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You have your Bibles tonight. 
Second Samuel chapter 13, is 

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where we're meeting tonight. 
And as you're there, I would 

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like to begin by saying the 
Apostle Paul Asher's us and 

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warns us by the holy spirit in 
Galatians 6:7. 

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Do not be deceived. 
God is Not mocked. 

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Whatever a man so's that will. 
He also what? 

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Reap that, whatever he sews will
he also reap? 

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If you've been with us, you 
know, that in second Samuel 

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chapter 11 David has sold much 
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Things. 
He sewed much into his lust into

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deception. 
And to betrayal to murder and we

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are now about to see him reaping
from the same tragedies through 

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a series of catastrophes, that 
will essentially cover the rest 

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of our study in the book of 
second. 

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Samuel, We've already seen that 
David. 

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Has experienced some sorrow with
the death of the child that he 

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had with Bathsheba. 
And that is just the beginning 

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of many griefs. 
And these tragedies these 

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atrocities that will follow 
David for the rest of his life 

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will be close to home. 
In fact, they will emerge from 

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his own home. 
And there is this strange notion

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that people have. 
About how God's forgiveness 

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works because one of the 
overarching truths that will be 

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constantly before us for the 
following chapters until the 

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last period. 
Mark of This Book, Is that 

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forgiving sin still has 
consequences. 

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The Lord is ready to Pardon. 
He is quick to receive us over 

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and over again, but his 
willingness for us to be 

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reconciled back to him. 
There's not always promised 

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every outcome being canceled 
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We can thank God that when we do
turn from our evil, he promises 

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us. 
Restored Fellowship. 

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And he promises us as security 
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but depending on the nature of 
the sin that we commit, it is 

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very true that we cannot predict
the outcomes that can sometimes 

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even be life lasting they can 
burn and remain to some degree 

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on us and around us. 
And before us and that truth 

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alone should discourage. 
The tented Saint, who finds 

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themselves very near to the edge
of compromise because they sued 

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themselves with the idea that 
God is very, very quick to 

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forgive why? 
Because even Forgiving sin. 

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Can have consequences. and that 
is precisely what we are going 

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to see here in this chapter 
because starting here in this 

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Verse verse 1 of chapter 13. 
You and I are going to see 

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David's dishonorable example, 
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children. 
Now, we don't know how much of 

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David's failure was made known 
to his family, things catch on 

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quick, things can spread quick, 
but one thing is for certain 

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according to First Kings chapter
one, David was not the most 

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exemplary father. 
He was very slow to discipline 

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his children. 
And even just in Practical 

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living, he didn't, he didn't 
really showcase the most, 

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honorable way of living and 
making decisions, especially in 

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the area of relationships. 
And so we're going to see some 

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some tragedies. 
It's not it's not going to be 

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the brightest Bible study moving
forward from chapter 13 onward. 

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And the first person that's 
going to replay some of the 

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shameful things that David has 
done though in different forms 

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is going to be eminent David's 
eldest son. 

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According to 1st Chronicles 
chapter 3, verse 1. 

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And what a man is going to do, 
here is a grievous violation of 

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many things. 
And I want to give you a heads 

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up, this is not going to be the 
most comfortable Bible study to 

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engage with It's not going to be
the most comforting things 

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you're going to hear. 
And read nonetheless, the Holy 

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Spirit included in his word for 
a reason and the inclusion of 

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the story, invites us to explore
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What it is that God wants to say
with great, humility and 

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eagerness. 
And so it before we begin, we 

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have to trust that the Lord has 
brought us this detailed account

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with the purpose of giving us 
valuable lessons. 

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Valuable Treasures, no matter 
how dark or uneasy it's going to

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be to digest. 
And so, with all that being 

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said, I want to read the first 
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our time to understand what is 
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Of chapter 13, we read now. 
Absalom. 

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David's son had a beautiful 
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And after a Time am ninh David's
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Loved her. 
An eminent was so tormented that

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he made himself ill because of 
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She was a virgin and has seemed 
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anything to her. 
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Whose name was jonadab the son 
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Jonah. 
Dad was a very crafty, man, and 

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he said, to him, o, son of the 
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Why are you so Haggard morning 
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Will you not tell me? 
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Tamar, my brother Absalom 
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Johnny Depp said to him lie down
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ill and when your father comes 
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sister Tamar come and give me 
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food in my site that I may see 
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I want us to begin this study by
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concerning this man and then the
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eminence. 
Privilege. 

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The second thing will be 
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Passions. 
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at em nen's pressure. 
Emmons privilege. 

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Verse one. 
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David's son. 
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was not just one of David's 
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He was the eldest son according 
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Now, all of that should paint 
the picture of the privilege 

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that this young man had he was 
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He was born into unmeasured 
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a world with unlimited 
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And with all of the prestige and
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that were made available to 
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favorable blessings that would 
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his birth order. 
This man was so far from being 

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wholly so far from being whole 
so far from being in the will of

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God which promises great 
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And I think that's insightful 
for many reasons, especially in 

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the culture that we're living in
today, because the leaders of 

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our country proposed, very Vain 
and Halo strategies with the 

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promise, that it will bring us 
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society. 
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along the lines of if we just 
give troublemakers a better 

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environment than they will calm 
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themselves up, and they will 
build a better future for 

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themselves and for their 
offspring and for their 

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surrounding area. 
Or if we just offer more 

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financial assistance to those 
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then we will see some level of 
peace in our midst. 

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We know that Adam and Eve 
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they were in a perfect 
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everything up. 
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even here, Illustrated with M, 
then with so much at his 

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disposal. 
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he would not only destroy his 
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innocent parties. 
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Don't regenerate people the Holy
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Only does that Transformation 
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from the outside. 
In if you attempt to change 

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things from the outside in, 
you're wasting your time and 

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you're wasting your resources. 
If we want to see neighborhoods,

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altered, if we want to see 
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see schools, altered if we want 
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desire to see, begins with the 
human heart and you can't 

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change. 
What is immaterial with that, 

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which is material only the Holy 
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truth of the gospel and bring 
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That is necessary. 
Go to cause a ripple effect 

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around day-to-day life. 
And in here, proves his 

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biography reminds us that you 
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It still caused havoc in your 
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Around those things that you 
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pleasure and satisfaction and 
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There's a wonderful proverb that
came to mind when I read about a

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man's biography, very briefly. 
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16, we are told better is a 
little with the fear of the Lord

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than great treasure with trouble
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Better is little with the fear 
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with trouble with it. 
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there. 
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contrast, the fear of the Lord 
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You want to avoid trouble, get 
the fear of God, you want to 

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invite trouble, remove the fear 
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And that proverb also gives us 
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you had a choice between having 
great treasure void of the fear 

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of God, governing your life, Or 
with contentment accepting much 

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little. 
But having the fear of the Lord 

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reigning over your life, choose 
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Always, you are way better off. 
Having the fear of the Lord than

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unlimited numbers on that 
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When you click into your bank 
account or whatever, things that

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you can do at the snap of a 
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the fear of the Lord than great 
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And all how the Bible even tells
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is much trouble that comes with 
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I wouldn't ask God for more in 
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saturated and anchored in your 
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what he's able to do or else 
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I'm telling you. 
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privilege, right? 
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Now, we look at his passions and
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Tamar, who is David's daughter 
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This is a man's half sister. 
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And what's interesting is all we
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beautiful, which tells me she 
her mom must have been beautiful

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because Absalom her brother was 
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So says something about the 
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She was beautiful. 
She was a virgin and she was the

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sister of Absalom and were told 
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we're being prepared, he's going
to be key instigator to David's,

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upcoming troubles and problems. 
He's going to be a main 

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character in a Lifting much pain
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The love that a man had for 
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Raises a red flag, doesn't it? 
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yeah, you know, it and on top of
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Leviticus 18 9. 
We are told plain and clear that

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it is prohibited to have any 
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with people from your immediate 
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So this is a law thing. 
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opinion thing or a cultural 
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This is even inscribed in the 
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And so we already know something
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their unnatural and they are 
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God. 
It's clear and this brief 

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insight into this man's heart 
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It conveys that he was a man who
lacked character and obvious 

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conviction. 
He loved tame our, he's about to

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do something, simply because of 
what he feels, he feels these 

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strong emotions, and that's 
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going to act. 
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even though it violates God's 
clear commands, it doesn't 

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matter to him then and I can't 
help but be reminded of the 

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Mantra of our day. 
The most of the Abominable 

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things that we're parading and 
tall. flirting is all done in 

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the name of what Love is not 
love. 

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It's all love. 
Just just slap the label love on

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and we can justify it. 
No matter how illegitimate those

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impulses are it is often backed 
up by what infatuation and 

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strong attraction and sometimes 
even this love element or this 

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love idea, it's love, it's love.
And if we dismiss God's 

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parameters of what we should act
on and what we should resist by 

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the power of the Holy Spirit, 
live under that Banner long 

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enough, and you will be led into
whether individually or as a 

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culture and to perversions As we
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be a very perverted thing that's
about to take place and it's 

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true across the board. 
If you live under that Mantra, 

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if you justify your worldview by
subjective, understanding of 

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what love means or what love is 
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love does, you're headed for it.
Great. 

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Great confusion, and 
Abomination. 

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As Paul tells me in 1st 
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rejoices with the truth. 
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truth, it's not love. 
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It rejoices with the truth. 
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love, whatever it is. 
It's not true, love because it's

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not love in truth. 
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as you heard it, you're going to
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affections for this woman. 
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he made himself ill because of 
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She was a virgin and it seemed 
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That's lust language. 
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not that Tamar was a upstanding 
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allured by fellow men. 
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a daughter of the king and as a 
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certain way. 
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I'm speaking of she lived in a 
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surrounded by certain people. 
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guarded and this bothered and 
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opportunity To be with her in 
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I'm already looking at some of 
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Disturbed. 
Hang on. 

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It's going to get it's going to 
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Disturbed that he came to the 
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physically sick. 
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sleep, and it was, it was 
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was going on. 
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into an obsession And that is an
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We can argue that the feelings 
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control, right? 
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control what visits your 
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in your mind. 
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He nurtured it, he entertained 
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fantasized about it and it 
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greater control over his life to
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into his actual appearance. 
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verse to do, we not? 
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made himself, he made himself 
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to this point. 
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drive him to such a low state. 
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of us in here would be would be 
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cross through our minds. 
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that but what you can determine 
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And that is completely our 
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Temptations becoming so much 
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One of the means by which we can
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So it deflates and has a less of
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Is by God, providing people 
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lives. 
To keep us accountable to remind

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us of God's truth. 
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before we allow self-deception 
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direction. 
I've quoted this verse so many 

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times, I hope you memorize it. 
You've heard me preach at a 

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Maranatha. 
You heard me reference it from 

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time to time. 
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exhort one another every day. 
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miss any of you be deceived or 
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sin. 
The see the prescription there, 

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the plan, their exhort one 
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As long as it is called today, 
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by the deceitfulness of sin. 
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outside sources, namely people, 
who love the truth, and love him

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to play a part in keeping my 
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become crystallized. 
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That is something that and then 
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the straw that's going to break 
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So to speak is going to be the 
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told there and Hebrews 3:13 it 
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have the right, people around 
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Then I can assure greater safety
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By the same token. 
If I have the wrong people, they

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can encourage me into unholiness
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Eminence privilege, Eminence 
passions, Eminence pressure. 

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But am then had a friend. 
But and then had a friend. 

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Those five words would shape his
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It is the sad commentary of the 
turning point of this man's life

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but and then had a friend and 
unfortunately, it can be said of

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many that they are not where 
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Because fill in the Blake, had a
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friend and then had a friend and
the language there. 

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But and and had a friend, it 
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What a man is about to do was 
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this friend that we're about to 
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Was lead and encouraged by this 
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And so here's the thing, whether
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not, it is it is true. 
The people we allow in our inner

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circles, have future shaping 
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of that or not, you've heard the
popular saying, show me your 

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friends, your five closest 
friends and I'll show you would 

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be in five years. 
I don't know if I butchered or 

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not something along those lines,
but it's true. 

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I understand the sentiment 
understand the argument. 

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I understand the philosophy. 
It's biblical. 

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It's biblical. 
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And it was that verse At the 
Holy Spirit used in my life to 

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help me identify people 
throughout my life and to place 

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them into categories. 
Among many can I share those 

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categories with you two simple 
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Among many, there are other 
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There are people in my life who 
are going to one either, help me

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fight my Temptation or two, they
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There are people who are going 
to help me fight my Temptation 

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or they're going to fuel my 
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I am to embrace and the other I 
am to resist and reject in 

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humility but also in great 
wisdom. and that is a very 

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helpful way to navigate in your 
life as people come in and out 

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and understand that in the same 
way, God brings people in your 

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life to bless you, Satan does 
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his agents. 
God has his ambassadors. 

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So this the devil And so, you 
know, people that you can say 

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you're a blessing your gift to 
me. 

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Well, no. 
This the enemy will also do the 

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same to bring about a burden 
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And so you and I need the 
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this a person that's going to 
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Faith or is this person going to
dramatically influence me in the

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wrong direction? 
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that was the ladder and the 
descriptions of who, this man is

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given to us in. 
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helping us, be able to discern 
beyond the surface level. 

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So there are things about Jonah 
dad that will help you. 

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And I to some degree, be able to
look past what we might be 

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tricked by and to understand how
it is. 

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I can qualify worthy, candidates
in my inner circle, Because 

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relationships is important in 
our walk with the Lord. 

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Let's look at a few things. 
What's the man's name? 

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Does anybody know what that name
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Jonah. 
That wouldn't it be you ended up

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Unidad? 
Yo. 

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Yes, we were there almost. 
Jehovah is willing. 

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Jehovah is willing. 
What's the big deal? 

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Here's the big deal. 
Jonadab obviously, has a name 

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that identifies a truth about 
the true God. 

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Jonah would have had an identity
that was close to whenever you 

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would call upon him. 
Whenever he was referred to, 

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whenever he was asked for 
something, the here would be 

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reminded of something concerning
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Now here's the problem. 
Although he had an identity in 

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that his worldview strongly 
contradicted, the god that his 

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name represented, here's the 
lesson for you. 

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And I, it really doesn't matter 
if that person, whatever kind of

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relationship they have to you. 
They identify with God. 

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If they claim things about God, 
if they have a label of Truth on

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their lives, they profess they 
post has very little value to 

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whether or not that person is 
worthy to walk. 

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Hand-in-hand with you in this 
life you have to look past that 

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and it was a psalmist said in 
Psalm 119, very clear that 

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they're not verse 63. 
I am a companion of all who. 

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What? 
Who fear you? 

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I am a companion in Psalm 119 
verse 63. 

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I am a companion of all who fear
you of those who keep your 

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precepts and Sam, a companion of
all those, who believe in you. 

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I'm a companion of all those who
confess, you know, I am a 

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companion of those who fear you 
of those who keep your precepts.

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In other words, I'm looking at 
the observable traits of your 

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life. 
The convictions that are lived 

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out or not lived out, that's 
what I'm looking for. 

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When I determined that, this is 
a person who truly keeps the 

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precepts of God. 
I'm going to be your companion, 

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I'll allow you to be mine. 
It didn't add any value to end 

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in the fact that Jonah that was 
named Jonah Dobbin. 

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That his name was identified 
with the truth of who the true 

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God is. 
So be careful. 

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Be careful. 
Oh he says he's a Christian and 

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he's cute, who cares? 
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Does he keep the precepts of the
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Be careful. 
If that's your standard then 

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you're headed for trouble. 
I'm telling you if all your 

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standard is that he's wanted to 
come to church, 36 weeks out of 

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the year and he calls himself a 
Christian be very, very careful.

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Secondly, we learn that Jonah 
that was also not amnesty 

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friend. 
He was Emmons cousin don't we 

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see that? 
And it had a friend whose name 

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was Joanna? 
The son of shimei David's 

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brother first cousins, first 
cousins, so we have permission 

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to believe that they have 
history together. 

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They shared an upbringing, they 
probably had many memories 

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growing up. 
Over the years. 

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And such a relationship with 
long history can be a gift, but 

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it can also be a curse. 
And the reason why it can be a 

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curse is because that kind of a 
history, those ties the 

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memories, the laughter, the joys
that cries, all those things can

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have a very binding influence on
someone's Allegiance. 

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And the trouble here is a 
trouble that Jesus predicted 

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about discipleship, that one can
elevate a person whether in 

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their family or outside their 
family to the point where 

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they're denied true 
discipleship. 

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Because what will decipher and 
determine whether a blessing or 

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cursing come from a close member
of our family or close friend 

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that we grew up with is whether 
or not they take precedence over

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the word of God. 
If that person has more 

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Authority or sway in your 
thinking and in your planning 

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and in your decisions, more than
the voice of the Lord that's 

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troubling. 
That's dangerous. 

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And that was the case for this 
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John had that very like they had
a very special place in his 

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heart and he lacked the 
conviction to be able to 

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determine I will deny all other 
voices. 

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If they encouraged me to deny 
the voice of my shepherd. 

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If any advice or counsel will 
come and conflict with what God 

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has made clear to me that I must
stand with my God. 

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Even if I Stand Alone, that was 
so void in a man's life. 

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And there's a side note for this
as well because Jonah dab is 

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presented in a way like people 
in our lives that are almost 

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unavoidable. 
You have family that are 

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unavoidable sometimes, right? 
I mean there's there's 

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celebrations or even a home that
you have to walk into day after 

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day where you're going to meet 
people and do life with people 

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that don't see the way you see 
that don't live the way you 

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live. 
And here's the warning, based on

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what we see with jonadab and 
eminent be aware of allowing the

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familiarity of other people's 
presence to erode that strong 

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anchoring. 
Conviction of living before God.

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A living before God because 
sometimes things can just over 

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time, begin to have a firmer 
grasp on you. 

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And so, constantly be aware, be 
vigilant be strong, stay in the 

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presence of God day after day, 
lest over time. 

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Someone that is near and dear 
would hijack. 

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Something that was so strong at 
one point. 

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Lastly, we learned something 
else about John adapt. 

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What do we said? 
What are we told about what he 

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was like, he was a very crafty 
man. 

453
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,300
A very crafty man. 
Now depending on the context 

454
00:29:57,300 --> 00:29:59,300
that can be really good or 
really bad and we already know 

455
00:29:59,300 --> 00:30:02,400
that this is bad, this is a flag
and it's not only evidence in 

456
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:06,500
how jonadab is about to give and
proposed a scheme for a moment 

457
00:30:06,500 --> 00:30:10,800
in order to satisfy his lust, we
even see it in the next time 

458
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,900
that he's mentioned in this very
same story. 

459
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,900
The next time jonadab is 
introduced to us after this 

460
00:30:15,900 --> 00:30:19,200
whole ordeal. 
Gives us greater understanding 

461
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,100
of just how conniving he really 
was. 

462
00:30:21,100 --> 00:30:22,900
Can I show it to you? 
Scroll down? 

463
00:30:22,900 --> 00:30:25,800
You're in Chapter 13, scroll 
down to verse 32. 

464
00:30:27,300 --> 00:30:31,300
Here's what happens and then was
assassinated. 

465
00:30:31,900 --> 00:30:38,000
Okay, Absalom takes vengeance. 
He kills and then and news comes

466
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,700
to David and like when you play 
telephone things, get 

467
00:30:41,700 --> 00:30:45,700
mistranslated very quickly. 
So news arrives to David and 

468
00:30:45,700 --> 00:30:48,200
here's the news, all of the 
king's sons have died. 

469
00:30:49,700 --> 00:30:53,900
David is overcome with grief. 
He expresses the pain of such a 

470
00:30:53,900 --> 00:30:57,800
tragedy Calamity and who's on 
the scene to bring about the 

471
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,700
accurate report. 
Jonah, dad and look what he 

472
00:31:00,708 --> 00:31:03,700
says. 
But jonadab the son of shamya. 

473
00:31:03,700 --> 00:31:07,100
David's brother said, let not my
Lord. 

474
00:31:07,900 --> 00:31:12,700
Suppose that they have killed 
all the young men The king's 

475
00:31:12,700 --> 00:31:16,100
Sons for n and alone is dead. 
This is the part. 

476
00:31:16,100 --> 00:31:20,000
You ready for by the command of 
Absalom. 

477
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,100
This has been determined from 
the day. 

478
00:31:23,100 --> 00:31:29,700
He violated his sister Tamar. 
Did you see it? 

479
00:31:31,300 --> 00:31:33,300
What's concerning about that 
report? 

480
00:31:36,300 --> 00:31:42,300
That's he knew that he knew from
the day that Tamar was raped at 

481
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,300
and Absalom. 
Rather had it in his heart to 

482
00:31:45,300 --> 00:31:50,000
plot to kill em. 
How did he know? 

483
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,900
How did he know? 
Was he confident to Absalom as 

484
00:31:55,900 --> 00:32:01,300
well? 
and if he had known, Makes you 

485
00:32:01,300 --> 00:32:03,900
wonder did. 
He tried to convince Absalom not

486
00:32:03,900 --> 00:32:08,200
to do it? 
Did he try to convince Absalom? 

487
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:13,400
Not to cause even more grief by 
returning, evil with evil, okay?

488
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:18,900
More importantly, if he had 
known as he claims, why didn't 

489
00:32:18,900 --> 00:32:23,500
he go tell a man about it? 
What happened when Rebecca 

490
00:32:23,500 --> 00:32:27,200
learned that Esau was comforting
himself with the thought of 

491
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:29,000
killing Jacob. 
What did she tell? 

492
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,900
Jacob to do, go to laban's 
house, go to my brother's house 

493
00:32:32,900 --> 00:32:36,500
fleets, your uncle, I will call 
for you when his anger subsides,

494
00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:38,700
which she never does, which 
probably shows that he's estate 

495
00:32:38,700 --> 00:32:42,200
angry for a long time. 
Yeah, when you care about 

496
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,100
something, you hear that 
somebody's trying to kill them, 

497
00:32:44,100 --> 00:32:45,400
you kind of give them a 
heads-up. 

498
00:32:48,100 --> 00:32:53,000
We don't see any of that. 
We have no reason to doubt that.

499
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,300
Jonah that did know about it and
if he did know about it and 

500
00:32:55,300 --> 00:32:58,300
here's what we can conclude even
from our introduction to this, 

501
00:32:58,300 --> 00:33:01,100
man. 
He did not have an ins best 

502
00:33:01,100 --> 00:33:03,700
interest in mind. 
He did not. 

503
00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:09,200
He did not really care about 
eminent not have his future in 

504
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:12,300
mind. 
And listen, that might concern 

505
00:33:12,300 --> 00:33:15,300
some people because we wonder 
what's a person's heart. 

506
00:33:15,300 --> 00:33:19,300
Truly for me, how do I discern, 
who to yoke myself with? 

507
00:33:19,300 --> 00:33:21,300
And listen. 
God is gracious. 

508
00:33:21,300 --> 00:33:25,700
He can, he can provide many ways
of clarity, but if you want one,

509
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:30,800
clear indication, any person, 
who persistently encourages you 

510
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:38,300
to sin does not care about you. 
Even if their deception is 

511
00:33:38,300 --> 00:33:41,500
coated with words, like what we 
see back in verse four, look at 

512
00:33:41,500 --> 00:33:45,100
how he speaks to and then when 
he sees him, so dejected and 

513
00:33:45,100 --> 00:33:49,700
troubled, Oh, son of the king. 
Why are you so Haggard morning 

514
00:33:49,700 --> 00:33:51,800
after morning? 
Will you not tell me. 

515
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:58,600
He's a snake. 
And in said to him, I love Tamar

516
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:03,300
my brother Absalom sister. so, 
if you want to know whether 

517
00:34:03,300 --> 00:34:07,700
somebody is for you or against 
you, Do they pull you away from 

518
00:34:07,700 --> 00:34:11,699
the will of God? 
Do they encourage you to be 

519
00:34:11,699 --> 00:34:15,800
deceiving and to step outside of
the character of Christ likeness

520
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,900
in order to achieve something 
because that's exactly what 

521
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:25,300
Jonah does for this man admin. 
And so we are realized something

522
00:34:25,300 --> 00:34:28,000
about this man. 
He's dangerous. 

523
00:34:29,199 --> 00:34:32,199
Too bad engine could not see it.
Because what we see in verse six

524
00:34:32,199 --> 00:34:35,500
shows that he ate it all up 
verse 6. 

525
00:34:35,500 --> 00:34:37,300
Let's come back to our main 
text, shall we? 

526
00:34:38,500 --> 00:34:41,699
In verse 6, we read. 
So M and laid down and pretended

527
00:34:41,699 --> 00:34:44,800
to be ill. 
And when the king came to see 

528
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:49,000
him and said to the king, please
let my sister Tamar come and 

529
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,699
make a couple of cakes on my 
site that I may eat it from her 

530
00:34:52,699 --> 00:34:56,400
hand. 
Some people blame David for not 

531
00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:01,400
being suspecting of the plot, 
that Edmund was brewing here. 

532
00:35:02,900 --> 00:35:06,100
I personally have more 
understanding toward this father

533
00:35:06,100 --> 00:35:12,200
because I can't imagine anybody 
immediately thinking about an 

534
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:18,700
unthinkable act, taking place. 
Between the most unexpected 

535
00:35:18,700 --> 00:35:23,300
people. 
And so we can give some kind of 

536
00:35:23,500 --> 00:35:28,400
mercy here to David. 
Others would say that just gives

537
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,900
everything he he's asked for 
from his children, he just 

538
00:35:31,900 --> 00:35:33,900
splurges them and that might be 
true. 

539
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:38,000
But here we see that he just 
comes in to check up on his son.

540
00:35:38,100 --> 00:35:41,000
I mean you hear when even a 
celebrity has a scar on their 

541
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,900
face or something it makes 
headline news. 

542
00:35:42,900 --> 00:35:45,500
So it's obvious that news has 
gone around that. 

543
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,500
The firstborn of the king is 
ill. 

544
00:35:47,500 --> 00:35:51,000
So here comes David, a check up 
on his boy and the boy makes a 

545
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,500
request. 
I want my sister to come in to 

546
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:58,600
feed me so I'm too weak to feed 
myself. and instead of talking 

547
00:35:58,700 --> 00:36:01,200
more about David, I would like 
for us to consider the character

548
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,600
of Tamar What are we told in 
verse 1. 

549
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,900
She was beautiful verse 2. 
We're told she's a virgin. 

550
00:36:08,300 --> 00:36:11,500
And what we see here is that 
when he goes to tame our David 

551
00:36:11,500 --> 00:36:13,900
and asks for her to make a 
couple of kicks for her brother.

552
00:36:13,900 --> 00:36:19,400
She obeys her father And she is 
willing to drop everything and 

553
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,300
immediately come to the service 
of her sick. 

554
00:36:22,300 --> 00:36:25,600
Half-brother okay this is a 
woman of character. 

555
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,600
She's praiseworthy. 
She's pure and even when you see

556
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:34,600
her resisting the attack, her 
appeal. 

557
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:40,300
Her proposal is so filled with 
wisdom and even respect though 

558
00:36:40,300 --> 00:36:47,300
she stands before a monster. 
And when I considered the 

559
00:36:47,300 --> 00:36:51,100
portrait of Tamar and what's 
about to happen to her, I could 

560
00:36:51,100 --> 00:36:53,100
not help. 
But think what perhaps you might

561
00:36:53,100 --> 00:36:57,900
be thinking even now how could 
God allow this to happen to such

562
00:36:57,900 --> 00:37:04,200
an outstanding lady, a young 
woman who has guarded her life, 

563
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:09,900
who was chased Who kept herself 
pure, who obviously had a 

564
00:37:09,908 --> 00:37:13,400
knowledge of the word of God who
cared about her reputation of 

565
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:17,000
the reputation of Israel of even
her own brother's reputation who

566
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:23,500
had a sense of right and wrong. 
That was clear in the way that 

567
00:37:23,500 --> 00:37:27,500
she carried herself and 
presented herself, how could God

568
00:37:27,500 --> 00:37:32,700
allow this? 
We can also think about Uriah. 

569
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:39,700
The Godly Man remember him. 
Who had such loyalty to the Lord

570
00:37:39,700 --> 00:37:43,700
and to his King. 
Who has such loyalty to the 

571
00:37:43,700 --> 00:37:46,900
cause of the God that he loves 
so dearly. 

572
00:37:46,900 --> 00:37:50,600
And yet, he was deceived enough 
to the point where he 

573
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:55,700
orchestrated his own death and 
tame, our though, she is admire 

574
00:37:55,700 --> 00:37:58,000
ball in. 
So many ways would also be 

575
00:37:58,100 --> 00:38:01,700
attacked in a way that she would
be ruined for the rest of her 

576
00:38:01,700 --> 00:38:07,900
life, to some extent. 
This opens up so much discussion

577
00:38:07,900 --> 00:38:10,400
about suffering in our life 
suffering in our world. 

578
00:38:11,500 --> 00:38:14,400
In fact, when you read chapter 
13, I can't find one mention of 

579
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:18,500
God. 
And some people that we know 

580
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,400
some things that we read, we 
wonder where is God in all of 

581
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:26,000
this. 
I'm sure you have answers, I'm 

582
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:31,700
sure I can present some answers.
But one thing that puts my heart

583
00:38:31,700 --> 00:38:36,300
at ease to an extent is that the
judge of the earth will do. 

584
00:38:36,300 --> 00:38:41,200
Right? 
One day, he will make sure every

585
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:45,800
wrongdoer pays and every victim 
is restored. 

586
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:50,000
He can do it in this life, but 
he will definitely do it where 

587
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:54,900
it really counts. 
And that's an eternity So, this 

588
00:38:54,900 --> 00:38:59,800
poor young lady. 
Is about to be violated in a 

589
00:38:59,808 --> 00:39:08,200
very serious way. and in verse 
8, We can even read it to get an

590
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,100
idea of the scene. 
It's almost in slow motion. 

591
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:14,600
It's almost as though the author
by the spirit is trying to make 

592
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:18,300
us feel the suspense because we,
the reader know what's about to 

593
00:39:18,300 --> 00:39:21,200
happen and, and Tamar and her 
innocence is completely 

594
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,400
oblivious. 
She's just trying to be a good 

595
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:24,600
sister. 
Good daughter. 

596
00:39:26,100 --> 00:39:29,700
Verse 8. 
So Tamar went to her brother and

597
00:39:29,700 --> 00:39:32,500
his house where he was lying 
down and she took dough and 

598
00:39:32,500 --> 00:39:36,200
knead it and make cakes in his 
sight and bake the cakes. 

599
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:39,500
Like that's very detailed. 
Like we're supposed to Envision 

600
00:39:39,500 --> 00:39:43,700
this or supposed to see these 
verbs being lived out and she 

601
00:39:43,700 --> 00:39:48,200
took the pan and emptied it out 
before him, but he refused to 

602
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:52,700
eat and, and, and send send out 
everyone from me. 

603
00:39:53,100 --> 00:39:57,000
So everyone went out from him. 
Then end and said to tame our 

604
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:01,800
bring the food into the chamber 
that I may eat it from your hand

605
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:05,200
and Tamar took the cakes, she 
had made and brought them into 

606
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:08,600
the chamber to end, and her 
brother, every single step, 

607
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:10,300
every single movement is 
recorded. 

608
00:40:11,300 --> 00:40:20,000
And our hearts should be racing.
we see here that and then pushes

609
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:25,600
everybody out all the servants 
leave Many of David had any 

610
00:40:25,700 --> 00:40:28,800
reason not to worry. 
Among many reasons. 

611
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,200
One, is this that there were 
servants were going to be 

612
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:34,600
present as Tamar was serving at 
her brother and now, that's not 

613
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:40,500
the case. 
And wants privacy sin is often 

614
00:40:40,500 --> 00:40:46,500
encouraged by secrecy. 
Sin is often stimulated by 

615
00:40:46,500 --> 00:40:54,600
darkness by the lack of 
witnesses. but God sees all God 

616
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:56,400
sees all that. 
That is what the fear of the 

617
00:40:56,400 --> 00:41:00,200
Lord entails. 
The fear of the Lord is a drum 

618
00:41:00,300 --> 00:41:04,300
that continually beats in the 
conscience that says, nothing is

619
00:41:04,300 --> 00:41:07,400
private. 
Nothing Is concealed. 

620
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:11,200
All things will be revealed. 
God is here. 

621
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:15,700
God is taking note. 
God will call into account. 

622
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:17,800
That's what the fear of the Lord
does. 

623
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:21,700
When it resides in the heart. 
It beats that drum loud and 

624
00:41:21,700 --> 00:41:25,400
clear. obviously it was lacking 
in this, man, because he thought

625
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,500
if he just pushed out the 
servants that he could satiate 

626
00:41:28,500 --> 00:41:33,400
his sensual fantasies And so he 
calls everybody to leave. 

627
00:41:35,100 --> 00:41:37,000
And this is what we see in verse
11. 

628
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:43,200
But when she brought them near 
to him to eat, he took ahold of 

629
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:45,400
her and set their come lie with 
me. 

630
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:47,900
My sister like that's pretty 
disturbing. 

631
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:53,200
In the same appeal of asking 
somebody to lie with you, you 

632
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:58,700
could also save my sister. 
And Tamar's words here. 

633
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:03,900
In her rebuke. 
Offer wonderful incense of the 

634
00:42:03,900 --> 00:42:11,400
blinding power of Temptation 
because Temptation can really 

635
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:16,000
put blinders on our reasoning on
our sensibilities. 

636
00:42:16,700 --> 00:42:20,400
On our boundaries. 
I want you to see just a few of 

637
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:23,500
these insights of what 
temptation is capable of. 

638
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:28,200
If we do not take captive these 
thoughts, if we do not resist 

639
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:30,800
it, we do not fight. 
If we do not bring them before, 

640
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:35,400
God and bring Truth to combat 
that, which tries to conquer. 

641
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,500
Let's see what she says verse 
12, she answered him. 

642
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:44,200
No, my brother do not violate me
for such a thing is not done in 

643
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:47,600
Israel. 
Do not do this outrageous thing.

644
00:42:47,900 --> 00:42:51,000
As for me where could I carry my
shame? 

645
00:42:51,300 --> 00:42:55,100
And as for you you would be as 
one of the outrageous fools and 

646
00:42:55,100 --> 00:42:58,000
Israel. 
Now, therefore please speak to 

647
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,700
the king for. 
He will not withhold me from 

648
00:43:00,700 --> 00:43:03,400
you. 
What do you see out of that, 

649
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:05,900
that you think is valuable in 
light of what I just said in 

650
00:43:05,900 --> 00:43:07,900
light of? 
Because she's the voice of 

651
00:43:07,900 --> 00:43:10,900
reason. 
Here she is bringing to Emmons. 

652
00:43:10,900 --> 00:43:14,100
Attention. 
What was clearly lacking in his 

653
00:43:14,500 --> 00:43:23,900
understanding what stands out 
What's that the consequences? 

654
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:33,800
Surely, yes. 
Okay, so why is she proposing a 

655
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:38,200
different way out? 
Especially when marriage between

656
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:40,800
siblings was obviously 
prohibited. 

657
00:43:44,500 --> 00:43:47,200
Yeah, I think it is. 
It's a way out. 

658
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:52,300
It's a way to buy time. 
It's a way to just put him in 

659
00:43:52,300 --> 00:43:54,900
his place so that she can escape
that's what I believe. 

660
00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:00,400
Anything else? 
Yes. 

661
00:44:04,300 --> 00:44:05,800
Yeah. 
Where should I carry my shame? 

662
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:07,900
Do you realize what this is 
going to do to me? 

663
00:44:08,900 --> 00:44:10,800
And she follows that by saying 
do you realize what this is 

664
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:13,600
going to do to you? 
So here's the first thing that I

665
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:18,000
see look here again, at verse 
12, she answered him know my 

666
00:44:18,700 --> 00:44:21,600
brother, she addresses him as 
her brother and that's 

667
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:24,200
intentional. 
The reason why it's intentional 

668
00:44:25,100 --> 00:44:28,500
even though this is an unusual 
case of immorality, it provides 

669
00:44:28,500 --> 00:44:32,300
an important principle. 
That lust Has the ability to 

670
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:38,000
erase the boundaries in our 
relationships between people 

671
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,600
lust has that kind of clouding 
effect. 

672
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:45,700
So when less is unrestrained, it
doesn't care if that person is 

673
00:44:45,700 --> 00:44:51,200
somebody else's spouse. 
That's it. it doesn't, it 

674
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:56,000
doesn't care if then if the 
desires are unnatural, according

675
00:44:56,000 --> 00:45:00,800
to Romans chapter 1, It doesn't 
care if other parties who are 

676
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:05,600
not directly involved will be 
harmed by the news of that 

677
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:11,300
desire, being acted out. 
And so she she immediately 

678
00:45:11,300 --> 00:45:15,400
brings to his attention, you're 
my brother, he had no problem 

679
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:20,100
saying, you're my sister 
obviously, but he, he's now 

680
00:45:20,100 --> 00:45:26,700
hearing from her lips, you're my
own blood you, and I, we have 

681
00:45:26,707 --> 00:45:32,000
the same father. 
And if we are not careful with 

682
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:36,600
our conscience, our appetites as
we are witnessing in our own 

683
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:42,700
culture can become animalistic. 
Animalistic. 

684
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:46,300
We just whenever anybody's in 
heat, they act in that. 

685
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,300
And that's how base we can 
become when we blunt our 

686
00:45:50,300 --> 00:45:54,100
conscience over and over again. 
And we decide to worship 

687
00:45:54,100 --> 00:45:56,700
creation rather than the Creator
refusing to give him. 

688
00:45:56,700 --> 00:46:03,500
Thanks, and Glory, we open the 
floodgates of Untold, kind of 

689
00:46:03,500 --> 00:46:07,400
behavior. 
And this is what's happening to 

690
00:46:07,408 --> 00:46:13,200
this, man, sinned doesn't remind
you of the value of the person 

691
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:16,300
before you sin doesn't nudge to 
you. 

692
00:46:17,500 --> 00:46:21,500
Of the identity, the spiritual 
identity of that person that 

693
00:46:21,500 --> 00:46:25,200
person is a son or a daughter of
the king sin doesn't do that. 

694
00:46:26,700 --> 00:46:31,600
Sin just Harps over and over, 
you'll be satisfied, you'll be 

695
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:35,600
satisfied, you'll be satisfied. 
My brother. 

696
00:46:35,900 --> 00:46:38,600
Secondly, what is she called 
this thing? 

697
00:46:40,500 --> 00:46:42,900
Do not violate me for such a 
thing is not done in Israel. 

698
00:46:42,900 --> 00:46:46,500
Do not do this. 
I thought it was love. 

699
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:52,200
outrageous thing, some 
translations say, Folly other 

700
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:56,500
translations, say, If you had 
the nasb. 

701
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:04,300
Disgraceful. 
Temptation, always presents us. 

702
00:47:04,300 --> 00:47:09,500
The shiny side of sin always, 
never shows you the mold and the

703
00:47:09,500 --> 00:47:12,600
vileness, the hides underneath 
the veneer of the pleasure that 

704
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:18,700
it offers never and will never 
do that. and admin thought that 

705
00:47:18,700 --> 00:47:22,700
this was love, but in reality 
was outrageous, If you and I 

706
00:47:22,707 --> 00:47:27,500
don't allow ourselves to have 
truth frame, how we view the 

707
00:47:27,500 --> 00:47:32,900
things that promised us pleasure
then that which is outrageous 

708
00:47:32,900 --> 00:47:34,800
that which is bitter can become 
sweet. 

709
00:47:36,300 --> 00:47:39,100
So she's trying to remind it. 
This is out of bounds. 

710
00:47:39,100 --> 00:47:44,600
This is unspeakable filth, and 
in his own understanding and his

711
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:47,300
own world. 
You it was love, it was love. 

712
00:47:48,100 --> 00:47:50,400
So she's trying to preach truth 
into his heart. 

713
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:57,400
I see no other thing here. 
Thirdly, Temptation does not 

714
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:01,500
inform you about house in can 
ruin your reputation. 

715
00:48:02,100 --> 00:48:04,500
Our sister said it. 
She knew the shame that she 

716
00:48:04,500 --> 00:48:07,800
would carry because of this and 
the shame would be that she 

717
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:09,900
would become less of a prospect 
for marriage. 

718
00:48:10,300 --> 00:48:12,600
She would have been violated, 
she would have lost her 

719
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:16,700
virginity and because this 
would, this would become known 

720
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:21,000
people would now be much less 
willing to engage with her 

721
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:24,500
because of what had happened to 
her. but she also goes beyond 

722
00:48:24,500 --> 00:48:28,200
that and tells him you will be 
known as one of the fools in 

723
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:34,400
Israel, you'll be known as one 
of the was one of the Ones. 

724
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:38,000
Who lack sense? 
You're royalty, you're a prince.

725
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:41,500
You have so much ahead of you. 
But sin doesn't care Temptation,

726
00:48:41,500 --> 00:48:43,800
doesn't care. 
It doesn't tell you about your 

727
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:46,500
future. 
Always always always rehearses 

728
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:50,300
the few seconds of pleasure as 
though it lasts for eternity. 

729
00:48:51,300 --> 00:48:55,000
When in fact, it's the 
consequences that always Outlast

730
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:58,800
with the pain, in comparison to 
whatever pleasure you experience

731
00:48:58,900 --> 00:49:02,300
always. 
So she's trying to tell him of 

732
00:49:02,308 --> 00:49:05,200
the stain that will come to his 
name. 

733
00:49:05,300 --> 00:49:09,500
If he performs this, even these 
few minutes of realizing what 

734
00:49:09,500 --> 00:49:13,100
you've been tormented by will 
end up tormenting you and then 

735
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:16,500
be careful. 
I always whenever reach 

736
00:49:16,500 --> 00:49:18,300
Simpsons, I always think about 
that. 

737
00:49:18,300 --> 00:49:19,900
This guy was flirting with 
temptation. 

738
00:49:19,900 --> 00:49:22,800
He just kept going closer. 
Close to revealing how he lost 

739
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:26,900
his anointing and it just like 
you lost it all the potential 

740
00:49:26,900 --> 00:49:30,000
that you had the future that you
had the story. 

741
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,000
You could have had the Miracles 
that God could have done three 

742
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:36,900
for what, for, what to lay your 
head on a prostitute slap, who 

743
00:49:36,900 --> 00:49:44,600
cares? 
Lastly, I said lastly earlier, I

744
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:46,800
think, but there is something 
else that I see with This 

745
00:49:46,900 --> 00:49:52,000
Woman's wise words through her 
voice, she tells us what an and 

746
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:55,600
could not see that in 
Temptation, there is a way out 

747
00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:59,300
no matter how strong or 
persuasive or powerful 

748
00:49:59,300 --> 00:50:01,700
overwhelming. 
It may seem there is a way out 

749
00:50:01,700 --> 00:50:06,600
and she she kind of gives that 
by telling him of a potential 

750
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:10,300
option. 
Hey we can get married. 

751
00:50:10,900 --> 00:50:14,600
Now we just discussed This was 
she genuine in that request 

752
00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:18,700
makes me wonder if she knew 
enough about her dad and how he 

753
00:50:18,700 --> 00:50:22,900
deals with his sons that if 
daddy's boy says I want this, 

754
00:50:22,900 --> 00:50:24,700
he'll give it. 
Even if it's something like an 

755
00:50:24,707 --> 00:50:29,300
illegitimate marriage or is it a
strategy just to buy more time 

756
00:50:29,900 --> 00:50:33,900
regardless of why she saying? 
This one thing is for certain, 

757
00:50:33,900 --> 00:50:36,000
in terms of principle especially
in this. 

758
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:39,400
I know it's difficult to try to 
reconcile this to day-to-day 

759
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:41,600
Temptation. 
This is incestuous rape. 

760
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:44,100
It's severe. 
Here it happens. 

761
00:50:44,100 --> 00:50:47,200
Unfortunately, in life and I 
know it's difficult to relate to

762
00:50:47,300 --> 00:50:49,600
but the principles are still 
alive and well in terms of 

763
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:54,100
immorality is as a whole There 
is a way out. 

764
00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:59,000
So many try to justify their 
behavior because it seems to 

765
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:01,600
overwhelm them and that is not 
the case. 

766
00:51:01,700 --> 00:51:03,600
We don't have to give in to our 
desires. 

767
00:51:04,300 --> 00:51:07,200
How much more us Christians, who
are filled with the Holy Spirit?

768
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:11,000
Jesus Christ, purchased on the 
cross, with his blood, a power 

769
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:15,200
that lives in us, 24/7 as our 
brother just read early on in 

770
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:19,600
Romans chapter 6, sin shall not 
have dominion over you. 

771
00:51:19,700 --> 00:51:22,800
Do you realize something about 
that verse in Romans shinsen 

772
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:25,400
will not have dominion over you.
That's not a command that's a 

773
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:26,200
promise. 
Yes. 

774
00:51:27,500 --> 00:51:32,700
Sin will not have dominion will 
not because you are under grace,

775
00:51:32,700 --> 00:51:37,000
not under law. 
These are promises that Christ 

776
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:39,600
purchased for me. 
How much more can I be assured 

777
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:43,000
that in the face of invitation 
to do wrong to entertain that 

778
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:48,200
which is wicked? 
I can escape I can evade it. 

779
00:51:49,300 --> 00:51:52,800
God has a better plan. 
God has a different way out. 

780
00:51:54,500 --> 00:51:56,800
And when I read the words of 
Tamar here, you know what I 

781
00:51:56,800 --> 00:52:00,500
thought to myself as well? 
If only jonadab had given 

782
00:52:00,500 --> 00:52:06,500
similar words to his friend, 
Maybe he wouldn't drive his life

783
00:52:06,500 --> 00:52:09,600
into a collision that would 
cause others to be casualties as

784
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:11,300
well. 
But here's the thing. 

785
00:52:12,700 --> 00:52:16,900
Look what we're we're told here 
after she says everything verse 

786
00:52:16,900 --> 00:52:18,500
14 but he would not listen to 
her. 

787
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:21,100
Oh so you're willing to listen 
to jonadab. 

788
00:52:21,500 --> 00:52:23,500
But when it came to this woman, 
you're not willing to listen to 

789
00:52:23,508 --> 00:52:26,000
her in the end, no matter what 
you say, no matter what kind of 

790
00:52:26,008 --> 00:52:28,300
accountability, get no matter 
what kind of sermons you here 

791
00:52:28,300 --> 00:52:32,500
week after week in the end, in 
the end, in the end, it's your 

792
00:52:32,500 --> 00:52:34,900
choice. 
It's all of our choices. 

793
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:37,900
We are all timidly responsible. 
Yes. 

794
00:52:38,100 --> 00:52:41,600
What people say or don't say can
help us, but we come to the 

795
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:44,400
line. 
Where we make a decision and 

796
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:45,600
this is the decision that he 
makes. 

797
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:48,000
I'm going to listen to jonadab 
My Flesh. 

798
00:52:48,100 --> 00:52:51,300
I mean, I'm going to ignore what
you just said and have you to 

799
00:52:51,300 --> 00:52:53,800
myself even apart from your own 
will. 

800
00:52:56,400 --> 00:53:00,700
And that's what happens verse. 
14 says, he would not listen to 

801
00:53:00,700 --> 00:53:05,100
her being stronger than she, he 
violated her and lay with her. 

802
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:11,600
It's very dark. 
Very disheartening, very sad. 

803
00:53:14,300 --> 00:53:18,100
And what happens here in verse 
15 might be surprising to you at

804
00:53:18,100 --> 00:53:22,200
first, but it's actually a 
common response. 

805
00:53:23,500 --> 00:53:30,100
That is very, very relatable. 
When people sin, especially in 

806
00:53:30,107 --> 00:53:35,000
the area of sexual immorality, 
look at verse 15, then am then 

807
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:39,800
hated her. 
With very great hatred. 

808
00:53:40,300 --> 00:53:44,600
So that the hatred with which he
hated her was greater than the 

809
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:46,200
love with, which he had loved 
her. 

810
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:53,600
It's like two different people 
here. you apparently loved her 

811
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:58,300
to the point where you were 
lovesick, you couldn't sleep, 

812
00:53:58,300 --> 00:54:01,500
you couldn't eat, you couldn't 
play sports with your friends, 

813
00:54:01,500 --> 00:54:06,100
you were just consumed with 
Tamar and now that you've gotten

814
00:54:06,100 --> 00:54:10,300
what you wanted. 
Your hatred for her was greater 

815
00:54:10,300 --> 00:54:13,700
than whatever love you 
experience beforehand. 

816
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:16,700
How do we how do we explain 
this? 

817
00:54:16,700 --> 00:54:20,800
It's actually again, very 
simple. 

818
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:28,700
Once and then fulfilled his 
fantasy the intense fake love. 

819
00:54:28,700 --> 00:54:33,200
That was roaring in his heart 
was quickly replaced with the 

820
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:36,400
Testament. 
And rejection. 

821
00:54:37,500 --> 00:54:39,100
That determined a new kind of 
behavior. 

822
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:42,200
We already covered that. 
A man's love wasn't true. 

823
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:43,500
Love. 
It was a counterfeit. 

824
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:50,100
He confused lust with love. 
And sexual sent. 

825
00:54:50,100 --> 00:54:54,500
This is a very important point 
because it might bring a lot of 

826
00:54:54,500 --> 00:55:00,100
answers to people's confusion. 
Sexual sin. 

827
00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:04,700
Always carries the potential of 
causing physical harm, right? 

828
00:55:04,700 --> 00:55:08,100
We all know that there are risks
with that unwanted pregnancy 

829
00:55:08,100 --> 00:55:14,900
disease and, some people get 
away with it, some people don't 

830
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:19,000
but here's one thing that's for 
certain the uniqueness of sexual

831
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:26,400
sin is that it guarantees a 
level of emotional damage that 

832
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:31,200
is virtually inescapable. only 
Christ love and his truth and 

833
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:35,800
his gospel can ultimately bring 
healing to that, to the degree, 

834
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:39,800
that people yearn for, But do 
you see what's happening here, 

835
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:42,100
there's there's some confusion 
here. 

836
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:48,500
And am nen's, emotional state. 
And that is really the fruit. 

837
00:55:48,900 --> 00:55:52,000
When we step outside of God's 
guidelines for what he 

838
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:55,900
determined in the realm of 
intimacy with other people. 

839
00:55:58,500 --> 00:56:01,500
Sexual sin often. 
Does that you reject his order? 

840
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:07,600
You reject his promises. 
It doesn't just endanger you 

841
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:11,100
physically, it brings some 
damage emotionally here, a 

842
00:56:11,100 --> 00:56:13,100
couple of way that it happens 
with the example that is set 

843
00:56:13,100 --> 00:56:18,300
before us like a madman. 
When I know this is a unique 

844
00:56:18,300 --> 00:56:21,600
case, but it's true beyond what 
we see here. 

845
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:31,500
We risk rejecting, despising 
belittling distancing ourselves 

846
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:36,300
from these very same people that
we sinned with, or sinned 

847
00:56:36,300 --> 00:56:41,900
against Because we associate 
them with the shame that we 

848
00:56:41,900 --> 00:56:45,100
have. 
Right? 

849
00:56:45,100 --> 00:56:51,000
So he could not wait to get rid 
of her because now she is 

850
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:53,600
forever. 
Brandon in his mind and a 

851
00:56:53,607 --> 00:56:57,200
forever, reminder of the gross 
in that he had committed. 

852
00:56:57,200 --> 00:56:58,900
So he wants nothing to do with 
her. 

853
00:56:58,900 --> 00:57:02,500
Get out of my sight, get out of 
my sight. 

854
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:08,100
I don't want you in my life. 
And though, this is a severe 

855
00:57:08,100 --> 00:57:12,100
case. 
It is true and more mild cases. 

856
00:57:12,100 --> 00:57:15,700
I can use that word. 
That is why it's extremely 

857
00:57:15,700 --> 00:57:17,200
important. 
My brothers and sisters, I say 

858
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:19,500
this with a soft heart. 
Please hear me? 

859
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:23,400
I know my voice can sometimes be
strong but I hope you can sense.

860
00:57:24,500 --> 00:57:28,800
Love laced in these words. 
So important that in your 

861
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:33,400
pursuit of a relationship that 
aims toward marriage that you 

862
00:57:33,408 --> 00:57:36,100
do, everything you can with 
God's promises and his wisdom to

863
00:57:36,100 --> 00:57:41,100
maintain Purity because even 
when there is failure in sin 

864
00:57:41,500 --> 00:57:45,700
though you have the ambition to 
be married, the regret and shame

865
00:57:45,700 --> 00:57:49,600
can be brought into that 
marriage and it can cause 

866
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:53,000
conflict. 
In that very same marriage. 

867
00:57:54,400 --> 00:57:57,500
And so, it's important to keep 
the future mind. 

868
00:57:57,500 --> 00:58:00,000
Even though you've made promises
to each other, that you will 

869
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:03,200
come together. 
Trust in God's timing. 

870
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:07,100
I've never heard, I'd never to 
this day after 11 years of 

871
00:58:07,100 --> 00:58:09,900
walking with the Lord and 
several years of ministry. 

872
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:11,800
I'm sure brother Daniel can 
attest to this. 

873
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:14,700
I've never heard in all these 
years of Ministry of any couple 

874
00:58:14,700 --> 00:58:18,400
has been married to his said, 
you know, my sweetheart and I 

875
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:21,300
were talking the other night and
we thought I wish we fooled 

876
00:58:21,300 --> 00:58:22,700
around more before we got 
married. 

877
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:25,900
Never heard of it. 
You know what I do here? 

878
00:58:26,500 --> 00:58:29,400
I wish we can go back in time 
and redo it. 

879
00:58:30,400 --> 00:58:34,500
I wish we can. 
I wish we can have another shot 

880
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:37,600
at the process and the pursuit 
of coming to marriage. 

881
00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:42,600
That's what you often hear. 
Because it brings in distrust, 

882
00:58:42,600 --> 00:58:47,000
it brings in all these 
complications and and it just 

883
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:51,200
goes to show that God knows what
he's talking about when he says 

884
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:55,400
just do not awaken love before 
its time, don't awaken love 

885
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:58,400
before its time. 
It muddies things it muffles 

886
00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:03,800
things even with the person that
you want to be with And if you 

887
00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:07,300
have made that mistake, listen 
the Lord again, can redeem, 

888
00:59:07,300 --> 00:59:08,800
praise God, that you're in 
Covenant. 

889
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:10,900
Now, praise God, that you 
realize you're wrong. 

890
00:59:10,900 --> 00:59:12,600
Praise God. 
That you repented of that wrong 

891
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:15,400
and trust that the Lord can now 
come and mend your ways. 

892
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:18,700
And, and be like David where 
when he was restored, he said, I

893
00:59:18,700 --> 00:59:21,300
will now teach transgressors 
your ways. 

894
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:25,300
We'll be able to relay that to 
others in our lives to say 

895
00:59:25,700 --> 00:59:28,500
trusting God's wisdom, trust in 
God's wisdom. 

896
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:32,200
Here, we see a man who wanted 
nothing to do with the woman 

897
00:59:32,900 --> 00:59:36,300
that he wanted at one point 
because now she's associated 

898
00:59:36,300 --> 00:59:40,200
with the shame that he sensed 
And again, the scenario is 

899
00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:42,900
related to a Despicable Act of 
rape but we can still draw 

900
00:59:42,900 --> 00:59:44,500
another lesson from it. 
Can we not? 

901
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:51,100
And it is this people who view 
another person's body, as simply

902
00:59:51,900 --> 00:59:57,400
as a means to satisfy your 
selfish desires, if they view 

903
00:59:57,400 --> 01:00:03,100
your body simply as an object to
satisfy yourself, selfishly, 

904
01:00:03,300 --> 01:00:06,600
generally will not show you 
respect and other matters. 

905
01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:12,400
Generally won't respect you once
they realize that they can get 

906
01:00:12,400 --> 01:00:15,300
from you what they want. 
And I'll show you that in one 

907
01:00:15,300 --> 01:00:18,400
way scroll down to verse 17 of 
second, Samuel 13. 

908
01:00:18,700 --> 01:00:22,600
Look what he ends up saying to 
one of the servants about Tamar,

909
01:00:23,300 --> 01:00:26,200
it breaks my heart. 
He called the young man who 

910
01:00:26,200 --> 01:00:30,100
served them and said, put this 
woman out of my presence and 

911
01:00:30,100 --> 01:00:33,500
Bolt the door. 
After And he just kicked her 

912
01:00:33,500 --> 01:00:36,300
out, like she was garbage. 
You know what's amazing? 

913
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:39,200
When you go to the Hebrew of 
this, there's a word that's 

914
01:00:39,200 --> 01:00:43,100
omitted. 
When you go to verse 17, you'll 

915
01:00:43,100 --> 01:00:44,800
realize that one word is 
missing. 

916
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:48,000
You know what word it is? 
Woman. 

917
01:00:51,300 --> 01:00:53,100
In the original language, you 
won't find woman. 

918
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:55,100
So you don't, you know, what how
that translates. 

919
01:00:55,100 --> 01:01:01,100
And if we just honored the 
original language, put this Put 

920
01:01:01,100 --> 01:01:05,000
this out of my presence. 
That's how he said it. 

921
01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:08,700
Doesn't even refer to her as a 
lady. 

922
01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:12,900
Again, he saw her as an object 
to begin with, and guess what he

923
01:01:12,900 --> 01:01:15,700
ends up, seeing her still as an 
object that he just used. 

924
01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:19,000
Like a piece of gum that he 
chewed up and once it lost its 

925
01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:23,400
flavor, he spat it out. 
Here's the thing, especially to 

926
01:01:23,408 --> 01:01:25,700
my sister's realize this. 
There are men out there who are 

927
01:01:25,707 --> 01:01:29,400
like that be very careful, be 
very careful. 

928
01:01:31,100 --> 01:01:33,300
If that man truly loves you, he 
will respect you. 

929
01:01:35,200 --> 01:01:41,200
And he will honor God first. 
And he will as a true worry for 

930
01:01:41,200 --> 01:01:45,700
Christ fight for that Purity. 
Do things happen to Temptation 

931
01:01:45,800 --> 01:01:48,400
this temptation. 
Have us as sometimes do we fall?

932
01:01:48,600 --> 01:01:50,600
Sure. 
But if there is a person who 

933
01:01:50,600 --> 01:01:55,500
consistently pressures and 
persist you into wrongdoing, 

934
01:01:56,400 --> 01:01:59,000
that person lacks respect for 
you. 

935
01:02:00,300 --> 01:02:03,300
And if they lack respect for you
for something, so sacred, and 

936
01:02:03,300 --> 01:02:06,900
pure and holy what makes you 
think they're going to respect 

937
01:02:06,900 --> 01:02:10,200
you in other ways. 
Keep that in mind. 

938
01:02:11,100 --> 01:02:14,700
Keep that in mind as you are 
considering a potential spouse 

939
01:02:14,700 --> 01:02:21,700
as a person is perhaps trying to
woo you Do they love you enough?

940
01:02:23,400 --> 01:02:25,400
Do they love you enough to 
respect you in that way? 

941
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:29,600
Or would they throw themselves 
on you and and pressure you? 

942
01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:31,500
If you really loved me, you 
would do this. 

943
01:02:31,500 --> 01:02:33,300
And I told you, I would be your 
husband. 

944
01:02:33,300 --> 01:02:34,800
Anyway, we're going to be 
together. 

945
01:02:34,800 --> 01:02:38,100
Anyway, that's not love, that's 
not love. 

946
01:02:39,700 --> 01:02:43,700
No matter how strong his 
affections are no matter what he

947
01:02:43,700 --> 01:02:46,900
brings about to try to convince 
you to give that part of 

948
01:02:46,908 --> 01:02:50,300
yourself, be strong, my sister, 
be careful, my sister. 

949
01:02:51,900 --> 01:02:55,500
Now, that's different than a man
who does love you and finds 

950
01:02:55,500 --> 01:02:58,600
himself stumbling with you takes
two to tango. 

951
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:03,700
I get it as I want to talk to 
Mom talking about aggressive. 

952
01:03:05,800 --> 01:03:10,800
Inconsiderate, overpowering 
manipulative Behavior. 

953
01:03:12,600 --> 01:03:17,300
Put this out there was that 
young girl wrecked? 

954
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:21,500
This is what this man 
experienced. 

955
01:03:21,500 --> 01:03:23,900
Can I show it to you in one last
verse of our Bible study? 

956
01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:26,600
Wow. 
Time is an amazing thing, isn't 

957
01:03:26,600 --> 01:03:29,700
it? 
Go to Proverbs 20 verse 17 very 

958
01:03:29,700 --> 01:03:41,000
quickly. 
Proverbs 2017, I think is a 

959
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:43,600
wonderful way of wrapping up the
segment of this chapter. 

960
01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:47,400
I know it's not the most 
encouraging Bible study. 

961
01:03:48,100 --> 01:03:51,200
Sometimes the worship team has 
trouble after a study like this.

962
01:03:51,200 --> 01:03:53,500
You know what? 
They ask, what do we sing? 

963
01:03:55,100 --> 01:03:57,000
After you share something like 
that. 

964
01:03:59,700 --> 01:04:06,400
And to me, despite the content, 
I always praise God for his 

965
01:04:06,400 --> 01:04:09,700
wisdom. 
And including these things for 

966
01:04:09,700 --> 01:04:14,300
the sake of my preservation and 
maximizing on the pleasure that 

967
01:04:14,300 --> 01:04:18,800
he has for my life in yours. 
Look at 4:17 bread gained by the

968
01:04:18,800 --> 01:04:24,200
seat is sweet to a man. 
There's something attractive and

969
01:04:24,200 --> 01:04:27,300
exhilarating about gaining 
something through deceit or 

970
01:04:27,300 --> 01:04:32,500
manipulation something that is 
quick gratification, but look 

971
01:04:32,700 --> 01:04:36,200
how this verse ends. 
But afterward his mouth will be 

972
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:41,000
full of gravel. 
Afterward his mouth will be full

973
01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:42,800
of gravel. 
You know, what gravel does if 

974
01:04:42,800 --> 01:04:44,200
it's in your mouth and you chew 
on it. 

975
01:04:44,500 --> 01:04:47,900
Doesn't taste very good. 12 can 
break your teeth. 

976
01:04:49,500 --> 01:04:51,300
Three. 
If you swallow that gravel, it's

977
01:04:51,300 --> 01:04:54,100
going to have some problems 
internally long-term effects. 

978
01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:57,600
And that's exactly what Adam is 
going to experience. 

979
01:04:58,700 --> 01:05:02,700
That thing that was once sweet 
to him would end up betraying 

980
01:05:02,700 --> 01:05:06,200
him. 
And so, in one moment, he can 

981
01:05:06,200 --> 01:05:10,000
love it and the next moment he 
absolutely hates it. 

982
01:05:11,100 --> 01:05:16,300
This is a wonderful commentary 
on the short-lived Promises of 

983
01:05:16,300 --> 01:05:19,900
sin. 
It doesn't take very long for us

984
01:05:19,900 --> 01:05:23,000
to go from. 
This is what I've been wanting. 

985
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:25,000
This is what I've been longing 
for to. 

986
01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:29,500
I hate this, I hate myself. 
I hate this person. 

987
01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:31,400
I hate that I'm in this 
predicament. 

988
01:05:31,400 --> 01:05:33,700
I wish I can do it all over 
again. 

989
01:05:34,200 --> 01:05:37,500
Right. 
Such is the nature of sin. 

990
01:05:38,100 --> 01:05:42,200
Such is the nature of sin and so
that I think equips us 

991
01:05:42,200 --> 01:05:46,900
wonderfully in our Temptation 
that when that thing looks like 

992
01:05:47,200 --> 01:05:49,900
bread. 
That will fill us and bring 

993
01:05:49,900 --> 01:05:53,400
flavor to our lives. 
Look past that and realize that 

994
01:05:53,400 --> 01:05:58,700
it has the potential of becoming
gravel dirt rocks. 

995
01:05:59,800 --> 01:06:03,500
And reject it from the get-go. 
By the grace of God, this can 

996
01:06:03,500 --> 01:06:09,200
happen. 
With such a Bible study brought 

997
01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:12,700
to a conclusion, may I end with 
a hopeful thought. 

998
01:06:20,400 --> 01:06:26,600
In Christ, the most grotesque 
dark heinous, things are 

999
01:06:26,600 --> 01:06:30,800
absolutely Washed by his blood. 
Absolutely washed. 

1000
01:06:32,300 --> 01:06:35,700
And then will not repent and 
then will not repent. 

1001
01:06:35,800 --> 01:06:40,300
David, repented, David repented,
and God forgave. 

1002
01:06:40,600 --> 01:06:45,400
And then would not repent, and 
he would pay the Lord, even in 

1003
01:06:45,400 --> 01:06:48,300
light of all this, I'm sure 
knowing his character through 

1004
01:06:48,300 --> 01:06:52,400
his word. 
If M then, And then had enough 

1005
01:06:52,600 --> 01:06:59,200
sense to stop in that moment and
to Feel the Rush of guilt to 

1006
01:06:59,200 --> 01:07:03,700
instead deal with in a very 
humanistic way, but be broken 

1007
01:07:03,700 --> 01:07:05,300
before. 
God could have had a different 

1008
01:07:05,300 --> 01:07:09,100
future different future even 
maybe a hopeful future, remember

1009
01:07:09,100 --> 01:07:12,400
this? 
Remember that even when David 

1010
01:07:12,400 --> 01:07:18,100
sinned with Bathsheba Married 
her in an illegitimate way when 

1011
01:07:18,100 --> 01:07:23,100
he had repented God recognized. 
Their Covenant gave them a baby 

1012
01:07:23,100 --> 01:07:26,200
named Solomon and reassured them
through Nathan. 

1013
01:07:26,200 --> 01:07:29,200
I love this boy, I love this 
boy. 

1014
01:07:30,500 --> 01:07:32,700
And my heart breaks for many 
reasons, with the text that we 

1015
01:07:32,700 --> 01:07:34,200
just read. 
What can it continue in the next

1016
01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:36,900
few weeks. 
But also, if a man had just 

1017
01:07:36,900 --> 01:07:41,900
known That the same God who 
forgave his dad would also 

1018
01:07:41,900 --> 01:07:44,300
forgive him what a different 
future. 

1019
01:07:44,300 --> 01:07:47,500
He would have had, maybe he 
would have had a family, maybe 

1020
01:07:47,500 --> 01:07:49,400
God would have restored, a maybe
God would have done something 

1021
01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:53,600
through him, but the things that
we borrow ourselves from because

1022
01:07:53,600 --> 01:07:56,300
of our stubbornness and our 
unwillingness to believe that he

1023
01:07:56,300 --> 01:07:59,500
is a forgiving God. 
I pray that in this place. 

1024
01:07:59,500 --> 01:08:02,900
As you you heard some of these 
dark things, you remember that? 

1025
01:08:02,900 --> 01:08:07,500
There is light above it all if 
you just look up and see that, 

1026
01:08:07,500 --> 01:08:10,300
that light is the person of 
Jesus Christ reach out, even if 

1027
01:08:10,300 --> 01:08:14,400
your hands are stained with 
blood or perversion realize that

1028
01:08:14,400 --> 01:08:17,899
he'll pick you up, wash you and 
set you on Solid Rock, that's 

1029
01:08:17,899 --> 01:08:21,200
the goodness of Jesus Christ. 
At the same time my brother's my

1030
01:08:21,200 --> 01:08:26,300
sister Let us not be like and 
fool ourselves thinking that we 

1031
01:08:26,300 --> 01:08:29,700
can get away with sin. 
Because even forgiving sin can 

1032
01:08:29,700 --> 01:08:34,500
leave tattoos that we didn't 
ask, for can leave scars that we

1033
01:08:34,500 --> 01:08:37,200
could have avoided and that's 
why text like this is given to 

1034
01:08:37,200 --> 01:08:42,600
us to be prepared in advance. 
The trust the promises and the 

1035
01:08:42,600 --> 01:08:44,899
warnings of our god. 
Well, we thank you. 

1036
01:08:45,700 --> 01:08:49,100
And we will sing to you. 
We will sing to you in all 

1037
01:08:49,100 --> 01:08:51,800
things because we love the whole
counsel of God. 

1038
01:08:53,200 --> 01:08:56,800
And Lord, this text before us 
today reminds us of many things.

1039
01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:03,800
and one thing we are certainly 
reminded of Is that your word is

1040
01:09:03,800 --> 01:09:10,700
truth? 
And it sets free. 

1041
01:09:13,399 --> 01:09:15,500
Now we visit set free, it keeps 
free. 

1042
01:09:17,399 --> 01:09:20,500
And we want to stay free. 
Lois. 

1043
01:09:20,500 --> 01:09:27,800
Sing to you tonight, we worship 
you. if we've been warned, we 

1044
01:09:27,800 --> 01:09:30,899
praise you for the warning. 
We've been comforted. 

1045
01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:35,700
We shower you with the same, 
praise and Lord tonight, we pray

1046
01:09:35,700 --> 01:09:37,800
that our faith would be 
strengthened. 

1047
01:09:43,500 --> 01:09:46,600
Now you would be honored with 
our lives in Jesus name. 

1048
01:09:46,600 --> 01:09:48,100
We pray. 
Amen? 

1049
01:09:48,200 --> 01:09:49,500
Shall we stand in worship?