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2 Samuel 14 (Part 1) Bible Study | Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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Second Samuel. Chapter 14.
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And as you're turning there. I can't help but share what I
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read in my own personal reading. This week, I'm in the Book of
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Job And there's a part where job describes the Majesty of God.
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and at the end of his, His displaying of the glories of
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God. He says something that humbled
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me tremendously, and I pray that it will humble.
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You not just humble you, but that it would excite you.
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I encourage you your own time to read job 26.
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But at the end of twenty sixth chapter 26, you have to turn
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there, just listen to what job has to say.
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He says, in verse 14 of that chapter behold, these are but
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the outskirts of his ways. And how small a whisper, do we
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hear of him? And how small a whisper, do we
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hear of him? Everything.
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You know about God, everything that you see concerning God, his
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character, his power, his wisdom is but a whisper just a whisper
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just a breath. Maybe think Lord, I Want More
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Than A Whisper. And it made me realize that
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there's a day coming where it'll be louder than a whisper where
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we going to have his glory full force and he will give us the
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necessary mind and body and heart and ability to register
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all that he is. So everything that you discover
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week by week day by day, you're seeing through a glass dimly.
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There is a Time coming where you and I are going to see it
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face-to-face. See him face to face.
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And so as we come to this chapter and second Samuel, let
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us discover The Whispers of God's wisdom, his love.
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His power has might his grace his compassion, his Justice.
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And Lord we pray but we pray again, this is this is our
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desire that we may know you. Lord you are our Shield, you are
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our glory and you are the lifter of our heads.
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And God, you give us more joy than they when their grain and
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wine. Abound, your word is our gold.
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It is our silver, they are Jewels more precious than all of
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these things and we ask for that.
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As we come to this chapter, there will be a special Grace.
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On the delivery of this word and to be a special Grace upon the
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study of it, for every heart that is here.
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Open to receive what you have to say.
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We give you all glory and honor in Jesus name.
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Amen. You might be wondering why?
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I'm not down there and why I'm up here.
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Just a brief technical thing before we move on.
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We want to figure out how to handle that.
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Mike probably every week you hear something from Bible study.
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But you also hear me say something about buzzing, right?
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So I don't want to keep repeating myself.
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So we're going to try to get to that buzzing issue.
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And until then, we're just Going to be up here for a bit.
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Let's come to second Samuel. 14 in one chapter spanning over two
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years in real time. You and I have witnessed the
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lives of three of David's children.
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Never be the same drastically and dramatically being altered
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forever, really Tamar or Tamar David's daughter.
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Was violated tragically raped and was robbed of her innocence
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David's, eldest, son. We studied him and we examine
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his life and realized that he was the one Who violated his
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sister and was then murdered for his actions.
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And then from Tamar to eminent we come and we were introduced
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to a man named Absalom and we looked at him and we realized it
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Absalom was the one who premeditated the assassination
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of his half-brother and then and then fled into Exile hoping to
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escape. Justice.
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And when we come to this chapter, we have to understand.
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According to second, Samuel 1338, three more years have
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passed since Emmons death, that's a long time. but we will
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realize at the opening of this chapter is that though three
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years have gone by David's, heart is still disoriented It is
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damaged. It is caught up in different
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meditations imaginations. What ifs.
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And so this man is in shambles just as much as his home is.
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And so this is a dysfunctional family and it's only going to
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get worse, unfortunately. And we get the impression of
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David's condition here in the first verse of chapter 14, I
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don't want us to read it together.
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Now, joab, the son of zero. I knew that the king's heart
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went out to Absalom. This is the essence of the
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disturbance of a of David's heart.
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Rather it is for his son, Absalom.
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It is going out to him. there's a yearning for his son, there's
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a longing for his son, and it makes you wonder that even
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though this atrocious Act was committed time does, in fact
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heal It does help us forget the weight and the sting of certain
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actions. And so David is really in a
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place of discomfort and there's a level of of longing for
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someone that is a part of him though is not with him anymore
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and he wants to see some level of reconciliation happen.
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He wants to see some kind of restoration happen.
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He wants his boy back in his presence.
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And if you think about it, if this is what this man wants,
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this father Longs for, he has every authority to be able to
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send out Messengers and call for Absalom to return from guest
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Shore. And to, to be brought back and
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to be brought back into the home, and brought back into his
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daily activities, and to just move on from life, he has every
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ability to reassure him that he will Embrace him.
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And that he will bring him to the place where we can make this
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as normal as possible. But he doesn't.
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And the question is why and this is where the Dilemma lies
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because David here is not just a father who has natural
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affections for his son. He is also a king who is called
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to uphold Justice. And to not play favorites and to
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pledge his Allegiance in his loyalty to God and His law above
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all and above everyone else. This is the struggle of the man.
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And though, David is in a very unique position, who is
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upholding a very unique responsibility, this is a
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portrait of David's life, in our study of second Samuel, that
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will teach us, and remind us how it is often very difficult to do
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the right thing. If you want to know what we're
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going to be studying tonight, it is that an honest look in the
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scriptures of how the Holy Spirit reminds us and prepares
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us that it's not always easy to do that, which is right. and
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more than just telling us that because many of us understand
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that already, The holy spirit will also through this text,
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equip us to know how we can avoid the ensnarement and The
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Traps, that will try to keep us from pursuing that, which is
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god-honoring and will help us avoid mistakes, that we will
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later regret because we fell into some form of deception,
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that persuaded us to do that, which was wrong thinking, that
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it would bring about better results.
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Isn't it difficult to do that? Which we know is right in some
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cases. There's family Dynamics, there's
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loyalty there is possible, future altering things that if
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you do that which is right, it could potentially make you lose
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on so many fronts. And so there are many times
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where we come to intersections moments where we try to come up
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with a plan where we can come as close as possible to that which
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God demands of us at the same time, Rising as many
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consequences that would come about from doing that which God
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calls us to do. It's a Temptation that you will
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know if you want to follow Jesus and abide by his word, it will
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eventually come in one way or another.
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And in David's case he is sitting on his throne day after
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day night after night. Struggling.
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Of how to go about this. Do I execute Justice?
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Against my son. Or do I ignore Justice?
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And embrace my son. And we are told here.
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That Joe I picked up on this dilemma Joe.
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I've was a companion, a very close companion to David.
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He was his nephew, he was his confidante, he was someone that
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was in close proximity. David 24/7, really?
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And he was able to discern that David could not make a decision.
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And that he felt stuck. And he was in a very sticky
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situation. And so after learning about
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this, David is going to be introduced to a different
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person. And it's really a plan that job
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is going to come up with. Let's read verse 2 and jobs sent
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to Toccoa and brought from there.
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A wise woman and said to her pretend to be a mourner and put
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on mourning garments. Do not anoint yourself with oil
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but behave like a woman who has been morning, many days for the
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dead, go to the king and speak thus to him.
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So joab, put the words in her mouth.
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If you feel nervous, that job is orchestrating, something you're
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justified in feeling a little uneasy.
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Because we know job enough to realize that he's not the most
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spiritual among the roster of Israel's Mighty Men.
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Job was intensely loyal to David.
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He loved David. He loved supporting and he loved
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working for him, but at the same time, this man was viciously
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motivated by self-interest. And when you see job make
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certain decisions you can't put your finger on it.
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You don't really know what's going on through his mind all
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the time. But we've seen again enough to
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realize that when Joy feels like something could potentially
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threaten him, he's willing to make dramatic decisions.
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And in this case, here, we see that this man who does not have
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a high regard for the law. He already killed two people,
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rather one, at least that we know of, and he's going to going
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to kill somebody else very soon. Without a Cause.
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And now we come here and we realize that he is speaking to a
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woman with no name no identity and is putting words in her
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mouth. What is he going to have her say
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on his behalf? Why is he even doing all of
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this? Well, one thing's for certain
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knowing job, whatever is about to be shared.
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From this woman is not going to be in, accordance to God's word
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and we're going to learn that very quickly.
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We have reason to be suspicious and our suspicions will be
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proven true. So if God's honor is not going
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to be the aim of job scheme here again, why is he doing this?
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And here's the thing, we are not told it's not explicitly.
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Clear why job is going to Great Lengths to now send somebody to
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send a message to David that has to do, obviously, based on first
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one with Absalom. Could it be that job understood
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that there is Judgment looming his over his own head?
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He has blood on his own hands and maybe he's trying to and
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some Way project through this situation, some kind of
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conviction on David so that he would not return Justice on him.
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It could be, we don't know this job for see.
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Something with Absalom being far away potentially Brewing up some
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trouble and wanting to avoid something.
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And so he wants to try to bring about reconciliation as soon as
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possible. We already learned that Absalom
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took his time, it's usually not a good thing because he's
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brewing. Something could that be the
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case? Here?
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Again, we do not know why job is doing this, but as we will see
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this man does not have the scriptures as a standard does
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not have God's law in mind and he's going to try to convince
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David to do the same. So what's going to happen here?
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Well, before we look at the conversation between this woman
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and David, we have to understand that job is smart.
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He is intelligent. I mean, he is the commander over
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the army. So he has some ability to
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strategize does this this Ploy of having somebody come to
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David? to deal with a certain issue
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with a story because now she's about to present a story, remind
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you of a past, confrontation, that David experienced Think
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about it. What kind of messenger came to
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David, at one point to try to provoke?
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Some kind of pronounced judgment on something.
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Nathan, the prophet Nathan the prophet at one point came to
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David and he had this story that would try to invoke some kind of
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emotion and then from there pronounced some kind of judgment
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some kind of charge and that is precisely.
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What is about to happen. Nathan was successful in that
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perhaps job realized that Nathan Was able to get something out of
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David, through that method. And so he wants to now utilize
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the same tactic. I'm going to have a woman and we
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were told you that she was very wise, right?
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She's a wise woman, I'm going to dress her up in a certain way.
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I'm going to give her a script and let's just see if something
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will happen to David's heart where he will be able to convict
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himself like he did when Nathan approach them.
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And this is a lesson already, the fact that job is imitating
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Nathan and some way is instructive for us.
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Concerning how We Face spiritual warfare in some way.
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What do you mean? Well, the prophet again came to
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David with a parable and that would produce some kind of sense
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of justice for him to make some kind of a statement, right?
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But here we see that job. On the other hand will use such
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a familiar means, but not to bring about righteousness.
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It is to bring them to a point where he actually dismisses the
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law. Instead, of coming to the law,
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this is now going to encourage him to overshadow that which God
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commands and to use a different kind of standard to make his
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decision, concerning Absalom. And if that is true, then this
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is what we have to learn that the enemy, our enemy, the enemy
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of your soul and mine. He often disguises himself and
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imitates. What God has done or what God
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can do in order to disarm us in a way that would do pus in one
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way or another. So this is a call for
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discernment at the sermon that David would unfortunately, lack
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you. And I have to understand that
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this woman was described again as wise and depending on the
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context that can be a good thing or a bad thing.
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You know, what is the last time or where the last time we were
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told someone was wise. It was Jonah Dad.
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We're told that he was a crafty man in 2nd Samuel 13.
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It's the same word used here, cunning deceptive.
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Persuasive. Convincing.
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Job knew exactly who to find to do the job.
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And you, and I have to understand that.
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We cannot be fooled by the way. Something or someone is packaged
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We have to look beyond the surface, we must be able to
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develop discernment through the truth of God's word and His holy
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spirit in us. And so, here's the, here's the
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understanding just because somebody quotes a few verses out
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of context, it doesn't mean they're right.
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Just because they hold a Bible. Just because their demeanor
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seems gentle and kind and compassionate soft.
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It doesn't matter what kind of testimonies they even provide to
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try to validate their counsel, or their belief, It doesn't mean
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they are from God. It doesn't mean it is, right?
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And so here we see something, very familiar, a righteous man
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did this at one point but now we have an unrighteous man
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borrowing the tactics of someone who was of God and is now going
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to persuade someone through very similar.
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Tactics to draw, somebody away from God, be very careful.
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The devil doesn't come to your front door with horns and a
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pitchfork and a tail. He can have his own Evangelistic
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Show on satellite television. He can have awesome podcast that
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reaches the world. They can come to our church and
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sit in our pews and amen. Bible studies and sing.
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The same songs, be very careful. Unfortunately, David is not
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careful. With a pretender.
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She is a pretender. So now here's what we're going
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to do. The next set of verses will show
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us the elements or at least some elements of deception that we
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must be aware of. Because Unfortunately, they are
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the very things that will direct a divided, heart to make the
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wrong decision. Let's read from verse for you,
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with me verse 4, when the woman of Tekoa came to the king, she
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fell on her face to the ground. And paid homage and said, Save
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Me O King. And the King said to her.
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What is your trouble? She answered a last time, a
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widow. My husband is dead and your
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servant had two sons and they quarreled with one another.
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In the field. There is no one to separate them
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and one struck the other and killed him.
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And now the whole clan other translations would say, the
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whole family has risen against your servant and they say, give
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up the man who struck his brother that we may put him to
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death for the life of his brother whom he He killed, so
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they would destroy the are also, thus, they would quench my coal.
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That is left and leave to my husband.
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Neither name nor Remnant on the face of the Earth.
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Again. Like Nathan's.
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Parable job is very clever and here's how he's clever.
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He is fabricating a story to be close enough to David's
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predicament. So that when he does pronounce a
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judgment, he would indict himself yet.
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He makes it different enough for David.
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Not to be aroused in his suspicions.
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But instead of Suspicion there would be sympathy, that would be
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stimulated based on the content of the case that is being
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presented. And so I want your base on the
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verses that we just read. I'm actually asking you and I'm
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going to hear your answers will hear together.
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Based on this. Remember, the strategy is let's
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come as close as possible to the real event that happened a few
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years ago. But let's let's separate
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ourselves enough. So that David can't catch on.
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What are some differences? We see the similarities, right?
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But what are the differences here that are important to point
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out and I'll tell you why they're important in a moment.
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What do you see here? You would have to have come the
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past few weeks to know what the real event was.
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But for those who have been here or know the story, well, look at
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these three verses that we just read and think What is
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different? Yeah, so we have the whole
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family asking for the one who slayed, the brother to be put to
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Justice, right? We don't have any indication
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that that was happening in David's family. well, in the
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real event where their two brothers, I conflict Now, the
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way this woman presents, it was that there was a spontaneous
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combustion. Of some kind of tension and one
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brother killed. The other on the spot is that
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what happened in real life? What happened in real life, It
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was premeditated. That's important.
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So the woman already here is trying to soften the crime by
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making it seem as though it was. It was just the Heat of the
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Moment, the Heat of the Moment, right?
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Somebody had their hand up. Yes.
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Yeah, interesting. Right.
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There were no witnesses. There is nobody who can
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intervene there was no one who could step in sure.
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What's the heartbreaking? Part of all the story apart from
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the murder. She's a widow.
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She's a widow. She doesn't have a husband.
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So, our only means of support are her sons.
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One, son is gone. She has one son left.
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And if they were to perform this execution, if capital punishment
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were to be done, she would lose her other son and she would be
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left alone destitute and in danger.
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That's an interesting difference.
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And she even strategically uses the word.
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Are I think that's the strike a chord and David's heart as well.
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Who will be the are my husband's name will disappear old vanish
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from the remnant of the Earth. And so here, we see something
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that may be similar a real murder took place, but it's
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vastly different than what David had to deal with.
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Was Absalom David's only son. Was his only son left?
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No, he had several Sons. So was David's Kingdom in
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Jeopardy, was his dynasty going to go extinct even if Absalom
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was dealt with according to the law.
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No. But in this story it's it's a
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pretty serious dilemma but that dilemma is not parallel to the
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real thing and yet it's being presented for a reason.
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And here's the thing I was reading this, I was looking at
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this, I was studying this. I thought here's how you can
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summarize the strategy of this woman at this point in one word.
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Exaggeration. Exaggeration.
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She knows very well with David is dealing with job.
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Made it known to her. And yet, they blow it out of
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proportion that the fake stories blown out of proportion.
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And that is for a reason. She is making David's problems.
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Seem larger and more drastic than it really is.
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And when she comes to do this, she is doing so in order to sway
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his heart. And to convince him.
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That if he does, make the wrong decision in the estimation of
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job, then it will cost him very much.
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And so, this is a, this is a deliberate way of trying to
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overcome David with something that is not true.
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It's partly true but it's not completely true and we could
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even say that she is softening. The brother's murder as
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something again. I spontaneous when the facts are
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Absalom thought about it, for two years from the moment that
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he heard that Tamar Tamar was hurt.
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He knew he went into that mode of planning something to
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eliminate his brother. And here's the thing that you
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and I have to understand with this, some people exaggerate
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innocently, right? There are just prone to perceive
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things and to not recall them according to the actual
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proportion of the issues, And then, there are other people who
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do so intentionally. And those who do it,
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intentionally usually do. So in order to accomplish a
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selfish ambition that would require deceit in order to
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arrive there. And that goal can be anything
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from seeking sympathy from others.
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Or praise from others. So they decorate something in
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order to pull on the heartstrings a little bit more
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or excite people a little bit more. and that may seem innocent
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to us but it can go from there to anything as Extreme as what
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we see here to try to persuade those in authority to make a
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judgment that will be in their favor even if it Makes others
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pay a high price. Embellishing the truth, may seem
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harmless, but it can be deadly to the undiscerning.
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And it happens more often than we think, doesn't it?
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We may be caught ourselves doing it.
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One of the ways that I've seen it throughout the years of
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ministry, this is probably the most common way.
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I've personally seen it. Maybe you would not agree with
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me but this is just me is that when a case is presented or
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there's some issue or whatever is going on, it's usually backed
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up or it's usually introduced with the following so many said
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or saw or heard the same thing. The majority agree.
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There is a consensus. and then when you ask well, okay, who you
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get half a name out of the so many out of the so many that are
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affected by in. So many that are disturbed by in
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so many that have seen it. Then you just investigate a
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little bit and it's really barely anybody.
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And so we if we're not careful, we can go into that place.
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Where we try to make something seem more serious more
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threatening or maybe more successful.
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More popular than it really is. When in fact that's not the case
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at all. And this is the thing that you
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have to understand. That if we're not careful, we
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can allow others stretch something.
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To Cloud our judgment, the second element here, apart from
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exaggeration, is something that you.
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And I have to very much Take into consideration.
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Let's go back to the introduction when she first
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stepped into the throne room. She said, Save Me O King and
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before that she fell on her face to the ground.
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Now, how did she look based on the first few verses that we
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read that she come dressed up? They should come with perfume
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with makeup. No, she didn't everything.
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But she was a mourner. She had morning garments.
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She didn't anoint yourself with oil.
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She was a mess. This is a costume, right?
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And with the costume, came a character, she comes in and she
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just falls to the ground. She's an older woman and this is
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supposed to from the beginning, cause David to be alarmed and to
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be shook. And the way she paints her
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words, the way she colors her circumstance is very, very
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telling. I mean, look down here at verse
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7 again, and notice how she talks about her her future the
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bleakness of her future. he says here, thus they would quench my
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coal that is left like so poetic So desperate, my life has been
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reduced to one little call and it is ready to be extinguished
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and lets you O King intervened on my behalf.
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That's good. That's really good.
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And so David is his having his heart stirred by the site, by
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The Sound, by the actions, by the presentation.
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And so, what's happening here? Well, we talked about
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exaggeration and now we see that this woman is obviously trying
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to engage the emotions. To engage the emotions.
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You realize how powerful your feelings are, do you not?
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And I am not among those who condemn emotions they came from
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a good God, for good pleasure. They are a gift.
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They I they add Dimension to life, they accompany things.
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Right? But like any good gift that
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comes from our heavenly father it can be abused.
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If it is not managed or supervised carefully.
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And that is exactly what is going to take place in David.
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The woman is exciting, the faculties of his feelings so
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that he can do. What make a conclusion based on
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his emotion, while dismissing the facts of the matter.
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Ignore the facts, David. The facts are as what we see
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here. That she says concerning the
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clan, the clan tan, accordance to the law, have the right to
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demand for the brother, who killed his brother to be put to
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death. That's that's the fact, that's
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the truth. But it was coded.
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And it was surrounded with this appeal to sentiment.
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And to compassion and to all these different things.
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So that he can ignore the facts. Ignore what is demanded. and I
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think about, How? This is an operation today, if
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you really are honest, you know that when it comes to evil being
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tolerated, It often requires emotions to be manipulated.
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When evil wants to be tolerated, it often requires emotions to be
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manipulated. Think about all the wicked
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agendas that are being pushed on our culture today.
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It just listen closely. Listen closely, and you'll
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realize that they are baseless arguments.
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They're not found in logic, they're not found in reason.
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They're not found in facts, not found in data.
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It's emotional reasoning. Has no legs to stand on. and
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yeah, it is working with so many and when you get people to think
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by what they feel, you can actually bring them to the point
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where they dismiss what is real. Get them to think by what they
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feel and they can even disregard.
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What is real? What is true?
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What is scientific? What is obvious?
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What is common sense? You think it what's happening in
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our world? Why are we seeing what we're
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seeing? Yeah, it's a great delusion
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according to Romans 1. We're at the bottom of the
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barrel, curling, according to God's passive.
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Judgment sure. But in a practical sense, what
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we're seeing is the fruit of making your convictions based on
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your emotions. And depending on who is affected
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by that, it can have disastrous consequences.
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And in this case, I mean, I hope you realize how serious this is
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because depending on what David does, it will affect the future
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of the nation. And so, we see that this woman
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is persuading him. Persuading him, with
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exaggeration persuading him with emotional manipulation.
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And if you and I are not careful to discern that these same
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tactics can be utilized on us. On a microscopic level or on a
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macro level, then we are bound to make silly decisions like
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David does. What will he end up doing after
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this? Facade verse 8, then the king
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said to the woman, go to your house and I will give orders
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concerning you. Without hesitation.
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He assures the woman that her guilty son will not be punished.
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Now, here's the thing we learned earlier that this woman was
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crafty. And so she would not be
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satisfied with this general statement because this is what
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he's essentially saying, okay? Just go home and I'll let you
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know what I'm going to do. Not happening.
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So she persist for David to make his settlement more accurate.
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Look at verse 9 in the woman of Tekoa is set to the King on me.
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Be the guilt, my Lord, the king, and on my father's house, let
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the king and his throne be Guiltless.
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The king said in verse 10, if anyone says anything to you,
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bring him to me and he shall never touch you again.
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So she's not satisfied. David gives a more defined
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resolution and verse 10. And she's still not satisfied.
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I'm not leaving with that. I'm not going back.
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I need something more concrete. And so again, look at verse 11,
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then she said, please let the king invoke the Lord your God.
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That the Avenger of blood kill no more.
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And my son be not destroyed. It's like I need you now to make
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an oath. I'm appealing to a higher Court,
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a Heavenly court, and I'm asking you now to invoke the name of
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the Lord. Because there's nothing more
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binding than that and to, to let me know for certain that my son
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will not be handed over to the law.
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What is the ruler Israel do? he said, as the Lord lives, not
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one hair of your sons shall fall to the ground.
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David you're in trouble. Without him realizing he
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compounded his conviction. His own conviction, his own
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condemnation. And he backed himself up in a
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corner and guess what, he won't be able to escape, unless he's
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willing to be Blasphemous and dishonor his oath to God.
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He stuck, he can't go anywhere from here especially because,
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the lord's name is now involved. And once the woman saw that
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David was committed to this case, she turns the table and
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like Nathan, who at the right time said you are the man.
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She is now going to reveal what this is really all about.
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So look at verse 12, then the woman said, please let your
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servant speak a word to my Lord. The king.
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He said speak, I'd be nervous. And the woman said, why then
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have you planned such a thing against the people of God?
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For in giving this decision the king convicts himself in as much
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as the king, does not bring his banished one home again.
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You want to find. So disturbing about this.
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because, as much as this is the woman whose Standing and facing
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off with David, it's really joab.
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And what I find. So disturbing about this whole
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ordeal is that job is going to Great Lengths to make sure that
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David is convicted. Like, wouldn't you think you
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would do that with Absalom instead who's the real guilty
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one and all of this? It's Absalom and up to this
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point, three years have gone by, there's no repentance, No
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Remorse, no regret, no shame, no embarrassment, nothing.
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This man is hiding away in his pride, waiting for a red carpet
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to roll out for him to come back into his Palace.
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And yet job is doing all of this to make an innocent man.
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In this situation feel guilty, And to repent so to speak.
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And when you see this, you have to understand that we should not
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expect anything more from somebody who does not have a
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submission to the scriptures. When you do not view the world,
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the way God calls you to view the world.
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You will have. A distorted understanding of
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what is right? And what is wrong?
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Is that not true? And when I looked at this, when
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I looked at jobs, Behavior, I thought of the verse that is
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there before Proverbs Chapter 30, the last verse of Proverbs
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29 reads this An unjust man is an Abomination to the righteous.
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But one, whose way is straight is an Abomination to the wicked.
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An unjust man. Somebody who's guilty, somebody
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who's a sinner, somebody who's a rebel that kind of a person is
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an Abomination to the righteous. But the one whose way is
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straight and honorable and on the Narrow Path and In Perpetual
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agreement to the word of God is actually an Abomination to the
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wicked. So that same righteous
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indignation that you sense, concerning sin and Injustice and
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Corruption those same feelings though.
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Justify our experience in the hearts of those who are evil
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towards those who are right. There's such a perversion that
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occurs when we abandoned God. Everything gets messed up.
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Enjoy a proving to be such a man.
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He can look at somebody like David and instead of encouraging
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to do right challenge him to do wrong and then to even indict
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him if he doesn't So David is, is hearing this from this
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messenger, this actress this lady with no name and how do you
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know that job based on the verses were that were just read?
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How do you know that joab is not a person who has regard for the
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scriptures? Look carefully, specifically,
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Everest 13? What stands out to you?
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What is the subject of David's guilt, apparently.
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But more specifically, it's right there in the wording of of
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the woman. Very good.
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Why have you planned such a thing against the people of God?
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You know what he should have said if it was true against the
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law of God, No, such thing. So in jobs, mine, here's a
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problem. David, if you do not bring
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Absalom back, this will affect the morale of the nation and
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potentially the future of this nation.
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And so, what is pumping through joab's, veins is purely
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political It's not about righteousness.
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It's not about God standard. It's not about what he asked for
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concerning us. It's about what will happen to
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the people. So this is not a person who has
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any mindfulness of God's demands.
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And that's where you get in trouble.
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Listen. Hey, do you want to be protected
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from being deceived? Do you want to be protected from
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making stupid decisions in life? Can I can I suggest something to
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you? Don't seek the counsel of people
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who don't tremble at God's word. I know that there are General
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things that you can seek even unbelieving people for when it
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comes to doing that, which is right.
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I I highly recommend not going to a person who does not ordain
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their lives under every precept found in this book from Genesis
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to revelation. Just throw that out there.
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What will happen to the people of God?
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Well, here's my main concern, what will happen to God and my
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relationship with God and his name in his honor.
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That's a righteous man. That's a righteous woman.
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That's somebody who will protect themselves from pitfalls in life
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that they could have easily skipping over.
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They had just trusted in the wisdom of God.
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And in verse 14, this woman goes from trying to point out the
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offense here, to Bringing objective observations into the
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whole predicament and this Is what she does.
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Look at verse 14. We must all die.
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She still talking to David. We are like water spilled on the
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ground. Which cannot be gathered up
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again, but God will not take away life.
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And he devises means so that the banished one will not remain an
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outcast. So she's continuing to make her
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case more convincing. She's trying to drive this thing
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home. And she says, three important
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things. Here's the first thing that she
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says, we must all die. We are like water spilled on the
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ground. What do you think she means by
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that? Kind of, but you're close.
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Life is short, David? Life is like spilling water and
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not only is it short. Once it's over, it's over.
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If I spill water here on the carpet, you would think I'm a
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Madman to try to put it back in the cup.
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And so it's a combination of not only his life short, it's end is
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unexpected. And once it's over, you can't
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redo what you need to redo or what you hope to redo and in the
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context. But she is suggesting is David
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reconcile before it's too late. Make sure you mend this thing
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before. The grave calls you are the
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great calls him and you look back and you think.
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I wish I had done something. And so, she's appealing to the
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brevity of life. And our unannounced, expiration
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date and how we should do, what we need to do to be able to make
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sure that we are at peace with all men and that when God does
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call us home, we don't look back and have any regrets.
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He has a powerful point. But then she says something
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else. The second thing is, God does
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not take away life. Consider the context but God
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will not take away life. What do you think she means by
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that? It's a little harder to
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interpret. Here's what I believe that it
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means that the Lord does not prefer judgement as his primary
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answer to wrong. The Lord does not.
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As his first step desire to execute, or to eliminate or to
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shut the door for Mercy to be experienced first.
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And in this case, what she's saying, in light of Absalom is
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listen, if God really wanted to punish Absalom, he would have
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done it already. He would have just struck him
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down. He would have sent the plague
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into his very body. He would have just had him
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killed but Absalom is still alive.
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And so up to this point, we have two arguments being with made
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right life is short, it's brief. Why don't you reconcile before?
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It's too late it could also mean this look in the same way that a
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cup is poured out into the dirt and you can't gather it up again
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Emmons dead. Engines gone.
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And so even if you do punish Absalom is that going to bring
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em back? It's not gonna bring in the back
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and God doesn't take away life. That's not his his primary
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desire as ambition and dealing with those who are in sin and
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that's closely tied into her final case, her final point
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being made and what is that? And he being God, devises means
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so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.
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That's a beautiful point. Is it not In other words, God
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has provided a system. A sacrificial system in order to
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give the sin and opportunity to experience forgiveness, and
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Grace and restoration instead of remaining banished and an exile
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from his presence. And so this final point is very
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clear. God has done what he could to
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initiate reconciliation. And to swing his arms, open wide
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for The Sinner to come. And if God David is willing to
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do that, why aren't you? Why aren't you?
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You can just imagine the weight, you can imagine the crushing
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conviction that this man is feeling.
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And so, all in all, this is also being said, so that David could
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urgently and mercifully bring Absalom home.
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I might disappoint you with this point but you have to stick
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around to see what I'm about to say, and prove it as kind and as
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compassionate as warm and fuzzy. All of this may seem there are a
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couple of things wrong with this picture of forgiveness.
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What are they? What would you say?
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What's that? There are consequences.
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Yes, no repentance that is one for certain.
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Well, let me ask it this way. Is to try to just steer Us in
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the right direction. Many have referenced.
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That verse verse 49, especially the last part as a gospel gem
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hidden and tucked in an old Covenant text, which is true
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because it points to God's altar means of bringing the banish one
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back to his presence. And that means is the man Christ
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Jesus. That's the foreshadowing here,
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there has been a device. There has been a plan that God
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has ordained from eternity past and it is that through the sun,
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those who have been pushed out because of their sin can now be
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brought back into fellowship with the Holy One.
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And as we look at this, we realize that's wonderful.
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That's true. That's a wonderful way of trying
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to persuade the hearts of those who are lost to realize they can
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be found. But here's the problem.
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This God compromised, his law in order to reconcile us He
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doesn't. And this is why this is
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important. This is a gospel truth.
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You have many people. Who believe the way God forgives
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is, that he just brushes things. Under the carpet, is the, you
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know what? I'm just going to take your sins
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and throw them in the sea of forgetfulness.
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We're not going to have to deal with it.
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Let me just wink. Let's just start over.
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Let's just turn over a new Leaf. Let's just forget it.
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Ever happened. That's not how God forgives and
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a popular preacher once said. And I looked it up just to make
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sure if it's still up there and it's still up there.
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So it's still a public thing and as pastors who specially deal
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with the truth and Have to protect people from those ideas
51:36
that are not true. I have to tell you this, there's
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a popular Pastor. Maybe you've heard this who said
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something along the lines of that God broke his law.
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And the Name of Love. Did you hear it?
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God broke his law in the Name of Love.
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And the idea there is that I'm guessing because it wasn't
52:03
clarified, so you're leaving me to speculate with such a strong,
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strong commentary of the Gospel that God performs, some kind of
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Injustice against the sun in order to find a way to forgive
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all of us and to restore us unto himself.
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God didn't break his law. To display his love, he
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satisfied the law, that's the gospel.
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The wisdom of the Cross is that Justice and mercy kissed, And
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that God could uphold his Holiness while at the same time,
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extend his mercy and neither of those attributes were ever
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compromised one bit. So God did not suspend his
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Justice in order to see more loving to sinners, no, he
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satisfied. His wrath in order for us to
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experience his loving kindness That's the idea.
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And so to hear what this woman has to say, is partly true that
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there has been a plan provided a means so that the banished one
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will not remain an outcast, but not at the expense of the law
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being ignored or neglected or Worse violated.
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And so we see here that no moral code was ever ever, ever deleted
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in order to win our pardon know. He was able to satisfy his
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Justice while swinging the door of Mercy, wide open for us to
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come right in But one might object and this is where I want
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you to be equipped. Well, that sounds nice.
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But is it really fair for the son of God?
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To be killed on behalf of those who have sinned themselves and
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have a record of their own to deal with.
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Is that really just forgot to send his son into place?
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The sin of the world from Adam up to the final person who will
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live before it all ends Can we say that?
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That is right? How would you answer that?
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Because that's a common question.
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Isn't that good? Can I tell you the reason?
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Can I tell you the answer? It's in one verse and it's one
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of my favorite statements that Jesus ever made while walking on
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the earth, John 10 verse 18, no one takes it from me.
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But I lay it down of my own accord.
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No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord.
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And then he goes on to say that he has the authority to lay down
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and he has the authority to bring it right up again.
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Glory to Jesus Christ. I volunteer my life.
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I willingly lay down my life. I like Isaac.
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Isaac, the greater Isaac carry the would willingly.
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Up to that mountain and lay myself down on that Altar and
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willingly opened myself up. To the dagger of God to pierce
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me so that atonement can be made.
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It realized that Isaac was not 9 years old when he was being led
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by the father to go up into those mountains of Moriah.
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He had to be old enough to carry the wood, and if he was old
55:44
enough to carry the wood and have a conversation with his
55:46
father, with important observation, how there's there's
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obviously sacrifice missing, then he also had the strength
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and the independence to roll off that altar.
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Once you realize that she is the sacrifice but he didn't.
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He silently and submissively stayed in place.
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That's Christ. Now, we can make a case that it
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is unjust for somebody to be kicking and screaming being
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pulled by a judge though, perfect to pay for those who are
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imperfect. But what do you do with somebody
56:22
who says, A body, you have prepared for me.
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This is why I've come. I'm saying that I have come to
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be a ransom for many. Not to be served but to serve.
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What do you do when the sun enters into our world with the
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sole purpose of dying? And so we see here that there's
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something very questionable about how the mercy of God is
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interpreted. And secondly, we see something
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else and our brother mentioned it.
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There is no repentance in all of this.
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There is no call for Absalom to realize his wrong.
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And to admit, there's no confession, There's No Remorse.
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There is no conversation about this, there's no rebuke nothing.
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What job is say, just bring him back let's just avoid potential
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problems here. And just bring him back and
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let's just move on with all this.
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The longer he stays out there. The more things can come about
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and let's just cut it. And let's just just deal with
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this. And I deal with it the way that
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we should deal with it. There is no evidence from this
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moment on that Absalom ever does share.
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Any kind of sense of guilt. He's able to just move on, like,
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it's nothing and though, listen, you, and I are all called to
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forgive from the heart. You know that, right?
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Every single one of us are called to forgive from our
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heart, but reconciliation is contingent upon repentance.
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I know that might shock you but it is true.
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If you want New Testament evidence for that, go to Luke 17
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on your own time and realized that when Jesus talks about
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restoring a brother who sins multiple times a day, he
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includes a word that Luke really likes in his gospel account.
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It's a word repent. If somebody repents and you
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rebuke him. And he realizes wrong and vows
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to turn away from the wrong, then you can embrace them again.
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Do you know why repentance is important for reconciliation?
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There are many reasons why and here's one of them because
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someone who is in the wrong and wants to hold onto their wrong,
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must learn that they cannot enjoy holy relationships without
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forsaking corruption first. That is true for between two
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parties and that is true, even on a local church level.
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When somebody refuses to repent, The ultimate punishment of
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somebody refuses to repent and a local church setting is that
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they are excommunicated. Because in God's wisdom, he will
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not allow in his love for his child, to think that they can
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claim the Privileges of the Holy people of God.
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While placing your address in Satan's territory.
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Just can't you got to pick one or the other and in hoping that
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once they go out into the world and they are released into the
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world, realizing how cold and cruel and ugly.
59:31
It really is, they would then come back in the church.
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Should be ready to embrace them again.
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So we do a disservice to the sanctification of people.
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If we are willing to continually reconcile with them void of
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repentance, it's actually more harmful than it is anything
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else. And what you see here is that
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reconciliation without repentance.
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Additionally is a recipe for repeated offense.
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Can I say that one more time? Reconciliation, without
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repentance is a recipe for repeated, not just repeat it.
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But even growing offense, And so there is a responsibility and
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not to satisfy a niche of the flesh because you and I believer
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have to be ready even multiple times a day.
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According to the words of Jesus that if somebody repents that
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you say I you have my, you have my love, you have my fellowship,
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you have my attention. at the same time, if someone refuses to
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Then you have an obligation to refrain.
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From giving access to that person the way they would want.
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While also wanting their sin. And here's a prime example, if
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we forsake that kind of wisdom it's in 2nd Samuel 14.
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Look at verse 33. Look at how this chapter ends.
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We're not gonna be able to, obviously finish this unless you
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want to stay feel like 11:30. We're not going to do that.
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And second Samuel 14:33. Notice what happens, then Joy
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have went to the king and told them and he summoned Absalom.
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So he came to the king and bowed himself on his face to the
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ground before the king and the King kissed Absalom.
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That's a problem. That's a problem.
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This is extremely problematic because Absalom, with all of
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this was still in an unrepented State and the Father Here, gives
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them a kiss of approval, it kiss of Pardon really And that kiss
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permitted, Absalom to have full range, access to the world and
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the life that he knew before he was banished.
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And you know what, you see in a very few short verses after this
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happened, go to chapter 15 and look at verse 6.
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Thus Absalom did to all Israel. Who came to the king for a
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judgment. So, Absalom stole the hearts of
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the men of Israel. Do you know what happened?
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You know, what's going to happen?
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Civil War is going to break out. Civil War is going to break out
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and it had it happened because David was deceived and thinking
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that reconciliation, without rebuke reconciliation without
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repentance, would bring some kind of piece.
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You would think that this gesture would humble such a man.
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and overwhelm him, but instead, He's going to bring more harm
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than he ever did before and instead now only is he going to
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rip a nation? Into shreds, he's going to
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destroy himself. So you see we don't do people
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favors when we give them access to the fellowship.
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The Bible allows us to enjoy when we come together with the
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same cause and the same fight, we don't do people service when
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we say, you can hold onto your sin and still have all of this.
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Now, only are you going to bring more harm to the context of your
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life but to that very person that you're trying to help
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Because Absalom is going to end up dying unrepentant.
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So you see in the same way that God does not Bend Justice to
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bring us to himself, he also does not excuse unrepentant for
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reconciliation sake. So everything about what this
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woman of Tekoa, saying flags flags flags.
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It sounds good, it's very heart moving.
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But it's not completely true. And here's the problem.
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In verse 18, after she continues and concludes her whole spiel.
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Then the king answered the woman do not hide from me.
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Anything I asked you and the woman said, let my Lord the king
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speak then King said is the hand of job with you in all of this.
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So some kind of fog was lifted and he was able to realize makes
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you wanted. This is twice.
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Now it happened right? You had Nathan come with a
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parable like story and then you end up pulling something out of
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you and you get yourself in trouble and now this woman comes
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and sheep. He probably forgot.
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This is not fictitious most likely and so now he's wondering
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There's somebody behind the scenes here and he says his job
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behind all this. The woman answered and said uh
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sure Lea's you live the Lord, the king one cannot turn to the
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right hand or to the left. From anything that my Lord the
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King has said, it was your servant job.
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Who commanded me. It is he put all these words in
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the mouth of your servant. In order to change the course of
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things or serving job job did this but my Lord has wisdom like
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the wisdom of the angel of God, to know, all these things that
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are on the earth. I would say the same thing,
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probably if I realized that, although I got caught, you're
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like the angel of God. You're so wise, you're so
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amazing. Here's, here's the thing, we can
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praise David for his discernment but I can't do that.
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You know why? Because I think his questioning
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was too late. David, you should ask those
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questions before. You should have put aside your
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feelings, you should have put aside your subjective issues and
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reasonings and thoughts and investigated.
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And waited. I see you and I in this day, we
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are called to such wisdom. So happy that Pastor Daniel read
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about wisdom and Proverbs for, I think this is the beauty of
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Bible studies like this. It's extremely practical for
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day-to-day life. And we are living in a day of
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exaggeration. We are living in a day of an
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emotional. Tornado.
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And it's going to demand us to make decisions about our
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convictions about who we fellowship with about what,
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where we go, what we do, what we say, what we don't say.
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And we will get ourselves in trouble, unless we apply the
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wisdom of God's word, to be our shield.
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And to be our filter in this world, And so I look at David
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here and he asked the question, but he's already stuck.
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He can't get out of it. He invoked the name of God and
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so he has to go through with it. So be reminded believer in this
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place that stories like this have been given to preserve us
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from similar mistakes. And that when it does come to a
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point in life, where you have to make the right decision as
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difficult as it may seem realize that in those moments of dilemma
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where you are pondering, what I should do that, the enemy is
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right there to tempt you to make the wrong decision.
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He'll put fear in you. He'll convince you that God's
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law seems inconsiderate and overwhelming.
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He'll try to persuade you that. If you do it this way, which
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violates God's law, it will protect your future and it will
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cause Less Problems. And so in those moments just
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come to the word of God. And and in those moments where
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the word of God gives you the clear answer trust in what God
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had said. If David would have taken care
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of Absalom, there wouldn't have been a civil war.
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If David had taken care of absent if he had, at least
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confronted him potentially, there would have been repentance
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and in David wouldn't have to whoa himself.
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Absalom Absalom. Oh my son and wish that you had
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died instead of him perhaps because you have an idea of
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where he went after he died. So here's the final thought I'm
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giving to you on this Friday night at all times in
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everything. No matter how difficult it may
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seem to do that which is right, do it.
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God's word is true and the result of obedience is always
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better than what you think, might come.
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If you just do it your way, trust in the Lord, he will lead
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you. He will reward you, he will
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bless you in all things at all times.
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Amen, let's pray together. Lord, we humble ourselves
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tonight. I know there's so much meat in
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this chapter. We trust that what you desire to
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speak to our hearts has been accomplished Lord, with all of
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our weaknesses, we pray that what has been presented and
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studied and discussed together would indeed affect us.
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And there we even pray that. For those who will have to face
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difficulty in doing the right thing that this study, will come
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to mind this example in your Eternal Word with surface in the
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Forefront of our thinking. And that we would be encouraged
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to know and equipped to know. That this has happened before
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with many men and women of God. And you have prescribed us
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exactly what we need in order to avoid the worst outcomes.
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And Lord even though we can't see the outcome of our obedience
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help us believe you. And may your honor be our reward
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more than anything else. What we ask for discernment in
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this age, the sermon in our lives?
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we ask that you even helped us not fall into the Trap of
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decorating. Our truths with falsehood so
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that it can be more appealing or convincing but we pray that we
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would not give in to our emotions to determine what is
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right and what is wrong. And we ask Lord that you would
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give us the hunger for the word of God that would help us be
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able to see past the surface of all the the Showmanship around
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us. And so what we give you glory
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tonight for this study we are moved to worship you because
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this is your wisdom given to us. And we are privileged to be
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adorned with these things that will help us glorify you
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tomorrow. And the day after, for the rest
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of our lives, Lord receive our praise because it will be a
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praise of Thanksgiving for the feast that second, Samuel 14 has
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been to us tonight. We bless you now.
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In Jesus name we do. Amen.
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Amen. Shall we stand?
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And give God glory.