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 The section of Scripture that is before us now and will be the focus of our study for the next six Sundays that I'm preaching at least

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 is set within the context of war.

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 Chapter 10 through 12 of 2 Samuel actually are bound together by an ongoing war between the nation of Israel

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 and the kingdom of Ammon or the Ammonites.

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 In fact, you've got your Bibles open there.

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 Just look at the end of chapter 10 at verse 14.

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 This kind of summarizes where we are as we jump into chapter 11.

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 It says,

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 When we get to chapter 11 in verse number 1,

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 we find that springtime is now upon them and it's time to go back to war.

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 So they resume this battle in the city of Rabba against the Ammonites.

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 All of the personnel of Israel's primary army have gone out once again in chapter 11 to battle the Ammonites.

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 Everyone that is except for King David.

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 In chapter 10, David is involved in the fighting.

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 In fact, the last four verses or five verses of chapter 10 are a telling of David's part of the battle,

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 whereas Joab was leading the battle against the Ammonites.

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 Now we get to chapter 11.

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 They've had their respite from war.

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 Everyone goes back to the battlefield except for David.

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 And it's the absence of King David that gives rise to the story that makes up almost all of chapters 11 and 12.

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 By the time we get to the end of chapter 12, we see the conclusion of this war.

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 And so it's set within that context.

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 It begins with war and it ends with war.

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 And right in the middle of it, the writer of the books of 1 and 2 Samuel pauses to ignore what's happening with the Ammonites

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 and zeroes in on something that happens with David.

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 The verses contain and communicate what is one of the most tragic and scandalous events in biblical history,

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 especially as it relates to the true worshipers of God, believers.

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 It describes the disastrous fall of one of the great heroes of the faith.

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 And it serves as a warning for us as believers of the potential that lies within us to fall into extreme sin.

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 And it shows us the devastating consequences of that sin,

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 even for one who's standing judicially before the God of heaven is one of forgiveness.

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 There are still consequences for what we do.

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 And it came to pass after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle,

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 that David sent Joab and his servants with him in all Israel.

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 And they destroyed the children of Ammon and besieged Rabbah.

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 But David tarried still at Jerusalem.

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 And it came to pass in an evening tide that David arose from off his bed,

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 walked upon the roof of the king's house,

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 and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself.

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 And the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

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 And David sent and inquired after the woman.

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 And one said,

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 Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?

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 And David sent messengers and took her.

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 And she came in unto him, and he lay with her.

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 For she was purified from her uncleanness, and she returned unto her house.

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 And the woman conceived and sent and told David and said,

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 I am with child.

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 Every time we study the Bible,

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 it's helpful to be reminded of its divine inspiration.

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 That is, that what we have in the scripture

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 is the perfect, inerrant word of God

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 given to us for a very specific reason.

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 Now, if you think about it,

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 there are millions and millions of people

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 and millions and millions of stories throughout history

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 that God could have chosen to include in the scriptures

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 as a part of his divine revelation to us.

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 But his infinite wisdom chose and orchestrated the inclusion

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 of what we have now in what we call the Bible.

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 Of all the things that God could have told us,

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 this is what he has determined was necessary for us to know.

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 And for us to know him.

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 And for us to know what is necessary for us

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 to be led ultimately to Christ and to salvation.

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 So in our study of the Bible,

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 whether it be our personal study

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 or whether it be our study as a church together

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 on Sundays or in another time,

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 it's helpful to always ask ourselves,

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 why did God choose to tell me this?

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 How does this fit within his divine purpose of revelation?

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 What is it that God is trying to reveal to us

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 in whatever passage we may be studying at the time?

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 And that's exactly the question

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 that is needful for us to ask now.

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 Of all the things that God could have included about David,

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 and there's a lot that he has included about David

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 in the scripture,

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 but of all the things,

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 why this?

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 Why this story?

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 There's no real theological teaching here.

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 Remember, the theological teaching that we find

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 comes from outside of the chapter.

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 It's just a story,

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 and it's not a good one.

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 It's a terrible story.

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 Yet God chose,

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 for a specific reason,

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 to give this to us,

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 to help us know him,

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 to help us understand his purposes.

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 This chapter is so much more

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 than a historical narrative

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 that is simply moving the story of Israel along.

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 It's not here by chance.

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 It reveals to us, once again,

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 the perfect holiness of God

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 as it is set against the depravity

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 and wickedness of man's heart.

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 As celebrated as David is in the scriptures even,

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 and as celebrated as he is

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 within both Jewish and Christian communities,

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 he was a deeply flawed man.

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 And like the rest of us,

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 he had a wicked heart,

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 that fell far short of the glory

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 that God demands that we give.

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 So no matter how much we champion the life of David,

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 he was utterly incapable of being

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 what we desperately need in a champion.

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 So what is the purpose of stories like this?

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 Is it just to move the history along?

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 No, it can't be that.

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 God's gotta have more of a purpose than that.

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 Is it to reveal to us the dangers of sin

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 and the consequences of sin?

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 It absolutely is that.

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 But ultimately, what this chapter does

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 is it subtly points us to Christ.

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 Where David was lacking, Christ made up.

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 The Bible goes to great lengths to tarnish

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 and expose all the men that we love,

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 except for one.

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 Because there was nothing there to tarnish.

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 There was nothing there to accuse.

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 He was perfect.

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 The perfect son of God

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 that came in order that we might be forgiven

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 of the sins that we commit,

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 similar to David and Moses and Abraham and so on.

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 Well, before we explore the narrative,

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 I wanna point out the fact

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 that the writer never comments

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 on the thoughts and reasonings

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 of the people involved in this story.

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 Did you notice that as we read through it?

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 There's no place in the scripture

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 where David's thoughts and Bathsheba's thoughts

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 and Joab's thoughts are really demonstrated in any way.

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 We have no idea what they were feeling.

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 We have no idea what they were thinking.

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 All we see is action.

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 With one small exception in the words of Uriah to the king,

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 there's no reasoning at all given

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 for why each person did what they did in this story.

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 Dale Ralph Davis wrote a really fantastic commentary

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 on both 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel.

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 In fact, I would even encourage you to purchase it.

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 I think I got it for maybe $10 or less.

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 And I think that it would be a help to you

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 if you wanted to study these books further.

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 And I can give you that information later.

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 But he gave a really helpful literary note on this.

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 Here's what he said.

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 The writer's most apparent restraint

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 lies in his utter silence

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 regarding the feelings of his characters.

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 He does not clarify whether Bathsheba was baiting David

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 nor whether she considered the fling with the king in honor.

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 We do not and we cannot know.

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 The writer offers no help on this.

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 He doesn't even indicate how Joab felt

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 about David's plan to kill Uriah.

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 He carried it out and maybe even improved upon it.

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 But whether he felt shock or smug satisfaction

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 or something else, we are not told.

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 And then he says,

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 The writer seems to silence all feelings

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 in order to isolate David's actions.

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 The writer silences all feelings in this chapter

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 in order to isolate David's actions.

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 But why would he do that?

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 Why wouldn't he fill in this story?

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 Why wouldn't he fill in the gaps?

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 And I think the reason for excluding

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 any reasoning on the part of the people involved

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 emphasizes the fact that reasons and feelings

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 are irrelevant.

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 It doesn't matter how you feel

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 when it comes to the way that you behave.

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 It doesn't matter the reasons that you may would give

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 to try to justify the wrongdoing of your life.

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 At the end of the day,

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 your feelings and your reasonings are irrelevant.

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 At the end of the day,

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 what matters is this is what God has said

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 and this is what you have done

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 and you have violated the law of God

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 and therefore you stand guilty before God,

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 no matter how much you insist

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 on justifying your own behavior.

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 And so we don't find any feelings.

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 We only find action.

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 Well, let's look closely at the narrative

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 and just take a few minutes here

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 on these first five verses.

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 When we first study these five verses,

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 I think the most proper place for us to begin

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 is understanding sin's beginnings

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 and the origination of sin.

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 How was it that David was able to fall

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 so quickly in this sin?

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 Well, sin is conceived at the convergence

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 of desire and opportunity.

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 Sin is conceived.

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 It takes place at the moment that our desire

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 and an opportunity converge together

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 in a single moment

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 and we act upon that opportunity

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 and upon our desires.

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 James, the half-brother of Jesus,

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 said it this way in his letter in chapter one.

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 Each person is tempted

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 when he is lured away

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 and enticed by his own desire.

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 Then desire, when it has conceived,

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 gives birth to sin

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 and sin, when it is fully grown,

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 brings forth death.

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 So sin is committed

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 whenever we act upon an opportunity

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 to fulfill our own fleshly desires.

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 It's a daily battle of both the mind and the will.

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 For desire originates in the mind first

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 and opportunity is then seized by the will.

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 Let me explain that scripturally for just a moment.

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 Mind, heart, will.

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 That's the progression

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 to the origination of sin in our life.

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 The first thing is the battle of the mind.

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 Look at, or don't look at it,

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 I'll just read it to you.

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 You can write down the reference if you want.

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 2 Corinthians chapter 10.

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 Paul writes to the Corinthians and he says this,

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 the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh

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 but have divine power to destroy strongholds.

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 We destroy arguments

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 and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God

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 and take every thought captive to obey Christ.

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 In other words, the beginning stages of sin

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 start with the battle of the mind.

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 Those things that exalt themselves

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 against the knowledge of God, Paul says,

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 those are the things that in spiritual warfare

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 we are trying to pull down,

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 whether that be disbelief,

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 whether that be false doctrine,

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 whether it be the temptation to sin,

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 all of it begins in the mind

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 and we must take captive every thought

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 to the obedience of Jesus Christ.

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 Well, how do we do that?

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 We do that with the word of God

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 through the spirit of God.

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 Remember, Paul wrote about the battle armor

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 of the Christian believer

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 and he goes through all the different facets of our armor

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 and then he gets to the end

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 and he gives the only offensive weapon.

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 The only offensive weapon is the sword of the spirit

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 which is the word of God.

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 Well, how do we fight off

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 and win this battle of the mind against sin?

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 With the word of God.

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 And as we commit ourselves to the study

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 and the obedience of the word of God,

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 the Holy Spirit himself, God himself,

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 enlightens our minds, enlightens our understanding

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 and gives us wisdom in order that we may obey

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 what it is that we've read.

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 And whenever we refuse to study the word of God,

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 when we do not commit ourselves to the faithful study,

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 we then are susceptible to the reasonings

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 and the arguments that may pop into our minds

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 about false doctrines, the reasons

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 and the arguments that would pop into our minds

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 that would point us towards sin.

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 And because we have not exalted the truth of God,

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 we will end up exalting the things

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 that exalt themselves against the truth of God.

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 So Paul says all of this begins in the mind.

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 If you want to win the battle over sin,

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 it starts with your mind and then it moves to the heart.

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 It moves to the heart.

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 Think about this from Jeremiah 17, 9.

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 The heart is deceitful above all things,

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 desperately wicked.

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 Who can know it?

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 We speak of the heart in our idioms these days

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 as the seat of emotion.

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 It is the place of feeling, the place of desire.

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 So as we exalt thoughts that exalt themselves

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 against the truth of God,

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 those things make their way into desire

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 and into the lust of our hearts.

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 And then Jeremiah reminds us

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 that we can't trust our hearts.

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 We hear phrases every now and then,

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 it bothers me.

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 My girls like Disney stuff like every other girl does

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 and they enjoy all of these things.

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 And I'm all about empowering my girls

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 to be strong women.

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 And we took some time this week

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 to study together as a family Proverbs 31

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 because I want my girls to understand

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 this is what a true,

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 true empowered godly woman is.

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 And we went through that description together.

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 The last thing I want them to do

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 is buy the lie that says follow your heart.

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 Or just look into your heart.

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 Because God's word says that our heart

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 is wicked, desperately so.

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 Who can know it?

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 And what resounds in our hearts,

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 that is the heart of flesh,

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 are those thoughts that we have reasoned together

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 against the knowledge of God

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 and it only leads us to sin.

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 And that's when we get to the part of the will.

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 Romans chapter six helps us here

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 where Paul writes and says,

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 let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body

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 to make you obey its passions.

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 Do not present your members to sin

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 as instruments of unrighteousness

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 but present yourselves to God

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 as those who have been brought from death to life

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 and your members to God

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 as instruments of righteousness.

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 Did you catch that in that phrase?

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 In fact, you could read all of Romans chapter six

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 and here's what the bottom line of that chapter is.

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 We sin by choice, not by force.

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 Every time you fall

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 and you do something against the law of God,

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 it is because you have chosen to do so.

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 You are responsible for your sin.

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 You are culpable for your sin.

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 Therefore, you are responsible and culpable

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 for the consequences of that sin.

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 So Paul says, don't let sin reign in your body

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 but rather exercise your will to choose righteousness

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 as opposed to wickedness.

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 And fortunately, God in his grace offers his people

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 an escape hatch in every temptation.

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 And again, Paul writing to the Corinthians,

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 first Corinthians chapter 10 this time,

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 says no temptation has overtaken you

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 that is not common to man,

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 but God is faithful

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 and he will not let you be tempted

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 beyond your ability.

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 But with the temptation,

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 he will also provide the way of escape

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 that you may be able to bear it.

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 God provides this escape hatch

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 for each one of us in every temptation,

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 but it's up to us to take the escape.

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 Now I want you to consider

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 all of the moments and opportunities of escape

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 that David had in this story.

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 Look first at verse one.

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 We've talked about it a lot already.

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 We won't spend a lot of time on it now.

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 But the first escape hatch was the fact

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 that he should have never been at home to begin with.

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 He tarried still at Jerusalem, we're told.

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 It seems innocent.

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 I mean, surely after everything that David has done,

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 at this point, he's probably reaching 50 years old or so.

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 We've seen the way that God has used him.

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 We've seen the battles that he's fought.

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 Surely he has earned a little extra vacation from battle,

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 but we know he didn't need it.

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 He just had several months of vacation from battle.

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 It seems innocent.

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 Maybe it's not that big a deal,

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 but as you see the story unfold,

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 you realize that was actually a big deal.

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 The first thing was he should have never been there.

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 He abdicated his responsibility in this moment.

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 A little bit of laziness,

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 a little bit of slumber cost him dearly in the long run,

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 but it was an escape hatch.

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 He didn't have to be there.

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 Look at verse two.

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 It came to pass late one evening that David arose from off his bed,

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 and he walked upon the roof of the king's house.

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 And from the roof, he saw a woman bathing herself.

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 My brother and my dad have shown me pictures of what's known in Jerusalem as the city of David.

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 It's a section of Jerusalem,

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 and there's still ruins of David's palace there.

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 And they've shown me pictures of how you could be in the palace.

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 It's up on a hill,

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 and the places around it are very close,

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 but they're down.

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 So it'd be very easy to stand on the roof of the king's palace

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 and be able to see everything that's going on with the subjects below you.

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 You could see right into their homes.

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 You could see right into their backyards.

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 And what's happening here is,

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 we would assume,

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 is Bathsheba's probably in the courtyard of her home.

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 And David walks out on the roof,

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 and he's observing what's going on among the people that are still left there in Jerusalem.

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 And as he looks down,

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 he sees Bathsheba taking a bath.

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 But here's the thing.

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 In verse number two,

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 he had to walk up the stairs to the roof.

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 Here's the escape hatch.

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 The same stairs that went up to the roof

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 left the roof.

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 What would have been best for David in that moment

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 is after seeing Bathsheba,

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 to shield himself

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 and to immediately exit

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 the same way that he entered onto the roof.

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 But instead of exiting,

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 instead of taking the escape hatch,

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 he gawked over Bathsheba.

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 He fantasized over Bathsheba,

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 and he developed in his heart

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 this desire for her.

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 And he chose the desire

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 rather than choosing the righteous thing

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 of just going back down into the palace

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 and purifying his mind.

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 And then we get to verse three.

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 David sent and inquired after the woman.

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 And God does something unique here,

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 something very helpful.

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 Would have been.

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 He gave a word of reminder to David

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 before he has an opportunity to act.

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 God puts a voice in David's life.

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 We have no idea who this person is.

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 Probably just a servant

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 in the household of the palace.

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 Puts a voice.

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 And here's what the voice says.

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 Is not this Bathsheba,

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 the daughter of Eliam,

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 and the wife of Uriah the Hittite?

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 God does that for us a lot, doesn't he?

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 We're going through moments of temptation.

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 We begin to follow down this path of temptation.

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 And then God puts a voice.

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 Most often that voice is the word of God.

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 Sometimes it may be a sermon on a Sunday

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 or a scripture reading.

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 Sometimes it may be through our personal devotion.

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 Sometimes it may be a friend

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 that just cares about us and loves us

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 and is reaching into our lives

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 to try to disciple us in a moment.

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 But God is so gracious to sometimes put voices around us

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 that will say,

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 hey, is that not Bathsheba?

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 This was no stranger to David.

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 Eliam, her father, was one of David's mighty men.

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 So was Uriah, her husband.

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 They had fought shoulder to shoulder with David

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 probably from even before

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 when Saul was still reigning in Israel.

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 When David was on the run,

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 they were fighting shoulder to shoulder.

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 This was not a stranger in Jerusalem.

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 This wasn't a random person.

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 David very well could have been at their wedding.

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 And here he is looking at the houses

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 that are closest to the king's palace,

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 those who he wanted to keep closest to him.

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 He knows these people and he looks over

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 and he sees Bathsheba

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 who no doubt he's probably fantasized about

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 in his mind before

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 and he sends to inquire

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 and then God puts a voice there

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 and says, David, isn't this Bathsheba?

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 This is your friend's daughter.

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 This is your friend's husband.

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 And he's faced with another choice there in that moment.

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 Yes, then what am I doing?

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 And he could have easily stopped every intention,

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 went to a place of prayer,

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 repented and got out to the battlefield,

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 but that's not what David did.

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 What'd he do?

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 Verse four.

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 He sent the messengers.

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 He ignored the voice

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 and he took her

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 and she came in unto him

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 and he laid with her.

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 For she was purified from her uncleanness.

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 That's just a statement to the bathing

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 that she was doing

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 was a ritualistic bathing

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 after her menstruation,

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 proving that there was only one person

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 that this baby could have belonged to

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 because her husband wasn't there

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 and she returned to her house.

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 David refused to take the divine escape routes

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 and he sent for Bathsheba

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 in order that his lust might be fulfilled

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 in what he probably assumed

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 would be a secret one-night stand.

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 Verse four is all action on David's part.

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 There's no reasoning.

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 He saw.

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 He sent.

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 He took.

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 He lay.

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 Action verb after action verb.

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 And he thought it would just be an exciting fling

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 while everyone else was on the battlefield.

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 But it turned to a nightmare

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 because now the king of Egypt,

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 not of Egypt,

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 the king of Israel,

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 the shepherd of Israel,

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 had now impregnated

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 one of his good friend's wives.

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 And she simply sends word and says,

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 I'm with child.

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 I don't want to take too much time here,

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 but I don't think that we can look at this passage

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 without addressing the issue of adultery

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 and the warning that's here.

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 This is a sobering passage

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 because it's so contemporary.

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 Alistair Begg said it this way,

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 the contemporary nature of what is conveyed here

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 is not simply tolerated in our culture.

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 It's celebrated.

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 And unfortunately,

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 the wicked view of marital fidelity

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 has infiltrated the church.

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 Statistics are alarming

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 about the rate of Christian divorces

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 that are a direct result of infidelity.

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 A 2014 study stated

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 that 54% of Christian men

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 regularly view pornography,

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 which is just another form of adultery.

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 And if you don't have a spouse,

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 it's just another form of fornication.

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 Impurity.

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 Some try to circumvent

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 the law of fidelity

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 by just simply cohabitating

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 with various sexual partners.

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 It's sin.

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 It's not right.

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 There's no love in this story.

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 There's no love in this scene.

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 Again,

00:27:28.200 --> 00:27:29.119
 Dale Davis says,

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 there's nothing but action.

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 There's no conversation.

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 There's no hint of caring

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 or affection,

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 of love,

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 only lust.

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 David does not call her by name.

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 He does not even speak to her.

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 At the end of the encounter,

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 she is only the woman

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 in verse five.

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 And the verb that finally counts

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 is conceived.

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 But the telling verb

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 is he took her.

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 Love has nothing to do with this scene.

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 Adultery never does.

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 Because adultery does not result

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 from true love

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 no matter how insistent

00:28:04.180 --> 00:28:05.180
 one may be

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 when attempting to justify their sin.

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 Love comes from God alone.

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 And it's impossible

00:28:12.579 --> 00:28:14.220
 for true love

00:28:14.220 --> 00:28:15.059
 to give way

00:28:15.059 --> 00:28:16.599
 to sinful behavior.

00:28:16.599 --> 00:28:19.779
 Adultery is the result

00:28:19.779 --> 00:28:21.399
 of the drunkenness of lust.

00:28:22.339 --> 00:28:23.919
 And to make anything less of it

00:28:23.919 --> 00:28:26.459
 is to utterly reject God's truth

00:28:26.459 --> 00:28:28.240
 and sink into the depths

00:28:28.240 --> 00:28:30.059
 of human depravity.

00:28:31.359 --> 00:28:33.000
 And those who commit adultery

00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:34.599
 don't normally find themselves

00:28:34.599 --> 00:28:36.539
 following it up with murder

00:28:36.539 --> 00:28:37.519
 as David did.

00:28:38.059 --> 00:28:39.059
 But that doesn't make

00:28:39.059 --> 00:28:40.159
 the adultery itself

00:28:40.159 --> 00:28:40.959
 any less serious.

00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:45.500
 So how do we fight

00:28:45.500 --> 00:28:46.519
 this battle of the mind

00:28:46.519 --> 00:28:47.559
 and this battle of the heart

00:28:47.559 --> 00:28:48.720
 and this battle of the will

00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:50.059
 as it relates to

00:28:50.059 --> 00:28:51.059
 the sin of adultery?

00:28:51.220 --> 00:28:51.700
 Let me just give you

00:28:51.700 --> 00:28:52.299
 a few verses.

00:28:52.819 --> 00:28:53.779
 The battle of the mind

00:28:53.779 --> 00:28:55.980
 you guard what you see

00:28:55.980 --> 00:28:57.000
 what you watch

00:28:57.000 --> 00:28:58.240
 the thoughts that you entertain.

00:28:59.279 --> 00:29:00.819
 Remember Philippians 4.8

00:29:00.819 --> 00:29:02.880
 Whatsoever is true

00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:04.100
 and just

00:29:04.100 --> 00:29:05.160
 and faithful

00:29:05.160 --> 00:29:06.100
 and right

00:29:06.100 --> 00:29:07.019
 and pure

00:29:07.019 --> 00:29:08.180
 think on

00:29:08.180 --> 00:29:09.900
 these things

00:29:09.900 --> 00:29:10.559
 Paul says

00:29:10.559 --> 00:29:11.599
 the battle of the mind

00:29:11.599 --> 00:29:12.179
 in this way

00:29:12.179 --> 00:29:13.000
 has everything to do

00:29:13.000 --> 00:29:14.059
 with what you put on the TV

00:29:14.059 --> 00:29:14.879
 and what you allow

00:29:14.879 --> 00:29:15.940
 on the computer

00:29:15.940 --> 00:29:17.419
 and how you allow your mind

00:29:17.419 --> 00:29:18.399
 to entertain

00:29:18.399 --> 00:29:19.819
 various things in your life.

00:29:20.059 --> 00:29:21.559
 Think on what is true

00:29:21.559 --> 00:29:22.259
 and right

00:29:22.259 --> 00:29:23.159
 and good

00:29:23.159 --> 00:29:23.980
 and faithful

00:29:23.980 --> 00:29:25.039
 and godly

00:29:25.039 --> 00:29:26.960
 win that battle of the mind.

00:29:27.960 --> 00:29:28.779
 But then there's

00:29:28.779 --> 00:29:29.799
 the battle of the heart.

00:29:31.119 --> 00:29:32.379
 Colossians chapter 3

00:29:32.379 --> 00:29:33.099
 helps us here.

00:29:34.059 --> 00:29:34.879
 Here's what Paul writes

00:29:34.879 --> 00:29:35.919
 to the church at Colossae.

00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:38.200
 If ye then be risen with Christ

00:29:38.200 --> 00:29:40.079
 seek those things

00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:41.259
 which are above

00:29:41.259 --> 00:29:42.799
 where Christ sits

00:29:42.799 --> 00:29:44.039
 on the right hand of God.

00:29:44.199 --> 00:29:44.639
 And then he says

00:29:44.639 --> 00:29:45.099
 verse 2

00:29:45.099 --> 00:29:47.240
 set your affection

00:29:47.240 --> 00:29:48.720
 on things above.

00:29:49.079 --> 00:29:49.980
 What's the things above?

00:29:50.299 --> 00:29:50.699
 Christ

00:29:50.699 --> 00:29:51.859
 is the things above.

00:29:52.259 --> 00:29:52.759
 Godliness

00:29:52.759 --> 00:29:53.699
 righteousness

00:29:53.699 --> 00:29:54.579
 truth

00:29:54.579 --> 00:29:55.879
 set your affection

00:29:55.879 --> 00:29:56.639
 your heart

00:29:56.639 --> 00:29:57.539
 your desire

00:29:57.539 --> 00:29:59.159
 desire after God

00:29:59.159 --> 00:30:00.220
 for you are dead

00:30:00.220 --> 00:30:01.139
 and your life

00:30:01.139 --> 00:30:02.000
 is hid with Christ

00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:02.579
 and God

00:30:02.579 --> 00:30:03.559
 and when Christ

00:30:03.559 --> 00:30:04.279
 who is our life

00:30:04.279 --> 00:30:04.919
 shall appear

00:30:04.919 --> 00:30:06.119
 then shall ye also

00:30:06.119 --> 00:30:06.659
 appear with him

00:30:06.659 --> 00:30:07.059
 in glory.

00:30:07.059 --> 00:30:08.119
 mortify

00:30:08.119 --> 00:30:09.139
 put to death

00:30:09.139 --> 00:30:09.819
 therefore

00:30:09.819 --> 00:30:10.919
 your members

00:30:10.919 --> 00:30:12.200
 which are upon the earth

00:30:12.200 --> 00:30:13.440
 fornication

00:30:13.440 --> 00:30:14.759
 uncleanness

00:30:14.759 --> 00:30:16.159
 inordinate affection

00:30:16.159 --> 00:30:17.579
 evil concupiscence

00:30:17.579 --> 00:30:18.460
 and covetousness

00:30:18.460 --> 00:30:19.779
 which is idolatry

00:30:19.779 --> 00:30:21.299
 for which things sake

00:30:21.299 --> 00:30:22.519
 the wrath of God

00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:23.059
 comes

00:30:23.059 --> 00:30:23.980
 on those

00:30:23.980 --> 00:30:25.440
 who disobey.

00:30:25.619 --> 00:30:26.279
 What's the battle

00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:27.059
 of the heart about?

00:30:27.240 --> 00:30:28.119
 It's about setting

00:30:28.119 --> 00:30:28.859
 your affection

00:30:28.859 --> 00:30:29.919
 on what is

00:30:29.919 --> 00:30:30.879
 Christ like

00:30:30.879 --> 00:30:32.139
 and what is true

00:30:32.139 --> 00:30:33.519
 not on what

00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:34.220
 your heart

00:30:34.220 --> 00:30:34.700
 tells you

00:30:34.700 --> 00:30:35.080
 it wants

00:30:35.080 --> 00:30:35.700
 the most

00:30:35.700 --> 00:30:36.700
 and then there's

00:30:36.700 --> 00:30:37.100
 the battle

00:30:37.100 --> 00:30:37.600
 of the will

00:30:37.600 --> 00:30:39.580
 in 1 Thessalonians

00:30:39.580 --> 00:30:40.319
 chapter 4

00:30:40.319 --> 00:30:41.019
 and verse 4

00:30:41.019 --> 00:30:42.319
 or verse 3

00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:43.019
 this is the will

00:30:43.019 --> 00:30:43.539
 of God

00:30:43.539 --> 00:30:44.900
 even your

00:30:44.900 --> 00:30:45.720
 sanctification

00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:47.080
 that you should

00:30:47.080 --> 00:30:47.660
 abstain

00:30:47.660 --> 00:30:48.799
 from fornication

00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:50.960
 that every one

00:30:50.960 --> 00:30:51.600
 of you should know

00:30:51.600 --> 00:30:52.120
 how to possess

00:30:52.120 --> 00:30:52.759
 his vessel

00:30:52.759 --> 00:30:54.319
 in sanctification

00:30:54.319 --> 00:30:54.860
 and honor

00:30:54.860 --> 00:30:56.000
 not in the lust

00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:56.840
 of concupiscence

00:30:56.840 --> 00:30:57.860
 even as the Gentiles

00:30:57.860 --> 00:30:58.880
 which know not God

00:30:58.880 --> 00:31:00.819
 it's the battle

00:31:00.819 --> 00:31:01.220
 of the will.

00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:03.259
 He doesn't say

00:31:03.259 --> 00:31:03.819
 that there's some

00:31:03.819 --> 00:31:04.939
 type of magic formula

00:31:04.939 --> 00:31:05.460
 that comes

00:31:05.460 --> 00:31:06.039
 he just says

00:31:06.039 --> 00:31:06.939
 don't do it

00:31:06.939 --> 00:31:08.279
 abstain

00:31:08.279 --> 00:31:09.899
 just say

00:31:09.899 --> 00:31:10.759
 no

00:31:10.759 --> 00:31:12.059
 this story

00:31:12.059 --> 00:31:12.939
 is a sobering

00:31:12.939 --> 00:31:13.559
 acknowledgement

00:31:13.559 --> 00:31:15.319
 of the potential

00:31:15.319 --> 00:31:16.639
 for incredible sin

00:31:16.639 --> 00:31:18.200
 even in the life

00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:18.740
 of a believer

00:31:18.740 --> 00:31:20.399
 David wasn't

00:31:20.399 --> 00:31:21.099
 a lost man

00:31:21.099 --> 00:31:22.980
 he was a man

00:31:22.980 --> 00:31:23.899
 after God's own heart

00:31:23.899 --> 00:31:26.079
 it was through

00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:26.559
 David

00:31:26.559 --> 00:31:28.079
 and his seed

00:31:28.079 --> 00:31:29.119
 that God

00:31:29.119 --> 00:31:29.480
 was going to

00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:30.359
 bring the Messiah

00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:32.799
 this is significant

00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:33.960
 this is a significant

00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:34.759
 believer

00:31:34.759 --> 00:31:36.139
 a worshiper

00:31:36.139 --> 00:31:36.639
 of God

00:31:36.639 --> 00:31:38.799
 and it's a reminder

00:31:38.799 --> 00:31:39.299
 to us

00:31:39.299 --> 00:31:40.039
 that the best

00:31:40.039 --> 00:31:40.539
 of men

00:31:40.539 --> 00:31:41.720
 are men

00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:42.399
 at best

00:31:42.399 --> 00:31:44.460
 and we might

00:31:44.460 --> 00:31:45.139
 have expected

00:31:45.139 --> 00:31:46.539
 a story like this

00:31:46.539 --> 00:31:47.099
 to be

00:31:47.099 --> 00:31:48.419
 connected

00:31:48.419 --> 00:31:49.220
 with Saul

00:31:49.220 --> 00:31:50.419
 or one of the other

00:31:50.419 --> 00:31:51.819
 blatantly wicked

00:31:51.819 --> 00:31:52.659
 kings in Israel

00:31:52.659 --> 00:31:54.339
 but we would never

00:31:54.339 --> 00:31:54.940
 have assumed

00:31:54.940 --> 00:31:55.559
 that David

00:31:55.559 --> 00:31:56.740
 would have done this

00:31:56.740 --> 00:31:58.779
 and that's just

00:31:58.779 --> 00:31:59.740
 the adultery part

00:31:59.740 --> 00:32:00.379
 let alone

00:32:00.380 --> 00:32:00.960
 the murder

00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:01.760
 and the deception

00:32:01.760 --> 00:32:05.580
 it reminds us

00:32:05.580 --> 00:32:07.820
 that we are

00:32:07.820 --> 00:32:09.160
 just as

00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:10.000
 susceptible

00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:11.500
 to falling

00:32:11.500 --> 00:32:12.840
 as David

00:32:12.840 --> 00:32:14.620
 and it's a fitting

00:32:14.620 --> 00:32:15.800
 warning to all of us

00:32:15.800 --> 00:32:17.340
 in fact the Bible

00:32:17.340 --> 00:32:18.320
 warns us often

00:32:18.320 --> 00:32:19.060
 about this

00:32:19.060 --> 00:32:20.080
 1 Corinthians 10

00:32:20.080 --> 00:32:21.740
 let anyone

00:32:21.740 --> 00:32:22.840
 who thinks he stands

00:32:22.840 --> 00:32:23.500
 take heed

00:32:23.500 --> 00:32:25.040
 lest he fall

00:32:25.040 --> 00:32:28.180
 Proverbs 16

00:32:28.180 --> 00:32:29.300
 pride goes before

00:32:29.300 --> 00:32:29.820
 destruction

00:32:29.819 --> 00:32:31.439
 a haughty spirit

00:32:31.439 --> 00:32:32.220
 before a fall

00:32:32.220 --> 00:32:33.539
 you think

00:32:33.539 --> 00:32:34.059
 I would never

00:32:34.059 --> 00:32:34.619
 do that

00:32:34.619 --> 00:32:35.700
 think again

00:32:35.700 --> 00:32:37.539
 you don't know

00:32:37.539 --> 00:32:37.960
 the depths

00:32:37.960 --> 00:32:38.359
 of your own

00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:38.980
 depravity

00:32:38.980 --> 00:32:41.599
 Galatians 6

00:32:41.599 --> 00:32:41.939
 brothers

00:32:41.939 --> 00:32:42.439
 if anyone

00:32:42.439 --> 00:32:43.059
 is caught

00:32:43.059 --> 00:32:43.980
 in a transgression

00:32:43.980 --> 00:32:45.500
 you who are

00:32:45.500 --> 00:32:45.899
 spiritual

00:32:45.899 --> 00:32:46.539
 restore him

00:32:46.539 --> 00:32:46.939
 in a spirit

00:32:46.939 --> 00:32:47.619
 of gentleness

00:32:47.619 --> 00:32:48.359
 gentleness

00:32:48.359 --> 00:32:49.099
 is the operative

00:32:49.099 --> 00:32:49.419
 word

00:32:49.419 --> 00:32:50.119
 not heavy

00:32:50.119 --> 00:32:50.659
 handedly

00:32:50.659 --> 00:32:51.059
 why

00:32:51.059 --> 00:32:52.819
 because we are

00:32:52.819 --> 00:32:53.700
 to keep watch

00:32:53.700 --> 00:32:54.119
 on ourselves

00:32:54.119 --> 00:32:54.799
 lest we also

00:32:54.799 --> 00:32:55.299
 be tempted

00:32:55.299 --> 00:32:57.159
 and when we're

00:32:57.159 --> 00:32:57.919
 tempted and fall

00:32:57.920 --> 00:32:59.340
 we don't want

00:32:59.340 --> 00:33:00.120
 heavy handedness

00:33:00.120 --> 00:33:00.700
 we want mercy

00:33:00.700 --> 00:33:01.200
 and grace

00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:03.380
 and then we think

00:33:03.380 --> 00:33:03.759
 of others

00:33:03.759 --> 00:33:04.480
 in the New Testament

00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:05.660
 think about Demas

00:33:05.660 --> 00:33:07.060
 Demas was a

00:33:07.060 --> 00:33:08.019
 companion of Paul

00:33:08.019 --> 00:33:08.900
 he was a faithful

00:33:08.900 --> 00:33:09.960
 minister of the gospel

00:33:09.960 --> 00:33:10.920
 but when Paul

00:33:10.920 --> 00:33:12.160
 writes to Timothy

00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:13.420
 in 2 Timothy

00:33:13.420 --> 00:33:14.060
 chapter 4

00:33:14.060 --> 00:33:14.940
 at the end of his life

00:33:14.940 --> 00:33:16.200
 he says Demas

00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:17.840
 has forsaken me

00:33:17.840 --> 00:33:19.500
 having loved

00:33:19.500 --> 00:33:20.440
 this present world

00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:21.940
 a man who traveled

00:33:21.940 --> 00:33:22.960
 side by side

00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:24.140
 with the apostle Paul

00:33:24.140 --> 00:33:24.980
 and now he's

00:33:24.980 --> 00:33:25.840
 forsaken him

00:33:25.839 --> 00:33:26.740
 don't think that

00:33:26.740 --> 00:33:27.259
 it wouldn't happen

00:33:27.259 --> 00:33:27.679
 to you

00:33:27.679 --> 00:33:29.039
 it's much more

00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:29.919
 than a history lesson

00:33:29.919 --> 00:33:31.599
 it's a divine

00:33:31.599 --> 00:33:32.079
 warning

00:33:32.079 --> 00:33:33.799
 that we can all

00:33:33.799 --> 00:33:34.359
 fall deeply

00:33:34.359 --> 00:33:34.939
 into sin

00:33:34.939 --> 00:33:36.159
 so stay watchful

00:33:36.159 --> 00:33:39.579
 Robert Robinson

00:33:39.579 --> 00:33:41.699
 was born to

00:33:41.699 --> 00:33:43.279
 a very poor

00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:44.519
 family in Norfolk

00:33:44.519 --> 00:33:45.039
 England

00:33:45.039 --> 00:33:46.720
 1735

00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:48.359
 when he was

00:33:48.359 --> 00:33:49.399
 14 years old

00:33:49.399 --> 00:33:50.699
 his mom

00:33:50.699 --> 00:33:51.259
 sent him

00:33:51.259 --> 00:33:51.859
 to London

00:33:51.859 --> 00:33:53.099
 to follow

00:33:53.099 --> 00:33:53.919
 a barbary

00:33:53.919 --> 00:33:54.519
 trade

00:33:54.519 --> 00:33:54.819
 he was going

00:33:54.819 --> 00:33:55.399
 to be a barber

00:33:55.400 --> 00:33:57.120
 and while he

00:33:57.120 --> 00:33:57.620
 was there

00:33:57.620 --> 00:33:58.460
 he got caught

00:33:58.460 --> 00:33:59.640
 up in a gang

00:33:59.640 --> 00:34:01.340
 of delinquents

00:34:01.340 --> 00:34:02.640
 and really just

00:34:02.640 --> 00:34:03.120
 lived a life

00:34:03.120 --> 00:34:03.820
 of debauchery

00:34:03.820 --> 00:34:05.240
 when he was

00:34:05.240 --> 00:34:06.360
 17 years old

00:34:06.360 --> 00:34:07.200
 he and his

00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:07.820
 group of friends

00:34:07.820 --> 00:34:08.539
 decided that they

00:34:08.539 --> 00:34:09.019
 were going to go

00:34:09.019 --> 00:34:10.340
 to a meeting

00:34:10.340 --> 00:34:11.320
 where George

00:34:11.320 --> 00:34:12.039
 Whitfield was

00:34:12.039 --> 00:34:12.480
 preaching

00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:13.559
 and if you've

00:34:13.559 --> 00:34:13.960
 ever studied

00:34:13.960 --> 00:34:14.460
 anything about

00:34:14.460 --> 00:34:15.079
 George Whitfield

00:34:15.079 --> 00:34:15.460
 you know that

00:34:15.460 --> 00:34:15.940
 he was a very

00:34:15.940 --> 00:34:17.440
 evangelistic preacher

00:34:17.440 --> 00:34:17.940
 he had these

00:34:17.940 --> 00:34:18.720
 open door

00:34:18.720 --> 00:34:20.300
 or open air

00:34:20.300 --> 00:34:21.000
 meetings where

00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:21.460
 he would stand

00:34:21.460 --> 00:34:21.880
 in a field

00:34:21.880 --> 00:34:22.220
 and he would

00:34:22.220 --> 00:34:23.380
 preach to all

00:34:23.380 --> 00:34:23.820
 of these people

00:34:23.820 --> 00:34:24.099
 and it was a

00:34:24.099 --> 00:34:24.800
 very evangelistic

00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:25.160
 preaching

00:34:25.160 --> 00:34:25.800
 lots of people

00:34:25.800 --> 00:34:26.800
 came to know

00:34:26.800 --> 00:34:27.440
 Christ through

00:34:27.440 --> 00:34:28.260
 the ministry

00:34:28.260 --> 00:34:28.660
 of George

00:34:28.660 --> 00:34:29.080
 Whitfield

00:34:29.080 --> 00:34:30.100
 well they

00:34:30.100 --> 00:34:30.500
 went there

00:34:30.500 --> 00:34:31.019
 not to hear

00:34:31.019 --> 00:34:31.480
 the preaching

00:34:31.480 --> 00:34:31.880
 of George

00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:32.320
 Whitfield

00:34:32.320 --> 00:34:32.760
 they went

00:34:32.760 --> 00:34:33.480
 there to

00:34:33.480 --> 00:34:35.500
 on his own

00:34:35.500 --> 00:34:35.860
 quote

00:34:35.860 --> 00:34:36.840
 scoff at the

00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:37.600
 poor deluded

00:34:37.600 --> 00:34:38.240
 Methodist

00:34:38.240 --> 00:34:39.019
 is what they

00:34:39.019 --> 00:34:39.300
 went there

00:34:39.300 --> 00:34:39.640
 to do

00:34:39.640 --> 00:34:41.000
 and he didn't

00:34:41.000 --> 00:34:41.460
 get saved

00:34:41.460 --> 00:34:41.900
 that day

00:34:41.900 --> 00:34:42.519
 but there

00:34:42.519 --> 00:34:43.460
 was a phrase

00:34:43.460 --> 00:34:44.600
 that George

00:34:44.600 --> 00:34:45.120
 Whitfield

00:34:45.120 --> 00:34:46.420
 kept repeating

00:34:46.420 --> 00:34:47.120
 and it stayed

00:34:47.120 --> 00:34:47.820
 with Robert

00:34:47.820 --> 00:34:48.280
 Robinson

00:34:48.280 --> 00:34:48.960
 after the fact

00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:49.640
 it was

00:34:49.640 --> 00:34:50.680
 the wrath

00:34:50.680 --> 00:34:51.160
 to come

00:34:51.160 --> 00:34:51.680
 the wrath

00:34:51.680 --> 00:34:52.120
 to come

00:34:52.120 --> 00:34:52.620
 the wrath

00:34:52.619 --> 00:34:53.079
 to come

00:34:53.079 --> 00:34:53.519
 and he

00:34:53.519 --> 00:34:53.699
 couldn't

00:34:53.699 --> 00:34:54.339
 shake that

00:34:54.339 --> 00:34:54.599
 thought

00:34:54.599 --> 00:34:54.960
 out of his

00:34:54.960 --> 00:34:55.199
 mind

00:34:55.199 --> 00:34:55.619
 so that

00:34:55.619 --> 00:34:56.380
 a few days

00:34:56.380 --> 00:34:56.779
 later

00:34:56.779 --> 00:34:58.099
 he ended up

00:34:58.099 --> 00:34:58.779
 subsequently

00:34:58.779 --> 00:34:59.480
 coming to

00:34:59.480 --> 00:34:59.900
 Christ

00:34:59.900 --> 00:35:00.960
 and trusting

00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:01.400
 the Lord

00:35:01.400 --> 00:35:02.339
 and he even

00:35:02.339 --> 00:35:03.219
 became a pastor

00:35:03.219 --> 00:35:05.420
 and a very well

00:35:05.420 --> 00:35:06.440
 known theologian

00:35:06.440 --> 00:35:07.299
 at the time

00:35:07.300 --> 00:35:10.039
 in 1758

00:35:10.039 --> 00:35:11.800
 he wrote

00:35:11.800 --> 00:35:12.480
 and published

00:35:12.480 --> 00:35:13.360
 a famous hymn

00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:14.060
 that we sing

00:35:14.060 --> 00:35:14.539
 here at our

00:35:14.539 --> 00:35:14.780
 church

00:35:14.780 --> 00:35:15.019
 in fact

00:35:15.019 --> 00:35:15.320
 I think

00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:15.780
 we're scheduled

00:35:15.780 --> 00:35:16.340
 to sing it

00:35:16.340 --> 00:35:17.220
 next Sunday

00:35:17.220 --> 00:35:17.720
 evening

00:35:17.720 --> 00:35:18.800
 Sunday even

00:35:18.800 --> 00:35:19.860
 come thou

00:35:19.860 --> 00:35:20.300
 fount of

00:35:20.300 --> 00:35:20.840
 every blessing

00:35:20.840 --> 00:35:21.440
 is the song

00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:21.880
 that he wrote

00:35:21.880 --> 00:35:24.039
 and the song

00:35:24.039 --> 00:35:24.700
 asserts the

00:35:24.700 --> 00:35:25.180
 confidence

00:35:25.180 --> 00:35:25.960
 and wonder

00:35:25.960 --> 00:35:26.820
 of the salvation

00:35:26.820 --> 00:35:27.640
 that only comes

00:35:27.640 --> 00:35:28.100
 through Jesus

00:35:28.100 --> 00:35:28.460
 Christ

00:35:28.460 --> 00:35:29.060
 it's filled

00:35:29.060 --> 00:35:30.180
 with excitement

00:35:30.180 --> 00:35:30.800
 and joy

00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:31.180
 and love

00:35:31.180 --> 00:35:31.680
 for the Lord

00:35:31.680 --> 00:35:32.940
 and for God's

00:35:32.940 --> 00:35:33.280
 grace

00:35:33.280 --> 00:35:34.640
 but the third

00:35:34.640 --> 00:35:35.240
 verse of that

00:35:35.240 --> 00:35:35.519
 hymn

00:35:35.519 --> 00:35:36.380
 clues us in

00:35:36.380 --> 00:35:37.240
 to the dangers

00:35:37.240 --> 00:35:38.440
 that we could

00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:39.220
 all fall into

00:35:39.220 --> 00:35:39.599
 you remember

00:35:39.599 --> 00:35:40.460
 in the third

00:35:40.460 --> 00:35:41.099
 verse

00:35:41.099 --> 00:35:42.980
 Robinson writes

00:35:42.980 --> 00:35:44.119
 prone to wonder

00:35:44.119 --> 00:35:45.360
 Lord I feel it

00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:46.579
 prone to leave

00:35:46.579 --> 00:35:47.460
 the God I love

00:35:47.460 --> 00:35:49.920
 and this verse

00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:51.059
 became somewhat

00:35:51.059 --> 00:35:51.820
 prophetic

00:35:51.820 --> 00:35:52.760
 in his life

00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:53.940
 because in his

00:35:53.940 --> 00:35:54.519
 later years

00:35:54.519 --> 00:35:55.180
 he returned

00:35:55.180 --> 00:35:55.660
 to the same

00:35:55.660 --> 00:35:56.240
 debauchery

00:35:56.240 --> 00:35:56.660
 that he was

00:35:56.660 --> 00:35:57.240
 guilty of

00:35:57.240 --> 00:35:58.119
 as an unsaved

00:35:58.119 --> 00:35:58.680
 teenager

00:35:58.680 --> 00:35:59.800
 living in London

00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:01.579
 and because

00:36:01.579 --> 00:36:02.360
 of that sinfulness

00:36:02.360 --> 00:36:03.700
 he began to

00:36:03.700 --> 00:36:05.619
 walk away

00:36:05.619 --> 00:36:06.140
 from the

00:36:06.139 --> 00:36:06.739
 orthodox

00:36:06.739 --> 00:36:07.239
 teaching

00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:07.500
 of the

00:36:07.500 --> 00:36:07.859
 Bible

00:36:07.859 --> 00:36:09.679
 even became

00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:10.319
 a Unitarian

00:36:10.319 --> 00:36:11.159
 at one point

00:36:11.159 --> 00:36:11.679
 denying

00:36:11.679 --> 00:36:12.500
 the Trinitarian

00:36:12.500 --> 00:36:13.940
 God

00:36:13.940 --> 00:36:15.940
 and as the

00:36:15.940 --> 00:36:16.719
 story goes

00:36:16.719 --> 00:36:18.259
 he was

00:36:18.259 --> 00:36:19.159
 one day

00:36:19.159 --> 00:36:19.859
 riding on a

00:36:19.859 --> 00:36:21.099
 shared stagecoach

00:36:21.099 --> 00:36:21.639
 late in his

00:36:21.639 --> 00:36:22.000
 life

00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:23.000
 and there was

00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:23.579
 another woman

00:36:23.579 --> 00:36:24.000
 that was in

00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:24.639
 the stagecoach

00:36:24.639 --> 00:36:25.219
 with him

00:36:25.219 --> 00:36:25.619
 and she was

00:36:25.619 --> 00:36:26.420
 reading through

00:36:26.420 --> 00:36:27.179
 a hymn book

00:36:27.179 --> 00:36:27.639
 and humming

00:36:27.639 --> 00:36:28.400
 the tunes

00:36:28.400 --> 00:36:29.059
 of the hymn book

00:36:29.059 --> 00:36:30.119
 and to break up

00:36:30.119 --> 00:36:31.000
 the monotony

00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:31.599
 of the ride

00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:32.579
 she starts

00:36:32.579 --> 00:36:33.379
 a conversation

00:36:33.379 --> 00:36:34.039
 with Robert

00:36:34.039 --> 00:36:34.559
 Robinson

00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:35.159
 and says

00:36:35.159 --> 00:36:35.940
 what do you

00:36:35.940 --> 00:36:36.519
 think about

00:36:36.519 --> 00:36:37.179
 the hymn

00:36:37.179 --> 00:36:37.619
 that I was

00:36:37.619 --> 00:36:38.259
 just singing

00:36:38.259 --> 00:36:39.960
 and as the

00:36:39.960 --> 00:36:40.759
 story goes

00:36:40.759 --> 00:36:41.759
 Robert Robinson

00:36:41.759 --> 00:36:43.579
 emotionally

00:36:43.579 --> 00:36:44.719
 responds

00:36:44.719 --> 00:36:46.279
 madam I am

00:36:46.279 --> 00:36:46.860
 the poor

00:36:46.860 --> 00:36:48.099
 unhappy man

00:36:48.099 --> 00:36:48.920
 who wrote

00:36:48.920 --> 00:36:49.500
 that hymn

00:36:49.500 --> 00:36:50.599
 many years

00:36:50.599 --> 00:36:50.980
 ago

00:36:50.980 --> 00:36:52.279
 and I would

00:36:52.279 --> 00:36:52.659
 give a

00:36:52.659 --> 00:36:53.199
 thousand

00:36:53.199 --> 00:36:54.360
 worlds

00:36:54.360 --> 00:36:55.440
 if I had

00:36:55.440 --> 00:36:55.699
 them

00:36:55.699 --> 00:36:57.139
 to enjoy

00:36:57.139 --> 00:36:57.900
 the feelings

00:36:57.900 --> 00:36:58.599
 I had

00:36:58.599 --> 00:36:59.380
 then

00:36:59.380 --> 00:37:01.099
 I would

00:37:01.099 --> 00:37:01.420
 give a

00:37:01.420 --> 00:37:01.940
 thousand

00:37:01.940 --> 00:37:02.780
 worlds

00:37:02.780 --> 00:37:03.519
 if I

00:37:03.519 --> 00:37:03.840
 had

00:37:03.840 --> 00:37:04.039
 them

00:37:04.039 --> 00:37:04.579
 to

00:37:04.579 --> 00:37:05.220
 enjoy

00:37:05.220 --> 00:37:05.500
 the

00:37:05.500 --> 00:37:06.019
 feelings

00:37:06.019 --> 00:37:06.480
 that I

00:37:06.480 --> 00:37:06.920
 had

00:37:06.920 --> 00:37:07.980
 then

00:37:07.980 --> 00:37:09.760
 I think

00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:10.180
 both King

00:37:10.180 --> 00:37:10.740
 David and

00:37:10.740 --> 00:37:11.180
 Robinson

00:37:11.180 --> 00:37:11.579
 would have

00:37:11.579 --> 00:37:12.360
 never gone

00:37:12.360 --> 00:37:12.680
 down their

00:37:12.680 --> 00:37:13.140
 respective

00:37:13.140 --> 00:37:13.780
 paths

00:37:13.780 --> 00:37:14.760
 had they

00:37:14.760 --> 00:37:15.280
 looked ahead

00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:15.559
 at the

00:37:15.559 --> 00:37:16.160
 devastation

00:37:16.160 --> 00:37:16.400
 it would

00:37:16.400 --> 00:37:16.820
 cause

00:37:16.820 --> 00:37:18.740
 and their

00:37:18.740 --> 00:37:19.180
 lives serve

00:37:19.180 --> 00:37:19.640
 as a warning

00:37:19.640 --> 00:37:20.240
 for us

00:37:20.240 --> 00:37:22.340
 if you want

00:37:22.340 --> 00:37:22.700
 to know

00:37:22.700 --> 00:37:23.260
 what comes

00:37:23.260 --> 00:37:23.740
 at the end

00:37:23.740 --> 00:37:24.300
 of sin

00:37:24.300 --> 00:37:25.700
 look to

00:37:25.700 --> 00:37:26.300
 these men

00:37:26.300 --> 00:37:27.840
 the

00:37:27.840 --> 00:37:28.440
 displeasure

00:37:28.440 --> 00:37:29.060
 of God

00:37:29.060 --> 00:37:30.160
 and the

00:37:30.160 --> 00:37:30.740
 consequences

00:37:30.740 --> 00:37:31.360
 of sin

00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:31.760
 are not

00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:32.180
 worth

00:37:32.180 --> 00:37:33.400
 a few

00:37:33.400 --> 00:37:33.780
 moments

00:37:33.780 --> 00:37:34.380
 of pleasure

00:37:34.380 --> 00:37:35.800
 so church

00:37:35.800 --> 00:37:37.220
 take

00:37:37.220 --> 00:37:37.640
 warning

00:37:37.640 --> 00:37:40.260
 David's

00:37:40.260 --> 00:37:40.560
 not our

00:37:40.560 --> 00:37:40.940
 champion

00:37:40.940 --> 00:37:41.740
 Jesus is

00:37:41.740 --> 00:37:43.120
 and the

00:37:43.120 --> 00:37:43.539
 best thing

00:37:43.539 --> 00:37:43.940
 about the

00:37:43.940 --> 00:37:44.280
 champion

00:37:44.280 --> 00:37:44.620
 that we

00:37:44.620 --> 00:37:44.960
 have in

00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:45.260
 Christ

00:37:45.260 --> 00:37:46.720
 is that

00:37:46.720 --> 00:37:46.980
 there's

00:37:46.980 --> 00:37:47.300
 forgiveness

00:37:47.300 --> 00:37:47.940
 and grace

00:37:47.940 --> 00:37:48.280
 no matter

00:37:48.280 --> 00:37:48.660
 what we

00:37:48.660 --> 00:37:48.920
 do

00:37:48.920 --> 00:37:50.420
 for all

00:37:50.420 --> 00:37:50.760
 who will

00:37:50.760 --> 00:37:51.160
 come

00:37:51.160 --> 00:37:52.480
 not trying

00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:53.320
 to justify

00:37:53.320 --> 00:37:53.860
 and make

00:37:53.860 --> 00:37:54.460
 excuses

00:37:54.460 --> 00:37:56.940
 and tell

00:37:56.940 --> 00:37:57.320
 God

00:37:57.320 --> 00:37:57.760
 exactly

00:37:57.760 --> 00:37:58.139
 well this

00:37:58.139 --> 00:37:58.460
 is what

00:37:58.460 --> 00:37:58.860
 happened

00:37:58.860 --> 00:37:59.220
 it's really

00:37:59.220 --> 00:37:59.679
 David's

00:37:59.679 --> 00:37:59.900
 fault

00:37:59.900 --> 00:38:00.119
 or it's

00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:00.280
 really

00:38:00.280 --> 00:38:00.840
 Bathsheba's

00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:01.000
 fault

00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:01.400
 or whatever

00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:02.980
 the mercy

00:38:02.980 --> 00:38:03.300
 doesn't

00:38:03.300 --> 00:38:03.780
 await those

00:38:03.780 --> 00:38:04.099
 people

00:38:04.099 --> 00:38:05.559
 the mercy

00:38:05.559 --> 00:38:05.900
 awaits

00:38:05.900 --> 00:38:06.420
 those who

00:38:06.420 --> 00:38:07.019
 come with

00:38:07.019 --> 00:38:07.579
 a humble

00:38:07.579 --> 00:38:09.039
 and contrite

00:38:09.039 --> 00:38:09.400
 spirit

00:38:09.400 --> 00:38:11.179
 and that's

00:38:11.179 --> 00:38:11.780
 available to

00:38:11.780 --> 00:38:12.300
 you today

00:38:12.300 --> 00:38:14.340
 if your

00:38:14.340 --> 00:38:14.840
 sin has

00:38:14.840 --> 00:38:15.280
 taken hold

00:38:15.280 --> 00:38:15.500
 of your

00:38:15.500 --> 00:38:15.880
 life

00:38:15.880 --> 00:38:17.159
 but it

00:38:17.159 --> 00:38:17.559
 will only

00:38:17.559 --> 00:38:17.980
 take

00:38:17.980 --> 00:38:19.000
 a contrite

00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:19.360
 spirit

00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:20.119
 and a

00:38:20.119 --> 00:38:20.559
 humility

00:38:20.559 --> 00:38:21.000
 seeking

00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:21.519
 forgiveness

00:38:21.519 --> 00:38:22.340
 acknowledging

00:38:22.340 --> 00:38:23.220
 your own

00:38:23.220 --> 00:38:23.559
 sin

00:38:23.559 --> 00:38:24.480
 that will

00:38:24.480 --> 00:38:24.860
 receive

00:38:24.860 --> 00:38:25.059
 that

00:38:25.059 --> 00:38:25.420
 mercy

00:38:25.420 --> 00:38:25.799
 and that

00:38:25.799 --> 00:38:26.179
 forgiveness

00:38:26.179 --> 00:38:27.779
 thank you

00:38:27.779 --> 00:38:28.159
 for listening

00:38:28.159 --> 00:38:28.559
 to this

00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:28.820
 sermon

00:38:28.820 --> 00:38:29.400
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00:38:29.400 --> 00:38:30.139
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00:38:35.360 --> 00:38:35.679
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