1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:17,760 Some say you're just a good make out Some say you work out 2 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:26,800 Some say you work in the grave But I say you're a good 3 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:35,680 Some say you're just a crowd man Some say you're worldwide 4 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:43,600 Some say you're just a man But I say you are good 5 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:50,560 You are my God I will shout your name to all the earth 6 00:00:50,560 --> 00:01:00,000 And I will lift your name on high And the world will know your greatness 7 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:12,640 You are my God I will shout your name 8 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:21,760 I know that you're the Messiah You gave your life for me 9 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:29,840 And I know you're the only way Jesus you are God 10 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:36,800 You are my God I will shout your name to all the earth 11 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:46,160 And I will lift your name on high And the world will know your greatness 12 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:54,000 You are my God Jesus I will shout your name to all the earth 13 00:01:54,000 --> 00:02:03,360 And I will lift your name on high I will show the world your goodness 14 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:25,120 As I live a life that shouts your name As I live a life that shouts your name 15 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:39,840 Jesus I decide to live To live a life that shouts your name 16 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:46,840 your face. Jesus, I decide to live to live a life that shouts your name. Jesus, I decide 17 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:58,840 to live to live a life that shouts your name. 18 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:10,840 Good evening, good evening, good evening, welcome. So it's Tuesday night, we're going 19 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:15,840 to have Wax Out Simple Stuff. This is going to go by quick, so brace yourself. Our Tuesday 20 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:21,840 is beginning now for six months. Our new spiritual emphasis will be prayer. So we're going to 21 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:26,840 be praying and talking about praying and learning about praying and have some questions about 22 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:30,840 praying. We're going to be scripting about praying. A little bit of quick looking forward 23 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:37,840 over the next probably two months, we'll talk about ten locks and ten keys. Praying. You'll 24 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:42,840 be able to collect the locks and the keys to prayer while we'll pray together. And so 25 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:47,840 what better way to start our spiritual emphasis on prayer than to pray together. So pray with 26 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:54,840 me if you would. Let's pray. God in heaven, we adore you. You are an awesome God, a loving 27 00:03:54,840 --> 00:04:01,840 God, a powerful God, a giving God, a gracious God, and yet a just God, a holy God, a righteous 28 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:07,840 God. You are a God who loves us so much that if it were up to you, you would give us all 29 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:14,840 and be through Jesus. That's exactly what you've done. But it had to be paid for. The 30 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:21,840 wages of sin is death, and so it had to be paid for. The wrath of God against the unrighteousness 31 00:04:21,840 --> 00:04:27,840 of men. That doesn't mean that you hate us or that you're angry with us. It means that 32 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:33,840 you resist our force when we're going the wrong way. And Lord, we are grateful that 33 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:38,840 Jesus took all of that resistance, all of that pain, all of that hurt on him. He made 34 00:04:38,840 --> 00:04:44,840 that happen. He made it possible. So we confess to you that throughout our lives we have made 35 00:04:44,840 --> 00:04:50,840 mistakes and choices that do not honor you, maybe even today, in the last moments. There 36 00:04:50,840 --> 00:04:55,840 are those that are missing out, opportunity here in worship with us today, going through 37 00:04:55,840 --> 00:05:03,840 something perhaps, and chose another course. I guess that's up to you to deal with that 38 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:12,840 or to figure it out, to work it out. Lord, we just ask you to help them understand, help 39 00:05:12,840 --> 00:05:18,840 them process whatever it is that they're going through. Father, we ask you the same for us. 40 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:24,840 Forgive us when we fail you, when we're in the midst of something, when we let it interfere, 41 00:05:24,840 --> 00:05:32,840 let it be important. You are important. Your word is important. Your teaching of your word 42 00:05:32,840 --> 00:05:36,840 and also understanding it so we can teach you others. Those things are important. Worshiping 43 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:42,840 you, that's important. Father, that's what we want to do. And we look hard at prayer. 44 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:46,840 First of all, Lord, we've got to say thank you for prayer. Thank you for the opportunity 45 00:05:46,840 --> 00:05:51,840 to praise and lift up our concerns. Come together as a group and lift up our concerns. That 46 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:57,840 we have somebody to say, hey, pray for this for me. And we know that the word says that 47 00:05:57,840 --> 00:06:03,840 there are lots of ways that prayer impacts and does amazing things, including does not 48 00:06:03,840 --> 00:06:15,840 fail. It produces fruit in the person praying and also affects our lives. It heals. It teaches. 49 00:06:15,840 --> 00:06:23,840 It protects. We will hear incredible stories over the next six months of how even in our 50 00:06:23,840 --> 00:06:30,840 midst, someone here was praying and something amazing happened. Lord, and how prayer opened 51 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:37,840 this building. Prayer planted this church. Prayer brought people back into the fold. 52 00:06:37,840 --> 00:06:44,840 Prayer protected us from violence. Prayer provided for us. We know that, Lord, it's 53 00:06:44,840 --> 00:06:49,840 really you that does all of those things. The prayer is our opportunity to ask it for 54 00:06:49,840 --> 00:06:56,840 them. To answer any of those questions. Lord, take over the service time. We've got a couple 55 00:06:56,840 --> 00:06:59,840 songs we're going to sing together. And a lesson we're going to look at in your word 56 00:06:59,840 --> 00:07:06,840 and a reminder of how dangerous certain choices can be. Lord, we pray for those who might 57 00:07:06,840 --> 00:07:12,840 still be on the way here now. Those who are just arriving. Special blessing, Lord. Pour 58 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:21,840 out yourself, your love. You've already spent everything to bring us to yourself. So Lord, 59 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:27,840 we just pray that we will be with you, learning from you, governed by you, submitting ourselves 60 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:32,840 to your every desire. Be God and let us be your people. 61 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:44,840 All right, this next one has some motions. If you know them, I think Mishiri is going 62 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:50,840 to come up and help if she can. If you would stand up, please. I can't do motions when 63 00:07:50,840 --> 00:08:04,840 I'm playing the guitar at the same time. Sorry. Not that good. 64 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:29,840 You came from heaven to earth to show the way. From the earth to the cross, my friends 65 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:57,840 and friends. From the cross to the grave, from the grave to the sky. Lord, I wish you name 66 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:11,840 of God. You came from heaven to earth to show the way. From the earth to the cross, my friends 67 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:38,840 and friends. From the cross to the grave, from the grave to the sky. Lord, I wish you name 68 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:41,840 of God. 69 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:58,840 This time we'll let the leaders and their children go to the left. 70 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:23,840 Oh God, you are my God and I will never face you. Oh God, you are my God and I will never face you. 71 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:37,840 I will sing you in the morning and I will learn you walking away. Step by step you lead me 72 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:53,840 and I will call you by my name. Oh God, you are my God and I will never face you. Oh God, 73 00:10:53,840 --> 00:11:07,840 you are my God and I will never face you. I will sing you in the morning and I will learn 74 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:23,840 you walking away. Step by step you lead me and I will follow you all of my days. Step by 75 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:38,840 step you lead me and I will follow you all of my days. 76 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:57,840 Right there. 77 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:01,840 Okay, that's the actors. 78 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:24,840 Alright, alright, alright. So we are going to look today at an interesting story and 79 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:31,840 you're basically going to see it in two perspectives. Okay, so before we go to the text, I want 80 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:37,840 to talk about that just for a second. If I was going to write down, if I was going to 81 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:44,840 write in my diary, let's say, the events that took place Tuesday with the block party a 82 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:49,840 week ago today, I would write down the things that struck me, the things that were most 83 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:55,840 important to me, things that I saw. You're going to have a hard time writing down every 84 00:12:55,840 --> 00:13:00,840 little thing that happened. Almost nobody can do that. You would fill a dictionary with 85 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:04,840 all the details if you could remember what color shirt everybody was wearing, what color 86 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:10,840 shoes they were wearing, how their hair looked, how many cotton candy they ate. Or you try 87 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:14,840 to write all that down. You could literally fill a book and you just don't have to. You 88 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:18,840 just have one person's perspective. You don't know how many cotton candies somebody ate or 89 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:24,840 how many hot dogs. So you would have a hard time getting all of that collected. So what 90 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:28,840 you're going to do, when you go to write things down, is you're going to write down what you 91 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:34,840 saw, what was important to you. And you might be systematic about it and work through by 92 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:41,840 name. So let's see, what did I see about Tony Tate? What did I see about Aaron Stevenson? 93 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:45,840 And you might be systematic and write it down that way once you start getting into the details, 94 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:49,840 but you might not remember certain details about who ate what, who did what, what they 95 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:54,840 were dressed like, like that. Then if somebody else was going to write the same day down 96 00:13:54,840 --> 00:14:00,840 in their journal, they're going to remember what their eyes saw and what their ears heard. 97 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:07,840 So they're going to write from their perspective. And they may know that Pascha Dan ate X and 98 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:14,840 somebody else might not. So perspective means what you know, what you saw, what you heard. 99 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:19,840 So the story that we're going to get today comes from two different perspectives because 100 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:25,840 the people who wrote the book, or the books that they come from, were writing for two 101 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:31,840 different purposes. Not so much that they saw it differently, right? But because the 102 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:36,840 purposes of the books were different. So on the page, as you're looking at it, you'll 103 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:41,840 see it has the big word battle in the middle and that's like two axes. And if you go up 104 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:49,840 to the right, there's some slant blanks. So we're talking about up here, going that way. 105 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:53,840 Okay? And that's where we're going to get our first reference. And so the first reference 106 00:14:53,840 --> 00:15:07,840 is 2 Samuel 11.1. Thank you. Amen. So 2 Samuel 11.1. I'll read it in a moment. Okay. Does 107 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:12,840 anybody remember we did this a few weeks ago? Does anybody remember who Samuel was? Now 108 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:19,840 that we did it once a few weeks ago. So Samuel was a high priest, right? He was born to a 109 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:23,840 woman who for a long time couldn't have children. She begged God for a child and said if he 110 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:28,840 gave her a child that she would dedicate that child into God's service. She then got pregnant 111 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:33,840 after that, turned Samuel over to God's service and Samuel replaced the high priests who were 112 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:40,840 from before who were not doing a good job. Okay? Samuel will anoint, that means he poured 113 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:44,840 oil on and prayed for God's blessing. The oil was representative of God's Holy Spirit 114 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:57,840 actually. Saul and then later David. Okay? Alright, so here we go. 2 Samuel 11.1. Then 115 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:02,840 it happened in the spring at the time when kings go out to battle that David sent Joab 116 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:07,840 and his servants with him and all Israel and they destroyed the sons of Ammon and besieged 117 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:16,840 Rabah but David stayed at Jerusalem. Okay? Now go over on your page to the left. Up to 118 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:21,840 the left. You got a slanting one goes up right like that and a slanting one goes up like 119 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:31,840 that. Okay? And now we're going to look at 1 Chronicles 20 verse 1. Okay? So a chronicle 120 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:37,840 is the story of what happened during a king's reign or like them coming to power and so 121 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:51,840 on. Okay? So 1 Chronicles chapter 20 verse 1. Listen to the similarities. Then it happened 122 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:57,840 in the spring at the time when kings go out to battle that Joab led out the army and ravaged 123 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:05,840 the land of the sons of Ammon and came and besieged Rabah. Okay? And so what's different? 124 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:11,840 What did you notice was different? I can read them again. 11.1 was that it happened in the 125 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:15,840 spring at the time when kings go out to battle that David sent Joab and his servants with 126 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:20,840 him and all Israel and they destroyed the sons of Ammon and besieged Rabah but David 127 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:25,840 stayed at Jerusalem. Then 20 verse 1 said that it happened in the spring at the time 128 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:30,840 when kings go out to battle that Joab led out the army and ravaged the land of the sons 129 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:38,840 of Ammon and came and besieged Rabah but David stayed at Jerusalem. Okay? So there's only 130 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:44,840 really one thing really that really stands out. It says David sent him out. Right? What 131 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:53,840 did David do? He stayed at home. What did Joab do? In both texts. He went to battle. 132 00:17:53,840 --> 00:18:02,840 He led the armies. Were the armies generally speaking victorious? Yes. Joab struck Rabah 133 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:10,840 and overthrew it. Right? And then over here it says they destroyed the sons of Ammon and 134 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:16,840 besieged Rabah. So there's a slight difference but basically they were victorious. Okay? 135 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:25,840 So it does tell you from 11.1 that the story is not over yet because the siege, we're 136 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:31,840 at the point in the story where the siege is taking place whereas over here it says 137 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:40,840 that in verse 21 it says that they ravaged the land of the sons of Ammon came and besieged 138 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:45,840 Rabah but David stayed at Jerusalem. Okay. It says he's in both. So in both cases they're 139 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:50,840 besieging Rabah so something else is going to happen. Right? There we go. That's right. 140 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:56,840 Okay. So now we're working our way down the right hand side of the page. Okay? So the 141 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:04,840 first thing, there's three blanks there and I didn't give you the letters but it's 142 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:19,840 David stays home. Okay? So under 2 Samuel 11.1 David stays home. All right. And then 143 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:24,840 there's another one and I'll tell you right now this is about Joab and it's, I gave you 144 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:28,840 the first letter of each word. Anybody want to take a stab at it? Five words, you got 145 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:41,840 the first letter of each word. Yep. Yep. Against. Yep. Yes. Ammon. Or Ammon. You're 146 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:46,840 the one. Now there's an interesting thing about this before we go any further. A new 147 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:51,840 king came to the throne of Ammon. If you go back a little bit in the story. A new king 148 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:58,840 came to the throne. And the old king had been pretty good to David. And so David sent some 149 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:03,840 guys to console the new king at the loss of his father and say I'm really sorry your dad 150 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:09,840 died and he was always good to me and I want to be friends basically. But the advisors 151 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:14,840 to the new king said to him is he just sending people to console you or are they spying out 152 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:22,840 the land so that they can conquer the land? Right? And so they shamed the men. They cut 153 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:28,840 off their beards. And they sent them back to David and basically this new king was saying 154 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:33,840 we want nothing to do with you. Leave us alone. You know we think you're just trying to spy 155 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:37,840 on us so you can capture our land. When David wasn't trying to do that he was in earnest 156 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:41,840 trying to be genuine. He was trying to be kind to them. So he let the men stay in the 157 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:48,840 village, regrow their beards, let them come back, give the report. Now David's mad because 158 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:54,840 his men were shamed. Right? And he's thinking about going to war. So the king of Ammon hires 159 00:20:54,840 --> 00:21:00,840 a bunch of mercenaries from the Amorites. Six thousand chariots and some soldiers. A bunch 160 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:08,840 of them. Thousands. I think it was seven thousand. Six or seven thousand chariots. Anyway. And 161 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:12,840 they defeat them all. They defeat all the mercenaries. In fact they deal with the Amorites 162 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:17,840 first. And now they're ready to deal with Ammon after all that. That's what's going 163 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:22,840 on here. These guys did not have to be David's enemy. They did not. David wasn't setting 164 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:27,840 out to destroy them initially. But after they shamed his men and told him that they didn't 165 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:33,840 want nothing to do with him, then that changed everything. So Joab leads the army against 166 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:42,840 Ammonites or against Ammon. And then we have capital G, capital V. Anyone want to take 167 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:49,840 a stab at that? Okay. It's actually just great victory. You could say God's victory, but 168 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:55,840 I'll show you why not so much in a minute. Why I wouldn't say that. Great victory. And 169 00:21:55,840 --> 00:22:06,840 let me read a little bit here. So we're following with the text. I'm actually reading from 1 170 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:11,840 Chronicles chapter 20. I know that we're under the 2 Samuel 11, one side, but listen to this. 171 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:14,840 It says, Then it happened in the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, that 172 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:19,840 Joab led out the army and ravaged the land of the sons of Ammon, and came and besieged 173 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:24,840 Rabah. But David stayed at Jerusalem, and Joab struck Rabah and overthrew it, and David 174 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:29,840 took the crown of their king from his head, and he found it to weigh a talent of gold. 175 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:34,840 That's a lot. And there was a precious stone in it, and it was placed on David's head. 176 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:39,840 And he brought out the spoil of the city of a very great amount, and he brought out the 177 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:44,840 people who were in it, and cut them with saws and sharp instruments and with axes. And thus 178 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:50,840 David did to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. Then David and all his people returned 179 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:56,840 to Jerusalem. So after the great victory, David does go out, and they do all this nasty 180 00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:04,840 things to the people and destroy them. Mind you, none of that had to happen. They decided 181 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:08,840 they wanted to be at war with God's people. They didn't have to do that. But it's a great 182 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:15,840 victory, as in represented by the crown. So the crown of the king of Ammon is taken from 183 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:24,840 him, and he's put to death, and put on David's head. So there is a great victory. However, 184 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:30,840 something else happens in this story that's not told, and it goes in these blanks. Anyone 185 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:35,840 want to take a stab at the blanks without hearing any more than we have? If not, we'll 186 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:44,840 come back to it. So we've got S-U-G-A-D. Any ideas for this story? The other part of the 187 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:48,840 story? The part that we're about to read? Okay, so let's take a stab at it. We're going 188 00:23:48,840 --> 00:24:00,840 to read it. 10-1. Now it happened after that... Oops, hold on. Second Samuel. It's 11-1, 189 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:05,840 sorry. Then it happened in the spring at the time when the kings went out to battle, that 190 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:09,840 David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel, and they destroyed the sons 191 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:14,840 of Ammon and besieged Rabah, but David stayed at Jerusalem. Now when evening came, David 192 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:18,840 arose from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king's house, and from the roof 193 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:26,840 he saw a woman bathing. So now if you go over on the left side, the first three blanks, 194 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:30,840 I gave you... I didn't give you the letters. They are the same as the other side. David 195 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:35,840 stays home. So we know David stays home. We're on the left side of the page. Now we're working 196 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:47,840 our way down the left side. David stays home. Okay? And when David stays home, what happens? 197 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:56,840 That's right. David sees Bathsheba bathing. That's perfect. Okay? So it says, Now when 198 00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:00,840 evening came, David arose from his bed, walked around on the roof of the king's house, and 199 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:06,840 from the roof he saw a woman bathing. And the woman was very beautiful in appearance. 200 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:12,840 So David sent and inquired about the woman, and one said, Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter 201 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:19,840 of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? And David sent messengers and took her. And when 202 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:25,840 she came to him, he lay with her. And then when she had purified herself from her uncleanness, 203 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:32,840 she returned to her house. Okay? So the next one, I gave you the first and the third letter. 204 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:37,840 And you want to take a stab at it? David took her. That's right. David took her or takes 205 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:44,840 her, either one, depending on the tense of the verb. David took her. Okay? So all of 206 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:50,840 this is happening. Are you following? You've got a funny look on your face. Okay? So David 207 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:56,840 stays home. David sees Bathsheba bathing. David takes her or David took her. Got it? 208 00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:09,840 Okay. Okay. So he's having this other man's wife. This is not his greatest day, right? 209 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:14,840 Then after he lay with her, she waits for herself to be cleaned again. She gets cleaned up, 210 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:19,840 whatever, and she returned to her house. Verse five. And the woman conceived, and she sent 211 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:27,840 and told David and said, I am pregnant. Then David, what's that? Ritro. Yeah, exactly. 212 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:33,840 Then David said to Joab, sent to Joab saying, now mind you, this is while they're besieging 213 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:39,840 the city, right? So we haven't had the full victory yet. They're besieging the city. Send 214 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:45,840 me Uriah the Hittite. So Joab sent Uriah to David. When Uriah came to him, David asked 215 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:49,840 concerning the welfare of Joab and the people in the state of the war. So he makes a pretense 216 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:53,840 of asking about what's going on at the front. That's what you would do with a good warrior 217 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:58,840 who comes home. You say, well, tell me what you think. How are things going? Right? How's 218 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:02,840 the war going? Does it look like we're going to win? How's our supplies? You know, just 219 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:07,840 basically ask them the questions. Verse eight. Then David said to Uriah, go down to your 220 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:13,840 house and wash your feet. And Uriah went out of the king's house and a present from the 221 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:18,840 king was sent out after him. But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the 222 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:23,840 servants of his Lord and did not go down to his house. So he refuses to go home. So this 223 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:28,840 guy comes home from war and battle and he refuses to go home to be with his wife. Verse 224 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:34,840 10. Now when they told David saying Uriah did not go down to his house, David said to 225 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:40,840 Uriah, have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house? And Uriah 226 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:45,840 said to David, the Ark and Israel and Judah are staying in temporary shelters and my Lord 227 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:51,840 Joab and the servants of my Lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house 228 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:55,840 to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? So he knows that that's what you do when you 229 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:59,840 go home. That David knows that all men of war know that's what you do when you go home. 230 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:06,840 Right? By your life and the life of your soul, I will not do this thing. He's dedicated to 231 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:11,840 the men he serves alongside. The Ark or the covenant is not where it belongs. He's like, 232 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:18,840 I'm not going to do this. Verse 12. Then David said to Uriah, stay here today also and tomorrow 233 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:25,840 I will let you go. So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. Now David called him 234 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:30,840 and he ate and drank before him and he made him drunk. And in the evening he went out 235 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:35,840 to lie on his bed with his Lord's servants, but he did not go down to his house. So he 236 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:40,840 stayed with him, fed him up, gives him a big feast, gets him drunk and he still won't go 237 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,840 lay with his wife. He did everything he could to get the man to go home and be with his 238 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:49,840 wife, but he didn't do it. Verse 14. Now it came about in the morning that David wrote 239 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:55,840 a letter to Joab and it's sent it by the hand of Uriah. So Uriah himself takes this letter 240 00:28:55,840 --> 00:29:01,840 that we're about to read the results of. But he's loyal to David. He won't read the letter, 241 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:09,840 keeps the letter sealed and he takes it to Joab. And he had written in the letter saying, 242 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:15,840 place Uriah in the front line of the fiercest battle and withdraw from him so that he may 243 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:21,840 be struck down and die. So it was as Joab kept watch on the city that he put Uriah at the 244 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:27,840 place where he knew there were valiant men. So where the strong warriors of the enemy 245 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:31,840 were. And the men of the city went out and fought against Joab and some of the people 246 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:39,840 among David's servants fell and Uriah the Hittite also died. Okay? So we went as far 247 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:48,840 as D-A-U-D. What do you think? Capital D is David. I'll give you that. David what? 248 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:53,840 David authorizes Uriah's death. Yep. Arranges. David arranges or authorizes would be fine 249 00:29:53,840 --> 00:30:10,840 too but arranges Uriah's death. Okay? So he died. David arranges Uriah's death. Then 250 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:15,840 here we find what we didn't find on the other side. So if you trace right over to the right 251 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:22,840 and in the horizontal words, follow death, go over, there's an S. This word speaks of 252 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:31,840 Uriah. It's a single word. What was Uriah? To David. No actually it seemed like he wasn't 253 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:35,840 suspicious I think. I don't think he was. I think he was just loyal. It didn't seem 254 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:39,840 like he was suspicious to me. Maybe he was. We don't really know because it's written 255 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:48,840 from the other side. He was a servant. Okay? Now listen. David's the king. David can have 256 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:54,840 any woman in the kingdom he wants. Uriah is a servant and a loyal servant. He didn't just 257 00:30:54,840 --> 00:31:03,840 steal some guy's wife. He stole what might be the most loyal Hittites wife. This guy 258 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:08,840 would not even go and lie with his wife while the army was still in the field and the other 259 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:12,840 men couldn't come home. He was loyal to his men at arms, the people that he was fighting 260 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:20,840 alongside of. So it's servant and the capital U is Uriah. And now they want to take a stab 261 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:31,840 at G-A-D. It's not like how we would normally talk. The men of the city went out and fought 262 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:36,840 against Joab and some of the people among David's servants fell and Uriah the Hittite 263 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:45,840 also died. So what I know is a little weird but it's gets also dead. That's what Uriah 264 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:49,840 got. He got a letter from David to take to Joab and it gets also dead. That's what he 265 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:56,840 winds up. For his loyalty, for his service, for his strength, for his combat, everything 266 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:04,840 that he did, all of it, he just gets a line. He's also dead. Verse 18, then Joab sent 267 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:08,840 and reported to David all the events of the war. He charged the messenger saying, When 268 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,840 you have finished telling all the events of the war and the king, and if it happens that 269 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:16,840 the king's wrath rises and he says to you, Why did you go so near to the city to fight? 270 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:20,840 Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall? Who struck down Abimelech the son 271 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:25,840 of Jerubishah? Did not a woman throw an upper millstone on him from the wall so that he 272 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:32,840 died at Sebez? Why did you go so near the wall? Then you shall say, Your servant Uriah 273 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:40,840 the Hittite is dead also. In other words, he's telling him this was all arranged to 274 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:49,840 make sure that Uriah died. But notice, why would David be angry? What would he be upset 275 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:56,840 about? Why is Joab expecting him to be upset? Yeah, losing, not winning at least at that 276 00:32:56,840 --> 00:33:04,840 point, losing and also men dying. It's not just Uriah the Hittite, right? Others died. 277 00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:10,840 They lost a bunch of men. So they don't have to lose any men. The city is besieged. 278 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:14,840 Only if they come out to fight, right? You don't go near the wall and get shot at by 279 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:19,840 archers. That's just basically, and you take bullets and die, right? That's just dumb. 280 00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:25,840 You don't go up there. So David might well be upset because people died. And the truth 281 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:29,840 is David should be upset if even Uriah the Hittite died. But in this case, David's 282 00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:35,840 arranging for it. So he's not upset about that. And he takes that excuse, if you will, 283 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:41,840 or Joab believes that that excuse will be sufficient that they were busy arranging for 284 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:45,840 the death of Uriah the Hittite. So the messenger departed, came and reported to David all that 285 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:51,840 Joab had sent him to tell. And the messenger said to David, the men prevailed against us, 286 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:56,840 came out against us in the field, but we pressed them as far back as the entrance of the gate. 287 00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:00,840 In other words, we were winning the battle. We just kept pursuing them to the gate. Moreover, 288 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:04,840 the archer shot at your servants from the wall. So some of the king's servants are dead. 289 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:10,840 And your servant, Uriah the Hittite, is dead also, or is also dead. Then David said to 290 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:15,840 the messenger, thus you shall say to Joab, do not let this thing displease you for the 291 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:20,840 sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle against the city stronger and 292 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:25,840 overthrow it, and so encourage him. Now when the wife of Uriah the Hittite heard that 293 00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:29,840 Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband. When the time of mourning was 294 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:34,840 over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife. Then she bore him 295 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:40,840 his son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the Lord. So there 296 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:46,840 was a great victory, but not really God's great victory, right? This is all arranged 297 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:52,840 by David and his men. The great victory is David's great victory, or Joab's great victory, 298 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:57,840 but it's not really done in the way that God would want it to be. Very briefly, I'm going 299 00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,840 to summarize the next part, and I'll hit a few verses. It says, Then the Lord sent 300 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:04,840 Nathath to David, and he came to him and said, There were two men in the city, the one rich, 301 00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:08,840 the other poor. The rich man had a great many flocks and herds, but the poor man had nothing 302 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:13,840 except one little yew lamb, which he bought and nourished, and it grew up together with 303 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:18,840 him and his children. It would eat his bread and drink of his cup and lie in his bosom, 304 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:23,840 and it was like a daughter to him. A traveler came to a rich man, I'm just going to read 305 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:30,840 through four, and he was unwilling to take from his own flock or his own herd to prepare 306 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:34,840 for the wayfarer who had come to him. Rather, he took the poor man's yew lamb and prepared 307 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:38,840 it for the man who had come to him. So what is he doing here? What's happening in the 308 00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:47,840 story? Nathan's telling David a story. What's the story really about? What he just did. 309 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:56,840 Okay? So how is Uriah the Hittite's wife like the yew lamb? Anyone want to take a stab at 310 00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:03,840 it? If this is about what he just did, then Uriah the Hittite must be that guy and the 311 00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:10,840 yew lamb must be his wife. Go ahead. Okay, yeah, so he took what he wanted from somebody 312 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:17,840 else. How many wives did Uriah the Hittite have? One. Just one. A good one, but just one. 313 00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:21,840 Right? Kind of a little bit debatable because we don't really have any in the story where 314 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,840 she resists at all. She probably did. She probably at least passively resisted, although 315 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:31,840 it was the king, so what was she really going to do? Yeah, David had more than one wife 316 00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:38,840 already. Yeah, exactly. So David's anger burned greatly against the man and he said to 317 00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:46,840 Nathan, as the Lord lives, surely the man who has done this deserves to die. Get it? 318 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:51,840 So David pronounced his judgment on the man who did that and he must make restitution 319 00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:56,840 to the lamb, for the lamb fourfold because he did this thing and had no compassion. 320 00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:04,840 Nathan then said to David, You are the man. Thus says the Lord God of Israel, it is I 321 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:09,840 who anointed you king over Israel and it is I who delivered you from the hand of Saul. 322 00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:15,840 I also gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your care and I gave 323 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:19,840 you the house of Israel and Judah and if that had been too little I would have added to 324 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:24,840 you many more things like these. Why have you despised the word of the Lord by doing 325 00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:29,840 evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with a sword, have taken his 326 00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:34,840 wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the sons of Ammon. Now 327 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:39,840 therefore the sword shall never depart from your house because you have despised me and 328 00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:43,840 have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife. Thus says the Lord, Behold I 329 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:48,840 will raise up evil against you from your own household. I will even take your wives before 330 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:52,840 your eyes and give them to your companion and he shall lie with your wives in broad 331 00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:58,840 daylight. Indeed you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and 332 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:03,840 under the sun. Then David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord and Nathan 333 00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:09,840 said to David, the Lord also has taken away your sin, you shall not die. However, because 334 00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:14,840 by the deed you have given occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child 335 00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:21,840 also that is born to you shall surely die. So Nathan then went to his house. Okay, so 336 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:30,840 the next one on the line, NCD. What do you think? Yep, Nathan chastises David, Nathan 337 00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:35,840 confronts David, Nathan, I don't know, he might come up with another one. Can't say 338 00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:43,840 curses. You could say that, yep, any of those would work. Although the pronouncement, the 339 00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:48,840 actual judgment is from David, not from Nathan really. But interestingly enough, what does 340 00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:55,840 David said should happen to the man after the story? He should die. And what does Nathan 341 00:38:55,840 --> 00:39:02,840 say will happen to David? He'll be spared. He said you will not die. God forgives your 342 00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:07,840 sin and you will not die. However, because this deed you have given occasion to the enemies 343 00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:16,840 of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born to you shall surely die. Ouch. 344 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:25,840 Alright, and so then we have GC, God's curse. Nathan pronounce a curse. And it is that the 345 00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:29,840 child would die, that's bad enough. But on top of that it says that David's wives will 346 00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:34,840 be taken in broad daylight by a companion of David. There would be nothing that David 347 00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:44,840 can do about it, it's pretty bad. So at the bottom of your, you've got the top here. If 348 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:49,840 you'll look right in the middle, we haven't filled in the blanks of kind of like the above 349 00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:58,840 battle yet. And the blanks are in the spring when kings go out to, and then there's the 350 00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:07,840 big word battle. You see it in the axis? In the spring when kings go out to battle. The 351 00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:11,840 battle, the word battle is already there. Okay? And then you follow the line down to 352 00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:21,840 the bottom, you've got loss and victory. How was this a great victory? How was it a great 353 00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:31,840 victory? Yeah, they beat him bad. In fact, they destroyed the society. They destroyed 354 00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:37,840 him. And you know, I always thought the way he kills the Ammonites is a little bit rough, 355 00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:45,840 but it could well be because he leaves after the baby dies and goes out there and that's 356 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:53,840 when he deals all that terrible viciousness to the Ammonites. He has them drawn and quartered 357 00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:59,840 and everything else. It's really bad what he does to them. Why he does it, whatever, 358 00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:08,840 it's unknown. But it is a great victory because God's people defeat Ammon with very little 359 00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:20,840 losses. Okay? But why is it a loss? Why is it a loss? 360 00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:32,840 I think it's a slow thing. Victory wasn't the worst. Victory was kind of, basically little 361 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:38,840 by little not following God. Even though it was a great victory, victory wasn't what God 362 00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:44,840 wanted to do. They all make mistakes of course, but the idea is that he was constantly little 363 00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:50,840 by little not following God anymore. It was his victory, it was his battle. 364 00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:56,840 Yeah, I mean his heart definitely wound up in the wrong place, didn't it? I mean, take 365 00:41:56,840 --> 00:42:03,840 another man's wife just because she's, I mean, let's be realistic. How many women were probably 366 00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:07,840 in Israel that day that if David saw them bathing he might have said, she's pretty hot. Not 367 00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:15,840 just one, right? And yet he took her and then tried to kill her husband, first tried to 368 00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:21,840 get him to come home and sleep with her so that it would be Uriah's child, right? So 369 00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:25,840 it would be his master child. He could still be heir to the throne potentially someday, 370 00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:30,840 but Uriah and Beth Shiba would raise that child of their own if David's deception had 371 00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:35,840 worked and it didn't. Then he got the guy drunk and still tried to get him to go home 372 00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:39,840 and stagger into his wife, right? Which you assume then that means that Uriah, that she 373 00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:44,840 probably would have, if he had gone home, even if they didn't have sex, right? They 374 00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:48,840 probably would have made it look like they did to cover up the sin. If he had just went 375 00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,840 home and slept, passed out in bed with his wife in the morning, she would have woke up 376 00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:54,840 and she said, oh honey, you were great last night. I'm sure we're going to have a child 377 00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:59,840 out of this, you know, or whatever. They would have covered up the sin. So they did all of 378 00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:06,840 that and that still didn't work. So then he flexes his military might and he has the guy 379 00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:12,840 killed and he has Joab do it because he didn't even go out there. He wasn't at the scene 380 00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:19,840 of the battle because he stayed home, right? So I submit to you that it's a great loss 381 00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:28,840 because there are two battles going on at all times. One battle is about money, resources, 382 00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:37,840 health, clear thought maybe even if you want to take it that far, relationships, respect, 383 00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:41,840 you know, all of those things, right? The whole war against Ammon comes out of the fact 384 00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:47,840 that they disrespected David. David sent men to them with a gift to say, oh, so sorry for 385 00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:51,840 the loss of your father. Your father was always good to me. Hope we can maintain our allegiance, 386 00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:56,840 whatever. And they shamed those men and sent them back with their beard shaved. And he 387 00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:59,840 said, we want nothing to do with you because we think you're just trying to spy out the 388 00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:04,840 land, which was not the case. That's not it. So then this whole war results because that 389 00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:07,840 well, that and the fact that because they thought a war was coming after they did the 390 00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:12,840 wrong thing, they hired all the mercenaries. So then David and Joab and all the men of 391 00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:17,840 Israel wiped out the mercenaries, destroyed the Amorites, that country, subjugated them. 392 00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:22,840 Some of them were allowed to live by the way, and they became servants. And then this country, 393 00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:28,840 which is the ones that hired them and started everything, he wiped them out. So the point 394 00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:35,840 is, there's two battles going on. One is, can you say it this way, circumstantial. At 395 00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:39,840 all times, you got to deal with what you're going through. But there's another battle 396 00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:44,840 going on behind the scenes at every war. It's a battle for the heart. It's a battle to be 397 00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:51,840 in relationship with God, right? Like we talked about fulfilling all righteousness. Two weeks 398 00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:57,840 ago, right? So now I have a heart that is regenerated as I am saved and sealed by the 399 00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:04,840 Holy Spirit. And if my heart can do evil after that, I have a real problem. Now if my mind 400 00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:07,840 does evil, my heart is resisting and saying, no, I know I'm not supposed to be doing this, 401 00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:12,840 but I'm having a hard time stopping, right? Then I might wind up in the same place that 402 00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:17,840 David wound up, which is forgiven by God, but still suffering the wrath of God for the 403 00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:21,840 choices that I made, which would be a terrible loss because that's not what did God say? 404 00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:25,840 I gave you all of this. And if that wasn't enough for you, how would I give you a whole 405 00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:30,840 bunch more things like that? This is exactly where we walk, right? If you think about all 406 00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:32,840 the good things you have in your life and all the things that God has given you, and 407 00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:36,840 you say, well, I don't have very much. If you think you don't have very much, you're 408 00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:41,840 missing most of what you have, right? So think about all the things that you have and realize 409 00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:47,840 that if God knows and God says that in order for you to feel loved by Him, if He has to 410 00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:51,840 give you more, He'll give you more. I'm not saying He'll make you rich. He'll give you 411 00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:55,840 more things sufficient that you know that you're loved, right? So you're not going to 412 00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:59,840 go through life feeling unloved. If you have a relationship with God, the Holy Spirit testifying 413 00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:05,840 inside you says you're saved and knowing that you're saved, that's huge, right? I'll never 414 00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:09,840 forget when Sherri was calling me to tell me that she had lost her job and we knew that 415 00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:14,840 she was going to lose her house, everything, we're up in Michigan. And she said, I drove 416 00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:18,840 for 45 minutes afraid to call you because she was driving over two hours to get home. 417 00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:22,840 So I was afraid to call you, I was afraid of how you'd react. And I said, well, I don't 418 00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:27,840 know what you thought I was going to say, but listen, God's going to take care of everything. 419 00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:30,840 Everything's going to be okay. I said, if we wind up living with family while we get 420 00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:35,840 back on our feet, we lose both our houses. None of that matters. Houses, properties, cars, 421 00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:41,840 nothing. None of it matters. What matters is we'll be together under God and it's going 422 00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:47,840 to be okay. And in that moment, because God led me to do that, I'm not saying anything 423 00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:50,840 good about me, I'm saying God led me to do that. And because I was able to do that in 424 00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:55,840 that moment, she realized that she could always come to me, that we were always going to be 425 00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:58,840 together. And if I had said to her, what do you think, you keep firing me, we're going 426 00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:04,840 to lose our house, and you know, start cussing her out or something, there's no coming back 427 00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:12,840 ever. You know, you ruined what you had with your spouse at that point. And so what I'm 428 00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:17,840 getting at is all the circumstances that you face in life, God loves you, sent his own 429 00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:21,840 son to die for you while you were still a sinner. You now know that hopefully you're 430 00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:25,840 saved. If you're not, commit your life to Christ because he loves you that much, right? 431 00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:31,840 And then don't live your life in a way that leads you to a place where you suffer great 432 00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:38,840 loss when the alternative is an abundant life that God paid for. Okay? So we're down on 433 00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:44,840 the bottom of the page, and they're summing up this way, and I've got one more thing. 434 00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:59,840 So it's victory outside God's will results in long lasting suffering. So you know that 435 00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:03,840 on the highway of holiness, you've heard me say this many times probably, if you haven't, 436 00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:07,840 you're going to hear it one more time, okay, that there is suffering on the highway of 437 00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,840 holiness. The Bible says there's suffering and sighing on the highway of holiness. We're 438 00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:18,840 all going to experience suffering. But not all suffering has the same character, okay? 439 00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:24,840 There's different kinds of suffering. There's a thing called a chirodic moment, and a 440 00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:30,840 chirodic moment is a moment that seems to last for an eternity. Caitlin, do you remember 441 00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:34,840 when you were on the beach and it was cold and blowy and Aaron got down on his knee? 442 00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:39,840 How long do you think you'll remember that moment? Yeah, until the Metro sets in, you 443 00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:44,840 can't remember your own name, right? It's a chirodic moment, right? Some suffering is 444 00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:49,840 like that. I think David will ever forget this, what he's done. According to Psalm 51, 445 00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:53,840 he says, I'll never forget this, right? And he wrote Psalm 51 probably right after the 446 00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:58,840 Sabbath. Some suffering is like that. When you betray God and God sets you in place, 447 00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:01,840 okay, you're going to be okay. Now you're going to face the penalty for this, but you're 448 00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:07,840 going to be okay. I'm still going to save you. I paid for this, right? It's hard to 449 00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:13,840 ever get out of that. It's hard to ever truly let that go because you realize you betrayed 450 00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:21,840 God. You betrayed the one who died for you, right? Think of Peter and Judas, the difference. 451 00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:27,840 Peter wept knowing that he had denied Jesus three times. And you better believe he never 452 00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:33,840 forgot that night, ever. His whole time in ministry, that became a chirodic moment. He 453 00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:37,840 betrayed Jesus, was still forgiven, was called the Lord. And he said, do you love me, tend 454 00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:41,840 my sheep? And you told him three times, do that. And so he became a leader in the New 455 00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:45,840 Testament church and he never would look back. And ultimately he would sacrifice his life 456 00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:51,840 for his faith in Christ, right? Judas on the other hand, who thought of Jesus as a great 457 00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:57,840 teacher, but not as Lord, as we studied that in the Last Supper text, called him teacher, 458 00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:08,840 not Lord, right? He realized that he betrayed Jesus terribly for silver, right? And he goes 459 00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:11,840 back and he throws the coins in the temple and they wouldn't take his blood money. So 460 00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:15,840 they bought the potter's field and all that. He hung himself until his guts burst open 461 00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:21,840 and he drained out on the ground, right? So the difference is Peter is saved, has a heart 462 00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:31,840 after God like David has, betrays God terribly, but is still forgiven. Judas never really 463 00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:38,840 had that firsthand experience of the Lord, right? And he couldn't get past it at all. 464 00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:44,840 He encountered a chirodic moment of suffering and he was done, he was spent, right? Now 465 00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:48,840 some will say he did get saved because he was repentant. I don't know if he'll be in 466 00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:52,840 heaven or not, it's not my job, but what I know is that out of his suffering he took 467 00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:57,840 his own life. And out of Peter's suffering he repented, turned to the Lord and became 468 00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:03,840 a devout Christian for the remainder of his days. So go that route, right? Victory outside 469 00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:10,840 God's will, no matter how good it goes for you, is still going to hurt forever, right? 470 00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:16,840 You can literally go, okay, well I'm living for God and God won't mind if I sneak this, 471 00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:21,840 if I take this thing, or if I tell this lie. If I get away with it, it'll be okay because 472 00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:27,840 God forgives me anyway, right? But there is suffering that arises out of that that has 473 00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:33,840 a certain caliber. It's like putting on dirty underwear that you've already worn for three 474 00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:39,840 or four days in a row, God forbid, right? Or you're digging in a ditch in the mud and 475 00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:43,840 it's a sewer ditch and nastiness is getting on your clothes, you get out of bed the next 476 00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:47,840 day, get in the shower, get all cleaned up and go put those pants on again. And you'll 477 00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:54,840 be doing that for the rest of your life if you fight like David fought. So that last 478 00:51:54,840 --> 00:52:04,840 set of lines then is even if it, quote, works, it hurts. Even if it works, it hurts. If you 479 00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:09,840 claim victory of your own strength after saying you're only walking in Christ, for example, 480 00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:14,840 it will still hurt. It will not help you. You will be making sacrifices, you will suffer, 481 00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:18,840 you will struggle in a way that you would not otherwise. Now all the blanks are full, 482 00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:28,840 but let me ask you, as we did the whole lesson, what was the first mistake that David made? 483 00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:40,840 He stayed home. Take a breath. Have you ever stayed home? Have you ever not, not smoking 484 00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:47,840 up, not gone to worship, not gone to Bible study, not served God when you could have? 485 00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:51,840 That's the first thing that David did that set him on the road to the mistake that David 486 00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:57,840 made that would become a chirodic moment of suffering, a curse that would be the death 487 00:52:57,840 --> 00:53:04,840 of his child. The child which arose out of the sinful union of him and that's Shiva, 488 00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:08,840 right? So it's not like I'm saying like my kid's life is not online because my kid is 489 00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:19,840 not born out of that. That's not what happened. But what else could be? Whatever fits, right? 490 00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:26,840 So if you say, well, I'm going to blow off going to worship to take a job where I'm going 491 00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:30,840 to have to work every Sunday, even though you know you're supposed to worship, you take 492 00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:36,840 a job where you got to work every Sunday, then wouldn't it be justice for God to strike 493 00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:43,840 your finances? Make it so you can't pay your bills? That would be justice, right? So God 494 00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:50,840 can do whatever he wants to do that makes sense. When my kids, for example, if a child 495 00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:55,840 sneaks an extra dessert, what's an appropriate punishment? You know, you whoop them on the 496 00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:59,840 butt for basically stealing if you want to do that. But if you've got a child that basically 497 00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:04,840 understands they've already done wrong, what's a reasonable punishment if they snuck an extra 498 00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:11,840 dessert? Say it again. No more dessert. For how long? Well, whatever it takes for them 499 00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:15,840 to figure out what they did was wrong, right? So you take that mistake that they made, that 500 00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:19,840 thing, and you help them learn that that's not appropriate. Well, God is going to do 501 00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:26,840 the same thing with us. Why? Why would God, why would God make that baby die? That's horrible. 502 00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:32,840 That doesn't even sound right. Didn't God love that baby? Babies are alive from conception. 503 00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:38,840 That's a living being born out of the sinful union of Beth Jiva and David. It's a horrible 504 00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:45,840 thing. But where did the baby wind up? Well, heaven. So was it really all that terrible? 505 00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:48,840 He went to heaven. I mean, it's horrible if you love the baby and you don't get to be 506 00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:52,840 with the baby, right? So it's horrible in this lifetime. It's a horrible thing. But 507 00:54:52,840 --> 00:55:01,840 the baby's in heaven. Why did God so severely bring down the hammer on David in this instance? 508 00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:10,840 Because there are two battles going on at any given time. And what's worse than that, 509 00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:18,840 David already knew that. David already knew that at any given time there are always two 510 00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:22,840 battles going on. The one that's circumstantial in the world with these factors, these details, 511 00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:28,840 this money, this strength, this victory, this loss, right, that's in the world, and also 512 00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:35,840 the battle for a man's heart. David already knew that. And so when you already know that, 513 00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:41,840 and now you do, and then you willingly go outside what God has planned for you, and 514 00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:46,840 you try to get a victory that's outside God's will, you better believe it's going to result 515 00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:54,840 in a long-lasting suffering. And he's just to do so because he's trying to save your 516 00:55:54,840 --> 00:56:04,840 soul, or my soul, because I could do it too. We all must learn that when it's time to go, 517 00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:25,840 it's time to go. We're going to close in prayer, but first I'm going to give away a cane.