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I want to read this just before 
we start because this verse came

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to my mind, just as I was 
praying meditating for tonight. 

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It's very, very important to 
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Jesus Christ, purchased for us, 
just the riches of his glory and

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the blessings that have been 
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cross, just, you know, have to 
turn there. 

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Just listen to what I have to 
say from this text and realize 

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that Jesus purchased this for 
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faith is by Grace. 
This is your future. 

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This is where your Headed 
because you are in Christ and 

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just let it melt your heart that
it rejuvenate you and bring hope

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to you in Revelation 21. 
Verse 3, John says, and I heard 

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a loud voice from the throne 
saying, Behold The Dwelling 

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Place of God is with man, he 
will dwell with them and they 

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will be his people and God 
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their God. 
He not an angel, not seraphim 

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that cherubim he will wipe away 
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Death Shall be no more no more 
funerals. 

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No more early premature loss. 
No more loved ones gone for long

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periods of time. 
Death Shall be no more neither. 

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Shall there be Mourning? 
North crying. 

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Nor pain anymore for the former 
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And he, who was Seated, on the 
throne said, behold, I am making

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all things new that's going to 
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Eternity behold. 
I am making all things new also.

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He said, write this down for 
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true. 
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They're really, really true 
trustworthy and true you can 

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count on it. 
You can Surrender Your Life on 

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it. 
You can believe Leave it with 

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every faculty of your being. 
These words are trustworthy and 

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true in the same words and 
Revelation that are trustworthy.

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And true, are the same words 
from the same author. 

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And second, Samuel chapter 13, 
would you meet me there? 

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2nd, Samuel. 13. 
And as you turn there, we're 

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going to put our finger 
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I Verse 18 Last week you and I 
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The tragic desecration of one of
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named. 
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Tamar, but in actuality it is, 
Tom are. 

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So I'm going to borrow that for 
this Bible, study Tom odd who 

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was violated by one of David's 
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amnon and we looked at and in 
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the attitude of and then after 
that evil act had been Committed

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and we looked at what had 
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After this, great crime came 
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was inside there about the 
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true face of iniquity tends to 
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into its lies, And an end and 
case what had happened to him 

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though. 
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sexual sin, created, emotional 
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himself, psychological damage. 
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the things that were apparent, 
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one who had a reaction to this 
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The Holy Spirit preserves for us
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reactions to what end and had 
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Very closely to who he is. 
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How one's unhinged selfishness 

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has collateral damage, damage 
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what we calculated or planned. 
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these three reactions briefly. 
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Bible study per se just like 
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persuasion that it is extremely 
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Clearly, it's in the word of 
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what my prayer has been for this
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This chapter, this portion, and 
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Samuel, it is that you and I, as
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particular way, we would grow in
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That you and I would have such a
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on what we study that it would 
create a greater resistance and 

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discernment and strength in your
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fight against Temptation that we
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And we would see through one of 
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description of the horrors of 
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Just how deplorable Giving into 
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And so let this Bible study 
tonight and Spire a fresh Zeal 

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to fight against that, which 
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savior on the cross, that which 
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are enduring here in this world 
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And that's what we're going to 
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We're going to Dive Right In and
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and then we are going to because
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us in this direction. 
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and expand on them because it 
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will teach us of the Folly of 
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and that is retaliation seeking 
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Harboring bitterness and 
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things into your own hands. 
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how foolish that is. 
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from Eminence to this evil, this
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This evil of young men who 
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took advantage of her to satiate
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Predictably is that of God. 
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Briefly. 
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with sleeves for the swear, the 
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dressed. 
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bolted the door after her. 
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thing that we saw. 
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the room and calling one of his 
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And a verse 19, and Tom odd, put
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long robe that she wore, and she
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went away crying aloud. 
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So sad to read this, it's very 
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predictable because her open 
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Ripping of garments is something
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scriptures when somebody loses 
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And so this is extreme pain. 
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significant and it does speak of
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not a loss from or for someone 
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woman lose her Purity, her 
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that, which she protected that, 
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safe future has been taken from 
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man who had unbridled lust 
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his power. 
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advantage of this young lady and
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signified her purity. 
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declares from that moment on I 
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My future is gone. 
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If you read the last part of 
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odd, lived, a desolate woman, In
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that's the last time you're 
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She now lives with her brother, 
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of her life. 
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somebody, we don't know if 
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know, she has a family just this
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supposed to make an impression 
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the Brokenness the extent of our
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sin extends, even to harming 
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Even those who are innocent in 
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That's what we see with this 
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And according to the holy spirit
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There is only one solution to 
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and pain and wounds caused by 
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And that is found in the summary
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Is it really? 
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It's actually really that 
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very demanding on our flesh. 
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supernaturally, generated and 
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God, I want to show you how in 
one simple verse with one simple

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command. 
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problems in this world can be 
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Can I show it to you? 
It's in Galatians 5. 

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Galatians 5. 
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In verse 14, There are a lot of 
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commands were more familiar with
the Big Ten but there are more 

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than the Big Ten. 
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Christ on top of that. 
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spirit in Galatians 5:14. 
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fulfilled in one word. 
The whole law is fulfilled in 

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one word. 
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You shall love your neighbor as 
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You know what Paul is saying 
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The, the solution or the 
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you can think of, especially 
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To knowing its fulfillment and 
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Spirit. 
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producing in that heart, a love 
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So think about it, do not commit
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covet, do not bear false, 
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jealousy, Envy Backbiting, 
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things. 
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making that claim of faith and 
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allowing the Holy Spirit through
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renew you from the inside out. 
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Harmony and peace be reduced to 
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and we know it's not perfect 
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Perfection when we when we come 
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But the principal still lies. 
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That there is a call to pursue 
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And in pursuing, that kind of 
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There is a victory over that 
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next verse of what Paul says 
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failure, the failure of pursuing
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this kind of a world. 
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Look at verse 15. but if you if 
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watch out that you are not 
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this love is missing in us and 
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pursued by the believer, this is
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world, in your home, in our 
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Our churches. 
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Another Biting and devouring 
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Only animals bite and devour one
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claim that their animals might 
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This is not human behavior, but 
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reduced to such Behavior. 
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previous verse when God's love 
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Humans are capable of acting and
treating one another, to the 

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point where you become like 
irrational, beasts, and 

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actually, cause some kind of 
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What? 
Consume one. 

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Another. 
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churches. 
We see local churches consumed 

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here's the scariest part about 
what I'm presenting you today. 

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Paul is not writing an epistle 
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He's writing to the Christians 
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So this is a warning, this is an
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the Believers in galatia which 
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capable of verse 15. 
It's Believers that are capable 

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of biting and devouring one 
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Now if that is possible in this 
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songs, lovely music, lovely 
messages, then what would become

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of the world that is devoid of 
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And I think you and I are going 
to depends what you believe 

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about the The tribulation, 
whether you're there or here, 

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you're going to perceive what 
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the Holy Spirit chooses to 
distance himself from actively 

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working in our world, there was 
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there will be an intensification
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Another you're saying well what 
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Well, here's a little Glimpse. 
What, what? 

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Am needed to tame our Port 
Ahmad. 

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That's what happens. 
And so Tom, our shows as Tom our

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reminds us that when this 
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innocent, lovely people like 
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and it's found in verse 20. 
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Now we look at her brother, 
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said to her has amnon your 
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known your brother been with you
now. 

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Hold your peace. 
My sister. 

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He is your brother do not take 
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I come here and look at verse 22
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Absalom spoke to em them. 
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hated em because he had violated
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directed towards his exploited 
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downplaying what happened. 
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insensitive though, you can make
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But it's because he has a plan. 
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sister to do this. 
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was very quickly inspired and 
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into his own hands. 
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tells the king or if she reports
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this can become a public Scandal
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of this marring. 
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He's not concerned about that. 
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that he didn't. 
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possibly give him Or rather he 
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this into his own hands and 
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And the reason why he doesn't do
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What? 
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Verse 22, rather. 
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Cool, he pretends he's casual He
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brother. 
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He doesn't even reprove him. 
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Nothing of the sort. 
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As though nothing had happened. 
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There are many lessons, and this
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begets sin. 
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but it's important sin, begets 
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the cycle of pain that we are 
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tonight in your own world that 
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people to the response of other 
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to me, me responding to that sin
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this thing alive and going. 
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danger, the Temptation, the 
potential destruction alive, and

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well. 
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here is the total opposite of 
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you know, you and I have a code 
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code is very straightforward. 
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order to deal with sin around us
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That's just a no-go Zone. 
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We never entertain committing an
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evil. 
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is prepared to do just that He 
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to the fire rather with his own 
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it here on a microscopic scale, 
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scale, even in the very city 
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Do you remember, when we used to
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One of the most astounding 
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used to minister among 
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engage Ang's, Was when we asked 
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Why do you do this? 
Why do you shoot people? 

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Why do you kill? 
Why do you plot, why do you take

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revenge? 
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one answer was well because we 
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We have to pay them back. 
He took out my buddy, he took 

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out my friend, he took out my 
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And I remember watching a news 
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in our own City And the reporter
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who had a mask on didn't want to
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Why don't you just put the guns 
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And it was just like an 
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Thought, like, what are you 
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Put the guns down. 
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every single night, the sirens 
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teenagers. 
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retaliation. 
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who did understand that 
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they did put it to a halt, we 
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To some degree. 
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learned that we came 11 Thursday
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and we gave him a Bible study 
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mine and to take Vengeance from 
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And we tried to convince him 
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wisdom of allowing almighty, 
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and I'm an observant and taking 
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being done, he will actually 
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justice. 
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it on their face. 
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they're questions that demanded.
Such great faith. 

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Such great faith. 
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defend me And so, yes, we're 
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City. 
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what people are doing tonight. 
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truth that God is just, he is a 
judge, he can act, he can 

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defend, he can intervene for so 
much to be put aside but people 

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just don't believe They don't 
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Depends on faith. 
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faith. 
It seems so simple yet so hard 

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at the same time especially when
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But but to say, I will take 
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prerogative that belongs to God 
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And so that's some kind of form 
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You're not God. 
You're not God. 

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And when you take Vengeance into
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above and beyond what Justice 
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So you can cure even more guilt 
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more. 
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see before we see how this is 
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Let's look at our third and 
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because sin is never one 
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Look at verse 21. 
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the father of both eminent and 
Tom odd, isn't it sad? 

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That it's only one verse Verse 
21. 

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When King David heard, all of 
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What's missing? 
You would think so, he would or 

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so, he nothing. 
He was very angry, no action, 

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only strong emotion on display 
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and verse 22. 
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disappointing, and you and I 
should feel that disappointment 

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because in the same way you and 
I heard that retaliation begets 

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more problems and sin. 
So does injustice, you know what

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David should have done with the 
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As difficult as it seems? 
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are told that when anybody is 
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immediate family member, they 
are to be cut off. 

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The guilty, parties are to be 
cut off. 

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That may sound severe but that's
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God Knows Best. 
And David doesn't do anything of

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the sort, he doesn't even 
rebuked him. 

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It is even call him into his 
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Nothing, he just expresses 
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lets him go lenient careless. 
Casual, he felt the right 

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emotions but it just stop there.
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And this being placed between 
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sister. 
Tamar and his demeanor towards 

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his brother, am ninh the 
placement, their sandwich in 

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between those suggest to us, 
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something, encourage Absalom to 
take revenge. 

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Okay, Dad, if you're not going 
to do anything, I'll do it. 

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I'll do it. 
You don't want to do anything 

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about it, then I'll do it. 
Gladly, and here's here's the 

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principal for you and I to 
consider these are so important 

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to see. 
When evil is not confronted. and

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if it is not restrained by those
who have been given God, decreed

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authority to handle sin and evil
and immorality Injustice, 

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whatever the case may be sin is 
guaranteed to multiply 

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guaranteed to multiply and is 
nothing short of dangerous for 

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the home. 
For the church and for Society 

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at large, when it's leaders turn
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do nothing about it. 
So, leaders of the home leaders 

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in the church leaders in 
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This is why you have to be 
careful craving or wanting to be

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a leader. 
Because part of that job 

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description, is you being able 
to boldly face in and do 

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something about it? 
To confront it, to rebuke it to 

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council it, whatever the case 
may be, but to leave it. 

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Blood is on our hands and God 
will hold leaders accountable 

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like what? 
We'll see here. 

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And what we do here when we 
don't allow sin to be attacked 

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by our leaders. 
And When leaders refused to do 

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that, it only in boldin's, The 
Sinner, to persist, and even 

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grow in that sin intensifying 
that sin. 

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And here's the, here's the 
scariest part. 

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It even invites by standards to 
eventually participate. 

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Nothing happened. 
Nothing happened. 

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So maybe I can and and then that
just it just multiplies more and

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more and more. 
I want to show you actually an 

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encouraging example of what 
happens when leaders do take a 

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stand and When leaders 
especially in God's house, do 

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look at evil face to face and 
are not ashamed or afraid of the

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repercussions for standing for 
righteousness. 

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And this is, this is something 
you won't see or won't hear at a

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modern business like church 
growth program. 

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Give you a heads up. 
So look at this. 

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This is an axe chapter 5. 
Right in Acts chapter 5, this is

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that chapter remind you of a 
important incident. 

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In the early church who here 
knows their Bible. 

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Well, what happens in Acts 
chapter 5 Yes, very good and a 

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nice as safire thought they can 
go to church and lie about their

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offering and I got in trouble 
with the Holy Spirit and so how 

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much trouble they like? 
Not be able to come to the 

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communion table for a couple 
weeks and no they weren't able 

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to go to community about at all 
because they were killed. 

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And so we read that and then we 
come to this text in verse 12 of

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chapter 5. 
Look at what we're told here 

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about the early church. 
Now, many signs and wonders were

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regularly done among the People 
by the hands of the Apostles. 

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And they were all together in 
Solomon's Portico, that's great.

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So after church discipline and a
very, the most extreme way has 

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been exercised, Revival 
continues to break out miracles 

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signs wonders Souls. 
But then what do you read in 

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verse 13? 
None of the rest dared to join 

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them. 
But the people held them in high

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esteem. 
None of the people dare join 

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them. 
But they held him in high 

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esteem. 
So the culture, the city, the 

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surrounding areas, really 
respected, Christians in the 

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early Church, High esteem. 
They were reverent, they were 

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not quick to say things about 
them or to them at least, at 

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this point. 
But what what strikes interest 

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in me is the fact that none of 
the rest of their join. 

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That sounds like a sound, like a
negative thing. 

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That sounds like a sounds like 
the opposite of what you want 

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your church to experience. 
Can you imagine here at NBC? 

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If we learned that in our 
neighborhood, none would want to

450
00:29:12,700 --> 00:29:15,200
join us. 
That wouldn't be the most 

451
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,700
uplifting update of our 
Evangelistic Outreach. 

452
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,700
But this is very good. 
And the reason why it's very 

453
00:29:23,700 --> 00:29:27,100
good is because those who not 
who dared, not join them. 

454
00:29:27,300 --> 00:29:29,700
Were those who already have 
hearted to begin with. 

455
00:29:30,900 --> 00:29:34,000
These were the people who were 
very intrigued by what was 

456
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,900
happening with Jesus message and
Jesus people. 

457
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:41,000
But they were not sold out. 
Nor were they ready to sell out?

458
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,000
They were not ready to give in 
everything that Christ demands. 

459
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,100
They're willing to participate. 
They're willing to sign up. 

460
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,900
They're willing to be present 
but then something had happened.

461
00:29:49,300 --> 00:29:52,800
That totally discourage them 
from signing up for the 

462
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,600
membership interview. 
What was it? 

463
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:57,600
It wasn't chop. 
It wasn't verse, 12, Shirley was

464
00:29:57,608 --> 00:30:02,000
so having before verse 12 and a 
nice and safire, so put the 

465
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,500
pieces together. 
Here's what happened when you 

466
00:30:04,500 --> 00:30:06,900
had a leader like Peter, who is 
sensitive enough to the Holy 

467
00:30:06,900 --> 00:30:13,800
Spirit to speak the truth and to
confront Levin corruption in the

468
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:20,000
midst of a holy assembly. 
Something happens. 

469
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:25,100
And as a result, it not only 
removed impurity, it protected 

470
00:30:25,100 --> 00:30:26,700
the church from further 
corruption. 

471
00:30:28,100 --> 00:30:32,800
So once the people outside of 
the walls heard, whoa, that 

472
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:36,400
church is for Real. 
They don't let you come and be a

473
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:39,000
part of their church and hold on
to sin willfully. 

474
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,200
At the same time, I ain't 
signing up. 

475
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:46,600
You're saying well, that's good,
that's very good and it's all 

476
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,600
contingent upon again, the 
beginning of chapter 5 where you

477
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:53,400
had a leadership that really 
believed in the high call of 

478
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:58,400
Christ and was unwilling to 
entertain or open up their 

479
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,900
assembly to those who could care
less about being holy and being 

480
00:31:01,900 --> 00:31:04,600
like Jesus so none there join 
them. 

481
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:08,500
I'm not interested. 
Leadership is so important. 

482
00:31:09,300 --> 00:31:12,200
The type of leadership is very 
important and unfortunately, 

483
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,500
here David is lenient yet again 
and he will continue to be 

484
00:31:15,500 --> 00:31:17,900
lenient again. 
In the coming weeks, you're 

485
00:31:17,900 --> 00:31:21,400
going to see it. 
And so we continue it, but 

486
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,000
before we move on, let me ask 
you another question. 

487
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,000
Is there another possible reason
why? 

488
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,800
David was not so quick to say 
anything in that saying, 

489
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:32,000
anything at all? 
I'm actually asking you any 

490
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:36,200
idea. 
Yes. 

491
00:31:38,100 --> 00:31:45,000
Did you hear it Bathsheba? 
Could it be that David here is 

492
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:49,400
paralyzed from his past? 
I think that's a good case to 

493
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,500
make. 
Here's, here's what I mean by 

494
00:31:52,500 --> 00:31:57,900
that. 
I sinned sexually. 

495
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,200
And I destroyed people in my own
life. 

496
00:32:04,100 --> 00:32:06,100
What right do I have to say 
anything to my son? 

497
00:32:08,700 --> 00:32:10,900
What right? 
Do I have to correct him or 

498
00:32:10,900 --> 00:32:14,200
discipline? 
And it could be that this man 

499
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:20,500
here is proving to us as 
sometimes reproof and correction

500
00:32:20,500 --> 00:32:23,600
is lacking from those who have 
been authorized to administer 

501
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:27,300
righteousness and peace because 
their own Hearts condemn them. 

502
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:35,600
Don't heart scan them them. 
So, you know, you have some 

503
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:39,900
people who say, you know, when 
when a pastor or minister speaks

504
00:32:39,900 --> 00:32:42,900
on a certain sin, it's probably 
very likely that he's struggling

505
00:32:42,900 --> 00:32:46,700
with that same sin. 
Okay, maybe, but what about 

506
00:32:46,700 --> 00:32:49,500
those who never speak on it? 
What does that indicate? 

507
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:55,300
Right now we can't make blanket 
statements and judge, only God 

508
00:32:55,300 --> 00:32:57,700
knows. 
But we have an example here with

509
00:32:57,700 --> 00:33:01,600
David, who's very hesitant to 
say something perhaps because he

510
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,800
himself is guilty of the very or
very similar crime. 

511
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,300
This main point isn't about 
hypocrisy but it's worth 

512
00:33:09,300 --> 00:33:12,600
speaking about a hypocrisy 
drains us of authority. 

513
00:33:14,100 --> 00:33:17,400
It does it weakens our 
testimony. 

514
00:33:19,900 --> 00:33:25,300
It makes us cowards. 
It holds back boldness. 

515
00:33:27,900 --> 00:33:32,200
But the point here is more about
the power of past guilt. 

516
00:33:35,100 --> 00:33:38,400
If guilt was the thing, that was
burdening. 

517
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:42,600
David at this time. 
Then this is a important truth 

518
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,400
in regards, to how we manage 
guilt and how it visits us and 

519
00:33:45,408 --> 00:33:50,200
what we should do with it. 
If you are not careful, guilt, 

520
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:56,000
can paralyze you in many ways, 
it can hold you back from so 

521
00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:00,600
much. 
And so what's the most important

522
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,200
thing and moving forward in your
own walk with the Lord and even 

523
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,200
being a blessing to others is 
realizing. 

524
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,800
If God has forgiven me, then God
has forgiven me, and this is the

525
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,199
most important thing that David 
needed to learn. 

526
00:34:11,300 --> 00:34:15,500
The standard of righteousness 
was not his past experience, or 

527
00:34:15,500 --> 00:34:18,000
his presence success. 
It's God's word. 

528
00:34:19,699 --> 00:34:24,500
We appeal to God's word. 
And so you have some friends 

529
00:34:24,500 --> 00:34:28,699
that are unwilling to speak and 
to correct other friends because

530
00:34:28,699 --> 00:34:30,900
perhaps in the past, they've 
dealt with something and they 

531
00:34:30,908 --> 00:34:33,600
just feel like, well, what can I
say to that person? 

532
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,900
You have parents who are even 
tempted to be like this in 

533
00:34:36,900 --> 00:34:41,100
raising their own children? 
Because they've struggled as 

534
00:34:41,100 --> 00:34:43,100
teenagers in a certain way. 
Now they're seeing their own 

535
00:34:43,100 --> 00:34:46,500
children struggle as teenagers 
but who am I to say anything to 

536
00:34:46,500 --> 00:34:47,699
them? 
Because I was like that when I 

537
00:34:47,707 --> 00:34:54,900
was 16 18 21 And so guilt 
paralyzes. 

538
00:34:55,500 --> 00:34:59,400
But again, it's not your 
performance that determines your

539
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:05,400
responsibility, it's God's word.
And so you appeal to that in 

540
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:09,700
humility with David should have 
done, is in humility and 

541
00:35:09,700 --> 00:35:14,800
Brokenness, in an awareness of 
his own failures still 

542
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:16,800
administer. 
What God had called him to do as

543
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:21,300
a father and as a judge? 
So be careful, be careful how 

544
00:35:21,500 --> 00:35:25,200
you might do. 
Determine the way you influence 

545
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:28,900
others, or how you even, see 
yourself, and how you walk in 

546
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:30,900
the call of God, that he has for
you. 

547
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:32,400
Some people. 
They failed so bad. 

548
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,000
They just, they just determined.
I'm just forget it. 

549
00:35:35,100 --> 00:35:37,400
I'm never going to pursue it. 
I'm never going to do it. 

550
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:38,700
I'm not going to serve in that 
capacity. 

551
00:35:38,700 --> 00:35:40,900
I'm never going to believe God, 
for great things because this is

552
00:35:40,900 --> 00:35:42,500
where I'm at. 
But if it's been forgiven, it's 

553
00:35:42,500 --> 00:35:46,500
been forgiven. 
So be careful. 

554
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,900
We see a clear example of a man 
who could not shake off his 

555
00:35:50,900 --> 00:35:53,700
guilt. 
Most likely Now, let's come back

556
00:35:53,700 --> 00:35:56,900
to our chapter, shall we? 
We've dealt with the three 

557
00:35:56,900 --> 00:36:00,400
responses here to a man's 
actions, but now we look at one 

558
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,200
and we magnify because that's 
what the Holy Spirit does. 

559
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:11,700
Look at this verse 23, after two
full years, I couldn't pass that

560
00:36:11,700 --> 00:36:17,700
phrase without much meditation. 
After two full years, two full 

561
00:36:17,700 --> 00:36:21,000
years go by. 
And here's an important thought 

562
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,500
because we're about to see 
Absalom. 

563
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:27,400
Execute what started? 
As a thought just a couple of 

564
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:31,700
verses ago After two full years,
you know what that tells me this

565
00:36:31,700 --> 00:36:40,300
man has been meditating plotting
visualizing for two full years. 

566
00:36:40,300 --> 00:36:46,400
What to do with his 
half-brother. to flee years, not

567
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:53,500
two full weeks, not two, full 
months, two full years, And what

568
00:36:53,500 --> 00:36:58,300
started, as a thought would now 
materialize, and it's very 

569
00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:03,100
sobering for you and Ice to see 
that sin is very willing and 

570
00:37:03,100 --> 00:37:05,900
comfortable to live in your 
heart. 

571
00:37:07,700 --> 00:37:13,500
As long as you tolerate it. 
And it's cancerous and it's 

572
00:37:13,500 --> 00:37:18,000
infectious and it's this. 
It's just poisonous and we're 

573
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:19,800
seeing that very clearly with 
this man. 

574
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:23,300
It's not very difficult to see 
how pride and anger and 

575
00:37:23,300 --> 00:37:26,100
bitterness. 
And lust. 

576
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:31,900
And a dishonest Spirit, whatever
the case b is willing to remain 

577
00:37:31,900 --> 00:37:36,900
there for decades years on end. 
Because that is the, that is the

578
00:37:36,900 --> 00:37:40,900
power of the clutch of sin. 
It will be like a leech that 

579
00:37:40,900 --> 00:37:44,400
just remains there and sucks the
life out of you slowly. 

580
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,200
And as you heard me, say one 
solution to one point here is 

581
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:50,300
the solution for this. 
The only remedy is when Christ 

582
00:37:50,300 --> 00:37:53,100
comes in and cleans house. 
That's the only remedy, he is 

583
00:37:53,100 --> 00:37:56,100
the only one that can loosen 
that grip and go beyond 

584
00:37:56,100 --> 00:37:58,800
loosening that grip. 
If and instill within you a 

585
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:02,900
different kind of heartbeat and 
that is exactly what this man 

586
00:38:02,900 --> 00:38:06,200
needed. 
It is so sad to see how for so 

587
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:07,800
long. 
He was willing to stay in that 

588
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,600
place and yet it could be true 
tonight. 

589
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:15,100
Even That things have not 
changed, it's only grown over 

590
00:38:15,100 --> 00:38:17,700
time. 
You see what started as a 

591
00:38:17,707 --> 00:38:23,900
thought for and and has now been
perfected over time. because 

592
00:38:23,900 --> 00:38:26,800
that's what happens to you and I
we're not guarded, you know what

593
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:30,200
happens you know the you know 
the the sequence of how these 

594
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:34,800
things occur, it's a visited 
thought and then what you do is 

595
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:41,500
you torment yourself. 
Here's the point, the main sin 

596
00:38:41,500 --> 00:38:43,200
that the holy spirit is 
highlighting. 

597
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,900
Here is the issue of 
mishandling. 

598
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:53,500
Offense when offense comes your 
way, that is a potential key to 

599
00:38:53,500 --> 00:38:58,300
unlock, a vault of Critters that
you don't want in the home of 

600
00:38:58,300 --> 00:39:01,400
your heart. 
Here's what happens when offense

601
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,100
comes. 
What we see here is that 

602
00:39:03,100 --> 00:39:10,000
retaliation now is being bred. 
And and what happens here is 

603
00:39:10,300 --> 00:39:14,500
that if you're not careful as 
much as it is, satisfying to 

604
00:39:14,500 --> 00:39:18,800
hold on to that pain. 
You in fact will cause yourself 

605
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:22,400
to be tormented. 
And here's how the torment looks

606
00:39:22,500 --> 00:39:24,400
you. 
Replayed that thing over and 

607
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:28,000
over again, right? 
When you get a moment's time 

608
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:31,100
where you're actively doing 
something, you just rehearse 

609
00:39:31,100 --> 00:39:33,500
that thing. 
And you remember, you even 

610
00:39:33,500 --> 00:39:37,500
visualize the words and the 
actions and the feelings and the

611
00:39:37,500 --> 00:39:40,300
moment you found out or the 
moment, it happened and you just

612
00:39:40,300 --> 00:39:42,400
keep going over and over and 
over. 

613
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,900
That can't be good for you and 
if you're not careful, here's 

614
00:39:45,900 --> 00:39:47,700
the next level. 
Now, you begin to imagine what 

615
00:39:47,700 --> 00:39:52,600
you should have done, right? 
Oh, if I can go back, if I can 

616
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:55,400
go back, I would have said this,
I would have done this, I would 

617
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,500
have pre-emptive here and if 
you're not careful, you now 

618
00:39:58,500 --> 00:40:02,000
begin to think what you might do
now, or what you should do 

619
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:06,400
moving forward. 
And that's where things get 

620
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:08,400
crazy. 
And really, really, unless the 

621
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:13,000
Holy Spirit through his word, 
through being in the presence of

622
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:16,200
God's people, you actively 
discipline being with God, 

623
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:20,100
unless you do that, you can you 
can be led into now where those 

624
00:40:20,100 --> 00:40:25,000
things are just trickling here. 
Begin to now, pull on you where 

625
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:29,300
you you try to satisfy that 
because it's also consuming in 

626
00:40:29,300 --> 00:40:31,900
it manifests and one way or 
another. 

627
00:40:33,500 --> 00:40:35,400
And that's exactly what's going 
to happen here with Anna. 

628
00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:40,200
He nurtures, it and said, 
instead of controlling it, it's 

629
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,400
going to get ugly. 
Another thing to consider those 

630
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,600
two years in those two full 
years. 

631
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:49,700
It's not just Absalom, but 
Edmund, after two full years, 

632
00:40:49,700 --> 00:40:54,300
the guy doesn't show any signs 
of repentance two years. 

633
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:59,500
You would think that after 
evading judgment and any kind of

634
00:40:59,500 --> 00:41:03,900
reprimand after just going away,
scot-free that that Humble you 

635
00:41:03,900 --> 00:41:07,900
as a sinner and you would come 
broken before God say God, the 

636
00:41:07,900 --> 00:41:11,200
fact that I'm still here in one 
piece is by your mercy. 

637
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:13,800
I'm So Unworthy serving, please 
forgive me. 

638
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:20,400
No, just think she's still a 
prince and thinks he can still 

639
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:24,800
get away with things and he just
again, as though nothing had 

640
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:29,500
happened, and I see these two 
years as a window of God's 

641
00:41:29,500 --> 00:41:35,700
mercy, even for a Wretched Man, 
like amnon And the same man who 

642
00:41:35,700 --> 00:41:39,300
was blinded by his lust 
devouring, his half-sister is 

643
00:41:39,300 --> 00:41:42,700
the same man, who is completely 
oblivious to the fact that God 

644
00:41:42,700 --> 00:41:48,600
is extending kindness to him. 
Kindness thing like just 

645
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:53,000
unexplainable, kindness to him. 
Sinners are stubborn. 

646
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:56,100
Sinners are stubborn. 
Let these two years in light of 

647
00:41:56,100 --> 00:42:01,100
amnon remind you that Sinners 
are extremely stubborn, and 

648
00:42:01,100 --> 00:42:04,200
because Sinners are starving, 
you know what, God's primary 

649
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:06,000
responses to the stubbornness of
Sinners. 

650
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:13,400
He's patient He's patient. 
Second, Peter 3:9 tells us that 

651
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:18,100
his return is not slow, you have
to understand it as patients. 

652
00:42:19,500 --> 00:42:24,400
Because he desires for all to 
reach repentance. even with 

653
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:30,000
people like amnion as hard as 
that is to imagine So, two full 

654
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:34,100
years. 
There is no sign of change or 

655
00:42:34,300 --> 00:42:39,200
conviction in this man's heart. 
And so something takes place. 

656
00:42:39,300 --> 00:42:42,500
Moving on Absalom is about to 
execute his plan. 

657
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,500
He found that this is the 
perfect time and here's his plan

658
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:49,300
verse 24. 
Let's finish the verse 23. 

659
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:53,300
Absalom had sheep shears at 
b'hala has or which is near F, 

660
00:42:53,300 --> 00:42:57,900
Rahim and Absalom invited. 
All the king's Sons we seen this

661
00:42:57,900 --> 00:42:59,100
before. 
When it was this time of the 

662
00:42:59,100 --> 00:43:00,300
year where you would Shear your 
sheep. 

663
00:43:00,300 --> 00:43:04,200
It was a time of harvest. 
It was festive and so you would 

664
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:07,900
have visitors come family 
members come and Would you would

665
00:43:07,900 --> 00:43:12,000
celebrate? 
And so Absalom now wants to host

666
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:16,300
the party at his house. 
So he wants to invite all the 

667
00:43:16,300 --> 00:43:19,300
king's Sons. 
And so he came to the king. 

668
00:43:19,300 --> 00:43:21,600
It says your Absalom came to the
king and said, behold your 

669
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:24,700
servant has sheep shears. 
Please let the king and his 

670
00:43:24,700 --> 00:43:29,400
servants go with your servant. 
But the king said the Absalom, 

671
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:33,600
no my son, let us not all go 
less, we be burdensome to you. 

672
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:38,300
He pressed him, but he would not
go, but gave him a blessing. 

673
00:43:38,500 --> 00:43:42,100
Here's what you see. 
Absalom wants to invite David 

674
00:43:42,100 --> 00:43:44,500
everybody else. 
So, if the readers I'm familiar 

675
00:43:44,500 --> 00:43:46,800
with the story, you think this 
is just fine, right? 

676
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:50,900
But he's a really good actor. 
He wants to make it seem as 

677
00:43:50,900 --> 00:43:55,800
though there is nothing about to
happen by inviting the king of 

678
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:57,900
all people to be in his 
presence. 

679
00:43:58,500 --> 00:44:01,100
Hey, Dad, a plane to have a 
party, you know, it's the 

680
00:44:01,100 --> 00:44:04,100
season. 
Come come bring the rest of the 

681
00:44:04,100 --> 00:44:05,400
boys. 
Let's all, let's all come have a

682
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:09,900
great time and the father says, 
no, its Financial, they'll be 

683
00:44:09,900 --> 00:44:11,000
too much on you. 
You know, how it is. 

684
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:12,900
If somebody inviting all these 
people over, it might be too 

685
00:44:12,900 --> 00:44:15,400
much, I'll stay back. 
Don't worry about. 

686
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:19,200
No Dad, please please, it'll be 
a great time and I have a bunch 

687
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:21,100
of Servants have a bunch of 
stuff. 

688
00:44:21,100 --> 00:44:24,900
It was a wonderful fruitful year
just kind of will be okay knows 

689
00:44:24,900 --> 00:44:28,800
and no plea and he pressed them 
And what is he doing? 

690
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:33,900
He's deceiving. 
And so David denies it? 

691
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:37,800
And shouldn't our antennas be 
up. 

692
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:44,000
Haven't we seen this before? 
Limit limit. 

693
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:50,400
Let me remind you who was it. 
That ask the king for one of his

694
00:44:51,300 --> 00:44:57,500
kids to come to their home. 
Thank you and then didn't even 

695
00:44:57,500 --> 00:45:01,600
do the same thing. 
He asked the king for tomorrow 

696
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:05,400
to come over. 
Our antenna should be up this 

697
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,700
isn't look good. 
We see here that he is employing

698
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:15,900
a very similar tactic seemingly 
innocent invitation and David is

699
00:45:16,500 --> 00:45:21,300
clearly not Discerning enough to
realize it until until he denies

700
00:45:21,300 --> 00:45:25,300
the request and absolute makes a
more pointed request. 

701
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:31,300
Look at verse 26, then Absalom 
said, if not Please let my 

702
00:45:31,300 --> 00:45:34,400
brother and then go with us. 
Oh. 

703
00:45:38,100 --> 00:45:42,000
And the King said to him, why 
should he go with you? 

704
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:49,500
Good job, David. 
Verse 27, but Absalom pressed 

705
00:45:49,500 --> 00:45:54,500
him until he let em ninh and all
the king's Sons go with him. 

706
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,100
You can imagine what was racing 
through, David's mind. 

707
00:45:58,100 --> 00:46:03,600
That's a very strange request 
that you highlighted M then It 

708
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:08,400
was probably just wishing for 
the best, hoping for the best. 

709
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:10,700
And he thought, you know, it's 
been two years. 

710
00:46:10,900 --> 00:46:14,700
Nothing happened. 
A man is the eldest. 

711
00:46:14,700 --> 00:46:18,200
He technically, if you look at 
the legality of things he's next

712
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:23,300
in line to be the king and so, 
his presence is is an honorable 

713
00:46:23,300 --> 00:46:25,300
thing, all right? 
You want em. 

714
00:46:25,300 --> 00:46:28,100
And then the rest of the come 
Let them go. 

715
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:31,500
And as we continue in the next 
scene, we quickly pick up on 

716
00:46:31,500 --> 00:46:33,800
other familiar, ingredients, 
from a recent story. 

717
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:37,800
So now the scene shifts from 
David's Palace to absalom's, 

718
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:41,900
home in verse 28, then Absalom 
commanded his servants. 

719
00:46:42,300 --> 00:46:44,100
So maybe they're in the back 
room or something while 

720
00:46:44,100 --> 00:46:47,200
everybody else is out in the the
front or in the yard, then 

721
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:51,500
Absalom commanded his servants, 
Mark, when a man's heart is 

722
00:46:51,500 --> 00:46:56,900
Merry with wine and when I say 
to you strike em, and then kill 

723
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:02,000
Him do not fear, have I not 
commanded you be courageous and 

724
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:07,200
be Valiant. 
So, here's the plot. 

725
00:47:10,100 --> 00:47:13,700
Do we see a familiarity here? 
Think about the ingredients of 

726
00:47:13,700 --> 00:47:16,500
the story? 
It's not difficult to see the 

727
00:47:16,500 --> 00:47:19,500
connection, right? 
Yes. 

728
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:27,200
David did he not invite Uriah 
over to his house to feast? 

729
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:32,600
Did he not intoxicate him? 
Whether they say when his heart 

730
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:34,000
is married with mine, strike 
him. 

731
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:39,400
And when that failed, what the 
David do, he called upon one of 

732
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:45,400
his servants, namely joab to 
have Uriah killed and you see 

733
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:50,800
here Absalom telling his 
servants to do the Dirty Work. 

734
00:47:51,900 --> 00:47:57,800
When I tell you kill him. 
So if M then replayed David 

735
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:05,000
sexual sin before him Absalom is
re surfacing David's deceptive. 

736
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:11,900
Murder. 
But look at the words here of 

737
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:17,600
Absalom to his servants. 
The last part he tells them do 

738
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:23,000
not fear, have I not commanded 
you be courageous and Valiant. 

739
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:28,600
You might have similar words on 
a coffee mug at home. 

740
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:32,100
Huh. 
Do they not sound familiar? 

741
00:48:33,100 --> 00:48:34,400
What are they? 
What is this? 

742
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:39,600
Come from or at least, we're 
does it ring from Joshua 1:9 

743
00:48:39,900 --> 00:48:43,500
when the Lord told. 
His servants have I not 

744
00:48:43,500 --> 00:48:45,300
commanded. 
You be strong and courageous do 

745
00:48:45,300 --> 00:48:47,700
not be frightened and do not be 
dismayed for the Lord. 

746
00:48:47,700 --> 00:48:49,100
Your God is with you wherever 
you go. 

747
00:48:49,100 --> 00:48:52,300
I'm not saying Absalom is 
quoting him directly, but I am 

748
00:48:52,300 --> 00:48:54,700
saying that there is a 
similarity in the language here 

749
00:48:54,700 --> 00:48:57,400
and there's a strategy behind 
the persuasion of this 

750
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:00,700
invitation. 
Hey, my servants do not fear, 

751
00:49:01,500 --> 00:49:05,400
have I not commanded, you be 
courageous and Valiant. 

752
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:06,600
What's Absalom trying to do 
here? 

753
00:49:08,100 --> 00:49:09,400
Can I tell you what? 
I believe he's doing here. 

754
00:49:09,500 --> 00:49:16,100
He is making sin, more inviting 
by coating it and presenting it 

755
00:49:16,100 --> 00:49:23,400
as an honorable cause He's 
making it seem like a noble 

756
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:28,500
cause by using this righteous 
language. 

757
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:32,000
He's making it seem like what 
they are going to do is 

758
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:37,000
virtuous. 
Don't be afraid be Valiant. 

759
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:41,700
Be courageous, do not fear. 
And we look at that thing. 

760
00:49:41,700 --> 00:49:43,800
Well that's quite interesting. 
And I'm trying to tell you today

761
00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:47,000
that our culture is convincing 
people to sin in the very same 

762
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:52,900
manner. 
Think think deeply believer 

763
00:49:52,900 --> 00:49:56,400
think deeply about how it takes 
like this even applies to our 

764
00:49:56,400 --> 00:50:00,300
culture today. 
Think about the sins of Our 

765
00:50:00,300 --> 00:50:04,700
Generation that are inviting a 
naive people. 

766
00:50:04,700 --> 00:50:08,900
Undiscerning to believe that. 
What they are participating in 

767
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:13,200
is not just a matter of 
subjective morality but is in 

768
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:15,500
fact, right? 
And good. 

769
00:50:15,500 --> 00:50:20,500
So defending abortion, Let's see
if he'll stay on YouTube. 

770
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:24,700
Defending abortion is not 
supporting murder. 

771
00:50:24,900 --> 00:50:29,200
You are advocating for a woman's
right to choose. 

772
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:36,000
Doesn't that sound Noble? 
A woman's right to choose. 

773
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:38,200
That's what we're advocating 
for. 

774
00:50:40,100 --> 00:50:45,000
What about coming out coming out
as a homosexual coming out as a 

775
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:49,700
transgender. 
What is that packaged as 

776
00:50:50,300 --> 00:50:57,900
bravery? 
Bravery truth, bold Fearless, 

777
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:03,100
right? 
Not only that if you do it, we 

778
00:51:03,100 --> 00:51:06,000
might put you on a platform so 
that you can Inspire others. 

779
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:08,800
So now this is the, this is the 
trend, you know why? 

780
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:11,900
It's a trend because it promises
so much reward. 

781
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:15,400
This is the thing to do, this is
what people are doing. 

782
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:19,400
People are thinking well, how is
it that? 

783
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:23,900
So many now are are into. 
This are giving in to this are 

784
00:51:23,900 --> 00:51:27,700
practicing this And the 
cultures. 

785
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:31,100
Argument as well. 
They've been in the closet this 

786
00:51:31,100 --> 00:51:32,500
whole time. 
No. 

787
00:51:32,500 --> 00:51:37,400
It's because you've persuaded 
them by packaging, this kind of 

788
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:41,600
Lifestyle as something, that is 
virtuous and true, and good for 

789
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:45,500
society and, and good for our 
psychological State, and for our

790
00:51:45,500 --> 00:51:49,600
mental health, and The 
prevention of suicide and 

791
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:53,000
self-harm. 
So go be brave. 

792
00:51:55,500 --> 00:51:59,500
Nothing is new Under the Sun, 
nothing is new Under the Sun. 

793
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:03,000
Here's Absalom telling his own 
servants be courageous. 

794
00:52:03,700 --> 00:52:06,200
I have commanded. 
You go forth. 

795
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:10,100
Be Valiant and were echoing, the
same kind of tactic. 

796
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:14,300
And a bunch of people who are 
void of Truth. 

797
00:52:15,300 --> 00:52:20,200
And they are eating it up. 
And so there is a softening of 

798
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:23,600
the severity of sin through the 
language. 

799
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:28,700
Of deception that layers in a 
certain way that makes it more 

800
00:52:28,700 --> 00:52:34,700
palatable. 
And that's why we have to use 

801
00:52:34,700 --> 00:52:38,800
Bible language. 
That's all we got to just use 

802
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:41,900
the Bible as it is because 
there's wisdom the way God 

803
00:52:41,900 --> 00:52:45,200
colors these things and 
describes these things. 

804
00:52:46,700 --> 00:52:49,100
I remember, I told the story 
before, and I don't want to 

805
00:52:49,100 --> 00:52:52,900
repeat it because I don't want 
to bore some of you, but I 

806
00:52:52,900 --> 00:52:57,300
remember sitting at a large 
conference for ministers. 

807
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:00,500
And there is these. 
Ministers getting ordained, I 

808
00:53:00,500 --> 00:53:01,800
guess. 
And so they were asking these 

809
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:04,200
young ministers, what they 
should do in preparation for the

810
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:08,900
new wave of the lgbtq movement? 
And what should we do when they 

811
00:53:08,900 --> 00:53:12,100
enter into our church? 
And this moderator when he was 

812
00:53:12,100 --> 00:53:16,100
preparing for the questions to 
be asked instead of referring to

813
00:53:16,100 --> 00:53:20,000
homosexuality as a sin he said 
well what will we do? 

814
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:23,400
And how should we respond to the
church with those who and he 

815
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:25,700
stopped himself and he says, who
haven't it? 

816
00:53:25,700 --> 00:53:31,000
Alternative lifestyle. 
You see? 

817
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:37,900
Blur it. 
Dim it, change it. 

818
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:44,100
It's more palatable. 
Bible uses strong words and that

819
00:53:44,100 --> 00:53:48,800
uses strong words for a reason. 
Life and death are in the power 

820
00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:51,300
of the tongue. 
There is something that is 

821
00:53:51,300 --> 00:53:54,700
either awakened or dead and 
based on how you present, What 

822
00:53:54,700 --> 00:53:57,000
God Says. 
And so God uses against strong 

823
00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:59,800
words again. 
In order for us to see it for 

824
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:01,700
what it is words like 
abomination. 

825
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:10,300
Words like immorality. 
And it's caused its purpose to 

826
00:54:10,300 --> 00:54:13,700
shake us so that we can be met 
with words like Grace. 

827
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:21,200
And adoption. 
And love and regeneration. 

828
00:54:23,500 --> 00:54:25,400
For the rest of the chapter. 
Here's what happens. 

829
00:54:25,700 --> 00:54:28,500
We will see the fruit of a man 
who could not resist the 

830
00:54:28,500 --> 00:54:32,900
temptation of taking revenge. 
And let's look at them very 

831
00:54:32,900 --> 00:54:34,700
briefly here. 
Look at verse 29. 

832
00:54:35,900 --> 00:54:38,600
So the Servants of Absalom did 
to admin as Absalom had 

833
00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:42,000
commanded than all the king's 
sons are rows and each mounted, 

834
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:45,700
his mule and fled Panic, broke 
out, confusion broke out. 

835
00:54:45,700 --> 00:54:47,900
Now the other sons are 
interpreting. 

836
00:54:47,900 --> 00:54:49,900
What just happened here? 
This assassination as. 

837
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:55,800
Okay, Absalom technically is 
very close to the next person in

838
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:58,500
line for the throne and so he's 
maybe this is a coup, right? 

839
00:54:58,500 --> 00:55:00,600
He's now eliminating all his 
competition. 

840
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:03,500
Let's get out of here so they 
get on their mules and they jet.

841
00:55:04,900 --> 00:55:08,300
Then we scroll down to verse 32 
after the news came to David 

842
00:55:08,300 --> 00:55:12,600
about his sons being all killed 
and that was corrected. 

843
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:17,900
By who verse 20 32 rather, but 
jonadab the son of shamya 

844
00:55:17,900 --> 00:55:20,300
David's brother said. 
So here's Jonah. 

845
00:55:20,300 --> 00:55:22,300
Dad. 
The last that we see in him, he 

846
00:55:22,300 --> 00:55:25,600
was the one who planted the seed
in the mind of end and now he 

847
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:27,000
comes again. 
And guess what? 

848
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:29,500
He's unscathed. 
He's safe. 

849
00:55:29,900 --> 00:55:33,400
One of the key players in this 
whole mess is, is here. 

850
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:38,400
He's still here, he's a problem.
And the problem is still here. 

851
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:42,300
And then you scroll down to 
verse 36. 

852
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:46,100
It says here, at as soon as he 
had finished speaking. 

853
00:55:46,100 --> 00:55:50,800
Behold The King's Sons came and 
lifted, their voice and wept and

854
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:53,000
the King. 
Also in all his servants wet, 

855
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:57,300
very bitterly. 
One of the King's son, the next 

856
00:55:57,300 --> 00:56:01,800
one in line has died as been 
killed by his own brother. 

857
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:07,100
And so they just break out into 
just absolute remorse and 

858
00:56:08,500 --> 00:56:12,800
unbelief. 
Finally here, look at verse 37, 

859
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:18,100
but Absalom fled and went to 
tell my the son of a me, HUD 

860
00:56:18,100 --> 00:56:22,300
king of gesher, and David mourn 
for his son day after day. 

861
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:26,800
So, Absalom, fled and went to 
guess her and was there three 

862
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:29,100
years gesher is where his mom is
from. 

863
00:56:30,500 --> 00:56:33,900
That's second Samuel 33. 
You realize that absalom's 

864
00:56:33,900 --> 00:56:38,900
grandfather from his mom's side 
was also a king so he has Royal 

865
00:56:38,900 --> 00:56:42,400
Blood on him on both sides. 
No wonder he coveted the throne 

866
00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:45,300
as you're going to see in the 
next few chapters, but he flees 

867
00:56:45,300 --> 00:56:49,800
now as an exile for three years,
three years. 

868
00:56:50,100 --> 00:56:52,900
So collecting all of these 
snapshots together. 

869
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:55,500
Here's the point that I want the
Holy Spirit through his word to 

870
00:56:55,500 --> 00:56:58,800
drive into our hearts. 
It's very clear as tempting as 

871
00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:03,200
revenge's. 
It never solves a problem. 

872
00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:08,400
It only creates more of them. 
As tempting as Revenge has, it 

873
00:57:08,400 --> 00:57:12,900
will never bring the relief that
you're aching. 

874
00:57:12,900 --> 00:57:17,900
Soul is looking for. 
And the problems that it usually

875
00:57:17,900 --> 00:57:25,600
causes often falls on you. 
And God says vengeance is mine. 

876
00:57:25,900 --> 00:57:28,800
He means many things by that and
one of the things he means is, 

877
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:31,100
if I leave it into your hands, 
and if you take care of 

878
00:57:31,100 --> 00:57:32,600
yourself, you're going to make a
big mess. 

879
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:34,900
My son, you're going to make a 
big mess. 

880
00:57:34,900 --> 00:57:40,100
My daughter, I know exactly how 
to prescribe the justice that 

881
00:57:40,100 --> 00:57:43,900
will satisfy my Holiness and 
even your heart. 

882
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:51,100
And it's possible. 
That some even we're listening 

883
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:56,800
are harboring pain. 
That came from a mom. 

884
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:02,500
Or a dad. 
Maybe a spouse. 

885
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:08,000
What about a pastor? 
What about a group of people who

886
00:58:08,300 --> 00:58:11,900
church people? 
What about a business partner, 

887
00:58:11,900 --> 00:58:16,600
who really blew it and costs you
years? 

888
00:58:17,800 --> 00:58:23,900
Of setback. from time to time, 
if not more than time to time, 

889
00:58:23,900 --> 00:58:31,200
you are reminded This guy. 
This person really did a work on

890
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:40,100
me. if only I could if only I 
could just let him get a taste 

891
00:58:40,100 --> 00:58:44,400
of their own medicine. 
I just need a little bit. 

892
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:47,100
It doesn't have to be i4i if 
it's just something. 

893
00:58:47,100 --> 00:58:49,800
Give me your toe. 
I'll be happy. 

894
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:54,400
I'm here to remind you tonight 
with this example. 

895
00:58:56,000 --> 00:59:01,200
That you will not be convinced. 
After the matter that you've 

896
00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:06,000
been healed. 
You only see that it was more. 

897
00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:14,100
More pain that you invited more 
regret, more shame, don't 

898
00:59:14,100 --> 00:59:17,400
believe the lie, no matter how 
great the pain is. 

899
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Instead, let me conclude by 
giving you the advice of a man 

900
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of God, and this is so amazing. 
I found this A few days ago and 

901
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:32,300
it's so touched my heart that I 
tucked it in like Mary does, 

902
00:59:32,300 --> 00:59:34,200
right? 
She kept things in her heart 

903
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:36,100
tucked. 
It I said I'm putting that one 

904
00:59:36,100 --> 00:59:37,800
in the Armory, I don't know. 
Lord when you're going to have 

905
00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:42,100
me use this but I can't wait to 
share it and then a few days 

906
00:59:42,100 --> 00:59:44,200
later we come to this Bible 
study, not knowing what the 

907
00:59:44,200 --> 00:59:48,200
theme is going to be about. 
And that quote said, hey I'm 

908
00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:50,000
here. 
So you're coming right out, you 

909
00:59:50,008 --> 00:59:54,600
didn't stay too long. 
I'm going to read it twice and 

910
00:59:54,600 --> 01:00:00,400
as I read it, just snap out of 
whatever you're in Focus because

911
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:03,900
I know this will bless you John 
Flavel, he's not alive. 

912
01:00:04,100 --> 01:00:07,700
I like a lot of dead guys. 
Those dead guys, had a lot of 

913
01:00:07,700 --> 01:00:11,700
insight into the word of God and
this man says something in light

914
01:00:11,700 --> 01:00:13,700
of what we've been hearing 
throughout this Bible study that

915
01:00:13,700 --> 01:00:16,200
I believe is a perfect way of 
putting a period mark to our 

916
01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:18,600
time together. 
Here's what he said, quote 

917
01:00:18,900 --> 01:00:24,100
suppose. 
That by Revenge you might 

918
01:00:24,100 --> 01:00:29,200
destroy one enemy yet by 
exercising. 

919
01:00:29,200 --> 01:00:33,200
The Christians temper, You might
Conquer 3. 

920
01:00:34,700 --> 01:00:41,800
One your own lust to Satan's 
Temptation and three, your 

921
01:00:41,800 --> 01:00:48,000
enemy's heart. 
Quote suppose that by Revenge 

922
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:52,100
you might destroy one enemy yet 
by exercising. 

923
01:00:52,100 --> 01:00:55,100
The Christians temper, you might
conquer 31. 

924
01:00:56,800 --> 01:01:01,600
Your own lust to Satan's 
Temptation and three your 

925
01:01:01,600 --> 01:01:06,700
enemy's heart and that powerful 
all you would wish that Absalom 

926
01:01:06,700 --> 01:01:10,600
would have trusted in God. 
The same way that David trusting

927
01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:15,900
in God, when able scorned him 
and he was ready to go and slice

928
01:01:15,900 --> 01:01:19,000
him up, I'm sure it would have 
felt good for the moment, but, 

929
01:01:19,100 --> 01:01:21,700
oh, what would have happened to 
his name, his future, his 

930
01:01:21,700 --> 01:01:26,200
reputation, his dynasty and a 
wise woman said, don't do it. 

931
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:30,400
Trust in God. 
I wish this man took the same 

932
01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:32,700
advice. 
Who knows what would have come 

933
01:01:32,700 --> 01:01:34,600
to his future? 
Who knows what kind of blessings

934
01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:37,500
would have fallen on him instead
for the next few? 

935
01:01:37,500 --> 01:01:40,900
Chapters were only going to see 
more turmoil and devastation. 

936
01:01:42,200 --> 01:01:46,700
May God help us to forgive, may 
God help us to be liberated from

937
01:01:46,700 --> 01:01:50,200
that which haunts us because we 
refuse to just put it in the 

938
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:52,100
hand of God and say, Lord, I'm 
done with this. 

939
01:01:52,100 --> 01:01:53,800
I didn't control what happened 
to me. 

940
01:01:53,800 --> 01:01:56,600
I didn't invite it. 
I'm going to stop meditating on 

941
01:01:56,600 --> 01:01:59,600
what I possibly did to bring it 
about and I'm just going to give

942
01:01:59,600 --> 01:02:02,300
it to you and continue to walk 
in what you have for my life and

943
01:02:02,300 --> 01:02:04,900
believe that you are The God Who
takes vengeance. 

944
01:02:06,300 --> 01:02:09,300
If you are that person tonight, 
as we close in prayer, I invite 

945
01:02:09,300 --> 01:02:13,300
you to give that to the Lord and
Trust in this God, the same God.

946
01:02:13,300 --> 01:02:14,800
Who saves you? 
The same God who answers 

947
01:02:14,800 --> 01:02:16,500
prayers? 
The same God, who knows exactly 

948
01:02:16,500 --> 01:02:20,200
when to defend your cause and he
will do it. 

949
01:02:21,300 --> 01:02:45,700
Let's pray. 
Lord, we have been equipped. 

950
01:02:47,100 --> 01:02:53,000
with an obvious theme that you 
have woven in to these verses, I

951
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:55,300
thank you from the bottom of my 
heart, for my brothers and 

952
01:02:55,300 --> 01:02:58,500
sisters who are here tonight. 
Lord. 

953
01:02:58,500 --> 01:03:02,500
Surely a blesses you to see your
children gather around your word

954
01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:05,700
and to receive the full counsel 
of God. 

955
01:03:06,700 --> 01:03:10,700
Lord, in this place, we've been 
reminded much again of sin, but 

956
01:03:10,700 --> 01:03:14,400
we are also been reminded of the
beautiful Promises of trusting. 

957
01:03:15,700 --> 01:03:19,000
Putting our faith and everything
including in the pain that we 

958
01:03:19,008 --> 01:03:21,600
receive from others. 
The wounds, the bruises. 

959
01:03:23,100 --> 01:03:29,000
The trauma, the scars. 
Low, we pause to reflect on the 

960
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:31,100
Forgiveness that we have in 
Jesus. 

961
01:03:33,500 --> 01:03:36,500
And though, we know that Revenge
can take on many faces, that can

962
01:03:36,500 --> 01:03:41,000
be just giving the hurtful word 
back after an argument. 

963
01:03:42,700 --> 01:03:44,500
And he can even extend to 
murder. 

964
01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:50,900
Lord help us rise above the 
flesh. 

965
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:58,300
Help us tonight as a reflex to 
bring every arrow to you to lay 

966
01:03:58,300 --> 01:04:03,500
it at your feet to trust that 
you have the bomb to bind us up.

967
01:04:04,900 --> 01:04:10,400
To make us whole again. 
To give us thick skin, so that 

968
01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:13,900
we can continue to endure the 
failures of others. 

969
01:04:15,700 --> 01:04:18,200
And Lord, we ask that the cross 
would be ever before us. 

970
01:04:19,600 --> 01:04:21,400
For if there is anyone, who is 
innocent? 

971
01:04:21,400 --> 01:04:27,400
It was you Pure and holy you and
you alone, and you receive the 

972
01:04:27,400 --> 01:04:31,800
greatest Injustice that this 
world has ever known. well, we 

973
01:04:31,800 --> 01:04:36,000
sit back to reflect on the the 
gems of Truth and wisdom that we

974
01:04:37,600 --> 01:04:41,700
have adorned, our faith with 
With a be intact. 

975
01:04:41,700 --> 01:04:45,800
Would they be tight? 
Would they be worn outside of 

976
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:47,900
these walls and Beyond the 
moments of singing? 

977
01:04:49,100 --> 01:04:52,900
Lived out for people to see the 
Christian temper. 

978
01:04:53,900 --> 01:04:56,500
That brings true victory in 
satisfaction. 

979
01:04:57,000 --> 01:04:59,500
Father, you are good. 
We love you. 

980
01:04:59,900 --> 01:05:03,600
We love your word. 
And we worship you now and 

981
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:06,500
closing Jesus name. 
Amen. 

982
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:08,800
That stand Saints. 
Let's sing to the Lord together.

983
01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:09,300
Shall we?