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 If we're honest, we would all be content with the story of David's sin ending with Psalm 51, right?

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 After all, we have seen David commit his sin.

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 We've examined that closely.

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 We have seen David be confronted with his sin.

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 We've examined that thoroughly.

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 We've even seen David confess his sin and be assured of God's mercy.

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 And yet, there's still more to the story, as Paul Harvey would have said, right?

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 This passage is a sober reminder that there are indeed consequences to forgiven sin.

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 God, in his wonderful grace, forgives us, forgives the penitent sinner.

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 But God, in his holy government, must still judge sin.

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 It's imperative, as we study this passage and as we study the Bible,

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 that we have a proper understanding of the difference between the eternal penalty of sin

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 and the immediate consequences of sin.

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 The Bible clearly teaches that all of us are guilty before God, and we all deserve an eternal death.

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 We understand that clearly.

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 Romans 3, verse 23, we all know the verse,

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 for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

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 We are all guilty before God.

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 We acknowledged that last week in Psalm 51.

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 We also read in the Bible where the clear, deserving nature of our sin is eternal death.

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 And Romans chapter 6 helps us there.

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 For the wages of sin is death.

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 And when the Bible speaks of death as the payment for sin,

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 it's not only referring to physical death.

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 Physical death is a curse of sin that comes on believers and unbelievers alike.

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 In fact, the Bible clearly teaches us that every person will die,

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 even those who know the Lord, those who have been forgiven by the Lord.

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 We will all one day face our death and go into eternity.

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 But when the Bible references this eternal penalty of death for unbelievers,

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 it's speaking of a spiritual death.

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 Sometimes it refers to it as the second death.

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 But what does this actually mean?

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 What is this spiritual death?

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 What is this eternal death that the Bible says is the punishment for our sin?

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 Well, we understand God has created us all to be eternal beings.

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 We will live forever, every one of us.

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 We have a definite beginning.

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 We do not, in a spiritual sense, have a definite ending.

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 We will live forever.

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 Those who believe and follow Jesus Christ receive eternal life.

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 But those who do not are sentenced to eternal death.

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 And while an unbeliever's eternity is lived out in a literal place of torment

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 that we refer to as hell or even the lake of fire,

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 it's a real place.

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 It's a place of torment.

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 It's a place of fire, according to the Bible.

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 It's a place of separation, according to the Bible.

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 The significance of this eternity and this spiritual death

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 is that it is completely absent of God and his goodness.

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 That's why we say the penalty for sin, the eternal penalty for sin,

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 is separation from God, because that's exactly what hell is.

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 Heaven is where God is.

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 Hell is where God is not.

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 Now, we need to think about this for just a minute.

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 Think about everything that we enjoy here in this life,

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 both believers and unbelievers alike.

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 There's a doctrine.

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 We refer to it as common grace.

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 And it basically says that God, in his goodness,

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 shows that grace to all people, not necessarily a saving grace,

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 that is reserved for those who are believers,

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 but he shows his grace and his goodness and his kindness to all people.

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 Think of it this way.

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 In this life, whether you're a believer or an unbeliever,

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 we all get to enjoy beauty.

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 We could all take a trip today up to the mountains

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 as the leaves are beginning to change,

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 and we could observe the beautiful creation that God has given us.

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 And whether you're a believer or an unbeliever, it doesn't matter.

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 You can enjoy that, and you can relish that,

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 and you can be blessed and encouraged by the beauty that God has created.

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 We are blessed by companionship.

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 Believers and unbelievers alike have great, strong friendships,

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 strong marriages.

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 We experience love.

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 We experience all kinds of blessings in this life.

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 And the only reason we experience those blessings is because of who God is,

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 because he has allowed in his grace to give us a bit of his presence

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 and to give us a bit of his goodness and a bit of his grace,

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 even for those who do not follow him in faith.

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 Now, hell, eternal death, is completely absent of God and his goodness.

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 Imagine what life on this earth would be like if it were absent of all of those things.

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 There was no beauty to behold.

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 There'd be no companionship for us to enjoy and to be encouraged by.

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 There'd be no morality.

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 There would be nothing good.

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 Everything that is good, everything that is loving,

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 everything that is beautiful, everything that is positive in this life

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 comes out of the character and the blessing of God.

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 Now, imagine an eternity absent of all of those things.

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 That's the reality for people that die and go to hell.

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 Nothing good that is enjoyed now would exist if God were to remove his presence and grace.

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 But this is exactly what the experience of hell will be for those who do not believe and follow Christ.

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 And then it will also be a place of physical torment and pain.

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 It will be an eternity completely absent of the goodness of God.

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 That's why Jesus came.

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 In fact, Jesus said that's why he came.

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 John chapter 10 and verse 10, he said,

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 I am come that they may have life and that they may have that life more abundantly.

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 Jesus was not just talking about life on this earth.

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 He was talking about eternal life.

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 The reason he came is so that we would not have to suffer that eternal death.

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 His death on the cross was substitutionary,

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 meaning that in our place and on our behalf,

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 he absorbed the wrath of the Father so that we could then inherit eternal life through him.

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 And then his resurrection, three days after that,

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 proved that his death was indeed sufficient to pay for the penalty of man's sin.

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 And it showed that he alone has power over this eternal death.

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 And 1 Corinthians 15 tells us all about that.

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 Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures.

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 He was buried and he rose on the third day according to the scriptures.

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 And then later on in chapter 15, it says,

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 But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead.

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 He's the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.

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 For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.

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 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

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 When we talk about receiving God's mercy and being eternally forgiven,

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 we are referring to this ultimate penalty of sin.

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 And as we come to 2 Samuel chapter 12,

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 it's imperative that we understand the difference between being made free from that ultimate penalty of sin

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 and given eternal life through Jesus Christ.

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 There's a difference between that and the immediate consequences and temporal consequences

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 that come for our sin in this life.

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 We must not mistake being made free from the eternal penalty of sin

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 as escaping the consequences of sin now.

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 David's life tells us and warns us that though our standing before God in eternity is one of just righteousness,

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 God will still judge our sin in this life.

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 The Lord graciously forgives the believer's sin,

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 but we will still have to pay a cost.

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 This passage shows us and helps us to understand the reality of the consequences of our sin.

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 It teaches us how we are to respond to the chastening of the Lord.

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 Many people, when they face the correcting love of the Lord,

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 will turn to bitterness, perhaps even apostasy.

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 But what we are seeing in David's reaction is that we are to respond in worship.

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 And then thirdly, this passage encourages us with the assurance of God's returning blessings.

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 And all three of those things is what I'd like to cover with you today.

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 Let's first look at the reality of sin's consequences.

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 Look with me again at verse number 10, 2 Samuel 12, verse 10.

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 Nathan comes to David and he says,

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 Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from thine house,

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 because thou hast despised me, God says,

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 and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.

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 Though the consequences of David's sin were pronounced through the prophet Nathan,

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 they were all experienced after he had confessed his sin in Psalm 51.

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 Though he had been assured of God's forgiveness and mercy,

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 his sin still came at a tremendous cost to his temporal life here.

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 It is true as we study this passage,

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 that sin will take you further than you want to go.

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 It will keep you longer than you want to stay.

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 And it will cost you more than you want to pay.

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 But if we are secure in our eternal salvation,

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 and we are, the Bible tells us that clearly,

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 how is it then that believers will experience this judgment

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 and the consequences of our sin?

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 And there's two perspectives here in David's example

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 that is worth us noting.

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 It's the same perspectives that we must have now.

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 There is the law of sowing and reaping.

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 And then there is the chastening hand or the chastening love,

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 as I would prefer to call it, the chastening love of the Lord.

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 Let's first talk about the law of sowing and reaping.

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 There is an agricultural principle that is universally true.

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 And Andy can help me with this if I'm wrong,

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 from based on what he does there at the greenhouse every week.

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 And if I take a pumpkin seed,

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 I don't even know if you grow pumpkins with seeds,

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 is that what you do?

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 If I take a, sorry, I'm a preacher, not a farmer.

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 If I take a pumpkin seed and I go bury it in my backyard,

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 I can't expect to grow tomatoes, right?

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 Whatever you sow is what you reap.

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 If you reap anything, you're gonna reap what it is that you sow.

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 The Bible applies this metaphor to our everyday lives.

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 Everything that we sow in life,

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 we can expect to reap in life.

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 And it's a continual law of principle that we read

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 all throughout the scriptures, really.

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 And this is the natural consequence of sin.

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 It's experienced even by those who standing

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 is one of eternal forgiveness.

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 Whenever we sow wickedness in this life,

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 we can expect to reap corruption in this life.

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 Whenever we sow good and righteousness in this life,

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 we can expect to reap blessing in this life.

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 Galatians chapter six tells us this explicitly.

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 Do not be deceived, Paul writes.

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 God is not mocked.

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 For whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap.

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 For the one who sows to his own flesh

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 will from the flesh reap corruption.

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 But the one who sows to the spirit

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 will from the spirit reap eternal life.

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 The things that we do, we can expect to reap in consequence.

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 It's the natural consequences of our sin.

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 Now let's look at how David dealt

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 with the natural consequences of his sin.

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 Three ways that he had the law of sowing

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 and reaping in this passage.

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 Number one, since Uriah was killed by violence,

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 violence would then plague the house of David.

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 Since Uriah was killed by violence,

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 violence would now plague the house of David.

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 Look with me again at verse number 10,

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 or verse nine actually, let's start there.

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 God says, you have struck down Uriah the Hittite

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 with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife

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 and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

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 Now therefore, because this is what you've done,

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 God tells David, the sword shall never depart

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 from your house.

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 That's the first immediate consequence.

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 We see this played out.

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 If you were to read through the rest of 2 Samuel chapter 12

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 and really just the first couple of chapters of 1 Kings,

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 you'll see this played out in David's life.

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 Three of David's sons, in addition to this baby,

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 three of David's sons are killed,

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 and they're all killed by the sword.

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 His son Amnon is killed by his other son Absalom.

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 Absalom is then killed by David's cousin Joab

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 and the commander of his army.

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 And then a third son, Adonijah,

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 tried to set himself up as king

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 when it was Solomon who was intended to be king.

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 And Solomon made a deal with him that he wouldn't kill him

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 as long as he wouldn't rebel.

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 Ultimately, he rebels and Solomon kills Adonijah as well.

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 Three different sons of David are killed by the sword

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 and God tells him in 2 Samuel chapter 12,

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 this is a consequence for you taking the life

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 of Uriah the Hittite and those other men with the sword.

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 Secondly, since David stole a man's wife,

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 someone else would steal his wives.

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 Look again at verse 10.

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 Because you have despised me

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 and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite

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 to be your wife, thus says the Lord,

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 behold, I will raise up evil against you

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 out of your own house.

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 And I will take your wives before your eyes

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 and give them to your neighbor,

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 and he shall lie with your wives

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 in the sight of this son.

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 For you did it secretly,

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 but I will do this thing before all Israel

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 and before the son.

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 This is carried out in chapter 16 of 2 Samuel.

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 One of David's sons, Absalom,

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 chases David out of the kingdom.

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 He's bitter at him about some things

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 that David had done poorly as a father.

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 And he comes in, he chases David out of the kingdom.

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 And in the process of that,

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 David leaves some of his harem behind in Jerusalem,

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 something that he should have never had to begin with.

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 It was a part of the sin of his life.

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 But he left some of those concubines and wives behind.

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 One of the pagan rituals for a conquering king

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 in this particular day

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 is that they would defile the wives of the defeated king.

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 It was a show of power,

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 basically showing that I have defeated this king

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 and I have taken everything that belonged to him,

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 even the most intimate things that belonged to him.

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 David's own son sets up a tent

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 on the top of David's own house

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 in view of the entire city of Jerusalem

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 and takes David's wives one by one into this tent

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 and defiles them in front of the whole city,

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 in front of all Israel.

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 Why?

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 God says, this is a payment for your sin.

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 This is one of the natural consequences of your sin.

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 This is what you have sown,

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 therefore this is what you will reap.

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 And then the third one,

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 since David's actions had given reason

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 for people to blaspheme the Lord,

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 the child produced by his actions would not survive.

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 Verse 14,

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 because by this deed you have given occasion

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 to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme,

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 the child also that is born to you shall surely die.

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 Perhaps the most devastating of all of those consequences

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 is that one.

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 It wasn't because God hated the child

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 and it wasn't because the child

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 had necessarily done anything wrong.

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 It was because God had to judge the sin.

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 And specifically,

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 because David had given reason

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 for the enemies of God

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 to blaspheme the name of the Lord,

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 this would be what he would reap for that sin.

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 The consequences of David's sin was severe,

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 but he didn't receive anything

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 that he had not himself done to others.

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 He killed Uriah along with a bunch of other sons.

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 He stole a man's wife.

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 He committed the sin.

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 He reaped the consequences.

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 But he reaped every one of those consequences

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 after in Psalm 51 he cries out,

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 have mercy on me, O God.

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 After he was assured in Psalm 51

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 that he had indeed received that mercy from God.

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 Remember Nathan's report in 2 Samuel 12.

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 The Lord has put away your sin.

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 You shall not die.

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 He was freed from the eternal penalty of his sin,

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 but he was not free from the consequences of his sin

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 in this life.

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 Your sin may be forgiven in eternity,

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 but it will not always be relieved of its burden now.

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 This is a warning to us,

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 and it's one that we really need to take very seriously.

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 It is not only that our sin is an offense against God,

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 but it is also because God will judge our sin,

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 and we should care about that.

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 So there's the law of sowing and reaping.

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 Quickly, there's the chastening of the Lord.

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 That's the other part to this passage.

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 Now God's role in the consequences of David's sin

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 cannot and should not be overlooked.

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 It was from the hand of God

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 that David faced all of these consequences.

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 I want you to look at it with me.

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 Look in verse 11, right at the very beginning.

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 Thus says the Lord,

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 Behold, I will, he says,

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 I will raise up evil against you out of your own house.

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 Second part of verse 11,

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 And I will take your wives before your eyes.

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 Verse 12,

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 I will do this thing before all Israel and before the Son.

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 Verse 15,

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 And the Lord struck the child that Uriah's wife bear unto David.

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 We come to a passage like this,

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 and we see how severe and how the penalty for this

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 is not that it was only severe,

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 but it was carried out in ways

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 that we know God wasn't pleased with.

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 And yet it is God who takes the credit for it.

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 And we spend a lot of our time sometimes as Christians

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 trying to get God off the hook

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 when this is God's word to us,

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 and God gives it to us,

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 and he says,

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 I will do this thing.

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 I have done this thing.

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 I will judge this sin.

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 He was in complete control

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 of everything taking place in this text.

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 And he's in complete control

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 of everything taking place in our lives as well.

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 This is the dynamic of sin's consequences

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 that the Bible categorizes as the chastening of the Lord.

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 Now God's chastening is difficult,

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 and sometimes severe,

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 but it is always, always done

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 for the purpose of the good of his people.

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 It's not punitive in action

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 like God's judgment on unbelievers.

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 When unbelievers face the judgment of God

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 at the end of this life,

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 it is punitive action.

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 It is depart from me, you workers of iniquity.

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 I never knew you.

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 But the chastening of the Lord

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 that comes down on the life of believers in this life

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 is not punitive in nature.

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 It is nurturing in nature.

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 Severe, difficult, yes,

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 but in order to produce good,

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 in order that he may fashion us

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 into the image of Christ.

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 Think of Proverbs chapter three.

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 My son,

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 despise not the chastening of the Lord.

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 Neither be weary of his correction.

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 For whom the Lord loves,

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 he corrects.

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 Even as a father,

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 the son in whom he delights.

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 Think of Hebrews chapter 12.

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 All discipline,

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 for the moment,

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 seems not to be joyful,

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 and we can all agree to that.

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 But it is sorrowful.

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 It is grievous.

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 Yet to those who have been trained

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 by God's discipline afterwards,

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 it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness.

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 There is a purpose in God's role

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 in these consequences.

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 It is not that he may express anger to believers.

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 It is that he may correct and build up believers.

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 We cannot view sin as an abstraction.

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 It can only be rightly understood

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 in relation to the character of God.

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 The chastening of the Lord reminds us of this,

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 and it reminds us that sin

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 is primarily an offense against God.

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 It rehearses the holiness of God.

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 It rehearses the justice of God.

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 It proclaims that sin and its consequences

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 are not outside of the power and control of God.

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 To overlook God's role in this text

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 is to fundamentally miss the point of the passage.

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 The point of the passage is David sinned,

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 and what made it sinned

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 was it was an offense against God.

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 Therefore, God, in his holy judgment,

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 must judge David's sin,

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 but God, in his tremendous grace and mercy,

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 poured out that mercy on David.

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 In fact, the very nature of this correction

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 was an act of God's mercy.

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 But then if you were to ask enough questions

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 about this passage,

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 eventually, you'll find yourself looking for answers

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 to how a loving God can allow

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 and permit so much evil to take place.

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 God says, this is the judgment that I'm carrying out,

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 but how could God do that?

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 How could God allow David to sin in this way to begin with?

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 Why didn't he stop it?

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 There's no easy answers

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 to completely satisfy our minds,

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 but there are plenty of truths in the Bible

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 that help us process this as believers,

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 and it will help us to process this in our evangelism

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 as those same questions come against us.

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 I had a conversation this week

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 about the importance of this.

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 As we witness of God's goodness,

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 and someone just takes a moment

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 as an unbeliever to examine the world around us,

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 this question will come to their mind.

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 If you're saying God is so good,

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 how is it that all of this wickedness and evil is possible?

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 Let me give you a few things to help with this.

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 Number one, God is always right.

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 God is always right.

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 He's absolutely perfect and just

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 in everything that he does.

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 If you wanna take notes on this,

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 Psalm 1830 is a good place to go.

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 Here's what it says.

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 It's one of my favorite verses in all the Bible.

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 It says, this God,

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 his way is perfect.

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 The word of the Lord proves true.

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 Abraham in Genesis chapter 18 says,

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 shall not the judge of all the earth

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 do that which is right?

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 One of the things we see about God's character

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 all throughout the scripture

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 that we must trust and believe

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 is that God is always right.

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 He is always perfect.

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 He never does anything wrong.

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 Whatever is allowed by his sovereign control

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 is right to do.

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 So God is always right.

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 Secondly, God is never pleased by sin.

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 He does not commit sin

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 and he does not entice us to sin.

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 Think of James chapter one.

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 Let no one say when he is tempted,

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 I am being tempted by God

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 for God cannot be tempted with evil

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 and he himself tempts no one.

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 First John chapter one in verse five,

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 God is light and in him is no darkness at all.

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 So not only is God right,

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 not only is God perfect,

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 but he does not,

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 he is not pleased by sin.

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 He does not commit sin,

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 nor does he entice others to sin.

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 Number three, God is sovereign over all things.

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 God is absolutely sovereign over all things.

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 There is nothing at all

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 that is outside of his divine will and control.

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 Think of Lamentations chapter three in verse 37.

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 Who has spoken and came to pass

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 unless the Lord has commanded it?

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 Is it not from the mouth of the most high

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 that good and bad come?

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 Why should a living man complain

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 about the punishment of his sins?

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 Think of Isaiah 45.

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 God says, I form light and create darkness.

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 I make well-being and create calamity.

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 I am the Lord who does all these things.

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 God is always right.

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 He is not pleased by sin,

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 nor does he commit sin,

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 but he is sovereign over everything.

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 And then fourthly,

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 all things take place for the glory of God

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 and the good of his people.

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 All things take place for the glory of God

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 and the good of his people.

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 Romans chapter eight, verse 28.

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 We know that for those who love God,

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 all things work together for good

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 for those who are called according to his purpose.

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 And what is God's ultimate purpose?

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 His own glory.

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 Everything that takes place in your life

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 is for his glory and your good.

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 That doesn't mean that everything in your life is good.

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 It just means that God is in control of it.

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 And it is ultimately for your good

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 and for his glory.

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 We do not always know why

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 and how God acts in the way that he does.

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 We must trust him

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 and believe that he is good.

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 The end of Romans chapter 11,

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 Paul gets to this great doxology

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 and considering all of these things

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 and trying to hold them in tension,

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 the character of God

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 and how we can only partly understand him

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 with our finite being.

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 And he says this,

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 Oh, the depth and the riches

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 and the wisdom and the knowledge of God.

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 How unsearchable are his judgments

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 and how inscrutable are his ways

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 for who has known the mind of the Lord

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 and who has been his counselor

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 or who has given a gift to him

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 that he might be repaid

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 for from him and through him

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 and to him are all things.

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 To him be glory forever.

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 Amen.

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 You say, I don't know how to process

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 all of these things.

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 How can God be so perfect

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 and so just and so good

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 and yet he allows all of these things

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 and if we follow that through

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 as a believing thought,

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 understanding the scriptures

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 and taking them for what they say,

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 we too will come to be like Paul

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 and say, I don't understand

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 everything there is to know about God

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 but how great is our God.

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 Oh, the depth and the riches

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 and the wisdom

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 and the knowledge of God

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 far beyond anything

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 that I could understand.

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 That's not going to cause me

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 to reject him.

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 That's going to cause me

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 to worship him.

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 It's going to cause me

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 to cling to him.

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 It's going to cause me

00:29:12.940 --> 00:29:15.460
 to praise him

00:29:15.460 --> 00:29:18.039
 because who can know is mine?

00:29:18.379 --> 00:29:19.440
 Who could be his counselor?

00:29:20.119 --> 00:29:21.539
 I can't be God's counselor.

00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:23.640
 I can come up with all the ways

00:29:23.640 --> 00:29:25.000
 that I would choose to be God

00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:25.960
 and every one of them

00:29:25.960 --> 00:29:26.779
 would be wrong.

00:29:27.619 --> 00:29:28.759
 So I look at God's word

00:29:28.759 --> 00:29:29.279
 and I say,

00:29:29.480 --> 00:29:30.460
 this is what's true of God

00:29:30.460 --> 00:29:31.519
 and I believe it

00:29:31.519 --> 00:29:32.599
 and I will praise him

00:29:32.599 --> 00:29:33.680
 for who he is.

00:29:34.660 --> 00:29:35.779
 So we see the reality

00:29:35.779 --> 00:29:36.799
 of sin's consequences.

00:29:37.099 --> 00:29:38.139
 Much more quickly than that,

00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:40.279
 we'll see the Christian's response

00:29:40.279 --> 00:29:41.799
 to God's chastening.

00:29:42.200 --> 00:29:43.240
 The Christian's response

00:29:43.240 --> 00:29:44.240
 to God's chastening.

00:29:46.160 --> 00:29:48.079
 This passage not only reminds us

00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:50.240
 of sin's consequences

00:29:50.240 --> 00:29:52.660
 but it helpfully teaches

00:29:52.660 --> 00:29:54.099
 how we are to respond

00:29:54.099 --> 00:29:55.700
 when we face these consequences.

00:29:57.440 --> 00:29:59.559
 Anyone facing the chastisement

00:29:59.559 --> 00:30:00.079
 of the Lord,

00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:01.039
 there is danger

00:30:01.039 --> 00:30:03.139
 in responding sinfully

00:30:03.140 --> 00:30:04.300
 in one of two ways.

00:30:04.800 --> 00:30:06.200
 The first way is bitterness,

00:30:07.040 --> 00:30:08.140
 bitterness toward God

00:30:08.140 --> 00:30:10.000
 and that bitterness

00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:13.560
 will ultimately lead to apostasy

00:30:13.560 --> 00:30:16.480
 which is knowing the truth,

00:30:17.020 --> 00:30:18.420
 acknowledging the truth

00:30:18.420 --> 00:30:21.460
 but still rejecting that truth

00:30:21.460 --> 00:30:23.120
 because you don't like

00:30:23.120 --> 00:30:24.180
 how God has determined

00:30:24.180 --> 00:30:25.360
 to run his creation

00:30:25.360 --> 00:30:27.259
 or how he is determined

00:30:27.259 --> 00:30:29.100
 to act in his perfection.

00:30:30.700 --> 00:30:31.560
 Hebrews chapter 12,

00:30:31.559 --> 00:30:32.740
 that's the same passage

00:30:32.740 --> 00:30:34.980
 that we quoted earlier

00:30:34.980 --> 00:30:37.359
 about the chastisement

00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:37.859
 of the Lord.

00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:39.299
 Just a few verses later,

00:30:39.359 --> 00:30:40.200
 it connects bitterness

00:30:40.200 --> 00:30:40.799
 to that.

00:30:42.179 --> 00:30:43.000
 The writer says,

00:30:43.220 --> 00:30:43.700
 see to it

00:30:43.700 --> 00:30:44.980
 that no root of bitterness

00:30:44.980 --> 00:30:45.899
 springs up

00:30:45.899 --> 00:30:47.279
 and causes trouble

00:30:47.279 --> 00:30:49.319
 and by it many be defiled.

00:30:50.059 --> 00:30:50.960
 We need to be careful

00:30:50.960 --> 00:30:51.619
 when we face

00:30:51.619 --> 00:30:52.720
 the trials of life

00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:53.539
 and the consequences

00:30:53.539 --> 00:30:54.259
 of our sin

00:30:54.259 --> 00:30:55.460
 that we don't allow

00:30:55.460 --> 00:30:57.379
 those times of difficulty

00:30:57.379 --> 00:30:58.700
 to push us away from God

00:30:58.700 --> 00:30:59.579
 but rather we allow

00:30:59.579 --> 00:31:00.339
 those difficulties

00:31:00.339 --> 00:31:02.039
 to cause us to run to him

00:31:02.039 --> 00:31:03.799
 and David gives us

00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:04.659
 a great example

00:31:04.659 --> 00:31:05.839
 of how we are to process

00:31:05.839 --> 00:31:07.159
 these seasons of life.

00:31:07.720 --> 00:31:08.639
 Four things here

00:31:08.639 --> 00:31:09.619
 that David does.

00:31:09.699 --> 00:31:10.659
 The first one is this,

00:31:11.799 --> 00:31:14.639
 pray, fast, and grieve.

00:31:15.500 --> 00:31:18.059
 Pray, fast, and grieve.

00:31:18.119 --> 00:31:18.919
 Look at verse 16.

00:31:19.339 --> 00:31:20.039
 David therefore,

00:31:20.259 --> 00:31:21.799
 this is after the child

00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:22.439
 has been born

00:31:22.439 --> 00:31:23.439
 and is now sick.

00:31:24.599 --> 00:31:26.059
 David therefore besought God

00:31:26.059 --> 00:31:26.919
 for the child

00:31:26.920 --> 00:31:28.740
 and he fasted

00:31:28.740 --> 00:31:29.519
 and he went in

00:31:29.519 --> 00:31:30.420
 and lay all night

00:31:30.420 --> 00:31:31.700
 upon the earth

00:31:31.700 --> 00:31:32.600
 so much so

00:31:32.600 --> 00:31:34.640
 in his grief

00:31:34.640 --> 00:31:36.259
 and in his prayer

00:31:36.259 --> 00:31:37.720
 and in his pleading with God

00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:38.440
 that everybody else

00:31:38.440 --> 00:31:38.820
 in the house

00:31:38.820 --> 00:31:39.539
 was worried about him.

00:31:39.600 --> 00:31:40.180
 Verse 17,

00:31:40.420 --> 00:31:41.400
 and the elders of his house

00:31:41.400 --> 00:31:42.519
 arose and went to him

00:31:42.519 --> 00:31:43.560
 to raise him up

00:31:43.560 --> 00:31:43.940
 from the earth

00:31:43.940 --> 00:31:45.039
 but he would not.

00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:47.000
 Neither did he eat bread

00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:48.320
 with them.

00:31:49.279 --> 00:31:50.100
 And it came to pass

00:31:50.100 --> 00:31:50.860
 on the seventh day

00:31:50.860 --> 00:31:51.800
 that the child died

00:31:51.800 --> 00:31:52.420
 and the servants

00:31:52.420 --> 00:31:53.500
 of David feared

00:31:53.500 --> 00:31:54.300
 to tell him

00:31:54.300 --> 00:31:55.460
 because they were afraid

00:31:55.460 --> 00:31:57.059
 ultimately that when he heard

00:31:57.059 --> 00:31:57.900
 the news of the death

00:31:57.900 --> 00:31:58.500
 of the child

00:31:58.500 --> 00:32:00.740
 that he would perhaps

00:32:00.740 --> 00:32:02.319
 even commit suicide.

00:32:03.920 --> 00:32:04.860
 He grieved.

00:32:06.120 --> 00:32:07.160
 He prayed.

00:32:08.279 --> 00:32:09.100
 He fasted.

00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:10.680
 How should we respond

00:32:10.680 --> 00:32:12.180
 to these difficulties in life,

00:32:12.279 --> 00:32:13.440
 the correction of the Lord

00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:15.059
 or the difficult circumstances

00:32:15.059 --> 00:32:15.819
 that we go through?

00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:16.920
 It's okay to grieve.

00:32:17.559 --> 00:32:17.940
 Pray.

00:32:19.160 --> 00:32:19.640
 Fast.

00:32:20.360 --> 00:32:21.940
 Seek the Lord's face.

00:32:23.400 --> 00:32:24.200
 As Sheba delivered

00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:25.299
 their baby boy

00:32:25.299 --> 00:32:26.100
 but he was sick

00:32:26.100 --> 00:32:27.920
 and David knew

00:32:27.920 --> 00:32:28.460
 that this was going

00:32:28.460 --> 00:32:29.039
 to take place

00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:30.120
 because Nathan told him.

00:32:31.539 --> 00:32:32.720
 But he still begged

00:32:32.720 --> 00:32:33.799
 for God to intervene.

00:32:34.600 --> 00:32:34.940
 Why?

00:32:36.220 --> 00:32:37.160
 Nathan had said

00:32:37.160 --> 00:32:38.240
 this is what's going

00:32:38.240 --> 00:32:38.680
 to happen.

00:32:39.059 --> 00:32:39.740
 Why would David

00:32:39.740 --> 00:32:40.480
 then move forward

00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:40.980
 in prayer?

00:32:41.400 --> 00:32:42.620
 For the same reason

00:32:42.620 --> 00:32:43.380
 he appealed

00:32:43.380 --> 00:32:44.440
 to God's mercy

00:32:44.440 --> 00:32:45.299
 in Psalm 51.

00:32:46.120 --> 00:32:47.000
 He appealed

00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:47.640
 on the basis

00:32:47.640 --> 00:32:48.940
 of God's character.

00:32:49.120 --> 00:32:49.480
 In fact,

00:32:49.920 --> 00:32:51.420
 the servants of David

00:32:51.420 --> 00:32:52.220
 actually asked him

00:32:52.220 --> 00:32:52.860
 this question

00:32:52.860 --> 00:32:54.120
 and this is how he answered.

00:32:54.200 --> 00:32:54.680
 Look with me

00:32:54.680 --> 00:32:56.559
 at verse 21.

00:32:57.380 --> 00:32:58.220
 Then said his servants

00:32:58.220 --> 00:32:58.680
 unto him,

00:32:58.779 --> 00:32:59.480
 What thing is this

00:32:59.480 --> 00:33:00.360
 that thou hast done

00:33:00.360 --> 00:33:02.080
 that thou didst fast

00:33:02.080 --> 00:33:03.140
 and weep for the child

00:33:03.140 --> 00:33:04.039
 while it was alive?

00:33:04.200 --> 00:33:04.980
 But when the child

00:33:04.980 --> 00:33:05.759
 was dead,

00:33:06.240 --> 00:33:06.840
 you did rise

00:33:06.840 --> 00:33:07.420
 and eat bread.

00:33:07.539 --> 00:33:08.860
 Like you stopped grieving,

00:33:09.019 --> 00:33:09.660
 you stopped praying,

00:33:09.759 --> 00:33:10.400
 you stopped fasting.

00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:11.640
 And here's what David said.

00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:12.860
 While the child

00:33:12.860 --> 00:33:13.720
 was yet alive,

00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:15.200
 I fasted and wept.

00:33:15.299 --> 00:33:16.100
 For I said,

00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:17.200
 Who can tell

00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:17.779
 whether God

00:33:17.779 --> 00:33:19.039
 will be gracious to me

00:33:19.039 --> 00:33:20.160
 that the child

00:33:20.160 --> 00:33:21.880
 may live?

00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:23.020
 David appealed

00:33:23.020 --> 00:33:23.720
 to what he knew

00:33:23.720 --> 00:33:24.200
 to be true

00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:25.040
 of God's character

00:33:25.040 --> 00:33:25.940
 and he knew

00:33:25.940 --> 00:33:26.920
 that just as much

00:33:26.920 --> 00:33:27.340
 as God

00:33:27.340 --> 00:33:28.260
 is a God of judgment,

00:33:28.580 --> 00:33:30.180
 he is a God of grace.

00:33:30.500 --> 00:33:31.220
 And so he found

00:33:31.220 --> 00:33:31.740
 his place

00:33:31.740 --> 00:33:32.780
 in these seven days

00:33:32.780 --> 00:33:33.520
 fasting

00:33:33.520 --> 00:33:34.380
 and praying

00:33:34.380 --> 00:33:35.260
 and grieving,

00:33:35.520 --> 00:33:36.560
 appealing to

00:33:36.560 --> 00:33:38.040
 the grace of God

00:33:38.040 --> 00:33:39.100
 that would be poured out

00:33:39.100 --> 00:33:40.000
 on this child

00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:41.500
 and on David's home.

00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:43.620
 His prayer recognized

00:33:43.620 --> 00:33:45.340
 the amazing grace of God

00:33:45.340 --> 00:33:46.820
 and our attitude

00:33:46.820 --> 00:33:47.720
 in difficulty

00:33:47.720 --> 00:33:48.500
 and in trial

00:33:48.500 --> 00:33:49.660
 and in correction

00:33:49.660 --> 00:33:51.539
 should always anticipate

00:33:51.539 --> 00:33:53.319
 God's grace

00:33:53.319 --> 00:33:54.220
 and mercy.

00:33:54.339 --> 00:33:55.079
 That should always

00:33:55.079 --> 00:33:55.920
 be the anticipation

00:33:55.920 --> 00:33:56.839
 of our hearts.

00:33:57.460 --> 00:33:58.480
 That though we acknowledge

00:33:58.480 --> 00:33:59.839
 that God may choose

00:33:59.839 --> 00:34:00.759
 to pour out judgment

00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:01.460
 on our lives,

00:34:01.599 --> 00:34:02.859
 we also acknowledge

00:34:02.859 --> 00:34:04.160
 that he is a God of grace.

00:34:04.279 --> 00:34:04.940
 And let me tell you,

00:34:05.220 --> 00:34:06.000
 God loves it

00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:06.940
 when we think of him

00:34:06.940 --> 00:34:07.900
 as a gracious

00:34:07.900 --> 00:34:09.360
 and merciful God.

00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:11.300
 So David cast himself

00:34:11.300 --> 00:34:12.039
 on the Lord.

00:34:13.400 --> 00:34:13.699
 You say,

00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:14.340
 but God didn't answer

00:34:14.340 --> 00:34:14.780
 the prayer.

00:34:15.300 --> 00:34:15.460
 Well,

00:34:15.460 --> 00:34:16.420
 he didn't always answer it

00:34:16.420 --> 00:34:17.380
 the way that we demanded.

00:34:17.380 --> 00:34:19.619
 But sometimes he does.

00:34:20.300 --> 00:34:20.980
 And if you want to see

00:34:20.980 --> 00:34:21.900
 an example of that,

00:34:22.260 --> 00:34:23.059
 you can look at

00:34:23.059 --> 00:34:24.820
 2 Kings chapter 20

00:34:24.820 --> 00:34:26.220
 and you can look at that

00:34:26.220 --> 00:34:27.180
 later on.

00:34:27.680 --> 00:34:28.599
 So David fasted,

00:34:28.640 --> 00:34:28.980
 he prayed,

00:34:29.059 --> 00:34:29.440
 and he grieved.

00:34:29.519 --> 00:34:30.180
 That's the first thing

00:34:30.180 --> 00:34:31.119
 we do in response.

00:34:31.340 --> 00:34:31.700
 We pray.

00:34:32.160 --> 00:34:32.539
 Secondly,

00:34:32.900 --> 00:34:34.140
 we worship the Lord.

00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:35.700
 We worship the Lord.

00:34:35.780 --> 00:34:36.720
 Look at verse 19.

00:34:39.500 --> 00:34:40.640
 But when David saw

00:34:40.640 --> 00:34:41.780
 that his servants whispered,

00:34:41.820 --> 00:34:42.480
 David perceived

00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:43.599
 that the child was dead.

00:34:43.599 --> 00:34:43.960
 Therefore,

00:34:44.539 --> 00:34:45.920
 David said unto his servants,

00:34:46.079 --> 00:34:46.880
 is the child dead?

00:34:46.920 --> 00:34:47.340
 And they said,

00:34:47.380 --> 00:34:47.980
 he is dead.

00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:50.039
 Then he arose

00:34:50.039 --> 00:34:51.740
 and washed

00:34:51.740 --> 00:34:54.200
 and anointed himself,

00:34:54.800 --> 00:34:55.800
 changed his apparel,

00:34:56.360 --> 00:34:57.000
 and came into

00:34:57.000 --> 00:34:57.800
 the house of the Lord

00:34:57.800 --> 00:35:00.119
 and worshiped.

00:35:01.059 --> 00:35:02.440
 It's an amazing response.

00:35:03.720 --> 00:35:05.660
 As soon as he hears

00:35:05.660 --> 00:35:07.019
 that his baby

00:35:07.019 --> 00:35:08.119
 has died,

00:35:09.119 --> 00:35:10.820
 he immediately

00:35:10.820 --> 00:35:12.039
 cleans himself up

00:35:12.039 --> 00:35:13.780
 and goes into

00:35:13.780 --> 00:35:14.720
 the presence of God

00:35:14.720 --> 00:35:15.240
 for worship.

00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:15.379
 God's heart.

00:35:17.500 --> 00:35:18.399
 That's quite opposite

00:35:18.399 --> 00:35:19.239
 of how we typically

00:35:19.239 --> 00:35:20.279
 respond to the Lord,

00:35:20.379 --> 00:35:20.699
 isn't it?

00:35:22.319 --> 00:35:23.179
 Especially when we

00:35:23.179 --> 00:35:24.019
 understand that

00:35:24.019 --> 00:35:24.959
 what we're dealing with

00:35:24.959 --> 00:35:25.679
 is a consequence

00:35:25.679 --> 00:35:26.519
 of our own sin.

00:35:26.599 --> 00:35:27.639
 Maybe we don't really

00:35:27.639 --> 00:35:28.519
 want to acknowledge that,

00:35:28.579 --> 00:35:29.000
 but deep down

00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:29.899
 we understand that

00:35:29.899 --> 00:35:30.639
 maybe is why we're

00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:31.299
 dealing with whatever

00:35:31.299 --> 00:35:32.299
 it is we're dealing with.

00:35:33.779 --> 00:35:34.719
 And instead of running

00:35:34.719 --> 00:35:35.799
 to God in worship,

00:35:36.139 --> 00:35:37.159
 we push against him.

00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:38.599
 Maybe get embittered

00:35:38.599 --> 00:35:39.079
 towards him.

00:35:39.379 --> 00:35:40.359
 That's not David's heart.

00:35:40.759 --> 00:35:41.479
 Now look at everything

00:35:41.479 --> 00:35:42.199
 that David is going

00:35:42.199 --> 00:35:42.839
 to deal with.

00:35:43.139 --> 00:35:43.819
 He's just lost

00:35:43.819 --> 00:35:44.599
 his baby son.

00:35:45.659 --> 00:35:46.359
 He's been told

00:35:46.359 --> 00:35:46.899
 that the sword

00:35:46.899 --> 00:35:47.299
 is never going

00:35:47.299 --> 00:35:48.099
 to leave his house,

00:35:48.939 --> 00:35:49.960
 that his wives

00:35:49.960 --> 00:35:50.419
 are going to be given

00:35:50.419 --> 00:35:51.359
 to somebody else.

00:35:52.659 --> 00:35:53.539
 And yet when this

00:35:53.539 --> 00:35:54.500
 baby boy dies,

00:35:54.559 --> 00:35:55.139
 what does he do?

00:35:55.599 --> 00:35:56.359
 He doesn't run away

00:35:56.359 --> 00:35:56.839
 from God.

00:35:57.359 --> 00:35:58.480
 He runs to him.

00:35:59.619 --> 00:36:00.779
 He cleans himself up

00:36:00.779 --> 00:36:03.179
 and he goes to worship

00:36:03.179 --> 00:36:05.399
 and praise this God.

00:36:05.879 --> 00:36:06.619
 This is the heart

00:36:06.619 --> 00:36:07.379
 of the true believer

00:36:07.379 --> 00:36:07.980
 when facing

00:36:07.980 --> 00:36:09.019
 the chastening

00:36:09.019 --> 00:36:09.439
 of the Lord.

00:36:09.519 --> 00:36:09.980
 I believe that

00:36:09.980 --> 00:36:10.579
 with all my heart.

00:36:10.579 --> 00:36:12.360
 I remember times

00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:13.900
 with the girls.

00:36:16.420 --> 00:36:17.880
 This isn't a great

00:36:17.880 --> 00:36:18.940
 litmus test all the time,

00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:19.599
 but I was always

00:36:19.599 --> 00:36:20.159
 having the back

00:36:20.159 --> 00:36:20.679
 of my mind

00:36:20.679 --> 00:36:21.219
 in moments

00:36:21.219 --> 00:36:21.799
 of discipline

00:36:21.799 --> 00:36:22.279
 with them

00:36:22.279 --> 00:36:24.500
 that how they respond

00:36:24.500 --> 00:36:25.380
 to my discipline

00:36:25.380 --> 00:36:26.340
 says a lot

00:36:26.340 --> 00:36:27.619
 about how I discipline them.

00:36:28.440 --> 00:36:29.099
 Not so much

00:36:29.099 --> 00:36:29.699
 in the severity

00:36:29.699 --> 00:36:30.400
 of the discipline,

00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:31.880
 but in what was

00:36:31.880 --> 00:36:33.360
 my heart demonstrating

00:36:33.360 --> 00:36:33.940
 to them

00:36:33.940 --> 00:36:34.500
 in that moment.

00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:36.900
 I remember times

00:36:36.900 --> 00:36:38.319
 of sitting down

00:36:38.319 --> 00:36:39.079
 with Ashlyn,

00:36:39.340 --> 00:36:39.739
 especially,

00:36:39.739 --> 00:36:40.699
 but even Harper too.

00:36:40.879 --> 00:36:42.259
 I remember sitting down

00:36:42.259 --> 00:36:43.500
 and having severe

00:36:43.500 --> 00:36:44.719
 discipline with Ashlyn.

00:36:45.739 --> 00:36:47.199
 As soon as that discipline,

00:36:47.299 --> 00:36:48.139
 that moment of discipline

00:36:48.139 --> 00:36:48.500
 is over,

00:36:48.679 --> 00:36:49.659
 I can remember moments

00:36:49.659 --> 00:36:50.079
 where she would

00:36:50.079 --> 00:36:51.179
 immediately embrace me.

00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:52.239
 Instead of running

00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:52.959
 away from me,

00:36:53.059 --> 00:36:54.919
 instead of throwing

00:36:54.919 --> 00:36:55.659
 herself on her bed

00:36:55.659 --> 00:36:56.259
 or instead of running

00:36:56.259 --> 00:36:56.579
 to Julie,

00:36:56.739 --> 00:36:57.339
 she would immediately

00:36:57.339 --> 00:36:58.059
 embrace me.

00:36:59.199 --> 00:37:00.419
 Our hearts were united

00:37:00.419 --> 00:37:00.859
 in that moment.

00:37:00.979 --> 00:37:01.399
 She realized

00:37:01.399 --> 00:37:02.119
 she had done wrong.

00:37:02.719 --> 00:37:03.239
 She realized

00:37:03.239 --> 00:37:04.639
 that she was being punished

00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:05.519
 for what she had done

00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:06.799
 and that I was the instrument

00:37:06.799 --> 00:37:07.539
 of that punishment,

00:37:07.539 --> 00:37:09.320
 but because of our relationship

00:37:09.320 --> 00:37:10.059
 with one another,

00:37:10.179 --> 00:37:11.039
 in that punishment,

00:37:11.360 --> 00:37:12.559
 she embraced me.

00:37:13.099 --> 00:37:13.980
 That's the picture

00:37:13.980 --> 00:37:15.159
 that we see with David here.

00:37:15.460 --> 00:37:16.639
 He understood his sin.

00:37:16.960 --> 00:37:17.519
 He understood

00:37:17.519 --> 00:37:18.759
 that God was going

00:37:18.759 --> 00:37:19.759
 to judge his sin

00:37:19.759 --> 00:37:20.579
 and he understood

00:37:20.579 --> 00:37:21.579
 that the judgment

00:37:21.579 --> 00:37:22.500
 was severe,

00:37:22.860 --> 00:37:24.239
 yet he didn't run away

00:37:24.239 --> 00:37:24.639
 from him.

00:37:24.739 --> 00:37:25.940
 He embraced him.

00:37:26.059 --> 00:37:26.779
 He embraced him

00:37:26.779 --> 00:37:27.360
 in that moment.

00:37:27.699 --> 00:37:28.960
 Have a walk with God

00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:30.900
 that is so sweet

00:37:30.900 --> 00:37:31.579
 and intimate

00:37:31.579 --> 00:37:32.440
 that in the moments

00:37:32.440 --> 00:37:33.000
 of trial,

00:37:33.279 --> 00:37:33.800
 in the moments

00:37:33.800 --> 00:37:34.600
 when you know

00:37:34.600 --> 00:37:35.320
 and acknowledge

00:37:35.320 --> 00:37:36.880
 that this is God's doing

00:37:36.880 --> 00:37:37.880
 in my life,

00:37:37.960 --> 00:37:38.800
 that instead of running

00:37:38.800 --> 00:37:39.200
 from him,

00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:40.880
 you embrace him

00:37:40.880 --> 00:37:42.000
 in worship.

00:37:45.180 --> 00:37:46.100
 Eleven years,

00:37:46.600 --> 00:37:48.060
 13 years actually total

00:37:48.060 --> 00:37:49.440
 in pastoral ministry.

00:37:50.240 --> 00:37:51.140
 I don't know how many times

00:37:51.140 --> 00:37:51.880
 people have gone through

00:37:51.880 --> 00:37:53.160
 difficulties in their life

00:37:53.160 --> 00:37:54.580
 and their first response

00:37:54.580 --> 00:37:55.940
 is to back away

00:37:55.940 --> 00:37:56.620
 from worship.

00:37:57.120 --> 00:37:58.420
 They stop attending

00:37:58.420 --> 00:37:59.240
 church faithfully.

00:37:59.500 --> 00:38:01.019
 They stop serving the Lord

00:38:01.019 --> 00:38:01.640
 in whatever way

00:38:01.640 --> 00:38:02.940
 they were serving.

00:38:02.940 --> 00:38:04.139
 They stop doing

00:38:04.139 --> 00:38:04.940
 all the things

00:38:04.940 --> 00:38:06.099
 that at one point

00:38:06.099 --> 00:38:07.039
 in the times of joy

00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:07.679
 they were doing.

00:38:07.780 --> 00:38:08.860
 That is not the heart

00:38:08.860 --> 00:38:09.880
 of a genuine Christian.

00:38:11.200 --> 00:38:12.000
 The heart of somebody

00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:13.000
 that's truly walking

00:38:13.000 --> 00:38:13.559
 with Christ

00:38:13.559 --> 00:38:14.599
 is even in difficulty.

00:38:14.800 --> 00:38:16.179
 I'm coming closer

00:38:16.179 --> 00:38:17.659
 to God.

00:38:18.360 --> 00:38:19.480
 That should be our heart

00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:20.720
 as well.

00:38:21.920 --> 00:38:22.740
 Charles Spurgeon,

00:38:22.780 --> 00:38:23.360
 I know I've been quoting

00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:24.119
 him a lot lately,

00:38:25.480 --> 00:38:26.720
 but he said,

00:38:26.820 --> 00:38:27.700
 I've learned to kiss

00:38:27.700 --> 00:38:28.400
 the wave

00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:30.240
 that throws me

00:38:30.240 --> 00:38:31.139
 against the rock

00:38:31.139 --> 00:38:31.740
 of ages.

00:38:32.940 --> 00:38:34.019
 We'll deal with a lot

00:38:34.019 --> 00:38:34.559
 in our lives

00:38:34.559 --> 00:38:35.099
 and a lot of it

00:38:35.099 --> 00:38:36.019
 will be our own fault.

00:38:37.460 --> 00:38:38.320
 But learn to kiss

00:38:38.320 --> 00:38:38.900
 the wave

00:38:38.900 --> 00:38:40.460
 that throws you

00:38:40.460 --> 00:38:41.280
 against the rock

00:38:41.280 --> 00:38:41.720
 of ages.

00:38:42.820 --> 00:38:43.280
 Thirdly,

00:38:43.380 --> 00:38:44.440
 David moved forward

00:38:44.440 --> 00:38:45.679
 in God's grace.

00:38:46.320 --> 00:38:47.420
 Look at verse 20 again,

00:38:47.480 --> 00:38:48.460
 the second half of it.

00:38:49.099 --> 00:38:50.099
 After he worshipped,

00:38:50.559 --> 00:38:51.119
 then he came

00:38:51.119 --> 00:38:52.039
 to his own house

00:38:52.039 --> 00:38:53.760
 and when he required,

00:38:53.940 --> 00:38:54.639
 they set bread

00:38:54.639 --> 00:38:55.320
 before him

00:38:55.320 --> 00:38:57.679
 and he did eat.

00:38:57.679 --> 00:39:01.119
 I can't even begin

00:39:01.119 --> 00:39:01.919
 to imagine

00:39:01.919 --> 00:39:03.460
 the sorrow

00:39:03.460 --> 00:39:03.980
 that comes

00:39:03.980 --> 00:39:04.940
 from losing a child.

00:39:05.980 --> 00:39:06.739
 Maybe some of you

00:39:06.739 --> 00:39:08.099
 have felt that,

00:39:08.179 --> 00:39:09.039
 you know that.

00:39:09.639 --> 00:39:10.159
 I don't know

00:39:10.159 --> 00:39:10.819
 what that's like.

00:39:10.899 --> 00:39:11.480
 I can't imagine

00:39:11.480 --> 00:39:12.159
 what that's like.

00:39:14.239 --> 00:39:15.299
 That's not something

00:39:15.299 --> 00:39:16.980
 anyone can move on from

00:39:16.980 --> 00:39:19.399
 as if to forget it

00:39:19.399 --> 00:39:20.219
 and never feel

00:39:20.219 --> 00:39:20.819
 the effects

00:39:20.819 --> 00:39:21.759
 of its grief again.

00:39:23.019 --> 00:39:23.819
 David would never

00:39:23.819 --> 00:39:24.639
 move on

00:39:24.639 --> 00:39:25.699
 from this moment,

00:39:25.699 --> 00:39:28.199
 but he would move forward

00:39:28.199 --> 00:39:28.859
 and I think

00:39:28.859 --> 00:39:29.619
 there's a difference.

00:39:30.719 --> 00:39:31.679
 He wasn't forgetting

00:39:31.679 --> 00:39:32.599
 about what had happened.

00:39:33.139 --> 00:39:34.119
 He was taking the lesson

00:39:34.119 --> 00:39:34.679
 he was learning

00:39:34.679 --> 00:39:35.239
 and he was intent

00:39:35.239 --> 00:39:36.319
 on teaching it to others.

00:39:38.419 --> 00:39:39.579
 But he did not allow

00:39:39.579 --> 00:39:40.119
 his grief

00:39:40.119 --> 00:39:41.539
 to overwhelm his life.

00:39:43.980 --> 00:39:45.039
 We should never try

00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:46.019
 to forget the lessons

00:39:46.019 --> 00:39:46.899
 that God teaches

00:39:46.899 --> 00:39:47.739
 in his chastening.

00:39:49.179 --> 00:39:50.239
 Neither should we allow

00:39:50.239 --> 00:39:51.960
 the failures of the past

00:39:51.960 --> 00:39:54.579
 to paralyze our ability

00:39:54.579 --> 00:39:55.920
 to move forward

00:39:55.920 --> 00:39:56.819
 for God's glory.

00:39:58.059 --> 00:39:58.860
 The child dies,

00:39:59.000 --> 00:39:59.880
 David worships,

00:40:00.679 --> 00:40:01.420
 and then he ate.

00:40:02.380 --> 00:40:03.299
 For seven days

00:40:03.299 --> 00:40:04.000
 he wouldn't eat food.

00:40:04.079 --> 00:40:04.840
 Nobody could convince

00:40:04.840 --> 00:40:05.340
 him to do it.

00:40:06.360 --> 00:40:07.019
 He comes back

00:40:07.019 --> 00:40:07.920
 from the house of God.

00:40:08.440 --> 00:40:09.500
 I know it's a simple thing,

00:40:09.559 --> 00:40:10.779
 but I think it's just a sign.

00:40:11.779 --> 00:40:12.920
 David was moving forward.

00:40:13.039 --> 00:40:13.779
 Not moving on,

00:40:14.179 --> 00:40:15.139
 he was moving forward.

00:40:16.259 --> 00:40:17.980
 Don't allow the difficulties

00:40:17.980 --> 00:40:18.619
 of your past

00:40:18.619 --> 00:40:19.639
 to paralyze you now.

00:40:20.980 --> 00:40:21.920
 Learn the lesson

00:40:21.920 --> 00:40:24.099
 and glorify the Lord

00:40:24.099 --> 00:40:24.400
 in it

00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:25.619
 in a change of life.

00:40:26.800 --> 00:40:27.220
 Fourthly,

00:40:27.680 --> 00:40:28.619
 set your mind

00:40:28.619 --> 00:40:29.300
 on eternity.

00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:31.000
 Look at verse 23.

00:40:35.079 --> 00:40:36.400
 But now he is dead,

00:40:36.480 --> 00:40:37.119
 David said.

00:40:38.119 --> 00:40:39.460
 Why should I fast?

00:40:40.159 --> 00:40:41.659
 Can I bring him back again?

00:40:42.059 --> 00:40:42.820
 Clearly the answer

00:40:42.820 --> 00:40:43.539
 to that is no.

00:40:44.139 --> 00:40:45.099
 So David says,

00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:47.360
 I shall go to him,

00:40:47.760 --> 00:40:49.360
 but he shall not return

00:40:49.360 --> 00:40:49.760
 to me.

00:40:49.760 --> 00:40:52.220
 This verse has been

00:40:52.220 --> 00:40:53.540
 a constant comfort

00:40:53.540 --> 00:40:54.200
 for Christians

00:40:54.200 --> 00:40:54.920
 through the ages.

00:40:55.820 --> 00:40:56.680
 When you realize

00:40:56.680 --> 00:40:57.840
 the implications

00:40:57.840 --> 00:40:59.980
 of original sin

00:40:59.980 --> 00:41:00.780
 like we covered it

00:41:00.780 --> 00:41:02.340
 last week in Psalm 51,

00:41:03.840 --> 00:41:05.000
 you can't help

00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:05.520
 but wonder

00:41:05.520 --> 00:41:06.400
 what does happen

00:41:06.400 --> 00:41:07.260
 to young children

00:41:07.260 --> 00:41:08.880
 who pass away

00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:10.400
 even before having

00:41:10.400 --> 00:41:10.900
 an ability

00:41:10.900 --> 00:41:12.100
 to understand the gospel.

00:41:13.380 --> 00:41:14.420
 David's perspective

00:41:14.420 --> 00:41:15.020
 of eternity

00:41:15.020 --> 00:41:15.940
 helps us here.

00:41:16.540 --> 00:41:17.160
 It helps us have

00:41:17.160 --> 00:41:18.060
 an answer for that.

00:41:18.059 --> 00:41:20.320
 He acknowledged

00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:21.079
 that the child

00:41:21.079 --> 00:41:21.940
 could not come back

00:41:21.940 --> 00:41:22.519
 to him

00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:24.759
 but that he would

00:41:24.759 --> 00:41:25.380
 one day

00:41:25.380 --> 00:41:26.799
 go to the child.

00:41:27.639 --> 00:41:28.380
 This is not just

00:41:28.380 --> 00:41:29.219
 a general reference

00:41:29.219 --> 00:41:29.840
 to death.

00:41:30.420 --> 00:41:30.820
 There would be

00:41:30.820 --> 00:41:31.779
 no reason for David

00:41:31.779 --> 00:41:32.699
 to say this

00:41:32.699 --> 00:41:33.880
 in such a hopeful way.

00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:34.579
 He's responding

00:41:34.579 --> 00:41:35.500
 in hope

00:41:35.500 --> 00:41:36.320
 to these servants.

00:41:37.279 --> 00:41:38.440
 But you can understand

00:41:38.440 --> 00:41:39.279
 that hopefulness

00:41:39.279 --> 00:41:40.639
 as he keeps his eyes

00:41:40.639 --> 00:41:41.820
 on eternity.

00:41:42.739 --> 00:41:43.279
 And he says,

00:41:43.400 --> 00:41:43.920
 the child cannot

00:41:43.920 --> 00:41:44.539
 come back to me.

00:41:44.559 --> 00:41:45.019
 I can't bring him

00:41:45.019 --> 00:41:45.519
 back to life

00:41:45.519 --> 00:41:47.019
 but I will see him

00:41:47.019 --> 00:41:47.639
 again.

00:41:48.219 --> 00:41:48.519
 And sometimes

00:41:48.519 --> 00:41:49.139
 we wonder that.

00:41:49.199 --> 00:41:49.699
 What does happen

00:41:49.699 --> 00:41:50.239
 to kids?

00:41:51.440 --> 00:41:52.119
 Well, all of us

00:41:52.119 --> 00:41:53.300
 are saved by grace.

00:41:55.019 --> 00:41:55.980
 And we believe

00:41:55.980 --> 00:41:56.900
 according to the Bible

00:41:56.900 --> 00:41:58.920
 this being a clear verse

00:41:58.920 --> 00:41:59.739
 that we lean on.

00:42:00.500 --> 00:42:01.139
 That children

00:42:01.139 --> 00:42:02.179
 who are unable

00:42:02.179 --> 00:42:03.460
 to comprehend

00:42:03.460 --> 00:42:05.159
 the gospel

00:42:05.159 --> 00:42:06.980
 are safe

00:42:06.980 --> 00:42:08.860
 in God's grace.

00:42:09.840 --> 00:42:11.000
 David understood that.

00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:12.940
 But this is more

00:42:12.940 --> 00:42:13.800
 than just David

00:42:13.800 --> 00:42:14.659
 acknowledging that

00:42:14.659 --> 00:42:15.440
 he wants to go

00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:16.079
 to the child.

00:42:16.699 --> 00:42:17.679
 There's more to this.

00:42:18.380 --> 00:42:19.300
 He's got his eyes

00:42:19.300 --> 00:42:20.280
 set on eternity

00:42:20.280 --> 00:42:21.300
 because not only

00:42:21.300 --> 00:42:22.139
 will he see

00:42:22.139 --> 00:42:23.039
 the child again

00:42:23.039 --> 00:42:24.239
 but there will come

00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:24.940
 a day when he

00:42:24.940 --> 00:42:26.239
 is finally made free

00:42:26.239 --> 00:42:27.219
 from the presence

00:42:27.219 --> 00:42:27.880
 of this sin

00:42:27.880 --> 00:42:28.360
 in his life.

00:42:28.559 --> 00:42:29.579
 All of this pain,

00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:31.000
 all of these consequences,

00:42:31.199 --> 00:42:31.719
 one day

00:42:31.719 --> 00:42:32.800
 it's all going

00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:33.420
 to go away.

00:42:33.679 --> 00:42:34.519
 What will help us

00:42:34.519 --> 00:42:35.219
 in those times

00:42:35.219 --> 00:42:35.739
 of difficulty

00:42:35.739 --> 00:42:36.340
 in our life?

00:42:36.659 --> 00:42:37.539
 Keeping our eyes

00:42:37.539 --> 00:42:38.460
 set on eternity.

00:42:38.920 --> 00:42:39.699
 This is just

00:42:39.699 --> 00:42:40.219
 temporary.

00:42:40.219 --> 00:42:41.299
 One day

00:42:41.299 --> 00:42:42.219
 this will all

00:42:42.219 --> 00:42:43.819
 be over.

00:42:44.339 --> 00:42:45.500
 Revelation 21

00:42:45.500 --> 00:42:47.019
 He will wipe away

00:42:47.019 --> 00:42:47.619
 every tear

00:42:47.619 --> 00:42:48.500
 from their eyes.

00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:50.299
 Death shall be

00:42:50.299 --> 00:42:51.159
 no more.

00:42:51.519 --> 00:42:52.259
 Neither shall there

00:42:52.259 --> 00:42:52.899
 be mourning

00:42:52.899 --> 00:42:54.000
 nor crying

00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:54.859
 nor pain

00:42:54.859 --> 00:42:55.279
 anymore

00:42:55.279 --> 00:42:56.000
 for the former

00:42:56.000 --> 00:42:57.259
 things have passed away.

00:42:57.619 --> 00:42:58.500
 And he who was

00:42:58.500 --> 00:42:59.419
 seated on the throne

00:42:59.419 --> 00:42:59.799
 said,

00:43:00.039 --> 00:43:00.439
 Behold,

00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:01.899
 I am making

00:43:01.899 --> 00:43:03.339
 all things new.

00:43:03.679 --> 00:43:04.500
 Also he said,

00:43:04.639 --> 00:43:05.539
 Write this down

00:43:05.539 --> 00:43:06.579
 for these words

00:43:06.579 --> 00:43:07.279
 are trustworthy

00:43:07.279 --> 00:43:08.919
 and true.

00:43:08.920 --> 00:43:09.880
 Why do we keep

00:43:09.880 --> 00:43:10.380
 our eyes

00:43:10.380 --> 00:43:11.159
 set on eternity?

00:43:11.340 --> 00:43:12.440
 Because in eternity

00:43:12.440 --> 00:43:13.579
 we will be rid

00:43:13.579 --> 00:43:15.059
 of the sinful flesh

00:43:15.059 --> 00:43:16.360
 and the consequences

00:43:16.360 --> 00:43:17.460
 and the pain

00:43:17.460 --> 00:43:18.420
 and the death

00:43:18.420 --> 00:43:19.260
 and the sorrow

00:43:19.260 --> 00:43:20.059
 that comes along

00:43:20.059 --> 00:43:20.380
 with it.

00:43:20.480 --> 00:43:21.139
 So we keep

00:43:21.139 --> 00:43:21.619
 our eyes

00:43:21.619 --> 00:43:22.180
 on eternity

00:43:22.180 --> 00:43:23.260
 and we rejoice

00:43:23.260 --> 00:43:24.320
 and we await

00:43:24.320 --> 00:43:24.780
 the coming

00:43:24.780 --> 00:43:25.559
 of our Savior

00:43:25.559 --> 00:43:26.559
 for he will

00:43:26.559 --> 00:43:27.159
 come again

00:43:27.159 --> 00:43:28.700
 and we will

00:43:28.700 --> 00:43:29.300
 forever be

00:43:29.300 --> 00:43:29.940
 with the Lord,

00:43:30.940 --> 00:43:32.000
 the Bible tells us.

00:43:32.680 --> 00:43:33.159
 Finally,

00:43:33.380 --> 00:43:34.559
 we see the return

00:43:34.559 --> 00:43:35.400
 of God's blessing

00:43:35.400 --> 00:43:35.960
 just quickly

00:43:35.960 --> 00:43:36.880
 in verses 24

00:43:36.880 --> 00:43:37.559
 and 25.

00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:40.000
 David comforted

00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:41.199
 Bathsheba his wife

00:43:41.199 --> 00:43:42.900
 and went in unto her

00:43:42.900 --> 00:43:43.740
 and lay with her

00:43:43.740 --> 00:43:44.800
 and she bare a son

00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:45.840
 and he called

00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:46.699
 his name Solomon

00:43:46.699 --> 00:43:48.199
 and the Lord

00:43:48.199 --> 00:43:48.780
 loved him

00:43:48.780 --> 00:43:50.539
 and he sent

00:43:50.539 --> 00:43:51.119
 by the hand

00:43:51.119 --> 00:43:52.059
 of Nathan the prophet

00:43:52.059 --> 00:43:52.699
 and he called

00:43:52.699 --> 00:43:53.800
 his name Jedidiah

00:43:53.800 --> 00:43:55.599
 because of the Lord.

00:43:57.740 --> 00:43:58.760
 For the believer,

00:43:59.079 --> 00:43:59.740
 God's blessing

00:43:59.740 --> 00:44:00.519
 is as certain

00:44:00.519 --> 00:44:01.500
 as his chastening.

00:44:02.900 --> 00:44:04.280
 Because we understand

00:44:04.280 --> 00:44:04.980
 the nature

00:44:04.980 --> 00:44:05.800
 of God's holiness,

00:44:06.160 --> 00:44:07.019
 we can be certain

00:44:07.019 --> 00:44:08.280
 that he will

00:44:08.280 --> 00:44:09.380
 chasten our sin.

00:44:10.440 --> 00:44:12.300
 But because we understand

00:44:12.300 --> 00:44:13.840
 and know God's grace,

00:44:14.140 --> 00:44:15.960
 we can be just as certain

00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:17.680
 that he will again

00:44:17.680 --> 00:44:19.680
 return his blessing.

00:44:20.380 --> 00:44:21.560
 That's the whole point

00:44:21.560 --> 00:44:22.260
 of the chastening.

00:44:23.180 --> 00:44:24.200
 He corrects us

00:44:24.200 --> 00:44:25.240
 in order that he might

00:44:25.240 --> 00:44:27.260
 once again bless us

00:44:27.260 --> 00:44:28.680
 and this is why

00:44:28.680 --> 00:44:29.740
 Christians can look

00:44:29.740 --> 00:44:30.860
 at the correcting nature

00:44:30.860 --> 00:44:31.440
 of God

00:44:31.440 --> 00:44:32.860
 and see it as a sign

00:44:32.860 --> 00:44:33.820
 of his mercy.

00:44:34.280 --> 00:44:35.000
 Because it is

00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:35.800
 through that correction

00:44:35.800 --> 00:44:36.680
 that he once again

00:44:36.680 --> 00:44:37.380
 blesses us.

00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:38.780
 Here's one of the amazing

00:44:38.780 --> 00:44:40.080
 things about God's grace

00:44:40.080 --> 00:44:42.519
 is that he can redeem

00:44:42.519 --> 00:44:43.700
 our very failures.

00:44:45.140 --> 00:44:46.040
 Think about this.

00:44:47.200 --> 00:44:48.200
 He has a way

00:44:48.200 --> 00:44:50.100
 of taking our sinful deeds

00:44:50.100 --> 00:44:51.820
 and using their results

00:44:51.820 --> 00:44:52.860
 for his own glory.

00:44:54.960 --> 00:44:55.460
 I want you to think

00:44:55.460 --> 00:44:56.200
 about what's happening

00:44:56.200 --> 00:44:57.100
 here in this passage.

00:44:58.380 --> 00:44:59.420
 David rebels

00:44:59.420 --> 00:45:00.200
 against the Lord

00:45:00.200 --> 00:45:02.019
 and he sins against him

00:45:02.019 --> 00:45:04.059
 and he faces

00:45:04.059 --> 00:45:05.079
 severe consequences

00:45:05.079 --> 00:45:05.880
 for that sin.

00:45:06.420 --> 00:45:07.400
 The child that died

00:45:07.400 --> 00:45:08.239
 never got a name.

00:45:10.719 --> 00:45:12.179
 He died on the seventh day.

00:45:12.340 --> 00:45:12.900
 The eighth day

00:45:12.900 --> 00:45:13.900
 was the customary day

00:45:13.900 --> 00:45:14.420
 for Jews

00:45:14.420 --> 00:45:15.840
 to circumcise young boys

00:45:15.840 --> 00:45:16.840
 and that would be the day

00:45:16.840 --> 00:45:17.679
 that they would be named.

00:45:17.940 --> 00:45:18.719
 That child never even

00:45:18.719 --> 00:45:19.219
 got a name.

00:45:19.619 --> 00:45:20.579
 This child that God

00:45:20.579 --> 00:45:21.840
 blesses David with though

00:45:21.840 --> 00:45:22.840
 has two names.

00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:24.880
 David and Bathsheba

00:45:24.880 --> 00:45:25.679
 give him the name

00:45:25.679 --> 00:45:26.380
 Solomon

00:45:26.380 --> 00:45:27.539
 which means peace.

00:45:27.860 --> 00:45:28.739
 It was David's

00:45:28.739 --> 00:45:29.259
 acknowledgement

00:45:29.260 --> 00:45:30.260
 and his own testimony

00:45:30.260 --> 00:45:31.540
 that I am at peace

00:45:31.540 --> 00:45:32.080
 with God.

00:45:32.220 --> 00:45:33.440
 He sensed that peace

00:45:33.440 --> 00:45:33.980
 with the Lord.

00:45:34.420 --> 00:45:35.520
 Despite his consequences

00:45:35.520 --> 00:45:36.660
 he knew he was at peace

00:45:36.660 --> 00:45:37.080
 with the Lord.

00:45:37.380 --> 00:45:38.100
 But then God

00:45:38.100 --> 00:45:38.900
 in his love

00:45:38.900 --> 00:45:39.860
 sends Nathan

00:45:39.860 --> 00:45:41.000
 back to David.

00:45:41.320 --> 00:45:42.020
 This time it's not

00:45:42.020 --> 00:45:42.460
 with a message

00:45:42.460 --> 00:45:42.920
 of judgment.

00:45:43.460 --> 00:45:44.460
 This time God

00:45:44.460 --> 00:45:45.160
 gives Solomon

00:45:45.160 --> 00:45:45.920
 his own name

00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:46.700
 and it's the name

00:45:46.700 --> 00:45:47.460
 Jedediah.

00:45:47.880 --> 00:45:48.820
 That name means

00:45:48.820 --> 00:45:49.980
 beloved of the Lord.

00:45:50.880 --> 00:45:51.380
 And here's what's

00:45:51.380 --> 00:45:52.240
 awesome about this.

00:45:52.900 --> 00:45:53.660
 It would be

00:45:53.660 --> 00:45:54.420
 Jedediah

00:45:54.420 --> 00:45:55.280
 Solomon.

00:45:55.980 --> 00:45:56.620
 It would be

00:45:56.620 --> 00:45:57.360
 his line

00:45:57.360 --> 00:45:57.980
 through which

00:45:57.980 --> 00:45:58.960
 God would one day

00:45:58.960 --> 00:45:59.860
 bring the Messiah

00:45:59.860 --> 00:46:00.840
 Jesus Christ.

00:46:01.059 --> 00:46:01.840
 Now think about that.

00:46:04.240 --> 00:46:05.260
 Solomon's life

00:46:05.260 --> 00:46:06.340
 was the result

00:46:06.340 --> 00:46:08.519
 of an adulterous

00:46:08.519 --> 00:46:09.280
 relationship

00:46:09.280 --> 00:46:10.260
 between David

00:46:10.260 --> 00:46:11.180
 and Bathsheba

00:46:11.180 --> 00:46:12.440
 that resulted

00:46:12.440 --> 00:46:13.260
 in murder.

00:46:15.059 --> 00:46:15.720
 And now

00:46:15.720 --> 00:46:16.700
 because of

00:46:16.700 --> 00:46:17.579
 the greatness

00:46:17.579 --> 00:46:18.800
 of God's love

00:46:18.800 --> 00:46:19.539
 and grace

00:46:19.539 --> 00:46:20.519
 and mercy

00:46:20.519 --> 00:46:22.039
 it is Solomon

00:46:22.039 --> 00:46:23.039
 whose line

00:46:23.039 --> 00:46:23.620
 would now

00:46:23.620 --> 00:46:24.320
 bring forth

00:46:24.320 --> 00:46:25.220
 the Messiah.

00:46:25.579 --> 00:46:26.440
 It is Solomon

00:46:26.440 --> 00:46:27.420
 who would be set up

00:46:27.420 --> 00:46:28.820
 as a fantastic

00:46:28.820 --> 00:46:30.119
 king for Israel

00:46:30.119 --> 00:46:30.760
 at least until

00:46:30.760 --> 00:46:31.519
 his own sin.

00:46:31.720 --> 00:46:32.480
 Who would amass

00:46:32.480 --> 00:46:33.179
 this wisdom

00:46:33.179 --> 00:46:33.860
 and amass

00:46:33.860 --> 00:46:34.559
 this wealth

00:46:34.559 --> 00:46:35.240
 and who would

00:46:35.240 --> 00:46:36.800
 glorify the Lord

00:46:36.800 --> 00:46:37.320
 at least

00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:38.260
 as a nation.

00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:39.320
 That is what

00:46:39.320 --> 00:46:40.240
 God ends up doing

00:46:40.240 --> 00:46:41.139
 with David's sin.

00:46:41.320 --> 00:46:42.240
 He turns the

00:46:42.240 --> 00:46:43.320
 consequences around

00:46:43.320 --> 00:46:44.400
 for his own glory

00:46:44.400 --> 00:46:45.240
 and God will do

00:46:45.240 --> 00:46:46.119
 that with you too.

00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:47.720
 We can trust

00:46:47.720 --> 00:46:48.539
 that just as the

00:46:48.539 --> 00:46:49.360
 Lord will chasten us

00:46:49.360 --> 00:46:50.440
 he will also

00:46:50.440 --> 00:46:52.099
 return his blessing

00:46:52.099 --> 00:46:53.240
 to our lives

00:46:53.240 --> 00:46:54.240
 for all of those

00:46:54.239 --> 00:46:55.500
 who will faithfully

00:46:55.500 --> 00:46:57.259
 follow him.

00:46:58.159 --> 00:46:58.939
 His chastening

00:46:58.939 --> 00:46:59.619
 is grievous

00:46:59.619 --> 00:47:01.679
 but he always

00:47:01.679 --> 00:47:02.579
 works for his own

00:47:02.579 --> 00:47:03.599
 glory and our good.

00:47:04.599 --> 00:47:05.619
 And what a blessing

00:47:05.619 --> 00:47:06.239
 it is

00:47:06.239 --> 00:47:07.359
 to know that

00:47:07.359 --> 00:47:08.219
 he will redeem

00:47:08.219 --> 00:47:08.859
 our wrong

00:47:08.859 --> 00:47:10.119
 with such grace.

00:47:11.699 --> 00:47:12.419
 There's a song

00:47:12.419 --> 00:47:12.819
 called

00:47:12.819 --> 00:47:14.099
 The Perfect Wisdom

00:47:14.099 --> 00:47:14.799
 of Our God

00:47:14.799 --> 00:47:16.599
 and the last stanza

00:47:16.599 --> 00:47:17.419
 says this

00:47:17.419 --> 00:47:19.419
 each strand

00:47:19.419 --> 00:47:20.219
 of sorrow

00:47:20.219 --> 00:47:21.359
 has a place

00:47:21.360 --> 00:47:22.700
 within this

00:47:22.700 --> 00:47:23.380
 tapestry

00:47:23.380 --> 00:47:24.220
 of grace.

00:47:25.240 --> 00:47:25.740
 So through

00:47:25.740 --> 00:47:26.440
 the trials

00:47:26.440 --> 00:47:27.640
 I choose to say

00:47:27.640 --> 00:47:29.000
 your perfect

00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:29.440
 will

00:47:29.440 --> 00:47:30.820
 in your perfect

00:47:30.820 --> 00:47:31.180
 way.

00:47:32.559 --> 00:47:33.200
 You may be

00:47:33.200 --> 00:47:33.519
 going through

00:47:33.519 --> 00:47:34.039
 a season

00:47:34.039 --> 00:47:34.680
 of difficulty

00:47:34.680 --> 00:47:35.059
 right now

00:47:35.059 --> 00:47:35.539
 maybe even

00:47:35.539 --> 00:47:35.900
 a season

00:47:35.900 --> 00:47:36.420
 of judgment.

00:47:38.160 --> 00:47:38.860
 Can I tell you

00:47:38.860 --> 00:47:39.579
 that your life

00:47:39.579 --> 00:47:40.160
 is not all

00:47:40.160 --> 00:47:41.160
 about this season.

00:47:42.599 --> 00:47:43.700
 It's a strand

00:47:43.700 --> 00:47:44.300
 of sorrow

00:47:44.300 --> 00:47:45.099
 in this

00:47:45.099 --> 00:47:46.519
 great tapestry

00:47:46.519 --> 00:47:47.240
 of grace

00:47:47.240 --> 00:47:47.680
 that God

00:47:47.680 --> 00:47:48.820
 is weaving

00:47:48.820 --> 00:47:50.280
 in your life.

00:47:51.460 --> 00:47:52.240
 And as a believer

00:47:52.240 --> 00:47:52.620
 no matter

00:47:52.620 --> 00:47:53.120
 what your

00:47:53.120 --> 00:47:53.640
 circumstance

00:47:53.640 --> 00:47:54.480
 you can truly

00:47:54.480 --> 00:47:54.980
 say

00:47:54.980 --> 00:47:57.420
 your perfect

00:47:57.420 --> 00:47:57.800
 will

00:47:57.800 --> 00:47:58.800
 in your

00:47:58.800 --> 00:47:59.440
 perfect way

00:47:59.440 --> 00:47:59.720
 Lord.

00:48:00.740 --> 00:48:01.340
 If that means

00:48:01.340 --> 00:48:01.860
 sorrow

00:48:01.860 --> 00:48:02.960
 your perfect

00:48:02.960 --> 00:48:03.240
 will

00:48:03.240 --> 00:48:03.559
 in your

00:48:03.559 --> 00:48:04.120
 perfect way.

00:48:04.280 --> 00:48:04.860
 If that means

00:48:04.860 --> 00:48:05.420
 correction

00:48:05.420 --> 00:48:06.460
 your perfect

00:48:06.460 --> 00:48:06.820
 will

00:48:06.820 --> 00:48:07.400
 in your

00:48:07.400 --> 00:48:08.019
 perfect way.

00:48:08.200 --> 00:48:08.480
 Why?

00:48:08.760 --> 00:48:09.600
 Because all

00:48:09.600 --> 00:48:10.100
 of God's

00:48:10.100 --> 00:48:10.700
 work is for

00:48:10.700 --> 00:48:11.400
 his glory

00:48:11.400 --> 00:48:12.380
 and our

00:48:12.380 --> 00:48:12.740
 good.

00:48:14.400 --> 00:48:15.160
 There's a lot

00:48:15.160 --> 00:48:15.740
 that we learn

00:48:15.740 --> 00:48:16.320
 from this whole

00:48:16.320 --> 00:48:16.740
 story.

00:48:16.739 --> 00:48:18.619
 There's a lot

00:48:18.619 --> 00:48:19.000
 we learn

00:48:19.000 --> 00:48:19.599
 about sin

00:48:19.599 --> 00:48:19.959
 about our

00:48:19.959 --> 00:48:20.519
 own nature.

00:48:21.559 --> 00:48:22.179
 There's a lot

00:48:22.179 --> 00:48:22.519
 we learn

00:48:22.519 --> 00:48:23.479
 about consequences.

00:48:24.639 --> 00:48:25.599
 But we close

00:48:25.599 --> 00:48:26.119
 our study

00:48:26.119 --> 00:48:26.919
 rejoicing

00:48:26.919 --> 00:48:28.959
 as once again

00:48:28.959 --> 00:48:29.759
 we acknowledge

00:48:29.759 --> 00:48:30.339
 God's

00:48:30.339 --> 00:48:31.000
 redeeming

00:48:31.000 --> 00:48:31.799
 grace

00:48:31.799 --> 00:48:33.799
 and we look

00:48:33.799 --> 00:48:34.279
 ahead

00:48:34.279 --> 00:48:35.519
 to eternity

00:48:35.519 --> 00:48:35.919
 in his

00:48:35.919 --> 00:48:36.459
 presence.

00:48:37.579 --> 00:48:37.919
 What's the

00:48:37.919 --> 00:48:38.319
 biggest thing

00:48:38.319 --> 00:48:38.719
 that we should

00:48:38.719 --> 00:48:39.159
 take away

00:48:39.159 --> 00:48:39.679
 from this?

00:48:40.339 --> 00:48:40.699
 That God

00:48:40.699 --> 00:48:41.139
 is good.

00:48:42.079 --> 00:48:42.500
 That God

00:48:42.500 --> 00:48:42.879
 is good.

00:48:43.500 --> 00:48:44.239
 We are not

00:48:44.239 --> 00:48:45.659
 but he

00:48:45.659 --> 00:48:46.519
 surely is.

00:48:47.179 --> 00:48:47.919
 Thank you for

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