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Amen, you sang with strength 
tonight. 

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I felt the strength of your 
voice tonight. 

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More importantly God sensed it 
and it was glorious. 

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I'm sure to him. 
Now, we worship in his word. 

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So do you have a Bible in your 
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If you do meet me in the book of
second, Samuel and let's go to 

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our final study of the chapter 
that we've been studying the 

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past few weeks, chapter 12, 
Second Samuel, chapter 12 is 

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where we are tonight and we will
be looking at the remaining and 

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concluding verses of this 
chapter. 

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Second Samuel, chapter 12 and 
place your finger. 

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There are verse 15 because 
that's where we're going to 

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begin verse 15. 
Lord, this is your word. 

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We love your word. 
We love you. 

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We Fear you, we honor, you Lord 
speak to us through this study 

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that at touch our hearts, that 
it caused us to see that. 

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You are the truth. 
Louis that these things would be

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applied to us guard our minds 
and our hearts from confusion 

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distraction. 
Anything that was sabotage. 

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The sanctifying work of your 
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of it. 
In Jesus name we pray. 

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Amen, verse 15 tonight. 
It's going to set the tone. 

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It's going to really establish 
the theme for the study that we 

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are embarking on together. 
And so we're going to read that 

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pause. 
And then we're going to continue

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to read and so look at verse 15.
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but remember the numbers in our 
Bibles, the references, the 

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chapters. 
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inspired necessarily though. 
God has used it mightily to help

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us know the word verse 15 reads.
The Nathan went to his house and

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the Lord Afflicted, the child 
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David and he became sick. 
The part I want you to see his 

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and the Lord Afflicted the child
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Board to David and he became 
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Clearly and plainly wants to 
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that was placed upon this baby 
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That might be disturbing to us 
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another proof text for the 
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would try to find ammunition in 
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character of God, and they might
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The uninformed believer, who 
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these complicated matters, that 
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But out of all the things that 
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can spend the next hour 
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Cussing evil in our world and 
God's role in it and our 

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responsibility in that. 
But if there's one thing for the

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sake of this study, that we must
ensure that we don't 

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misinterpret about what we see 
in this context is that the Lord

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does not afflict David's son 
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In other words, he's not 
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What the Lord is doing, is 
chastising David? 

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He's chastising David, not 
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perfect wisdom. 
He sees it and finds it 

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necessary that in the early 
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As early, as you can. 
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life would be removed in order 
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Lord wants to see happening in 
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And so, let's just make that 
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David's, son is not paying for 
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It is David's son. 
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to discipline David and there's 
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I know it sounds similar, but 
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trickery here, there is a very 
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we're going to see The Hope even
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As, you know, very well last 
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the why? 
Wise and the ways of God's 

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discipline pertaining to his 
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God is our heavenly father. 
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but he is specifically 
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specific affection for those who
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of God. 
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wise why does God discipline? 
Why does he allow painful 

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circumstances to occur? 
Why does he permit in the lives 

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of those that belong to him? 
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it the ways in which he doesn't?
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It's there's not just there's 
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disciplines, it's perfectly 
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specific sins and the specific 
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order to bring about the best 
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But in this study, we're going 
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discipline. 
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of God's discipline in the life 
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David namely and so I want you 
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I want you to keep that in mind.
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we're going through the fruit? 
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finger on us in order to apply 
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some kind of pain for the sake 
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learn. 
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we even entertain. 
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David, therefore, sought God on 
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fasted and went in and lay all 
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And the Elders of his house, 
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from the ground, but he would 
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them? 
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the Lord, when any of God's 
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Lord, from for a prolonged 
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state of stubborn unrepentant, 
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will bring us back to him is 
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affliction. 
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circumstances to occur in us 
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in order to awaken something in 
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When you look here of David 
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would God go to such an extent? 
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question to why does he allow 
any suffering to happen 

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especially the suffering that 
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of those who are seem to be 
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And though, again we can spend 
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Exhaustively answering that. 
Here's one thing based on the 

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example that is set before us 
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clear answer of why God 
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The utilization of suffering, it
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nonsensical delight and seeing 
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It is because our sinful nature 
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nature often requires and 
demands that God apply painful 

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predicaments in order to push us
where we need to be, And that is

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exactly what is happening here 
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When he was left alone was going
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months. 
Living as a hypocrite living 

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distant from God and distant 
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And it wasn't until the child 
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happened in him where he put 
himself in a place that he is 

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not known for for too long. 
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in true. 
Humility. 

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And in true worship David has 
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For several months. 
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verse 67, says, something very 
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He says, before I was afflicted,
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afflicted, I went astray, and 
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But now I keep your word. 
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would have kept going but it was
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interruption of sudden 
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the place where I now Embrace 
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was the instrument. 
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it is still today for many of 
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And in fact if you read here in 
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verse 16 you will see that three
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things happen to David as a 
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his life first thing. 
Is that David? 

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Therefore sought God. 
He sought God. 

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That's the first thing. 
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Cleverly said, you cannot live 
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You cannot live wrong and pray, 
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Unless you're praying is, of 
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that wrong. 
And it's not too much of a 

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mystery. 
It's not difficult to understand

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that you and I are barred from 
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Real fellowship with God. 
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and what God does to awaken a 
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again is what we see here with 
David, he ordains distress He 

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allows things to happen, so that
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do. 
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things that do not please us at 
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the shock came to him, he 
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Now, you would wish David had 
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All of this had happened. 
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States strong in his prayer 
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He wouldn't have fallen into 
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Nonetheless, he is where he's 
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The second thing is in the same 
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God, here's the second part on 
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So, Not only was there a 
rekindled desire for God 

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himself, but there is something 
reinstalled reinstate, and 

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that's compassion, that's 
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David had many wives, David had 
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David was a warrior. 
David was someone who saw a lot 

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of Bloodshed. 
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faced with the coldness of 
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would weep when his enemies died
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When he when he called for the 
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his best men sin brings 
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And so you see now David who in 
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with death a death that he asked
for that, he commissioned and 

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didn't have one tear come down 
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tenderized and pleading with God
and seeking God, and fasting for

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this little boy to remain alive.
And so we already see how the 

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chastisement of the Lord here. 
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And not only just in this 
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Look at verse 24. then David 

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comforted, his wife Bathsheba 
See, even though, after the news

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of the death, came David still 
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sorrow, people to come to his 
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her. 
To encourage her to build her, 

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to keep her eyes on the truth. 
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we see now how the discipline of
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God called him to be not just 
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see a third thing in the same 
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We see the David sought God, we 
see that David saw, God on 

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behalf of the child. 
And lastly, we read and David 

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fasted. 
David fasted and went and lay 

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all night on the ground. 
I see David's fasting, your 

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something more than just an 
expression of the seriousness of

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his devotion. 
In this moment of pleading with 

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the Lord, why do people not fast
generally any idea? 

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Well, let me, let me make this, 
let me make this clear fasting. 

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Biblically is not things. 
Like, I'm not going to watch 

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Netflix for two months, that's 
not fasting. 

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That's discipline. 
It's not fasting. 

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Fasting is not. 
I'm going to get off Tick-Tock 

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for three hours. 
That's not fasting. 

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Okay, fasting biblically. 
Is not eating food, physical 

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food for the purpose of devoting
that time in which you would 

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prepare and eat to prayer 
instead. 

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So that's, let's just establish 
that, right? 

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I remember sitting in a meeting 
and somebody said, you know, 

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we're going to all as a young 
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going too fast, and just think 
about what you want to give up. 

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And some people just give it the
most ridiculous things. 

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Actually, a funny story, I 
remember that time, I brought if

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somebody that was not a believer
in, he brought his girlfriend at

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the time and he was sitting in 
that meeting. 

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And he got so excited about the 
idea that he looked at me. 

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He says me my girlfriend aside, 
we're going too fast being 

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intimate together. 
So that's, that's not how 

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fasting works. 
You need to repent and stop 

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doing that. 
That's not something you fast 

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but I admire his enthusiasm 
non-believer. 

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Why do people generally not 
fast? 

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Because they want to eat. 
This is very simple. 

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It wasn't a mysterious thing. 
It wasn't a deep thing. 

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It's that idea of being 
unwilling to resist the impulses

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of the flesh that cry. 
I want to eat. 

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And it's the weakness in so many
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the Flesh. 
And so, to impose some 

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restriction for a period of time
and to feel your bones, weak and

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your mouth feeling dry and 
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prayers, just not the most 
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people generally don't fast 
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have self-control in that area. 
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that, but generally, that is the
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And David, what you see here in 
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Cravings of the flesh. 
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a strong conviction in the 
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that he could not even be 
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trusted servants. 
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place of, I'm going to seek God.
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my mind when I looked at this 
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the mess of only David had such 
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When it came to his flesh, 
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David could only find the 
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person does not belong to me, 
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imaginations and my fantasies 
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not be moved if only he was just
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instead of giving over to 
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the couch, where everything 
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discipline now has led him into 
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what it means to be an 
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and God is turning up the heat. 
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his past sins so that he can be 
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this, the seriousness of this, 
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when the invitation comes again,
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neighborhood before. 
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again. 
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happening to David? 
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where he says, before I went 
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afflicted, I went astray. 
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that same chapter in Psalm 119 
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was good that I was afflicted. 
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afflicted. 
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Now in hindsight, I look back in
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the discipline of the Lord and 
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say it was good. 
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these afflictions to arise in my
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might learn your statutes 
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way. 
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have learned to kiss the waves. 
That throw me up against The 

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Rock of Ages. 
I've learned to kiss the waves 

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that throw me upon the Rock of 
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Spurgeon men of God today. 
Woman of God, today will 

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understand that as daunting as a
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good in it. 
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to be shared as a result if we 
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Now what do we see here in verse
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The child died, that's so sad. 
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would happen to a male child he 
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He would be recognized in the 
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And before that day came, God 
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On the seventh day, the child 
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were afraid to tell him. 
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they said, behold. 
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we spoke to him and he did not 
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How then can we say to him? 
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He made do himself some harm. 
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David after seven days of 
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while he's still laying out, 
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exhausted, believing hoping The 
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they look at him from a distance
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to handle this one? 
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perspective of the servants on 
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looked at this and I thought to 
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to be the bearers of this 
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understandable. 
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he's like this, while the child 
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What's he going to do to 
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Once we find out that he's gone,
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would be so hysterical that he 
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and give him this. 
This update. 

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And David here is a unique 
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He had he had a, as a king, the 
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the necessity having an 
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And when I realized this, I 
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of David's, whole, predicament 
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it. 
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an audience and there they are. 
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and assessing how he will deal 
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respond to it. 
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leader. 
Here's the, here's the truth 

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with us. 
All of us, no matter who you 

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are, no matter who you are, all 
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All of us do, there is someone 
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Who knows about your life? 
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Whether closely At a distance. 
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to us, especially as we are 
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We are called not just by our 
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present a case for Christ. 
And what people will do, whether

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you are aware of it or not, 
whether you like it or not or 

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whether you like to pause that 
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people who are constantly 
evaluating our activity or 

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inactivity our actions, our 
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all cases. 
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just that watching, David 
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with all of this? 
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like, an isolated kind of 
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know it, you see, it throughout 
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I'll never forget reading the 
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little phrase at one point in 
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I read that, it made an imprint 
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me and I hope it will remind you
in the future that there will be

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people watching and there will 
be people registering and there 

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will be people putting the 
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you and I, Indoor God's, 
providential dealings, that 

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seemed very uncomfortable at the
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Can I show you that verse? 
It's so simple but to meet so 

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deep to Impala and Silas were in
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With bleeding backs, dry mouths,
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Chained at the feet chained by 
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Here's a description of we have 
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Acts 16 and verse 25. 
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Paul and Silas were praying and 
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is the phrase and the prisoners 
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And the prisoners were listening
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What a strange sound, it must 
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that in that Midnight Hour. 
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echoed through the corridors and
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I don't know if Paul and Silas 
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listening to them, but the Holy 
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that the prisoners were 
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suffering. 
They were assessing. 

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They were evaluating. 
They were wondering they were 

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considering how is it that these
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And remember, there was a Jailer
in this whole ordeal once God 

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ordained for an earthquake to 
her current to set these men 

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free there is a Jailer who knew 
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must I do to be saved. and so, 
whether you realize it or not 

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with the burden that you're 
carrying, You're making a 

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statement day by day. 
How you deal with those 

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situations, is telling a story 
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And you might be aware of it or 
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You might not be aware of it. 
The scripture is even in a very 

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controversial place in the Bible
when it talks about head 

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coverings, Paul alludes to the 
presence of angels, as the 

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motivation for obedience in that
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obedience, the presence of 
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There's much debate about that. 
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there's people who are watching 
There's an unbelieving crowd was

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watching. 
There are weak, believers who 

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are watching? 
There are other people who are 

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going through similar storms, 
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So may God Empower us not to 
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the opportunity of making a 
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need to see some hope. 
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What's this man going to do? 
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we read, but when David saw that
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together, David understood that 
the child was dead. 

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And David said, to his servants,
is the child dead. 

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They said he is dead. 
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servants wanted to just rip off 
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possible. 
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their announcement. 
They didn't want to give any 

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philosophical explanation or try
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to do anything other than just 
confirm what he asked. 

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And you can imagine the tension 
that just filled the air, you 

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can imagine the suspense. 
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breath, maybe some even closing 
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David was a passionate man, 
David could, erupt and praise 

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and prayer and dance. 
Who knows what he's about to do 

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now. 
And as they're there, waiting to

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Behold a site. 
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based on their own calculations 
that suspense is now replaced 

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with bewilderment Because in 
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David does. 
Then David arose from the earth 

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and washed and anointed himself 
and changed his clothes and he 

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went into the house of the Lord 
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Is this for real? 
No Sigh, No disappointment. 

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He Springs up. 
Takes a shower changes. 

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His clothes. 
And goes to Friday night, bible 

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study. 
And I look at this and I think 

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to myself before looking at the 
response of these men, there is 

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something here about worship 
that God wants to say. 

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Because the Bible puts David in 
a position as a historical 

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example of what a man or a woman
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So, if that's the title, that 
David receives then, perhaps 

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evaluating his life will help us
know how we can come into that 

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place of being worshippers of 
his caliber. 

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What do you see about worship 
here? 

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That you think? 
Give specific glory and honor to

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God. 
What is true worship? 

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Look like, can I tell you first 
that? 

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True worship is offered when 
things don't go our way. 

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True worship is often when 
things don't go our way, it's 

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not conditional, it's not 
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It's not enhanced when the 
prayers are answered and it's 

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absent. 
When we feel like God is not 

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giving us our wishes. 
That's not how worship Works 

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worship. 
Here's plain and simple. 

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We see here that the 
heartbreaking news of this 

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child's death could have easily 
been a severe blow to the soul 

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of this man but again what you 
see instead is that this man 

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gets up and his attitude here of
of Honor immediate honor. 

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Clearly clearly showcases his 
strong confidence in The 

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Sovereign, decree of God, you 
know, how David can do this 

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because David had a theological 
base in his framework of faith. 

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And in his understanding of the 
character of God, he knew this 

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one thing that seems so simple, 
but needs to be embedded in our 

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hearts. 
To see the full force of it in 

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our lives. 
God is good. 

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God is good all the time. 
Right. 

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And if I'm in the hand of God, 
if I've given my life to God, 

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then I can trust that whatever 
he allows Salon fold, whatever 

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he closes, whatever you opens, 
whatever he multiplies, whatever

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he removes. 
No matter the mystery of it, no 

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matter the complexity of it, no 
matter how I might even 

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contradict certain things that 
I'm seeing in my life and 

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believing God for he's good. 
So it is good. 

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It has to be good. 
It has to be good. 

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And if you can get that down 
deep in your heart then you will

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also stand amazed that what your
mind and your thoughts, and your

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reflexes would be even as you 
face on Untold an unforeseen 

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pain. 
I know it's easier said and 

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done. but if you trust that God 
has saved you for all of 

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eternity and I pray that every 
person here does If you, if 

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you've entrusted death into the 
hands of the Living God then, 

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then why reserve your faith to 
believe that? 

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Everything he allows in your 
life is also for your good. 

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It's so much easier. 
Apparently, for believers to 

450
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trust God, that he's going to 
take us to heaven, but for 

451
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,300
whatever the case may be, we 
seem to have very much 

452
00:29:54,300 --> 00:29:57,300
difficulty to believe that he 
can lead us through this life. 

453
00:29:59,700 --> 00:30:03,100
And that shouldn't be the case. 
If you believe in for eternity, 

454
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,400
he can believe in for your 70, 
80 years here. 

455
00:30:08,700 --> 00:30:11,900
So this man showing us that true
worship says, I don't know 

456
00:30:11,900 --> 00:30:13,900
what's happening. 
I don't know where this is 

457
00:30:13,900 --> 00:30:16,700
going, but I know who you are, 
and that is enough for me to 

458
00:30:16,700 --> 00:30:18,500
say, I'm safe. 
You are good. 

459
00:30:18,500 --> 00:30:23,900
I will glorify you. 
Secondly worship. 

460
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,900
True worship is offered even in 
the midst of Sorrow. 

461
00:30:26,900 --> 00:30:31,500
This is really hard. 
God is Not void of sympathy or 

462
00:30:31,500 --> 00:30:35,300
compassion, he allows for grief,
he allows the for us to mourn, 

463
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,700
he allows for us to break down. 
He allows for us to take some 

464
00:30:38,700 --> 00:30:44,100
time to process the loss of this
person, or that thing Jesus, the

465
00:30:44,100 --> 00:30:46,900
son of God, even had tears 
streaming down his face. 

466
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:49,800
His friend's funeral knowing 
that in a few moments he was 

467
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:51,400
actually going to call him from 
his tomb. 

468
00:30:52,800 --> 00:31:02,200
God is very understanding. but 
there is for some when they 

469
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:06,700
endure any kind of suffering. 
They allow it to go to the point

470
00:31:06,700 --> 00:31:11,500
where their walk with the Lord 
receives a death blow. 

471
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:17,000
And no matter what dies, whether
it's an opportunity, a Ministry 

472
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:24,500
relationships or person because 
of maybe a poor understanding of

473
00:31:24,500 --> 00:31:26,800
how God works. 
They allow other things to die 

474
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,300
as a result, that's unnecessary 
their attendance dies, their 

475
00:31:30,300 --> 00:31:32,900
service to God, dies, their 
praise dies. 

476
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:41,100
Their witness dies. 
And they just remain in the 

477
00:31:41,100 --> 00:31:44,400
place of numbness and they just 
cruise through life. 

478
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,700
And that is not God's Will and 
that is not what the Holy Spirit

479
00:31:48,700 --> 00:31:50,900
wants to do in us. 
He wants to do so much more in 

480
00:31:50,900 --> 00:31:53,900
US. 
He wants to elevate us, and 

481
00:31:54,300 --> 00:31:59,100
bring us above all of that to 
soar with Supernatural strength.

482
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,100
Heartache, heartache is 
powerful. 

483
00:32:06,700 --> 00:32:11,700
But it should never come to the 
point where it kills our heart 

484
00:32:11,700 --> 00:32:16,600
for God. 
And so trust that God is able to

485
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,200
energize within you, true 
worship, even in the midst of 

486
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,500
pain. 
Thirdly, true worship is not 

487
00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:25,400
just something that can be done 
in the midst of sorrow and God 

488
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,300
is worthy of it even in the 
midst of sorrow. 

489
00:32:27,300 --> 00:32:30,500
But true worship is offered as 
highest priority. 

490
00:32:30,900 --> 00:32:34,300
David went to two houses after 
he heard the news of his son's 

491
00:32:34,300 --> 00:32:35,900
death. 
Let's read that again. 

492
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,900
David Rose from the earth and 
washed, and anointed himself and

493
00:32:38,900 --> 00:32:40,900
changed his clothes. 
And he went into the house of 

494
00:32:40,900 --> 00:32:43,700
the Lord and worship, he then 
went to his own house. 

495
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,900
And when he asked, they set food
before him, then he ate two 

496
00:32:46,900 --> 00:32:48,500
houses, which one did he go to 
First? 

497
00:32:50,500 --> 00:32:55,300
Yeah. some have trouble if the 
meeting extends because they 

498
00:32:55,300 --> 00:32:59,600
know that lunch time is being 
compromised, David fasted for 4 

499
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:04,300
days and when he knew that he 
got an answer to his prayer, 

500
00:33:04,300 --> 00:33:06,400
maybe not the answer that he 
wanted, but when he knew he got 

501
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,300
an answer, no, your son isn't 
going to live. 

502
00:33:09,300 --> 00:33:12,400
The first thing that he does is,
I'm going to worship God. 

503
00:33:12,700 --> 00:33:14,800
You would think that he would go
and order a meal. 

504
00:33:16,100 --> 00:33:18,800
It's food sin. 
No, it's the principle behind 

505
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:21,600
what we see here in the 
principle is this that unless 

506
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:26,600
worship honor service to God, is
preeminent in our lives and 

507
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:30,300
everything follows that it 
ceases to be true worship. 

508
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:35,200
If worship the God has for third
or even second place in our 

509
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:40,800
priorities, no matter what, we 
steam it to be to God. 

510
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:45,200
It is not true worship. 
True worship is only when 

511
00:33:45,300 --> 00:33:49,400
everything revolves around our 
responsibility and our affection

512
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,700
to the things of God into the 
person of God himself. 

513
00:33:54,500 --> 00:33:56,900
And so worship, you've heard me 
say this before, but it's worth 

514
00:33:56,900 --> 00:33:59,800
repeating worship for a lot of 
Believers. 

515
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:02,800
Today's, a matter of 
convenience, and as long as it 

516
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,400
is painless, and as long as it 
doesn't come with too, great of 

517
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,400
a price, as long as my time is 
not affected in. 

518
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,699
My plans are not altered then I 
will worship. 

519
00:34:10,699 --> 00:34:13,300
That's not worship. 
That's idolatry. 

520
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:18,800
It's idolatry even in that you 
realize that you and I are 

521
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:24,699
worshiping ourselves. 
We don't put the gift on the 

522
00:34:24,699 --> 00:34:26,800
Altar and realize when the altar
is going to be consumed, we 

523
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:28,400
removed the gift. 
That's not how it works. 

524
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,600
But that's a wonderful imagery 
of what we can do in our 

525
00:34:30,699 --> 00:34:34,699
spiritual walk with the Lord. 
And so, true worship is 

526
00:34:34,699 --> 00:34:37,800
sacrifice. 
And it will call for great 

527
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,000
sacrifice at times. 
And what will determine whether 

528
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,699
or not? 
It is legitimate worship. 

529
00:34:41,699 --> 00:34:46,600
Is Lord, you have first place in
all things. 

530
00:34:48,300 --> 00:34:52,699
You have first place in all 
things, and I think that is 

531
00:34:52,699 --> 00:34:56,900
increasingly being a lost 
posture. 

532
00:34:58,100 --> 00:35:01,700
In an age of much convenience 
and many other Ambitions in 

533
00:35:01,700 --> 00:35:04,900
life. 
But here's David, it moves me to

534
00:35:04,900 --> 00:35:06,800
the core. 
I mean, here's this guy. 

535
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:12,100
He peels himself off the carpet.
and the first thing that comes 

536
00:35:12,100 --> 00:35:16,700
to his mind when he gets a no 
look, if I read that verse in 

537
00:35:16,700 --> 00:35:18,900
isolation, with a blurred 
understanding of the of the 

538
00:35:18,900 --> 00:35:22,200
context, you would think David 
did this because he got a, yes, 

539
00:35:23,300 --> 00:35:25,900
Your son will be healed and hear
your son is healed. 

540
00:35:25,900 --> 00:35:27,600
David how it gets up and washes 
up? 

541
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:28,500
And he goes to the house of 
look. 

542
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:34,700
No, it was because of a, no a, 
no, that's worship God. 

543
00:35:34,700 --> 00:35:36,600
You're worthy. 
You don't owe me anything. 

544
00:35:37,300 --> 00:35:40,900
You already gave me your son. 
I have eternal life. 

545
00:35:40,900 --> 00:35:43,600
You Are Holy. 
I'm a creature. 

546
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,900
You're the Creator. 
I'm your servant your, my 

547
00:35:45,900 --> 00:35:48,200
master. 
You are good. 

548
00:35:48,900 --> 00:35:51,900
I am skewed in my understanding 
of what is good. 

549
00:35:51,900 --> 00:35:55,500
My heart lies to me. 
Anybody else I think I know 

550
00:35:55,500 --> 00:35:58,400
what's best for me more than 
most people including sometimes 

551
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,700
if I'm honest you but I refuse 
to believe that in this moment 

552
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:03,900
you are good. 
Here's my worship. 

553
00:36:04,500 --> 00:36:07,800
Here's my worship. 
This is worshipped. 

554
00:36:09,700 --> 00:36:12,000
And what a testament and was 
look at verse 21. 

555
00:36:12,900 --> 00:36:16,500
Then his servants said to him, 
what is this thing that you have

556
00:36:16,500 --> 00:36:18,000
done? 
They were like offended. 

557
00:36:18,900 --> 00:36:20,900
What is this thing that you have
done? 

558
00:36:21,700 --> 00:36:24,500
You fasted and wept for the 
child while he was alive. 

559
00:36:24,500 --> 00:36:27,900
But when the child died? 
You arose and ate food? 

560
00:36:27,900 --> 00:36:30,500
It's just, there were 
confounded. 

561
00:36:30,900 --> 00:36:35,600
They were shocked. 
Trust in God when it is lived 

562
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:40,300
out is often a spectacle, it's a
spectacle. 

563
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,300
When it comes out of our Bible, 
studies and comes out of our 

564
00:36:44,300 --> 00:36:46,900
book readings, and our 
systematic theologies, and it's 

565
00:36:46,900 --> 00:36:53,000
lived out, it has the ability to
rock peoples world. 

566
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,600
And not just the hope that we 
have, in adversity, right? 

567
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,700
Hope is a powerful thing, 
especially in adversity. 

568
00:37:01,500 --> 00:37:05,300
But everything about our faith, 
the all-encompassing realities 

569
00:37:05,300 --> 00:37:06,300
are our faith. 
Not just hope. 

570
00:37:06,300 --> 00:37:10,000
For example, Holiness, even 
Holiness Holiness, when we 

571
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,200
choose to consecrate our lives, 
and not join with the world that

572
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:18,500
has the ability to make people 
perplexed. 

573
00:37:20,100 --> 00:37:22,800
And so here you see these men, 
they're just dumbfounded. 

574
00:37:23,300 --> 00:37:27,300
Hey can you help me understand 
this You're living in an 

575
00:37:27,300 --> 00:37:31,600
opposite and parallel universe. 
This is not how things happen, 

576
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:34,100
when you hear the death of a 
little child. 

577
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:38,100
And David is not Faking, It 
David is not putting on a show. 

578
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,300
This is real. 
You know, when I was reading 

579
00:37:41,300 --> 00:37:44,500
this verse, I was thinking about
the, yes we don't we don't 

580
00:37:44,500 --> 00:37:46,700
grieve as the world Grieves 
according to 1st Thessalonians 

581
00:37:46,700 --> 00:37:49,700
4:13, but it's beyond that. 
It's more than just the hope 

582
00:37:49,700 --> 00:37:52,300
aspect. 
Do you remember that verse of 

583
00:37:52,300 --> 00:37:56,700
First Peter 44 and first Peter 
44, Peter says into this 

584
00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:01,000
respect. 
They are surprised when you do 

585
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,900
not join them in their flood of 
debauchery, and they malign you.

586
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,300
And they Milan, you tells the 
group of Christians here, that 

587
00:38:09,300 --> 00:38:13,300
when you as a Believer, allow 
the gospel to truly come in and 

588
00:38:13,300 --> 00:38:16,700
cause you to live a life, that 
is separated unto the Lord. 

589
00:38:17,100 --> 00:38:20,200
The unbelieving, the ones who 
were once your friends, they are

590
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:24,000
surprised when you don't join 
them. 

591
00:38:25,100 --> 00:38:27,400
And the flood of debauchery is 
like, hey, there's more room and

592
00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:31,600
come swim with us. 
And when you say no and when you

593
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,000
say I'm sorry, I'm going to 
bible study on Friday night. 

594
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,000
I'm sorry. 
I don't sleep in on Sunday. 

595
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:37,400
I'm sorry. 
I don't do that. 

596
00:38:37,500 --> 00:38:42,100
Whatever the case may be, It has
the ability again too. 

597
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:48,500
To be a spectacle. 
And for people to wonder now, to

598
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:52,200
two things can happen as you 
live that out one is that it 

599
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:56,500
brings such a challenge to the 
people that they inquire further

600
00:38:56,500 --> 00:38:59,300
about the hope that is in you. 
What why are you like this? 

601
00:38:59,500 --> 00:39:03,200
Why don't you do this or 
secondly, it can create enemies 

602
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:06,800
and they malign you and they 
mock you despise you. 

603
00:39:07,100 --> 00:39:10,700
And because the conviction is so
real, the light is so bright, it

604
00:39:10,700 --> 00:39:14,900
exposes the darkness and them 
that they begin to as a defense 

605
00:39:14,900 --> 00:39:17,600
mechanism. 
Now, turn on you and try to 

606
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:21,100
shine, you and put you in a 
category of crazy or whatever 

607
00:39:21,100 --> 00:39:23,100
the case may be, that is not the
case with these men. 

608
00:39:23,100 --> 00:39:27,000
As they witness David David, 
making a statement of unshakable

609
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,000
faith. 
These men had a genuine inquiry.

610
00:39:30,900 --> 00:39:36,400
How, how does this happen? 
Can you tell us the secret to 

611
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,300
your resolve? 
Or can you explain your behavior

612
00:39:39,300 --> 00:39:42,300
here? 
David does he gladly does look 

613
00:39:42,300 --> 00:39:44,900
at verse 22. 
He said, while the child was 

614
00:39:44,900 --> 00:39:49,400
still alive, I fasted and wept 
for I said who knows whether the

615
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:54,400
Lord will be gracious to me. 
That the child may live but now 

616
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:57,400
he is dead. 
Why should I fast? 

617
00:39:58,500 --> 00:40:01,600
Why should I fast? 
Can I bring him back again? 

618
00:40:01,900 --> 00:40:05,500
I shall go to him but he will 
not return to me. 

619
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:09,600
You know, some might look at 
what David did here for the past

620
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:14,700
seven days as a waste pointless.
Especially in light of the fact 

621
00:40:14,700 --> 00:40:17,300
that God decreed already and he 
made the charge. 

622
00:40:17,300 --> 00:40:20,200
Your son is going to die, he's 
going to die. 

623
00:40:22,900 --> 00:40:26,100
But David here does something 
and he explains something that 

624
00:40:26,100 --> 00:40:29,500
is consistent with the rest of 
scripture and it's an important 

625
00:40:29,500 --> 00:40:32,600
lesson about prayer. 
There are many examples in the 

626
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:35,100
Bible when God pronounces 
judgment, whether to an 

627
00:40:35,100 --> 00:40:40,300
individual, or to a nation, and 
the response of the object of 

628
00:40:40,300 --> 00:40:43,600
judgment has actually brought 
about a different outcome. 

629
00:40:43,700 --> 00:40:48,000
That was decreed beforehand. 
In some cases the Judgment was 

630
00:40:48,500 --> 00:40:50,300
completely removed altogether 
and others. 

631
00:40:50,300 --> 00:40:54,900
It was reduced and in some cases
like this one, it didn't move 

632
00:40:54,900 --> 00:40:57,100
one. 
Bit it stayed the way it was 

633
00:40:57,100 --> 00:41:03,900
intended to be originally. 
And so David here with his 

634
00:41:03,900 --> 00:41:09,400
praying. 
Was not wasting his time was not

635
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:14,200
doing something that he thought 
was just, you know, I'm just 

636
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:18,100
going to show some piety here. 
He's not showcasing, anything 

637
00:41:18,300 --> 00:41:22,800
David, had another belief about 
how God works and this is it God

638
00:41:22,900 --> 00:41:26,800
through my praying through my 
fasting can change course. 

639
00:41:27,500 --> 00:41:29,900
Now I know that gets complicated
philosophically. 

640
00:41:30,100 --> 00:41:33,100
I know that it's complicated 
with the foreknowledge of God 

641
00:41:33,100 --> 00:41:40,900
and how God works and I get it. 
I'm not going to allow myself to

642
00:41:40,900 --> 00:41:44,700
get so deep into this that I 
drown and I don't want you to 

643
00:41:44,700 --> 00:41:47,400
either. 
All I know is that there is 

644
00:41:47,500 --> 00:41:50,000
there is the truth that God does
know all things. 

645
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,700
That God has things determined 
on his prophetic calendar, but 

646
00:41:54,700 --> 00:41:56,700
at the same time, I look at 
things like you have not, 

647
00:41:56,700 --> 00:41:59,100
because you ask that, I'm going 
to believe that just a strongly.

648
00:42:00,500 --> 00:42:04,600
I'm going to believe that just 
as strongly And so, what we see 

649
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:10,500
here is that David prayed 
because David believed to some 

650
00:42:10,500 --> 00:42:15,700
extent, perhaps God will have 
mercy, perhaps God will have 

651
00:42:15,700 --> 00:42:18,100
mercy. 
I remember hearing a Q&A but 

652
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:24,100
very respected minister in my 
books and it was a Q&A that 

653
00:42:24,100 --> 00:42:26,200
dealt with Revival and one of 
the questions and I believe it 

654
00:42:26,207 --> 00:42:29,000
was a brilliant. 
Question was Brother. 

655
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:34,400
If if Jesus told us and the New 
Testament affirms that things 

656
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:37,800
are only going to get worse, and
worse, before his return. 

657
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:43,300
Then why admonish, why fast? 
Why I extend prayer meetings and

658
00:42:43,300 --> 00:42:49,400
have conferences around prayer 
for Revival for a mass, move of 

659
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:52,000
the spirit, that would sweep in 
more souls into the kingdom of 

660
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:55,300
God. 
How does that coincide with the 

661
00:42:55,300 --> 00:42:57,700
reality? 
That things are only going to 

662
00:42:57,700 --> 00:43:00,400
get? 
Darker and more vile and More 

663
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:04,900
unbelieving in our world. 
And as much as I respected this,

664
00:43:04,900 --> 00:43:09,700
man, he kind of went off in a 
different direction and he went 

665
00:43:09,700 --> 00:43:12,400
down this Rabbit Hole. 
So so the interviewer repeated, 

666
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:15,500
the question and try to bring 
him back on course, and he tried

667
00:43:15,500 --> 00:43:19,700
to answer it, but it didn't 
satisfy me at least, it didn't 

668
00:43:19,700 --> 00:43:22,300
satisfy me. 
And, and I, to me, it was just 

669
00:43:22,308 --> 00:43:26,800
like there has to be an answer 
that, because if we're believing

670
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:29,800
God for that, if we're asking 
God to move in our city, does 

671
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:32,200
that work? 
Is it going to work? 

672
00:43:32,207 --> 00:43:34,900
Are we wasting? 
Eating our time or should we 

673
00:43:34,900 --> 00:43:38,100
just hold tight build bunkers 
and and just wait for the 

674
00:43:38,107 --> 00:43:42,400
return? 
And then I remember my own 

675
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:44,000
personal reading not studying 
for any sermon. 

676
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:46,700
Nothing of the sort just reading
through systematically the word 

677
00:43:46,700 --> 00:43:48,300
of God. 
I came to the prophet Joel and a

678
00:43:48,308 --> 00:43:51,800
text appeared to me and it 
answered the question. 

679
00:43:52,700 --> 00:43:58,500
It answered the question and my 
mind went directly to watching 

680
00:43:58,500 --> 00:44:00,800
that Q&A even years ago and I've
watched it more than once and I 

681
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:02,700
thought to myself. 
That's it. 

682
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,200
That is it. 
Can I share it with you? 

683
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:09,100
Joel chapter 2. 
Look at verse. 14 with me in the

684
00:44:09,300 --> 00:44:13,800
Context here. 
The prophet Joel has has called 

685
00:44:14,700 --> 00:44:19,800
judgment upon the people of God.
Namely Israel, the people of 

686
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:25,000
Judah, It was inevitable. 
It was determined there. 

687
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:28,100
The warnings already came, the 
prophets have already lined up, 

688
00:44:28,100 --> 00:44:31,000
and there was so much rejection 
and God decreed judgment is 

689
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:32,500
coming. 
But look what Joel says. 

690
00:44:33,500 --> 00:44:36,400
There's a call for repentance 
and 12 and 13. 

691
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:38,700
What look what, look what is 
said here in verse 14. 

692
00:44:39,900 --> 00:44:46,500
Who knows, whether he will not 
turn and relent. 

693
00:44:47,700 --> 00:44:51,900
And leave a blessing behind him,
a grain offering and a drink 

694
00:44:51,900 --> 00:44:55,400
offering for the Lord, your God.
You see that? 

695
00:44:56,800 --> 00:45:00,700
Who knows, isn't that? 
What David said, didn't David 

696
00:45:00,700 --> 00:45:02,900
say similar things, who knows 
whether the Lord will be 

697
00:45:02,900 --> 00:45:06,000
gracious to me? 
Who knows? 

698
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:12,400
I don't know if God will. 
All I know is that God is able 

699
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:18,300
and because God is able that's 
enough fuel for me to pray and 

700
00:45:18,300 --> 00:45:22,700
keep praying. 
Too fast and keep fasting to 

701
00:45:22,700 --> 00:45:27,200
seek and keep seeking. 
We are not fatalistic in our 

702
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:31,000
faith. 
We're not among those who might 

703
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:37,500
say it's all said and done just 
robotically move on and deal 

704
00:45:37,500 --> 00:45:42,100
with it as it comes. 
No there is a mysterious aspect 

705
00:45:42,100 --> 00:45:46,500
to this where he holy God who 
says one thing can be moved in 

706
00:45:46,500 --> 00:45:48,700
his heart through the prayers of
his people. 

707
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:54,400
And sometimes it's a yes and 
sometimes it's a no regardless. 

708
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:56,700
I'm going to apply this to my 
prayer. 

709
00:45:56,700 --> 00:46:02,700
Life, who knows? 
And you know why prayer is so 

710
00:46:02,700 --> 00:46:06,200
important because David could 
get up with such confidence 

711
00:46:06,500 --> 00:46:10,400
knowing that he did his part by 
seeking God and knowing that he 

712
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:13,200
saw God. 
So he got an answer and he can 

713
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:16,300
move on now. 
I don't want to live my life 

714
00:46:16,300 --> 00:46:19,300
wondering. 
What if Do you see what I'm 

715
00:46:19,300 --> 00:46:22,000
saying? 
What if I had sought God? 

716
00:46:22,500 --> 00:46:24,300
What if I had prayed about the 
matter? 

717
00:46:24,900 --> 00:46:27,500
I just want to saturate 
everything in prayer and in as 

718
00:46:27,500 --> 00:46:30,600
God's providential leading 
occurs and whatever the outcome 

719
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:34,300
may be, I can be at peace. 
I can sit down and have a meal. 

720
00:46:34,300 --> 00:46:36,800
I can come to the house of God 
and we rejoice and not doubt for

721
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,600
a moment because I know that 
I've done what he's called, it a

722
00:46:39,607 --> 00:46:42,800
good do and let his Sovereign 
purposes, I saw him. 

723
00:46:43,700 --> 00:46:46,700
I saw them, I brought it before 
him, I gave it to him. 

724
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:49,100
Here's the outcome, sometimes 
there's answers. 

725
00:46:49,300 --> 00:46:51,800
Sometimes there's knows who 
knows. 

726
00:46:53,100 --> 00:46:56,400
I did my part though. 
I did my part. 

727
00:46:59,100 --> 00:47:02,200
And David here, as I mentioned 
in this verse expresses, 

728
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:04,100
something that has brought so 
much comfort. 

729
00:47:05,700 --> 00:47:09,000
Two families, especially parents
who have lost the life of a 

730
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:14,800
little child? 
What did he say at the end? 

731
00:47:15,900 --> 00:47:19,900
I shall go to him. 
But he will not return to me. 

732
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:29,400
Bible students, some don't see 
this as the Assurance or some 

733
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:37,600
Revelation that alludes to A 
little one being in the presence

734
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:40,800
of God and being pardoned for 
his sin. 

735
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:45,300
Some simply see David statement 
here as him acknowledging that. 

736
00:47:45,300 --> 00:47:49,400
He's going to go to the Grave. 
And joined his son and death at 

737
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:51,600
one point. 
He can't bring his son back from

738
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:54,900
the grave. 
I'm just I have my own lot in 

739
00:47:54,900 --> 00:47:57,700
that graveyard and I'm going to 
be there one day, just just like

740
00:47:57,700 --> 00:48:01,600
he is, here's my problem with 
that interpretation. 

741
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:04,700
It's very difficult to see how 
that thought is a source of 

742
00:48:04,700 --> 00:48:09,500
comfort. 
David has confidence here. 

743
00:48:09,500 --> 00:48:14,500
David is consoled here by a 
certain Revelation and I think 

744
00:48:14,500 --> 00:48:16,100
it's greater than I'm going to 
die. 

745
00:48:16,100 --> 00:48:24,600
Like my son died one day. 
David had as a psalmist, many 

746
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:28,600
Supernatural, insights into the 
resurrection. 

747
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:35,000
Into eternal life into New 
Covenant promises. 

748
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:38,400
And so should not be a surprise 
to us that perhaps. 

749
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:43,300
Even at this point he had some 
veiled understanding That the 

750
00:48:43,300 --> 00:48:48,400
judge of the earth knows exactly
how to judge and that my son who

751
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:51,900
has died at a certain stage of 
life will be brought into the 

752
00:48:51,900 --> 00:48:55,900
presence of his Holiness. 
And I because I am righteous 

753
00:48:55,900 --> 00:48:59,300
because of God's mercy and Grace
will join him one day. 

754
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:06,300
And the comfort of David's Heart
In This Moment is not just the 

755
00:49:06,300 --> 00:49:09,900
fact that his little boy is 
unnamed child. 

756
00:49:11,300 --> 00:49:14,300
Would be among the righteous 
forever, it's that he believed 

757
00:49:14,300 --> 00:49:16,200
one day, he will see him and 
recognize him. 

758
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:21,000
I'll see him one day. 
I will go to him. 

759
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:24,400
He will not come to me. 
I will go to him. 

760
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:30,800
And there is much debate among 
among people concerning how God 

761
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:35,100
does work and judge concerning 
those who are young, young in 

762
00:49:35,100 --> 00:49:39,000
age, young in life and you 
probably heard this. 

763
00:49:39,500 --> 00:49:41,600
There are some who actually 
believe that. 

764
00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:45,800
No, because you're born in sin. 
If you die, young, God will hold

765
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:48,300
you accountable because you've 
inherited Adam sinned and you 

766
00:49:48,300 --> 00:49:50,900
will not have eternal life. 
And there are others who who 

767
00:49:50,900 --> 00:49:53,200
have gathered the evidence of 
the New Testament of the Old 

768
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:55,700
Testament. 
I've concluded there is There is

769
00:49:55,700 --> 00:49:59,600
a point in life, in which you 
will be held accountable and 

770
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:04,800
prior to that point, God will 
judge differently based on your 

771
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:08,300
ability to know, right from 
wrong. 

772
00:50:08,500 --> 00:50:09,900
And that's the camp where I am 
in. 

773
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:15,200
And that's not just because of 
my subjective interpretation of 

774
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:18,600
Justice. 
That's because the Bible shows 

775
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:22,300
us that there is a point in 
life, in which the Lord does not

776
00:50:22,300 --> 00:50:25,300
hold us accountable, as he does 
with someone who is more 

777
00:50:25,300 --> 00:50:29,700
developed in their reasoning. 
So I want to give you these 

778
00:50:29,700 --> 00:50:31,400
references. 
So you can, you can write these 

779
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:34,000
down, you want you to even turn 
there because you might sit 

780
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:36,700
across a coffee table with 
somebody who is dealing with 

781
00:50:37,100 --> 00:50:41,800
sorrow dealing with the loss of 
a loved one and a child of all 

782
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:43,800
things which is even more 
devastating. 

783
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:45,700
So keep these references in 
mind. 

784
00:50:45,700 --> 00:50:51,400
Let's go, firstly to Isaiah 7. 
Isaiah 7 verse 15, and verse 16.

785
00:50:53,800 --> 00:51:06,300
Isaiah 7 verse 15 and verse 16. 
This is in the context of the 

786
00:51:06,300 --> 00:51:10,800
prophecy of the Virgin who'll 
have a child. 

787
00:51:10,900 --> 00:51:13,500
We know that ultimately points 
to Christ but look at the 

788
00:51:13,508 --> 00:51:16,900
description of this child. 
In the immediate sense of verse 

789
00:51:16,900 --> 00:51:22,000
15 of chapter 7. 
He shall eat curds and honey. 

790
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:26,600
When he knows how to refuse the 
evil and choose the good. 

791
00:51:27,500 --> 00:51:32,700
Did you see that? 
When he knows how to refuse the 

792
00:51:32,700 --> 00:51:36,400
evil and choose the good verse 
16 for before. 

793
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:39,800
The boy knows how to refuse the 
evil and choose the good. 

794
00:51:40,100 --> 00:51:43,300
The land, whose two kings you 
dread will be deserted. 

795
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:48,100
So, Isaiah makes a clear and 
obvious line. 

796
00:51:48,100 --> 00:51:52,000
There is a line in which a child
can cross in, which he knows how

797
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:55,400
to choose good, and he knows how
to refuse evil. 

798
00:51:55,700 --> 00:51:58,800
And there is a part of that 
child's life according to verse 

799
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:02,600
16 where he He doesn't know how 
to refuse evil and he doesn't 

800
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:06,200
know how to choose good. 
So that's obvious right there. 

801
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:11,900
There is a category of the 
unknown, according to a child's 

802
00:52:11,900 --> 00:52:15,500
ability to discern and make 
certain decisions. 

803
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:19,400
Okay, that's Isaiah 7. 
Let's go to Deuteronomy 139. 

804
00:52:23,300 --> 00:52:29,500
Deuteronomy 139, here's the 
Lord. reminding the people of 

805
00:52:29,500 --> 00:52:34,400
who's going into the promised 
land only to From the original 

806
00:52:35,100 --> 00:52:38,800
generation are going in but not 
just Joshua and Caleb. 

807
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:43,000
Joshua and Caleb were not. 
The only ones from that original

808
00:52:43,500 --> 00:52:47,100
group of Exiles who are headed 
into the land of Canaan. 

809
00:52:47,100 --> 00:52:52,100
There's another group of people 
verse 39, of chapter one and as,

810
00:52:52,100 --> 00:52:57,800
for your little ones, Who you 
said would become a prey and 

811
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:04,100
your children who today have no 
knowledge of good or evil. 

812
00:53:05,300 --> 00:53:09,500
They shall go in there and to 
them, I will give it and they 

813
00:53:09,500 --> 00:53:16,900
shall possess it. so listen, God
wiped away that entire first 

814
00:53:16,900 --> 00:53:21,400
generation, For anyone who is 20
and older, right? 

815
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:24,500
But we see here, that 
specifically the little ones 

816
00:53:24,500 --> 00:53:26,800
your children and here's his 
reasoning. 

817
00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:30,200
I'm not going to restrict the 
promised land. 

818
00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:34,500
I'm not going to Bar them out 
for this main reason, they have 

819
00:53:34,500 --> 00:53:39,700
no knowledge of good or evil. so
then if God is not willing to 

820
00:53:39,700 --> 00:53:45,600
judge little children in this 
life, With the severity that he 

821
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:48,900
brought about to their parents. 
Then we got, we have some 

822
00:53:48,900 --> 00:53:52,500
insight of how he execute 
judgment concerning those who 

823
00:53:52,500 --> 00:53:54,200
have no knowledge of good or 
evil. 

824
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:58,200
And I think that even applies to
those who do not have the normal

825
00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:01,900
mental capacity, even in their 
adult years to process things. 

826
00:54:03,700 --> 00:54:09,100
Right, even Romans 1, we see 
that there is Judgment based on 

827
00:54:09,100 --> 00:54:11,200
Revelation that's been given in 
nature. 

828
00:54:12,300 --> 00:54:18,000
And so God has revealed himself.
God has exposed himself and 

829
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:22,400
based on someone's ability to 
discern, that they will be held 

830
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:23,900
accountable. 
What about those who can't? 

831
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:29,000
Well, I think God will have 
Justice for them and mercy upon 

832
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:32,700
them. 
And so, I believe there is a 

833
00:54:32,700 --> 00:54:37,600
stronger case here to understand
that the Lord will Embrace in 

834
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:40,800
his arms, will be wide open for 
little children. 

835
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:43,200
I think we're going to see a lot
of them and Glory. 

836
00:54:43,900 --> 00:54:45,800
I don't know how that all works.
Well I don't know what age were 

837
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:49,100
all going to be at I don't know 
what it is about the 

838
00:54:49,100 --> 00:54:53,300
resurrection body. 
That's Going to include all the 

839
00:54:53,300 --> 00:54:59,000
intricacies of. life and years, 
but Praise God. 

840
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:02,000
He's a merciful Lord. 
And Judge. 

841
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:04,400
David knew that. 
We should believe the same. 

842
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:11,300
You and I have briefly looked at
the fruit of chastisement, how 

843
00:55:11,300 --> 00:55:14,300
God disciplines and why God 
disciplines and what it brings 

844
00:55:14,300 --> 00:55:18,700
about, when one Embraces God's 
chastening hand. 

845
00:55:19,100 --> 00:55:21,300
But here's how I want to end and
we're ending with that same 

846
00:55:21,300 --> 00:55:27,800
thought in mind because There is
one very important. 

847
00:55:29,500 --> 00:55:32,700
Way of Understanding God's 
discipline that if we ended here

848
00:55:32,700 --> 00:55:37,000
might leave some of us hopeless,
especially for us who have maybe

849
00:55:37,700 --> 00:55:45,000
dramatically messed up. 
Because we understand that this 

850
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:47,800
is not the end for David's 
discipline for the rest of his 

851
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:49,200
life. 
He's going to no repercussions, 

852
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:55,500
he's going to no consequences 
until his dying day. and that 

853
00:55:55,500 --> 00:56:00,400
could, That can make life pretty
unlivable. 

854
00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:05,600
Some might even want to call it 
quits. 

855
00:56:07,700 --> 00:56:09,500
But that's not how the story 
ends. 

856
00:56:11,100 --> 00:56:15,200
So, we have to close this study 
in the way that this story ends 

857
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:21,700
because it will impart so much 
hope for the Hopeless. 

858
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:29,100
Look at verse 24, then David 
comforted his wife Bathsheba and

859
00:56:29,100 --> 00:56:32,400
went into her and lay with her 
and she bore a son and called 

860
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:35,400
his name Solomon. 
And the Lord loved him. 

861
00:56:39,300 --> 00:56:41,100
And sent a message by Nathan the
prophet. 

862
00:56:41,100 --> 00:56:47,200
So he called his name Jedidiah 
because of the Lord, look at 

863
00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:52,600
verse 24, very carefully, then 
David comforted who his wife 

864
00:56:52,600 --> 00:56:55,600
Bathsheba, go back to where we 
started in verse 15. 

865
00:56:55,700 --> 00:57:00,000
And look at how the holy spirit 
before this verse identifies 

866
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:03,200
Bathsheba. 
Then Nathan went to his house 

867
00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:07,700
and the Lord Afflicted, the 
child that who you riyas wife 

868
00:57:08,400 --> 00:57:14,000
bore to David. 
So even after David got married,

869
00:57:14,900 --> 00:57:16,900
even after he thought he 
concealed everything and he hit 

870
00:57:16,900 --> 00:57:19,900
everything. 
Verse 15 reminds us that the 

871
00:57:19,900 --> 00:57:23,000
child that's going to be 
afflicted with this disease. 

872
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:29,100
Was not a child that was 
consummated in a legitimate way 

873
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:35,400
you riyas wife. 
You riyas wife the child that 

874
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:40,000
you riyas wife board to David 
that child that was conceived 

875
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:44,700
while Uriah was married to 
Bathsheba that child is going to

876
00:57:44,700 --> 00:57:49,500
suffer. 
And then you come to verse 24. 

877
00:57:50,100 --> 00:57:54,500
When everything has settled, 
when that major blow came, and 

878
00:57:54,500 --> 00:57:56,600
we are told by the same Holy 
Spirit. 

879
00:57:58,100 --> 00:58:07,000
David comforted, not uriah's, 
wife, his wife Bathsheba his 

880
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:12,300
wife Bathsheba, that is not to 
say that God sanctioned this 

881
00:58:12,300 --> 00:58:15,300
marriage meaning that he 
approved at the means by which 

882
00:58:15,300 --> 00:58:21,200
this marriage came about, But it
also doesn't mean that in God's 

883
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:25,700
mind, in order to rectify this 
whole mess that David had to 

884
00:58:25,700 --> 00:58:28,900
sever ties with Bathsheba 
divorce. 

885
00:58:28,900 --> 00:58:33,500
Her put her away and cut off. 
This marital Covenant with her 

886
00:58:33,500 --> 00:58:37,400
because that would only add to 
the evil. someone once asked me 

887
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:43,400
on behalf of a friend, my friend
had a past divorce. 

888
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:47,500
Before she knew the Lord, then 
she remarried. 

889
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:51,600
And there's another Christian 
friend of hers that told her in 

890
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:53,800
order for you to walk in 
Holiness, you need a divorce, 

891
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:56,300
your current husband and go back
to your original husband. 

892
00:58:57,100 --> 00:59:00,500
You're living in adultery. 
Do you see how these Bible 

893
00:59:00,500 --> 00:59:05,200
studies help us in real life? 
Now, I know if you read it, if 

894
00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:08,200
you read Deuteronomy 24, It's 
actually an Abomination. 

895
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:12,600
It's actually an Abomination to 
see a marriage covenant, that 

896
00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:17,200
perhaps was not the right way 
for it to come about and to 

897
00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:22,400
sever that tie to try to somehow
make it holy again and make it 

898
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:26,100
right again. 
So what we see here is that, 

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00:59:26,300 --> 00:59:32,300
when David Mary's Bathsheba God 
recognizes it as a true 

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00:59:32,300 --> 00:59:34,900
Covenant, it's a true Covenant 
nonetheless. 

901
00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:39,800
It was very ugly how it happened
but it is a covenant nonetheless

902
00:59:39,900 --> 00:59:42,100
and more than a covenant. 
Here's how I see it. 

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00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:44,900
It's a new day. 
It's a new day. 

904
00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:49,800
He changes his clothes. 
And now he comes into this point

905
00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:55,100
where he Comforts his wife. 
And now we are told His wife 

906
00:59:55,100 --> 00:59:59,900
Bathsheba, Kate how it happened 
for you to come about to this 

907
00:59:59,900 --> 01:00:03,400
place. 
It was horrendous but now that 

908
01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:07,700
you're here, Let's walk 
hand-in-hand with the Lord and 

909
01:00:07,700 --> 01:00:11,300
pursue honor to his name where 
we are right now. 

910
01:00:15,600 --> 01:00:22,400
And David will experience more 
subsequent series of suffering. 

911
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:24,200
We're going to see that for the 
rest of this Bible study, and 

912
01:00:24,200 --> 01:00:26,300
second Samuel. 
But you know what's so profound?

913
01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:30,000
God's discipline does not 
nullify His blessings for us. 

914
01:00:31,500 --> 01:00:35,400
When God chastises us it doesn't
mean that he completely cancels 

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01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:38,400
his favor in our lives. 
You see? 

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01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:41,500
So he has now this relationship 
with Bathsheba. 

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01:00:42,100 --> 01:00:46,300
She's now his wife, they come 
together and they have a child 

918
01:00:46,300 --> 01:00:48,900
and when they come together, 
have this baby. 

919
01:00:49,100 --> 01:00:51,800
It's not that. 
Just this baby is provided by 

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01:00:51,800 --> 01:00:54,200
God, who gives life? 
No God goes. 

921
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:56,700
The extra step gives a message 
to Nathan. 

922
01:00:56,700 --> 01:00:59,800
The prophet who are the last 
time we saw him stuck his 

923
01:00:59,800 --> 01:01:02,600
Prophet finger and His face and 
told him you are the man. 

924
01:01:02,600 --> 01:01:06,300
Now, now, Nathan comes back to 
reassure David and Bathsheba 

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01:01:06,300 --> 01:01:09,400
this baby that you guys have 
together, God loves him. 

926
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:16,000
The lord loves this baby. 
And here's another name for this

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01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:19,500
baby. 
Beloved of the Lord, right? 

928
01:01:19,900 --> 01:01:25,800
And so this is a reassuring 
thing after this, painful whole 

929
01:01:26,100 --> 01:01:30,400
situation. 
God now wants to come and ensure

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01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:33,200
that they know I still have 
something for you. 

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01:01:34,500 --> 01:01:37,700
I have a plan for Solomon. 
I have a plan for your future. 

932
01:01:38,100 --> 01:01:41,400
Yes, you're under my chastening 
hand and yes, you will know more

933
01:01:41,400 --> 01:01:44,100
consequences to your sin, but 
I'm still here. 

934
01:01:46,900 --> 01:01:49,800
And I still love you and I still
love what's happening in your 

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01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:53,800
family and I want to do 
something with your future. 

936
01:01:55,900 --> 01:01:59,600
Sometimes people, they go 
through such shame and 

937
01:01:59,600 --> 01:02:01,600
embarrassment and public 
scandal. 

938
01:02:03,100 --> 01:02:05,200
And they know that God is 
willing to forgive, but they 

939
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:08,900
think that's it. 
Now I'm just in the backdrop of 

940
01:02:08,900 --> 01:02:13,100
the kingdom of God and it's done
and I don't deserve anything. 

941
01:02:13,700 --> 01:02:17,700
I understand and they just live 
in the shadows of God's love, 

942
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:21,600
while they look on and they see 
others who live more respectable

943
01:02:21,600 --> 01:02:26,500
more, holy more consistent. 
And the extent of their joy and 

944
01:02:26,500 --> 01:02:29,300
service to the kingdom of God is
just watching others be used by 

945
01:02:29,300 --> 01:02:32,400
the Lord while you just sit 
there and not make a mess again.

946
01:02:34,500 --> 01:02:40,000
That's not how God works. 
They have a baby and Nathan 

947
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:45,000
says, the lord loves this child.
And has this prophetic 

948
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:48,400
reassuring message for David and
it's even more than that. 

949
01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:51,600
Look at verse 26. 
Now job fought against Rabe of 

950
01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:54,600
the ammonites and took the Royal
City and job, send Messengers to

951
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:56,000
David. 
And said, I've fought against 

952
01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:58,200
rob. 
A moreover I've taken the city 

953
01:02:58,200 --> 01:03:01,300
of waters now, then gather the 
rest of the people, together and

954
01:03:01,300 --> 01:03:03,600
encamp against the city and take
it less. 

955
01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:06,000
I take the city and it be called
by my name. 

956
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:09,700
That's a very weird invitation 
something wrong with jobs 

957
01:03:09,700 --> 01:03:13,200
character here. 
Makes you wonder if the 

958
01:03:13,200 --> 01:03:16,900
relationship with David maybe 
was altered after he realized 

959
01:03:16,900 --> 01:03:20,800
what happened to Uriah. 
It's not the point. 

960
01:03:20,900 --> 01:03:23,400
Look at verse 29, so David 
gathered, all the people 

961
01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:27,000
together and went to Rob and 
fought against it and took it. 

962
01:03:29,100 --> 01:03:32,500
God still has used for David as 
a king. 

963
01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:39,000
And you re later on that a crown
was placed on his head. 

964
01:03:41,900 --> 01:03:47,000
A crown was placed on his head. 
And it comes full circle. 

965
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:50,500
Right? 
Why did David come to this point

966
01:03:50,500 --> 01:03:52,900
this low point because he didn't
go to war. 

967
01:03:54,500 --> 01:03:57,300
He didn't go to this very same 
battle that he was supposed to 

968
01:03:57,300 --> 01:04:00,100
go to. 
And so he sins and he sins and 

969
01:04:00,100 --> 01:04:05,000
he sins and it blows up in his 
face and then he's confronted he

970
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:10,700
repents and he he accepts the 
chastisement. 

971
01:04:12,700 --> 01:04:16,800
And the Lord says, okay, let's 
go back to where we left off. 

972
01:04:19,100 --> 01:04:22,700
Now. 
It is true that in the New 

973
01:04:22,700 --> 01:04:26,300
Covenant context, there are some
sins that might disqualify some 

974
01:04:26,300 --> 01:04:29,400
people from certain leadership's
in the church but does that 

975
01:04:29,400 --> 01:04:33,700
negate the principle that is 
here is that God still can use 

976
01:04:33,700 --> 01:04:37,700
you. 
God still has a future for you. 

977
01:04:39,300 --> 01:04:43,000
God still has a Plan of 
Redemption that goes beyond just

978
01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:45,000
you having fellowship with him 
again. 

979
01:04:45,400 --> 01:04:49,600
There is still a place in his 
kingdom that he has much use for

980
01:04:49,600 --> 01:04:53,000
you. 
And that is exactly how this 

981
01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:55,900
story ends before we move on to 
chapter 13. 

982
01:04:59,600 --> 01:05:02,200
A baby comes after baby was 
lost. 

983
01:05:03,700 --> 01:05:07,300
A crown was restored for the 
least deserving. 

984
01:05:07,300 --> 01:05:13,300
King in this whole thing. and 
when God does take us through 

985
01:05:13,300 --> 01:05:18,000
the grinder, And we need us. 
Sit us down, and confront us and

986
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:22,900
sometimes expose us. 
What he has in mind on the other

987
01:05:22,900 --> 01:05:27,100
side of that, very dark period, 
that scripture calls in Hebrews 

988
01:05:27,100 --> 01:05:33,100
12 unpleasant at the moment. 
Is restored, Fellowship. 

989
01:05:34,400 --> 01:05:39,300
Restored utilization. 
And reassurance that you are 

990
01:05:39,300 --> 01:05:44,400
loved by the same father who 
disciplined you have hope 

991
01:05:44,400 --> 01:05:48,300
tonight have to have hope 
tonight let your faith be built 

992
01:05:48,300 --> 01:05:50,400
up. 
Stop. 

993
01:05:50,400 --> 01:05:53,200
Living your life looking in the 
rearview mirror as your driving.

994
01:05:53,200 --> 01:05:56,500
That's very dangerous. 
I don't recommend that. 

995
01:05:57,700 --> 01:05:59,200
When you're driving you're 
looking forward. 

996
01:05:59,200 --> 01:06:01,300
You're not looking in the 
mirrors that look back when you 

997
01:06:01,300 --> 01:06:03,500
do that and you do that and I 
don't care how much of an expert

998
01:06:03,500 --> 01:06:04,800
of a driver. 
You think you are? 

999
01:06:04,800 --> 01:06:08,300
You're going to hit something, 
you're going to stall, you're 

1000
01:06:08,300 --> 01:06:10,700
going to get into an accident. 
It's the same spiritually. 

1001
01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:13,400
If you keep looking back on 
things that God said it's done 

1002
01:06:13,400 --> 01:06:15,300
and it's over. 
And I've forgiven you, it's not 

1003
01:06:15,300 --> 01:06:16,900
going to be good for your 
tomorrow. 

1004
01:06:18,400 --> 01:06:21,700
Just trust in the love of God 
rehearse these truths whether 

1005
01:06:21,700 --> 01:06:24,800
their promises that are clear 
and direct or stories like this.

1006
01:06:24,800 --> 01:06:28,700
He's the same God in Christ. 
Has made that possible through 

1007
01:06:28,700 --> 01:06:32,400
his blood. 
Lord, we love you. this Bible 

1008
01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:37,900
study has been a blessing to us,
because your word is life. 

1009
01:06:38,800 --> 01:06:42,400
Lord in this place. 
We have learned much about the 

1010
01:06:42,500 --> 01:06:46,300
seriousness of sin in the past 
few weeks, as we looked at one 

1011
01:06:46,300 --> 01:06:49,500
chapter, we realize how we can 
get into sin. 

1012
01:06:49,900 --> 01:06:51,700
We realize what sin can do to 
us. 

1013
01:06:52,200 --> 01:06:55,600
We realize that we can't hide it
from you, we realize that you 

1014
01:06:55,600 --> 01:06:59,200
will call us to account. 
We realize that we can live for 

1015
01:06:59,200 --> 01:07:02,000
the rest of our lives with scars
because of our sin. 

1016
01:07:02,500 --> 01:07:04,700
But oh Lord. 
Thank you for the relief of 

1017
01:07:04,700 --> 01:07:09,300
knowing that you love us. 
And you still have a purpose for

1018
01:07:09,300 --> 01:07:16,300
us. 
And that Lord, you use messages 

1019
01:07:16,300 --> 01:07:19,200
and Messengers to remind us of 
these things. 

1020
01:07:20,500 --> 01:07:25,000
And so Lord for the one that is 
burdened by their past, let them

1021
01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:32,400
confidently know. 
That you are committed to them. 

1022
01:07:34,400 --> 01:07:36,000
Now, you have a calling for 
them. 

1023
01:07:39,200 --> 01:07:42,100
And what, as we saw David 
worship you, when it made, the 

1024
01:07:42,100 --> 01:07:44,000
least amount of sense to worship
you. 

1025
01:07:46,300 --> 01:07:49,800
Where we worship you with a 
thousand reasons and more. 

1026
01:07:52,200 --> 01:07:55,400
And so for the one who is heavy 
because of a trial, the one who 

1027
01:07:55,600 --> 01:07:58,800
has been praying and not getting
an answer, the one who keeps 

1028
01:07:58,800 --> 01:08:01,700
fasting and it seems like the 
know is becoming stronger. 

1029
01:08:01,700 --> 01:08:05,900
Lord made that not ever been 
there Devotion to you. 

1030
01:08:09,100 --> 01:08:12,600
The Lord has given the Lord has 
taken away. 

1031
01:08:13,700 --> 01:08:15,300
Blessed. 
Be the name of the Lord. 

1032
01:08:16,300 --> 01:08:20,300
And so Lord we end this Friday 
night giving you worship not 

1033
01:08:20,300 --> 01:08:22,899
just in song but a life set 
apart for you. 

1034
01:08:23,899 --> 01:08:28,700
Thank you that this Bible study 
has shown us again just how 

1035
01:08:28,700 --> 01:08:31,100
awesome you are and your name we
pray. 

1036
01:08:31,500 --> 01:08:35,300
Amen, shall We Stand Saints. 
Love the Lord tonight. 

1037
01:08:38,700 --> 01:08:42,300
Crown him with your praise 
Adorn, him with your words of 

1038
01:08:42,300 --> 01:08:45,399
affection and truth. 
And let's bless him before we go

1039
01:08:45,399 --> 01:08:50,600
home. 
And see another tomorrow.