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Father God, we thank you for 
tonight and the opportunity to 

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be together. 
Thank you Lord for for today. 

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Lord, you are a great God and 
you have given us the stay to 

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live and our prayer would be 
that you would have been 

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glorified in our lives. 
We think of where we are today 

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and our walk with you and pray 
that the things that we learned 

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tonight will enable us to live 
even closer to you in days and 

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weeks and months ahead. 
We realize, Lord, that life is 

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but a vapor. 
We don't last forever on this 

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planet. 
We want to live for the glory of

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our Lord. 
So we just pray that the things 

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that we learned this evening 
would stick with us and that our

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hearts should be challenged and 
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That Lord, you'd use us and our 
families to be a testimony for 

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Your glory and that you use in 
the workplace to stand and 

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represent You and our schools, 
our neighborhood, no matter 

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where we're at. 
Father, we would stand strong on

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the truth of your word. 
And those who come in contact 

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with us would know that Jesus 
Christ reigned supreme in our 

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heart and life. 
That's our prayer. 

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Father, in Jesus name, Amen. 
Take your Bible and turn with 

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me, if you would, to Matthew 
chapter 5. 

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Matthew chapter 5. 
You know, when I think about 

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this sermon and I read it over 
and over again, I'm taken back 

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by the fact that that we have 
the record of, of a sermon that 

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Jesus preached. 
I know the whole Scripture is 

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God inspired and God breathed. 
I understand that. 

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And it's not that the, if you 
have a red letter edition, that 

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the red letters are more 
inspired than the black letters.

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That's not the case. 
It's all inspired by by the 

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Lord, but but to be able to see 
how he says what he says. 

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So you are paralyzed or you are 
blind or you are lame or you are

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deaf or dumb and and you need 
healing. 

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So you go to to this, this 
Carpenter, this Messiah like 

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person, this individual who is 
sweeping all of Judea, all of 

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Galilee, He's surrounded the 
capitalist, he's in Jerusalem, 

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he's everywhere and you want to 
be healed. 

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So you go to him and you are and
you are in a Matthew chapter 4 

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tells us that that a large crowd
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about those regions that I just 
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They're in the thousands, not 
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And they, they are all 
overwhelmed by what Christ has 

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done. 
And yet Christ knows that at the

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heart of everything is, is their
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him. 
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their spirituality, not their 
physicality. 

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Although He's compassionate, 
kind, merciful, loving, and he 

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heals them all, He's more 
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That's his burden. 
And so while they're all there 

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and they're all excited about 
being healed and they're all 

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excited about being able to walk
and run and see and hear and and

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everything is is better, life's 
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He sits down and says, I want to
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real joy, real contentment. 
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Wait till your heart is right. 
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about blessing. 
He offers them satisfaction, He 

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offers them joy, He offers them 
contentment and goes through the

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Beatitudes in the 1st 12 verses 
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That's how He begins his sermon.
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And yet it's unlike anything 
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before. 
This is different and Christ 

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knows it's different for them. 
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people who live this way, that 
they become salt in the world 

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that's decaying, they become 
light in the world that's dark. 

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And then he says, do not think, 
do not imagine, don't even 

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wonder whether or not I've come 
to fulfill the law of the 

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prophets. 
I have, I've not come to abolish

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anything. 
I've, I've come to fulfill 

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everything that Moses said, 
everything the prophet said, 

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because I know that in the back 
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what is he saying? 
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We have not heard before because
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has reigned supreme over the 
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And so he says, I did not come 
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what the prophet said. 
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much so that you need to know 
that if, if your righteousness 

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does not exceed those of your 
religious leaders, you'll never 

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be a child of the king, which 
had to take them back in such a 

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way that they were 
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What do you mean? 
Our righteousness exceed that of

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the scribes and Pharisees? 
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says that their their 
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was achieved humanly. 
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that's that's accomplished 
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It can only happen through me. 
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is a bunch of about a bunch of 
do's and don'ts, my 

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righteousness is that inward 
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It affects the heart. 
He knows that, so he begins with

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these six different 
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point that what is happening on 
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what's true on the inside, 
because he's all concerned about

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the heart. 
Man looks on the outward 

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appearance, but God looks upon 
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Solomon would say is a man 
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He would go on to say guard your
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flow all the issues of life. 
Everything about life comes from

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the inside. 
So guard your heart, protect 

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your heart. 
So the Lord begins to attack the

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tradition that they've been 
taught, and he begins with the 

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whole illustration of murder. 
Now you've heard that it was 

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said you shall not murder. 
They were like, yeah, who does 

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that? 
Not us, but I say unto you, 

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those great but ologies of 
Scripture, no one says it better

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than Christ. 
But I say unto you, let me give 

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you the real understanding of 
the law of God. 

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You've been taught this to your 
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law of God really is all about. 
That if you have silent anger in

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your heart, if you have have a a
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your heart, if you have a 
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destiny because you're a 
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And then it comes to the 
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You've heard that it was said 
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And they were like, of course 
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not sleeping with somebody 
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We're not going to do that. 
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about the externals for the 
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As long as they didn't sleep 
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somebody else, they were 
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had a good standing with God. 
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way. 
In fact, let me read to you what

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He says. 
You've heard that it was said 

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you shall not commit adultery, 
but I say to you that everyone 

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who looks at a woman with lust 
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adultery with her in his heart. 
If your right eye makes you 

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stumble, tear it out. 
Fill it from you, for it's 

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better for you to lose 1 of the 
parts of your body than for your

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whole body to be thrown into 
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If your right hand makes you 
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from you, for it's better for 
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your body, then for your whole 
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I mean, if you're on the 
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Galilee and you're hearing these
things, it's contrary to what 

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they've been taught. 
So our outline is the same as it

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was for murder and will be 
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illustrations that there is a 
rabbinical tradition you need to

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understand and then you need to 
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and then we'll get to the 
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But that won't be till next 
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It's just a rabbinical teaching 
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tradition and the biblical 
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Christ is quoting the 7th 
commandment, and they would know

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it well because they wanted to 
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And yet the rabbinical tradition
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and they would forget or forgo 
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And so Christ wants to hit them 
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He wants them to understand the 
reality of their sin, the 

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depravity of their lives, the 
iniquity that reigns supreme, 

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that the heart is deceitful and 
desperately wicked so they would

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not be deceived about the true 
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You've heard that it was said 
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Why? 
Because adultery is punishable 

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by murder. 
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Read the book of Deuteronomy, 
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deserve death. 
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they wouldn't commit the 
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It would be wrong to do that. 
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didn't happen. 
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chapter 8. 
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It's about the story of the 
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Very interesting about the 
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Is that the man that she was in 
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Jesus. 
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They brought the woman, but not 
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It says in verse #1 But Jesus 
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early in the morning. 
He he came again to the temple 

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and all the people were coming 
to him, and he sat down and 

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began to teach them. 
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brought a woman caught in 
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the center of the court, they 
said to him, Teacher, this woman

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has been caught in adultery. 
In the very act now in the law 

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of Moses commanded us to stone 
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What then do you say here is 
Jesus teaching, and what he is 

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teaching we do not know. 
But to the Pharisees and the 

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scribes, they could care less 
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They had a point to make. 
We are followers of the law of 

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Moses. 
Are you trying to discredit the 

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authority of the Messiah? 
So they bring this woman who was

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caught in the act of adultery, 
she's in bed with this guy and 

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they RIP her out of bed and 
bring her to the presence of of 

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Christ. 
But not the man, just the woman.

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They were saying this testing 
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It says in verse 6 said they 
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him, but Jesus stooped down and 
with his finger wrote on the 

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ground. 
Now interesting he doesn't tell 

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us what he writes, but he didn't
say anything doesn't respond to 

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them. 
He just begins to write on the 

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ground. 
But when they persisted and 

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asking him, he straightened up 
and said to them, He who is 

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without sin among you, let him 
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her. 
Again he stooped down and wrote 

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on the ground. 
Somewhat tend to believe that 

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what he was writing was the the 
private sins of those who 

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accused her. 
And maybe he was writing those 

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in the ground associated with 
their names because he would 

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know their names. 
He who is without sin. 

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In other words, you maybe not 
have committed adultery, but in 

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your heart you've lusted after 
this woman or or that woman who 

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knows what he wrote. 
But read on. 

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It says when they heard it, they
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beginning with the older ones. 
And he was left alone. 

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And the woman where she was in 
the center of the court, one by 

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one, they all begin to walk 
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Why were they convicted? 
Were they confronted do they see

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in the writings of Christ on the
ground their name with their 

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sin, but they began to walk away
1 by 1 and it says straighten 

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up. 
Jesus said to her, woman, where 

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are they didn't no one condemn 
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She said no one Lord and Jesus 
said I do not commit condemn you

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either. 
Go from now on sin no more. 

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She was a forgiven person. 
She had received the forgiveness

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and the to prove that she would 
go and no longer commit the sin 

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of adultery. 
She would live a a pure and holy

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life. 
But you see, the the tradition 

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of the of the rabbis was so 
thick and so strong, it was all 

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centered around the externals. 
See, Christ was interested in 

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the source of sin, not 
necessarily the showing of sin, 

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because the source is what 
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And the whole new covenant 
promise was about giving you a 

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new heart, a new spirit, so you 
could be able to keep my 

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statutes. 
Just because you methodically 

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keep the 10 commandments doesn't
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heaven. 
Anybody could do that. 

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They could control the external 
acts talked about this last 

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week. 
They can make sure they didn't 

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kill anybody and they can make 
sure they didn't commit adultery

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with anybody. 
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internal aspect. 
They could not control the anger

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in their hearts. 
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lustful attitudes in their 
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that wasn't what they were 
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about adultery and several times
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speaks about that. 
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Verse #4 says that the marriage 
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fornicators, the adulterers, God
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Corinthians 6 and Revelation 
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adulterers not entering the 
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the ones who persist in their 
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Adultery is is when a married 
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married woman or vice versa, or 
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sexual sin with someone other 
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But Christ broadens that when he
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any woman and everyone involved.
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about adultery, but generally 
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holiness and the, the, the kind 
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any kind of sexual immorality. 
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He wants to understand that, 
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rabbinical tradition about 
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that to a pure and holy 
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But they would, they would 
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They shouldn't listen to Job. 
Job chapter 31 Job was a 

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contemporary of Abraham. 
Job lived before the 10 

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Commandments. 
Job was a blameless and upright 

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man. 
Job walked with God and listen 

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to what Job says. 
Job 31 verse #9 If my heart has 

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been enticed by a woman, or I 
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doorway, may my wife grind for 
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down over her, for that would be
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Moreover, it would be an 
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So here is Job, living before 
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before the law is ever given, 
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center of sinful behavior. 
Job knows this. 

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Job knows that the inner man 
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Job knows that that lustful 
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woman is punishable by judgment.
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man. 
That's always His concern. 

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So in Mark 7, Christ says that 
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that is what defiles the man. 
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heart of a men, men proceed evil
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murders and adulteries. 
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that or they didn't want to have
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They wanted to to squelch what 
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and minds and just focus on the 
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can control that. 
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they they earned great standing 
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the community with people. 
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concerned about the heart. 
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tradition to the biblical 
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And Christ says these words very
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you that everyone who looks at a
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are, at any woman at all, with 
lust for her, has already 

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committed adultery with her in 
his heart. 

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The word for looks is a not not 
a casual glance. 

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It's not an inadvertent glance. 
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an intense glare. 
It's a continual stare. 

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It's not an involuntary glance. 
It is a purposeful fixation, a 

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repeated gazing. 
He looks at a woman and lusts 

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for her. 
That's the purpose of his 

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looking, to fulfill the desires 
of his his lustful heart. 

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His lustful heart causes him to 
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Note that the looking at the 
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him to commit adultery in the 
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He already has committed 
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The lustful looking doesn't 
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the sin in the heart causes the 
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The lustful looking is but an 
expression of a heart that has 

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already immoral and adulterous. 
He says it's in the heart. 

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It's the heart that's that's 
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This sounds. 
James says that we read this 

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last week. 
I think this is so important, 

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James is it this way each one 
verse 14 is tempted. 

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Now temptation's not the sin. 
Temptation's not sin. 

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Christ was tempted yet without 
sin, right? 

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Temptation is not sin because 
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temptation. 
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But each one is tempted when he 
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carried away, but when he is 
carried away and enticed by his 

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own lusts. 
The word entices. 

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A is a word that means to to 
catch with bait. 

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It's a fishing term where you 
want to go fishing and so you, 

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you put the best bait on, on the
hook possible to draw out all 

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those fish to come after you. 
Very deceiving, right? 

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And each man, each man, when 
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his own lusts, his own desires, 
OK, he's deceived by the bait 

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that is there. 
Then one then, when lust has 

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conceded, gives birth to sin. 
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gives or brings forth death, 
death, a death like existent. 

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The way to sin is death. 
And James makes it very clear. 

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So, So how can we best 
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How can we help you understand 
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I'm going to give you an 
illustration that I've given to 

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you before, but I want to give 
it to you again because you need

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to understand this downward 
spiral that takes place in 

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someone's life, in someone's 
heart. 

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How does all this take place? 
How does no, nobody just wakes 

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up on on Monday and says I'm 
having an affair today. 

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I'm sleeping with my neighbor's 
wife today. 

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No one just wakes up and does 
that. 

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What? 
What is it that moves people to 

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that? 
What moves people to sexual sin?

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What moves a man or woman to 
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What is it that moves them 
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them to go that direction? 
Well, turn back with me, if you 

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would, to a very familiar story.
You know it well to Second 

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Samuel, Chapter 11, the story of
David and Bathsheba. 

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David is 50 years old. 
David has been king for 20 

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years. 
The nation's going great. 

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Everything is well. 
Israel is a powerhouse. 

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David is a warrior and he is 
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lead the nation, and the nation 
is at the best place it's ever 

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been. 
By the time you come to Second 

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Samuel Chapter 11. 
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something that David the king 
survived every assault by Saul. 

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David survived every assault by 
Saul, but David succumbed to the

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attacks on his soul. 
He was able to survive every 

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assault by salt, but he 
succumbed to the attack on his 

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soul. 
How does this great king of 

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Israel, this man after God's own
heart, end up sleeping with 

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Bathsheba? 
At this point he has seven 

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wives. 
He has a myriad of concubines. 

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We know of seven because the 
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But Second Samuel 5 verse #13 
tells us that he had other wives

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and more concubines while in 
Jerusalem. 

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So he probably had more than 
just seven wives. 

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But then the Bible gives us 7UP 
to this point. 

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Bathsheba then becomes #8 she 
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those that are named. 
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What happens? 
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the way of the transgressor is 
hard. 

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You need to remember that the 
way of the transgressor is hard.

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It's difficult, it's painful. 
The Bible says in Hebrews 11/25 

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that sin is pleasurable, but 
only for a season. 

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Not forever, only for a while, 
but not very long, only for a 

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season. 
In Second Samuel 11, we have a 

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king who gets enveloped in this 
downward spiral that seems to 

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race faster and faster and 
faster. 

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And the question comes, how does
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So I'm going to give you 15 
words that will show you the 

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downward spiral of his life. 
First word is carelessness. 

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Carelessness. 
For David, this is where it 

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begins. 
His moral failure didn't just 

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happen on the balcony of his 
palace by looking at Bathsheba. 

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No, he had already violated 
God's standards by accumulating 

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many wives. 
Let me read to you the standard.

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Deuteronomy chapter 17 says this
verse 14. 

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When you enter the land which 
the Lord your God gives you, and

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you possess it and live in it, 
and you say, I will set a king 

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over me, like all the nations 
around me, you shall surely set 

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a king over you. 
Whom the Lord your God chooses 

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one from among your countrymen, 
you shall set as king over 

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yourselves. 
You may not put a foreigner over

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yourselves who is not your 
countrymen. 

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Moreover, he shall not multiply 
horses for himself, nor shall he

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cause the people to return to 
Egypt to multiply horses. 

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Since the Lord has said to you, 
you shall never return again 

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that way. 
Verse 17 of Deuteronomy 17 He 

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shall not multiply wives for 
himself, or else his heart will 

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turn away, nor shall he greatly 
increase silver and gold for 

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himself. 
God says when I choose the king 

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for you, remember they chose 
Saul, the Lord. 

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God chose David. 
When I choose the king for you, 

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he should not multiply horses. 
He should not encourage you to 

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return to Egypt to multiply 
horses, and he shall not 

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multiply wise. 
If he does, they will turn his 

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heart away from me. 
David was very careless with 

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that. 
You see, when you become 

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careless in any aspect of God's 
Word, you have begun a process 

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that's very dangerous in your 
life. 

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It says this in verse 18 of 
Deuteronomy 17. 

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Now should come about when he 
sits on the throne of his 

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Kingdom, he shall write for 
himself a copy of this law on a 

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scroll in the presence of the 
Levitical priest. 

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It shall be with him, and he 
shall read it all the days of 

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his life, that he may learn to 
fear the Lord his God by 

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carefully observing all the 
words of this law and these 

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statutes. 
That his heart may not, cannot 

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be lifted up above his 
countrymen, and that he may not 

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turn aside from the commandment 
to the right or to the left, 

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said he, and his sons may 
continue long in his Kingdom in 

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the midst of Israel. 
His job as king is to write in 

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the presence of the Levitical 
priesthood, the law of God, so 

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that he will observe that law 
all the days of his life. 

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In other words, what the word of
God says, you must obey, you 

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must keep it. 
You're the king, you set the 

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example, you're the one who is 
the prime leader of your of your

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Kingdom. 
If you can't set the example, 

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whose, what example will they 
have to follow? 

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This is your job as a king. 
The question is, was David doing

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that? 
Was he writing the law in front 

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of the Levitical priests? 
Well, evidently he wasn't 

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because he was multiplying for 
himself wives. 

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So he became very careless in 
the commands of God. 

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When you become careless with 
any of God's command, it will 

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allow you to become careless in 
other commands that God gives. 

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It's a downward spiral and this 
is where it begins with David. 

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Discipline is so important in 
the Christian life. 

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Discipline will always lead to 
delight. 

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A lack of discipline will always
lead to disaster, IE Second 

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Samuel 11. 
David, so important, so 

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carelessness, will always lead 
to #2 idleness. 

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Listen to what the text says. 
Then it happened in the spring, 

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at the time when kings go out to
battle, that David sent Joab and

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his servants with him and all 
Israel, and they destroyed the 

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sons of Ammon and besieged the 
Rabah. 

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But again, another but ology in 
Scripture. 

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But David stayed at Jerusalem. 
Idleness. 

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David is a warrior. 
That's what he's known for. 

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But David didn't go to war. 
He decided to stay home and 

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remain idle, not fulfilling his 
duty nor his responsibility. 

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Duty and it's fulfillment will 
protect you from delinquency, 

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but if you're not responsible 
and you become idle, then the 

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problem is you lack discipline. 
And discipline always leads to 

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disaster or lack thereof. 
So here he is. 

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When kings go out to war, where 
is the king? 

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He's in Jerusalem, he should be 
going to war, leading his men to

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00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:11,520
war, but he's not. 
You see, when you're careless in

451
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:16,320
anyone aspect of God's law, 
it'll affect everything else you

452
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,600
do. 
And the sad thing about it is, 

453
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:20,880
is that we don't even recognize 
it. 

454
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:28,800
So carelessness led to idleness,
and idleness led to laziness. 

455
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:35,680
Look what it says now. 
When evening came, David arose 

456
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:37,640
from his bed. 
Stop right there. 

457
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:43,720
What's David doing in bed in the
evening time? 

458
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:51,720
Why is he not out of bed? 
Why is he napping in the late 

459
00:35:51,720 --> 00:35:56,760
part of the day? 
Unless, of course, you're lazy, 

460
00:35:58,240 --> 00:36:01,640
and David was lazy. 
When you're idle and you have 

461
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:05,880
nothing to do, what do you do? 
You get really sleepy, Lay down 

462
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:11,400
in your bed, take a nap, relax, 
put your feet up. 

463
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:20,680
And carelessness led to 
idleness, and idleness led to 

464
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:27,920
laziness. 
He's in bed, but he awakes. 

465
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:36,280
He gets up, says and walked 
around on the roof of the King's

466
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:44,560
house. 
Laziness always leads to 

467
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:50,080
mindlessness. 
What's he doing walking around 

468
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:53,200
the King's house? 
What's he thinking about? 

469
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:58,720
What's he's doing? 
He, he hasn't fulfilled his 

470
00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:01,600
responsibility. 
He's not doing his normal duties

471
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:03,960
as king. 
No, he stayed back and was very 

472
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,120
idle. 
That idoless led to laziness. 

473
00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:09,200
That laziness caused him just to
get up and walk around the 

474
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:11,200
house. 
He couldn't turn on Netflix. 

475
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:14,880
He couldn't turn on Prime Video.
He, he couldn't peruse the 

476
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,440
Internet to think of something 
to buy off of Amazon. 

477
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:19,520
He couldn't do. 
He just walked around the house.

478
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:24,960
He could have began to or began 
to write the law of God, as 

479
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:30,880
Deuteronomy 17 said. 
He could have sat down and began

480
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:35,920
to read the law of God to keep 
his mind active. 

481
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:46,400
But no, he became mindless 
because he was lazy, because he 

482
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:51,120
was idle. 
This is the the downward spiral 

483
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,720
of someone who's about to live a
life of complete and total 

484
00:37:54,720 --> 00:38:02,000
disaster. 
You know the Bible says need to 

485
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,400
be watchful and prayerful, 
right? 

486
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:10,800
Christ says in the garden to his
men, watch and pray lest you 

487
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:14,800
enter into temptation. 
Did they watch and pray? 

488
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:17,320
Nope. 
What do they do? 

489
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:26,000
You got lazy and went to sleep. 
They weren't watchful. 

490
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:29,560
They weren't prayerful. 
Colossians 42, Paul says be 

491
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:33,760
devoted to prayer while always 
having this attitude of 

492
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:37,480
alertness, watchfulness, very 
important. 

493
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:44,480
David could have got up from his
bed and dropped to his knees and

494
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:50,800
began to pray, be alert, but he 
wasn't. 

495
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:58,280
And so he goes, some 
carelessness, which was a habit 

496
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:02,600
pattern of his life because he 
collected many, many wives over 

497
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:07,400
a long period of time. 
That carelessness led to 

498
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:12,160
idleness, and idleness led to 
laziness, and laziness led to 

499
00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:21,400
mindlessness, and mindlessness 
led to feeble mindedness. 

500
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:27,240
In other words, he impaired his 
intellect. 

501
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:33,680
And it says Now when the evening
came, David arose from his bed 

502
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:37,640
and walked around on the roof of
the King's house, and from the 

503
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:47,040
roof he saw a woman bathing. 
Feeble mindedness. 

504
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:52,440
His intellect was not sharp 
because he had been asleep. 

505
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:58,000
His intellect was not sharp 
because he was not watchful and 

506
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,680
prayerful, right. 
We saw a woman. 

507
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:03,760
And if you've been to Israel 
with me and you've been in the 

508
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,960
King's, the King's palace, you 
know how very easily this could 

509
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:10,040
happen because at the top of 
Mount Zion is the King's palace.

510
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:13,120
And he would oversee the the 
city of Jerusalem. 

511
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:15,760
And he would be able to look 
down and see the different 

512
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:17,640
rooftops of all the different 
homes. 

513
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:20,400
And a lot of commentators want 
to blame Bathsheba here. 

514
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:22,840
I'm not. 
Unless quite sure you can do 

515
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,720
that. 
I mean, they do, but I'm not so 

516
00:40:25,720 --> 00:40:27,760
sure you can. 
Why? 

517
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:32,520
Because everybody's gone. 
They're all gone to war. 

518
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:39,280
No one's home except the women. 
So what difference does it make 

519
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:41,000
for? 
I bathe, right? 

520
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,160
It's like you go into your your 
bathroom and turn in your shower

521
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:46,320
and shut the door. 
It wasn't like that. 

522
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:52,640
See, so I'm, I'm not too quick 
to blame Bathsheba here, but I'm

523
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:56,240
quick to blame David for his 
feeble mindedness. 

524
00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:01,000
He just wasn't intellectually 
astute at all. 

525
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:06,080
Because, you see, each man is, 
is is tempted when he is drawn 

526
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:12,760
away and enticed by his own 
lusts, See, And because he 

527
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:17,640
wasn't watchful, nor was he 
prayerful, then he could not 

528
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:22,800
overcome the longing and the 
temptation in his heart. 

529
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:28,520
This was the time to flee 
youthful lusts. 

530
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:32,240
Second Timothy 222 But he 
didn't. 

531
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:34,760
Why? 
Because you see, if you're 

532
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:39,520
careless in one avenue of 
Scripture, you'll be careless in

533
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:41,640
other avenues of Scripture, 
correct? 

534
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:46,200
And so because he wasn't astute 
to write the law of God and to 

535
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:49,560
and to meditate on the law of 
God and to follow the law of God

536
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:53,840
every single day as was 
prescribed for the king, he 

537
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:57,000
wasn't scripturally and 
biblically astute. 

538
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:04,040
And so because he was careless 
in multiplying wives, then he 

539
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:08,120
become careless with the 
situation with Bathsheba. 

540
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:12,480
See, things are going for well 
for David. 

541
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:16,240
Things are going great in the 
Kingdom. 

542
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:22,680
People are happy, the nation's 
successful, the nation's 

543
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:28,320
growing, everything's good. 
Even though David has been very 

544
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:35,800
careless in obeying the laws of 
God, God blesses more so in 

545
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:41,280
spite of us than because of us, 
because God is graceful. 

546
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:50,920
But David dishonored his God by 
not being obedient to the word 

547
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:57,040
of God. 
That feeble mindedness led to 

548
00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:02,240
his lustfulness. 
It says he saw a woman bathing 

549
00:43:02,240 --> 00:43:08,760
and the woman was very beautiful
in appearance. 

550
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:16,240
He had to look long and hard to 
determine a beauty. 

551
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:21,680
That lustfulness came because of
his feeble mindedness, which 

552
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:24,680
became because of his 
mindlessness, which developed 

553
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:29,080
because of his laziness, which 
came from his idleness, which 

554
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:36,800
came from his carelessness. 
It was a downward spiral of sin 

555
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:43,680
that would ensnare him, entrap 
him, and at any moment he could 

556
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:47,760
have been watchful into prayer. 
At any moment he could have fled

557
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:52,440
youthful lusts. 
At any moment he could flee 

558
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:57,600
immorality. 
He could be a modern day Joseph 

559
00:43:59,240 --> 00:44:03,080
at any moment. 
But he wasn't. 

560
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:10,560
The Bible says in Psalm 11937 
Turn away my eyes from looking 

561
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:17,080
at vanity. 
The Bible says in Hebrews 12/2 

562
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:20,680
look unto Jesus the author and 
finisher of our faith. 

563
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:26,320
Isaiah 13, Excuse me? 
Isaiah 3315 says He who walks 

564
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:34,400
righteously shuts his eyes from 
seeing evil. 

565
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:42,280
He who walks righteously shuts 
his eyes from seeing evil. 

566
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:45,280
David wasn't walking 
righteously. 

567
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:50,320
Why? 
Because he was careless when it 

568
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:52,240
came to obedience to the Word of
God. 

569
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:57,640
And therefore when it came to 
fulfill his responsibility as 

570
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:00,720
king, he stayed home, became 
idle. 

571
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,120
The idleness led to his 
laziness. 

572
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:10,280
That laziness led to his 
mindlessness, which led to his 

573
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:16,480
feeble mindedness, which led to 
his lustfulness, which led to 

574
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:21,760
his foolishness. 
Look what the text says. 

575
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:28,960
So David sent and inquired about
the woman. 

576
00:45:29,720 --> 00:45:32,880
That's just plain foolishness. 
Dude, you're married. 

577
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:37,560
You married 7 times over, you 
got concubines. 

578
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:40,880
What more could you possibly 
want? 

579
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:49,960
But to him, to him who wants 
more than enough is never 

580
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:55,560
enough. 
And here is David since, since, 

581
00:45:55,560 --> 00:46:04,000
since and inquires about her. 
And one said, is this not 

582
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:08,120
Bathsheba, the daughter of 
Eliam, the wife of Uriah? 

583
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:18,440
Well, that should that should be
obvious to say, oh, OK, great, 

584
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:23,320
we're done. 
But you see when, when you're 

585
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:25,520
when you're careless with the 
law of God, when you're careless

586
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:28,080
with the word of God and you 
say, you know what, I'm just not

587
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:31,560
going to do that. 
I'm not going to spend my time 

588
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:34,320
doing this or do it. 
Next thing you know, it's so 

589
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:36,080
easy to say, you know what, I'm 
not going to do that either. 

590
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,120
You know what? 
And that command, you know what,

591
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:41,920
I'm not doing that one either. 
And you know what, I've gotten 

592
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:44,480
away with it. 
The kingdom's flourishing. 

593
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:46,920
This is great. 
It's OK. 

594
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:51,360
And we think that the 
consequences will will not 

595
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:57,320
happen to us because our Lord is
long-suffering and patient. 

596
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:04,400
And Jeremiah 414 says how long 
will your vain thoughts remain 

597
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:08,000
within you? 
Empty thoughts. 

598
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:16,560
Here is David, he inquired about
the woman they said she's 

599
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:23,640
married the wife of Uriah. 
Foolishness on David's part to 

600
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:33,360
think that it should not end. 
And so the text says, David sent

601
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:44,760
messengers and took her. 
Wow, wow, covetousness. 

602
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:55,640
David wanted another man's wife.
Exodus 20 tells us Thou shalt 

603
00:47:55,640 --> 00:48:01,720
not covet thy neighbors wife. 
But he did. 

604
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:06,040
To whom little is not enough, 
nothing is really enough. 

605
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:13,720
And therefore disobeying this 
command, thou shalt not commit 

606
00:48:13,720 --> 00:48:18,120
adultery. 
Well, he was careless with the 

607
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:21,080
other commands. 
What's wrong with being careless

608
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:26,200
with this command as well? 
He's gotten away with not doing 

609
00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:27,840
what was prescribed for the 
king. 

610
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:30,720
Why would I not get away with 
this? 

611
00:48:30,720 --> 00:48:32,360
I mean, after all, everybody's 
gone. 

612
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:37,000
As foolishness leads to 
covetousness, as covetous leads 

613
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:43,640
to stubbornness. 
It says these words. 

614
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:50,720
David sent messengers and took 
her. 

615
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:58,680
Say he took her anyway, in spite
of her marriage, in spite of the

616
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:01,640
7th Commandment, in spite of 
anything else. 

617
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:07,080
He took her anyway. 
That's just plain stubbornness. 

618
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:15,200
And that stubbornness led to 
fearlessness. 

619
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:26,120
Look what it says. 
And when she came to him, he lay

620
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:32,080
with her shamelessness, which 
led to lawlessness. 

621
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:38,960
She came to him no shame, even 
though his messengers knew no 

622
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:41,920
shame. 
And that shamelessness led to 

623
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:47,680
lawlessness with sin. 
All sin is lawlessness. 

624
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:54,760
They took her and she came into 
him, and he lay with her. 

625
00:49:56,840 --> 00:50:05,560
Well, it says he didn't fear the
law of God, and so he just did 

626
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:10,520
what he wanted, in spite of what
God's Word had said. 

627
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:17,680
But remember, when you are 
careless with one part or any 

628
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:23,520
part of God's law, this is the 
downward spiral that begins to 

629
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:29,520
take place in a person's life. 
You rationalize disobedience. 

630
00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:32,320
You rationalize doing what you 
want to do. 

631
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:35,120
Your stubbornness, your 
covetousness, your, your, your 

632
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:37,360
lustfulness. 
You can rationalize it all the 

633
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:42,840
way, but God is watching and God
knows. 

634
00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:48,800
So that stubbornness that led to
fearlessness led to lawlessness,

635
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:52,880
led to shamelessness, because it
says very simply this. 

636
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:58,880
And when she had purified 
herself from her uncleanness, 

637
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:09,920
she returned to her home. 
No shame, no embarrassment, no 

638
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:14,440
sadness. 
Get up, clean yourself off. 

639
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:18,520
Go home, David. 
Clean himself off. 

640
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:22,400
Remain king. 
No shame. 

641
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:25,880
Why? 
Because he was stubborn. 

642
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:28,040
Why? 
Because he was foolish. 

643
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:30,400
Why? 
Because he was covetous. 

644
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:33,080
Why? 
Why? 

645
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:37,120
Because the downward spile of 
one man who decides, you know 

646
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:39,560
what? 
I'm not going to do that part of

647
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:42,640
the law. 
I'm going to multiply for myself

648
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:46,480
many wives, even though I'm not 
supposed to do that. 

649
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:51,520
And it'll be OK because after 
all, it is legal. 

650
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:56,640
Was it moral? 
But it was legal. 

651
00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:03,480
So he rationalized his morality 
because he subjected it to 

652
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:06,800
legalities and thought it was 
OK. 

653
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:13,600
Well, that shamelessness led to 
deceitfulness, thinking nothing 

654
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:18,480
would happen, Everything is 
going to be OK, one night stand,

655
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:24,840
no big deal, deceitfulness. 
And that deceitfulness led to 

656
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:30,880
the relentless pattern of 
sinfulness through the whole 

657
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:38,200
episode with Uriah, his being 
murdered, David lying. 

658
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:44,720
David broke every commandment 
which led to his brokenness. 

659
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:54,440
David broke every commandment, 
all ten of them in these few 

660
00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:56,240
verses in Second Samuel Chapter 
11. 

661
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:02,120
Because in his heart he hated 
Uriah or he wouldn't have slept 

662
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:07,680
with his wife. 
But he murdered him, had him 

663
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:16,120
killed, He lied, he stole, he 
coveted, he was idolatrous 

664
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:18,520
because all idolatry is 
covetousness. 

665
00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:22,760
He didn't love the Lord with all
of his heart, soul, mind and 

666
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:27,160
strength. 
Listen, he even broke the 4th 

667
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:31,440
commandment, which is remember 
the Sabbath day and keep it 

668
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:36,600
holy. 
The Sabbath day is about 

669
00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:38,160
holiness and purity and 
sanctity. 

670
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:42,120
The reason there's a Sabbath day
is so that you will be holy. 

671
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:47,640
David was unholy. 
He broke all 10 commandments. 

672
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:59,360
And so in Psalm 32 says these 
words verse #1 how blessed is he

673
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:01,720
whose transgression is forgiven,
whose sin is covered? 

674
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:05,720
How blessed is the man whom the 
Lord does not impute iniquity, 

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and in whose spirit there is no 
deceit? 

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When I kept silent about my sin,
my body wasted away through my 

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00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:18,320
groaning all day long. 
For day and night your hand was 

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00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:22,040
heavy upon me. 
My vitality was drained away as 

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with the fever heat of summer. 
This was his nine months of of 

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00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:36,120
Bathsheba's pregnancy before he 
really truly repented of his 

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00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:39,200
sin. 
Verse 5I acknowledge my sin to 

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you in my iniquity. 
I did not hide. 

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00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:44,440
I said I will confess my 
transgressions to the Lord and 

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00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:51,960
you forgave the guilt of my sin.
Took David a long time to get 

685
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:56,960
there, but that's why he's a man
for God's own heart, because he 

686
00:54:56,960 --> 00:55:01,320
was a repentant man. 
I would like to say to you that 

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that things were really good for
for David, but the sword never 

688
00:55:05,240 --> 00:55:08,480
left his home. 
His family was in shambles. 

689
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:11,760
It was a mess. 
He was a great king. 

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00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:17,800
He was a horrible father and a 
horrible husband, but he was a 

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00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:22,680
great king. 
And so we learned from this 

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00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:27,200
story that it's the heart of a 
man that matters, right? 

693
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:32,280
It's all that matters. 
And once our heart says, you 

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00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:35,400
know what, I'm not going to do 
what God says. 

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00:55:37,240 --> 00:55:43,600
Even though it's not that big a 
deal, it is a big deal because 

696
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:46,960
it begins to balloon in other 
areas of my life. 

697
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:50,240
That's why it's so important for
you to understand the word of 

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the Lord and hold on to it and 
cling to it. 

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00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:59,720
How should a young man keep his 
way pure by taking heed to the 

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00:55:59,720 --> 00:56:04,880
Word of God? 
David did not do that by word. 

701
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:07,560
I've hid my heart that I might 
not sin against thee. 

702
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:12,400
David didn't do that either, 
because he was supposed to read 

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00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:18,080
the Word, write the Word, and 
observe the law of God all the 

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00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:20,320
days of his kingship. 
And he didn't. 

705
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:26,200
It cost him. 
But he would soon write the 

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00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:30,200
Psalms and begin to tell us 
about his confession and the 

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00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:35,200
importance of the Word of God in
his life, having come to realize

708
00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:38,400
that when you're careless with 
it, it will cost you greatly. 

709
00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:42,560
The attitude behind adultery is 
everything. 

710
00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:47,400
It's all in the heart. 
We can say we don't do this and 

711
00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:49,760
we don't do that, but we do do 
this and we do do that. 

712
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:54,240
God doesn't care. 
God wants a clean heart, a pure 

713
00:56:54,240 --> 00:57:01,680
heart, a heart after Him. 
And the hope is, and it's true 

714
00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:05,760
that Christ always provides a 
way of cleansing. 

715
00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:10,560
You're never so filthy that you 
cannot be cleansed by the blood 

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00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:14,360
of the Lamb. 
Christ cleanses man from a sin, 

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00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:15,840
and David's a perfect example of
that. 

718
00:57:17,040 --> 00:57:20,920
God forgave him the guilt of a 
sin, not just a sin, but all 

719
00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:23,200
that was on the inside that he 
felt guilty about. 

720
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:26,800
And that's the good news about 
this lesson. 

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00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:29,480
It's a very valuable lesson for 
us. 

722
00:57:30,360 --> 00:57:33,560
We raise our children, try to 
provide for them. 

723
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:36,160
A biblical example of purity and
holiness. 

724
00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:40,960
So important. 
And next week we'll we'll talk 

725
00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:44,480
to you about our personal 
transformation. 

726
00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:49,760
What needs to happen in my life 
so I don't begin this downward 

727
00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:55,720
spiral that causes me to lose 
control and engage in sinful 

728
00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:58,760
behavior? 
What does God's word say about 

729
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:01,960
that? 
We'll pick that up next week. 

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00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:05,320
Let me pray with you, Father. 
Thank you, Lord, for tonight and

731
00:58:05,560 --> 00:58:09,920
a chance to be with your people.
Thank you, Father, for a chance 

732
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:13,440
to be in Your word. 
Thank you for the reminder that 

733
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:17,360
Your Word is true. 
And I pray that all of us would 

734
00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:22,760
realize the the necessary 
elements of being in the Word 

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00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:30,280
everyday, memorizing, obeying, 
teaching, reading the Word of 

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00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:33,320
God. 
It's we. 

737
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:36,400
We've been made clean through 
the word which you've spoken to 

738
00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:37,840
us. 
John 15. 

739
00:58:39,160 --> 00:58:42,600
Lord, help us to be cleansed on 
the inside. 

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00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:45,000
Help our hearts be right for 
you. 

741
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:49,680
You are a forgiving God. 
You are a God that cleanses us 

742
00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:53,840
from all of our sin. 
May we leave here today not 

743
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:55,720
thinking that we cannot be 
forgiven. 

744
00:58:56,480 --> 00:59:00,680
We can be. 
All we have to do is come to you

745
00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:06,840
and you forgive because that's 
who you are and we thank you in 

746
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:08,240
Jesus name, Amen.