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It's always great to see you on 
a Friday evening. 

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And I'm glad that you're here 
tonight for this particular 

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chapter. 
Because it is a very important. 

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One for many reasons, as you 
will discover that the subject 

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of our study, this evening is 
perhaps the most infamous scene 

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pertaining to David's life. 
You have heard me say different 

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points throughout our studying 
first and second Samuel, that 

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when we come to a certain event 
or occurrence, I mentioned how 

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this will be a pivotal moment 
for David and in some cases for 

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the nation of Israel as a whole 
and I'm going to say that again 

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tonight. 
I'm going to say that again for 

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this chapter and add to that 
that what is going to take place

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in these verses. 
Will bring about results unlike 

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anything else before after this 
notorious episode and it won't 

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be for the good. 
After you and I complete chapter

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11 and chapter 12, you're going 
to notice something for the rest

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of. 
The second Samuel, what you're 

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going to see is that there will 
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And heartbreaking series of 
crimes scandals. 

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Betrayals feuds division. 
And it will have an impact 

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Beyond David's own household. 
It will Ripple into society 

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itself and you might be 
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case and a major contribution to
the chaos that will ensue is 

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because David is about to now 
execute a series of Unthinkable 

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actions. 
That will trigger a lifetime of 

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repercussions. 
This is a serious chapter 2 

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solemn chapter. 
It's a dark chapter. 

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David is going to have a moral 
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And this moral failure will 
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In fact, it will come to the 
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even beyond that. 
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And all of this is is going to 
be an upsetting reporting as 

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upsetting as it is. 
It's just a testament to the 

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Integrity of the word of God. 
The Bible is not just a book of 

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Truth. 
The Bible tells the truth, And 

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the Holy Spirit because we 
believe this book is inspired by

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the holy spirit because he is 
the true author and he has used 

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human vessels throughout time, 
he in his power and his wisdom 

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potentially restricted, the 
authors of this book to hide the

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failures of their hero Heroes 
and even their own shortcomings 

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and we should praise God for 
that because it's through these 

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failures and these descriptions 
of Falls that we get to glean 

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wisdom. 
Mm, and we get to prevent these 

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disasters from occurring in our 
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If we if we have ears to hear 
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in second Samuel chapter 11, is 
that this is going to be a 

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serious Crossroads for the rest 
of this narrative and it's all 

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going to begin with the act of 
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Where a man will take somebody 
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Intercourse and our intimacy. 
That is illegitimate, that's 

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where it's all going to start. 
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tonight is what we Endeavor to 
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this and realize, this is this 
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And so we don't choose our 
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That's the beauty of verse by 
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We just honor what God puts 
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book and we stick to it, no 
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to hear know how difficult it 
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apply. 
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best in mind for us and we just 
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So I want to say this from the 
from the beginning before I read

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because our Bible study tonight,
it's only going to be the first 

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five verses we can rush to this.
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don't do that. 
We take our time to digest all 

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that God has to say. 
I want to say, by mentioning 

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this that the sin of adultery is
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accident. 
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Only the ugly fruit of previous 
unchecked failures that have 

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overtime work together to cause 
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And the purpose of this study 
tonight is to examine the 

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contributions to this. 
Great fall in David's life. 

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You see what the Holy Spirit 
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is to show us what went wrong 
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important for us to grasp 
because as we examine these 

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things, we will in return. 
Be able to examine what can 

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corrode and what can actually 
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all temptation, especially the 
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Tatian in regards to the 
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Sexual morality is a growing 
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but in the church statistics are
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And when I learned early on in 
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church are indulging in and what
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they say, 50% of pastors are 
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Pornography 50% And then we 
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seeing the power of God? 
Like we should be. 

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And so this is vital because in 
my personal study of the first 

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five verses I was able to find 
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this moral failure. 
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these contributions to this 
agonizing sin it will help us be

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prepared, be guarded, be alert, 
but that's how I want you to 

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have a lens. 
As I read these verses as it is 

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our practice. 
I'm going to read these five 

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verses and you they mention 
other details but I want you 

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with eyes to see what is it? 
That went wrong and David's life

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at this point of his life and 
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life that encouraged him to 
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So freely and so pay attention. 
I hope you have a copy of God's 

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word in your hand and we're 
going to pray and ask the Lord 

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to help us with this study and 
trust that it will build our 

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faith for his glory. 
Lord, we know that this text is 

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dark. 
It may be disturbing. 

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But you have given it to us 
because love warns. 

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And we just thank you in advance
for why you have given us this 

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tax and how in your Providence 
it has come before us on this 

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Friday evening. 
So Lord we just pray for a 

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special assistance from the 
spirit of wisdom and revelation.

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That it may rest upon the 
ministry of the word and that we

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may be built up. 
As a result in Jesus is 

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matchless precious glorious. 
Holy name. 

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We pray. 
Amen. 

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Second Samuel chapter 11. 
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In the spring of the year, the 
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battle, David sent joab, and her
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Israel. 
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and besieged. 
Rabbah, but David remained a 

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Jerusalem. 
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when David arose from his couch 
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the King's house that he saw 
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A woman bathing And the woman 
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rather than David sent and 
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And one said, is this not 
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the wife of Uriah, the hittite. 
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took her and she came to him and
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purifying herself from her 
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returned to her house and the 
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told David. 
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Not very inspiring but very 
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Is there anything that stands 
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Yes. 
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war, but he remained at home. 
We're going to see why that is a

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problem in a moment. 
Anything else? 

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Yes. 
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He committed adultery. 
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there that led to that? 
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So the in the gate indication 
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that he bounced his eyes and 
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in her in her own home. 
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gaze. 
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Because he was able to register 
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She was beautiful and we're 
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extremely dangerous. 
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Even upon the report of The Men 
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that did not deter him from 
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Yes, Yes. 
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be laying around in your couch 
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That's a dangerous sign. 
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You guys are touching on all 
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Yes. 
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servants, they're not stupid if 
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On, what's Happening early on? 
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registered when a woman came to 
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by themselves. 
And there's a lot to say about 

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that. 
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it's very difficult to correct, 
somebody in power, isn't it? 

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For a lot of people it is, 
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man of God, and they have a 
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much for God, it's very 
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to stand up for righteousness 
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influence. 
That's a great observation. 

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The servants seem to be 
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Yes, Very good observation. 
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David here. 
Are we not? 

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And yes, it's true. 
That he is the instigator but 

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Bathsheba seems to show very 
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It takes two to tango my 
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Yes. 
Yes, worries. 

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Yes. 
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And as I said earlier, you don't
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adultery or sexual morality for 
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Yes. 
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Isn't that interesting? 
I was originally sent wonderful 

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to come to Bible study to find 
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Why is it mentioning here at the
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4 that she was? 
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her uncleanness? 
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That's a levitical law and it's 
an indication of well, you'll 

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find out, you'll find out but 
good, good observation, maybe 

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one or two more. 
Yes, Carl. 

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Yeah, that's an interesting 
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Well, I think their shame here 
think there's embarrassment 

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here, think there's regret, I 
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just the beginning of the pangs 
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And as maybe we find one more if
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buzzing here there's a buzzing 
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Maybe you don't hear it but I do
hear it. 

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And maybe as I go along, they'll
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Maybe that won't happen. 
But yeah, if you can help with 

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it, I'd be wonderful. 
Maybe one more observation. 

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Yes. 
Say that again. 

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Oh, what? 
So you have to speak up if you 

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don't mind. 
When he was bored. 

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Yeah. 
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That's great. 
Yeah, boredom. 

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Yeah, there's boredom. 
You're absolutely. 

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And you had something sister. 
Yes, he does have a few wives. 

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In fact, a numerous amount of 
wives, great observation. 

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Why? 
I think you guys just finished 

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the Bible said I don't really 
need to continue. 

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We can just wrap up sing a 
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won't because we're going to 
expand on the very things that 

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you just mentioned. 
And so I told you today that 

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there is five factors not just 
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I mean I would say four of them 
are here but one is connected to

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To what's happening here. 
That is completely related to 

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David. 
And so if you're a note-taker or

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if you just have this wonderful 
gift of retaining things in your

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mind, pay attention because we 
want to look at these failures. 

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That contributed to this 
ultimate failure and failure. 

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Number one, Is not found in 
these verses, but it is 

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something that is observed when 
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David's life and that is this, 
the failure to deal with 

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unrestrained passions, early on 
the failure to deal with 

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unrestrained passions, early on,
we have familiarize ourselves 

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with David enough to know as our
sister just said that although 

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he was a spiritually strong man,
he did find himself. if wanting 

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in one very important aspect, 
this man had great conviction 

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for much of the law. 
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he failed in it, it was in his 
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marriage. 
He fell short and he's 

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commendable for his convictions 
and other places. 

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But when it came to the 
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he was somebody who was severely
lacking in the number of wives 

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that David had and accumulated 
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his adult life is telling its 
evidence that he did not have 

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self-control in the area of 
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And so we look at this and we 
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having two wives and having to 
let to having multiple and who 

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would have thought that having 
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lead him to taking somebody 
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here because it is absolutely 
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See, when we see what happens 
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wife, that is not something 
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something that just spring up 
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It is a result and it stemmed 
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whole belief system. 
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pay attention tonight that who 
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invest in yourself or lack of 
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Today will determine who you'll 
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behave. 
That is a rule for every element

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and every aspect of life 
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with sexual Temptation. 
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struggles and who is weak in the
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whether it's promiscuity, 
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whether it's being 
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think that at some point that's 
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dangerously mistaken, 
dangerously mistaken. 

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Lust is something that can never
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When it is fed. 
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urges, I'll tell you what 
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Your only strengthening your 
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strengthening your appetite. 
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God's design for sexuality will 
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blessing of it, when you step 
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inherit messiness and that is 
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pornography. 
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exploring and in an opening 
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and extreme versions of it. 
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blunt their appetite and then 
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of That brings a shock to them. 
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David is a prime example that if
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that Temptation down by giving 
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could snap his finger and have 
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still left him wanting and 
chasing and planning and 

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scheming. 
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in this area because they view 
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just giving into it because we 
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equated to being thirsty or 
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by not drinking or by not 
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giving over into yourself into 
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tormenting as it might be to. 
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actually survive to your dying 
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any point. 
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this culture that you can't live
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That this is the, the prime 
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And so people just, they just 
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people who have innocent 
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Behavior, but oh, once they get 
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solved. 
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savior for sexual sin Christ is 
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that person and you and you you 
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with that person. 
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you allow, previously is not 
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into your marriage and that's 
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time. 
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pornography and you have the 
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Kill that thing before you even 
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Kill that thing before you even 
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telling you the spouse will not 
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Only the Holy Spirit can. 
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these things early on, because 
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natural means will not work and 
what we learned before we even 

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come to, these verses is a 
universal principle that God has

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established in Galatians 6:7, 
whatever one shows that will he 

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also reap And for so long, he's 
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something. 
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and exciting whenever I see a 
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compliments me and gives me, 
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excitement and exuberance and I 
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I add her to the list of my 
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Now it's manifesting in a new 
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do here is because of his lack 
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years. and so realize again, 
that your War would sin today is

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an investment for your Victory 
tomorrow and your leniency for 

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sin today could be the 
investment of great collapse 

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that is unforeseen failure, 
number one that led to this Was 

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the inability to restrain 
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of the spirit. 
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failure in verse 1 and the 
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when kings go out to battle 
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with him and all Israel and they
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besieged. 
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we're going to touch on at the 
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assignment tonight, let's 
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The last sentence of this verse.
But David remained. 

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At Jerusalem the same verse 
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This is a problem when kings. 
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battle. 
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David had to duty. 
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the battlefield. 
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to go to war. 
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every year, have seasons. 
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the technology to go to war 
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Or during stormy Seasons, they 
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When the ground would be drying,
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Weather seems strange to us. 
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David was supposed to be out on 
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staying in his bedroom. 
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I mean, we can, we can give many
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justified. 
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maybe he's getting old and he 
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this anymore. 
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but he still was a commander and
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is neglecting his god-given 
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And here's the point here, when 
anybody has a casual attitude 

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towards the will of God, they 
always leave the door unlocked 

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for temptation to kick, open. 
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protective when you and I are 
actively engaged in what God has

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called us to do when you go 
beyond this idea, that God just 

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saved me so I can get to heaven.
But he also deposited something 

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in me so that I can serve him on
the earth when you get to that 

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point, that's a wonderful 
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She realized that you've been 
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Heaven here on Earth. 
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something of me that has been 
fashioned to fill a position 

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that nobody else does or can. 
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There's Hope there their Zeal 
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There's there's purpose there 
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that, here's what begins to 
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You begin to become open to 
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vein passions. 
So people who don't take the 

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will of God, seriously are the 
most susceptible to the world 

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seductions and fleshly impulses 
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And so I think here, this is a 
great place to ask a very 

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pressing question for all of us 
at this Bible study, you ready? 

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Am I where I'm supposed to be? 
When it comes to the will of God

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for my life notice. 
I didn't say are you perfect? 

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I'm asking you what path you're 
on. 

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What path are you on? 
What do you see? 

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Even though you can't see the 
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What steps are you? 
Taking that can give you the 

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confidence that I am in the will
of God. 

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What's your relationship with 
the word of God? 

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Like You know Kings were called 
to write down the law and to 

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read it day and night. 
They were supposed to have a 

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copy of God's word. 
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to Christ, and we should adopt 
Royal principles and 

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disciplines. 
What's your relationship like 

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with the word of God? 
What's your relationship with 

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prayer? 
What's your prayer life? 

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Like, ready for this one? 
What's your relationship with 

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the local church? 
What's are you obeying? 

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The will of God and how you 
should relate to the local 

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church. 
Are your gifts collecting dust 

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or are they opening up and being
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See you have to consider that 
and if you can't say, I don't 

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know, I don't know, I don't 
know, I don't know, you're in 

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jeopardy. 
You're in Jeopardy. 

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David is in a dangerous place 
right now because David is not 

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where Christ called them to be 
and Christ promises you. 

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And I a particular joy that can 
only be found on the path of 

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obedience, and when you don't 
walk in obedience, you miss out 

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on that joy. 
And when you miss out on that 

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Joy, you are willing to make 
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In other things to satisfy you. 
In January this year, it will 

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be. 
I believe, 11 years of walking 

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with the Lord for me personally 
because I got saved the 2012 of 

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January. 
Can I tell you something these 

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11 years? 
He's never failed to satisfy me.

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Never never failed. 
I can tell you 100 failures of 

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the false promises of this world
but I can guarantee you that 

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Christ has never failed to 
fulfill me. 

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Am I different? 
Am I an alien? 

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No, I'm Flesh. 
And Blood just like you and I 

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testify confidently that Christ 
satisfies. 

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And here's a principle that I 
give people, especially in the 

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area of sexual Temptation. 
And I hope that this is a life 

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verse for you in the Book of 
Proverbs, it's in chapter 27 and

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verse 7, and I want you to see 
it in your own Bible so that you

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can have it embedded on your 
soul. 

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Chapter 27, verse 7 of proverbs.
27 verse 7, one who is full 

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loathes honey. 
But to one who is hungry. 

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Everything bitter is sweet one. 
Who is full loads honey, but one

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who is hungry, everything 
bitter. 

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Is sweet. 
When people begin to feel the 

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intensification of exploration 
of worldly, Goods. 

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I know one thing about that 
person. 

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They're hungry. 
And the substance that should be

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filling them in Christ is 
lacking. 

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And we are all wired to know 
contentment. 

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Or else, what's this Pursuit of 
Happiness that people are on? 

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The the pursuit is not wrong, 
it's the object that's wrong, 

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right? 
But the person who is full in 

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God, he can walk by a buffet of 
Temptation and not even look 

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twice because he's already at 
rest. 

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And so here is the joy. 
He is the, here's the goodness 

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of God, that when you are 
satisfied in him, it keeps you 

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from lurking and looking for 
things that even if you know, 

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it's bitter but because you have
nothing else going on, you need 

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to fill that void. 
So you begin to now taste here 

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and there and it's actually 
poisonous, it's bitter. 

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So the solution here is deeper 
than then, this is right, and 

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this is wrong, you're not 
satisfied, you're not satisfied.

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Well, it's because my wife has 
been like this lately is because

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my husband's by Lego City. 
No, no, you're not satisfied in 

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God. 
It's as simple as that. 

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Don't give me any excuses down 
deep inside. 

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That's the core reason why you 
are flirting with this sin. 

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And so you. 
And I have to understand here, 

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that David being outside of the 
will of God is a recipe. 

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For something that he's about to
indulge in that will hurt him 

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and bite back failure. 
A failure to be diligent in the 

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duty that God has called him and
his called you the closer you 

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are to the will of God, the 
further, you will be away from 

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temptation. 
But the moment you Veer off, 

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you're in dangerous territory. 
So here's the thing, people ask 

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me. 
Do you have devotion? 

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I didn't feel like it's not a 
matter of what you feel. 

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Can I tell you what? 
It's a matter of survival, I 

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don't feel like it, who cares, 
huh? 

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Doesn't matter. 
It's a matter of you surviving. 

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That's what it is and if you 
have that mentality realized, 

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00:30:01,700 --> 00:30:04,700
what if I don't cling to you if 
I don't stay close to you, I 

455
00:30:04,700 --> 00:30:07,900
will invite things. 
I I'm capable of doing anything 

456
00:30:07,900 --> 00:30:10,200
all know David here. 
This is King David, the 

457
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,800
psalmist, the worship leader. 
The Men Who had Faith. 

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00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,000
Unlike any other Israel. 
This man was susceptible being 

459
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,900
outside of the will of God. 
Be careful, stay close to him. 

460
00:30:20,500 --> 00:30:23,300
Stay close to him. 
That's the second failure. 

461
00:30:23,300 --> 00:30:25,000
A failure to be diligent in our 
duty. 

462
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,100
The first one was a failure to 
deal with unrestrained passions 

463
00:30:28,100 --> 00:30:29,700
early. 
On now we come to the third one.

464
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:33,300
The third failure that led to 
this ultimate failure, a failure

465
00:30:33,300 --> 00:30:39,100
to conquer idleness. 
It's very similar to the second 

466
00:30:39,100 --> 00:30:40,900
point, but it's worth mentioning
on its own. 

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00:30:41,300 --> 00:30:45,000
It Happened One late afternoon. 
When David arose from his couch 

468
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,000
some translations as we heard 
says evening. 

469
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,700
It's not uncommon than nor is it
in different parts of the world 

470
00:30:52,700 --> 00:30:57,400
today, for people to wake up, 
very early, work hard. 

471
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:01,500
And then to have a siesta, a 
nap, the hottest period of the 

472
00:31:01,500 --> 00:31:06,200
day and wake up and go back to 
work, but the holy spirit is 

473
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:10,400
very specific in highlighting 
that David resting on his couch 

474
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,400
is not a result of a long, an 
early day of work because he's 

475
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:17,600
not at work one and two It 
Happened. 

476
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,400
One late. 
Late afternoon close to the 

477
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:24,400
evening time that we find David 
on his bed. 

478
00:31:26,700 --> 00:31:30,200
Laziness doesn't always lead to 
lust but it definitely 

479
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,000
encourages it. 
See what we see here. 

480
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:34,400
Is this man is lounging around 
the house. 

481
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:40,100
He's extensively sleeping. 
He's browsing in his Palace and 

482
00:31:40,100 --> 00:31:44,300
you've often heard it said that.
If the devil can't make you bad 

483
00:31:44,300 --> 00:31:46,900
he'll make you busy, right? 
Have you heard that before the 

484
00:31:46,900 --> 00:31:49,100
devil can't make you bad? 
He'll make you busy, but you got

485
00:31:49,100 --> 00:31:51,200
to realize there's another side 
to the issue. 

486
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,600
And here it is. 
If you and I are not hard at 

487
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,100
work, we give the devil some 
work to do. 

488
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:04,000
So there's two extremes, right? 
We can become so busy with our 

489
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,100
worldly responsibilities that we
forget our Heavenly calling, but

490
00:32:07,100 --> 00:32:13,300
you and I can also be So 
distracted, so laid-back that 

491
00:32:13,300 --> 00:32:16,300
the lack of work in our lives, 
the lack of the sweat of the 

492
00:32:16,300 --> 00:32:19,000
brow, the lack of being focused 
on having a mission and 

493
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,800
assignments, gives Satan 
something to work with. 

494
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,600
I don't think we consider that 
as a danger. 

495
00:32:26,700 --> 00:32:28,800
But can I tell you something at 
this bible study this Friday 

496
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,400
night. 
Yes, lazy Christians are 

497
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:35,300
dangerous. 
Lazy Christians are dangerous. 

498
00:32:35,700 --> 00:32:39,500
There are danger onto themselves
and they are a danger to the 

499
00:32:39,500 --> 00:32:43,300
health of the local church. 
You have to just read the 

500
00:32:43,300 --> 00:32:47,600
Epistles to see that if there is
a disruption or a distraction in

501
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,200
a home, in a circle of friends 
are in a congregation. 

502
00:32:50,500 --> 00:32:55,000
There is a high chance that the 
source you ready for this is 

503
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,600
someone who is not given to 
daily responsibilities. 

504
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:01,600
And has a lot of time on their 
hands. 

505
00:33:03,500 --> 00:33:05,900
I want to show you how that's 
true, not just for sexual sin. 

506
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,400
I want to, I want to show you 
how it's true even for different

507
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,700
types of sin, go to the epistle.
First Timothy in chapter 5. 

508
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:25,100
A failure to conquer idleness. 
in 1st, Timothy Chapter 5 and in

509
00:33:25,100 --> 00:33:32,700
verse 13, Paul is speaking about
young widows in the church and 

510
00:33:32,708 --> 00:33:36,400
he's giving Timothy instructions
of who to enroll and who not to 

511
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:42,200
enroll in the financial support 
Ministry and Paul reserves. 

512
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:46,800
The younger widows who have lost
their husbands from being a part

513
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:50,600
of that contribution system for 
different reasons. 

514
00:33:51,900 --> 00:33:55,600
And he speaks about the danger 
of their youth and the danger of

515
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:59,700
their single status. 
And in this verse, in verse 13, 

516
00:33:59,900 --> 00:34:03,400
he's going to mention something 
about the manifestation of their

517
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:07,500
lack of maturity. 
And it's really an insight about

518
00:34:07,500 --> 00:34:09,699
the danger of idleness. 
So, you're there in first, 

519
00:34:09,699 --> 00:34:13,300
Timothy 513. 
Let's read besides that, they 

520
00:34:13,300 --> 00:34:14,400
learn. 
It's talking about the young 

521
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:19,900
widows to be idlers going about 
from house to house and not only

522
00:34:19,900 --> 00:34:23,699
idle hours but also God. 
Ships and busybodies saying, 

523
00:34:23,699 --> 00:34:30,100
what they should not. 
What Paul is saying, Timothy, be

524
00:34:30,100 --> 00:34:33,000
careful and enrolling younger 
widows because, look, how they 

525
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:36,500
use their free time instead of 
caring for The Afflicted. 

526
00:34:36,500 --> 00:34:39,600
Instead of washing the feet of 
the Saints, instead of utilizing

527
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,500
that free time to be devoted to 
the Lord, and being like Anna, 

528
00:34:42,500 --> 00:34:45,300
who came to the temple. 
And she was an older Widow, but 

529
00:34:45,300 --> 00:34:48,300
she fasted and prayed. 
Instead of doing those things, 

530
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:53,199
they are on a campaign of going 
from house to house to house and

531
00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:56,800
in our contacts, ready for this 
from group chat to text group to

532
00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:00,000
this or that. 
From Instagram to Snapchat, too.

533
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,200
I don't know what else is out 
there. 

534
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:04,300
And are saying things that they 
shouldn't be saying. 

535
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:12,300
And here he highlights. 
That this is dangerous because 

536
00:35:12,300 --> 00:35:18,000
their free time is luring them 
to be nosey to be investigative 

537
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,500
to look into the Affairs of 
other people's lives and because

538
00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:22,900
they don't have much going on in
their own lives. 

539
00:35:22,900 --> 00:35:25,000
They are caught up with what 
people are doing with their own.

540
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,900
And so, they sit and they talk, 
and they bring reports and, and 

541
00:35:29,900 --> 00:35:32,800
then gossip and shoes and now 
slander comes and fabricated 

542
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,700
stories. 
And all of us in here, know the 

543
00:35:35,700 --> 00:35:40,500
capabilities and the collateral 
damage that can come from a 

544
00:35:40,500 --> 00:35:43,100
group of people who can sit down
and say things that they 

545
00:35:43,100 --> 00:35:46,700
shouldn't be saying. 
And Paul is warning about this 

546
00:35:46,700 --> 00:35:49,600
danger, because they have 
nothing to do. 

547
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:51,600
They're going to do something 
often times. 

548
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:54,600
When you're not doing something 
good and idleness, simply means 

549
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:58,600
avoiding to do work. 
When you're avoiding genuine 

550
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:02,100
responsibility, god-given 
conduct, you're going to embrace

551
00:36:02,100 --> 00:36:05,200
other other vices. 
And so, he wants to avoid this 

552
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:08,500
problem because he knows the 
power of this in a negative 

553
00:36:08,500 --> 00:36:11,100
sense in the congregation. 
So, you know, what Paul solution

554
00:36:11,100 --> 00:36:13,500
is you ready for this? 
It's not, well, they better be 

555
00:36:13,500 --> 00:36:15,300
praying and fasting. 
Well, if they're not given the 

556
00:36:15,308 --> 00:36:18,000
Themselves to spiritual 
discipline if they're not called

557
00:36:18,100 --> 00:36:19,900
to celibacy. 
If they don't have the gift of 

558
00:36:19,900 --> 00:36:22,200
singleness verse 14 is a 
solution. 

559
00:36:22,900 --> 00:36:27,700
So I would have younger widows 
marry Bear, children manage 

560
00:36:27,700 --> 00:36:31,000
their households and give the 
adversary no occasion for 

561
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,400
slander. 
And when he tells Pastor Tim to 

562
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:41,500
do Pastor Tim, tell the young 
ladies to engage in pursuing and

563
00:36:41,500 --> 00:36:48,200
finding a spouse. 
Here's the translation, it's 

564
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:52,800
very difficult for Satan. 
To work through you when you're 

565
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:54,900
worn out serving your husband 
and your children. 

566
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,900
It's very difficult, you give no
occasion to him, and you might 

567
00:36:59,900 --> 00:37:03,900
be thinking, well, I know some 
woman who can still slander and 

568
00:37:03,900 --> 00:37:06,700
gossip and they have a husband 
and they have plenty of kids. 

569
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,000
Can I tell you something? 
Even that, that may be the case,

570
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,300
they're doing it wrong. 
They're doing it wrong. 

571
00:37:13,500 --> 00:37:15,600
Because clearly, they're not 
finding satisfaction and 

572
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,700
discipling their children and 
serving their husband. 

573
00:37:17,900 --> 00:37:20,700
If they still have time to go 
from house to house to how 

574
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:26,300
they're doing it wrong. 
And so look at the preventive, 

575
00:37:26,300 --> 00:37:31,300
wisdom here. 
They need to get busy, they need

576
00:37:31,300 --> 00:37:34,200
to get an alignment with a high 
call of being a wife. 

577
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:38,100
And if they can't have God Wills
to being a mother, let them in. 

578
00:37:38,100 --> 00:37:42,400
Let them get caught up in that. 
So that Satan can see. 

579
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:44,800
I can't deal with this person's 
already fulfilling what God's 

580
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,500
call them to do. 
They're managing the household. 

581
00:37:47,500 --> 00:37:51,400
They're, they're they're serving
their family and so he moves on 

582
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,400
and here's the point. 
It's a principle that a healthy 

583
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:58,000
work ethic provides an extra 
layer of protection. 

584
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:03,100
Ian on the shield of our 
sanctification, when we are 

585
00:38:03,100 --> 00:38:05,700
resisting, the suggestions of 
the enemy. 

586
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:10,100
But listen, when we do not have 
that work ethic, I'm not talking

587
00:38:10,100 --> 00:38:13,500
about Ministry, I'm talking 
about life, making a living 

588
00:38:14,100 --> 00:38:18,300
endeavoring to do things to to 
to make your mind at work. 

589
00:38:18,300 --> 00:38:22,000
Your hands at work for the glory
of God, you weaken. 

590
00:38:23,300 --> 00:38:29,700
Your ability to resist and you 
invite some overpowering ideas 

591
00:38:30,300 --> 00:38:33,000
that can make you captive to the
enemy and actually use it as a 

592
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,000
tool to hurt the church and in 
David's case, can I tell you 

593
00:38:36,008 --> 00:38:37,400
something? 
It would have been much, much 

594
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:41,400
harder for him to look and 
behold at a naked woman. 

595
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:46,800
If his eyes were at War, If his 
eyes were, if he was focusing on

596
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:50,100
the ammonites and strategizing 
with his men, this would never 

597
00:38:50,100 --> 00:38:55,000
have occurred. 
And so I get very concerned when

598
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:58,200
I learn of people who have 
nothing going on in their lives 

599
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:02,400
because something is about to 
occur, it just needs a little 

600
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,900
bit of time. 
This is true for men. 

601
00:39:05,300 --> 00:39:09,800
This is true for women. 
Get busy serving God, get busy. 

602
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:12,700
Doing what you're called to do 
as a Christian in society. 

603
00:39:15,300 --> 00:39:16,800
Too much free time is not good 
time. 

604
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:20,000
Leisure is good. 
Only to strengthen to go back 

605
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:21,400
and do what God's called you to 
do. 

606
00:39:22,300 --> 00:39:26,500
But if you're wondering and just
bouncing around in life, you're 

607
00:39:26,500 --> 00:39:30,200
a liability, a failure to 
conquer idleness. 

608
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:33,500
Actually. 
Contributed to this awful 

609
00:39:33,500 --> 00:39:39,500
decision, A failure to deal with
unrestrained passions, early on 

610
00:39:39,700 --> 00:39:43,400
number to a failure, to be 
diligent in the duties that God 

611
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:46,400
has called you to do. 
Number three, a failure to 

612
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:50,800
conquer idleness. 
Number for the second part of 

613
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:56,000
verse 2. 
It happened late one afternoon 

614
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,100
when David arose from his couch 
and was walking on the roof of 

615
00:39:59,107 --> 00:40:04,200
the King's house that he saw 
from the roof, a woman bathing 

616
00:40:04,500 --> 00:40:10,900
and the woman was very beautiful
Here's David we have no idea 

617
00:40:10,900 --> 00:40:13,000
what he's doing on his roof. 
I know one thing he's bored. 

618
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:15,600
And he's probably surveying the 
city. 

619
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:17,600
Remember he's a king, he's at 
the top of the hill. 

620
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:21,200
He has a few, unlike anybody 
else and as his eyes are 

621
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:25,300
scrolling left to right? 
And up to down in his vision, 

622
00:40:25,300 --> 00:40:30,100
comes what a woman bathing. 
And the impression that we get 

623
00:40:30,100 --> 00:40:35,100
here is not that he sees her and
turns away, but that he's Caesar

624
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:40,100
and he stops. 
And he begins to study her and 

625
00:40:40,100 --> 00:40:43,800
he begins to consider her and 
the conclusion in his mind is I 

626
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:47,700
want her. 
I want her. and so, what we 

627
00:40:47,700 --> 00:40:53,100
learn here is that these 
Irresponsible. 

628
00:40:54,500 --> 00:40:58,300
Eyes, turn into thoughts and 
those thoughts eventually 

629
00:40:58,300 --> 00:41:03,100
morphed into a planned action 
get her for me. 

630
00:41:04,300 --> 00:41:06,400
So it begins with a look, 
there's a knot. 

631
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:13,100
And David himself, knew of the 
power of indulging in that, 

632
00:41:13,100 --> 00:41:17,700
which is worthless Through the 
Windows of these eyes, and he 

633
00:41:17,700 --> 00:41:21,900
failed to take his own advice. 
And I want to show you how David

634
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:26,000
literally pens what he should 
have done. 

635
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:30,600
But he fails to do this is a 
beautiful reference to right in 

636
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:32,000
your Bible. 
If you do right in your Bible, 

637
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:36,900
right beside 2nd Samuel, 12, 
it's in Psalm 101 verse to Psalm

638
00:41:36,900 --> 00:41:39,700
101. 
Verse 2 and verse 3, this is 

639
00:41:39,700 --> 00:41:43,800
like heartbreaking to know that 
David wrote, this under the 

640
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:48,200
inspiration of the Holy Spirit 
and at some point because he had

641
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:51,500
an open-door failed to remember 
what it meant for him. 

642
00:41:52,100 --> 00:41:55,300
Psalm 101 verse 2. 
Here's what David writes. 

643
00:41:58,100 --> 00:42:00,400
I will ponder the way that is 
blameless. 

644
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,300
Oh, when will you come to me? 
Just pause it. 

645
00:42:03,308 --> 00:42:05,000
That's a man. 
Who's hungry after God. 

646
00:42:06,500 --> 00:42:08,900
Oh, when will you come to me? 
Lord, when will you make 

647
00:42:08,900 --> 00:42:11,600
yourself known? 
This is a man who is, who is in 

648
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:16,300
the presence of God, but notice 
what he says, I will walk with 

649
00:42:16,300 --> 00:42:20,800
Integrity of heart within where 
My house. 

650
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:25,800
I will walk with Integrity of 
heart within my house. 

651
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:30,000
Now, look at verse 3. 
I will not set before my eyes. 

652
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:34,800
Anything that is worthless? 
Do you see the connection that 

653
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:38,700
David is making here? 
There is a link between having a

654
00:42:38,700 --> 00:42:43,100
heart of integrity and the 
discipline of not setting 

655
00:42:43,100 --> 00:42:45,800
worthless things before your 
eyes. 

656
00:42:49,300 --> 00:42:52,400
And we can all agree that what 
you put in this mouth in terms 

657
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:57,900
of food will inevitably have an 
effect on the health of your 

658
00:42:57,908 --> 00:43:01,200
body. 
And as that is digested and your

659
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:05,900
stomach distributes, It Whatever
substance goes in there, whether

660
00:43:05,900 --> 00:43:07,900
it's good or bad. 
It's going to, it's going to 

661
00:43:07,900 --> 00:43:14,300
affect you one way or another. 
And in the same way a major 

662
00:43:14,300 --> 00:43:19,300
contribution to our spiritual 
health, is what we indulge in 

663
00:43:19,300 --> 00:43:22,700
with our eyes. 
What you allow your eyes to 

664
00:43:22,700 --> 00:43:27,300
Feast on will have a great 
effect on the overall spiritual 

665
00:43:27,300 --> 00:43:30,800
condition of your pursuit of 
Holiness. 

666
00:43:30,900 --> 00:43:33,700
Holiness, is simply your 
spiritual health. 

667
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:41,300
And David here, knew that listen
are unassisted imaginations, are

668
00:43:41,300 --> 00:43:45,300
enough trouble on their own. 
To add to that, visual 

669
00:43:45,300 --> 00:43:50,800
stimulation will guarantee a 
strengthening to that, which we 

670
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:56,800
must silence and subdue. 
And so, when this man says, I 

671
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,600
will walk with Integrity of 
heart, what he had in mind was 

672
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:03,800
in the privacy of my home. 
I will not even give myself to 

673
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:07,000
looking at that which will harm 
this integrity. 

674
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:10,900
And I want to say something very
serious, but I feel like this is

675
00:44:10,900 --> 00:44:14,900
lacking much of the sexual 
bondage that people are in 

676
00:44:14,900 --> 00:44:20,200
today, began with a prolonged 
look Much of the sexual bondage 

677
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:23,700
that people in our today, began 
with a prolonged look, would it 

678
00:44:23,700 --> 00:44:26,100
be a shock to you for for me to 
say? 

679
00:44:27,700 --> 00:44:31,600
That a person who looked at one 
inappropriate Instagram, post 

680
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:38,600
long enough, LED them into daily
/ nog, Rafi exposure. and 

681
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:42,800
because of that free filth in 
enlarged and appetite where that

682
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:46,000
same person where they started 
with one Instagram, post are now

683
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:51,400
paying for a prostitute, too fat
to satisfy their fantasies It's 

684
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:55,000
real, it's real. 
And we were living in an evil 

685
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:59,500
age that has no shame in 
exposing things, to grip your 

686
00:44:59,500 --> 00:45:04,000
mind, burn those images there, 
so that you have nowhere to run.

687
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,100
The first look, nobody can 
escape the second one. 

688
00:45:10,100 --> 00:45:12,700
The third one is our 
responsibility. 

689
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:17,100
And it's hard to imagine, but 
remember what I just said there,

690
00:45:17,300 --> 00:45:20,600
how one social media posts can 
lead to picking up somebody? 

691
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:23,500
That you don't even know if you 
think that's far-fetched. 

692
00:45:23,500 --> 00:45:26,900
Remember that the psalmist of 
Israel and the privacy of his 

693
00:45:26,900 --> 00:45:30,800
balcony from this time, is 
actually going to now have a 

694
00:45:30,808 --> 00:45:33,400
murderous Scandal on his 
reputation. 

695
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:39,000
This is not an extreme example. 
This can happen and just because

696
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:43,700
it's not in the history books 
for all to see it happens more 

697
00:45:43,700 --> 00:45:46,500
often than you can imagine. 
So, here's what I want to say, 

698
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:50,700
and it's important that if you 
and I are a people who can't 

699
00:45:50,700 --> 00:45:54,700
control these eyes, then you 
will not be able to control your

700
00:45:54,700 --> 00:45:58,100
body. 
It starts with the eyes. 

701
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:03,500
If like job, you don't make a 
covenant with these eyes where 

702
00:46:03,500 --> 00:46:07,800
these eyes go, what they allow, 
what they entertain will 

703
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:11,900
eventually guide your body. 
And that's what we see here with

704
00:46:11,900 --> 00:46:15,200
this man and that may seem like 
a hopeless message and in the 

705
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:18,700
age of indecency, but don't let 
unbelief. 

706
00:46:19,500 --> 00:46:21,200
Don't let on believe in. 
Don't let what happened? 

707
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:23,600
What's happening? 
The culture to crush your hope, 

708
00:46:24,100 --> 00:46:26,000
remember, in that same passage 
that we read. 

709
00:46:28,500 --> 00:46:33,200
In 1st Thessalonians, rather 4:8
that whole chapter at least the 

710
00:46:33,207 --> 00:46:37,100
first part of the chapter deals 
with the subject matter at hand 

711
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:42,600
and and Paul ends his argument. 
He ends his charge by the Holy 

712
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:47,600
Spirit by telling the people of 
this church, listen therefore 

713
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:50,500
whoever disregards this and 
what's he saying is that if you 

714
00:46:50,500 --> 00:46:53,300
read the prior versus, he's 
calling him to Holiness in the 

715
00:46:53,300 --> 00:46:56,700
area of sexual immorality, and 
he ends his thought by saying, 

716
00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:01,100
whoever disregards, this 
disregards, not man, but God, 

717
00:47:01,900 --> 00:47:04,700
but God who gives his holy 
spirit to you. 

718
00:47:06,500 --> 00:47:08,600
Now, some have limited that 
verse to say. 

719
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:11,800
Yeah, if you don't listen to 
Paul standards for sexuality, 

720
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:15,000
you're not really ignoring Paul,
you're ignoring God true but 

721
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:18,500
there's there's hope in this. 
What he's saying is listen, 

722
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:23,000
don't let the standard of the 
world or your brothers and 

723
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:25,300
sisters who are not taking their
Holiness, seriously. 

724
00:47:25,300 --> 00:47:29,500
Don't let that determine the 
potential Purity that you can 

725
00:47:29,500 --> 00:47:33,300
walk in because the instructions
that I'm giving you I'm also 

726
00:47:33,300 --> 00:47:36,200
giving you the resource that's 
able to make those things. 

727
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:40,600
Own the Holy Spirit. 
Don't disregard this, don't not 

728
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:42,500
believe this, don't just brush 
it off. 

729
00:47:42,700 --> 00:47:46,600
Don't just wallow in your 
failure, embrace the standard, 

730
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:49,000
believe it and realize that the 
Holy Spirit. 

731
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:52,400
Now is here to empower you to 
walk in it. 

732
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:56,700
So that's the hope that we have 
as Christians that we can 

733
00:47:56,700 --> 00:48:01,000
actually know a Grace that comes
from Heaven, to be able to walk 

734
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,800
in this protection and 
preservation for True pleasure 

735
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:06,900
in God in the design that he has
for our sexuality. 

736
00:48:07,700 --> 00:48:10,800
So Paul says, don't disregard 
this because by disregarding 

737
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:13,100
this, you're actually also 
pushing away. 

738
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:16,000
The very power that can help you
realize it. 

739
00:48:17,700 --> 00:48:21,400
We have a supernatural faith and
we have to believe it before we 

740
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:26,200
can actually experience it. 
So that's the fourth failure. 

741
00:48:26,700 --> 00:48:30,500
The fourth failure is the 
failure to realize the danger of

742
00:48:30,500 --> 00:48:35,400
a prolonged look and now we come
to the final failure. 

743
00:48:37,500 --> 00:48:44,200
The final failure is in verse 3.
And David sent and inquired 

744
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:49,900
about the woman. 
And one said, is not this 

745
00:48:49,900 --> 00:48:55,000
Bathsheba the daughter of Al. 
I am the wife of Uriah, the 

746
00:48:55,000 --> 00:49:00,500
hittite, The fifth and final 
failure, do not limited to these

747
00:49:00,500 --> 00:49:05,500
things. 
Is the failure to take heed to 

748
00:49:05,500 --> 00:49:09,400
God's warnings. 
The failure to take heed. 

749
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:13,200
To God's warnings. 
We don't know how long it was 

750
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:16,600
before David called his servants
to inquire about this mysterious

751
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:22,700
woman that enticed him. 
But when the news came back, his

752
00:49:22,700 --> 00:49:26,300
men were successful in providing
a detailed report of her 

753
00:49:26,300 --> 00:49:30,800
identity. 
And some say, well this is David

754
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:33,500
finding out if she was single so
he can just add him to the 

755
00:49:33,500 --> 00:49:37,700
roster of his Harem and just 
another number with the others. 

756
00:49:37,700 --> 00:49:39,600
We've lost count of how many 
wives he had. 

757
00:49:40,900 --> 00:49:42,800
As though, that is a justifiable
reason. 

758
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:50,600
But what is really stunning? 
Is that what he found out about 

759
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:53,500
this woman should have repelled 
him. 

760
00:49:53,700 --> 00:49:58,300
He's already gone too far but 
this should have stopped him in 

761
00:49:58,300 --> 00:50:04,600
his tracks when he realized who 
her father was and he realized 

762
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:07,700
who, her husband was the fact 
that she had a husband. 

763
00:50:09,300 --> 00:50:12,000
First Corinthians, 10:13, we are
promised. 

764
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:17,400
That in all and in every 
Temptation, God will provide a 

765
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:23,600
way of Escape. 
What that means is that you can 

766
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:28,700
never ever justify a sin by 
saying that it was too powerful.

767
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:36,500
To turn away from in Temptation.
God has supplied us everything 

768
00:50:36,500 --> 00:50:39,800
that we need to be able to 
endure it, right. 

769
00:50:39,900 --> 00:50:43,800
It doesn't say immediate 
ejection from it but to endure 

770
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:45,800
it and then eventually Escape 
it. 

771
00:50:45,900 --> 00:50:48,100
God has given us everything that
we need. 

772
00:50:48,100 --> 00:50:51,100
So part of that is being in 
preparation for that temptation 

773
00:50:51,100 --> 00:50:54,300
to come watch and pray. 
Lest you fall into temptation 

774
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:59,000
but you know, God is so good. 
God is so good that he often 

775
00:50:59,300 --> 00:51:03,900
even even warns us in creative 
ways while we are being tempted.

776
00:51:04,900 --> 00:51:08,700
While we are being tempted. 
And one example there are many 

777
00:51:08,700 --> 00:51:09,900
in the scriptures, let me give 
you one. 

778
00:51:10,100 --> 00:51:16,800
Remember when I'm Alec took 
Abraham's wife And Abraham was 

779
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:20,000
telling everybody. 
He's use my sister hey, he 

780
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:22,000
doesn't want to be killed, his 
wife is beautiful. 

781
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:23,200
I mean, she must have been 
beautiful. 

782
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:26,000
She was, she was called 
beautiful and her older older 

783
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:28,800
years. 
And this King takes her. 

784
00:51:29,900 --> 00:51:33,400
He puts her in his bed and then 
God visits him in Genesis 20 in 

785
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:35,800
a dream. 
And here's the paraphrase. 

786
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:38,300
You're a dead, man. 
You're a dead, man. 

787
00:51:38,300 --> 00:51:40,000
Because you took somebody's 
wife. 

788
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:44,100
And I am Alec is like, I didn't 
know. 

789
00:51:44,100 --> 00:51:46,800
He told me, he told me, it was a
sister. 

790
00:51:47,500 --> 00:51:50,700
And God says, yes, I know that 
you did this out of a place of 

791
00:51:50,700 --> 00:51:53,500
not knowing what was going on, 
but I'm giving you a warning. 

792
00:51:53,500 --> 00:51:56,800
If you don't give her back, 
you're finished and he does he 

793
00:51:56,800 --> 00:52:02,200
repents, right? 
So God can at times, grab our 

794
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:06,500
attention attention, even in the
pursuit even in the plot of 

795
00:52:06,500 --> 00:52:10,300
doing that, which is wrong. 
Here's the problem. 

796
00:52:10,300 --> 00:52:15,400
Many people don't pay attention.
You know, like a bible study on 

797
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:19,400
a Friday night. 
Right. 

798
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:22,300
And we just happen to fall on 
this, I don't know what's going 

799
00:52:22,300 --> 00:52:26,000
on in your personal life. 
God knows, you don't need to 

800
00:52:26,008 --> 00:52:29,300
tell me even but if you know 
that you're heading towards a 

801
00:52:29,308 --> 00:52:33,700
path, you realize that you are 
failing in the areas that were 

802
00:52:33,700 --> 00:52:36,100
just mentioned. 
Here's God, giving you a way 

803
00:52:36,100 --> 00:52:38,700
out. 
You know, what the way out was 

804
00:52:38,700 --> 00:52:42,600
for David. 
Hey, they could have just said 

805
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:45,000
this is Bathsheba know. 
They said, this is Bathsheba the

806
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:49,200
daughter of a lion that doesn't 
mean much until you realize that

807
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:53,500
bathsheba's father'll. 
I am was the son of a man named 

808
00:52:53,500 --> 00:52:58,200
a heath offal. 
Who is David's favorite 

809
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:03,900
counselor in his Administrative 
Office. more than that, he 

810
00:53:03,900 --> 00:53:08,200
realizes that he He's inquiring 
about a woman who's married to 

811
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:11,800
one of his mighty men? 
You are is just not one soldier.

812
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:14,800
Uriah is, in that list of Mighty
Men. 

813
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:16,900
At the end of second Samuel. 
You're going to see it. 

814
00:53:16,900 --> 00:53:20,600
His name is, there engraved 
among the Great. 

815
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:24,400
And that should have startled 
him. 

816
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:28,800
You know what registered in his 
mind when he heard this? 

817
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:30,900
Oh good. 
Her husband isn't home. 

818
00:53:33,300 --> 00:53:39,300
That's what he registered. 
And when I look at this, I think

819
00:53:39,300 --> 00:53:41,300
of a new testament principle, 
you heard from first 

820
00:53:41,300 --> 00:53:45,100
Thessalonians 48. 
But look at Paul and what he 

821
00:53:45,100 --> 00:53:49,200
says to encourage Holiness in 
this area in 1st Thessalonians, 

822
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:52,600
4 6. 
I want you to see this because 

823
00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:58,600
it's profound He's pleading with
his brothers. 

824
00:53:58,900 --> 00:54:01,000
Listen, learn to control your 
own body. 

825
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:04,500
And Holiness, don't be like the 
Gentiles who do not know God and

826
00:54:04,500 --> 00:54:06,000
are given over to their 
passions. 

827
00:54:06,300 --> 00:54:11,800
Then he says this in verse 6, 
That no one transgress and wrong

828
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:15,900
his brother. 
What do you mean by that? 

829
00:54:16,900 --> 00:54:20,000
And no one, transgress and wrong
his brother in this matter 

830
00:54:20,500 --> 00:54:23,200
because the Lord is an Avenger 
and all these things. 

831
00:54:23,300 --> 00:54:26,000
As we told you beforehand and 
solemnly, warned you. 

832
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:29,200
By the way, he's not talking to 
non-believers, he's talking to 

833
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:33,000
Christians. 
That no one transgress and 

834
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:33,900
wrong. 
His brother. 

835
00:54:33,900 --> 00:54:37,800
I believe what Paul is saying in
part here, is that when a man 

836
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:42,600
specifically considers another 
man's wife or when a woman 

837
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:45,000
considers, another woman's 
husband. 

838
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:50,400
That. 
The engagement of that sin 

839
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:53,600
between two, people does not 
just affect those two people. 

840
00:54:55,300 --> 00:54:59,200
What Paul is saying here is, Hey
listen, don't wrong your 

841
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:01,400
brother. 
In this meaning, I believe in 

842
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:04,100
part, not just the person that 
you were sitting with but the 

843
00:55:04,100 --> 00:55:09,600
person that, that person belongs
to Do you realize? 

844
00:55:11,100 --> 00:55:12,400
Yes, you Christian in the 
church. 

845
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:16,100
That's somebody's daughter. 
Do you realize that? 

846
00:55:16,100 --> 00:55:21,900
That's somebody's husband. 
Do you realize that sexual sin? 

847
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:27,900
Always affects a community. 
Always. 

848
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:32,800
When it's exposed, it hurts a 
lot of people, it hurts. 

849
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:35,100
A lot of people. 
I'll give you proof of that. 

850
00:55:35,100 --> 00:55:37,200
How do you feel when you hear of
a church leader falling into 

851
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:39,500
sin? 
It hurts. 

852
00:55:39,500 --> 00:55:41,700
Doesn't it? 
The people are hurting the 

853
00:55:41,700 --> 00:55:42,800
fellow Elders. 
Are hurting. 

854
00:55:43,100 --> 00:55:47,400
Everybody's hurting everybody 
who has a soft heart does. 

855
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:51,100
At least And here's what Paul is
saying because this is how 

856
00:55:51,100 --> 00:55:54,400
pathetic we can become in our 
own pursuit of Holiness. 

857
00:55:54,900 --> 00:55:57,100
If you have no care about that 
person that you're wrong. 

858
00:55:57,100 --> 00:56:00,200
And would you at least have some
kind of a thought for the person

859
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:05,100
that might be hurting. 
Who belongs to that individual? 

860
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:07,500
Who is in Covenant, with that 
individual. 

861
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:09,700
That's not just limited to marry
people. 

862
00:56:09,700 --> 00:56:11,200
You single. 
People hear me out. 

863
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:13,800
When you're considering somebody
else, who you're not married to 

864
00:56:13,900 --> 00:56:18,400
do you realize that you are 
violating a potential Covenant, 

865
00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:22,700
that is to come? 
They realize that that person is

866
00:56:22,707 --> 00:56:24,300
gonna have a husband. 
One day that person is going to 

867
00:56:24,308 --> 00:56:26,700
have a wife. 
One day, don't wrong. 

868
00:56:26,700 --> 00:56:30,500
That future brother. 
Don't wrong that future sister 

869
00:56:30,700 --> 00:56:34,300
because you want a short-lived 
fantasy to be fulfilled. 

870
00:56:36,100 --> 00:56:38,300
Realize that this goes beyond 
you, it goes beyond that 

871
00:56:38,300 --> 00:56:40,300
individual that you're 
conspiring with and you're being

872
00:56:40,300 --> 00:56:42,600
secretive with. 
There are others who are going 

873
00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:44,500
to be affected by this. 
You know what David should have 

874
00:56:44,500 --> 00:56:49,300
thought, how could I do this to?
I felt full How could I break 

875
00:56:49,300 --> 00:56:51,300
his heart? 
How can I? 

876
00:56:52,300 --> 00:56:55,500
I'm such a fool. 
Uriah is wife. 

877
00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:01,400
So shame, then he should have 
fell on his face and quoted. 

878
00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:03,400
Psalm 101 verse two and three 
again. 

879
00:57:03,500 --> 00:57:07,300
Lord, I want I want to have 
integrity in my heart within my 

880
00:57:07,300 --> 00:57:09,700
house. 
Again, help me never ever to set

881
00:57:09,700 --> 00:57:12,300
my eyes on that which is 
worthless that would have been a

882
00:57:12,308 --> 00:57:15,100
glorious glorious ending to this
chapter. 

883
00:57:15,100 --> 00:57:18,900
But unfortunately, He fetches 
for her. 

884
00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:27,100
A failure to take heed to God's 
warnings. 

885
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:31,200
It's sad. 
It's sad to realize how people 

886
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:35,800
can hear God. 
Who's putting obstacles in their

887
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:40,600
paths. 
Because they're so empty inside 

888
00:57:41,100 --> 00:57:45,000
because they've been so deceived
by their own flesh that they 

889
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:48,100
bulldoze through the warning 
signs. 

890
00:57:48,100 --> 00:57:55,800
And say, I want what I set my 
eyes on I wish David did here 

891
00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:59,400
what he did with those Mighty 
Men Who heard him say, while he 

892
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:04,200
was in war. 
Oh, that somebody would get me. 

893
00:58:05,700 --> 00:58:09,000
Water from that. 
Well, in Bethlehem, by the gate,

894
00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:13,400
And a few of them looked at each
other and said, what do you 

895
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:15,700
think? 
I love David. 

896
00:58:15,700 --> 00:58:17,100
I love him too. 
Let's do it. 

897
00:58:17,500 --> 00:58:19,900
And they go through the Garrison
of the Philistines and they 

898
00:58:19,900 --> 00:58:23,700
scooped up. 
Some kind of container filled 

899
00:58:23,700 --> 00:58:26,300
with that Hometown Water that 
I'm sure David drank from. 

900
00:58:26,300 --> 00:58:29,200
So at so many points in his 
earlier years and they come back

901
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:33,200
to Dave and they say, here, 
David, we got you the water that

902
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:40,100
you asked for And David and 
second Samuel, 23:17 second, 

903
00:58:40,100 --> 00:58:44,000
Samuel, 23:17 said, far, be it 
from me. 

904
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:48,800
Oh, Lord, that I should do this.
Shall I drink the blood of the 

905
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:51,100
men who went at the risk of 
their lives. 

906
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:54,800
Therefore, he would not drink 
it, these things, the three 

907
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:59,600
Mighty Men did, And he pours out
that water. 

908
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:03,000
I wish you did that with his 
lust. 

909
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:06,800
When you realize how can I drink
from somebody else's fountain? 

910
00:59:07,900 --> 00:59:11,800
That's not my wife. 
I will not do it. 

911
00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:17,200
I will not say cheap. 
This sinful impulse. 

912
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:19,700
I pour it out and I turn away 
from it. 

913
00:59:22,100 --> 00:59:24,400
If you want to know when a 
pleasure, any kind of pleasure, 

914
00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:27,900
no matter how much it overtakes 
you and convinces, you any 

915
00:59:27,900 --> 00:59:31,800
pleasure that is illegitimate, 
is a pleasure that dishonors 

916
00:59:32,100 --> 00:59:38,000
somebody else in any way. 
Any pleasure that dishonors 

917
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:43,000
somebody else is illegal. 
Never forget that. 

918
00:59:43,500 --> 00:59:47,100
If it harm somebody degrades 
them. 

919
00:59:50,300 --> 00:59:56,700
No Crossing pour it out, and 
turn away five failures on this 

920
00:59:56,700 --> 00:59:58,800
Bible study. 
I know, it's a very heavy one. 

921
01:00:00,900 --> 01:00:03,200
But what's heavier is to not 
hear about it. 

922
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:07,000
And to experience the 
consequences of it, So we come 

923
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:09,100
to the concluding verses in 
verse 4 and 5, and we'll end 

924
01:00:09,100 --> 01:00:12,000
here. 
So, David sent Messengers and 

925
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:15,500
took her and she came to him and
lay with her, he lay with her. 

926
01:00:15,500 --> 01:00:18,800
Now, she'd been purifying 
herself from her uncleanness, so

927
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:20,100
brother. 
And are you asking about this 

928
01:00:20,100 --> 01:00:25,500
and in levitical law, when a 
woman was undergoing her monthly

929
01:00:25,500 --> 01:00:32,000
flow, there was a protocol for 
her to regain a clean status so 

930
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:33,200
to speak. 
And we don't have the time to 

931
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:36,400
explore that in detail. 
And so there was a time of 

932
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:41,100
refraining from intercourse for 
a certain amount of Of days 

933
01:00:41,100 --> 01:00:46,200
after that, after that time. 
And so what we were being told 

934
01:00:46,200 --> 01:00:52,400
here also is that she just had 
that time of the month. 

935
01:00:52,900 --> 01:00:56,800
She now is free to do what she 
can do. 

936
01:00:57,500 --> 01:01:02,400
And the indication here is to 
prepare us for verse 5, that 

937
01:01:03,100 --> 01:01:06,200
bathsheba's pregnancy is surely 
from David, not from her 

938
01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:09,900
husband. 
So it's preparing us to say. 

939
01:01:10,400 --> 01:01:13,700
Nothing happened before. 
What's what's about to 

940
01:01:13,700 --> 01:01:18,100
transpire? 
Here is a direct result of an 

941
01:01:18,100 --> 01:01:21,600
illegitimate intercourse. 
But there's something else you 

942
01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:23,300
want. 
I thought about it and it's this

943
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:26,800
Bathsheba was being faithful in 
observing the ceremonial law was

944
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:30,300
scheana and some even say that 
the bath that she was taking was

945
01:01:30,300 --> 01:01:34,000
part of that observance. 
I don't know, it doesn't say but

946
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:38,900
so here's what's interesting. 
This woman is willing to adhere 

947
01:01:38,900 --> 01:01:43,300
to the ceremonial law, but when 
you read about it she shows no 

948
01:01:43,300 --> 01:01:47,200
hesitation To defiling herself 
with a man that's not her 

949
01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:49,700
husband. 
Isn't that strange isn't that 

950
01:01:49,700 --> 01:01:54,200
strange? 
It's incredible, because it's a 

951
01:01:54,200 --> 01:01:57,700
picture of a faulty Holiness 
where we get to pick and choose 

952
01:01:57,700 --> 01:02:00,200
what we want to obey, what we 
don't want to be, or you can 

953
01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:03,500
even say it's it's this 
deception where well, I've done 

954
01:02:03,500 --> 01:02:06,200
this for the Lord. 
So so I can do this and he'll he

955
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:10,000
won't mind, right? 
It reminds me of the Pharisees 

956
01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:13,000
when they arrest Jesus and it 
says there in John that they 

957
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:16,800
refused to go into Pilots 
headquarters less, they defiled 

958
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:20,300
themselves before the Passover 
feast and here they are plotting

959
01:02:20,300 --> 01:02:23,200
to kill an innocent, man. 
Oh, you don't want to defile 

960
01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:24,700
yourself so that you can eat of 
the feast. 

961
01:02:24,700 --> 01:02:27,000
But you're going to actually 
have a man crucified for doing 

962
01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:33,400
nothing like it PHA crasy, 
produces Twisted conduct, it's 

963
01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:36,000
scary. 
And the people who are in, it 

964
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:38,300
are convinced that it's right. 
So, here's baths. 

965
01:02:38,500 --> 01:02:41,300
But yeah, I'm ceremonially 
clean. 

966
01:02:41,400 --> 01:02:45,500
But now she's about to come into
a man's room that that is going 

967
01:02:45,500 --> 01:02:50,100
to defile her morally. 
Picking and choosing what you 

968
01:02:50,100 --> 01:02:51,500
think is, right? 
Or what you think is wrong, what

969
01:02:51,500 --> 01:02:53,700
you think is, okay? 
We that's just that's just 

970
01:02:53,700 --> 01:02:58,500
dangerous. 
Verse 5, we read and the woman 

971
01:02:58,500 --> 01:03:01,700
can see, then she sent and told 
David, I am pregnant before 

972
01:03:01,700 --> 01:03:03,600
that, we reach, she just 
returned home. 

973
01:03:04,300 --> 01:03:06,500
Like it seemed like things are 
just going to go on. 

974
01:03:06,500 --> 01:03:08,500
As normal now Bathsheba goes 
home. 

975
01:03:08,800 --> 01:03:12,700
David stays at home, A one night
stand. 

976
01:03:13,100 --> 01:03:16,200
That's it. 
We just blow off some steam and 

977
01:03:16,200 --> 01:03:21,200
nothing's going to happen. 
And we read. 

978
01:03:21,200 --> 01:03:27,500
In fact, something does happen. 
And this is just the start. but 

979
01:03:27,508 --> 01:03:31,100
before we end tonight, but back 
at verse one, in the spring of 

980
01:03:31,100 --> 01:03:33,300
the year, the time, when the 
Kings, go out to battle, David 

981
01:03:33,300 --> 01:03:36,500
sent joab and his servants with 
him and all Israel and they 

982
01:03:36,500 --> 01:03:41,700
ravaged the ammonites This war 
is a continuation of chapter 10.

983
01:03:42,100 --> 01:03:44,800
Remember the ammonites were the 
ones who harass David's 

984
01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:48,400
ambassadors. 
And more than that, they started

985
01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:50,000
a war. 
They hired the syrians and they 

986
01:03:50,000 --> 01:03:53,000
said, let who does this David 
think that he is? 

987
01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:56,600
He thinks he can spy on me, 
totally wrong assessment. 

988
01:03:56,700 --> 01:03:59,700
They try to go to war job and 
his men show up the syrians, 

989
01:03:59,700 --> 01:04:02,700
flee that I manage realize it, 
and it says that they Retreat 

990
01:04:02,700 --> 01:04:06,200
back to their City, they closed 
the door and they hold on for 

991
01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:07,900
dear life. 
Hoping that David will never 

992
01:04:07,900 --> 01:04:09,100
show his face. 
Face again. 

993
01:04:10,800 --> 01:04:15,100
And so, here are these men who 
sinned against David and time 

994
01:04:15,100 --> 01:04:19,000
goes on thinking that David 
forgot. 

995
01:04:19,700 --> 01:04:25,700
And then we read in the spring 
of the Year, few months go by 

996
01:04:26,300 --> 01:04:28,900
and what are we read? 
David, make sure is that they 

997
01:04:28,900 --> 01:04:31,800
are going to pay the price for 
what they did. 

998
01:04:34,300 --> 01:04:39,800
And he's going to ravage them. 
And here's the thing that I take

999
01:04:39,800 --> 01:04:43,400
from this that unfortunately you
have Sinners who are like the 

1000
01:04:43,400 --> 01:04:46,800
ammonites who think that and 
interpret God's momentary 

1001
01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:50,300
silence as either forgetfulness 
or like-mindedness. 

1002
01:04:51,300 --> 01:04:53,500
And so his silence seems to be 
approval. 

1003
01:04:53,500 --> 01:04:56,500
So they continue and they think 
that God has not registered what

1004
01:04:56,500 --> 01:04:59,900
they have done. 
And unfortunately, the children 

1005
01:04:59,900 --> 01:05:02,400
of God think the same way that 
just because there is an 

1006
01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:05,700
immediate consequence than 
surely, it's not that big of a 

1007
01:05:05,707 --> 01:05:09,800
deal and they fail to realize 
that God loves you too much to 

1008
01:05:09,800 --> 01:05:11,700
not discipline you in one way or
another. 

1009
01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:17,100
And what the ammonites are about
to learn about David is what 

1010
01:05:17,100 --> 01:05:23,600
David and the remainder of this 
chapter and the next chapter is 

1011
01:05:23,600 --> 01:05:29,400
going to learn about God. 
That unrepentant sin will never 

1012
01:05:29,400 --> 01:05:33,300
be ignored by God. 
It won't. 

1013
01:05:35,300 --> 01:05:40,400
There is a chilling verse that 
we will get to maybe in a week 

1014
01:05:40,500 --> 01:05:42,200
or two. 
Look at the last verse. 

1015
01:05:43,300 --> 01:05:47,500
The last part of the last verse 
but the thing that David had 

1016
01:05:47,500 --> 01:05:52,800
done displeased the Lord that 
like when I I almost get chills 

1017
01:05:52,800 --> 01:05:56,300
whenever I read that because you
have this long chapter of 

1018
01:05:56,300 --> 01:05:59,200
David's little schemes and his 
cover-up plans and all that 

1019
01:05:59,200 --> 01:06:00,900
stuff. 
And when I read that verse, you 

1020
01:06:00,900 --> 01:06:04,000
know what I sense God was 
watching the whole time. 

1021
01:06:05,600 --> 01:06:09,300
God was watching the whole time 
and the time would come because 

1022
01:06:09,300 --> 01:06:12,700
David concealed his 
transgression instead of 

1023
01:06:12,700 --> 01:06:16,900
confessing and forsaking it, 
because of his concealment, a 

1024
01:06:16,900 --> 01:06:19,900
prophet is going to come. 
Just like, David came at one 

1025
01:06:19,900 --> 01:06:23,500
point in the spring and says, 
listen you can't get away with 

1026
01:06:23,500 --> 01:06:26,500
what you did. 
Can't get away with what he did.

1027
01:06:28,200 --> 01:06:30,100
So, my brother, my sister, I 
don't know where you're at 

1028
01:06:30,100 --> 01:06:32,700
tonight. 
I don't, God knows, I hope 

1029
01:06:32,700 --> 01:06:34,900
you're doing well in the Lord. 
I hope you're a strong. 

1030
01:06:35,200 --> 01:06:38,700
I hope that these failures are 
not present in your life, but if

1031
01:06:38,700 --> 01:06:42,200
they are, this is the chance to 
take heed to God's gentle 

1032
01:06:42,200 --> 01:06:45,000
warning to saying, don't don't 
do it. 

1033
01:06:46,400 --> 01:06:48,500
And realize the danger ahead of 
time. 

1034
01:06:49,700 --> 01:06:52,100
Realize that the failure to deal
with unrestrained. 

1035
01:06:52,100 --> 01:06:59,400
Passions will serve as a sewing.
And realized that a failure to 

1036
01:06:59,400 --> 01:07:03,500
be diligent in your duty for the
Lord opens up a foothold for 

1037
01:07:03,500 --> 01:07:05,500
Temptation. 
And realize that if you don't 

1038
01:07:05,500 --> 01:07:08,600
conquer idleness, some kind of 
sin will conquer. 

1039
01:07:08,600 --> 01:07:15,100
You believe that if you fail in 
believing that a prolonged look 

1040
01:07:15,100 --> 01:07:17,600
can actually open up to a 
thought pattern that can 

1041
01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:21,500
actually evolve into a plan 
action, believe that if you 

1042
01:07:21,500 --> 01:07:25,300
don't nip it there, at the site 
of the thing that it can, it can

1043
01:07:25,300 --> 01:07:28,500
transform it to something that 
will Monstrous. 

1044
01:07:30,700 --> 01:07:34,100
And realize that a failure to 
take heed to God's warnings. 

1045
01:07:36,600 --> 01:07:39,800
God can't do anything else. 
More than that. 

1046
01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:44,600
He will now override your will 
if you want to go, he'll let you

1047
01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:47,700
go. 
But if you're truly a child of 

1048
01:07:47,700 --> 01:07:50,600
God, he will do something about 
it when you go. 

1049
01:07:51,600 --> 01:08:15,500
Let's pray. 
Lord. 

1050
01:08:15,500 --> 01:08:17,200
We thank you for tonight's Bible
study. 

1051
01:08:22,800 --> 01:08:26,600
We thank you that your word 
before us today. 

1052
01:08:30,800 --> 01:08:34,399
Was understood and its purpose 
and design. 

1053
01:08:35,300 --> 01:08:40,899
And Lord, we just ask. 
That in this place, as a result 

1054
01:08:40,899 --> 01:08:45,500
of this Bible study, new levels 
of Victory will be realized. 

1055
01:08:48,600 --> 01:08:51,600
But we pray for the grace to 
retain the elements that we 

1056
01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:56,000
have. 
Explored in these verses and 

1057
01:08:56,000 --> 01:08:59,300
that they would register in US 
deeply. 

1058
01:09:02,899 --> 01:09:05,500
And we asked, oh God, that you 
would be worshipped tonight in a

1059
01:09:05,500 --> 01:09:09,200
special way. 
For how you've spoken to us. 

1060
01:09:10,500 --> 01:09:15,300
Protect our marriages, protect 
our household, protect us in an 

1061
01:09:15,300 --> 01:09:22,600
age of disgrace. 
And Lord we pray Proverbs 27 7 

1062
01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:27,600
that we would all be so full in 
you that we would loathe the 

1063
01:09:27,600 --> 01:09:31,399
honey of this life. 
The bitter things that try to 

1064
01:09:31,399 --> 01:09:35,800
persuade us that will fill us, 
Lord help us detect it, not just

1065
01:09:35,800 --> 01:09:39,100
with head knowledge but with 
experiential knowledge, I am 

1066
01:09:39,100 --> 01:09:43,600
satisfied in God. 
I am filled with the joy of the 

1067
01:09:43,600 --> 01:09:47,600
Lord. 
I have fellowship with the king,

1068
01:09:48,200 --> 01:09:52,100
I will not cheap in myself to 
something that will ultimately 

1069
01:09:52,100 --> 01:09:55,600
bite back and disgrace me in the
Lord that I serve. 

1070
01:09:55,800 --> 01:10:00,800
O Lord, may that be the heights 
that we reach because of you and

1071
01:10:00,800 --> 01:10:03,700
your promises for those who 
hunger and thirst for 

1072
01:10:03,700 --> 01:10:06,300
righteousness. 
They shall be filled. 

1073
01:10:06,800 --> 01:10:10,700
So fill us a fresh. 
Let Faith arise that there is 

1074
01:10:10,700 --> 01:10:14,100
more pleasure in your presence 
than what pornography has to 

1075
01:10:14,100 --> 01:10:16,700
offer. 
When loose Partners have to 

1076
01:10:16,700 --> 01:10:21,300
offer than what external beauty 
has to offer, your presence is 

1077
01:10:21,300 --> 01:10:26,600
more than enough, you are able 
to conquer our wandering hearts.

1078
01:10:27,200 --> 01:10:30,900
And so we just pray that we 
would know that in a real way 

1079
01:10:30,900 --> 01:10:33,500
tonight. 
In Jesus name, we pray. 

1080
01:10:33,900 --> 01:10:35,100
Amen. 
Amen. 

1081
01:10:35,100 --> 01:10:38,900
Let's stand and worship as we 
close sing to the Lord before 

1082
01:10:38,900 --> 01:10:39,700
you head on home.