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>>WELL, WE'RE
CONTINUING OUR SERIES IN THE
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LIFE OF DAVID - NEARLY
CONCLUDED WITH THIS, KIND OF A
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COMPREHENSIVE STUDY WE'VE BEEN
DOING, AND I ALMOST WISH I COULD
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SKIP OVER THIS SECTION -
ABOUT A CHAPTER AND A HALF.
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OF COURSE, ALL OF GOD'S WORD IS
GOOD AND IT IS EDIFYING, BUT THE
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STORY WE'RE DEALING WITH TODAY -
THE TITLE IS DAVID'S GREAT SIN -
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TALKING, OF COURSE, ABOUT DAVID
AND BATHSHEBA AND THAT SORDID
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EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF THIS
GREAT HERO WE'VE BEEN STUDYING
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IS, IN A SENSE, A GREAT
DISAPPOINTMENT BECAUSE, HERE
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YOU'VE GOT THIS MAN OF FAITH
- THIS INSPIRED PSALM WRITER -
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THIS GIANT KILLER, AND THERE'S
SO MANY THINGS WE ADMIRE ABOUT
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DAVID, AND THEN THERE'S
THIS DESPICABLE BEHAVIOR IN THE
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MIDDLE OF IT ALL.
ALMOST EVERYBODY HERE, I
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ASSUME, HAS HEARD THIS STORY.
PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER DARKENED
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THE DOOR OF A CHURCH
HAVE HEARD THAT STORY.
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I TYPED IN, JUST OUT OF
CURIOSITY, THE PHRASE 'DAVID AND
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BATHSHEBA' IN GOOGLE
AND BOY, IT WAS A LONG LIST.
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HOLLYWOOD'S MADE
ABOUT TEN MOVIES.
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IT'S THE KIND OF
MATERIAL HOLLYWOOD LOVES.
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YOU WON'T HAVE HOLLYWOOD MAKE
A MOVIE ABOUT THE HOLINESS OF
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DAVID, BUT THEY WILL MAKE A
MOVIE ABOUT THE ADULTERY AND -
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AND I GUESS IT - IT'S ESPECIALLY
UNUSUAL BECAUSE GOD, IN SPITE OF
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THIS, IDENTIFIES DAVID AS A MAN
AFTER HIS OWN HEART - EVEN AFTER
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THIS DARK DEBACLE WITH DAVID AND
BATHSHEBA, GOD REFERS TO DAVID
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AS A MAN AFTER HIS OWN HEART.
MATTER OF FACT, THE FIRST HUMAN
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NAME THAT YOU FIND MENTIONED IN
THE NEW TESTAMENT IS DAVID'S -
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I'M SAYING, ASIDE FROM
JESUS, WHO WAS SUPER-HUMAN,
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YOU'VE GOT DAVID.
MATTHEW, CHAPTER 1, THE LAST
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HUMAN NAME YOU FIND IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT IN THE BIBLE IS DAVID.
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JESUS IS REFERRED
TO AS THE SON OF DAVID.
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SUCH AN EXTRAORDINARY
PERSON AND, YET, YOU'VE GOT THIS
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CHAPTER. SO, IN OUR
STUDY TODAY, JUST SO
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YOU KNOW AHEAD OF TIME, WE'RE
GOING TO BE LOOKING AT 2 SAMUEL
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11 - IS WHERE IT BEGINS -
THROUGH 2 SAMUEL 12, VERSE 25.
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I MAY NOT READ EVERY VERSE, BUT
WE'LL BE COVERING THAT MATERIAL.
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AND, SO WHY DON'T YOU TURN WITH
ME AND WE'LL GO LOOK AT 2 SAMUEL
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11, VERSE 1, "IT HAPPENED IN THE
SPRING OF THE YEAR, AT THE TIME
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WHEN KINGS GO OUT TO BATTLE,
THAT DAVID SENT JOAB AND HIS
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SERVANTS WITH HIM, AND ALL
ISRAEL; AND THEY DESTROYED THE
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PEOPLE OF AMMON AND BESIEGED
RABBAH." - THAT WAS THE CAPITAL
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CITY. AND THEN YOU'VE GOT
THESE LAST FEW WORDS: "BUT DAVID
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REMAINED AT JERUSALEM."
NOW I THINK THAT'S KEY.
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IT'S TALKING ABOUT JOAB AND THE
SOLDIERS GOING AND FIGHTING AND,
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IN EVERY OTHER PASSAGE WE'VE
BEEN READING, DAVID'S BEEN WITH
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THEM FIGHTING BUT, HERE, DAVID
IS NOT INVOLVED IN THE FIGHT.
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INSTEAD OF ATTACKING, HE'S
RELAXING AND THIS CAN BE PART OF
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THE REASON THAT
HE GOT INTO TROUBLE.
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NOW, UP TO THIS POINT, AS WE'VE
BEEN LOOKING AT THE LIFE OF
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DAVID, IT IS - YOU KNOW, IF
DAVID WAS A STOCK, YOU WOULD
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HAVE WANTED TO INVEST IN HIM
WHEN HE WAS A SHEPHERD BOY, AND
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YOU WOULD HAVE SEEN THAT STOCK
GO UP BECAUSE HE JUST CONTINUES
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TO GO FROM - AND HE HAS SOME
DOWNS WHERE HE'S BEING CHASED BY
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SAUL, BUT HE CONTINUES TO
SUCCEED - CONTINUES TO GET MORE
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VICTORY - HE ENDS UP WITH ALL
THE POSSESSIONS OF NABAL, AND
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THEN HE BECOMES SORT OF A CLAN
LEADER AMONG THE PHILISTINES,
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AND THEN HE BECOMES KING OF
HEBRON, THEN HE BECOMES KING OF
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ISRAEL, AND THEN HE'S CONQUERING
THE NATIONS AROUND HIM.
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HE CONQUERED SYRIA, HE CONQUERS
THE PHILISTINES, AND IT SAYS
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DAVID IS JUST GOING FROM VICTORY
TO VICTORY - HE NEVER LOSES A
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BATTLE - AND NOW HE'S AT
THE ZENITH OF HIS POPULARITY.
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HE'S RESPECTED BY
ALL THE OTHER KINGDOMS.
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THERE'S REALLY ONLY ONE
MORE OUTSTANDING KINGDOM THAT,
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BASICALLY, THE AMMONITES
STARTED THE WAR WITH DAVID BY,
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BASICALLY, INSULTING HIS
AMBASSADORS, AND SO, HE'S
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PROBABLY THINKING, 'LOOK,
JOAB, THE ARMY'S WELL-TRAINED -
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THEY'RE SEASONED - A
SIEGE CAN TAKE AWHILE.
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I'LL LET THEM TAKE CARE OF
IT.' YOU KNOW, OFTEN WE GET INTO
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TROUBLE THROUGH
NOT BEING INVOLVED.
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DAVID, IF HE HAD STUCK TO HIS
PRINCIPLES AND STAYED WITH THE
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MEN AND BEEN INVOLVED IN
CONQUERING AND DOING WHAT HE DID
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BEST, HE PROBABLY WOULD
HAVE STAYED OUT OF TROUBLE.
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BUT, AS YOU READ ON IN
THE STORY, YOU FIND OUT HE'S
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RELAXING AND, IF WE'RE INVOLVED
IN FIGHTING, WE'RE LESS INVOLVED
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IN FALLING. YOU KNOW,
YOU MIGHT BE THINKING,
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'WELL, DON'T
SOLDIERS DESERVE SOME R&R?'
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YES, BUT - LET ME ASK YOU:
DOES THE DEVIL EVER TAKE A DAY
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OFF? >>NO.
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>>SO, WHEN IT COMES TO FIGHTING
TEMPTATION, WHEN DO YOU GET A
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VACATION? THERE WILL
BE EPISODES - I MEAN,
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EVEN JESUS, AFTER HE FOUGHT THE
THREE TEMPTATIONS, IT SAYS THE
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DEVIL LEFT HIM FOR A SEASON
- BUT YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN HE'S
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GOING TO COME BACK AND THAT'S
WHY PETER SAID, 'BE SOBER,
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BE VIGILANT, BECAUSE YOUR
ADVERSARY, THE DEVIL, IS ROAMING
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AROUND' - HE DOES NOT LET
UP. AND SO, YOU JUST CAN'T
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LET YOUR GUARD DOWN.
AND DAVID - HE HAD BEEN SO
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SUCCESSFUL AND HE HAD BEEN SO
POPULAR THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN
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START TO RELAX IN YOUR
SUCCESS AND LET YOUR GUARD DOWN.
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HE HAD BECOME VERY CONFIDENT AND
HE STARTED BECOMING LAX IN HIS
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RELATIONSHIP WITH
GOD. HE WAS PROSPEROUS.
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HE HAD NOW TAKEN - HIS
TREASURIES WERE BURSTING WITH
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ALL THE MONEY HE'D TAKEN FROM
OTHER KINGDOMS AND, WHILE HE WAS
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OUTWARDLY VERY SUCCESSFUL, AND
HE WAS IN HIS PRIME, INWARDLY HE
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WAS NEGLECTING HIS SPIRITUAL
RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD, EVEN
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THOUGH HE HAD BEEN CALLED BY THE
LORD AND HE'D WRITTEN INSPIRED
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PSALMS. THERE'S NO PSALMS
WRITTEN DURING THIS TIME IN HIS
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LIFE, BECAUSE HE'D BECOME
SELF-DEPENDENT. WHAT GOD SAYS TO
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THE CHURCH IN THE LAST DAYS
IS WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO DAVID.
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HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW
ABOUT THE CHURCH OF LAODICEA?
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IT DESCRIBES THE CONDITION
OF GOD'S PEOPLE IN THE TIME JUST
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BEFORE JESUS COMES AND IT SAYS
THERE IN REVELATION CHAPTER 3,
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VERSE 17, "BECAUSE YOU SAY,
'I AM RICH, HAVE BECOME WEALTHY,
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AND HAVE NEED OF NOTHING' -
AND DO NOT KNOW THAT YOU ARE
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WRETCHED, MISERABLE, POOR,
BLIND, AND NAKED" - AND, DURING
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THIS TIME, THE REASON DAVID GOT
INTO TROUBLE IS BECAUSE HE WAS
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HEALTHY, HE WAS PROSPEROUS, HE
WAS RESPECTED, HE HAD ARRIVED.
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HE WAS LIVING LARGE.
AND, FOR A PERIOD OF MONTHS OR
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MAYBE EVEN YEARS HE HAD
PRETTY MUCH FORGOTTEN ABOUT GOD.
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AND HE DIDN'T KNOW THAT WITHIN
HE WAS ROTTING IN HIS SOUL.
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AND SOMETIMES IT CAN HAPPEN
TO US, WHERE WE SEEM TO BE
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PROSPERING ON THE OUTSIDE
BUT WE'RE NEGLECTING SPIRITUAL
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GROWTH. YOU KNOW, ONE REASON THE
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CHILDREN OF ISRAEL GOT INTO
TROUBLE WHEN THEY ENTERED THE
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PROMISED LAND, IS THE LORD
TOLD THEM, 'WHEN YOU ENTER THE
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PROMISED LAND, THERE
ARE SEVEN NATIONS THAT YOU
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NEED TO GET RID OF. IF
YOU DON'T THOROUGHLY GET RID
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OF THEM THEY WILL BECOME THORNS
IN YOUR SIDE, DIRT IN YOUR EYES,
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AND THEY WILL BECOME A PLAGUE TO
YOU.' AND WHEN THE CHILDREN OF
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ISRAEL GOT INTO THE
PROMISED LAND AND THEY CONQUERED
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ENOUGH OF THE
ENEMIES TO GET COMFORTABLE.
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THEY SAID, 'OH,
WE'RE TIRED OF FIGHTING.
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LET'S JUST RELAX.' AND IT SAYS
THE PEOPLE THEY LET REMAIN IN
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THE LAND ENDED UP
BECOMING A PLAGUE FOR THEM.
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AND DAVID HAD ALMOST CONQUERED
THE LAST OUTPOST, BUT HE DECIDED
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TO RELAX BEFORE THE FINAL BATTLE
WAS FOUGHT AND THAT'S THE DANGER
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SOMETIMES, IS YOU
CAN'T LET YOUR GUARD DOWN.
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BY THE WAY, IN THE CHRISTIAN
LIFE, YOU WANT TO CONTINUE
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GROWING. ARE YOU
THE SAME NOW AS YOU
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WERE LAST YEAR, SPIRITUALLY?
YOU KNOW, YOU'RE NEVER STAGNANT
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IN YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE
LORD. YOU ARE EITHER GROWING,
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FIGHTING - GROWING ON IN YOUR
FAITH, OR YOU'RE BACKSLIDING.
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AND, BY THE WAY, TO
BACKSLIDE REQUIRES NO EFFORT.
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YOU CAN STAND STILL AND SLIDE,
AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED TO
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DAVID, HE DIDN'T
KNOW HE WAS BACKSLIDING.
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GOD HAD WARNED THE CHILDREN OF
ISRAEL - YOU READ IN DEUTERONOMY
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THAT THEY WERE AT
RISK, AND WE ARE TOO.
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IN DEUTERONOMY 6:10 HE TOLD THEM
WHEN YOU COME INTO THE PROMISED
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LAND, "SO IT SHALL BE, WHEN THE
LORD YOUR GOD BRINGS YOU INTO
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THE LAND OF WHICH HE SWORE TO
YOUR FATHERS, TO ABRAHAM, ISAAC,
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AND JACOB, TO GIVE YOU" - LISTEN
- "LARGE AND BEAUTIFUL CITIES
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WHICH YOU DID NOT BUILD, HOUSES
FULL OF GOOD THINGS, WHICH YOU
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DID NOT FILL, HEWN-OUT WELLS
WHICH YOU DID NOT DIG, VINEYARDS
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AND OLIVE TREES WHICH YOU DID
NOT PLANT - WHEN YOU HAVE EATEN
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AND ARE FULL - THEN BEWARE, LEST
YOU FORGET THE LORD WHO BROUGHT
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YOU OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT,
FROM THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE."
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IS THERE A DANGER THAT WHEN WE
BECOME COMFORTABLE AND WHEN WE
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ARE SATISFIED,
WE FORGET ABOUT GOD?
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AND CAN THAT HAPPEN IN A COUNTRY
WHERE YOU HAVE GREAT PROSPERITY?
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OR MAYBE WE'RE
EVEN MORE AT RISK.
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A MAMA WHALE TOLD HER BABY, 'BE
CAREFUL WHEN YOU GET TO THE TOP
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AND START TO BLOW YOUR SPOUT.
THAT'S WHEN YOU GET HARPOONED.'
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DAVID WAS AT THE TOP AND HE'D
STARTED TO FEEL SELF-SUFFICIENT
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AND THAT'S WHEN
THE DEVIL GOT HIM.
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YOU KNOW, THE DEVIL WILL GET YOU
WHEN YOU'RE DOWN BUT, YOU KNOW,
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THE DEVIL WILL ALSO
GET YOU WHEN YOU'RE UP.
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THE DEVIL CAN ALSO DISCOURAGE
AND DESTROY PEOPLE THROUGH WANT
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AND POVERTY, BUT HE DESTROYS
MORE THROUGH PROSPERITY.
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AND HE COULDN'T GET DAVID, WHEN
HE WAS RUNNING FOR HIS LIFE, BUT
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HE GOT HIM WHEN HE
WAS RESTING ON HIS THRONE.
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AND SO, GOING BACK TO OUR
STORY, IT SAYS HE'S RESTING IN
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JERUSALEM WHILE THE SOLDIERS ARE
OUT FIGHTING IN THE FIELD, "THEN
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IT HAPPENED ONE EVENING THAT
DAVID AROSE FROM HIS BED" - AND
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WHEN IT SAYS 'EVENING' HERE, IT
MEANS HE TOOK AN AFTERNOON NAP
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DURING THE HEAT OF
THE DAY AROUND SUNDOWN.
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HE GETS UP AND HE'S WALKING
ON THE ROOF AND HE'S, YOU KNOW,
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THERE IN JERUSALEM, HE'S AT THE
TOP - JERUSALEM'S ON A HILL -
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HE'S GOT HIS OWN PALACE, HE'S ON
THE TOP OF THE PALACE - HE'S ON
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THE TOP OF THE WORLD.
THAT'S HOW NEBUCHADNEZZAR GOT IN
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TROUBLE, JUST LOOKING OUT FROM
THE TOP OF THE WORLD SAYING,
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'IS THIS NOT GREAT
BABYLON THAT I HAVE BUILT?'
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AND DAVID'S LOOKING OUT OF
THE WINDOW AND, FROM HIS WINDOW,
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HE'S GOT A PRETTY GOOD
VIEW. I MEAN, EVERYONE WANTS A
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NICE HOUSE WITH A VIEW BUT,
UNFORTUNATELY, HIS VIEW ALSO
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LOOKED DOWN INTO THE
COURTYARD OF A NEIGHBOR AND HE
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SAW A WOMAN BATHING.
NOW, AS SOON AS HE SAW THAT,
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I MEAN, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN
ACCIDENTALLY SEE ALL KINDS OF
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THINGS, YOU SHOULD SAY, 'OH,
EXCUSE ME' AND YOU LOOK AWAY.
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BUT HE DIDN'T LOOK
AWAY. HE THOUGHT, 'WELL,
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NOBODY'S WATCHING.
I'VE GOT THIS PRIVATE VOYEUR
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VIEW.' THE FIRST
LOOK WAS NOT A SIN.
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I MEAN SOMETIMES YOU SEE THINGS
AND YOU SAY - AND YOU REGISTER
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AND YOU SAY, 'OH, THAT'S A
BEAUTIFUL PERSON BUT THAT'S NOT
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APPROPRIATE' AND YOU
TURN AWAY. THAT'S NOT A SIN.
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SIN IS WHEN YOU LOOK
AND YOU START TO LUST.
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AND THAT LITTLE LINGERING
FORBIDDEN LOOK TURNED INTO
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LITTLE SIN. 'COME ON,
LOOKING, HOW BAD CAN THAT BE?'
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I USED TO HEAR GUYS AT WORK,
YOU KNOW, AT A FACTORY, AND GUYS
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WOULD SAY, 'OH, NOTHING
WRONG WITH WINDOW SHOPPING.
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I KNOW I'M MARRIED - I'M
JUST WINDOW SHOPPING' AND 'JUST
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LOOKING.' THAT LINGERING LOOK
- FORBIDDEN LOOK - TURNED INTO
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LUST AND LONGING AND THEN
IT WENT FROM THERE TO LYING AND
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MURDER AND ADULTERY AND
JUST EVERYTHING IN THE BOOK.
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BUT IT STARTED WITH
SUCH A LITTLE THING.
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AND SO, I THINK WE SHOULD BE
ADVISED THAT SOMETIMES WE THINK,
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'OH, JUST LOOKING.' YOU
CAN GET IN TROUBLE THAT WAY.
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SO HE LOOKED AND SHE
WAS BEAUTIFUL TO BEHOLD.
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NOW HE HAD A WHOLE HAREM OF
WIVES AND THE BIBLE SAYS THAT
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THEY WERE BEAUTIFUL - WELL,
AT LEAST IT SAYS ABIGAIL WAS
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BEAUTIFUL - I'M
ASSUMING THE OTHERS WERE.
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AND - BUT, YOU KNOW,
HE JUST WASN'T SATISFIED.
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HE DIDN'T HAVE THE LORD IN
HIS HEART AT THIS TIME AND SO
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NOTHING WILL SATISFY. AND
HE INQUIRED - HE ASKED HIS
00:12:37.35\00:12:41.22
SERVANTS - HE SAID, 'YOU
KNOW, OVER THERE ON THAT STREET
00:12:41.26\00:12:48.63
- WHO IS IN THAT HOUSE?'
'WELL, THAT'S URIAH'S HOUSE.
00:12:48.66\00:12:51.60
THAT WOULD BE BATHSHEBA, HIS
WIFE.' AND DAVID SENT MESSENGERS
00:12:51.63\00:12:56.67
- HE SAID, 'OH YEAH, YOU'RE
RIGHT, HE'S OFF IN THE BATTLE.
00:12:56.71\00:12:59.14
SHE'S ALONE.
SHE'S PROBABLY LONELY.
00:12:59.17\00:13:01.11
COME TO THINK OF IT, I'M A
LITTLE LONELY NOW TOO.' AND HE
00:13:01.14\00:13:04.81
WENT AND SENT FOR HER "AND
SHE CAME TO HIM, AND HE LAY WITH
00:13:04.85\00:13:10.45
HER, FOR SHE WAS CLEANSED FROM
HER IMPURITY;" - NOW, THE REASON
00:13:10.49\00:13:14.29
THAT'S MENTIONED IN THE
BIBLE IS, OF COURSE, THERE WAS A
00:13:14.32\00:13:16.02
TIME OF MONTH WHEN THEY WERE
NOT TO HAVE INTIMATE RELATIONS.
00:13:16.06\00:13:20.86
IT ALSO HAPPENS TO BE THE TIME
OF MONTH WHEN YOU'RE TECHNICALLY
00:13:20.90\00:13:23.80
NOT FERTILE. SO IT'S
BASICALLY SAYING THEY
00:13:23.83\00:13:25.87
GOT TOGETHER AT A TIME WHEN
SHE WAS CLEAN AND FERTILE, WHICH
00:13:25.90\00:13:29.84
ENDED UP PLAYING OUT
THE WRONG WAY - "AND SHE
00:13:29.87\00:13:33.64
RETURNED TO HER HOUSE. AND
THE WOMAN CONCEIVED;" - YOU
00:13:33.68\00:13:38.15
KNOW SOMEONE SAID, 'YOU CAN'T BE
SOWING WILD OATS SATURDAY NIGHT
00:13:38.18\00:13:41.65
AND PRAY FOR CROP FAILURE SUNDAY
MORNING.' AND WE JUST HAD A
00:13:41.68\00:13:46.92
LESSON -
CHILDREN'S STORY - ON THAT.
00:13:46.96\00:13:51.56
AND SHE SAID TO DAVID - SHE
DIDN'T SAY, 'I'VE GOT A FETUS' -
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I JUST WANTED YOU
TO NOTICE. >>AMEN.
00:13:55.10\00:13:57.23
>>SHE SAID, "I AM WITH
CHILD." IT WAS A LIVING HUMAN.
00:13:57.27\00:14:03.07
AND - NOW I PROBABLY NEED TO
PAUSE HERE AND JUST FILL IN A
00:14:03.10\00:14:06.84
COUPLE OF DETAILS ABOUT WHAT'S
GOING ON, BEFORE WE GET ANY
00:14:06.88\00:14:10.05
FURTHER. DAVID HAD BECOME
A LITTLE BIT SELF-SUFFICIENT.
00:14:10.08\00:14:16.62
PAUL SAID, IN 1 CORINTHIANS
10:12, "THEREFORE LET HIM WHO
00:14:16.65\00:14:19.99
THINKS HE STANDS
TAKE HEED LEST HE FALL."
00:14:20.02\00:14:22.59
WHAT HAPPENED TO PETER WHEN
HE SAID, 'THOUGH ALL MEN FORSAKE
00:14:22.62\00:14:25.23
THEE, I WILL NOT FORSAKE THEE.'
WE ALL NEED TO GUARD OUR SOULS
00:14:25.26\00:14:28.36
BECAUSE ALL OF
US CAN BE TEMPTED.
00:14:28.40\00:14:31.13
PROVERBS 6:18, "PRIDE GOES
BEFORE DESTRUCTION AND A HAUGHTY
00:14:31.17\00:14:35.14
SPIRIT BEFORE A FALL."
AND DAVID MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT,
00:14:35.17\00:14:38.31
'WELL I'M JUST LOOKING.' BUT WE
SAW WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT LOOK.
00:14:38.34\00:14:43.08
ONE OF THE REASONS HE
GOT IN TROUBLE WAS IDLENESS.
00:14:43.11\00:14:47.38
WE THINK ABOUT THE SINS OF SODOM
AND GOMORRAH AND, TYPICALLY,
00:14:47.42\00:14:51.05
SEXUAL SINS COME INTO MIND BUT,
YOU KNOW, THE SEXUAL SINS WERE
00:14:51.09\00:14:55.19
CONNECTED WITH WHAT
EZEKIEL SAYS. IN EZEKIEL 16:49
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IT SAYS ONE OF THE SINS OF
SODOM AND GOMORRAH WAS IDLENESS.
00:14:59.16\00:15:03.13
BECAUSE DAVID WAS NOT
BUSY FIGHTING GOD'S BATTLES, HE
00:15:03.16\00:15:06.90
STARTED JUST LOOKING FOR
ENTERTAINMENT AND - 'I'M JUST
00:15:06.94\00:15:12.54
GOING TO SURF THE INTERNET A
LITTLE BIT' - AND YOU'VE GOT TO
00:15:12.57\00:15:16.71
BE CAREFUL SURFING - DAVID
AND BATHSHEBA - ON THE INTERNET.
00:15:16.75\00:15:22.35
DON'T GO TO THE INTERNET AND ASK
MY WHY - TRY AND FIND OUT WHY I
00:15:22.38\00:15:25.62
TOLD YOU THAT, BUT IT'S A TREE
OF GOOD AND EVIL AND A LOT OF
00:15:25.65\00:15:31.16
PEOPLE GET INTO TROUBLE WITH
THE INTERNET - WITH LOOKING.
00:15:31.19\00:15:37.03
JOB SAYS, IN JOB 31:1, "I HAVE
MADE A COVENANT WITH MY EYES;
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WHY THEN SHOULD I
LOOK UPON A YOUNG WOMAN?"
00:15:42.37\00:15:44.97
NOW, AT SOME POINT, ANY MAN
- OR WOMAN - THAT HOPES TO GET
00:15:45.01\00:15:50.25
MARRIED SOMEDAY,
THEY'RE GOING TO LOOK.
00:15:50.28\00:15:53.72
HOW MANY OF YOU LOOKED AT YOUR
SPOUSE BEFORE YOU MARRIED THEM?
00:15:53.75\00:15:57.69
COME ON, BE HONEST. (LAUGHTER)
00:15:57.72\00:16:00.72
ANYONE HERE GOING TO
SAY, 'I DIDN'T LOOK'?
00:16:00.76\00:16:03.49
THEY DID HAVE ARRANGED MARRIAGES
IN SOME PLACES, WHERE THE GIRL
00:16:03.53\00:16:06.16
WAS VEILED UNTIL THE WEDDING
DAY, AND THERE WERE SOME,
00:16:06.19\00:16:09.23
PROBABLY, AMAZING SURPRISES, BUT
- THERE'S A TIME TO LOOK - BUT
00:16:09.26\00:16:15.94
ONCE YOU'RE MARRIED - AND
JOB WAS MARRIED AND DAVID WAS
00:16:15.97\00:16:18.57
MARRIED TO A WHOLE HAREM -
YOU NEED TO MAKE A COVENANT WITH
00:16:18.61\00:16:22.08
YOUR EYES. >>AMEN.
00:16:22.11\00:16:24.25
>>PROVERBS 6:25, "DO NOT LUST
AFTER HER BEAUTY IN YOUR HEART,
00:16:24.28\00:16:29.22
NOR LET HER ALLURE
YOU WITH HER EYELIDS."
00:16:29.25\00:16:32.79
AND YOU KNOW WHAT JESUS SAYS
ABOUT LOOKING - HE SAYS, "BUT I
00:16:32.82\00:16:35.59
SAY TO YOU, WHOEVER LOOKS ON A
WOMAN TO LUST FOR HER" - AND, OF
00:16:35.62\00:16:38.09
COURSE THIS APPLIES, YOU NOW,
IT SAYS THAT A MAN - IN THE TEN
00:16:38.13\00:16:41.06
COMMANDMENTS SAYS YOU SHOULD NOT
COVET YOUR NEIGHBOR'S WIFE, BUT
00:16:41.10\00:16:43.70
EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT ALSO MEANS
A WOMAN SHOULD NOT COVET HER
00:16:43.73\00:16:47.20
NEIGHBOR'S HUSBAND.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, IT
00:16:47.24\00:16:49.74
WORKS BOTH WAYS HERE.
AND JESUS, WHEN HE SAYS, 'IF
00:16:49.77\00:16:53.58
YOU LOOK ON A WOMAN TO LUST FOR
HER', IT ALSO MEANS 'IF YOU LOOK
00:16:53.61\00:16:56.18
ON A MAN TO LUST
AFTER HIM' - YOU CAN COMMIT
00:16:56.21\00:16:58.88
ADULTERY IN YOUR HEART.
BECAUSE ADULTERY BEGINS WITH AN
00:16:58.91\00:17:02.32
ATTITUDE BEFORE IT
TURNS INTO AN ACTION.
00:17:02.35\00:17:05.59
AND THAT'S WHAT
HAPPENED WITH DAVID.
00:17:05.62\00:17:07.56
IT STARTED WITH A LOOK AND THEN
IT TURNED INTO LUST AND THEN HE
00:17:07.59\00:17:10.46
SAID, 'WELL, MAYBE WE'LL
JUST - I'D LIKE TO MEET HER.
00:17:10.49\00:17:14.00
SHE'S PROBABLY
LONELY. WE'LL JUST HAVE A BITE
00:17:14.03\00:17:16.16
TOGETHER.' AND THEN THEY STARTED
TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT TOGETHER
00:17:16.20\00:17:21.00
AND, MAYBE, A FEW
INTIMATE THOUGHTS.
00:17:21.04\00:17:23.57
AND DAVID SAYS, 'I KNOW I'VE GOT
A DOZEN WIVES, BUT I'M JUST NOT
00:17:23.61\00:17:26.14
HAPPY.' (LAUGHTER) THIS
IS HOW IT HAPPENS, YOU KNOW?
00:17:26.17\00:17:30.88
AT THE OFFICE PEOPLE START
GETTING FRIENDLY AND THEY START
00:17:30.91\00:17:35.38
HAVING PRIVATE TIME TOGETHER AND
NEXT THING YOU KNEW DAVID SAID,
00:17:35.42\00:17:42.99
'YOU KNOW, I'VE GOT THIS
TERRIBLE CRINK IN MY NECK.
00:17:43.02\00:17:45.43
I WONDER IF YOU CAN GIVE ME A
MASSAGE.' AND THAT TOUCH JUST -
00:17:45.46\00:17:52.37
'OH, JUST GOING TO RUB THE NECK.
MAKE HIM FEEL A LITTLE BETTER.'
00:17:52.40\00:17:55.57
AND ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER
AND WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY -
00:17:55.60\00:17:59.71
AND PEOPLE MIGHT WANT
TO KNOW, 'WELL, HOW DID
00:17:59.74\00:18:01.61
THAT GET THAT FAR?' I
PROBABLY OUGHT TO PAUSE
00:18:01.64\00:18:04.85
HERE AND SAY,
'WELL, WHO IS BATHSHEBA?'
00:18:04.88\00:18:07.35
THE BIBLE TELLS A
LITTLE MORE ABOUT BATHSHEBA.
00:18:07.38\00:18:08.98
I'VE HEARD SOME PASTORS AND,
WHEN I WAS LOOKING - I LISTENED
00:18:09.02\00:18:12.29
TO SOME OTHER PASTORS TALK
ABOUT THIS SUBJECT - I'M KIND OF
00:18:12.32\00:18:14.36
SHOCKED AT THE THINGS I HEAR.
DAVID DID NOT RAPE BATHSHEBA.
00:18:14.39\00:18:23.70
BUT HE DID, I THINK,
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HIS POWER.
00:18:23.73\00:18:29.44
IT WAS AN ABUSE
OF HIS AUTHORITY.
00:18:29.47\00:18:32.81
I DON'T THINK DAVID NEEDED
TO RAPE BATHSHEBA, I THINK THAT
00:18:32.84\00:18:37.25
DAVID WAS A GOOD-LOOKING MAN,
HER HUSBAND WAS AWAY AT WAR,
00:18:37.28\00:18:41.02
DAVID COULD SING LIKE NOBODY
COULD SING - HE SAID, 'COME ON
00:18:41.05\00:18:44.19
IN, LET'S JUST
TALK A LITTLE BIT.
00:18:44.22\00:18:45.59
HERE, LET ME SING THE LATEST
SONG I WROTE.' BOY, IF ANYBODY
00:18:45.62\00:18:48.39
COULD SWOON A WOMAN, DAVID
WAS TALL, DARK, AND HANDSOME.
00:18:48.42\00:18:52.53
IT ACTUALLY NEVER SAYS HE WAS
TALL, BUT WE KNOW THAT HE WAS
00:18:52.56\00:18:55.60
HANDSOME AND HE WAS - I MEAN,
HERE'S DAVID THE GIANT KILLER -
00:18:55.63\00:18:59.40
AND SO, I'M SURE THAT THERE WAS
A LOT OF SEDUCTION TAKING PLACE
00:18:59.43\00:19:02.44
THERE. SHE WAS VERY INTELLIGENT.
00:19:02.47\00:19:04.71
I'M SURMISING THAT, BUT
BATHSHEBA DOES SPEAK IN THE
00:19:04.74\00:19:07.18
BIBLE LATER - IN OTHER PLACES
- AND SHE CONDUCTS HERSELF WELL.
00:19:07.21\00:19:11.61
IT TELLS YOU ABOUT HER - YOU
READ IN 2 SAMUEL 11, IT SAYS,
00:19:11.65\00:19:15.18
"...BATHSHEBA, THE DAUGHTER
OF ELIAM, THE WIFE OF URIAH..."
00:19:15.22\00:19:19.05
- NOW, WHO IS ELIAM?
ELIAM, YOU READ IN 2 SAMUEL 23,
00:19:19.09\00:19:22.39
VERSE 34, IS THE SON OF
AHITHOPHEL THE GILONITE.
00:19:22.42\00:19:28.06
AHITHOPHEL WAS THE COUNSELOR OF
DAVID AND I'LL TELL YOU WHAT IT
00:19:28.10\00:19:31.20
SAYS ABOUT AHITHOPHEL: IT SAYS
HIS COUNSEL WAS SO BRILLIANT
00:19:31.23\00:19:35.34
THAT IT WAS LIKE
ENQUIRING AT THE ORACLES OF GOD.
00:19:35.37\00:19:38.44
WHEN AHITHOPHEL SAID
SOMETHING, HE WAS ALWAYS RIGHT.
00:19:38.47\00:19:42.28
AND, NOT ONLY THAT, SHE ENDS
UP HAVING A SON THAT BECOMES THE
00:19:42.31\00:19:45.38
KING - BATHSHEBA'S SON, SOLOMON
- AND WHAT DOES THE BIBLE TELL
00:19:45.41\00:19:49.32
US ABOUT SOLOMON'S IQ?
>>HE WAS THE WISEST OF THE WISE.
00:19:49.35\00:19:52.45
>>YEAH, SO BATHSHEBA WAS
BEAUTIFUL, BUT SHE WAS ALSO
00:19:52.49\00:19:55.79
BRIGHT. I THINK SHE
WAS VERY INTELLIGENT.
00:19:55.82\00:19:58.06
SHE ENDS UP BECOMING THE QUEEN
OF ISRAEL - THE SINGLE QUEEN -
00:19:58.09\00:20:01.96
AFTER THE - OR, THE QUEEN
MOTHER, I SHOULD SAY - AFTER
00:20:02.00\00:20:04.97
DAVID DIES. AND SO, I JUST
WANTED TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE MORE
00:20:05.00\00:20:09.24
INFORMATION THERE.
BUT THEN THEY GOT TOGETHER
00:20:09.27\00:20:12.81
AND ONE THING LED TO
ANOTHER. NOW DAVID, AS THEY GOT
00:20:12.84\00:20:16.68
INVOLVED, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF
COMMANDMENTS THAT HE'S BREAKING.
00:20:16.71\00:20:18.91
FIRST OF ALL, IT SAYS THEY TOLD
HIM - WHEN HE SAID, 'WHO IS IT?'
00:20:18.95\00:20:22.15
'THIS IS BATHSHEBA, THE WIFE
OF' - RIGHT THERE, THAT OUGHT TO
00:20:22.18\00:20:27.26
HAVE BEEN THE END OF IT, BECAUSE
EVEN THE PAGAN KINGS THAT HAD
00:20:27.29\00:20:31.36
HAREMS, AND DAVID WAS PATTERNING
HIS KINGDOM AFTER THE EASTERN
00:20:31.39\00:20:34.36
KINGS, THEY SHOWED
THEIR POWER BY HAVING A HAREM.
00:20:34.36\00:20:38.00
THEY ALSO HAD A HAREM BECAUSE,
WHEN YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A
00:20:38.03\00:20:40.40
MONARCHY AND YOU WANT YOUR
CHILDREN TO RULE, YOU'VE GOT TO
00:20:40.44\00:20:43.71
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE LOTS OF
SONS, IN CASE ONE GETS SICK.
00:20:43.74\00:20:46.91
THEY HAD A HIGH MORTALITY RATE,
AND SO, THEY USED TO JUST - KING
00:20:46.94\00:20:50.55
AHAB HAD SEVENTY SONS. HE
ONLY HAD JEZEBEL AS A WIFE.
00:20:50.58\00:20:54.52
HOW DO YOU - YOU THINK
JEZEBEL HAD SEVENTY BOYS?
00:20:54.55\00:20:56.25
OR DID HE HAVE A HAREM, ALSO?
AND SO, THIS WAS THE PRACTICE.
00:20:56.28\00:21:01.12
IT WASN'T GOD'S PLAN.
CAUSED ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS,
00:21:01.16\00:21:04.03
BUT DAVID HAD ALL
THESE OTHER WIVES.
00:21:04.06\00:21:05.66
BUT EVEN THE PAGAN KINGS SAID,
'IF SHE'S ALREADY SOMEONE ELSE'S
00:21:05.69\00:21:10.93
WIFE, THEY'RE OFF LIMITS.'
SO, AS SOON AS THE SERVANT SAID,
00:21:10.97\00:21:14.97
'SHE'S THE WIFE OF URIAH' -
NOT ONLY WAS SHE MARRIED, SHE'S
00:21:15.00\00:21:18.74
MARRIED TO A FRIEND.
THAT COMPOUNDS THE DESPICABLE
00:21:18.77\00:21:24.58
THING HE DID EVEN
MORE. COMMITTED ADULTERY.
00:21:24.61\00:21:30.99
YOU EVER HEAR
ABOUT THE WICKED BIBLE ?
00:21:31.02\00:21:33.92
I EVER TELL YOU THAT STORY?
THERE'S A BIBLE THAT WAS PRINTED
00:21:33.96\00:21:36.56
IN 1623, BY BAKER AND LUCAS,
IN ENGLAND THAT'S NOW KNOWN
00:21:36.59\00:21:40.60
AS THE WICKED BIBLE .
THE BIBLE WAS A GOOD, NORMAL
00:21:40.63\00:21:43.10
BIBLE - ONE OF THE
NEW KING JAMES BIBLES.
00:21:43.13\00:21:46.10
EVERYTHING ABOUT IT WAS
GREAT EXCEPT THERE WAS JUST ONE
00:21:46.13\00:21:49.27
THREE-LETTER WORD
THAT HAD BEEN LEFT OUT.
00:21:49.30\00:21:52.27
IT HAPPENED TO BE IN
THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT.
00:21:52.31\00:21:55.28
THAT WORD WAS THE WORD 'NOT'.
(LAUGHTER) YOU KNOW WHERE IT
00:21:55.31\00:22:00.82
SAYS, 'THOU SHALT
NOT' COMMIT ADULTERY?
00:22:00.85\00:22:03.75
WHAT DO YOU END UP WITH IF
YOU LEAVE OUT THE WORD 'NOT'?
00:22:03.79\00:22:08.39
AND WHEN THE BIBLES BEGAN
TO CIRCULATE AND SOMEONE READ
00:22:08.42\00:22:11.09
THROUGH THAT, THEY BROUGHT IT
TO THE ATTENTION OF THE KING AND
00:22:11.13\00:22:14.56
THE KING NOT ONLY, OF COURSE,
COLLECTED AND BURNED THE BIBLES,
00:22:14.60\00:22:18.50
THE PRINTERS WERE FINED AND SO
THEY EVENTUALLY WENT BANKRUPT.
00:22:18.53\00:22:22.80
YOU'VE GOT TO BE
CAREFUL OF THOSE DETAILS.
00:22:22.84\00:22:25.34
THE BIBLE SAID, 'THOU
SHALT COMMIT ADULTERY.'
00:22:25.37\00:22:28.54
NOW, THERE ARE FEW REMAINING
EDITIONS OF THE WICKED BIBLE OUT
00:22:28.58\00:22:31.81
THERE, AND THEY'RE VERY, VERY
VALUABLE TODAY, BUT THAT WAS THE
00:22:31.85\00:22:34.75
ONLY THING UNIQUE ABOUT IT.
BUT, WITH WHAT'S GOING ON IN
00:22:34.78\00:22:38.15
THE WORLD TODAY AND THE WAY THE
MEDIA PORTRAYS SEX, YOU WOULD
00:22:38.19\00:22:41.62
THINK THAT'S THE BIBLE THEY'RE
READING. ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
00:22:41.66\00:22:46.96
>>YES. >>THE WORLD
ACTS LIKE, YOU KNOW,
00:22:47.00\00:22:50.60
IT'S LIKE SHAKING HANDS, WHERE
THE BIBLE SAYS IT'S A SACRED
00:22:50.63\00:22:55.57
RELATIONSHIP TO BE RESERVED
FOR A MARRIAGE COVENANT.
00:22:55.60\00:23:00.68
BUT - AND THEN I'VE GOT TO TELL
YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT 'WHO WAS
00:23:00.71\00:23:05.75
URIAH THE HITTITE?' WE
MENTIONED BATHSHEBA - URIAH
00:23:05.78\00:23:10.72
WAS - FIRST OF ALL, A HITTITE,
THEY WERE ANOTHER NATION, SO
00:23:10.75\00:23:14.46
URIAH EITHER WAS THE CHILD OF
SOMEONE WHO HAD CONVERTED TO THE
00:23:14.49\00:23:18.36
GOD OF ISRAEL - SO IT SAYS THAT
HE HAD HITTITE ANCESTRY - OR
00:23:18.39\00:23:23.20
HE, HIMSELF, WAS A
CONVERT. BUT THE HITTITES
00:23:23.23\00:23:25.40
WERE ANOTHER NATION.
THEY WERE ONE OF THE NATIONS
00:23:25.43\00:23:27.14
THEY FOUGHT
AGAINST TO THROW OUT.
00:23:27.17\00:23:28.80
BUT SOMEWHERE EARLY ALONG THE
WAY, URIAH JOINS DAVID WHEN HE'S
00:23:28.84\00:23:34.31
RUNNING FROM SAUL AND HE'S
FIGHTING SIDE-BY-SIDE - YOU
00:23:34.34\00:23:37.45
KNOW, IT TALKS ABOUT DAVID'S
MIGHTY MEN - URIAH WAS ONE OF
00:23:37.48\00:23:40.42
DAVID'S MIGHTY MEN. YOU
CAN READ IN 2 SAMUEL 23:39
00:23:40.45\00:23:45.19
AND IT MENTIONS THE LIST OF THE
MIGHTY MEN. AND YOU KNOW WHO'S
00:23:45.22\00:23:47.89
ON - THE LAST ONE THAT'S
MENTIONED IS URIAH. I THINK IT
00:23:47.92\00:23:51.96
JUST SHAMED WHOEVER WROTE THAT
- YEP, THE ONE THAT DAVID HAD
00:23:51.99\00:23:56.20
KILLED - TOOK HIS WIFE - HE
WAS ONE OF HIS MIGHTY MEN. NOW,
00:23:56.23\00:23:59.87
YOU'VE TO - I DON'T WANT TO - I
DON'T WANT TO TAKE THIS TOO FAR,
00:23:59.90\00:24:04.77
BUT I JUST WANT YOU TO UNDER-
STAND HOW TREACHEROUS THIS WAS.
00:24:04.81\00:24:09.48
THE MIGHTY MEN OF DAVID LOVED
HIM SO MUCH THAT, WHEN DAVID WAS
00:24:09.51\00:24:13.75
HIDING FROM SAUL IN A CAVE IT
JUST - IN THE BACK OF HIS MIND
00:24:13.78\00:24:17.79
ONE DAY, HE BLURTED OUT AND
HE YEARNED AND HE SAID, 'OH MAN,
00:24:17.82\00:24:21.46
THIS AWFUL WATER HERE - THIS
SULPHUR WATER HERE IN THE CAVE'
00:24:21.49\00:24:24.29
- HE SAYS - 'OH, WHAT I WOULD
GIVE FOR A DRINK OF THE WATER
00:24:24.33\00:24:27.23
FROM THE WELL OF BETHLEHEM WHEN
I WAS A BOY - THAT SWEET, COLD,
00:24:27.23\00:24:30.30
CLEAN, CLEAR
WATER FROM BETHLEHEM.'
00:24:30.33\00:24:32.93
AND HE SAID SOMETHING LIKE
THAT. HIS SOLDIERS HEARD HIM.
00:24:32.97\00:24:37.14
THREE OF HIS MIGHTY MEN
LEFT THE CAVE OF ADULLAM,
00:24:37.17\00:24:40.31
THEY WENT INTO JERUSALEM - WENT
TO BETHLEHEM, RATHER - WHERE THE
00:24:40.34\00:24:44.38
PHILISTINES HAD OCCUPIED THE
CITY AND THEY HAD A GARRISON,
00:24:44.41\00:24:47.55
THEY FOUGHT THEIR WAY THROUGH
THE PHILISTINE GARRISON, ONE OF
00:24:47.58\00:24:51.55
THEM LOWERED A POUCH DOWN THE
WELL, FILLED IT WITH WATER FROM
00:24:51.59\00:24:56.52
THE WELL OF BETHLEHEM, FOUGHT
THEIR WAY BACK OUT OF THE CITY,
00:24:56.56\00:25:00.16
AND THEY BROUGHT
IT TO DAVID. >>WOW.
00:25:00.20\00:25:02.56
>>THEY LOVED HIM SO MUCH THEY
WERE GOING TO LAY DOWN THEIR
00:25:02.60\00:25:04.43
LIVES TO GIVE THEIR
COMMANDER A DRINK OF WATER.
00:25:04.47\00:25:08.84
WOULD GOD ALL OF HIS SERVANTS
TODAY FELT THAT WAY ABOUT JESUS,
00:25:08.87\00:25:11.54
THE SON OF DAVID, THAT WE WOULD
LAY DOWN OUR LIVES TO BRING HIM
00:25:11.57\00:25:14.04
LIVING WATER. >>AMEN.
00:25:14.08\00:25:15.71
>>ANYWAY, DAVID
POURED IT ON THE GROUND.
00:25:15.74\00:25:18.21
HE SAID, 'THIS IS
THE BLOOD OF YOU MEN.
00:25:18.25\00:25:20.32
I'M NOT GOING TO RISK YOU DOING
ANYTHING LIKE THIS AGAIN, AND
00:25:20.35\00:25:23.85
RISK YOUR LIVES FOR ME.' AND
HE SAID, 'I'M NOT GOING TO DRINK
00:25:23.89\00:25:26.19
IT. I'M NOT GOING TO ENCOURAGE
00:25:26.22\00:25:27.02
THIS.' BUT THEY
LOVED HIM THAT MUCH.
00:25:27.06\00:25:29.82
SO WHEN DAVID, THEN, DOES WHAT
HE DOES NEXT - I JUST WANT YOU
00:25:29.86\00:25:33.86
TO UNDERSTAND - THIS IS
SOMEBODY WHO REALLY CARED.
00:25:33.90\00:25:36.97
NOW, YOU'LL FIND OUT MORE ABOUT
URIAH IN JUST A MOMENT, BECAUSE
00:25:37.00\00:25:39.97
WHAT HE SAYS IS
AMAZING. GO BACK TO THE STORY.
00:25:40.00\00:25:43.41
SO - BATHSHEBA, BACK IN 2 SAMUEL
11, SHE SENDS A MESSAGE AND
00:25:43.44\00:25:49.94
SAYS, 'I AM WITH CHILD' AND
DAVID SAID, 'UH OH, URIAH'S OUT
00:25:49.98\00:25:54.05
IN THE FIELD. THIS IS
GOING TO BE A PROBLEM.'
00:25:54.08\00:25:56.58
AND HE BEGINS TO
CALCULATE - WHAT CAN HE DO?
00:25:56.62\00:25:59.79
HE SAYS, 'I'VE GOT TO GET URIAH
AND BATHSHEBA TOGETHER SO THAT
00:25:59.82\00:26:02.36
NOBODY WILL ASK QUESTIONS.
THEY'LL JUST FIGURE THIS FIRST
00:26:02.39\00:26:05.03
CHILD WAS A LITTLE PREMATURE.
AND SO, DAVID TELLS JOAB, 'SEND
00:26:05.06\00:26:10.17
ME URIAH THE HITTITE.'
WELL, THAT'S NOT THAT ODD.
00:26:10.20\00:26:12.70
MATTER OF FACT, THE HISTORIAN,
JOSEPHUS, SAYS THAT URIAH WAS
00:26:12.73\00:26:18.34
JOAB'S ARMOR BEARER. AND
SO, HE SAYS, 'LOOK, I WANT
00:26:18.37\00:26:22.68
TO GET AN UPDATE ON
THE WAR. I CAN TRUST URIAH.
00:26:22.71\00:26:25.05
SEND HIM TO ME.'
SO HE SENDS URIAH.
00:26:25.08\00:26:27.12
JOAB ASKS NO QUESTIONS.
URIAH COMES TO DAVID - I'M IN
00:26:27.15\00:26:30.09
VERSE 7 - HE
SAYS, 'HOW'S JOAB DOING?
00:26:30.12\00:26:32.45
HOW ARE THE PEOPLE DOING?'
AND HOW THE WAR IS PROSPERING.
00:26:32.49\00:26:35.79
AND SO, DAVID SAID TO URIAH,
'THANK YOU FOR THE REPORT.' - HE
00:26:35.82\00:26:39.06
SAYS, 'NOW RELAX. YOU'VE COME
A LONG WAY. GO TO YOUR HOUSE.
00:26:39.09\00:26:42.23
WASH YOUR FEET.' SO URIAH
DEPARTED FROM THE KING'S HOUSE
00:26:42.26\00:26:46.10
AND A GIFT OF FOOD - THE KING
SAYS, 'LOOK, I'M GOING TO SEND
00:26:46.13\00:26:48.30
SOME CATERED FOOD AND I'LL
SEND A COUPLE OF CANDLES AND I'M
00:26:48.34\00:26:51.87
GOING TO TRY TO CREATE SOME
AMBIANCE SO HE AND BATHSHEBA
00:26:51.91\00:26:55.88
WILL DO WHAT YOU WOULD NORMALLY
EXPECT TO HAPPEN.' AND A GIFT OF
00:26:55.91\00:26:59.85
FOOD FOLLOWS HIM. BUT
DAVID IS SHOCKED TO DISCOVER
00:26:59.88\00:27:04.69
THE NEXT DAY - IT SAYS, "URIAH
SLEPT AT THE DOOR OF THE KING'S
00:27:04.72\00:27:07.86
HOUSE WITH ALL THE SERVANTS
OF HIS LORD, AND DID NOT
00:27:07.89\00:27:11.03
GO DOWN TO HIS HOUSE." SO
THE NEXT DAY THEY TOLD DAVID,
00:27:11.06\00:27:14.56
SAYING, 'URIAH
DIDN'T GO TO HIS HOUSE.
00:27:14.60\00:27:16.53
BATHSHEBA APPRECIATED, YOU KNOW,
THE CATERED FOOD, AND ALL, BUT
00:27:16.56\00:27:19.23
URIAH DIDN'T COME.' AND
DAVID IS - DAVID IS SHOCKED.
00:27:19.27\00:27:25.81
HE SAID, 'WHY DIDN'T
YOU GO DOWN TO YOUR HOUSE?'
00:27:25.84\00:27:29.01
URIAH'S
WONDERING, 'WHY DO YOU CARE?
00:27:29.04\00:27:31.48
WHY ARE YOU ASKING? WHY
IS IT SO IMPORTANT TO YOU?'
00:27:31.51\00:27:36.05
AND URIAH SAID TO DAVID -
NOW THIS IS THE ONLY TIME URIAH
00:27:36.08\00:27:38.25
SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE - THIS NEXT
VERSE - AND THIS IS 2 SAMUEL
00:27:38.29\00:27:42.02
11:11, "AND URIAH SAID" - BY
THE WAY, YOU KNOW WHAT THE WORD
00:27:42.06\00:27:46.13
'URIAH' MEANS? 'AH'
MEANS 'JEHOVAH' AND 'URI'
00:27:46.16\00:27:52.60
MEANS 'FIRE' - MEANS
'THE FIRE OF JEHOVAH'.
00:27:52.63\00:27:55.47
THAT'S A GOOD NAME - 'THE FIRE
OF GOD' IS WHAT HIS NAME IS.
00:27:55.50\00:27:59.87
"AND URIAH SAYS TO DAVID, 'THE
ARK'" - THAT'S THE FIRST THING
00:27:59.91\00:28:03.38
OUT OF HIS MOUTH
IS CONNECTED WITH GOD.
00:28:03.41\00:28:06.08
>>AMEN. >>HE SAID,
"THE ARK AND ISRAEL
00:28:06.11\00:28:09.85
AND JUDAH ARE DWELLING IN
TENTS, AND MY LORD JOAB AND THE
00:28:09.88\00:28:15.09
SERVANTS OF MY LORD ARE
ENCAMPED IN THE OPEN FIELDS.
00:28:15.12\00:28:19.56
SHALL I THEN GO TO MY HOUSE TO
EAT AND DRINK, AND TO LIE WITH
00:28:19.59\00:28:23.13
MY WIFE? AS YOU
LIVE," - HE NOW MAKES A
00:28:23.16\00:28:26.03
VOW - "AS YOU LIVE AND
AS YOUR SOUL LIVES, I WILL
00:28:26.07\00:28:28.54
NOT DO THIS THING." WOW.
00:28:28.57\00:28:31.61
DAVID IS CONFRONTED BY ONE
OF HIS SOLDIERS THAT REALLY IS A
00:28:31.64\00:28:35.51
BETTER MAN THAN HE IS.
URIAH WOULD NOT GO TO BATHSHEBA
00:28:35.54\00:28:40.28
WHEN HE HAD THE RIGHT
BECAUSE HE WANTED TO BE A GOOD
00:28:40.32\00:28:43.69
EXAMPLE TO HIS SOLDIERS.
AND IT IS POSSIBLE - YOU MIGHT
00:28:43.72\00:28:46.92
BE THINKING, 'WHY
WOULD HE DO THAT?'
00:28:46.96\00:28:49.29
- I OUGHT TO PAUSE RIGHT
HERE AND JUST ASK A QUESTION.
00:28:49.32\00:28:55.53
OF YOU WIVES, HOW WOULD YOU FEEL
IF YOU WERE BATHSHEBA AND YOUR
00:28:55.56\00:29:03.24
HUSBAND COMES HOME AND HE
DOESN'T STOP AT THE HOUSE?
00:29:03.27\00:29:08.94
WOULD YOU APPRECIATE THAT?
YOU KNOW, WE ALWAYS TALK ABOUT -
00:29:08.98\00:29:17.05
WE MAKE FUN OF MEN BECAUSE WE'RE
SO TASK ORIENTED AND WOMEN ARE A
00:29:17.09\00:29:23.66
LITTLE MORE RELATIONAL
ORIENTED. NOW I KNOW THAT'S A
00:29:23.69\00:29:25.83
GENERALIZATION - IT'S PROBABLY A
SAFE ONE BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK
00:29:25.86\00:29:30.20
GOD MADE MEN TO BE THE WAY
WE ARE AND URIAH THOUGHT, 'THE
00:29:30.23\00:29:36.40
BATTLE IS NOT FOUGHT YET' - 'THE
BATTLE IS NOT WON YET' - IT IS
00:29:36.44\00:29:40.48
POSSIBLE THAT HE MADE A VOW THAT
SOME SOLDIERS WOULD MAKE, THAT
00:29:40.51\00:29:43.98
THEY DO NOT ENGAGE IN INTIMATE
RELATIONS UNTIL THE WAR IS WON.
00:29:44.01\00:29:49.35
THERE USED TO BE AN ANCIENT
BELIEF THAT THE MORE VIRILE A
00:29:49.38\00:29:51.82
MAN WAS, THE BETTER HE FOUGHT.
AND IT COULD BE HE JUST THOUGHT,
00:29:51.85\00:29:55.46
'HOW AM I GOING TO GO BACK
AND BE AN EXAMPLE TO MY MEN?
00:29:55.49\00:29:57.73
THIS BATTLE ISN'T WON.
THEY'RE OUT IN THE FIELD AND I'M
00:29:57.76\00:30:00.56
GOING TO SAY, 'OH YEAH, I WAS
BACK RELAXING.' AND HE THOUGHT,
00:30:00.60\00:30:02.56
'THIS WON'T BE A GOOD EXAMPLE.'
NOW, THE THING THAT SHOCKS ME,
00:30:02.60\00:30:05.30
THOUGH, IS URIAH HAS A RIGHT AND
HE WOULDN'T TAKE IT; DAVID HAD
00:30:05.33\00:30:09.04
NO RIGHT AND HE DID TAKE IT.
HE HAD NO RIGHT TO BATHSHEBA,
00:30:09.07\00:30:12.77
BUT HE TOOK IT; URIAH DOES HAVE
A RIGHT AND HE DOESN'T TAKE IT.
00:30:12.81\00:30:16.71
URIAH, IN MAY WAYS HERE,
IS THE HERO OF THE STORY.
00:30:16.75\00:30:20.75
HIS PRINCIPLE CONCERN IS THE ARK
OF GOD - GOD, THE PEOPLE OF GOD,
00:30:20.78\00:30:25.19
THE BATTLE THAT WE'RE FIGHTING -
HE'S THINKING ABOUT THE WAR THAT
00:30:25.22\00:30:27.56
NEEDS TO BE WON. NOW,
IF YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN,
00:30:27.59\00:30:29.36
WE'RE INVOLVED IN A WAR, RIGHT?
THERE'S A BATTLE GOING ON AND
00:30:29.39\00:30:33.70
HE'S INTERESTED IN
THE VICTORY OF THE BATTLE.
00:30:33.73\00:30:36.77
AND NOW, DAVID, HE SAYS, 'LOOK,
STAY ONE MORE DAY.' DAVID, NOW,
00:30:36.80\00:30:42.10
IS WRINGING HIS HANDS. HE'S
SAYING, 'WELL, WHAT DO I DO?'
00:30:42.14\00:30:44.17
THIS GUYS GOT
ETHICS. HE'S GOT SCRUPLES.
00:30:44.21\00:30:48.08
I'VE GOT TO GET HIM DRUNK SO
HE'LL GO AGAINST HIS SCRUPLES.'
00:30:48.11\00:30:51.48
SO DAVID SAYS, 'STAY HERE ONE
MORE DAY AND I'LL SEND YOU BACK
00:30:51.51\00:30:53.35
TO THE BATTLE TOMORROW.' "NOW
WHEN DAVID CALLED HIM, HE ATE
00:30:53.38\00:30:57.92
AND DRANK BEFORE HIM;
AND HE MADE HIM DRUNK."
00:30:57.95\00:31:00.46
INSTEAD OF GIVING HIM THE GRAPE
JUICE THAT MIGHT HAVE HAD ONE OR
00:31:00.49\00:31:03.16
TWO PERCENT ALCOHOL IN IT, HE
GAVE HIM THE STUFF THAT WAS TEN
00:31:03.19\00:31:06.03
OR FIFTEEN PERCENT AND THEN
DAVID SAID, 'I'D LIKE TO DRINK A
00:31:06.06\00:31:08.50
TOAST TO JOAB!'
AND DAVID'D PRETEND TO
00:31:08.53\00:31:12.57
DRINK AND URIAH WOULD DRINK.
AND HE SAID, 'NOW LET'S DRINK
00:31:12.60\00:31:14.40
A TOAST TO THE SOL-' - 'LET'S
DRINK A TOAST TO THE' - AND,
00:31:14.44\00:31:17.11
YOU KNOW, HE'S - WHATEVER
HE'S DOING, HE'S SOMEHOW
00:31:17.14\00:31:18.67
GETTING HIM DRUNK.
HE'S TRYING TO BE POLITE AND
00:31:18.71\00:31:20.64
HE'S DRINKING THIS WINE
THAT IS INTOXICATING HIM.
00:31:20.68\00:31:24.08
BY THE WAY, IN CASE YOU WONDER
ABOUT WINE AND THE CHRISTIAN, OR
00:31:24.11\00:31:29.15
ALCOHOL AND THE CHRISTIAN,
CHRISTIANS SHOULDN'T DRINK
00:31:29.18\00:31:34.19
ALCOHOL AT ALL. >>AMEN.
00:31:34.22\00:31:37.73
>>NOAH GOT DRUNK AND WANDERED
AROUND NAKED. LOT GOT DRUNK -
00:31:37.76\00:31:42.40
HIS DAUGHTERS MADE HIM DRUNK
AND HE SLEPT WITH HIS DAUGHTERS.
00:31:42.43\00:31:45.57
DAVID KNEW, IF HE COULD GET - HE
THOUGHT, IF HE COULD GET URIAH
00:31:45.60\00:31:49.60
DRUNK, HE WOULD GO AGAINST HIS
CONSCIENCE AND, A LOT OF TIMES
00:31:49.64\00:31:53.04
THERE ARE YOUNG MEN OR WOMEN
THAT TRY TO GET THE OPPOSITE SEX
00:31:53.07\00:31:57.11
DRUNK SO THEY CAN GET THEM
TO GO AGAINST THEIR SCRUPLES.
00:31:57.15\00:32:01.12
YOUR GUARD AGAINST TEMPTATION
IS DEFINITELY DOWN WHEN YOU ARE
00:32:01.15\00:32:06.25
UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A DRUG.
00:32:06.29\00:32:09.12
AND SO, WHEN PEOPLE SAY, 'OH,
WELL JESUS TURNED THE WATER INTO
00:32:09.16\00:32:11.13
WINE.' HE TURNED THAT
WATER INTO GRAPE JUICE.
00:32:11.16\00:32:13.70
IT WASN'T GOING
TO GET ANYONE DRUNK.
00:32:13.73\00:32:14.93
HE DID NOT MAKE THIRTY GALLONS
OF BOOZE FOR A PARTY, AS SOME
00:32:14.93\00:32:18.10
PEOPLE - I'VE HEARD
PEOPLE SAY IT THAT WAY.
00:32:18.13\00:32:20.60
IT'S PRETTY CLEAR, RIGHT
HERE, WHY HE WANTED URIAH DRUNK.
00:32:20.64\00:32:23.91
BECAUSE HE KNEW - BETTER
CHANCE OF HIM GOING AGAINST HIS
00:32:23.94\00:32:26.61
CONVICTIONS WHEN HE'S DRUNK.
SO IF YOU WANT TO TAKE A DRUG
00:32:26.64\00:32:30.01
THAT'S GOING TO MAKE YOU GO
AGAINST YOUR CONVICTIONS - YOU
00:32:30.05\00:32:32.28
CAN ARGUE FOR ALCOHOL ALL
YOU WANT, FRIENDS, BUT YOU'RE
00:32:32.31\00:32:34.35
KIDDING YOURSELF.
IT NEVER MAKES YOU
00:32:34.38\00:32:36.38
A BETTER CHRISTIAN. >>AMEN.
00:32:36.42\00:32:38.69
>>THE BIBLE SAYS, 'BE NOT FILLED
WITH WINE WHICH IS DISSIPATION,
00:32:38.72\00:32:42.02
BUT BE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT' -
BECAUSE YOU CAN'T BE FILLED WITH
00:32:42.06\00:32:45.96
BOTH AT THE SAME TIME. HE
TRIES TO MAKE HIM DRUNK, BUT
00:32:45.99\00:32:49.46
EVEN DRUNK, HE WOULD
NOT GO DOWN TO HIS HOUSE.
00:32:49.50\00:32:54.84
IT SAYS AFTERWARDS HE STUMBLES
OUT TO THE GATEWAY AND LAYS DOWN
00:32:54.87\00:32:58.11
WITH THE SERVANTS OF
DAVID. BUT HE HAD MADE A VOW; HE
00:32:58.14\00:33:00.64
WASN'T GOING TO GO AGAINST IT.
"IN THE MORNING IT HAPPENED THAT
00:33:00.68\00:33:05.45
DAVID WROTE A LETTER TO JOAB AND
SENT IT BY THE HAND OF URIAH."
00:33:05.48\00:33:10.45
- THAT'S ABOUT AS DESPICABLE
AS YOU CAN BE. BASICALLY,
00:33:10.49\00:33:12.92
HE GIVES THE DEATH WARRANT OF
URIAH TO URIAH, SEALS IT - PUTS
00:33:12.95\00:33:22.66
IT IN A LETTER - AND HERE'S WHAT
HE SAYS TO JOAB, "SET URIAH IN
00:33:22.70\00:33:27.27
THE FOREFRONT OF THE HOTTEST
BATTLE, AND RETREAT FROM HIM," -
00:33:27.30\00:33:31.34
LEAVE HIM BEHIND - "THAT HE
MAY BE STRUCK DOWN AND DIE."
00:33:31.37\00:33:35.64
SO, CAN YOU IMAGINE THIS?
NOW, URIAH, HE GETS BACK, HE'S
00:33:35.68\00:33:38.51
MADE THIS TRIP - HE'S PROBABLY
STILL A LITTLE HUNG OVER - HE
00:33:38.55\00:33:41.15
GETS TO JOAB ON THE OTHER
SIDE OF THE JORDAN RIVER, WHERE
00:33:41.18\00:33:44.05
THEY'VE GOT THE CITY OF
RAMAH BESIEGED AND THE - THE
00:33:44.09\00:33:47.36
FORTIFICATIONS - AND THERE'RE
LITTLE SKIRMISHES GOING ON AS
00:33:47.39\00:33:49.86
THEY'RE FIGHTING AGAINST THE
DIFFERENT GATES OF THE CITY, AND
00:33:49.89\00:33:54.46
URIAH HANDS HIM A SEALED SCROLL
- IT'S GOT THE OFFICIAL SEAL.
00:33:54.46\00:33:57.50
HE SEES IT'S NOT BEEN OPENED.
HE OPENS IT UP, NOT KNOWING, BUT
00:33:57.53\00:34:00.47
IT'S SOMETHING FROM THE KING.
HE READS IT AND HE LOOKS AT THE
00:34:00.50\00:34:03.74
LETTER - 'TAKE URIAH, SET HIM AT
THE FRONT OF THE HOTTEST BATTLE'
00:34:03.77\00:34:06.68
- HE SEES URIAH STANDING THERE
AND JOAB ROLLS IT BACK UP AND HE
00:34:06.71\00:34:14.02
- URIAH'S BEEN A GOOD SOLDIER.
LIKE I SAID, HE MAY HAVE EVEN
00:34:14.05\00:34:16.82
BEEN JOAB'S ARMOR BEARER,
BUT DAVID IS THE KING AND
00:34:16.85\00:34:20.62
HE'S GIVEN HIM AN ORDER.
HE'S BASICALLY SAYING, 'GIVE HIM
00:34:20.66\00:34:23.12
A SUICIDE MISSION SO THAT HE
DIES.' NOW URIAH DOESN'T KNOW
00:34:23.16\00:34:27.36
WHAT'S GOING ON BUT, YOU KNOW,
[JOAB'S] ALREADY GOT BLOOD ON
00:34:27.40\00:34:29.43
HIS HANDS BECAUSE, REMEMBER, HE
KILLED ABNER AND HE SHOULD HAVE
00:34:29.46\00:34:33.67
DIED FOR THAT - IT
WAS TOTAL TREACHERY.
00:34:33.70\00:34:35.67
ABNER WAS - HE WAS COMING IN
PEACE, THEY HAD SIGNED A PEACE
00:34:35.70\00:34:38.94
AGREEMENT, JOAB TOOK
HIM ASIDE AND KILLED HIM.
00:34:38.97\00:34:42.24
AND SO, YOU KNOW, JOAB'S
THE NEPHEW OF DAVID, THEY'VE GOT
00:34:42.28\00:34:46.41
THIS FAMILY BOND, AND NOW
THERE'S SOMETHING TREACHEROUS
00:34:46.45\00:34:48.92
HAPPENING HERE, BUT
JOAB SAID, 'HE'S THE KING.
00:34:48.95\00:34:51.42
DON'T KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING, BUT
I'M GOING TO GO ALONG.' IT'S NOT
00:34:51.45\00:34:57.03
ONLY A DESPICABLE THING
FOR DAVID, YOU WOULD THINK THE
00:34:57.06\00:35:00.76
GENERAL WOULD SAY, 'I AM NOT
GOING TO DELIBERATELY KILL ANY
00:35:00.80\00:35:03.20
GOOD SOLDIER.' BUT HE TAKES
HIM AND HE PUTS HIM - HE FINDS A
00:35:03.23\00:35:07.60
PART OF THE CITY WHERE HE KNOWS
THEY'VE GOT THEIR BEST SOLDIERS
00:35:07.64\00:35:10.51
- THE AMMONITES ARE GOING TO BE
FIRING FROM THE WALL AND HE SAYS
00:35:10.54\00:35:13.11
TO URIAH, 'LOOK,
CHARGE THE GATES.
00:35:13.14\00:35:14.71
WE'LL COVER YOU.' AND HE GETS
ALL HIS ARCHERS BEHIND HIM AND
00:35:14.74\00:35:18.45
HE TELLS URIAH,
'CHARGE THE GATES!'
00:35:18.48\00:35:19.98
AND SO, THEY CHARGE THE GATES
AND URIAH'S GOT HIS PLATOON OF
00:35:20.02\00:35:23.18
MEN AND THEY'RE FIRING UP
AGAINST THE WALL, AND THEN JOAB
00:35:23.22\00:35:26.05
GIVES HIS COVERING MEN THE
SIGNAL - HE SAYS, 'RETREAT.
00:35:26.09\00:35:29.46
LEAVE THEM OUT THERE ALONE.' AND
THEY ABANDON THEM AND THEN THE
00:35:29.49\00:35:33.80
SOLDIERS GET BACK UP ON THE WALL
AND THEY HAIL DOWN ARROWS ON
00:35:33.83\00:35:37.00
URIAH AND HIS MEN AND THEY'RE
KILLED. NOW DON'T MISS THIS.
00:35:37.03\00:35:42.70
NOT ONLY IS URIAH KILLED, BUT IT
SAYS SOME OF THE OTHER MEN ARE
00:35:42.74\00:35:46.24
KILLED - DOESN'T EVEN GIVE
US THE NUMBER, WHICH MAKES US
00:35:46.27\00:35:48.71
THINK, 'HE DIDN'T SAY 'ONE OTHER
GUY GOT KILLED'' - SEVERAL OTHER
00:35:48.74\00:35:51.71
MEN ARE KILLED IN ORDER
FOR DAVID TO COVER HIS SIN.
00:35:51.75\00:35:55.68
SO IT'S NOT JUST THE MURDER OF
URIAH, IT'S THE MURDER OF MANY -
00:35:55.72\00:36:00.46
ALL TO COVER HIS
SIN. AND SO, JOAB DOES IT.
00:36:00.49\00:36:06.29
"THEN THE MEN OF THE CITY
CAME OUT AND FOUGHT WITH JOAB.
00:36:06.33\00:36:08.36
AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE OF
THE SERVANTS OF DAVID FELL; AND
00:36:08.40\00:36:11.37
URIAH THE HITTITE DIED ALSO."
THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE PLANNING.
00:36:11.40\00:36:16.14
"THEN JOAB SENT AND TOLD DAVID
ALL THE THINGS CONCERNING THE
00:36:16.17\00:36:18.84
WAR, AND CHARGED THE MESSENGER,
SAYING, 'WHEN YOU HAVE FINISHED
00:36:18.87\00:36:21.84
TELLING THE MATTERS OF
THE WAR TO THE KING,..."
00:36:21.88\00:36:23.55
- AND THE KING GETS MAD AND
SAYS, 'WHAT IN THE WORLD WERE
00:36:23.58\00:36:25.68
YOU THINKING WHEN YOU
APPROACHED SO NEAR TO THE WALL?'
00:36:25.71\00:36:28.25
- 'DIDN'T YOU KNOW
THEY'D SHOOT FROM THE WALL?'
00:36:28.28\00:36:30.92
HOW DID ABIMELECH DIE -
THE SON OF JERUBBESHETH?
00:36:30.95\00:36:33.42
WAS IT NOT A WOMAN WHO CAST
A PIECE OF ROCK FROM THE WALL?
00:36:33.46\00:36:36.76
THAT'S ANOTHER
STORY IN THE BIBLE.
00:36:36.79\00:36:38.59
ABIMELECH WAS KILLED - A WOMAN
PUT A PIECE OF MILLSTONE - THREW
00:36:38.63\00:36:41.00
IT OFF THE WALL - AND HE SAYS,
'IF DAVID SAYS, 'WHAT KIND OF
00:36:41.03\00:36:43.40
TACTICS ARE THESE?
WHY DID YOU DO THIS?'
00:36:43.43\00:36:45.07
- HE SAYS, 'YOU TELL DAVID, 'BY
THE WAY, URIAH THE HITTITE IS
00:36:45.10\00:36:47.47
DEAD.'' SO THE MESSENGER GIVES
THE MESSAGE TO DAVID AND DAVID,
00:36:47.50\00:36:52.61
IT SAYS, "THE ARCHERS SHOT FROM
THE WALL" - VERSE 24 - "AT YOUR
00:36:52.64\00:36:57.31
SERVANTS' AND SOME OF THE KING'S
SERVANTS ARE DEAD, AND YOUR
00:36:57.35\00:37:00.68
SERVANT URIAH THE
HITTITE IS DEAD ALSO."
00:37:00.72\00:37:02.88
AND THEN DAVID, HE SAYS,
'WELL, TELL JOAB, 'DON'T GET
00:37:02.92\00:37:04.85
DISCOURAGED, DON'T LET THIS
- YOU JUST KEEP ON FIGHTING.
00:37:04.89\00:37:07.89
YOU KNOW THE SWORD - YOU
KNOW HOW THE SWORD IS, THE SWORD
00:37:07.92\00:37:10.29
DEVOURS ONE AS WELL AS ANOTHER.
THAT'S WAR.' - WOW - 'THAT'S
00:37:10.33\00:37:15.73
JUST HOW IT HAPPENS.'
WELL, HE KNOWS, HE PLOTTED
00:37:15.76\00:37:17.47
THE WHOLE THING. AND
SO, RIGHT AFTER BATHSHEBA
00:37:17.50\00:37:23.17
GETS WORD THAT HER HUSBAND,
URIAH, HAD DIED AND HER MOURNING
00:37:23.20\00:37:26.81
WAS OVER, DAVID SENT TO HER -
SHE WENT THROUGH THE CUSTOMARY
00:37:26.84\00:37:31.28
TEN - OR TWO WEEKS OF MOURNING -
DAVID SENT TO HER AND SHE BECAME
00:37:31.31\00:37:35.78
HIS WIFE AND BORE HIM A SON.
"BUT" - DON'T MISS THIS - "THE
00:37:35.82\00:37:39.52
THING THAT DAVID HAD
DONE DISPLEASED THE LORD."
00:37:39.55\00:37:42.66
NOW, THAT IS PROBABLY
UNDERSTATED - IT DISPLEASED THE
00:37:42.69\00:37:47.56
LORD - IT ENRAGED THE LORD, THAT
DAVID, AFTER ALL THE GOOD THAT
00:37:47.60\00:37:53.97
GOD HAD GIVEN
HIM, HAD DONE THIS.
00:37:54.00\00:37:56.40
NOW SEVERAL MONTHS GO BY, SHE
HAS THE BABY - WE DON'T KNOW HOW
00:37:56.44\00:37:58.61
OLD THE BABY IS - HE'S A FEW
MONTHS OLD, MAYBE, AND DAVID'S
00:37:58.64\00:38:03.35
MAKING NO SIGNS OF REPENTANCE,
NO SIGN OF TURNING TO GOD - IT
00:38:03.38\00:38:06.82
SEEMS LIKE HE'S JUST GOING TO
GO ON LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED - NO
00:38:06.85\00:38:10.02
REMORSE - NO OUTSIDE
REMORSE - NO RECORD OF IT.
00:38:10.05\00:38:14.02
FINALLY, GOD TELLS NATHAN THE
PROPHET, 'I WANT YOU TO GO TALK
00:38:14.06\00:38:17.06
TO DAVID.' AND THE DAY - KING
DAVID IS SITTING THERE AND HE'S
00:38:17.09\00:38:20.40
- HE'S LISTENING TO DIFFERENT
CASES THAT COME TO THE KING -
00:38:20.43\00:38:24.17
THERE WAS A TIME, EACH WEEK,
WHEN THE KING WAS THE SUPREME
00:38:24.20\00:38:26.67
COURT AND DIFFICULT CASES WERE
BROUGHT TO HIM AND HE'D MAKE A
00:38:26.70\00:38:29.14
FINAL DETERMINATION.
AND NATHAN COMES, OSTENSIBLY
00:38:29.17\00:38:32.84
HE'S REPRESENTING A TERRIBLE
THING THAT HAD HAPPENED IN THE
00:38:32.87\00:38:35.71
KINGDOM, AND NATHAN SAYS TO
DAVID, "THERE WERE TWO MEN IN
00:38:35.74\00:38:40.08
ONE CITY, ONE RICH AND THE OTHER
POOR. THE RICH MAN" - I'M IN
00:38:40.12\00:38:42.98
CHAPTER 12 OF 2 SAMUEL - "THE
RICH MAN HAD EXCEEDINGLY MANY
00:38:43.02\00:38:46.92
FLOCKS AND HERDS. BUT THE
POOR MAN HAD NOTHING, EXCEPT ONE
00:38:46.96\00:38:49.86
LITTLE EWE LAMB WHICH HE
HAD BOUGHT AND NOURISHED; AND IT
00:38:49.89\00:38:53.93
GREW UP TOGETHER WITH HIM AND
WITH HIS CHILDREN. IT ATE OF HIS
00:38:53.96\00:38:57.20
OWN FOOD AND DRANK FROM HIS OWN
CUP AND LAY IN HIS BOSOM; AND IT
00:38:57.23\00:39:01.10
WAS LIKE A DAUGHTER TO HIM."
- AND WHILE NATHAN IS TELLING
00:39:01.14\00:39:04.31
THIS STORY, HE PICKED JUST THE
RIGHT PARABLE BECAUSE DAVID'S
00:39:04.34\00:39:09.21
THINKING BACK TO THE DAYS
WHEN HE WAS A SHEPHERD AND, DID
00:39:09.24\00:39:12.65
DAVID CARE ABOUT
HIS LAMBS? >>YES.
00:39:12.68\00:39:15.02
>>DID HE LAY DOWN
HIS LIFE TO SAVE THEM?
00:39:15.05\00:39:17.15
HE FOUGHT BEARS TO SAVE HIS
LAMBS, HE FOUGHT LIONS TO SAVE
00:39:17.19\00:39:20.22
HIS LAMBS, HE HAD
NAMES FOR THEM, HE KNEW THEIR
00:39:20.26\00:39:22.56
CHARACTERISTICS, HE FELL ASLEEP
WITH HIS HEAD ON THE BACK OF A
00:39:22.59\00:39:25.16
LAMB, AND SO, DAVID'S
RELATING TO ALL OF THIS.
00:39:25.19\00:39:29.00
HE'S GOING, 'YEAH,
YEAH, TELL ME, WHAT HAPPENED?
00:39:29.03\00:39:31.00
I KNOW - THAT POOR
LITTLE LAMB - WHAT HAPPENED?'
00:39:31.03\00:39:33.57
- "..AND DRANK
FROM HIS OWN CUP..."
00:39:33.60\00:39:35.90
- AND DAVID'S LAUGHING, 'YEAH,
I - WE DID THAT TOO.' - "...AND
00:39:35.94\00:39:40.14
LAY IN HIS BOSOM; AND IT
WAS LIKE A DAUGHTER TO HIM."
00:39:40.18\00:39:42.04
- THE FAMILY PET - "AND
A TRAVELER CAME TO HIS RICH
00:39:42.08\00:39:45.81
NEIGHBOR" - AND THE CUSTOM WAS
YOU'D SOMETIMES SET THE FATTED
00:39:45.85\00:39:48.88
CALF OR SOME FOOD BEFORE THE
NEIGHBOR, BUT INSTEAD OF TAKING
00:39:48.92\00:39:52.65
FROM HIS OWN FLOCKS, HE TOOK
THE ONE LAMB OF THE POOR MAN AND
00:39:52.69\00:39:58.03
BUTCHERED IT TO
GIVE TO THE VISITOR.
00:39:58.06\00:40:01.70
"SO DAVID'S ANGER WAS GREATLY
AROUSED" - WRATH - JUST FIRE WAS
00:40:01.73\00:40:07.24
SHOOTING OUT OF HIS EYES
AND SMOKE OUT OF HIS EARS - AND
00:40:07.27\00:40:10.97
DAVID SAID, "AS THE LORD LIVES,
THE MAN WHO HAS DONE THIS SHALL
00:40:11.01\00:40:13.58
SURELY DIE!" -
'WHAT A TERRIBLE THING, TO
00:40:13.61\00:40:15.94
TAKE THAT ONE MAN'S LAMB WHEN
YOU'VE GOT SO MANY OF YOUR OWN!
00:40:15.98\00:40:20.52
NOW HE'S GOING TO RESTORE
FOURFOLD FOR THE LAMB, BECAUSE
00:40:20.55\00:40:23.82
HE DID THIS THING AND HE HAD
NO PITY.' AND THEN SOME OF THE
00:40:23.85\00:40:27.59
GREAT, EPIC WORDS OF THE BIBLE
- THIS IS SOMETHING THAT JUST
00:40:27.62\00:40:30.16
JUMPS OUT IN SCRIPTURE - NATHAN
SAYS TO DAVID, "YOU ARE THE
00:40:30.19\00:40:33.26
MAN!" - IT'S LIKE WHEN THEY'RE
GOING AROUND THE TABLE AND JESUS
00:40:33.29\00:40:42.60
SAYS, 'ONE OF YOU IS GOING
TO BETRAY ME.' AND THEY ALL SAY,
00:40:42.64\00:40:45.34
'LORD, IS IT I?'
'IS IT I?' 'IS IT I?'
00:40:45.37\00:40:47.38
AND JUDAS SAYS, 'IS IT
I?' AND JESUS SAYS, 'THOU HAS
00:40:47.41\00:40:49.88
SAID.' THIS IS EVEN TOUGHER.
HE SAYS, "'YOU ARE THE MAN!'
00:40:49.91\00:40:54.88
THUS SAYS THE LORD" - IT'S LIKE
THAT MOMENT WHEN KING AHASUERAS
00:40:54.92\00:41:00.59
SAYS TO ESTHER, 'WHO IS THE
ONE WHO WOULD DARE TO THINK TO
00:41:00.62\00:41:03.79
DESTROY YOUR PEOPLE?' AND
HAMAN'S GOING, 'YEAH, WHO?'
00:41:03.83\00:41:08.36
AND SHE SAID, 'IT'S YOU.'
(LAUGHTER) ONE OF THOSE 'AHA!'
00:41:08.40\00:41:13.30
MOMENTS. HE SAYS,
"'YOU ARE THE MAN!'
00:41:13.34\00:41:18.87
THUS SAYS THE LORD GOD OF
ISRAEL: 'I ANOINTED YOU KING
00:41:18.91\00:41:21.71
OVER ISRAEL, AND I DELIVERED
YOU FROM THE HAND OF SAUL.
00:41:21.74\00:41:24.58
I GAVE YOU YOUR MASTER'S HOUSE
AND YOUR MASTER'S WIVES INTO
00:41:24.61\00:41:27.52
YOUR KEEPING, AND GAVE YOU
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH.
00:41:27.55\00:41:31.49
AND IF THAT HAD BEEN TOO LITTLE,
I ALSO WOULD HAVE GIVEN YOU MUCH
00:41:31.52\00:41:34.79
MORE!''" - YOU
KNOW, I WONDER HOW MANY
00:41:34.82\00:41:38.86
OF US - GOD CAN
SAY THAT TO US TOO.
00:41:38.89\00:41:41.63
'YOU'RE NOT SATISFIED?
IF YOU PRAY FOR GOOD THINGS,
00:41:41.66\00:41:43.40
I'LL GIVE YOU MORE.' JESUS SAID,
'YOU HAVE NOT BECAUSE YOU ASK
00:41:43.43\00:41:46.84
NOT.' YOU JUST WONDER,
YOU KNOW, WHAT MORE WOULD HE
00:41:46.87\00:41:50.04
HAVE GIVEN DAVID?
DAVID WAS, YOU KNOW, IT
00:41:50.07\00:41:51.84
SEEMED LIKE HE WAS
SATISFIED. HE SAID, 'IF YOU WERE
00:41:51.87\00:41:54.48
UNSATISFIED, I WOULD HAVE
GIVEN YOU MORE, BUT NOT WHEN IT
00:41:54.51\00:41:58.08
INVOLVES BREAKING MY
LAW.' - "I ALSO WOULD HAVE
00:41:58.11\00:42:03.12
GIVEN YOU MUCH MORE!
WHY HAVE YOU DESPISED THE
00:42:03.15\00:42:06.62
COMMANDMENT OF THE
LORD, TO DO EVIL IN HIS SIGHT?
00:42:06.65\00:42:10.43
YOU HAVE KILLED URIAH THE
HITTITE WITH THE SWORD; YOU HAVE
00:42:10.46\00:42:13.43
TAKEN HIS WIFE TO BE YOUR WIFE,
AND HAVE KILLED HIM WITH THE
00:42:13.46\00:42:16.63
SWORD OF THE PEOPLE OF AMMON."
- 'YOU'RE NOT FOOLING ME.
00:42:16.67\00:42:18.70
IT WASN'T THE AMMONITES, YOU
KILLED HIM.' - "'NOW THEREFORE,
00:42:18.73\00:42:21.80
THE SWORD SHALL NEVER DEPART
FROM YOUR HOUSE, BECAUSE YOU
00:42:21.84\00:42:24.87
HAVE DESPISED ME, AND HAVE TAKEN
THE WIFE OF URIAH THE HITTITE TO
00:42:24.91\00:42:28.68
BE YOUR WIFE.' THUS SAYS THE
LORD: 'BEHOLD, I WILL RAISE UP
00:42:28.71\00:42:33.88
ADVERSITY AGAINST YOU FROM YOUR
OWN HOUSE, AND I WILL TAKE YOUR
00:42:33.92\00:42:37.72
WIVES BEFORE YOUR EYES AND GIVE
THEM TO YOUR NEIGHBOR, AND HE
00:42:37.75\00:42:41.89
SHALL LIE WITH YOUR
WIVES IN THE SIGHT OF THIS SUN.
00:42:41.92\00:42:44.59
FOR YOU DID IT SECRETLY, BUT
I WILL DO THIS THING BEFORE ALL
00:42:44.63\00:42:47.23
ISRAEL,''" - YOU KNOW,
JESUS SAID THOSE THINGS
00:42:47.23\00:42:48.90
THAT ARE DONE IN SECRET WILL BE
PROCLAIMED FROM THE HOUSETOPS -
00:42:48.93\00:42:53.57
"SO DAVID SAID TO NATHAN, 'I
HAVE SINNED AGAINST THE LORD.'"
00:42:53.60\00:43:01.11
NOW SOME KINGS, WHEN PROPHETS
CONFRONTED THEM LIKE THIS, THEY
00:43:01.14\00:43:05.01
HAD THE PROPHETS PUT IN
JAIL. 'HOW DARE YOU TALK
00:43:05.05\00:43:06.98
TO ME LIKE THAT?'
MICAIAH WAS PUT IN JAIL BECAUSE
00:43:07.02\00:43:10.49
HE TALKED LIKE THAT TO AHAB.
AND SOME OF THE OTHER [PROPHETS]
00:43:10.52\00:43:14.22
WERE PERSECUTED OR THEY
HARASSED THEM IN SOME WAY.
00:43:14.26\00:43:18.13
SOME WERE KILLED - SOME OF
THE PROPHETS WERE KILLED BECAUSE
00:43:18.16\00:43:21.60
THEY TOLD THE TRUTH. BUT
NATHAN, WHEN HE TALKED TO
00:43:21.63\00:43:25.47
DAVID, DAVID STILL HAD SOMETHING
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT LEFT IN
00:43:25.50\00:43:28.40
HIM AND HE WAS
OVERCOME WITH CONVICTION.
00:43:28.44\00:43:31.47
HE THOUGHT NATHAN SPOKE THE
TRUTH - IT'S - 'THIS IS GOD'S
00:43:31.51\00:43:33.74
WORD AND HE'S RIGHT.' HE WAS
OVERWHELMED WITH WAVES OF GRIEF
00:43:33.78\00:43:40.48
AND HE REALIZED,
'WHAT HAS BECOME OF ME?
00:43:40.52\00:43:42.22
WHAT HAPPENED TO ME
THAT I WOULD COME TO THIS?'
00:43:42.25\00:43:44.45
AND HE CONFESSES, "I
HAVE SINNED AGAINST THE LORD."
00:43:44.49\00:43:47.26
AND THEN, AS SOON AS HE
CONFESSES - HOW LONG DOES HE
00:43:47.29\00:43:51.89
HAVE TO WAIT BEFORE
HE'S TOLD THAT HE'S FORGIVEN?
00:43:51.93\00:43:54.60
IMMEDIATELY. NATHAN
THE PROPHET SAYS, 'GOD
00:43:54.63\00:43:59.00
HAS PUT AWAY YOUR SIN
AND YOU WILL NOT DIE.' WOW.
00:43:59.03\00:44:04.74
SO WHAT IS THE DELAY TIME - NOW
KAREN AND I, WE'RE IN THIS NEW
00:44:04.77\00:44:09.31
HOUSE NOW AND WHENEVER I DIAL A
NUMBER - IT DRIVES ME CRAZY - ON
00:44:09.34\00:44:12.98
THE LAND LINE - WE STILL HAVE A
LAND LINE - I DIAL THE NUMBER -
00:44:13.01\00:44:15.62
I'VE GOT TO WAIT TEN
SECONDS FOR IT TO RING.
00:44:15.65\00:44:17.92
NOW THAT DOESN'T SEEM LONG UNTIL
YOU SIT THERE FOR TEN SECONDS.
00:44:17.95\00:44:22.59
I MEAN, EVERY OTHER NORMAL
PHONE, WHEN YOU DIAL YOU WAIT
00:44:22.62\00:44:25.29
ONE SECOND, TWO
SECONDS - BUT TEN SECONDS?
00:44:25.33\00:44:27.76
WE HAD THE PHONE MAN COME BACK
AND SAID, 'WHY DOES IT TAKE TEN
00:44:27.76\00:44:29.73
SECONDS - THE DELAY -
BEFORE THE PHONE RINGS?'
00:44:29.76\00:44:33.27
HE SAID, 'THAT'S JUST HOW
FAR YOU ARE FROM THE TERMINATING
00:44:33.30\00:44:35.47
POST OUT THERE. SORRY, NOTHING
WE CAN DO ABOUT IT.' EVERY TIME
00:44:35.50\00:44:38.87
I DIAL I'M GOING, 'OH, ONE-ONE
THOUSAND, TWO-ONE THOUSAND' -
00:44:38.91\00:44:42.48
I'M JUST WAITING - 'IS THERE
SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE PHONE?'
00:44:42.51\00:44:44.05
'NO, JUST GOT TO WAIT.' -
'THREE-ONE THOUSAND' - THE DELAY
00:44:44.08\00:44:48.05
TIME BETWEEN YOUR REPENTANCE
AND YOUR FORGIVENESS IS NANO
00:44:48.08\00:44:53.36
SECONDS. >>AMEN.
00:44:53.39\00:44:55.42
>>IN THE BIBLE, AS SOON AS
YOU GENUINELY REPENT - AND WHEN
00:44:55.46\00:44:57.86
DAVID BURST OUT, 'I HAVE SINNED'
- IT CAME FROM A BROKEN HEART
00:44:57.89\00:45:01.16
RIGHT THERE. AND
IMMEDIATELY GOD SAID, 'YOU
00:45:01.20\00:45:04.20
ARE FORGIVEN.'
NOW WAIT A SECOND.
00:45:04.23\00:45:05.40
HOW CAN YOU DO
THAT? AFTER ALL HE'S DONE?
00:45:05.43\00:45:08.97
THAT'S TERRIBLE WHAT HE
DID. DON'T YOU THINK YOU
00:45:09.00\00:45:10.77
OUGHT TO NOT FORGIVE HIM?
HE OUGHT TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, AT
00:45:10.81\00:45:13.64
LEAST FIFTY DAYS OF LOST
TIME BEFORE YOU FORGIVE HIM?
00:45:13.68\00:45:18.61
THAT SHOULD BE
ENCOURAGING FOR US.
00:45:18.65\00:45:21.38
BUT HE SAYS, 'EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE
FORGIVEN, THERE'S CONSEQUENCES
00:45:21.42\00:45:25.75
THAT WON'T GO AWAY.
JESUS FORGAVE THE THIEF ON THE
00:45:25.79\00:45:28.89
CROSS, BUT HE STILL
DIED ON THE CROSS, DIDN'T HE?
00:45:28.92\00:45:32.86
HE WAS STILL A THIEF.
"...BECAUSE BY THIS DEED YOU
00:45:32.89\00:45:36.33
HAVE GIVEN GREAT OCCASION
TO THE ENEMIES OF THE LORD TO
00:45:36.36\00:45:38.77
BLASPHEME," - YOU KNOW HOW
LONG PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MAKING
00:45:38.80\00:45:42.64
FUN OF WHAT DAVID DID?
BECAUSE OF DAVID'S SIN, DOWN
00:45:42.67\00:45:47.21
THROUGH HISTORY, PEOPLE HAVE
SAID, 'YEAH, YOU CAN BELIEVE
00:45:47.24\00:45:49.34
IN GOD, BUT LOOK AT WHAT THOSE
PEOPLE DO. REMEMBER DAVID AND
00:45:49.38\00:45:51.28
BATHSHEBA?' AND PEOPLE HAVE USED
THAT AS AN EXCUSE FOR SIN ALL
00:45:51.31\00:45:55.75
THROUGH HISTORY.
BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU'VE DONE,
00:45:55.78\00:45:58.12
"...'YOU HAVE GIVEN GREAT
OCCASION TO THE ENEMIES OF THE
00:45:58.15\00:45:59.95
LORD TO BLASPHEME, THE CHILD
ALSO WHO IS BORN TO YOU SHALL
00:46:00.06\00:46:04.06
SURELY DIE.' THEN
NATHAN DEPARTED TO HIS HOUSE.
00:46:04.09\00:46:08.56
AND THE LORD STRUCK THE CHILD
THAT URIAH'S WIFE BORE TO DAVID,
00:46:08.60\00:46:11.17
AND IT BECAME ILL. DAVID
THEREFORE PLEADED WITH GOD FOR
00:46:11.20\00:46:15.84
THE CHILD," - BECAUSE, OFTEN,
THE LORD, YOU KNOW, YOU PRAY -
00:46:15.87\00:46:17.71
THE PEOPLE OF NINEVEH REPENTED,
GOD RELENTED - HE "PLEADED WITH
00:46:17.74\00:46:21.78
GOD FOR THE CHILD, AND DAVID
FASTED AND WENT IN AND LAY ALL
00:46:21.81\00:46:25.51
NIGHT ON THE GROUND. SO THE
ELDERS OF HIS HOUSE AROSE AND
00:46:25.55\00:46:30.05
WENT TO HIM, TO RAISE HIM UP
FROM THE GROUND. BUT HE WOULD
00:46:30.09\00:46:32.49
NOT, NOR DID HE
EAT FOOD WITH THEM.
00:46:32.52\00:46:34.69
THEN ON THE SEVENTH DAY" - NOW,
YOU'VE JUST GOT TO PAUSE HERE
00:46:34.72\00:46:38.69
AND REMIND YOU OF SOMETHING
ABOUT DAVID THAT, IF YOU HAVEN'T
00:46:38.73\00:46:41.93
NOTICED, SOLOMON, DAVID'S SON,
WROTE 'WHATEVER YOUR HAND FINDS
00:46:41.96\00:46:45.73
TO DO, DO IT WITH ALL OF YOUR
MIGHT.' DAVID, WHEN HE FOUGHT
00:46:45.77\00:46:49.77
GIANTS, HE WENT OUT WHEN
NO ONE ELSE WOULD GO OUT.
00:46:49.80\00:46:52.94
AND DAVID WOULD SING LOUDER
THAN ANYONE ELSE, HE WOULD FIGHT
00:46:52.97\00:46:55.48
HARDER - WHATEVER DAVID DID,
HE DID WITH ALL OF HIS MIGHT.
00:46:55.51\00:46:57.81
WHEN DAVID MADE UP HIS MIND TO
SIN, BOY, HE REALLY WENT FOR IT,
00:46:57.85\00:47:03.65
DIDN'T HE? >>YES.
00:47:03.69\00:47:05.62
>>I MEAN, TO - WHAT HE DID IN
TAKING BATHSHEBA AND LYING ABOUT
00:47:05.65\00:47:12.73
IT AND MURDERING - LYING, TRYING
TO CONNIVE AND MANIPULATE URIAH
00:47:12.76\00:47:18.13
AND THEN MURDERING URIAH AND
JUST ACTING LIKE THE WHOLE THING
00:47:18.17\00:47:21.37
- WHENEVER DAVID DID ANYTHING,
HE DID IT WITH ALL HIS MIGHT.
00:47:21.40\00:47:24.04
BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS, NOT ONLY
DID HE SIN GREAT, HE REPENTED
00:47:24.07\00:47:26.94
GREAT. >>AMEN.
00:47:26.98\00:47:28.98
>>AND HE WENT - AND I ALWAYS
HEAR PEOPLE MAKE EXCUSES AND
00:47:29.01\00:47:31.25
SAY, 'WELL, I KNOW
I SINNED. WE ALL SIN.
00:47:31.28\00:47:32.75
LOOK AT WHAT DAVID DID.'
ALRIGHT, IF YOU WANT TO USE
00:47:32.78\00:47:34.88
DAVID AS AN EXCUSE FOR YOUR SIN,
THEN I WANT TO SEE YOU REPENT
00:47:34.92\00:47:39.09
LIKE DAVID REPENTED. >>AMEN.
00:47:39.12\00:47:41.26
>>DAVID WENT AND LAID ON HIS
FACE ALL NIGHT - I'VE NOT SEEN
00:47:41.29\00:47:44.26
TOO MANY PEOPLE DO
THAT - FOR SEVEN DAYS.
00:47:44.29\00:47:47.60
HE WOULD NOT EAT.
HE WAS BROKEN HEARTED.
00:47:47.60\00:47:51.90
AND IF YOU JUST WONDER, GO TO
PSALM 51, PLEASE, AND I'LL CLOSE
00:47:51.93\00:47:55.50
WITH THIS. I
WANT YOU TO READ THE
00:47:55.54\00:48:00.58
INTRODUCTION TO THE
PSALM, AS MUCH AS ANYTHING, "TO
00:48:00.61\00:48:05.05
THE CHIEF MUSICIAN. A
PSALM OF DAVID WHEN NATHAN THE
00:48:05.08\00:48:07.82
PROPHET WENT TO HIM, AFTER
HE HAD GONE IN TO BATHSHEBA."
00:48:07.85\00:48:11.79
SO, IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT
DAVID WAS SAYING AND PRAYING
00:48:11.82\00:48:15.26
DURING THIS TIME, HERE
YOU HAVE IT RECORDED FOR YOU.
00:48:15.29\00:48:19.26
"HAVE MERCY UPON ME,
O GOD, ACCORDING TO YOUR
00:48:19.29\00:48:21.23
LOVINGKINDNESS; ACCORDING
TO THE MULTITUDE OF YOUR TENDER
00:48:21.26\00:48:23.83
MERCIES, BLOT OUT
MY TRANSGRESSIONS.
00:48:23.87\00:48:27.00
WASH ME THOROUGHLY FROM MY
INIQUITY, AND CLEANSE ME FROM MY
00:48:27.04\00:48:30.57
SIN. FOR I ACKNOWLEDGE" - HE
00:48:30.61\00:48:32.54
CONFESSED - "MY TRANSGRESSIONS,
AND MY SIN IS ALWAYS BEFORE ME."
00:48:32.57\00:48:37.08
- HOW CAN I EVER
FORGET WHAT I'VE DONE?
00:48:37.11\00:48:38.98
- "AGAINST YOU, YOU ONLY,
HAVE I SINNED," - ALL SIN IS,
00:48:39.01\00:48:42.25
ULTIMATELY, AGAINST GOD - "AND
DONE THIS EVIL IN YOUR SIGHT -
00:48:42.28\00:48:45.29
THAT YOU MIGHT BE FOUND JUST
WHEN YOU SPEAK AND BLAMELESS
00:48:45.32\00:48:48.59
WHEN YOU JUDGE.
BEHOLD, I WAS BROUGHT FORTH IN
00:48:48.62\00:48:51.29
INIQUITY, AND IN SIN
MY MOTHER CONCEIVED ME.
00:48:51.33\00:48:53.80
BEHOLD, YOU DESIRE TRUTH IN THE
INWARD PARTS, AND IN THE HIDDEN
00:48:53.83\00:48:57.13
PART YOU WILL
MAKE ME TO KNOW WISDOM.
00:48:57.17\00:48:59.43
PURGE ME WITH HYSSOP, AND I
SHALL BE CLEAN;" - THIS IS WHAT
00:48:59.47\00:49:02.00
THEY USED WHEN THEY DIPPED IT IN
THE BLOOD AND THEY PUT THE BLOOD
00:49:02.04\00:49:04.91
OF THE PASSOVER LAMB - THEY USED
HYSSOP - HE'S SAYING, "PURGE ME
00:49:04.94\00:49:08.11
WITH HYSSOP," - THE BLOOD OF THE
LAMB - "AND I SHALL BE CLEAN;
00:49:08.14\00:49:11.48
WASH ME, AND I
SHALL BE WHITER THAN SNOW.
00:49:11.51\00:49:14.92
MAKE ME HEAR JOY AND GLADNESS,
THAT THE BONES YOU HAVE BROKEN
00:49:14.95\00:49:17.92
MAY REJOICE. HIDE
YOUR FACE FROM MY SINS,
00:49:17.95\00:49:20.76
AND BLOT OUT ALL MY INIQUITIES.
CREATE IN ME A CLEAN HEART,
00:49:20.79\00:49:24.13
O GOD, AND RENEW A
STEADFAST SPIRIT WITHIN ME.
00:49:24.16\00:49:27.36
DO NOT CAST ME AWAY FROM YOUR
PRESENCE, AND DO NOT TAKE YOUR
00:49:27.40\00:49:30.93
HOLY SPIRIT FROM ME.
RESTORE TO ME THE JOY OF YOUR
00:49:30.97\00:49:34.70
SALVATION, AND UPHOLD ME
BY YOUR GENEROUS SPIRIT."
00:49:34.74\00:49:37.51
- I SAID, THEN ONCE AGAIN,
INSTEAD OF BEING AN EVANGELIST
00:49:37.54\00:49:40.64
FOR THE DEVIL, I'LL BE AN
EVANGELIST FOR YOU - "THEN I
00:49:40.68\00:49:43.55
WILL TEACH TRANSGRESSORS
YOUR WAYS, AND SINNERS SHALL BE
00:49:43.58\00:49:47.02
CONVERTED TO YOU." >>AMEN.
00:49:47.05\00:49:48.68
>>THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL PSALM
- AND I'M NOT GOING TO READ IT
00:49:48.72\00:49:50.79
ALL. AND, BY THE WAY, YOU CAN
READ PSALM 51 AND YOU CAN READ
00:49:50.82\00:49:53.62
PSALM 32. I WANT TO
JUMP BACK TO SOMETHING.
00:49:53.66\00:49:57.03
SOME OF YOU HEAR THE STORY AND
YOU THINK, 'THAT DOESN'T SOUND
00:49:57.06\00:49:58.83
RIGHT. HERE,
DAVID SINS, BATHSHEBA
00:49:58.86\00:50:04.40
SUFFERS; URIAH
DIES, THE BABY DIES.
00:50:04.43\00:50:08.97
WHAT DID THE BABY DO?
WHAT DID THE BABY DO?'
00:50:09.00\00:50:12.74
WELL, I MEAN, WHY DID
THE BABY HAVE TO SUFFER?
00:50:12.77\00:50:17.61
YOU KNOW WHO HAD TO DIE THAT
THEY COULD BE FORGIVEN AND THE
00:50:17.65\00:50:21.75
KINGDOM COULD BE
SALVAGED? IT WAS - THAT BABY
00:50:21.78\00:50:24.99
WAS THE SON OF DAVID. ARE
YOU GETTING WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:50:25.02\00:50:29.86
IS THERE ANOTHER SON OF DAVID
THAT HAD TO DIE THAT SIN COULD
00:50:29.89\00:50:32.33
BE COVERED? THAT BABY
THAT DIED, FOR DAVID'S
00:50:32.36\00:50:37.10
SIN - THE BABY WAS INNOCENT.
IT REPRESENTS ANOTHER INNOCENT
00:50:37.13\00:50:40.94
BABY THAT CAME INTO THE
WORLD AND DIED THAT WE MIGHT BE
00:50:40.97\00:50:44.67
FORGIVEN - ANOTHER
SON OF DAVID THAT DIED.
00:50:44.71\00:50:50.71
AND, YOU KNOW, JUST TO SHOW
YOU HOW THOROUGHLY GOD FORGAVE
00:50:50.75\00:50:54.38
DAVID, IT SAYS AFTER THE CHILD
DIED HE LAID ON HIS FACE FOR
00:50:54.42\00:50:57.52
SEVEN DAYS AND HE WOULDN'T
EAT, AND FINALLY THE CHILD DIED.
00:50:57.55\00:51:01.52
IT DOESN'T SAY WHAT
THE CHILD DIED FROM.
00:51:01.56\00:51:04.09
AND THE SERVANTS WERE AFRAID
TO TELL HIM - VERSE 19 - THEY
00:51:04.13\00:51:09.26
THOUGHT, 'OH MAN. LOOK
AT HOW HE'S MOURNING - LOOK
00:51:09.30\00:51:11.23
AT HOW HE'S BEATING UP HIMSELF
BECAUSE OF WHAT'S HAPPENED.
00:51:11.27\00:51:14.54
ONCE - HE'S PRAYING FOR THE
CHILD - SEVEN DAYS FASTING -
00:51:14.57\00:51:17.97
HE'S POURING OUT HIS HEART.
HOW DO WE BEAR NEWS TO HIM THAT
00:51:18.01\00:51:22.61
EVEN THOUGH HE PRAYED AND
PRAYED AND PRAYED FOR SOMETHING,
00:51:22.64\00:51:25.05
HE DIDN'T GET AN ANSWER?'
- NOT THE ANSWER HE WANTED -
00:51:25.08\00:51:27.38
HAVE YOU EVER FELT LIKE THAT?
YOU PRAYED AND PRAYED AND PRAYED
00:51:27.42\00:51:29.12
FOR SOMETHING AND YOU DIDN'T
GET THE ANSWER YOU WANTED?
00:51:29.15\00:51:33.12
AND THEY FINALLY TOLD HIM -
DAVID HEARD THEM WHISPERING - HE
00:51:33.15\00:51:35.79
SAID, 'TELL ME,
IS THE CHILD DEAD?'
00:51:35.82\00:51:37.03
AND THEY SAID, 'YES.' HE GOT UP,
HE WASHED HIS CLOTHES, TOOK A
00:51:37.06\00:51:41.20
BATH, CHANGED HIS CLOTHES, SAID,
'BRING ME SOME FOOD.' THEY SAID,
00:51:41.23\00:51:44.23
'WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
YOU MOURNED AND REPENTED AND
00:51:44.27\00:51:49.14
CRIED LIKE THIS PRAYING FOR
THE BABY WHILE IT WAS ALIVE AND,
00:51:49.17\00:51:52.01
NOW, THE BABY'S DEAD
AND YOU'RE GOING TO EAT.
00:51:52.04\00:51:55.18
USUALLY PEOPLE START MOURNING
AND FASTING AFTER THE DEATH.' HE
00:51:55.21\00:51:58.71
SAID, 'I WAS PRAYING THAT GOD
WOULD SAVE THE CHILD.' HE SAYS,
00:51:58.75\00:52:01.48
'I CAN GO TO THE CHILD NOW.
HE WON'T COME TO ME.' HE SAID,
00:52:01.52\00:52:05.19
'GOD'S GIVEN ME HIS
ANSWER. WHY SHOULD I FAST?
00:52:05.22\00:52:10.16
CAN I BRING HIM BACK AGAIN?
I WILL GO TO HIM, BUT HE'LL NOT
00:52:10.19\00:52:13.19
RETURN TO ME.' NOW HERE'S THE
PART I WANT YOU TO GET - VERSE
00:52:13.23\00:52:15.63
24 - 2 SAMUEL 12:24, "THEN DAVID
COMFORTED BATHSHEBA" - BECAUSE
00:52:15.66\00:52:20.67
HE'S NOT THE ONLY ONE SUFFERING
THROUGH ALL OF THIS; IT WAS HER
00:52:20.70\00:52:23.24
BABY - HE "COMFORTED BATHSHEBA"
- AND NOTICE A LITTLE WORD
00:52:23.27\00:52:28.68
THERE, IT SAYS, "HE COMFORTED
BATHSHEBA HIS WIFE" - NOW DID
00:52:28.71\00:52:34.15
GOD SAY, 'I WANT YOU TO DIVORCE
BATHSHEBA'? IT TALKS ABOUT HIM
00:52:34.18\00:52:40.46
SINNING AGAINST URIAH AND TAKING
THE WIFE OF URIAH, BUT WHEN HE
00:52:40.49\00:52:43.56
REPENTED - AND I'M SURE
BATHSHEBA REPENTED AT SOME POINT
00:52:43.59\00:52:47.30
- YOU CANNOT
UNSCRAMBLE SCRAMBLED EGGS.
00:52:47.36\00:52:50.73
AND HE ACCEPTED,
'ALRIGHT, SHE'S YOUR WIFE.
00:52:50.77\00:52:53.90
THERE'S GOING TO BE CONSEQUENCES
FOR WHAT HAS HAPPENED, BUT I'M
00:52:53.94\00:52:56.10
FORGIVING YOU, I'M FORGIVING
BATHSHEBA, AND IT SAYS SHE ENDED
00:52:56.14\00:53:00.84
UP, BECAUSE SHE WAS HIS WIFE
- THEY CONTINUED RELATIONS - SHE
00:53:00.88\00:53:04.88
HAD ANOTHER SON AND
THAT SON'S NAME WAS SOLOMON.
00:53:04.91\00:53:09.18
AND IT SAYS THE LORD
LOVED HIM. WHAT A CONTRAST.
00:53:09.22\00:53:13.02
HERE YOU'VE GOT THE FIRST SON OF
DAVID AND BATHSHEBA DIES BECAUSE
00:53:13.05\00:53:17.66
OF THEIR SIN. THEY
HAVE ANOTHER SON TOGETHER,
00:53:17.69\00:53:20.73
SHE'S NOW CALLED DAVID'S WIFE,
AND IT SAYS GOD LOVES THAT SON,
00:53:20.76\00:53:25.57
AND HE BECOMES THE NEXT KING
OF ISRAEL - THE SON OF BATHSHEBA
00:53:25.60\00:53:28.64
- WHICH MAKES YOU
SCRATCH YOUR HEAD.
00:53:28.67\00:53:29.94
IF YOU'RE LIKE ME, YOU
THINK, 'WELL, WAIT A SECOND.
00:53:29.97\00:53:32.44
IF JESUS CAME THROUGH DAVID AND
IF JESUS CAME THROUGH BATHSHEBA,
00:53:32.47\00:53:37.28
HOW - WASN'T HE SUPPOSED TO BE
WITH BATHSHEBA - BUT THAT WOULD
00:53:37.31\00:53:40.78
MEAN THAT THE LORD WAS AN
ACCOMPLICE TO WHAT DAVID DID.
00:53:40.82\00:53:43.18
AND HOW" - I'VE GOT A THEORY
- I CAN'T PROVE IT - YOU CAN'T
00:53:43.22\00:53:46.59
DISPROVE IT. IF DAVID
HAD LOOKED AT BATHSHEBA
00:53:46.62\00:53:50.66
THAT DAY LIKE HE ONCE HAD LOOKED
AT ABIGAIL AND SAY, 'NOW THAT'S
00:53:50.69\00:53:54.30
A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN' - BUT
HE DID NOT TAKE NABAL'S WIFE.
00:53:54.36\00:53:57.37
NABAL DIED AND HE GOT ABIGAIL.
URIAH MIGHT HAVE DIED IN THAT
00:53:57.40\00:54:03.37
BATTLE ANYWAY AND HE COULD HAVE
DONE IT THE RIGHT WAY AND JESUS
00:54:03.41\00:54:08.78
WOULD HAVE COME
THROUGH THE LINE OF BATHSHEBA -
00:54:08.81\00:54:11.05
I MEAN, WE DON'T
KNOW. I CAN'T PROVE THAT.
00:54:11.08\00:54:13.18
IT'S JUST SPECULATION,
BUT IT MAKES YOU WONDER.
00:54:13.21\00:54:17.25
BUT GOD BLESSED
THEM AND HE FORGAVE THEM.
00:54:17.29\00:54:19.22
THERE WERE LOTS OF PROBLEMS THAT
CAME LATER AND WE'LL GET TO SOME
00:54:19.25\00:54:21.02
OF THAT IN FUTURE STUDIES, BUT
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING I WANT
00:54:21.06\00:54:24.09
YOU TO KNOW IS DAVID COMMITTED
A GREAT SIN BUT, BECAUSE HE
00:54:24.13\00:54:28.63
CONFESSED AND HE EXPERIENCED A
GREAT REPENTANCE, HE HAD A GREAT
00:54:28.66\00:54:33.97
FORGIVENESS. NOW,
WHEN I TALK ABOUT DAVID,
00:54:34.00\00:54:39.17
YOU KNOW, I THINK I JUST OUGHT
TO MENTION - I KNOW I'VE GONE
00:54:39.21\00:54:41.58
LONGER THAN USUAL - GOD IS
CALLING US TO LIVES OF PURITY.
00:54:41.61\00:54:48.15
HERE DAVID WAS A MAN AFTER GOD'S
OWN HEART AND YET HE STRUGGLED
00:54:48.18\00:54:51.82
WITH SOME BAD BEHAVIOR.
GOD IS CALLING US TO PURITY.
00:54:51.85\00:54:56.56
>>AMEN. >>1
THESSALONIANS 4:3, "FOR
00:54:56.59\00:54:59.33
THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD,
YOUR SANCTIFICATION: THAT YOU
00:54:59.36\00:55:02.36
SHOULD ABSTAIN FROM SEXUAL
IMMORALITY;" - 1 CORINTHIANS
00:55:02.40\00:55:06.80
6:9, "DO YOU NOT KNOW
THAT THE UNRIGHTEOUS WILL NOT
00:55:06.84\00:55:10.31
INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF
GOD? DO NOT BE DECEIVED.
00:55:10.34\00:55:14.44
NEITHER FORNICATORS, NOR
IDOLATERS, NOR ADULTERERS, NOR
00:55:14.48\00:55:17.58
HOMOSEXUALS, NOR SODOMITES,
NOR THIEVES, NOR COVETOUS, NOR
00:55:17.61\00:55:21.52
DRUNKARDS, NOR REVILERS, NOR
EXTORTIONERS WILL INHERIT THE
00:55:21.55\00:55:25.39
KINGDOM OF GOD." NOW
THAT WOULD DISQUALIFY A LOT
00:55:25.42\00:55:28.16
OF US RIGHT THERE,
EXCEPT HE GOES ON TO SAY, "AND
00:55:28.19\00:55:31.03
SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU."
DAVID WAS AN ADULTERER BUT HE
00:55:31.06\00:55:34.96
REPENTED AND TURNED FROM IT.
HE SAYS, "BUT YOU WERE WASHED,
00:55:35.00\00:55:38.40
BUT YOU WERE SANCTIFIED, BUT YOU
WERE JUSTIFIED IN THE NAME OF
00:55:38.43\00:55:41.40
THE LORD JESUS AND BY
THE SPIRIT OF OUR GOD."
00:55:41.44\00:55:44.01
IF GOD CAN SAVE AND FORGIVE
DAVID FROM THAT SIN - AND
00:55:44.04\00:55:47.98
BATHSHEBA - FROM THAT IMPURITY,
THEN HE CAN FORGIVE US, AMEN?
00:55:48.01\00:55:51.38
>>AMEN. >>AND,
AS DAVID SAID IN HIS
00:55:51.41\00:55:53.88
PSALM, HE CAN WASH US AND MAKE
US WHITER THAN SNOW. (MUSIC)
00:55:53.92\00:56:06.93
>>SO WHAT IS THE
BRIGHTEST LIGHT IN THE WORLD?
00:56:06.96\00:56:09.60
WELL, NATURALLY, YOU'D SAY THE
SUN, BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE
00:56:09.63\00:56:11.97
BRIGHTEST MAN-MADE
LIGHT IN THE WORLD.
00:56:12.00\00:56:14.57
IT'S THE LIGHT THAT
SHINES OUT OF THE ROOF OF THAT
00:56:14.60\00:56:17.07
PYRAMID-SHAPED HOTEL IN
LAS VEGAS CALLED THE LUXOR.
00:56:17.11\00:56:20.98
THERE, IN THE CAP OF THAT HOTEL,
THERE'S A ROOM THAT CONTAINS 39
00:56:21.01\00:56:24.81
WASHING-MACHINE SIZED XENON
BULBS; AND EACH OF THOSE BULBS
00:56:24.85\00:56:29.35
REQUIRES ABOUT 7,000 WATTS.
ALTOGETHER, THEY PRODUCE ABOUT
00:56:29.38\00:56:33.32
40 BILLION
CANDLE POWER OF LIGHT.
00:56:33.36\00:56:37.09
CAN YOU IMAGINE GETTING THAT
ELECTRIC BILL AT THE LUXOR HOTEL
00:56:37.13\00:56:39.23
EVERY MONTH? THAT
LIGHT IS SO BRIGHT THAT
00:56:39.26\00:56:42.06
PLANES CAN SEE
IT 250 MILES AWAY.
00:56:42.10\00:56:46.20
THEY'RE SHOOTING LIGHT TEN MILES
UP INTO SPACE, MEANING, IF YOU
00:56:46.23\00:56:49.77
HAPPEN TO BE FLOATING BY, YOU
COULD READ A NEWSPAPER UP THERE.
00:56:49.80\00:56:53.74
AND, AS YOU MIGHT HAVE GUESSED,
THAT BRIGHT LIGHT HAS BECOME THE
00:56:53.78\00:56:56.81
WORLD'S BEST BUG ATTRACTOR,
BRINGING IN MOTHS, BATS, AND
00:56:56.85\00:57:00.48
OWLS - CREATING IT'S OWN
ECOSYSTEM THERE AT NIGHT, ABOVE
00:57:00.52\00:57:03.45
THE HOTEL. BUT THE
SAD THING ABOUT THE
00:57:03.49\00:57:05.82
BRIGHTEST LIGHT IN THE WORLD IS
ESPECIALLY WHEN THE NIGHT AIR IS
00:57:05.85\00:57:09.32
CLEAR - WITHOUT ANY PARTICLES
- THE LIGHT DOESN'T HIT
00:57:09.36\00:57:12.26
ANYTHING AND IT'S INVISIBLE.
IT SHOOTS UP INTO EMPTY SPACE.
00:57:12.29\00:57:17.60
THE BRIGHTEST LIGHT IN
THE WORLD ILLUMINATES NOTHING.
00:57:17.63\00:57:21.40
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS
US THAT THERE'S ANOTHER GREAT
00:57:21.44\00:57:23.47
WASTED LIGHT, AND
THAT'S THE LIGHT OF GOD'S WORD.
00:57:23.51\00:57:26.84
IT SAYS IN PSALM 119, VERSE 105,
"THY WORD IS A LAMP UNTO MY FEET
00:57:26.88\00:57:32.05
AND A LIGHT UNTO MY PATH.' AND
YET, SO MANY PEOPLE ARE WALKING
00:57:32.08\00:57:35.32
IN DARKNESS.
FURTHERMORE, JESUS SAID, IF YOU
00:57:35.35\00:57:38.35
DO HAVE THAT LIGHT, MAKE SURE
YOU DON'T PUT IT UNDER A BUSHEL,
00:57:38.39\00:57:41.26
BUT YOU LET IT SHINE AND
ILLUMINATE THE LIVES OF OTHERS.
00:57:41.29\00:57:44.43
JESUS SAID, IN MATTHEW CHAPTER
5, 'SET YOUR LIGHT UP ON A HILL,
00:57:44.46\00:57:47.96
LIKE A CITY, SO THAT ALL MIGHT
SEE IT.' LIGHT ONLY BENEFITS
00:57:47.96\00:57:52.00
OTHERS WHEN IT REFLECTS OFF OF
SOMETHING. GOD WANTS OUR LIGHTS
00:57:52.03\00:57:56.30
TO ILLUMINATE THE LIVES OF
OTHERS. SO, ARE YOU GLOWING FOR
00:57:56.34\00:57:59.91
GOD? REMEMBER, JESUS
SAID, 'LET THERE BE LIGHT.'
00:57:59.94\00:58:11.39
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CHRISTIAN RESOURCES,
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VISIT AFBOOKSTORE.COM .
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