time,
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maybe a future Q&A that will do sooner than later.
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Okay. Okay, ready?
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Now we're coming to this text. We've already made great
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observations but let's look back at verse six together.
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We see that the news of David's displeasure about what the
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ammonites did to Israel's ambassadors came back to high
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noon and his fellow leaders. And now here's what's.
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What's impressive to me? At least that David here.
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Is not giving any indication of retaliation.
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Right. David is not now arming himself
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and getting his troops to go out and fight against the ammonites
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for what they did to his Representatives.
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If there's anything that I see here is that David is in fact
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restraining himself. And this will make more sense
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when you have your rear view mirrors up in the Old Testament
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and you think back to David's development throughout the
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years? This is the beauty of being in a
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series because you have something to work with in terms
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of character observation or development.
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Do you remember what David's response was like when he sent
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servants before? He was a king, but when he had
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his little band of men, he sends servant's out to a man named
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nabal. Or Nepal.
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And he took care of some of his property.
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He expected some kind of favor in return and the ball, he
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belittles him, he humiliates him, he insults him.
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And what is David? Do the moment he hears that his
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servants came back with with that response.
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I'm just going to read it to you.
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It's in first Samuel. 25:13 David says to his men.
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Every man. Strapped on his sword.
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And every man of them strapped on his sword, David also
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strapped on his sword in his next breath, the moment.
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His servants returned and says this is what this is what he
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said about you. He says, round up the boys, get
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your swords. We're going to punish this man.
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And now years go by and I see David as a king, and he is
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insulted. And yet, there isn't any
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reaction. There is a silence.
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There's a calmness. I argue there is an inner
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strength that David grew into which is a mark of spiritual
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progress. See because if you read
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carefully, it's that, when the ammonites saw that, they had
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become a stench to David, the ammonites wanted to go to war,
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they were the ones that grab their troops, and we're
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preparing for an attack, it would have made sense to me to
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say that when David smelled what they did, he was insulted and he
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round up his troops to come against the ammonites but we
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don't see that there is this wonderful picture here of a man
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who has developed in the area of offense.
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And it would be wrong, it would be unrealistic to say that.
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David was not hurt by what hanoun did to him through his
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ambassadors because we're told that it was a stench.
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It was an insult. And it would be unrealistic for
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me to say to even a believer that when someone says or does
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something to hurt you, that it's not going to hurt.
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To say that a mark of spiritual maturity is that you don't feel
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the sting when someone sins against you, it's not fair.
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But the genuine Mark of maturity is that in the face of such a
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thing, you respond in a manner that reflects the beauty of
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Jesus Christ. That's the difference.
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David's pain here, perhaps is even greater than what it was
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when he was trying to deal kindly with Nepal, but his
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response, his reaction is reflex is totally different.
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And you can see this throughout the scriptures.
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This stumbled to me the other the other week and it's been
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simmering in the back of my mind.
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And I want to show it to you because it fits perfectly with
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what I'm trying to say. I need you to turn to two places
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though if you want to see the beauty of this.
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So the first places in Acts 23, right?
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And you're going to go to verse 2.
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The second place is in John 18 and you're going to put your
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finger there in verse 22. So acts 23 and verse 2.
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We have the Apostle Paul standing before the high priest
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of his day Because there are accusations against him, his
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ministry, his message, and what he is doing to the Jewish
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people. And I want you to see what
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happens as he is being investigated by the high priests
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in the spiritual leaders of his time.
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So verse 2, he said something. He's now making his defense and
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before he can get out another word.
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It says here in verse 2 vax, 23 in the high priest ananias.
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Commanded? Those who stood by him to strike
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him on the mouth. With.
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Then Paul said to him, God is going to strike you.
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You whitewashed wall, are you sitting to judge me?
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According to the law and yet contrary to the law, you order
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me to be struck. Let me pause there to say how
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many of you would respond? Very.
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Similarly if you are brought before a judge and before you
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finish making your case, he has one of the security guards or
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the officers Slap you on the mouth.
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Not only is that insulting itself.
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It's actually illegal according to the law.
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No, such punishment should be made until someone was proven
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guilty. And yet they could not help
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themselves, but, but harm this man who's been harassing them.
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So to speak with his gospel. But look at verse for those who
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stood by said would you revile God's high priest and Paul after
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this apologizes because according to the law, we are
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commanded to not revile the leadership that God has
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established. So Paul apologize, let me say
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this way Paul was wrong and what he did, yes it was wrong and
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what they did but he was wrong in his response.
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Now, I want you to see our lord Jesus.
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In the very same, predicament and John 1822.
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He is before the high priest. He was asked a question, he
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answered, he answered in such a way where he really unmasked.
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The high priests has lack of logic and his hypocrisy in this
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whole ordeal and John 18. 22. It says, when he said these
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things, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus with
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his hand saying is that how you answer the high priest?
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Now look at verse 23, pause there.
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Do you remember Paul's response? God is going to strike you?
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God is coming for you, my friend.
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Now here's here's the Lord standing before hype, and
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somebody hits him in the mouth. And here's his response verse
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23. Jesus answered him.
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If what I said is wrong bear witness about the wrong.
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But what I said is right, why do you strike me?
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Do I need to even explain anything here?
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I just put those two scriptures beside each other.
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Do you see the Elegance of Jesus?
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Do you see? Do you see his strength?
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Do you see his self-control? Do you see the honor and the
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Integrity that the master carries the do you sense the
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fragrance? The Apostle Paul was a mighty
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man of God, a mighty man of God but a man still and in the same
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situation he could not help but erupt and here's the Lord.
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Still. Not shaken.
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Strong. Straight as an arrow.
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You know, when I was reflecting on those two scenes, you know
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what came to mind? Lord, I want to be like you.
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I really, really want to be like you I don't want to give in to
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the impulses of my emotions, Lord.
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I want to know what it's like to be.
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Such a reflection of the person and character of God, Can I ask
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you something? What's manlier, you men in this
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place? What's manlier?
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When you compare those two answers?
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Paul. God is going to strike you.
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Or Jesus. if what I did was wrong, But it was right.
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Do you see? We need a whole new definition
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of what manhood really is. A whole new definition of what
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it means to be like Jesus, read Beyond please, and our
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sanctification. We need to read Beyond just
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tenets of our faith. Justification means is thank
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you. That's great.
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That's important. I'm not trying to mock that what
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I'm saying is the holy spirit, includes these examples for us
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so that we can look at ourselves.
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And look, I read that I go, I'm more like Paul, I'm going to be
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honest, but I want to be like the Lord, I want to be like the
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Lord in every situation that would try to stir My Flesh that
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I would be like him. And so we come back to David and
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we see There is a growth here. Now I want you to go back to
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verse 6 of second Samuel, 10 now, look at it from the
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perspective of hanoun when the ammonites saw that they had
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become a stench to David. The ammonites sent and hired the
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syrians. Now here's the thing.
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When this man learned that what he did was an absolute
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embarrassment and insult an offense to David and realize
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that he did nothing in return. On top of that, what should he
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have done? What any, what kind of what
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sensible person would have done blank?
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Thank you. Forgive me.
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I listened to the wrong advice. I misjudged what you were doing.
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Can we build this bridge again, that would have made the most
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sense. I mean, I'm baffled by how this
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man did not see how the council he received was totally off
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base. David proved the purity of
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intention is not just in his initial visitation, but in the
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fact that he does not come after him with a Vengeance, shouldn't
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that be enough of an apologetic for you to be convinced that
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that you're wrong? And that he was right?
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And what he was saying initially, But what we see here
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is the opposite, this man actually foolishly hires
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mercenaries. And he declares war, we're going
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to war And I think when you just reflect on that, there's a
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couple of principles there in regards to sin that, I hope
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you'll never forget for the rest of your life.
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The first lesson is this, right? So he learned that his actions.
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It was a stench. And so what does he do?
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Well, he continues to sin and here's principle.
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Number one, sin. Unrepented sin will always lead
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to Greater sin. Okay, unrepentant sin will
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always lead to Greater sin and we're going to see that played
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out in David's, personal life in the next chapter because David
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is going to commit adultery. And he chose the path of
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concealment instead of confession.
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And what does it do? It only encourages him to do
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even worse things. Commits murder utilize.
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There's all these horrific things because unrepentant sin
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will always lead you down to a darker path where you will
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entertain sins that you never plan to initially.
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I'm doing here. He insults the man and what does
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he do? Now, he wants to go to war with
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the man and so he wants to commit even more iniquity, more
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Rebellion against David, and the outcome of entertaining sin is
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always the same, always that when you try to hold on to it
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and try to control it and try to conceal it and try to justify
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it. It's going to take you further.
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Whenever we do wrong whenever we stumble, whenever we do
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something, we know that is contrary to the word of God.
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Whenever we do something that stinks in the sight of God, that
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can use that language. There is only two paths to take
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every single time. The first one is to conceal it,
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which includes justifying it. So you hide it.
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You convinced yourself. You can do it.
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And then that will lead to more trouble.
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The second path on this Crossroads is confessing and
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forsaking it. Those are two paths.
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That's not my idea. That's a proverb if you want to
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life proverb. Here's a good one, Proverbs
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28:13, it's a very simple one, it's easy to memorize, whoever
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conceals his transgressions. Will not prosper.
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But the one or he who confesses and forsakes it, or them will
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obtain Mercy. Whoever conceals his
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transgressions will not Prosper but he who confesses and
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forsakes them will obtain Mercy. That's a wonderful truth to
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remember in the case of hanoun, he thought that he could prosper
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by continuing to harass David and he's going to learn that.
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That's not going to be the case he's going to do more evil and
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it's going to cost them much more than he intended to pay,
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which is the second point. The first one was sin,
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unrepentant. Sin will always lead to Greater
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sin. Here's Point number two, in
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regards to this. Unrepentant sin will always ask
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of you, something that you did not intend to pay.
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In other words, make it even more simple, unrepentant, sin
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will cost you more and more. And you can't determine what the
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price is. So here's what's amazing notice
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that when he wants to go to war with David, we have to read
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carefully. He hires the syrians, he hires
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them and it's only when you go to the Chronicles account of the
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same scene where you get the exact receipt, He had to pay a
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thousand talents of silver. One Talent is estimated to be
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around 75 pounds 75,000 pounds of silver to hire this Coalition
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of armies, to join him, and to fight against the anointed one.
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That's pricey. So, is the pursuit of sin.
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Always will come with a check and you will have to pay it at
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one point or another. And here's the thing, when it
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comes to the price of sin, as I said early you can determine
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what you have to pay. You can't It will always rob you
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of your blessings and God always, but sometimes they will
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tax you emotionally and sometimes it will demand
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something from you physically. And here's the worst thing.
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If you're outside of Christ, The Ultimate Prize is eternity.
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Eternity, when you want to make a willful decision of walking
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against the one, that God chose in the person of Jesus Christ,
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then you will actually have to pay a price.
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And the proverb said it very clear, whoever conceals whoever
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holds onto, whoever hides, whoever justifies his
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transgression will not prosper. It will cost you something.
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So never forget those points, never forget those two
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realities. So we come down to verse 7 what
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do we see? He hires these thousands of foot
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soldiers, these chariots, he goes to neighboring places.
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And in verse 7, we read when David heard of it, he sent joab
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and all the host of The Mighty Men.
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The moment he heard about, he says, we got to do something
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about it, so he has this intelligence agency he gets a
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report. Hey, the ammonites are coming
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into partnership with the syrians and and they're they're
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up to something David, There's Something Brewing here.
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And what David does here, as he does not wait, because he knows
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that if he waits the problem can get.
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So great, it will be too difficult to confront.
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Had David delayed. What would have happened?
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Was that there could have been more men hired or there could
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have been a very sophisticated strategy that would be
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implemented. That would make make this whole
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thing much more complex and it could have been if he had done
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it just earlier. The attitude of David here, in
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Warfare must be must be interpreted in view of our
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spiritual war. What David is doing here is
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absolutely inspiration to the believer who is in spiritual
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warfare day and night and it's wisdom and here's the wisdom.
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That David here does not delay because success and strategizing
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over Satan's tactics is doing what dealing and snuffing out
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Sparks before they become wildfires.
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Not waiting, not hesitating to come and resist evil.
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Before it becomes something much more difficult to overcome.
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And that can be anything, that can be everything from an
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inappropriate thought, that constantly visits you and you
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having to Snuff it out. You having to deal with it
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before it becomes persistent, and before becomes material.
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Everything from something as harmless as a thought, that can
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become harmful too. You approaching a brother Yuan,
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humility approaching a sister and communicating because
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there's unexplained tension. And you don't want to, you don't
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want to leave room for speculation or suggestions from
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Satan against your brother or sister.
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Again, of David waited too long, things will get much more
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complicated. and in the same way the effort becomes much more
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when we delay in our response to formation of Temptation and
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trouble. I've seen what they can do.
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I've seen in so many cases. I've seen what it can do in
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somebody's personal life, and I've seen it, especially what it
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can do relationally between between family members in Jesus.
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It it creates suspicion, it creates hurt and friendships and
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marriages and even local churches.
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And so you have such wise instructions, not just by way of
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example like this. But even in the very clear
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teachings of Jesus who, you know, this in Matthew 5:23 that
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if you have a gift and you're coming to the altar to give an
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offering to the Lord. But you remember, you remember
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that someone has something against you dropped a gift and
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go and pursue reconciliation. And here's the thing about that.
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What I take from that teaching is, Mending.
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Something that is potentially ripping.
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Apart is emergency protocol. Emergency protocol, it's not
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something to wait until tomorrow.
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It's something that must be dealt with.
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And listen this is what the Lord is saying.
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This is so crucial that it Trump's over even offering your
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sacrifice on the altar during a feast holiday.
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Consider that what the Lord is, saying, don't delay.
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And I've witnessed the great blessing on and so many
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examples, let me give you the positive element has.
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When somebody might approach me, call me.
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Whatever and say, well, you know so-and-so said this.
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So, and so did that or so. And so is acting in a certain
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way and it's hurting me. It's confusing me.
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You know what my answer is go and tell them.
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Don't wait till the smoke becomes fire.
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Don't let your mind. Be open for Satan to say certain
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things and suggest certain things and confuse you and begin
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to accuse that person through your thinking just clear the air
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as soon as you can I'm telling you.
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So many fires could have been put out and so many local
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churches that they just took what Jesus said, seriously,
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right? And David is doing that in terms
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of real war, he hears that something is happening.
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And he's not waiting before he deals with it, he's going to act
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upon it immediately and so he does.
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And what happens? we read here as we scroll down
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to verse 11 and he said, Joab goes out and he said to his
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brother abishai. The syrians are too strong for
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me. Then you shall help, you shall
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help me. But of the ammonites are too
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strong for you than I will come and help you.
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Here's what here's the see now between verse eight and nine job
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is sent with his men, the Mighty Men, and they realized the
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seriousness of the situation, the ammonites are before them
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the syrians are behind them. They're surrounded.
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They're surrounded, they're outnumbered.
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Perhaps and so this is a very dangerous predicament and so the
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strategy is very straightforward.
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What he says here is that I'm going to place myself to fight
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the syrians and we're going to place those who are weaker, the
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abishai and his men before the ammonites.
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And there's much to say about that, which I won't say, but
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it's very simple that according to one's qualifications, they
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will be placed in certain positions.
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But instead of touching on that, I want to draw your attention to
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what he says in verse 11. The too strong for me, come and
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help me if they're too strong for you, I'll come and help you.
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Okay, so let's stay in that theme of obtaining wisdom and
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successful spiritual warfare. Here's another one.
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I'll call for Mutual support in the fight of faith.
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A call for Mutual collaboration cooperation in the fight of
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faith and you and I know that that's why many of you are
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members of a local church. You Christian should be inspired
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to see how these these brothers literal brothers are locking
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their arms, with one another because of the revelation of how
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great of a danger, they are in there.
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Surrounded by, we need to come closer to each other.
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How much more us? Listen how much more us in a day
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when evil perversion confusion false teaching deception is
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closing in on the remnant of God.
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I-i'll be, I don't know how people can claim that they can
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weather the storm and it's only going to get more intense.
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Wild istening cells from the people of God, it just it's
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mind-boggling. Intentional Fellowship,
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intentional accountability, intentional relationships with
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one another and we can amend that we can say, Amen, because
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the principal you can't disagree with it.
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We all agree with amen. But the blessing, the reaping of
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reward is when we put it into practice and the particular ways
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that we see in the Bible, including what we see here and
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what do we see here? We see that.
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What job is setting as a rule is impossible.
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It doesn't work, unless both he and his brother abishai.
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You ready for this? Are aware of one another's
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conditions. How is abishai going to come and
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help job? If he doesn't know, that job
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needs help? How is job supposed to help his
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brother? If he doesn't know that his
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brother needs help? How is your brother supposed to
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help you? If he doesn't know that you need
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help? How is your sister supposed to
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know that your she supposed to help you unless how you can't?
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So, you know what this means, you ready for this?
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All, this is good, this means that those who want to show
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themselves strong before other believers.
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They can't, they can't fathom the thought of another believer.
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Finding out that perhaps you are struggling.
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Whether you need help that your where you are, you are going to
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war. If you want to know the
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blessings of the mutual support that God has designed for the
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army of God, you're going to have to humble yourself.
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Wouldn't it be so silly to see joab, smothered by soldiers and
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him refusing to call out for help from his brother abishai
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because he does want to be perceived as weak.
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He imagined that we would say how foolish what's wrong with
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you. I want you to see yourself in
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that same light, when you feel the Temptation in your tent, in
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your struggle, in your trials, and your tribulations, to remove
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yourself. Instead of throwing yourself at
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the hands of merciful Brothers and Sisters in Christ.
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It's just that silly. It's just that silly.
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And what often is the thing that holds people back from
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receiving, the bomb that God has deposited in those that he's
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providentially brought into your life is pride, it's spiritual
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Pride. So you won't ask for counsel,
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you won't ask for prayer, you won't come to the house of God
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to know the healing that comes from the gifts that God has put
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into that church. Because you want to be, you want
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to be a Mighty, Man, a mighty woman.
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You're just as much in trouble. As job would be if he was
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overcome by soldiers and refused to call out to his brother
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abishai. But also means something else
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and that is a willingness for you and I to what give ourselves
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to others to cooperate. And to contribute Galatians, you
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heard that Maranatha Galatians 6:2 that we are to Bear one
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another's burdens. This is the law of Christ.
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And you know what is unfortunate and I praise God.
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That it's not the case here, I hope it would never be That a
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lot of people view the local church as a charity in this way
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they can take. But God forbid, they would give
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God forbid, they would give and so they have no issue.
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Reserving, their resources, reserving, their presence
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reserving, their participation reserving their voice,
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reserving, their, whatever it is that your call to bring it to
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the church. They have no problem, but all
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they will get vocal if they don't get what they think they
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deserve and they have no issue, they have no issue.
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Arriving and coming when they need a good old.
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Pick me up, right? But when it comes to them,
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investing in others, It's not a reality.
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You know what job didn't say? If the syrians overcome me, come
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and help me. He didn't say that he added and
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if you need help, I'm here for you brother.
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You see, it's this, this Mutual responsibility and
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accountability. It's not this vacuum where you
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get to suck as much as you want this consumer mentality and then
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leave wiping your mouth. Now I pray that that would never
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be the case. We will see Miracles take place,
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we will see his strength and and we will see a wonderful
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longevity and our spiritual health when we lock arms.
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In the way that these brothers are and we saying we're going to
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do this together, we're gonna do this together, so you and I need
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to understand that. Okay?
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It's okay to be broken in the house of God.
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The days are difficult and I know that I'm going to stay
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here. I know that this ministry,
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preaches, a strong word. Because we need to, we need to
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preach repentance. We need to preach the fear of
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God. We need to preach the whole
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counsel of God. But I want you to know something
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as well. as much as we strive for Holiness, and we strive to
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be Godly, I hope that not one person in here, whatever
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interpret that we do not have Grace in our hearts.
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I pray that you would see that as we pursue this together.
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There is so much Mercy available.
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So much grace, so much forgiveness, so much
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understanding. So that if you do fall, you can
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get right back up and you have a leadership and you have a church
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that says get up brother. Get up Sister.
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Keep going. Keep going keep pursuing that
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prize. Keep pursuing that Mark.
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And so you have to understand joyed I'm a shy, they were
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warriors but they knew their weaknesses, they knew their
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weaknesses and they gladly confess when they were weak,
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they gladly opened up and they said to one another when they
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needed a helping hand, what's the point of all of this?
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If that's not the case. So be built up and be encouraged
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to know that in this place. There's so much encouragement
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reserved and ready to be shared and I pray, and I trust that
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many Book can attest to that. Now job doesn't end up.
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Let's go back to verse 12. He continues and a way that may
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be surprises us because Javas disappoint Us in the past but we
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can, we can applaud him tonight. Okay, we can give job some some
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Grace, because look what he says, be of good courage.
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She speaking to his brother be of good courage and let us be
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courageous for our people and for the cities of our God and
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may the Lord do. What seems good to him.
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Oh, we could take that and chop it up and break down every
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single portion of what job said, but I want us to focus on the
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latter part. And may the Lord do what seems
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good to him. Now go back to verse 9.
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Because I want you to see what job that before this, when jobs
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saw that the battle was set against them both in front and
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the rear, he chose some of the best men of Israel and a raid
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them against the syrians. Joab did everything that he
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could to prepare and plan for victory.
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He organized, he delegated, he directed, he encouraged, he did
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all these things that any commander would do.
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And yet he came to a point before running into that field
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by declaring an Mid trust and faith that the outcome belongs
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to God. Whatever God is going to do.
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He will do it. And that's an important truth
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because you and I believing in God's authority over all things
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and has power over all Affairs does not negate.
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Our intense participation in the process.
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Right, if the doctrine of the sovereignty of God makes you
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lazy, you're not learning it, right?
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If it makes you less zealous to be obedient to be Evangelistic
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to be prayerful, you're not interpreting that Doctrine,
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right? Joy had that so much and guess
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what? God considered it.
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He considered his wisdom, he considered his strategy, he
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considered all that he did and he would work with him in this
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and he relied on him and that should comfort every person in
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this place. Who has his our Lord.
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I want to be dead center in the will of God.
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Here's my encouragement to you ready.
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That as you do, everything that God's called you to do, just
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like what job did You can rest in the outcome because it
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belongs to the Lord. All right, so I'll use myself as
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an example. As use any password example, as
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long as they honor God's word, they preach, they have a holy
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life, they're serious. The repentant, they're walking
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in humility and they're doing all their duties, regardless of
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what happens in that ministry, that's not up to him, that's up
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to him, it's the Lord, right? Take that for anything that you
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do in life and your life, for the Lord job your presents, a
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wonderful wonderful lesson for all of us who really desire to
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obey him, but cannot determine In the fruit.
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You can't determine the fruit rest in that.
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So now we see. It's so much we can say, but I
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want to continue in verse 13 Job.
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And the people who are with Him Junior to battle against
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Assyrians and they fled before him.
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And when the an amide saw the syrians that the syrians.
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Fled, they likewise fled before abishai and entered the city,
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then job returned from fighting against the ammonites and came
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to Jerusalem. Here's what's fascinating.
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Remember we heard in the beginning that there was a
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principal but sin in relation to the ammonites and the syrians,
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check this out, what we learned was if you're going to pursue
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sin it's going to cost you more than you plan to pay.
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It's going to take you to Greater sin and here's another
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principle. Here's another principle.
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When joab, and his men arrived on the scene, the syrians, fled,
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the ammonites saw the syrians, they, they fled, and I can't
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help. But think this, if I was hand
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noon who paid seventy five thousand pounds of silver, for
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these guys to come in to help me, do what I desire to do,
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wouldn't you be disappointed? That's a letdown not one Arrow
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was shot. Not once sword was swung
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nothing. Now, once Shield was lifted up,
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they turned around and fled, that's pretty disappointing
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stuff. And let me tell you, it's the
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same for sin sin will disappoint you.
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Disobedience will disappoint. You pursuing what God says not
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to pursue will fail you and it's a truth that we know from the
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beginning that that glistening Apple.
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Well, it's not an apple, we don't know it's a fruit that
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fruit that promised so much. And it becoming bitter.
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And when we think about Temptation, when we think about
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all these different patterns and life that our culture suggests,
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it always asks, you throw away your, you throw away the
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strength of your you throw away your money, throw away your
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time, throw away the blessings of God, right?
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And so many people bite, and it bites back because when it comes
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to the moments, where you think that that thing, that promise so
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much happiness is security and strength was going to deliver it
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failed to execute the way you thought.
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That's exactly what we see here with a syrians and the
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ammonites, they expected so much and they were LED down and Paul
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use that as an example, when he's preaching on Holiness, in
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Romans 6, he says there in Romans 6.
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Hey, what fruit were you getting at the time of the things of
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which we are now ashamed? Like what benefit was there in
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your previous life? And I always tell this to people
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when you are tempted with a particular sin, may be a sin
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that you crucified when you came to Christ, don't think about It
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makes you feel think about how I let you down and let that live
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before you. And so when that Temptation
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comes up, you say I can see right past through this mask and
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I know what that is that it that's not an oasis.
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That's that's just a pile of sand.
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And so even we see here that though these men pursued greater
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wickedness, thinking that it was going to profit them and give
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them Victory. And in fact turn to slap them in
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the face. So it is with sin.
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Now we come. And what do we see here in verse
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15? Well, they fled the ammonites
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fled. So, job goes back to Jerusalem
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and when he goes back to Jerusalem, something interesting
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happens, and we haven't read this yet together, but when the
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Syrian saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they
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gathered themselves together and how do they user sent and
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brought out the syrians, who were beyond the Euphrates, they
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came to helium, which show back the commander of the army of had
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a desert at their head. And when it was told David, he
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gathered all Israel together, and cross the Jordan, and he
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came to heal, and the syrians are raised themselves.
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Has against David and fought with him.
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Let me pause here because I've been talking a lot.
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What do you take from that with the theme of sin with the theme
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of rebellion with the theme of wickedness with the theme of
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stubbornness? What do you see here?
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Well, job goes back and the syrians.
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They gather themselves again, I think you're foolish, this is
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stupid. You know what, I see from that
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before we're quick to criticize where we any different when we
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were in sin. Are we any different?
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Since Spooks us and makes us just look absolutely absurd.
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We've embarrassed ourselves. We feel filthy.
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We had a near-death experience, we severed so many
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relationships, and just like these men, the moment things.
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Calm down. We go right.
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Back to the vomit that we just threw up.
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And sometimes we go even harder than when we did it first.
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So we see the stubbornness, we see the stubbornness of the
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syrians. No different than the
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stubbornness of The Sinner. Who will just put their head
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down and continue to Ram it against the same wall?
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and when I look at this, I think to myself How can this be?
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How can you go back to the very thing that spooked you, that
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exposed your weakness and how small you were?
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Well, that's what happens when a heart does not have the rule of
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Christ in it. Sin makes people stupid.
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Can I use that language? Is that okay?
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It just makes people lose their judgment lose their ability to
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reason and we're going to see that in the next chapter we're
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going to talk about the sin of adultery Proverbs 6 tells us
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that he who does, it has no sense.
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Because they don't consider the consequences.
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They don't consider what can happen as a result.
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Of that. Law-breaking.
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And just like the sinner, doesn't matter.
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If you were warned, doesn't matter if you escape death, it
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doesn't matter if you've experienced serious loss,
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doesn't matter if you just doesn't matter what.
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Fearful fate might come before, you have people who was Spring
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right back into action, even after they realized that this
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can potentially destroy them, And what was the blow that they
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would suffer? Look at Verse 18 and the syrians
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fled before, Israel, David killed of the syrians the men,
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seven hundred chariots, forty thousand Horsemen and wounded
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shabak. The commander of the army so
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that he died there. The chapter does Anne Enright.
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It doesn't end because as crazy as these syrians are in this
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text, we can actually applaud them because they learned their
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lesson. They learned their lesson, Only
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After experiencing a severe blow.
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And there's two things that they did.
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That was right. as a result of this failure, the first thing,
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Is here in verse. 19. And when all the kings who were
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Servants of, how did, as our saw that they had been defeated by
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Israel, they made peace with Israel.
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Good job should have done it earlier, but better late than
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never, they made peace with Israel.
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You want to know the second thing?
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And became subject to them. Here it is.
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So the syrians were afraid to save the ammonites anymore.
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We will no longer associate with you ammonites anymore because
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every time we hang out with you you just lead us into greater
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trouble. We're done.
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Okay, I'm going to end here. oftentimes, What it takes for
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The Sinner to make peace with the son of David, who is Jesus
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Christ, and to cut themselves off from the influences of sin.
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Is to get burned. It's only after you get beaten
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up by your decisions in Rebellion.
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And not just light Taps because then got a light tap, the light
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tap was just as they were fearful and they ran off the
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site of job and those Mighty Men was terrifying enough and it
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caused him to run in the other direction but it wasn't until
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the syrians new serious loss. That they change their ways,
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this breaks my heart but it's true. unfortunately, for some A
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sermon won't mean anything until they're crushed by life.
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And I see this particularly with young people when I go and I
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speak at youth conferences. Most difficult audience to deal
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with because they haven't been through life long enough.
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That's that's what really it is. I think I've seen you have seen
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young people fall on their knees and cry and repent, genuinely
50:45
and change their course, because of the grace of God.
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And I've seen other people, there's just the smugness and
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there's this a sense of I am Invincible, you're 18.
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Just live a little bit longer. Once you have to leave your
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house and you can't eat, mom's home-cooked meals and you don't
51:05
have a nice bed warmed and ready for you.
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Once you go on to the real world, And you're no longer have
51:11
to be forced to come into church, and you actually have to
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make decisions on your own and Satan is right there waiting to
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give his options to you. Just wait till then, just wait
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till then, and so, Sometimes what God will do?
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Instead of giving you a sermon is put you on a sick bed.
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It doesn't have to be that way, but he can do it that way.
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He can, he can and he has broken many bones and I'm not talking
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about, I'm not talking about psalmist language.
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Here of what it feels like to be convicted of sin.
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I'm talking about real broken bones.
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And if you think, I'm coming up with my own ideas here, I want
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you to, I want you to see what I'm saying, and the final verse
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versus of our study tonight, it's in the Book of Job.
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It's in chapter 33, And I want you to see what is said here.
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About the ways of God. Job is very tricky book to teach
52:20
from because a lot of the things that job's friends say were
52:24
right, but applied wrongly and some things are off.
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So you have to be, you have to be very careful of how you teach
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and preach from The Book of Job. And the best way to know what to
52:35
use is to see how the rest of the scripture uses that same
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truth, right? But look at Job 33.
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Verse 9 that I think this is incredibly insightful and verse
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19. We read man is also rebuked with
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pain on his bed and with continual Strife in his bones.
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Who's doing the rebuking here? God is doing the rebuking here.
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So that his life loads bread, meaning your so battered that
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you have no appetite. And his appetite the choices
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food. His flesh is so wasted away that
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it cannot be seen. And his bones that were not seen
53:25
stick out. Remember what I told you it's
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often it's not the light tops in life.
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That get our attention. It's the major interventions.
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Look at verse 22, his soul draws near the pit and his life to
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those who bring death. This is serious.
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And the spirit is attributing, this as a work of God that God
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can rebuke a man in such a way to get his attention to get his
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attention. Notice the words in verse 19
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carefully men is also rebuked meaning.
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This is just one of his ways of rebuking, And I think that this
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kind of rebuking is reserved for the ones who win their rebuked
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in this way. Right?
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Hey, hey, repent, be careful surrender.
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Time is short when they don't get that rebuke.
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That's fine. I can listen.
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And he allows Providence to have his way and he brings a man or a
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woman to the very brink of death itself.
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You read the remaining versus you can do that on your own
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time. There's a Redemptive element to
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this but look at verse 29, quickly.
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Why does God do this behold? God does all these things just
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in case you thought I was adding that.
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Twice. Three times with a man.
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So patient. And you about tells me how
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stubborn of us, I've had a handful of conversations, with
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people who reached out to me, to ask me.
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I need to sit with you, I need to tell you what happened to me,
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it's a fine. Come sit, they sit with me and
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they tell me of how they almost died near it, car accident near
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death, experience, something, whatever overdose.
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I don't know what it is so many different things and they look
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at me and you can see this concern on their face.
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How they've come so close to meeting their maker.
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Only for the gospel to be given to them for them, to be somewhat
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receptive, to it, to get back and to never be seen again.
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Behold. God does all these things twice
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three times with the same person.
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You know, there's some people who just like won't die even
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though they should be dead. I know a couple of those people
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say how are you alive? You fell off that roof.
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You got hit by this car and they're just, they don't know.
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And it's like, oh well what do you need to wake up, man?
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Right twice. Three times with a man for what
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purpose verse 32. Bring his soul from the pit,
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see, God is willing to crush you.
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Now, before you spend eternity away from him suffering, under
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his judgment under his Wrath, that's why it hurts me.
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Sometimes, when people really have the strong stance about
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suffering in the world. Well, how can God do this and
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how can God allow this? Well, listen, if you keep it in
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light of Eternity, you're not going to have that much
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objection. When you realize the suffering
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in this life, oftentimes is God's megaphone to get the
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attention of a generation. Then you're going to understand
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that suffering in light of Eternity is actually merciful,
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it's merciful. I know that's controversial but
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I believe this book not popular opinion and so we see here that
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he does it to bring his soul from pit from the pit that he
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may be lighted with the light of Life.
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Yes, he will make your days dark so that you could come to this
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light of life. Does he have two with some?
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Can God avoid using this? Absolutely.
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It's contingent upon the hardness of your heart though.
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Look back at verse 14 for God, speaks in one way and into
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though, men does not perceive it.
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What with the what this text is saying is God, has many ways of
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communicating to people. That's not to say that the word
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of God is not sufficient, is that God uses the truth of the
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word of God. To be made known to you through
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different Avenues, including sticking you on a sick bed.
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To help you realize that you are.
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But a man you are but dust and Ashes.
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I hope that everyone in here knows the Lord.
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I trust that. Especially for those that I
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know. but maybe somebody will watch this Bible study months
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from now weeks or not, maybe they're watching right now or
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maybe you're in this place and I don't know you and You don't
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know Jesus. God speaks in one way into
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though. Men does not perceive it.
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I don't want you to have to get beaten up by sin before you
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realize you need a savior Why don't you realize it now and
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perceive that in God's Providence?
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He's getting your attention tonight?
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Yeah. Yeah.
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That he really wants to save you.
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And make a treaty with you and be an alliance with you and
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adopt you and redeem, you and fill you with his spirit.
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So that not only, would you be safe from his wrath, but that
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like we heard earlier, you would be conformed to his son's image.
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So that even in moments where you know that you would act in a
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certain way, had it not been for Christ, he would receive so much
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glory in your life. And so, we conclude today with a
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very, very sobering. Reality of not just the syrians,
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but if Sinners oftentimes, The Sinner needs to be awakened.
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To realize I need to make peace with my God.
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And I need to do this ready for this.
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Some of you, your fellowship will not be distasteful and
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Until you realize the heartache of what it's like to be with
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somebody who's not in Christ relationally and in friendships,
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Right. They told the ammonites were
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done here. We're done here.
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Why don't you just trust God's wisdom beforehand?
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Why don't you just trust God's wisdom before hand before you
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see what somebody who is not yoked to Christ?
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Can do to you who was and who is yoke to Christ?
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Avoid it, avoid it now. With all that being said, let's
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pray. Lord, we ask you that the truths
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that we heard in this this study.
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Would be chained around our hearts.
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And we ask Lord that. All these principles.
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Would play out in real life situations.
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We are forgetful. We we are creatures that need to
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hear the same truth over and over again.
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But we just pray fully with genuine hearts.
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Lord, we ask that your Holy Spirit would keep us from losing
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sight of what we saw in your word.
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And Lord, for the person who doesn't really know you.
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And they're not even concerned about knowing you because
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they're very comfortable in life.
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Although we just pray that you would have mercy on them to get
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their attention in any way possible, if it will open them
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up to giving their souls to you. And Lord for us as a church and
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for the different Ministries represented here.
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May we implement the wisdom of David and actual Warfare and our
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spiritual warfare to be quick to see temptation.
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And to deal with it to be quick to see potential trouble in our
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relationships. And to deal with it, to confront
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it to communicate it. Lord, we need you and so many
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things we need you. And Lord, When sin temps us, and
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it may even tempt us. The very moment, we say, Amen,
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to this prayer, sin is right there to whisper in our hearts.
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may we never forget that unrepentant, sin will always
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lead us into greater more Unthinkable sin and unrepentant,
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sin will always bring with it a price that we don't want to pay
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but we will have to pay So Lord as we go into this dark evil
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lying world, may your truth be louder than every other voice
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and finally met this brief study cause us to see the value of one
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another and to say I'm here for you, would you be here for me?
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And when I'm weak, would you not judge me and hurt me?
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But would you list me up? And when you're weak, I will be
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there to pray for you to speak to you too.
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Help you in any way that you need.
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Lord, may that be the culture of Maranatha, Bible Church.
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And every other church, that is visiting here.
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We give you glory and we sing to you because your word is
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incredible and you are awesome and so receive our praise on
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this Friday evening in Jesus name.
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Amen, let's stand church, let's Worship the Lord.