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2 Samuel 12 (Part 2) Bible Study | Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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Second Samuel chapter 12, here's we're going to do.
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We just, we just prayed. I want us to pray again, and
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just submit every faculty to this moment and ask the Lord to
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really help you allow this word to reach your heart, and ask the
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Lord to help me bring it from my heart to you.
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Lord, we do. Thank you.
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We believe that you are here, that your spirit has been given
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to the church for many reasons. And one of those reasons is that
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there would be boldness and courage and clarity.
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Your word says that we each have the anointing residing within us
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to know what it is that you have to say to us me that anointing
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come into action as we come to the Sacred Scriptures.
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May there be power. May there be even a sense of
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precision in our own lives and its application.
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It may Lord you be glorified in the faithfulness of the
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Declaration and The Obedience of the application.
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This is our desire and Jesus name, amen?
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Who was here last week? Who's your not last week?
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Okay, if you were here last week, I'm just going to do this
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for the sake of remembrance and to remind ourselves that Nathan
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has been sent by God to approach David.
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He came to David with a parable with a story and we dissected
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that story to try to understand the method and the message
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behind it. And I trust that if you were
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here, if you listen from abroad, you benefited greatly from just
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the first few verses of this chapter.
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But now tonight we are transitioning from this story.
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This allegory to plain speech, Nathan is going to go from
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veiling, his message to unveiling the message, and it's
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going to be sharp. It's going to be strong, it's
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going to be confrontational. It's going to be clear and
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trusting that from last week to this week.
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We will believe that what we've gained from, then we will gain
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even more. Now, as we come To this text, we
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will not complete this chapter which is okay, but we will take
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our time to look at Nathan second.
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Message to David. That is tied into the very
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reason why he came to him in the first place.
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Now, before you and I read these verses before, we actually look
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at this text you and I have to also be reminded of the package,
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in which it was delivered him. Look back at verse 1.
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With me quickly, I want you to be reminded who was that sent
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Nathan, and the Lord sent Nathan to David, the Lord.
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The Lord sent Nathan. Nathan was not just Israel's
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profit, at least one of them. Nathan was a personal friend to
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David, And the fact that the Lord chose this instrument to
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approach David teaches us, something not just about Nathan
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but about God, God sends a friend.
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To David a close companion. And we know that David had
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Nathan and high esteem, because with one of the sun's that
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Nathan rather David will have with Bathsheba.
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He names him, Nathan. He's going to name one of his
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sons. After this Prophet, even up to
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the end of David's life, when he is on his deathbed, their Nathan
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is watching over him and assuring that things will be put
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into place before he departs into Glory.
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Why? So Nathan is a close friend to
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David and the Lord hand-picked Nathan to deliver the message.
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Why? Because the Lord wanted to
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approach David as a friend. The Lord is going to expose this
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men sin and a very scathing way, but the Lord did not come to
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David his servant as an enemy. He came as a trusted friend.
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And I think that is filled with instruction for us when
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especially for those who are passionate about the honor of
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Jesus Christ. Especially for those who are
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passionate about God's people, walking straight and walking,
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according to the will of God and and have no issue approaching
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somebody in correcting them or rebuking them.
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Are you going not just with the love for the truth?
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But for the love, for the person who's going to receive that
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truth. That makes all the difference
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because God, here shows that he comes to restore, didn't come to
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bring down, it doesn't come to eradicate, all hope it doesn't
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come to prove a point and to win an argument.
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He comes to win the Hart, he comes to win the person and if
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we would be instrument in the hands of God and restoring
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brothers and sisters back to the truth, then realized that the
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Lord looks for those who love people, not just Doctrine, not
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just the all G, not, not just being right and being pure in
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your beliefs, or in your conduct for that matter, but to love the
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person that you're giving the truth, too.
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There's much more that we can say in that, but we will
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continue because we don't have much time, but as we come to
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these verses, remember, the package in which it is going to
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be delivered in, remember the instrument that God chose to
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bring it through? And we are going to organize our
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thoughts in these next verses in three different categories.
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The first category is going to be the error before the sin, the
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error before the sin Nathan is going.
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To reveal an error that led to the downfall of David.
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That's the first category. The second category is going to
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be the ruling of the sin. God is going to pronounce
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judgment on David, and he is going to determine the verdict.
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And the reason for this judgment Lastly, the last category are
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the consequences after the sin. So we have the error before the
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sin, the ruling of the sin. And then we're going to look at
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the consequences that follow this sin.
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And so we look at the first category in verse 7.
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And what do we see, Nathan said to David?
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You are the man I don't know, there's a lot of instances in
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the scripture where I would like to be to see and witness.
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I don't think this is one of them, you can just imagine what
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happened to the atmosphere. In that moment when he comes
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with this nice little Sunday, school story of a sheep of a
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lamb of a rich man of a poor man and it stirs David and David is
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in the place of the judge as he is hearing this and then all for
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a sudden the tables turn The tables turn on David from being
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positioned as the arbitrator to now the perpetrator.
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And now he's removed from the judgement seat and now he stands
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before the Judgment seat. And he stands before a holy God,
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it all changed with these words. You are the man in the Hebrews.
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Only two words. But here we see, you are the man
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and Nathan doesn't take a break. He continues by saying thus says
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the Lord. The god of Israel.
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I anointed you King over Israel. And I delivered you out of the
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hand of Saul and I gave you your Masters house and your Masters
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wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of
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Judah. And if this were to little, I
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would add to you as much more. Those two verses are under the
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category of the air before this in, if you were here in second
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Samuel, 11. Where this all started when
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David was on the rooftop, you will remember that we dissected
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and examine the failures before the ultimate downward spiral
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there were things before that contributed to David's ultimate
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crash. One of those things was the
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failure to deal with passions early on in his life.
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This is not just something that appeared out of nowhere.
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It was something that was fed and nurtured over time.
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The failure to conquer idleness, the failure to take heed to
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God's warnings. All these different failures
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were cracks in the foundation of David's faith, and an ultimately
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crumbled when the temperature was just right.
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But when you, and I come to the words of Nathan here, we
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realized that there is yet another flaw that he surfaces
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something that we didn't see before, but now comes to our
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attention, it's another serious problem, prior to the undoing of
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this man. Now, as you look at those two
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verses and you just look at the summary of what is being said,
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what is the indicator, what can we pinpoint and seeing what was
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a problem in David's life before ultimately a manifest into the
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series of sin? And the idea What's the error
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that the Lord highlights? He had forgotten.
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God, yes. But more specifically Look What
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the Lord is saying to him. He could have said you have
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forgotten me. I gave you.
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Your Masters house I gave you your Masters wives.
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I made you King over Israel. I made you and I presided your
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over my people. You know what, I see here.
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David not only lost sight of God.
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David lost sight of the Lord's personal dealings in his life.
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What God had given him. What God had protected him from
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what God had provided him in essence.
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David had become over time unmindful and he'd become.
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Yes forgetful. But more importantly,
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ungrateful. for what the Lord had done in his life and this
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led to a character issue who would have ever thought, this is
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so important who would have ever thought that ingratitude would
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have led to adultery who would have ever imagined that this
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deficiency in so many people's spirituality that we don't see
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the danger of who would have ever thought that ingratitude
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would have led to infidelity And that is not an exaggeration.
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That is not a subjective interpretation of this.
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That is a scriptural. Testimony from cover to cover
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that there is serious spiritual trouble headed for the person
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who refuses or is negligent in the practice of giving God
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continual. Thanks. when you read that ugly
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description of humanity in Romans chapter 1, all the
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Warped, perversion all the Craziness and people's behavior
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and their sexuality, all these different perversions, all these
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different things, they all stem from Romans 1:21 people forget
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that, that, that a people forgot or refuse rather to give honor
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to God glory to God. And what else?
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Thanks to him. They refused to give, thanks to
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God and that was the Gateway for all these other things to come
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crashing in all these plagues all this idolatry and all this
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covetousness were allowed to come in.
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We're permitted to come in due to one failure among different
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failures but one key foundational issue.
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A refusal to acknowledge God. And so, what Thanksgiving does,
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you know what it does? It acknowledges God as The
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Sovereign provider, protector, positioner, Of everything in our
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lives. That's what it does and it
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causes us to joyfully admit and accept that everything you and I
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have has been granted by a good father who knows exactly what we
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need for our joy and ultimately his glory.
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That is what gratitude does, it's more than just shooting
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off, empty words just because it's the polite thing to do it.
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Gratitude is much more significant than making our
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children seem appreciative of things outside of themselves.
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No, it will keep you in line. It will keep God in the place,
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his rightful place in our affections and in our worship
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and in our understanding of the events that take place in our
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lives. And that is exactly what David
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is missing here. He did not keep before him, the
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goodness of God. Personally, not not even just
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objectively what he's done. Universally that's important.
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God was specific. And I believe, the reason that
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God was specific here is also to imply that we must be specific
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with our Thanksgiving, like, detailed with what it is, that
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we are so thankful for or else. It won't have the full effect
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that it desires to have. But something else happens here
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in verse and it's in the last part of what the Lord says
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before he continues, look at the last phrase and if this were to
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little, I would add to you as much more.
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As much more. So more than just saying, David,
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you were capable of doing this because you forgot how good I've
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been to you. You do not remember what it,
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what it is that I've done for you more than that.
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He says, here that you've also failed to realize that
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everything you need is in me. See, the thing that led Davidson
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was not just the ingratitude that ingratitude was step one.
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Step two was, I can find good outside of God.
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I can add value to my life, though.
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The value that is promised to me is contrary to the contract that
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I have with God. And it's as though, the Lord is
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saying David. If you if you really felt like
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you were lacking if you really felt like you were missing
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something, why didn't you come to me?
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Why didn't you come to me? Because here's the promise of
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God that when you do honestly come to him.
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Even with that sense of irritation and frustration and
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emptiness and loneliness. Whatever the case may be the
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Lord based on this and many other promises, the Lord assures
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us that he will provide exactly what we need to experience
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wholeness again. Exactly what we need.
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If that is not true of our God, then we're all doomed.
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I assure you that we will all have our heads stuck in empty,
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broken dirty, cisterns for the rest of our lives.
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If this is not truth, if satisfied.
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Us faction in. God is a theory and not an
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experience. Then go eat and drink and be
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merry, we're just we're playing pretend here.
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But God's not playing pretend. He looks at his servant through
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Nathan's eyes. And he says, why didn't you just
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come to me? Why didn't you just come to me?
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See, David for a moment believed that if I'm with Bathsheba
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something good will happen? I will know something that God
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could not offer, and that's precisely what James is
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referring to. In James 116.
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You don't have to turn there. Do not be deceived.
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My beloved Brothers for every good and perfect gift comes from
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above. Again, that's not only to teach
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that we are to give God all the glory for every good and perfect
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thing. That's also to convey that
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everything that you think is good and perfect will only come
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from above. You're not going to find it
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anywhere else, it's going to be sourced in God.
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It's going to be coming from God, it's going to be delivered
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by God and it's different. The the gifts are different, but
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the giver is the same. If you go to anybody else,
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especially for those who are against God, contrary to his
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will then you're just inviting trouble into your life.
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Now, it's worth mentioning as a side, note that some people have
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trouble with what the Lord had said to David.
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What is troubling in that verse in verse a what sticks out to
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you something like really Lord, you are the one behind that any
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idea. Yes, did you hear it?
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Lord, you gave David. The plurality of wives that he
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had. In fact, Muslims will use this
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against Christians to try to prove that our God accepts and
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even condones and even provides a multiplicity of romantic
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relationships. And this, this this would be
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harder to defend if the Lord isolated that statement and
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removed everything else, right? If he had said, why did you do
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this? I gave you multiple wives, then
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it's very difficult to see different interpretation other
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than you could have been satisfied with the roster of
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women you had in your Palace. Why did you go find somebody
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else's? And that's how even some
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Christians interpret this and they just appeal to mystery.
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I just I guess God, allow polygamy for a season and now he
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doesn't not True. Add to that, there's no sense of
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immediate judgment upon David or anybody else in this time for
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that matter, for their different relationships.
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And so now you're in some kind of a dilemma right?
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Not so read it carefully. I gave you your Masters house
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and your Masters wives. Here's how people read it and I
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gave you your Masters house and your wives.
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Did he say, why? Good, your Masters wives.
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Who was David's master? Saul Saul?
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See again, if you leave that part in isolation, you might
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have a case. But the fact that that statement
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is preceded and followed by other elements that focus in on
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what saw had and the transfer of Sol's possessions over to David
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on now, it makes sense. What the Lord is saying, is all
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that, Saul had his kingdom, his authority, his possessions
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everything. I gave it to you without your
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effort without out your dabbling without your intervention.
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I'm the one who gave you the authority that you're enjoying.
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The Graces the gifts, all these things, I'm giving it over to
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you. And so the relationship with
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these Masters wives is something that was common in that culture
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that when there is a succeeding king or a kingdom, you would
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even have the previous owner so to speak and who ever lived with
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him to be given over to the new king.
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And so these women were just accommodations to the Palace.
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There is no indication that David had any sexual relations
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or married any of Saul's woman, they were just there.
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They were just there occupying, something and David had
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responsibility over them. There is no such thing as David
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being given multiple wives, by a holy God, who had instituted,
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what marriage was from the beginning.
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That makes sense. Keep that.
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In mind when somebody tries to convince you of polygamy, for
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whatever strange reason. They are behind the sin.
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If you want to know ultimate protection, if you want to have
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a flood gate against Temptation and covetousness and all these
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ugly things be thankful always even when it's hard to be.
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I can assure you, if you are living in America, you can have
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a list of 100 things to be thankful for every single day.
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Does it matter how difficult things are?
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Give God that do and watch. I will happen to your heart
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failed to do that. And I'm going to tell you from
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this point on, it will get very very interesting in terms of
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what you will be attracted to In this life, they are behind this.
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And let's go to the second credit category, the ruling of
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the sin. Verse 9.
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Why have you despise the word of the Lord to do?
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What is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah.
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The hittite with the sword. And I've taken his wife to be
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your wife and have killed him with the sword of the ammonites.
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In these verses you and I will see how the Lord judges sin, how
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he judges. And we know, he judges sin but
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how does he judge sin? How did he determine someone's
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verdict? What does he look for?
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What kind of evidence is he constantly bringing before us?
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And that's important to know because man's Judgment of sin
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man's condemnation of wrong. And what he often Praises his
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skewed and Compares it to what God prizes.
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And what he, what he Does not approve of.
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And the the Lord being the judge of all the Earth.
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Calls us to understand what it is, exactly.
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He is judging And what using I see here in the first question
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is important, why have you despise the word of the Lord?
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Why have you despise the word of the Lord?
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The first thing that the Lord brings up in the ruling of this
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man's sin, is his attitude towards the word of God.
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Now, it is true. That David prove to despise the
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word of the Lord by breaking the law.
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That's obvious But can we not say that David already had this
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defiant attitude towards the word of God before?
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Even he committed the sin. It was premeditated.
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It's obvious that in his contemplation, he cancelled out,
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totally God's opinion on the matter.
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And so what led to this in was a Defiance of the word of God.
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It wasn't just proven after everything happened.
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The seed of it was there, it's the very thing that encouraged
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him to break God's law. And that's important for us to
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realize because the Lord did not criticize David and say you did
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not know the word of the Lord. He already proved earlier by
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referring to Exodus 22:1 that he knew the word of the Lord.
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If you stole the Sheep you got to give back for that's in the
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law. So he knew the word of the Lord,
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the issue here is the attitude. And that means for us, that the
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estimation of the written word of God will ultimately determine
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our submission to what it calls for our convictions around.
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This things will determine our conduct, it will not the
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knowledge of it, your conviction behind what you acquire, as
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knowledge that is what will be the driver's seat of where we go
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in our growth and godliness, or in the other direction.
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And one way to have a high view of the word of God, if you
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really want to see the word of God, for what it is and allowed
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the Brilliance of it to have an effect on your soul, then you
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got to see what it says of itself and then believe it, can
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I show you how in this case, David failed to see the word of
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God for How Great and Mighty. It was look at verse 10 again.
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Now, therefore the sword shall never depart from your house.
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Now look what he says, because you have despised me.
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Verse 9. He says why have you despised
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the word of the Lord? The Lord is still speaking of
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verse 10. And then he goes on to say the
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sword will never depart from your house because you despised
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me. Here's the conclusion, you put
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those two statements together and this is what you have to
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despise. God's word is to despise God
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himself. To despise God's word is to
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despise himself. People have this strange idea
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that those two things are mutually exclusive that I can
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have my personal relationship with God, and God is pleased
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with me. And he's happy with me and all
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these different things. And yet, they have zero regard
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for the divine revelation that has been made available to all
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of us. With Nathan reveals shears that
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you've despised. Not just the law, but the law
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Giver because you cannot separate those two things.
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When a person says that they desire to know.
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God, do you know how you measure that?
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What do they do with the word of God?
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You read it, you study it, you examine it.
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You cherish you memorize it, you talk about it.
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Is that not right? Sure, in the beginning was the
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word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
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Yes. You can't separate those two
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realities. You can't even separate the word
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in the spirit. Jesus says, my words are spirit
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and life. So these people say, I'm not a,
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I'm not a word person. I'm a holy spirit person.
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What are you talking about? But you see here among many
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other things, we have another testimony that the the very
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object in your hands right now. Is directly correlated to the
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person who gave it to us. So when a person says I want to
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know the will of God well okay if you want to know the will of
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God then you'll take the time to discover what his will is it's
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not just some mystery thing that you just kind of skip through
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life with and interpret matters in your own hands.
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No no what a person says or claims that they are faithful to
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God. Then they will equally have a
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view of the ultimate authority of the word of God.
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Show me a person's response and A ship to the word and I have
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the substantial evidence to know their walk with God.
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The simple as that you can't separate those things, doesn't
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matter how beautiful they sing. Does it.
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Matter how emotional they are about spiritual realities.
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The word, it's the word. You've not just despise the word
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of the Lord. You've despised the Lord.
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David It's not draw you closer to the scriptures.
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I hope it does because this is the means by which we come to
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know our God and the Lords, indictment of David sins here.
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Perhaps we've noticed that there was a particular summary because
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when we read second Samuel 11, it was an extensive play,
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Playbook of his craftiness and his scheme to sin, but when the
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Lord brings it to him, he summarizes it and just a verse
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or two. Because he sees pass through it
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pass through what the goal of David's ambition is second,
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Samuel 11 is really obvious. He wanted to distance himself as
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much as possible, from being A suspicious candidate for
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bathsheba's pregnancy and for the death of Uriah.
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He wanted to cover the tracks and he want to remove himself as
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much as possible. So he gets job involved.
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He gives them instructions to put you right in the front
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lines. He has the ammonites kill him,
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make it look like an accident instead of an assassination and
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so with all of that the Lord comes now and directly says you
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have killed him. You did it?
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Was in the ammonites. It wasn't a thing of War wasn't
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joab. It wasn't anything other than
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the fact that you did it And that's important if we want to
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realize how the judge of the earth judges and how he will
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judge the world and know this, that so many people attempt to
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justify their wrong or lighten, the burden on their conscience
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by doing what by manipulating circumstances.
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So that they are not the direct agents of the evil. so they
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hire, they trick, they lie and they send, and they pay, and
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they do all these things, because there's something
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deceitful about our hearts that says, if I am not the, the
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player holding the ball, if I'm just calling the shots from the
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sidelines, then surely, I am not as guilty as an accomplice From
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an accomplice, another main actor.
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Surely my guilt is not as severe and the Lord sees passed through
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all that trickery, all the exploitation, And he puts the
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pieces together. The all-knowing one and knows
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exactly the source, who knows exactly who is guilty he sees
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past the, the facade and everything else that we try to
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deceive people with and he says, you are the man.
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You're the man. Now, another thing that I see
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here is that David's Grievous sin, according to the heart of
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God, that is grieved. Look what he says here.
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At the end of verse 9 and have killed them with the sword of
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the ammonites. He brings that up.
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What grieved God's heart? Was that David cooperated with
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the Enemy? with the enemies of Israel with
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the enemies of the god of Israel to kill who one of God's people
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to harm one of God's Own and not just anybody a faithful man like
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Uriah And so the Lord sees it as a terrible thing, pay attention
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to this, when the people of God partner with the world to do
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damage to the people of God. How is that possible today?
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I don't have a sword. We don't go to war, we don't
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have ammonites. Oh, there's so many indications.
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An example of it. But you remember, I brought this
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up, not too long ago, when Paul was overwhelmed almost by the
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idea that a Believer was going out to those who have no
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standing in the church to determine Over another believer.
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Is that any different than David hiring?
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The sort of the ammonites to kill one of the Israelites?
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How is it that you are going to those who are not righteous to
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determine the fate of the righteous better to take a loss?
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Do you not trust in the wisdom of my word to determine and
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settle disputes? Do you not have any fear of God?
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To realize that there is a watching world that wants to see
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where I were different. And what we have to offer is
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different and that is just one example of many how it is
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possible to hire the sword of those outside of the camp of God
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to the damage to those who reside in our own camp.
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So we see here that there are many examples and possibilities
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of how we can grieve God. And one of the ways that we
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grieve God is that when we get the world involved, with the
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Affairs of the church with the people of God, it's serious.
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And he takes it into account, and he will discipline those who
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have no fear in this regard. We looked at the error behind
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the sin. We looked at part, the ruling of
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the sin and now we look at the consequences that followed the
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sin and that's in the next few verses here.
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In verse 11, thus says the Lord Behold, I will raise up evil
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against you out of your own house.
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And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them
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to your neighbor and he shall lie with your wives in the sight
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of his son of this son for you did it secretly, but I will do
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this thing before all Israel and before the sun.
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We're going to look at David's response in a moment, but let's
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break this down. We see here that the punishment
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of the Kings evil is threefold depending on how you break it
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down, and the division is very obvious.
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When you look at verse 10, the first thing is this, therefore,
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the sword shall never depart from your house, and we've
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touched on that that from this chapter, moving forward to the
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rest of this book. Even into First Kings chapter
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one, there will be internal strife to the point of death
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until David himself dies. And even after that, and we saw
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that with four of his own Sons, right?
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Who were the sons again? As a quiz.
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Absalom is one? Yes.
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I'm known as the one. Yes.
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I didn't, I just a third and who's the last, the unnamed
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baby? That's going to be inflicted
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with a disease in the next few verses.
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So the Lord even took David's measurement of judgment when he
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said that sheep should be given over with fourfold.
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Restitution, you want to you for fold, then, here's four foot.
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I'm going to kill four of your Lambs.
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And four of the sons would receive Bloodshed and experience
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Bloodshed you so Bloodshed you reap bloodshed.
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The second thing here that we see is that there would be evil
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against you out of your own house.
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Now isn't that the same thing, not necessarily?
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When do you believe that was fulfilled?
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Because it is fulfilled and found in the scriptures.
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When do we see evil arising within David's house to come
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against David himself? Good Absalom, the Revolt of his
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son who stole the hearts of the nation of Israel and himself to
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usurp the authority of the throne to capture the throne and
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to push his father out of the boundary.
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Is of Israel and in declares civil war against him.
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So, David himself with know, the pain of betrayal, David himself
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with taste, his own medicine of betrayal, not just Bloodshed,
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but betrayal. And lastly, we see something
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else mentioned here. It says that he, the neighbor
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shall lie with your own wives and the sight of this son.
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You did it privately. I'm going to make this a public
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matter. When was that fulfilled?
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Good Absalom. Now I want you to see with your
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own eyes to see how precise the judgments of God are.
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Look at 2nd Samuel here and verse 21 of chapter 16.
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Fast forward a few chapters. Look at 2nd Samuel 1621 I
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thoughtful said to Absalom. He said to Absalom.
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Go into your father's concubines, whom he has left to
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keep the house and all Israel will hear what you have made
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yourself a stench that you have made yourself a stench to your
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father and the hands of all who are with, you will be
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strengthened. No, hesitation absalom's part.
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Look at verse 22. So they pitched a tent for
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Absalom on the roof. And Absalom went into his
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father's. Concubines in the sight of all
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Israel, very despicable public demonstration of one's depravity
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and disrespect, but it was a fulfillment of Prophecy was just
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an eerily coincidental thing. God in his Providence, use the
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means of absalom's rebellion to chastise his servant David and
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it was so precise. Reread verse 22, what do we
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read? So, they pitched a tent for
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Absalom wear. Isn't that where all started?
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It all started on a roof. And here God is chastising even
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on a roof. And it's even more, more
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specific than that. You guys, if you're a few
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Maranatha school, will remember this, who was at the I felt
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full, is he a random counselor to David good?
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He's not. Can I show you who he is?
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If you don't know for those who know, don't say, it don't ruin.
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The surprise. For those who don't know, if you
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want to know who a he fell for Liz and you have to go to 2nd
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Samuel. 23:2 second Samuel 23 briefly.
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In this chapter, you have a list of the Mighty Men of David.
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Second Samuel 23. Look here down verse 34 and you
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will see exactly who this man is thoughtful is We read in verse
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34 at La Follette, the son of Akash by of Makkah.
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And I am the son of a heath offal.
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So this mantle ayam is ranked among the Mighty Men of David.
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This Alliance sound familiar Our names important in the Bible.
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Oh yes there's a holy spirit, waste any word in the
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scriptures. Absolutely not.
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Well, I am the son of a heath. Offal was one of the Mighty Men
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of David second Samuel 11 again where it all started.
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Second Samuel, 11, Look at verse 2.
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It happened late one afternoon when David arose from his couch,
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and was walking on the roof of the King's house that he saw
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from the roof, a woman bathing. And the woman was very beautiful
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and David sent and inquired about the woman.
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And one said, is this not Bathsheba the daughter of lion.
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The wife of Uriah, the hittite. A lion was one of the Mighty Men
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of David al-ayam was also the father of Bathsheba a lion was
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the son of A heath offal a heath olfa was bathsheba's Grandpa.
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Is it? No wonder why he partnered with
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Absalom to kill David. You touched my granddaughter and
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you killed her husband? I will make sure to crush you
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into fine powder. so I thought for knew about it and you're
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going to discover very important lessons about bitterness we all
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will when we come to a heath offal in the coming weeks So we
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see here, how precise God's chastisement is.
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Now we come back and we look at the list of things that David
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would have to endure. And part of us, part of us,
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looks at that. And we kind of, we kind of say,
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yes, David deserves. He deserves to be disciplined,
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but this seems kind of intense. I mean he's going to endure for
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the rest of his life, one thing. After the next it's not going to
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be easy for David from this time on And we might wonder is this
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too much. And I'll tell you the answer by
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the end of the Bible study, but I also want to make mention of
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this. We can debate all we want about
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what's going on here, but one thing is for certain from cover
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to cover. There is this law at work and
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it's still at work today. That sins have different
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consequences, some are more lasting, some are not as
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permanent. And though, we might be able to
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predict some of the ramifications of our trespasses,
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ultimately it is unpredictable to determine the full sequence
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of what our sin can produce in our lives, the outcome of it and
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I think, yeah, again, you can, you can determine some level of
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it, the position of the person, the ministry of the person, the
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role of that, all these different things, but really,
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you can't figure it out. And I think that puts a whole
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Holy fear in us, that should put a fear in us because we want to
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try to plan our sin and how we can limit the pain.
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We know that it's going to hurt things, we know it's going to
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hurt us, we know that and we try to isn't that in a part of are
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scheming to try to try to restrict as much of the
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collateral damage as possible. And God gives us so many
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examples of how that is not controllable on our part.
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And I want to show it to you. One example, I mean there's so
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many examples, but let me give you one example.
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The thing that came to mind was the ten plagues of Egypt saying,
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huh, ten plagues of Egypt, why? So many lessons about the 10
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plagues? And one of the lessons that I
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took from it personally, was that the effects of each plagues
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were different. Not always describe, but in some
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cases different from one another.
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So the plagues were not just different, but even the result
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of the Plagues on Egypt were different and I believe that's a
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picture because those plagues were the acts of Judgment of God
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Force. Pharaohs Rebellion.
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It's a picture of what happens with arson at times.
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Can I show it to you? Here's the plague, the eighth
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plagued with the locusts. It's an exodus 10.
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And when you see this, you're going to realize that's that's
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quite interesting. In Exodus, 10.
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Farrell wants the Locust to leave.
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I don't blame him and he says, in verse 17, it says here.
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Now, therefore, forgive my sin. Please only this once and plead
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with the Lord. Your God, only to remove this
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death from me. So, here's a man, who's saying,
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I want this out of here. I want to be removed from all of
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this chaos and all of this destruction.
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So, Verse 18, he went out from pharaoh and pleaded with the
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Lord and the Lord turned the wind into a very strong West
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Wind. Now, what happens, which lifted
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the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea.
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Not a single Locus was left in all the country of Egypt.
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That's the grace of God. The moment this man repents the
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strong Supernatural. Wind picks up all these ugly
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bugs. And catapults them into the
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ocean in a moment. And we're told specifically not
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one, hideous Locust was found in anybody shoe or covered nothing,
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they're all dispelled. Did that happen with every
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plague? Go to the second plague in
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Exodus 8. We're not dealing with locusts.
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You're now, we're dealing with frogs.
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Equally questionable as a pet Maybe.
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In verse 13. What do you read of Exodus 8?
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Pharaoh wants to see these things go?
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I don't blame him. And in verse 13, we read and the
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Lord did according to the word of Moses, the frogs died out in
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the houses, the courtyards and the fields, and they gather them
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together and heaps and the land stank.
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No, strong West Wind, no Supernatural.
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Force to clean up the courtyards, and the front yards
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and the driveways God allowed the frogs to die and for them to
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scoop it up themselves and it actually produced an odor,
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across the land, some sins will stink more than others.
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Some sins will leave deeper scars and others.
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Some sins will leave a deeper and a more potent odor than
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others. Others.
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Well, how do I determine you can't?
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You can't just avoid all sin. That's a good idea.
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Isn't it? Just avoid all playing so we
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don't want any of it. And so we see here that we
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cannot forecast what this thing will lead us to.
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So just avoid it altogether and in David's case.
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So, there are different adulterous of his time.
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Different adulterous throughout scripture in his case, and God's
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perfect. Wisdom allowed things to stink.
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A little bit longer. Than one would wish.
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For remember that you can never determine what sin will produce.
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You don't know how long it will pollute, you don't know how long
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it is to deal with the damage that it causes.
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Sometimes it's years, sometimes overnight, it's as though
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nothing had happened, the day before, And there is no
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instruction given to us. And I thank God for it because
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we are tricky with our flesh, to show us how we can avoid the
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least amount of problems because of our sin and David hears, all
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of this, he sees all of this, he registers all of this.
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And after this blistering words, that come from the mouth of this
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prophet, he is ready to respond. And the way that David responds
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and this is how we're going to end is a wonderful glorious
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instructional Elation of what true repentance looks like.
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What true repentance looks like and look at it with me here in
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verse 13 of chapter 12. David said to Nathan, I've
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sinned against the Lord. That moved me when I read it
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today, that moved my heart to the core.
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David said to Nathan. I've sinned against the Lord.
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You want to see the fleshed-out version of that?
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You know what, song to turn to right, you know, have to turn
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there were not going to turn there tonight.
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Psalm 1 Psalm 51. Psalm 51 is the journal entry of
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verse 13. It's after David's, at back, and
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really thought and meditate, and let that truth of the
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chastisement of the Lord sitting upon his soul and he, he just
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writes out Psalm 51. Don't let the brevity of this
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confession fool. You don't let it cause you to
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judge this man's sincerity. In fact, the brevity of it makes
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it so beautiful, you know, sometimes we look at how people
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respond to sin or their failure and we look for external
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evidence, right? We look for things that they do
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or things that they don't do and things that they say, and the
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level of tears that they can gather up in a cup, whatever the
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case may be, when you and I have no idea what's going on in their
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hearts. See before the prophet, you know
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what he does. He says one thing I have sinned
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against the Lord, you know, what was happening in his heart?
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Psalm 51. Psalm 51.
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So you and I have to understand that the Lord the same way he
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sees the motives of somebody send the reason for their sin.
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He sees the repentance of that sin, just as clearly And I think
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what you see here is an encouragement.
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Listen, if you are in sin tonight, what's not going to
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impress, God's pardon in your life, is your poetic expression
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of how wrong you've been. It's not going to be the
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duration of your dejection. It's not going to be anything
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other than the sincerity of the Contrition of your heart.
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That is all that moves, the heart of the Lord.
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That's it. And it's as plain as simple as
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that. And I praise God for that.
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And David here shows us that you can be in one breath broken and
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when God's favor again, because God tells him, he assures him,
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you are pardoned. You are forgiven after one
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statement, after one simple statement like that, And that
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might offend people more than the actual discipline that God
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gives to this, man. The fact that the Lord is
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willing to be so quick to forgive him.
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Now, I'm going to get to in a moment.
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What do you see in David's confession, it's one sentence,
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but what do you see in it? That's so significant.
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Yes. Sure.
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So you minted it to a person. Sure.
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Yes. Against the Lord, I have sinned
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against Uriah know. I've sinned against Bathsheba
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know, I've sinned against the government know, I've sinned
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against the Lord. The primary offender.
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And the effendi here, rather is the Lord himself.
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So before, even not that he denied the fact that he sent
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against other people. But here's the realization I
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violated and harmed and wounded, The God Who made the Covenant of
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marriage, I hurt. And I broke the law of the one
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who gave life to her Uriah, who takes the life of man, and I
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took that upon myself, I'm the one who stepped out of bounds
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with the one who gave me everything that I have.
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True repentance primarily recognizes God being offended.
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David here is not spilling his heart open because of what's
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going to come to him now. David here is not even as
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disturbed about the fact that Uriah is gone in bathsheba's,
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not really his legitimate wife, that's not what burdens him,
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build that is part of it. What consumes this man is I
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fractured my fellowship with almighty God and this broke him
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because he realized who God was and the grand scheme of
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everything. And so here we see that true
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repentance prioritises, the realization of what your sin is
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done with the vertical relationship that you and I
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cherish and love and enjoy. I've seen Christians that have
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repented and had nothing to do with God being offended.
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I've seen it in their confession in their testimonies is not
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about God. It's about what they did to
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their mom and how they disappointed, a dad growing up
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and how they heard this person and how they hurt their church.
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That's fine and dandy, Where's God?
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Where's God? And I'm telling you of God is
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not in the confession. That might be an insight to
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prove that you didn't have God in mind when you sinned or
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before you even considered sinning.
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What do I mean by that? That this this is more than just
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law keeping and having a nice reputation among the church.
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This is about my walk with almighty God.
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And David realized that that's the first thing that comes to
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his mind. That's the first thing that
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comes out of his mouth but there's a second point that I
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want to draw to your attention, the brevity of it showcases The
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exclusion of excuses. I've sinned against the Lord
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compare that with Saul's repentance or supposed
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repentance, remember that Samuel comes on the scene?
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I've obeyed the Lord then he justifies his partial obedience
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then he says it again and have sacrificed this for the Lord,
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this is set apart for Lord and he just keeps going until
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finally says. Okay, fine.
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I've sinned against the Lord and his word for I feared the people
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now saying, oh can you come with me?
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So we go to the house of God and it makes it look like they, you
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know, you're actually in good terms with me and I'm in.
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Good terms with God, it just Just the word vomit is so
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obvious and it's actually, it's actually a revelation of how his
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heart was not really broken. He could say so much, because
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his heart was still so light. And David just has one
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statement. And he says, I have no excuses.
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You know what some people do? Well yeah.
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I've sinned against the Lord but wife's in But True Confession.
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Never has the word butt in it. Never True Confession.
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Never has the word butt in it. Yeah, okay, yeah, you're right.
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Nathan. But you know, she should have
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been baiting like that. She knows that I go up on the
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roof. She knows that I can see all
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things from that point. She shouldn't have done, that's
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kind of her fault. Yeah.
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Okay. I did it.
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Yeah. But, you know, I was hoping that
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the ammonites really wouldn't have killed the maybe wounded.
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I don't know. Like, he didn't say anything of
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that. These, what about job?
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You know, job kind of, was, was in the night, like, he didn't
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know the full thing, but he should have at least stood up to
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me. We should we get Joe.
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I've been to this conference about nothing.
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I've sinned against the Lord and that's what our human nature
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wants to do. Right.
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It's ever since the beginning, we want to point the finger, we
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want to bounce the problems off of us and the full
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accountability and at least share it with somebody else.
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Here's the thing. When you have God in the
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equation, realize that it's your sin, regardless of the sin, that
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instigated you to sin it. Never justifies your sin and it
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primarily your sin. Affects your vertical
52:16
relationship with the Lord. So let the Good deal with other
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people's wrongs. Let the Lord deal with other
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people's wrongs, even if their wrongs was mixed into.
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Why you did that? And why you said that just just
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cancel all of that and just realize.
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Okay, I sinned and it affected my relationship with the Lord.
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Therefore I have sinned against the Lord.
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Isn't that refreshing to hear? And there is a beauty in the
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Simplicity of this. There is just this this holy
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moment in the quietness of David.
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Now I told you, I wouldn't have want to been there when he says
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you are the man, but I would like to peek my head.
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When David said, I have sinned against the Lord, I would have
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loved to just look through those Royal curtains.
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And see how he looked? Did he have his head down with
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her tears? That he whispered that he
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shouted. Here's Nathan and David and
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David says, I have sinned against the Lord. and what so
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moves me not just how he does not include one other excuse,
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But how Nathan responds and Nathan said to David in the same
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verse, the Lord has also put away your sin, you shall not
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die. How quick is that?
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Are you offended by that? What are you offended by more?
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The list of judgments that were going to be on David's life
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until he went into Glory or how quick?
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How swift forgiveness came to him, the moment he confessed.
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Some would be offended by that. It's just, that's all it takes.
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I've sinned against the Lord. Yeah, if it's just lip service,
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but if there's a Psalm 51 roaring in your soul, that's a
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different story. I've sinned against the Lord,
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and right there, this Prophet who has these special antennas
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to hear from Heaven, gets a word.
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You're forgiven. You're forgiven Dina, why?
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Because the same psalmist, who send penned in Psalm 86 5.
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Unfortunately, you won't see this in the ESV.
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You'll see it in the King, James, new King, James and ASB.
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We're told in Psalm 86 five that the Lord is ready to forgive.
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The ESV says good and forgiving that's nice.
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But you look at the Hebrew ready to forgive You know what?
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That tells me? He's waiting to forgive.
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He's right there. Ready to swing the door open.
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Well, what is he waiting for the knock of repentance on our end.
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That's what he's waiting for. So the Readiness to forgive is
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triggered by our Readiness to repent.
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Genuinely void of excuse void, of pointing the fingers void of
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the butts. And just saying it's obvious.
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It's clear. I've sinned against God and he
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says, in Psalm 51 against the in the only have I sinned And the
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Lord is willing to forgive when a man comes broken like this
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man, does no scene no pounding against the wall.
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No probation time on God's part, by the way, I have sinned
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against the lord. Well, okay, good.
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That's nice and Danny go into that penalty box for 7 days and
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come back, and let's see if your heart is just a smashed as it is
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now. And then I'll determine if you
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can have fellowship with me again.
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That's not God. That's man, huh?
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We're just all a bunch of Jonah's, right?
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Wanting to look at the city of Chicago and say, are all going
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to hell and you deserve it, and the Lord wants to save them and
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were like, Lord, you sure. Look at all the Bloodshed.
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Look at all the abortion. Look at all the gangs
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slaughtering each other. And the whole point of the Book
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of John, I said there's many times and I can't stop saying it
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because it moves me such a short prophetic book, but it has such
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powerful implications. Though.
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The point of the Book of Jonah is men, even the greatest men,
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even the greatest prophets are less merciful than our God is.
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They're less quick to forgive than our God.
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They are less tender and soft and inviting, and welcoming than
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our God. And God is so tender, even in
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the Book of Jonah itself. God, even mentions the death of
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the cattle. He even thinks about the life of
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the animals. Now, I'm not advocating, animal
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rights here and sheep are on the same level as humans.
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And if a dog drowns in your neighbor's, Johnny, maybe you
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can argue which one has more worth than that's crazy stuff,
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but God does have value in appreciation for life.
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All life. And we see here that this man is
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receiving that forgiveness, because God was ready to
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forgive. But look what happens here in
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verse 14. Nevertheless, Nathan says,
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because by this deed, you have utterly scorned the Lord, the
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child who is born to you shall die. the Nathan went to his
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house, he talked about concluding his sermon, Talk
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about closing Friday, night bible study with that.
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You're forgiven your sins. Put aside your son.
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He's going to die. No apologies.
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No, lengthy explanation, no theological presentation of why
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God allows us though. We do have the rest of the Bible
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to determine why this is the case.
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Let me end on this thought and I will end here because we're not
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going to touch any other verse. The Lord's, pardon for our sin
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is not his only goal in our sanctification.
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God eagerly desires to also deal with the presence of sin in our
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lives and it's power in our lives simultaneously.
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So when God wants to wipe away our sin, that is his chief and
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because that will bring us back to him and reconcile us to him.
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But as a good father he also wants to ensure and do what he
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needs to do so that we would not repeat the offense and continue
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to harm us and others. And more importantly Our walk
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with him. And so the Lord will take extra
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measures to bring about preventive things in our lives
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and very real ways. So that it becomes much more
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difficult to repeat that very offense that got us in the mess
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to begin with. And the means by which God does
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this, this might shock you, but it's true.
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The means by which God does, this is something called
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discipline. Chastisement.
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In other words, God permitting and even authoring painful
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experiences in our lives, in connection to our sin.
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So that what we thought was sweet is actually sour, And just
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like when you discipline a child, after they do something
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wrong, we make the connection with that wrong and realize,
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this is what it's going to actually produce in my life and
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it makes it less attractive than what we thought it was before it
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all happened. And so God as a father knows
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exactly what to prescribe, he knows the right measure of pain
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to implement in order for us to be repulsed by and if not
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repulse totally, at least fearful of the thing that we did
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to fracture our fellowship with him.
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And in David's case, you know what it was.
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Have to kill your son. How do we feel about that?
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Here's the thing that you and I can be comforted with and
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comforted by the discipline of God is Not subject to potential
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error. Father's even Godly fathers are
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capable of going too far when correcting their son.
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When correcting their daughter and they are equally capable of
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having too low of a standard when it comes to the growth in
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the maturation of their children.
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But the reason why you, and I can look at that and actually be
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comfortable with the decision of the Lord.
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Ultimately, he's God, who can question his ways, but we can be
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comforted to know that he's perfect in all of his ways, not
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just in his love, not just in his grace, not just in his gifts
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also in his discipline, even in his discipline.
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Again, let me say it. He knows the right prescription
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to give to create a procedure in your heart that will uproot.
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Those roots that have Simulated you all these years.
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You remember, David did not do this out of nowhere.
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This was a deep-seated issue. He had no problem taking wives,
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and taking more woman unto himself and it manifested this
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way in adultery and murder. But what was the root cause of
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it? What was?
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I can we learn early passions early on that.
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He did not deal with. And God says, at this point, now
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we're going to deal with it. And the way we're going to deal
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with it is going to be painful but the pain is necessary to
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uproot that which keeps bringing you back to this cycle.
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A new believer. When you ask them how it is that
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you believe that Jesus loves you and they'll say, John, 3:16 for
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God. So loved the world that He Sent
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His only begotten son. Right, mature.
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Christian who walks with the Lord will not necessarily quote.
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John 3:16 they will also, quote places like Revelation 3, where
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we are told whom I love. I discipline Who am I love?
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I discipline. So as a father who loves the
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expression of his love is not merely taking you deeper in the
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depths of the truths of the Gospel, but it's also to
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implement punishment to produce righteousness and Holiness in
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US. And that's exactly what David
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would require. There's an interesting proverb.
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And I love to see a proverb and then see biblical example for
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it. Here's one, it's in Proverbs 20
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verse 30. I'm going to quote the second
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part Strokes make clean the innermost Parts.
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The first part says blows that wound cleanse away, evil
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Strokes, may clean. That innermost Parts in other
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words, often times painful means do the deepest work of cleansing
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and people. And Not only would the
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discipline of the Lord caused The Sinner, to be repulsed by
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their sin will actually discourage observers from that
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very same sin. So that's Proverbs.
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Twenty Thirty listen to this in Proverbs 21, 11, when a scoffer
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is punished, the simple become wise When they scoffers somebody
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over there, who's a scoffer is punished whether by the law or
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by God himself the simple, the unlearned the ones who are
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swayed, left and right. Those people when they observe
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that go home, an that's mishap. That's what happens when you do
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that. No, thank you.
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I don't want it. And so there's a multi-faceted
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purpose with God's discipline and even one person's life.
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And David would be. Accepting of that punishment.
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There is no protest. Here, there's no fist to the
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skies. Just a broken willingness to
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embrace what's about to take place in his life.
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Here's how. And did I say that already?
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We have men's meeting in the morning.
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Should we just stay up until then?
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There's a prophetic picture here.
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Isn't it, isn't it? An awesome thing to see prophecy
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or some Shadow depicted and obscure texts like this, I love
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it. Your son is going to die.
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Is the sun innocent. Yeah, he is in us and in God's
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wisdom. Who's the author?
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of life and the Removal the author to remove life, he can do
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what he pleases and we have the joy of the same chapter to
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realize that this baby is going to be in heaven.
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The death of your son, David is going to pay for your sins.
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And there is coming at this point.
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Another son of David. That would arrive several
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hundred years later. Who would do the same?
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not just for David, but for all of us, there is an innocent boy
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that will come from the seed of David who will in his death
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cover, the sin of all mankind, So even in this dark picture
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this heartbreaking scenario, we see a sliver of gospel truth.
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There is a son of David Who will come and his death will cover
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past present and future sin. Because that is the preciousness
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of his blood. Let's pray.
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Lord, we look to you tonight with all these truths.
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That have been presented before us.
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And we ask that it would cause us to worship you and Lord.
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As we heard to despise your word is to despise you.
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But to love your word is to love you and we want to express our
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love to you. Every Friday night as we come to
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your word. And we pray that as we sing.
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As we sing Lord, we would not sing.
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Divorce from the truth that we heard, but it would stimulate us
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to give you the praise and honor that is due to you.
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Because you are the one who breathed this book into our
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hands. We love you Lord we ask that you
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would indeed sanctifies as you see fit in Jesus name.
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Amen. Let's stand as we close and I'll
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let you go. Some of you look heavy, I'd But
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give it what you have for the Lord Jesus before you head onto
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your bed. And bless them in the night with
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an evening sacrifice.