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2 Samuel 17 (Part 1) Bible Study | Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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Please meet me in second Samuel chapter 17.
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I hope you're okay to pray with me again.
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Lord, we invoke your name and we ask that your power would be in
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the midst of this place. I thank you, Lord, for the
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precious saints were able to be here we, thank you, Lord, for
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the Saints who are watching glorious that in this very
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moment, your word would come forth and it would do what only
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you can do as James says that it would save us.
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Not just in Salvation but save us from our sins.
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Save us from lies. Save us from Temptation.
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Save us from ideas that are not in alignment with your truth
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that can lead to confusion and deception, Lord.
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We pray that there would be a rescuing and at the same time
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that there would be a stirring of adoration for you.
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Lord, we don't want to just know things we want to know the god
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of the word, please draws closer to you.
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Help us Olga through this study. Love you personally and then
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reflect you close. And more accurately than we did
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before this meeting, we bless the name of your son and we ask
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that he would be glorified in this study.
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In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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Last week, if you were here, you know, that our study concluded
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with a sheath offals, horrific advice for Absalom about how to
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better secure the throne that he sabotaged his father's throne.
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And the advice that was proposed was for Absalom to violate his
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father's concubines publicly. So that the Ian would receive
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that statement and that statement would be that a new
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Revolution has arrived. A new government has been placed
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and that it is the real deal as aggressive.
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And as audacious as such a move was he thought was advice is not
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going to cease here. It's going to continue into
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chapter 17 and what you're going to learn very quickly is that
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his proposal in these verses will prove To be more severe
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than what we learned last. But I thought foes counsel here
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is not the only thing that you and I are going to read if
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there's going to be another set of instructions that are going
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to be presented and it's going to be presented by no other than
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who shy who shy who is the secret friend of David who is
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strategically in the courts of Heath offal and who has the plan
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to thwart? The council that he fell for,
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we're coming to that point. This is a very critical chapter
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for David's life for the king. Of Israel for the future of this
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nation and what you and I are going to do as we examine these
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opposing views is that we ourselves are going to receive
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counsel meaning, as we look at these words, as we look at these
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instructions, these statements, these promises, we are also
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going to learn some things about our own walk with the Lord.
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Because the Holy Spirit, obviously preserved, the details
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of what I thought will have the same what Housh I have to say
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for more than just a historical account or a colorful episode
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and Bible. There's something instructive
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here. And I say that, every single
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week to reassure you that when you come to the Old Testament,
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you're not just reading something for you to get some
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more data for a Bible trivia. Okay, you're getting something
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for your walk with Christ, you getting something pertaining to
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your worship for him and how to navigate through this life.
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As you represent his name and you're going to find that God
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willing in these verses. So as we come let's read the
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first three verses right? We're continuing.
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There's no chapter breaks in their original text and so the
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word begins in verse one with moreover.
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Moreover, I thoughtful set to Absalom.
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Let me choose 12,000 men, and I will arise and pursued David
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tonight. I will come upon him while he is
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weary and discouraged and throw him into a panic and all the
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people who are with them will flee, I will strike down Only
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The King and I will bring all the people back to you.
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As a bride comes home to her husband, you seek the life of
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only one man, and all the people will be at peace.
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So I fell for just finished telling him take.
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David's concubines go up to the rooftop and violate them.
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That was a political statement as you learned last week.
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And now he continues because I fell for, doesn't want to just
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sever the potential reconciliation between Father
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and Son, he thoughtful wants to eliminate David completely and
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he wants to Apparently, give Absalom the assurance that you
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can now completely destroy any potential future threat from
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David and his men by listening to what I have to say, but
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there's something deeper going on here.
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Is there not we learned that last week and it's just
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reinforced here again. Actually, there are three things
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that I personally have observed in these verses and maybe you
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will see them as well. What are some things?
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Maybe you see something that I didn't see which will be great
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to discover but what are some Some things that you discover
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here with the first three verses with Opals advice that stand out
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to you. And I know some who revisit
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this. They've told us, we listen to
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the study but we didn't hear what the people have to say.
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It's very difficult to pass the mic around.
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So I'm going to repeat what you have to say, which is going to
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require something from you. Please don't let your answer be
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too lengthy. And try to be as concise as
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possible so that I can repeat it for future people who would do
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watch who can't make it or work and they want to watch this
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study later. Okay, as I make sense, just an
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added rule. To our study.
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What stands out to you from these first three verses?
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Yes. I fell for ya.
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Because it's like he's taking Revenge.
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Okay? Very good.
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I'll stop you there. I thoughtful is proposing that
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he killed David. Let's hold on to that.
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Thought any other observations? Yes.
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He wants to do it now. He wants to do it immediately.
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He wants to do it this very night.
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So there's urgency here. Very good.
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Yes. Why does he need 12,000 men to
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kill one man? Interesting thought.
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Yes, so he has some kind of a strategy here.
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Very good observation. We'll get to that in a moment he
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uses, I will quite a bit. Yes.
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Very good. You guys are doing great.
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Look at, look at the condition of David described here by I
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thoughtful, while he is weary and discouraged.
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Very good, last one. Yes.
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Oh, you guys are doing so well. He promises Absalom that if all
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goes through with his plan, there will be peace among the
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men as a result. Very good.
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You guys are excellent students of God's word.
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Let's notice the first thing here notice first.
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The amount of times that Absalom says, I will strongly suggesting
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that he wants to be the one to lead the attack on David.
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So he says, let me choose, then he goes on.
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I say I will, I will, I will, I will, there's no mention of you
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will. There's a mention of we will
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He's hopeful wants to take on this campaign himself and it's
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because I thought was motivated by personal interest and that
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personal interest as you know, is stimulated by lodging
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bitterness. There should be no doubt in our
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minds. That the reason why this plot is
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proposed is because I, he filfil wants to satisfy the thirst of
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Vengeance because of what David did to his granddaughter
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Bathsheba, let me have David myself.
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So, we should not believe for a second.
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That the reason why I thoughtful is standing in the presence of
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Absalom is because he's somewhat convinced that Absalom is the
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legitimate King appointed to be the ruler of the people of God,
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in fact, by virtue of a slip-up, we actually have evidence of
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what a heath offal really believe that about this whole
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predicament about this whole Feud about this whole conflict
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that anybody Catch it. Let's look back again here, and
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verse 2 at the end. He says, at the end of verse 2,
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I will strike down Only The Who The king.
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Hold on. I thought, I thought Absalom was
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the king, isn't that? Why you are where you are?
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No, he refers to David as the king.
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Goes to show what he really believed about who the true king
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was. And it's it's sad to see that
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even though he knew the truth, he was still willing to side
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with Rebellion. He was still willing to side
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with falsehood and I believe here, we have a little glimpse,
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a little insight of who it is and why it is some people are
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deceived and embrace wickedness. There is a great amount of
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people who are deceived because they are naive.
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And there are others who are willing to walk in deception,
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not because they're concerned about what's true, what's not
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true, but because whatever system of belief, they are
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ascribing to will ultimately gratify the flesh.
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This will satisfy my Personal Agenda, my personal interest, my
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personal itch, And so they give themselves over to something,
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just like, I hate filfil again. Not because they care about
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what's right or what's wrong, but because they're motivated by
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self-interest. you know, I've talked to many atheists
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throughout my walk with the Lord, and I've come to this
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conclusion, that most atheists, if not almost all of them except
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for a few Most atheists are atheist not because of the
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evidence supposed evidence but because of the implications of
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what it means to admit that there is a God who has a moral
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standard. That's why they're atheist
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because to ascribe to an idea that there is a God who has
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objectively provided Truth For Humanity, demands accountability
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and I don't want accountability. I want my sin.
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So don't be duped by all the smoke screen of scientific
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evidence and all the other things that they try to persuade
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people with. It's fascinating to me how most
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of these people are very angry at something that doesn't exist.
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It's amazing how when you when you even when you push on the,
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the real reason why it is that they don't want to even
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entertain the possibility of a god being true.
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It comes down to this. I want to be the god of my own
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life. I want to be the master of my
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own fate. I'm telling you there's probably
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only a handful of people that I've encountered with that were
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in that place of unbelief because they just needed some
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questions answered. You can answer as many questions
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for so many and they would still not be satisfied because
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ultimately they want to satisfy themselves, not please God.
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I thoughtful presents that as an example.
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Here he is driven by bitterness and he wants to satisfy that
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bitterness and to him. It didn't matter of David was
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the true king or not David was the object of his desire.
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And you know, what Paul says something about those who are
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walking as enemies of Christ. He says that there are, there
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are people who are walking as enemies of the Cross of Christ.
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Why? Because in Philippians 3, 19,
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their God is their belly. And their minds are set on
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Earthly things. Right.
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And that is why for some no matter how much truth you give
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them, no matter how many answers you give them no matter how much
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evidence you provide for them. They will not change.
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They will not budge because ultimately they are anchored.
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In one thing I want to please myself and not please this God
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that you're proposing to me. There's a second thing in some
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of you have mentioned that we can't move forward here without
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acknowledging something that you and I have learned in the past
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few studies. At this point of David's life,
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look at the description of David.
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Again, I thoughtful wanted to attack him at this point because
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he knew that David was weary. He knew that he was Couraged.
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And remember, when Zeba and shammai approach David in the
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wilderness, we concluded those very two things about David when
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he was deceived by ziba and slandered, by shammai, right
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that he was emotionally dejected and he was physically depleted.
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And we know obviously see here, that that's confirmed by, I feel
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foes human wisdom and he realizes this is the time.
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Now to overtake him, this is the time not to come after him and
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Satan is no. Friends.
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Just to reinforce some of the you and I learn about that.
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Satan is no different. He looks for an opportune time.
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He considers the whole man, you are, you are Spirit, soul and
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body, right? And what we do with this body,
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can affect what happens to our soul.
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And so the enemy considers the whole man and he evaluates when
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and how to come and to pounce, right?
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And if it's true, that discouragement is one of his
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sweetest opportunities for him. If it's one of the the footholds
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He uses and enjoys the most, then we have some insight of how
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to do Warfare. We have some insight of know how
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to Shield ourselves against his tactics and to help our brothers
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and sisters out in Christ. And here's the one thing I want
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to drive into your heart, encourage one another often
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often. Guys, there's enough garbage out
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there, there's enough discouragement out there in the
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world, right? Let the house of God be a
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charging station of Hope. Let that be what we should
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expect when we come into this place.
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So just lay off on the drama, we have enough at work.
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Some people here are not and Christian households.
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They have enough drama at home. We see enough of it, on our
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YouTube headlines and all the things that pop up on our
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phones, it's all out. There may this place be an oasis
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and what that will require my brother and my sister is for you
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to be filled with God's word so that your counsel and your
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encouragement can be laced with the promises of God, because
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there's no greater encouragement than that.
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And at the same time, it will also require us to reveal our
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wounds from from time to time and to expose ourselves to
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others so that we can receive the sweet counsel of a friend.
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Scripture says that he who isolates himself, what is he
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doing? He's escaping all sound
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judgment. There is an importance in
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community, as you're going to see here, there's importance of
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coming together and if Satan feeds off of discouragement, and
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let's give them nothing to work with.
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Right. And one of the ways in which we
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can do that is by pouring out such a small thing to do, right?
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It's such a small thing but it holds Dynamite power.
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It can, it can blow away anxiety, Blow Away fear Blow
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Away concern. And just a few words, the
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ministry of encouragement. Well you may not be a preacher.
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May not be a prophet. You may not be an evangelist.
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You may not be a musician, but everybody here can encourage.
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All right? I evil said he's discouraged.
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Let's come now, let's throw him into a panic before he finds
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strength and hope. All the enemy is no different,
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please remember that. And please remember, when you
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are discouraged to escape That place that state as quickly as
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possible. Find a way to encourage yourself
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in the Lord call a brother, call, the sister call a leader,
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open your heart, pray with someone and you will know
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lasting protection against the the schemes of Satan.
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Lastly, another thing. Look at how he thoughtful
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mentions, as we heard from our sister, a promise.
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If everything goes well, according to his plan and the
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promise was this, all the people at the end of verse 3 will be at
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peace. Temptation, always promises us.
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Some level of reward for our compliance with sin always
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whether that's advancement and promotion, whether that's
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lasting gratification, whether that's a peace of mind, whether
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that's material gain or escape from trouble, whenever there is
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premeditated Disobedience. It is always accompanied with
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false promises always, And idea here is to see past through
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that. I mean who would have thought
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that the death of a righteous man of a faithful leader would
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promote Tranquility in society. Yeah best of false peace among
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the wicked but not the true and Lasting peace that comes from
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reflecting God's justice and his law.
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So remember that when Temptation comes your way and you meditate
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on it, the reward that's attached to.
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It is just as much of a lie as the Temptation itself.
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Don't forget that. In verse 4, we read and the
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advice seemed right in the eyes of Absalom and all the Elders of
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Israel. What we expected that, why did
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we expect that? Because we know how chapter 16
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ended in the last verse of chapter 16, we are told we were
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given a commentary about a, he fulfills Council.
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It was Godlike. It was highly esteemed.
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It was sought after it was trusted.
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And so to see this response to this proposal as no shock to us
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but what is a shock is verse 5. Then Absalom said call who shy
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the our kite also and let us hear what he has to say.
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Why you guys already made a unanimous decision?
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It's already settled, it's right.
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That seems good and yet all of a sudden we see that there's this
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inspiration and in the man's heart to seek a second opinion
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from who shy and so he summons him now humanly speaking.
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This doesn't make sense, it doesn't?
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You have the best counselor, the top guy who gave some every, all
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the elders are nodding their head, they all give of their
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thumbs up and in something in Absalom says, well it doesn't
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hurt to hear another perspective so fetch for who shy humanly
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speaking. It doesn't make sense but when
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you put God in the equation it really does make sense.
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Did we forget the prayer that David prayed while he was in the
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wilderness? And when he learned that I
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thoughtful joined forces with Absalom, what was this summation
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of his prayer? Was a very short prayer, Lord,
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turn the wisdom of. I feel fun to what foolishness,
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if you want to reference for that second Samuel 15:31 when
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David learned what happened with a heath offal, His reflex was a
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cry, and he sighed a supplication to heaven.
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And he said, oh Lord, please turn the counsel of ahithophel
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into foolishness. And what you're seeing here in
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verse 6, of chapter 17 is God answering that prayer.
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God is fulfilling what David requested.
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And here's the point that I want to make upon meditation prayer.
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Does the unexplainable really does prayer is a force that you
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cannot imagine, but you have every right to utilize if you
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understand what it can do to some degree.
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If you just believe God's word about prayer can do prayer
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prayer. Can touch the most unlikely
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heart. Prayer can reach and arrive,
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where no, man, can go, right? Prayer can intervene in the most
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classified political conferences.
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Prayer. Can also direct the future of
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Nations and prayer. I love this point about prayer
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prayer, out lives, the lives of those who prayed them.
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Prayer is powerful. I wonder if that is what the
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Holy Spirit intended to teach us at this moment to connect what
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David prayed to Chapters earlier to this moment.
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Seeing the Fulfillment of it for you to realize at least one
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thing that a man broken and shattered, wandering in the
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wilderness. Praying can affect the plans and
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the counsel of wicked men in high places.
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Yeah, that's Old Testament. God answered prayer differently
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than why did James use an Old Testament figure to encourage
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New Testament Christians. Elijah was a man with a nature
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like ours and when he prayed something happened to Nature
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itself, I mean if if you're telling us that we're in the new
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dispensation, and God answers prayer differently, don't use.
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Elijah of all examples to inspire Christians to pray.
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A man who was also a prophet who entered into palaces and
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courtrooms and who saw God do Mighty things when he prayed and
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you and I are encouraged to do the same.
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Another thing about prayer is that God remembered David's
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prayer You might have forgotten that he prayed that prayer in
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chapter 15, but God did not forget so much has happened.
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So many updates between 15 and 17.
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And yet, we know that God heard that cry held onto it and at the
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perfect time answered it. God remembers When you pray, God
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holds onto you. You might have forgotten that
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you've prayed something God. Didn't?
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This is how faithful the Lord is and he does it for his glory.
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Prayer has power. God remembers prayer.
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Can I ask you a question? How many times?
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Did Abraham rescued. Lot from Sodom.
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How many times? Good twice.
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The first time. How did it happen?
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Well, this is when initially lot decide to move into Sodom bad
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move, bad move, chapter 13, chapter 14.
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There's a war that breaks out between five Kings and for
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kings, and who's caught up in the conflict lot.
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Because Sodom was one of those kingdoms apps.
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Rather Abraham is Uncle heard about it and he recruits 318
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trained men and they go into the camp and they rescue lines,
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right? By the strength of the arm God
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did help them. It was a miraculous thing for
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318, men to come into an army to bring out lat.
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It's wonderful. It's a great testimony.
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But what was the second time? Genesis, 19.
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The Lord and to Angels visits Abraham in Genesis 18 and
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Abraham receives Revelation about what's going to come to
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Sodom and Gomorrah. So what does he do?
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Did he get 318 men again as you get the sword as you get
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Javelin? What does he do?
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He prays He stands before the presence of God and he
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intercedes on behalf of his nephew lot.
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And we were told there after lot is rescued at the end of Genesis
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19 and the Lord remembered Abraham The Lord remembered
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Abraham, I love that Peril. I love how God gave us two
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stories of lot being rescued. The first one was with the
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sword, the first one was with weapons and men and strength,
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right? Flesh.
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It's not - it's just a different tactic.
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And yet when that same man needed to rescue the same end,
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he relies on prayer and it was just as effective as an army.
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It was just as effective as Weapons, it was just as
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effective as a strategy to go in physically to come out, prayer
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went and prayer did what we often think, only our ideas and
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our abilities can do does more than that.
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Pray. Pray often, I'm going to end
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this Bible study in a certain way.
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I'm going to ask you by faith to actually pray about something
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before you leave this place because we're not here to just
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acquire information, we want to respond to the truth that we
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receive pray. How much do you pray?
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How much do you believe in prayer?
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How much do you believe prayer can do all be reminded today,
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that you can even sigh a prayer, you can be distracted and yet in
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a little Mustard Seed Faith, utter a prayer, God will hear it
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and you can change the heart of Kings.
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So they called for who shine and who shy comes, and look at verse
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7 and Housh, I said to Absalom. Let's read verse six and one who
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shot came to Absalom. Absalom set to him.
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Thus has I fofa spoken, shall we do as?
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He says, if not, if not you speak.
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Very direct. If I was hoosh, I personally I
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would be intimidated. Why would he shy be intimidated,
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any idea? Okay, so you already had a
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consensus. Everybody agreed with what I
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feel for have to say. Yes that is part of it.
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Let's add to that when a Absalom came into Jerusalem and he was
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met by who shies long live the king long live.
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The king was Absalom suspicious, he was suspicious.
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It's like this is how you treat your friend?
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Is this your loyalty to your friend?
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And who shy cleverly presented? His apparent shift of loyalty
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without being too detailed. So some suspicions subsided and
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here's the here's the Dilemma, not only do you have the popular
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vote? If you have who shy now standing
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against the Council of IE thoughtful, he might revive
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those initial intuitions that Absalom had him put himself in
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danger. This is a critical point for his
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shy. This is actually a dangerous
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place for his shy. The danger is that in this
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moment, depending on how he answers can expose himself and
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put himself a great harm, but there's another danger.
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The danger is this to miss out on a golden opportunity to make
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a difference for why he originally was sent to this
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place. A very unique instance, a very
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unique moment but the principle can be applied to Believers and
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what they should expect in their pilgrimage believer.
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There will be times if you're a Really loves the gospel and
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wants to be used by the Lord. There will be times where you'll
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be put in situations in which you will have the opportunity to
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speak up and it might cost you something to speak up.
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There will be times where you have the opportunity and you
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might be the only source. The only voice of reason to
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oppose evil. And to propose God's view, God's
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will God's truth on a matter, whether it's controversial or
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not. And in those decisions, you have
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to make a choice before you make that choice.
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And that choice is, am I willing to do this no matter what?
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It cost me now we've all been in those different situations.
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I'm sure in the past if you walk with the Lord long enough, even
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in the early phases of walking, with the Lord, you felt the
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pressure to remain quiet. While there is falsehood being
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presented or blasphemy being uttered.
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Whether that's at work, whether that's in the classroom, whether
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that's at the family gatherings. We've all felt the intimidation
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to just remain quiet and let it pass by.
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Although you know that you must say something.
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Can I can I give you a word of encouragement to help you
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overcome those hurdles of your visited by them again, right.
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Ask yourself this one simple question.
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It's very simple. And and train yourself to ask
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this question. When you walk into the places
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that God has placed you, Why am I really here?
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It's not deep but it's really helpful.
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What is this? All really about?
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Why did God in his Providence? Put me here with this
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opportunity for this season, at this time, what is it?
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Is it like who shine who shine was sent by the king to go there
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with a specific Duty? Do I have the Heavenly Mandate
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of the Gospel in the Forefront of my thinking, or are my goals
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and our, my Pursuits muddied with temporal causes and
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rewards. See oftentimes, they're the
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obstacles and the hurdles to our witness have to do with things
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tied to to the stuff under the sun reputation preservation.
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Promotion. And this is a very important
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word of advice here and exhortation.
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We're now, we're seeing companies asking you to use
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certain pronouns certain titles for things that are obviously,
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in blatantly a violation of God's word.
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So be encouraged by this, right? Ask yourself this.
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What am I really doing? What is this really all about?
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And if you're Christian, you can answer that easily.
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I'm an ambassador. I am a representative of the
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Lord Jesus Christ. And my purpose in life is not to
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be prettier, not to be more in shape, not having more
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comfortable retirement not to make as many friends as
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possible. Not to be successful person.
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It is to preach the gospel, that's your goal in life.
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No matter what you do, what your gifts are that is ultimately the
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reason why you're here. And if you can convince yourself
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of that over and over, I'm telling you it will energize a
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holy boldness. Because if that's your purpose,
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then it doesn't matter what happens here, doesn't matter
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what happens to you, it doesn't ultimately affect why you're
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here and where you're going, so let that strengthen you.
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Well I might lose my job, okay? He's going to take care of you.
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Well, I might lose this person might make things awkward.
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That's fine. What's going to be more?
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Awkward is if that person knew that you knew the truth and you
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didn't tell them and it costs them their Eternal Soul.
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That's more Awkward trust me. At the same time I get it.
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There are some people who hear this kind of message and they
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feel it guilt. And they feel this this sense
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that I gotta touch every passing person.
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And I got a minister to at least one, two, three people a day.
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That's not the case. They're still called to wisdom.
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And who shine here is is going to implement wisdom in his
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approach. I'm not saying go wild and be
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crazy and just stand on cars, and yell, and stand in the bus
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and just shout at people and stand in the office at lunch
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break and don't do that please. At the same time, don't Let the
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threats or the intimidations of this world silence, you?
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This is going to this could potentially cause who shies
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life. But why is he shy even here?
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To begin with because King David said, go back.
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I need you there. And I need you to represent me.
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I need you to help me just remind yourself of that when you
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wake up and you get into your car and you grab your coffee and
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you go to work. Lord, help me.
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Remember, it's more than a paycheck, it's more than a
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paycheck. God will help you will give you
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wisdom and so this is what happens.
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He's about to speak up and he realizes, this is an opportunity
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that I might not have. Again, this is a vital
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opportunity because of a, he fulfills advice has received
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David? Might be finished verse 7.
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That who should I set the Absalom this time?
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The So, that I fell for has given is not good.
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Very wise men. Why do you think this is wise?
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Because he's not altogether discrediting?
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He thoughtful, he's saying this time.
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It's not good. I like who shine.
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He says this time, it's not good and then we read here in verse
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8. He shy said, you know, that your
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father and his men are Mighty Men and that they are enraged
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like a bear robbed of her Cubs in the field.
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Besides, your father is expert in war.
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He will not spend the night with the people behold.
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Even now he has hidden himself and one of the pits or In some
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other place. And as soon as some of the
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people fall at the first attack, whoever hears it will say there
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has been a Slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.
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What we see here is something very, very interesting.
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The first thing that he says, is you look at verse 8, is that he
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reminds Absalom That the task ahead is not as simple as a
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heath opal made it to be right? This is more difficult and this
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is more challenging than what you may think it is.
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And he says a few things about his father, your father is a
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mighty man, and he has mighty men with him.
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He's an expert in war and they are mad.
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They've been driven from their home, they've been driven from
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their their families, their friends, their positions, the
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Comforts their livelihood, they are not at the best place right
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now. They are extra motivated to deal
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with us. And so, he encourages Absalom to
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plan carefully, he encourages Absalom more than that, to
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really count the cost of what he is about to do.
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And the tactic here. The strategy here though who
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shies motive is different has been used by the Lord.
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Jesus Jesus. Also in his call to
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discipleship. Encouraged and charge people to
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sit down and think before they actually Endeavor to commit
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themselves to his cause, and he actually uses two illustrations,
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very short Parables side-by-side to communicate to illustrate.
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What it is that he requires of his hearers before they actually
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make any type of confession. What are those two
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illustrations? Do, you know what I'm speaking
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about? While you're thinking about it,
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turn to Luke 14 there. The answer will be in verse 28.
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But if you know before, then what are the two Parables?
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That Jesus is use that Jesus used in order to communicate,
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the need to contemplate before committing to his cause anybody
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have an idea. Okay, you're that's another one,
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right? He uses that when it when it
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came to Luke chapter 9 and several different people came up
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saying, I want to follow you and one said, you know, I really
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want to do this and he's like, you don't understand what you're
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getting yourself into in terms of comfort and Leisure.
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The other one says, I want to bury my father, he told another
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one, follow me and there's all these excuses and delays but
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it's not. That's not what I'm referring
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to. There's another two sets of
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Parables a little lengthier than that that Jesus uses while
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you're there. So you know it, look at verse
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28. Eight.
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Of Luke 14 for which of you Desiring to build the Tower.
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There's not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has
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enough to complete it, otherwise when he has laid a foundation
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and is not able to finish all, who see it.
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Begin to mock him saying, this man began to build and was not
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able to finish. Then in verse 31 or what?
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King going up to encounter another king and War will not
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sit down first. And the deliberate, whether he
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is able with ten thousand to meet him, who comes against him
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with Tony thousand. And if not, while the other is
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yet a great way off, he sends a delegation asks for terms of
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peace to parables. They both have something in
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common their different ideas, but they share something in
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common and Jesus actually reveals it.
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What is it? What are they both share in
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common the Builder and the King they both have to sit down
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there. Both expected to sit down and
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count both of them. Sit down.
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And meditate reflect evaluate what it is that you're really
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going to do often times and modern gospel presentations.
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We get people to reach the heat of emotion.
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We put, we make things happen. So that there is, there is more
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heart than there is head, and then we call for people to make
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a decision. When they don't really realize
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what they're getting themselves into urgency is undeniable with
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the gospel. But urgency with
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self-reflection, urgency with self-evaluation, urgency with
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thoughtfulness urgency with Clarity, on the part of the
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messenger to remind you to tell you to inform you.
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What it is, it means to follow Jesus and for that person to
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really contemplate their life and what they're willing to do
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with this message and though they share the parable share,
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The economy, there's two differences, the Builder.
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Had to think about whether or not they can afford to commence
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this project. Can I really give what it takes
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for me to do this very thing? Am I willing to make the
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expenses necessary to go full force with this thing?
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Whereas the King has a different way of thinking, the King on the
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other hand, is not necessarily counting what it might cost him
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to move forward. The king is contemplating,
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whether or not he should resist or make terms of peace with
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opposing Force. So the king had to think I have
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10,000 this king who wants to come against me, has 20,000,
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will I go to war or will I submit to his demands?
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And so what you have here is really a complete picture of
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contemplation at first. We ought to always think At
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least. Initially, am I willing to go
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full force with this? Am I willing to give everything
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that I have? Whatever is required of me to
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fulfill my call to discipleship, but the second presentation, the
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second Parable is a different process.
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Its this. Am I willing to resist this king
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or make terms of peace with him? What I mean by that is the first
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idea presents us. The cost of following Jesus
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because there is a cost of following him, right?
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This second, one has a different emphasis the cost of not
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following him. Do I think that I can overpower
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overthrow reject stand as an enemy to this coming King and
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think I can succeed or will I bow the knee and surrender
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before it's too late there is a cost to following Christ.
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There's a greater cost of not following you.
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And the person who hears, the gospel should think about both
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paths and they're willing to pay the price to follow Lord or I
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willing to pay the price to resist him and reject him have
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my way. And Jesus.
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Plain description, your shows that that's a, that's a failing
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idea because this King has 20,000, you have ten, you will
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not be able to overcome, he will be king, he will be Lord, you'll
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receive worship whether you give it to him or not.
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I thoughtful. Didn't present that kind of
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argument who shy does. And he says absent realize what
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you're up against and really think about it and plan
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accordingly and then he goes into verse 9, you heard it.
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He makes a different emphasis. He reminds Absalom now of the
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planned counter-attack that is prepared by David and his men
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because they are experienced Warriors and have Absalom is not
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ready. The men that will be sent out
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with a he Pho. Pho will be taken by surprise
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and they will have consequences for the morale of the rest of
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the people who are on his side. And so who shy is reminding
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Absalom What you and I need to be mindful of concerning our
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foe, right? The principal is alive and well
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for us though, this is specific to a context.
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The principal's still applicable.
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We have an enemy, we have a foe and he's not inexperienced, he's
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not inexperienced and listen, he is not unprepared to come
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against the people of God from different angles.
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And I'm afraid. That people who believe in
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spiritual warfare because the scriptural thing.
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Don't understand. The mechanics of spiritual
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warfare, it happens all the time.
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Paul says we do not wrestle against flesh and blood and
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that's where many Christians fail already.
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Because when they experience certain trials or persecution or
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irritation from fellow professing Christians, what do
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they do? They fight against flesh and
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blood? You already.
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You're already lost at the ABCs of spiritual warfare.
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If you can't see past the understanding that we don't
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wrestle against people, we wrestle against cosmic, power,
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spiritual forces, principalities in high places.
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If you can't get that, that's the ABCs.
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And there's more to that. And here's what Paul says.
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And, you know, this very well, he tells the Corinthian Church
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in 2nd Corinthians 2 and he says, in verse 11 so that we
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would not be outwitted by Satan. So that we would not be
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outwitted by Satan. Why?
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For we are not ignorant of his designs.
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So, Paul expected Christians, not just pastors, not Apostles,
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not prophets. Christians, who go to work?
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Who make a living and humble ways.
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You are not ignorant of Satan's designs, right?
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Corinthian Christians. Okay, what was the context in
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which Paul said that, anybody know.
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Why did Paul say that at this point in 2nd Corinthians chapter
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2? Let me remind you second
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Corinthians chapter 2. This is his second letter to the
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Corinthians. There was a man that was
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excommunicated from the church. The very same church that he
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wrote In First Corinthians, he was excommunicated from the
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church because of unrepented said, because of a gross sexual
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violation, he was he was having affairs with his father's wife
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and the people did not care. They tolerated it and Paul says,
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get them out. Get him out, which is important
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because for those who believe that Christians can be possessed
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and that it's the spirit of lust that comes over you called and
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said, I'm going to cast that demon that Spirit of lust out of
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that man. He says no he needs Church to
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this, play needs to go, just throw that out there.
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Forever might be watching. And so this man.
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Ends up leaving the congregation, right?
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The people were obedient to Paul's Authority, but in second
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Corinthians chapter 2, you learn something.
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You learn that the same man repents And the same man is
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broken over his sin and he's seeking forgiveness.
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He's seeking reconciliation with a very same church.
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That was faithful and confronting his sin, and Paul is
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urging them. Forgive him.
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Paul is urging them, please restore him reassure him of your
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love for him, and then he throws in that verse 4.
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We are what we should not be outwitted by saying for we are
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not ignorant of his designs. I want you to think about how
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conniving the devil is when the people were willing to let the
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man remain in his sin, Satan had Victory to some degree.
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Satan would have enjoyed destroying that congregation by
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allowing A little leaven to leaven the whole lump, right?
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And once the people stepped in obedience and dealt with that
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person's sin, Satan was right there to ensure that they would
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not continue in obedience and what sense when this man
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repented. The enemy who was willing to
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allow this man to justify his sin and was pleased to see this
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church justify. His sin is now ready to convince
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them. Not to forgive this man for his
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sin. And to withhold mercy and
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restoration from this. Very same man. so, his schemes
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Were right there, every step of the way.
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When the sin was tolerated in some way, he was there.
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When the scene was repented of and this man was broken over his
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sin, he was right there to make sure that this man would not
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know the Forgiveness of Christ through the people of God.
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He's very, very conniving and his schemes were not just
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hovering over this local church. They're equally at work in this
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individual. what I mean by that again, when he was living in his
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sin, that's a wonderful victory for the enemy.
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That's just one other person who's failing in his testimony
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for Jesus Christ. Satan.
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Applauded at Satan. Love this Satan.
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Encouraged it. And the same man, who overcame
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And repented, we read here that the enemy was seeking to crush
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him, not by his sin, but by his remorse, for his sin, excessive
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sorrow and despair. Do you see how he's so
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conniving? And he's so present.
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And he always seeks an opportunity to wedge himself in
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whether that is with the Toleration of sin.
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Or being merciless regarding people sin.
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So we need the wisdom of the Holy Spirit, we need a
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sensitivity to the word of God. And, you know, I was meditating
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on this this afternoon and I thought to myself there's
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there's so many profound truths that just shoot forth from that,
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from that tax and that truth. And here's one of them how
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essential the local churches for us as individuals.
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Think about this for a second, the local church was used by God
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to confront this man sinned. And the local church was also
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used by God to comfort. This man regarding his sin, you
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can't do all that. You think you can do without the
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people of God, you're a fool. If you think so.
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This man teaches me that God uses the local church to not
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only promote Holiness but to promote the loving kindness of
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God, that is how God expresses this to us, as individuals
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through the members of his body. And this man would know that he
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would know the loving rebuke of God's truth to the people who
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uphold the truth. But he would also know the balm
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of healing from the very same people, when this man learned
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his lesson, turn from his wrong and fell into their arms, it's
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the church, the local church. A healthy God-fearing wise
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church is so necessary. For each of us, never forget
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that. Never forget that.
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There are many people who want to make many decisions about
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their life moving here. Taking a job there.
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Can I ask you something in your decision process and you're
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thinking is there any place or what priority does the local
47:35
church have in your life? I'm so encouraged, when I meet
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people that say, We feel like God is calling us here.
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And, and then, in the very same breath, there's a local church,
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that preaches God's word Faithfully, that has godly
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people who want to imitate him and we're so excited to be part
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of that Community. Like that's how Christians
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think. We don't go places and move
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places and do things for for just the same reasons that the
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Gentiles do. That's not how we operate,
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right? Nothing just throwing out there.
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So, what happens? We see that t reminds him of the
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strategies of David and we also have to be mindful the
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strategies of the evil one. Now, let's come here.
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We're closing very soon. In verse 11 of second Samuel 17,
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it says, but my counsel is that all Israel be gathered to you
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from Dan to Beersheba as the Sand by the sea from multitude
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and that you go to battle in person.
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So we shall come upon him and someplace where he is to be
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found and we shall light upon him as do falls on the ground
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and of him and all the men with him.
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No one will be left. Okay?
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This is where we see a strong contrast between the counsel of
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ahithophel and the Council of who shy.
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What stands out to you in the concluding remarks of this, man.
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How many men did hoosh? I?
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Advise, I thoughtful or Absalom to take the whole nation.
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Take them all from Dan to Beersheba.
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Don't just take 12,000. Take as many as you can.
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So absalom's hearing something different Absalom is hearing.
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Yeah the more the merrier, the more number the greater our
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strength. The more number, the more
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intimidating will be to my father and his mighty men.
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And who shies mine? What is he thinking?
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Let's buy some more time. It's going to require much more
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time for you to gather all these men from the different tribes of
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Israel. And that's precisely what he is
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doing. He wants David and his men to be
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better prepared for what is inevitable and that is an attack
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from Absalom. Delay.
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In this sense is good, it's good for David, but delay can be
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deadly depending on what we hold off on.
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Apart from salvation, there are many things that the Lord Jesus
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calls us not to wait on there. Are many instructions to wait
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upon the Lord. There are many things that you
50:14
don't need to pray about. You just don't you saying, what
50:18
do you mean by that? Well, there's some things that
50:20
are so clear in the scripture that the pray about it would
50:22
just to hinder you from doing what, you know, you're supposed
50:24
to do. Here's one thing you're supposed
50:25
to do when there is anger, when there's animosity, when there's
50:29
potential Strife, when there's tension with a brother or
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sister, what are you supposed to do?
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Matthew 5, 25 says. To meet with your accuser and to
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settle with them quickly. Matthew 525, quickly settle the
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matter with your accuser quickly.
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And so there is emergency protocol in some regards right
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or else like we just heard we give we give footholds to the
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enemy. And so we should be equally
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mindful of the things that call for us to rush into and things
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that we should wait on God for. And so this concept of delay is
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important for us, it was important for David.
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It's important for us in different ways and concerning
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our Warfare and unfortunately, some Believers don't realize
51:12
that and they don't understand that their delay in certain
51:14
areas, can actually empower the enemy more and more as each day
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goes by, but there's a second thing.
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What else stands out to you from who shies concluding remarks?
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In comparison to Eiffel. We all very good.
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What was I thoughtful saying over and over again?
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Let me choose 12,000 men and I will, I will, I will, I will now
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shy comes and he does say we but he does something else.
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I want you to look here at the end of verse 11, he says you go
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to battle in person. I've always said I'll do it.
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I'll be more than willing to do it when he's shy comes.
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Oh, you shy. Hey absolutely gather all the
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men but don't let those men go without you lead that great
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Army, make your presence known go in there and show yourself.
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Let there be no confusion about who is going to receive credit
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for this Victory would be shy is doing is appealing to absalom's
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Pride. He's seeking to further inflate
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his ego and he knows that Absalom is a man who cannot
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refuse the opportunity of potential vainglory, right.
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And so Absalom is getting excited.
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He likes this because again, it just feeds his own Pride, it
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feeds his own self-esteem, and he's willing to he's willing to
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do this. And he does comply, he does
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agree with it. And we look here at verse 14,
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and we read and Absalom and all the men of Israel said, the
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Council of who shy the, our kite is better than the Council of a
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heath offal. And it's not because of anything
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other than what we read following that for the Lord had
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ordained to defeat the Good Counsel that he thoughtful.
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This was a decree by God. Was it an arbitrary decree?
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No. God didn't just decree this
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randomly God, decreed this because God has a law.
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There are many things in his law that applied to this day and one
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of the things in his law is this that he exalts the humble and he
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brings down the proud. In fact, James says that he
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opposes the proud that were deposed in.
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The Greek is a military term. Meaning God will actually raise
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up a rank against the person who harbors and holds onto his
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pride. That that to me is one of the
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most frightening verses in the New Testament.
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You know why? Because I already have the devil
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fighting against me. I have Satan fighting against me
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and you, I have the flesh, I have this world.
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The last thing I need to fight against me as God.
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Right. I needed to be on my side and I
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want to be on his side. And the one thing that will
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cause God to oppose a man is when he is proud.
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And so because of absalom's Pride God had determined his
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destruction. And he's actually going to use
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the very Pride that he hates to destroy.
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Absolutely. For the Lord, had ordained to
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defeat the Good Counsel of a thoughtful.
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I look at this so that the Lord might bring harm upon
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absolutely. Remember the prayer that David
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prayed O Lord, turn the counsel of ahithophel into foolishness.
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Was in this long elaborate strategy that he asked of God,
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no is a simple prayer. And what I see here is that
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after praying that God was willing to answer, he's going to
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defeat the Good Counsel but there's something added to that
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so that the Lord might bring harm upon Absalom, David didn't
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pray for that. In fact, when you see that
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there's a war that will break down the neck, Chapter David
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wanted to preserve Absalom. Remember, he asked whatever you
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do, don't kill my son, remember that seems heartfelt, but the
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very mess that David is in is because when he should have
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implemented discipline, he didn't and Absalom cause of
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Revolt, right? So no matter how strong David's
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feelings were for his son. God knew what he needed.
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And what he needed was for his son to be removed from his life.
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David didn't pray that but God knew he needed that and when I
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want you to understand is that when you pray, God always does
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more than what you asked, that's what Ephesians tells us, right?
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That he is able to do abundantly more than we can ask or imagine.
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And so even with our limited view on things even even with
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our little faith that we got, even though we have a linear one
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dimensional perspective on matters.
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When we partner with God, he does and he performs more than
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we thought we needed or we knew we needed and we should trust
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them in those things. And so, I'm encouraged to see
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that that the Holy Spirit included that the Lord might
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bring harm upon Absalom. That wasn't part of the prayer,
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but that was a needed part of David's life.
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And the Lord knew how to provide exactly that.
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And so, I'm grateful that even in the New Testament were told
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that we don't know how we ought to pray.
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We don't know how we ought to pray, but the spirit of God,
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intercedes for us. You know what that means.
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It means this that when you pray and you don't have the right
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words or you don't know how to exactly pray about the
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situation. The Holy Spirit, takes your
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fragmented, even sometimes your ramblings, your incoherent cries
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and he perfectly presents it before.
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The throne of grace. And God perfectly answers.
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It all. He asked of you is that one
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simple step of faith. God, I need you.
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God, I don't know where to go from here.
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I don't know how to deal with this God.
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I think that the answer to this is this prayer.
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Would you would you do that? Sometimes God doesn't in his
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wisdom. Sometimes God does and often
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times he doesn't, he does more. He does more.
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Here's how I want us to end our time tonight.
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I want you in all sincerity in your heart.
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There's so much more in this, but we're going to pause to do
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something. That is, I think, important from
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time to time to respond immediately to what we learn
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Just in your heart whatever you're dealing with at this very
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moment, whatever it is that you're asking God for it could
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be, it could be anything. To believe in the power of
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Prayer. And you might be facing a
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situation where somebody's heart.
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Has no heartbeat. It's cold, as can be as dead as
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can be as confused as can be. And there's Absalom, right?
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He had no reason to ask for secondary Council and yet he
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did, There's Something inspired in his heart to reach out.
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Yes, it was for his discipline because he was unrepentant, but
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let's pray the way Abraham prayed, not for the destruction
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of those that we care for necessarily, but for their
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Redemption, their rescue, their deliverance, and God will
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remember your prayer, he will. So, in this, in this very
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moment, I'm going to ask you before we sing a song before
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anybody even comes up to the play.
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Jay. To believe a fresh in the power
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of intercession in supplication. Say God, I might be tired.
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It might be the end of a work week, but what I heard, I
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believe, and I want to present this to you and trust that you
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will remember this and that you will bring it to fruition.
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Can we do that? I'm going to join you.
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I'm going to put my microphone down.
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And I'm going to sit in that Pew and and do that very same thing.
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Come up here. And called for us to worship
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together. I grab the mic again
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intentionally this quickly. To encourage you that you can
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pray a short prayer 's and they are just as significant to God.
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Scripture says Rejoice always pray without ceasing give thanks
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in all circumstances for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus
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for you. Make it a habit to pray.
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Always as you walk as you drive, as you work with your hands as
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you type on your computer to remain in communication with
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your heavenly father, I'm going to ask the worship team to come
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in and help us lead us in a final song.
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And I want to encourage you to Worship the Lord Jesus tonight
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with many things that were said, but with the one Revelation that
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he remembers our prayers, he hears our cries, he is working.
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When we don't see him working, he is faithful to his word.
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Amen. Would you stand?
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Hello. We do pray together.
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Now thanking you for your goodness and we asked o God that
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you would be exalted. As we end this night in your
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presence with God's people, thanking you for the truths that
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were laced in this chapter and Lord we are reminded again of
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the powerful purpose of the local church in our lives that
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you have ordained for your people in line.
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Local assemblies. To push us into further
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Holiness. And to receive us.
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When we are broken or help us. Love your church, your bride,
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your people, a fresh. We glorify you.
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And we exalt thee, As we sing to you, in Jesus name, amen.
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To push us into further Holiness.
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And to receive us. When we are broken or help us.
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Love your church, your bride, your people, a fresh.
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We glorify you. And we exalt thee, As we sing to
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you, in Jesus name, amen.