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2 Samuel 13 and 14: The Absalom Epic Part 1
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Introduction to Complex Narratives
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All right, everybody, please open up 2 Samuel, chapter 13. 2 Samuel, chapter 13. I'm not going to go over to Monday. day do you brother We do lines, that exactly. epic
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okay
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so today we began mini epic in the life of David. So from today the brown bed is for communion, the crackers are for one she and i not here by the Because I got back last night, straight the fruit salad the cards.
Generational Curses and Biblical Characters
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This is a bad story. This is a tragic story. a But my goodness, it is multi-layered. Multi-layered.
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Today, we're going to look at it primarily from a human perspective. And there are there is a way you can read this, even as a spiritual narrative on Satan and the fall of Satan and back in the early days of Eternacy. We'll do that next week.
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Those of who've been on this journey of 1 and 2 Samuel from the start might remember that the high priest at the time was Eli. He was the fat priest who had the sons who were whoring it about with every woman at the tent meeting.
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And they were taking all the best and meaty bits of food from the people and the people starved. And then even Samuel, the prophet, who was such an amazing man of God, even his sons were gravely disobedient.
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No matter what title you have, no matter what role, whether you're a righteous leader or an unrighteous leader, if you're in a position of power, the enemy tends to have a vested interest in your offspring.
David's Sin and Its Consequences
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Eli and Samuel could not control their sons. And today going to see that even David was not immune to that.
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A couple weeks ago, we looked at generational curses. David had lusted after Bathsheba and it climaxed in death. Now ultimately in forgiveness, with God in restoration, but pre-Uriah death.
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I told you generational curse is when a door is opened and the enemy totally and utterly sweet swoops in and takes an advantage. Every person is responsible for their own decisions.
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Every person still has to make a choice to come into agreement with the enemy, to let the enemy stay, to play according to the enemy's script. I mean, God has a plan for your life. God has a destiny for you. If you choose not to do it, it ain't gonna happen.
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If the enemy has a plan for you, and you have to choose to resist or to play along. And similarly today, we're going to look at a story of lust and murder.
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But it's generational curse. David opened that door and yes, he was saved. Yes, he came back into relationship with the Lord. But that door remained open and his children were not immune once that door had been opened.
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Okay, so 2 Samuel 13. I'm going to start off briefly just by going through David's family because it was extensive.
The Nature of Evil
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Okay, so the best-selling book series, you know, other than the the Bible, of course, is The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. And he very famously wrote...
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Evil is not able to create anything new. It can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good.
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And that's why in heaven, you know, God has a stepping stone pyramid staircase to his throne. And you've got the cherubim around us and the living creatures and the seraphim flying overhead.
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So what happens? Well, on the earth, you end up, you know, with stepping stone pyramids in Machu Picchu or the pyramids of Egypt, which are used know for occultic ceremonies.
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The enemy took what was in heaven and twisted it. Or in heaven, you know, things are a lot of things are on fire. They're not in pain. It's just how they look. On the earth, fire is very often seen as an image of of darkness, you know, when it will scorch you and torch you and kill you, burn you alive.
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In heaven, eyeballs are everywhere. cherubim are covered in eyeballs and gods able to see what happened to the earth through these creatures. On the earth, you have the evil eye. The enemy just puts it a twist on it.
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And in the same way, when the enemy is trying to destroy you, He doesn't have to be particularly creative. He looks at what worked in your parents' life.
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He looks at what worked in your grandparents' life. He looks at what worked in your great-grandparents' life. So he doesn't have to reinvent the wheel.
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He'll just manipulate or give a few little tweaks here and there, but it's the same attacks again and again and again and again. And on a global case, a global stage, what we go through today, we can see that people in Bible times went through the very same thing. There's nothing new under the sun.
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He's not creative. He just copies and he copies his own strategies.
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And he came in this case after David's family.
David's Family Dynamics
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So David had number of brothers and sisters. Eliab was the oldest brother.
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Then there was Abinadab. Then there was Shimea. Nathanel. Radai. Ozem. Zerawai's sister. David the seventh son.
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And his sister Abigail. And then David's wives. He had Michal, who had no kids.
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Ahinoam, who had Amnon, who is a very important son in this story, okay? That's his eldest born. That's the successor to the throne.
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Abigail had Kiliab, who's also called Daniel. Maka had Absalom. Haggith had Adonijah.
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His wife Abital had Shephatiah. His wife Eglah had Ithrium.
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Bathsheba had four kids, Shemua, Jobab, Nathan, and Solomon, who would actually get the crown in the end, and he's in the ancestry of Jesus.
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He had some other wives, and he had some other concubines. So for today, the most important sons are Absalom, son of Ahanoam, So Amnon, son of Ahanoam, and Absalom, the son of Macca. They're the two most important ones for today.
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Amnon is the firstborn. This is the one who is, one would assume, going to get the throne after David the dead.
Amnon's Obsession and Its Tragic Outcome
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So in the course of time, Amnon, the firstborn, son of David, fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of Absalom, who is also the son of David.
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So Amnon falls in love with his half-sister. Ew.
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Now that word love, there are different kinds of love. I could say, i love pizza. And I do. i eat it every Thursday. Every Thursday in this house is pizza Thursday. At least for me.
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iga a I love my brother.
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Family love. I could say, i love blue. My favorite color. I could say, i love my friends. Friendship love.
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You could you know, and this guy loves his wife. Romantic love. This word love here has got a few different meanings.
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It can mean dear love. The feelings are deep.
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It can mean sexual love. And here's where Hebrew is such an interesting language, that you actually have all these words, you know, for all the different feelings.
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It can also mean misplaced love. So you're not supposed to fall in love with your sister, doesn't get there's any doubt.
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Verse two. Amnon became so obsessed with his sister Tamar, That word obsessed has a lot of meanings in the Hebrew.
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It can mean cramped. You feel in your gut like... oh
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It can mean bound up or restricted. He couldn't do anything because this was like a chain for him. It was actually bondage.
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He was tied up.
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It can mean distressed.
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I would like to think most people would feel distressed if they were in love with their sister. Vexed.
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And it can also mean he was in dire straits.
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So just in case you're reading this like it's a love story, the Bible's trying it very clear that this is a bad thing.
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Amnon became so obsessed with his sister Tamar that he made himself ill. Now we're not talking someone who's, you know, lovesick in a romantic puppy dog kind of way.
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Ill means sore. Pained.
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pained
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Afflicted.
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Weak.
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Grieved.
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Wounded. He wounded his soul because this was sin.
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It even means diseased. I'm not saying he literally gave himself cancer or something, but he definitely gave himself a heart disease. in the emotional sense.
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She was a virgin, and it seemed impossible for him to do anything to her. Notice the word seemed.
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Now Amnon had an advisor, Named Jonadab, son of Shimea, David's brother. So don't get hung up on the fact you can't pronounce the names, okay?
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Jonadab is Amnon's cousin.
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Shimea is Amnon's uncle, okay? It's all part of one big family tree.
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So his cousin is the one who gives him advice. His cousin is the one who's like, oh, do this, don't do this, oh, you should do this, oh, that would be amazing for you.
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Jonadab was a very shrewd man. He is clever in all the wrong ways.
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He asked Amnon, why do you, the king's son, look so haggard morning after morning. That is how men speak to each other, you know, you know, why do you look so ugly? You know, you need to lose weight, should speak directly.
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Insultant. Won't you tell me? Haggard means dangling.
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Why do you look so thin?
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Why do you look so weak?
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Why do you look so low?
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Why do you look so poor?
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Why do you look so reduced, so powerless? He's like, mean, you're the the prince of the realm. You're going the king next. Why do you look this way?
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And Amnon must have been feeling brave, he said to his cousin. I'm in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister. It's almost like that's supposed to make it sound better. You could just crap out my brother Absalom's. I'm in love with Tamar, my sister, but it sounds little bit more removed if he sticks Absalom's name in there.
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and Now, if Jonadab was a good advisor, he would say, that's disgusting, she's her sister, it's Dab. It's not what he says. Remember, he's shrewd.
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He is the wrong kind of letter.
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Imagine what a sick, twisted mind it takes to come out with this. Go to bed and pretend to be ill, Jonadab said.
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When your father comes to see you, so obviously know the king was going to visit, you know, oh, what's wrong? When your father comes to see you, say to him, I would like my sister Tamar to come and give me something to eat.
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Let her prepare the food in my sight. What does that mean? means to isolate her. I want, like, in my sight, in my room, just where it's just the two of us and I can see her.
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Let her prepare the food in my sight so I may watch her and then eat it from her hand. So that's the plan.
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Do it through a sense of removal. Make the... almost make David complicit, make David responsible for isolating, for getting her away from everyone else.
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So Amnon obviously agreed this plan, laid down and pretended to be ill. When the king came to see him, Amnon said to him, I would like my sister Tamar to come and make some special bread in my sight.
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So cakes of bread pastry, so I may eat from her hands. yeah This implies trust and closeness, but actually real thought here, the real thought behind this is malevolence.
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David sent word to Tamar at the palace, go to the house of your brother Amnon and prepare some food for him.
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So Tamar went to the house of her brother Amnon, who was lying down.
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She took some dough, kneaded it, made the bread his sights and baked it.
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Then she took the pan and served him the bread, but he refused to eat.
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This took place over several minutes, several dozens of minutes. There was ample time for Amnon to come to his senses and say, what the hell am I doing? And relents from a evil course.
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He had time. He didn't do it.
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Send everyone out of here, Amnon said. This is the isolation. So everyone left him. Then Amnon said to Tamar, bring the food here into my bedroom so I may eat from your hands.
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And Tamar took the bread she had prepared and brought it to her brother Amnon in his bedroom.
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But when she took it to him to eat, he grabbed her and said, Come to bed with me, my sister.
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No, my brother, she said to him. Don't force me. Such a thing should not be done in Israel. Don't do this wicked thing.
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Wicked means immoral.
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Irreligious, that's religious, I or religious, irreligious.
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It's graceful.
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Criminal.
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Vile.
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Villainous.
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And punishable.
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What about me? Where could I get rid of my disgrace? And what about you? You'd be like one of the wicked fools in Israel. A fool here doesn't mean an idiot.
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It means morally bankrupt. Today, if someone says you're a fool, like you're a jokester, an idiot, you're a clown, fool in Bible times meant you had zero moral scruples.
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It was a very, very strong word call from him.
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Please speak to the king. he will not keep me from being married to you. don't believe that's true, but she's trying to escape, so, you know, you see what you're saying. But he refused to listen to her.
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And since he was stronger than her, he raped her.
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Then Amnon hated her with intense hatred.
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The word intense in Hebrew means exceedingly, exceedingly. So this isn't just, well, you know, he'd had his phone, he threw his toy away. This is deep d deep, deep, deep abhorrence.
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And the Hebrew, two words are used for exceeding. So intense is exceeding, exceeding.
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The first exceeding means sexual revulsion.
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It means there was now an animus between them.
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No, not a word we use too often. a deep, deep enmity. Almost like she was, you two nations at war with each other.
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And it's an unrighteous hatred. He hates her without cause. Not her fault.
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And the second exceeding is a different word.
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It means harder.
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Behemently.
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More loudly and more richly.
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And the word for hatred, you can say, you know, I hate Mondays. This hate means to detest someone like they are your enemy.
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So he went from being obsessed with her, and now suddenly, he views the woman he raped as an object of sexual revulsion, animus, enmity, its unrighteous hatred,
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And like she is his enemy, he hates her harder, vehemently, more loudly and more richly. The Bible says, in fact, he hated her more than he had loved her.
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And Amnon said to her, get up and get out. Foster to the curb.
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No, she said to him, sending me away would be a greater wrong than what you've already done to me. but he refused to listen to her. He called his personal servant and said, get this woman out of my sight and bolt the door after her.
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So his servant put her out and bolted to the door after her.
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She was wearing an ornate robe, for this was the kind of garment the virgin daughters of the king wore. Tamra put ashes on her head.
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and tore the ornate robe she was wearing. She put her hands on her head and went away, weeping aloud as she went.
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Her brother Absalom said to her, so now, this is her full brother, that's same mother.
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Has that come none? Your brother? Not my brother. Okay, this is a lot like the story opened up with on the prodigal son, when it's, you know, your son, not my brother. Same idea.
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Has that unknown, your brother, been with you? And obviously, know, she nodded or said yes. And this is terrible advice.
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Be quiet for now, my sister. He's your brother. Zip it. Shut your mouth. Tell nobody. This is what you're not.
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Don't take this thing to heart. What you think happen? grand!
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And Tamar lived in her brother Absalom's house, a desolate woman.
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When King David heard all this, he was furious. I bet he was.
Absalom's Revenge and Aftermath
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And Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad.
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He hated Amnon because he had disgraced his sister Tamar.
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Two years later. So they sit on this offense for two years. When Absalom's sheep shearers were at Baal Hazar near the border of Ephraim, he invited all the king's sons to come there.
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He's like, you let's all a party, all the brothers together. Absalom went to the king and said, Your servant has had shearers come. Will the king and his servants please join me?
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Now, David's probably busy you know running the kingdom, and Absalom, I assume, knows the answer will be no. he's trying to make it sound like it's an open invitation.
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No, my son, the king replied. All of us should not go. would only be a burden to you. Too much money, too much time. you don't have enough seats, too much furniture. You crazy kids, go enjoy yourselves.
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Although Absalom urged him, he still refused to go, but gave him his blessing.
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Then Absalom said, if not, you know, if you can't make it, Dad, please let my brother Amnon up with him.
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And the king probably narrowed his eyes and furled his brow and asked him, why should he go with you?
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probably very suspicious now. He undoubtedly knows that they're not on talking terms. He undoubtedly knows that Absalom has deep, deep issues at Amnon.
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But Absalom urged him, wore him down, so he sent Amnon and the rest of the king's sons.
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So now all the brothers are together for a big party. Amnon, Absalom's got his own men there too. David's nowhere around.
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Absalom ordered his men, listen. When Amnon is in high spirits from drinking wine, think what that means, and I say to you, strike Amnon down, then kill him.
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To strike means beat him.
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It means give him stripes. That could mean you know whiplash and thrinsed him.
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Wound him.
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Slaughter him. Use lethal force.
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And then he says, don't be afraid. Haven't I given you this order? You know, I'm the prince. Whatever I say goes. You know, my dad's not gonna call me. If I say it, you're fine. You're okay.
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Sure, we make the laws around here. You're your good. You're bad. You'll be protected. Be strong and brave. What's brave? It's valiant.
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Virtuous. Worthy. This is a noble cause. This is a good thing.
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Even today, Don't elites, politicians, kings, princes, celebrities,
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twist morality to meet their own end?
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So Absalom's men did to Amnon what Absalom had ordered. They murdered him. Then all the king's sons got up.
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mounted their mules and fled.
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While they're on their way, the report came to David. folks Absalom had struck down all the king's sons, not one of them has left. You see how rumors get exaggerated very, very easily.
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The king stood up, wore his clothes, And lay down on the ground. And all his attendants stood by with their clothes to him.
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But Jonadab, son of Shimea, this creep again. So Jonadab is David's nephew. Shimea is David's brother. This is the same one who convinced Amnon in the first place to rape Tamar.
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My lord should not think that they killed all the princes. Amnon is dead. Fine. Who's going to met them? This has been Absalom's express intention ever since the day Amnon raped his sister Tamar.
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My lord, the king should not be concerned about the report that all the kings and lords are dead. Amnon's dead.
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Notice Jonadab seems to have gotten away with his part in all of this scot-free. Whether Amnon never ratted him out or whatever happened, but he'll switch allegiances in whatever way it seems to suit him, wherever way the wind is blowing.
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Meanwhile, Absalom had fled. He had his guys murder Amnon and away he ran.
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Now the man standing watch looked up and saw many people on the road west of him, coming down the side of the hill.
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The watchman went and told the king, I see men in the direction of Paranaim on the side of the hill.
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Jonadab said to the king, okay, so they're running and from the direction where the party think took place. Peace! King's sons have come. It has happened just as your servant, aka Mwah, said.
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So didn't I tell you everything would be okay?
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As he finished speaking, the king's sons came in wailing loudly. The king, too, and all the attendants wept very bitterly.
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On one hand, David's crying for his oldest son's death. And then there's also of the fact that another one of the sons is now a killer.
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Absalom fled and went to Talmai, the king of Ahamud, the king of Gesher. and Basically, he took refuge with his maternal grandfather.
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and Absalom's mother was Talmai's daughter, so he's gone to his grandfather's house on his mother's side.
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But King David mourned many days for his son Amnon. His firstborn and the natural and expected successor to the throne.
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After Absalom fled and went to Gethar, he stayed there three years. Now look at how much time has lapsed. You've got however long Amnon was obsessed with Tamar.
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Then you get a two-year jump. You got this murder, and then you got a three-year jump.
David's Mourning and Longing
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And King David longed to go Abithelon, for he was consoled concerning Amnon's death. that's Let's start the second part that sentence first.
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Consoled concerning Amnon's death, comforted. He's got these complex feelings. As a father, he's obviously very obsessed with what Amnon had done. He's also upset that Amnon's now dead, but as a king, you do want to see justice in the land, and for what he had done, you might say the penalty was appropriate, not that it happened in in the righteous way.
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So he's got confused feelings regarding Amnon, undoubtedly.
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But he longs to go his estranged son, Absalom. This is really, really interesting. i looked to I've always been telling you to look up for the word longed earlier. This is what longed means. Because we understand longed just to mean you want something. You're waiting for something to happen.
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In the Hebrew, the word actually translates as finished.
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Consumed.
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Destroyed.
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And that's destroyed utterly. Not destroyed little bit, like, utterly destroyed.
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Accomplished.
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wholly reaped. Now, I'm not talking that God is holy. I mean, W-H-O-L-L-Y. Entirely reaped.
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Wasted.
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Expired. And died. That's what longed means here. It's a very unusual word choice. It's like, while waiting to be reunited with Absalom,
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Part of him died. Part of the soul died. And as I read that, i just got the most beautiful picture of the love Jesus has for us.
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Because here's the thing.
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What Amnon did was evil. The same is true Absalom. When Tamar came to Absalom with what had happened, he told her, shut your mouth, say nothing.
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Hired away.
00:35:33
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He stood in his offense. He orchestrated a conspiracy against the crown, against the one who was supposed to inherit the crown, presumably.
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Killed him, or had other men kill him. Run away from the scene of the crown. And yet the king longs to be reunited with him.
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Because the king, yes, Absalom's evil at this point, but the king is thinking, you're still my son. i still created you. I still want you. And look at those words in Hebrew for long.
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Finished. Whenever I see finished, all I think of is Jesus in the cross, saying, it is finished.
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Consumed. Jesus is the king of heaven, but his life was consumed for us.
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Destroyed utterly. Jesus was totally and utterly butchered and mauled, but pointing along looked like a human.
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Accomplished. When the apostles got to the empty tomb of Jesus, they found linen cloths neatly folded on where his body had been laying.
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In Jesus' culture, if you went to a restaurant you were happy with the meal, you were satisfied, you would neatly fold up your napkin. That was because of saying it was accomplished, it's efficient, job well done. Wholly reaped, while Jesus was reaped entirely for all human sin, even those who right now are human traffickers.
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Even those who right now arrest and torture Christians because they love Jesus. even those right now who slaughter the unborn, or Canada, who in one of the leading halls of death is euthanasia, killing the old folk.
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Wasted, expired, died, that's what Jesus did on the cross. So what David felt for the wicked Absalom is the same thing God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit feel for us.
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And David, part of David died On the inside. Were the separation Absalom. And Jesus went the whole way. And died for us.
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This here.
Parallels of Forgiveness and Reconciliation
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Is a picture. Of God's love for you. On your worst day. Absalom hasn't apologized. He murdered someone and ran away.
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He gave the worst possible advice. To a rape victim. And just hid her away in his house. For two years.
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And still. The love. of the father was extended towards him. On your worst day, on the day when you have only done everything wrong, on the day when all you can think of are all the times you made a bad situation worse and you hurt people and you destroyed them, still father God's love is extended to you.
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So I would encourage you all to underline, circle or highlight Verse 39 there. And just write King David, it's God, Jesus, Holy Spirit.
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And Absalom, write your own name. And just draw the cross between them. Because that's how the Lord feels about you.
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On your worst day, when there's been no apology and reconciliation hasn't even happened yet.
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You've put in their problems. yeah Yeah, so King David is in God Jesus. God is an overall ruling of heaven, but Jesus is the king of heaven.
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That's love he has, bro. But while we were still sinners, Christ died, bro.
00:39:54
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All right, chapter 14. Like I said, this is a mini saga. It goes on for several chapters, but today we're going to look at chapters 13 and 14. And then next week, we'll look at another one or two chapters. But also next week, I'm going to show you how Absalom's story is actually a picture of the fall of Satan from being Jesus' number one cherub to being the devil.
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And by the time we get to the end of the story, then I'm gonna show you how this is actually, a almost like a parable of something that's affecting world political events today.
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This is such an important story, it's a sad and tragic story many levels, but operates on multiple perfective levels. There's a lot to glean in these few chapters.
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Alright, so Joab, son of Zeruiah, this is chapter 14 now. Joab, David's commander, son of Zeruiah, knew that the king of Tarth longed for Absalom.
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So Absalom was potentially David's successor at this point.
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So Joab sent someone Tekoa and had a wise woman brought him there.
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He said to her, Pretend you're in mourning. So the same way today, you know, politics evolves, you know, builds lies. It's never been different.
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Pretend you are in mourning. Dress in mourning clothes and don't use any cosmetic lotions. Act like a woman who has spent many days grieving for the dead.
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Then go to the king and speak these words to him. And then Joab just, you know, feeds her the script.
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When the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell with her face to the ground to pay him honor and said, Help me, your majesty. The king asked her, What is troubling you?
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So he assumes that this is a woman, like a DID, a damsel in distress. But actually, she's just reciting what Drogh was told to say.
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She said, I am a widow and my husband is dead.
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I, your servant, had two sons. They got into a fight with each other in the field, and no one was there to separate them. One struck the other and killed him.
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Now the whole clan has risen up against your servant, they say. Hand over the one who struck his brother down so that we may put him to death for the life of his brother he'd be killed.
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Then we'll get rid of the heir as well.
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They would put out the only burning coal I have left, leaving my husband neither named nor descendants on the face of the earth. Okay, let's through the pack of life, all right? So effectively, she's saying, I had two sons, one killed the other, so that son's dead.
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And now the community basically want blood for blood, a life for a life. They're like, this guy's a murderer, we want to kill him, but if we kill him... There is no natural descendant that all the property goes to. The one to remove the heir, the one's going to get the inheritance.
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So you can probably begin to see now how you know the one who's dead is actually Amnon, and the next heir Absalom, who's now living in another country.
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The king said to the woman, go home, and I will issue an order in your behalf. So basically, even though of your sons is guilty, I'm still going to make sure that everything you and your husband have built will stay in your family line. There'll someone to inherit it. It's not going to to strangers or servants.
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But the woman from Tekoa said to him, let my lord the king part in me and my family, and let the king and his throne be without guilt. The king replied, if anyone says I.
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If anyone causes you any any trouble, a spot will bother. If anyone gives you trouble, bring them to me and they will not bother you again. You've got my words.
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I am going to make sure that you live as much peace as you can.
00:44:35
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She said, Then let the king invoke the Lord his God. To prevent the avenger of blood and add into destruction, so my son will not be destroyed.
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She is really just dragging the side at this point. And surely the Lord lives, he said. Not one hair of your son's head shall fall the ground.
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Then the woman said, so after she's forgotten him to say the same thing like three times, let your servant speak a word my lord the king. So can I speak frankly? Can I have a one-on-one here?
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Speak, he replied. The woman said, Why then? now she gets the crux the mass, she drops the illusion, and she's like, this was all a parable about your life.
00:45:26
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Why then have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself? For the king has not brought back his banished son.
00:45:40
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Like water spilled on the ground, which could not be recovered. So we must die. We're all going to die eventually.
00:45:51
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But that is not what God desires. Rather, he devises way so that a banished person does not remain banished from him.
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You might like Absalom. You might think he was justified. you might think he's scumbag. That's your opinion. But he's bringing God into this. And I would say highlight verse 14.
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Underline it, circle it. But that is not what God desires. Rather, he devises ways so that a banished person does not remain banished from him.
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On the day when you feel forsaken. On the day when you feel God is not absolutely good. On the day or you feel abandoned, on the day when you feel like he has let you down, on the day when you are running a mile away from him, because David didn't kick Absalom out, Absalom ran away.
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On the day when you want to run into the wilderness and hide your head in the sand because you're afraid that God doesn't love you anymore, I want you to remember, verse 14, but that is not what God desires.
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Rather, he devises ways so that a banished person and stick your own name in there does not remain banished from him. And the ultimate way he's done that is the cross of Jesus Christ.
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He had a lot of strategies in the Old Testament. and none of them worked particularly well because people chose not to obey them. But the well people don't necessarily obey the cross either.
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But it has proved to be the most successful of them all.
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And now I've come to say this to my lord the king, because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, I will speak to the king.
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Perhaps he will grant his servant's request. Perhaps the king will agree to deliver his servant from the hand of the man who's trying to cut off both me and my son God's inheritance.
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And now your servant says, May the word of my Lord the King secure my inheritance.
Absalom's Return and Ambitions
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For my Lord the King is like an angel of God in discerning good and evil.
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May the Lord your God be with you.
00:48:23
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Now David's probably listening to this and he's probably thinking of some conversations he has had with some of his four tiers and getting a little bit suspicious.
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Then the king said to the woman, don't keep from me the answer to what I'm going to ask you. That's very fancy way of saying I have a question. Answer me truthfully.
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Let my lord king speak. The woman said, the king asked, isn't the hand of Joab with you in all this?
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Presumably, Joab had long, in these three years, been trying to convince the king to forgive Absalom and tell to come back home.
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But his antenna is standing erect and he's thinking, okay, there's something going on here. The woman answered, as surely as you live, my lord the king.
00:49:25
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No one can turn to the right or to the left from anything my lord the king says. Yes. It was your servant Joab instructed me to do this and put all these words into the mouth of your servant.
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She comes clean. Your servant Joab did this to change the present situation. My lord has wisdom, like that's the name to the god.
00:49:52
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He knows everything that happens in the land. You are no fool. There is no fool in you. You can't hoodwink the king. Although future chapters might call that into dispute.
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The king said to Joab, very well, because this point there's no point talking him anymore. He turned to Joab, very well, I'll do it. Go. Bring back the young man, Absalom.
00:50:25
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Joab fell with his face to the ground to pay him honor, and he blessed the king. Joab said, today your servant knows he has found a favor in your eyes, my lord the king, because the king has granted his servant's request.
00:50:46
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Then Joab went to Geshur and brought Abisdun back to Jerusalem. But the king said, he must go to his own house. He must not see my face.
00:51:02
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Again, did David long to see Absalom? Yes. Did he long to see his whole family reunite and restored to himself and to God? Yes and yes. But he's also a king.
00:51:15
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And he cannot risk giving the impression or the illusion that he accepts or tolerates what Absalom did.
00:51:26
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So again, he's got this internal dispute. Two hats. The fatherly hat and the kingly hat. like I can't see him. I can't look at him. I can't be around him.
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So Absalom went to his own house and did not see the face of the king.
00:51:49
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In all Israel, there was not a man so highly praised for his handsome appearance as Absalom. he had looks to kill.
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From the top of his head to the sole of his foot, there was no lemish in him. He was the object of perfection, physically.
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The external.
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Internally, might be different, the sole, but externally all looked great.
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Whenever he cuts the hair his head, he used to weigh his hair once a year because it became too heavy for him.
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He would weigh it. And its weight was 200 shekels by the royal standard. He had a full head of hair. Long, lush, gorgeous.
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was like a model.
00:52:50
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Three sons and a daughter were born to Absalom. His daughter's name was Tamar. So he named his daughter after his sister. And she became a beautiful woman.
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Absalom lived two years in Jerusalem without seeing the king's faith. So we have Amnon who's lusting after his sister for however long. a Time passes he rapes her.
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Time passes he gets murdered.
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And Absalom runs away. Time passes, now he's back again. David will look at him. Time passes, so we're going through year after year after year here. Big time jump.
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Then Absalom sent for Joab in order to send him to the king. But Joab refused to come to him.
00:53:50
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So he sent a second time. But he refused to come.
00:53:56
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Then he said to his servants, I wonder if they're the same ones who murdered Amnon. Or maybe they had already been given the death penalty. Who knows?
00:54:09
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Joab's field is next to mine, and he has barley there. Go, set his property on fire. So Absalom's servants set the field on fire. and an aon
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Then Joab did go to Absalom's house. I bet he did. I'm sure he did it very angrily. And I said to him, why your servants set my field on fire? What is the matter with you? Are you crazy?
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Absalom said to Joab, look, I sent word to you instead. I mean, these sentences are spoiled, rats so entitled. Come here, it's what I intend to the king, to ask.
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Why have I come from Gesher? It'd be better for me if I were still there. could be with my grandfather, being weighed on hand and flush, so I'm here living in exile in my own house. Now then, I want to see the king's fate.
00:55:09
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And if I'm guilty of anything, let him put me to death. He's goading him because he knows it's not going to happen. He knows David's not going to kill him.
00:55:21
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So Joab, probably afraid the next thing set fire will be his house, went to the king and told him that. Then the king summoned Amphalel.
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And Absalom came in and bowed down his face to the ground before the king.
00:55:42
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And the king kissed Absalom.
00:55:58
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David is a picture
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of God here, is a picture of Jesus.
00:56:08
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Longing for the sinner. Longing for their reprobate. Longing for those who use court systems for their own advantage to pervert justice.
00:56:21
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Longing for those who steal, kill, and destroy. Longing for those in witchcraft. Longing for those who should be in prison. Longing for those who manipulate, who steal.
00:56:36
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to come back to him in a place of repentance. Because he is a turnaround God and he has the power to turn anyone's life around. I was at a talk recently and by a guy who used to be a massive drug dealer and a wife beater and was put in prison.
00:56:58
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His wife got saved and then he got saved. And now he is in third world countries building houses for orphans and hospitals and turning lives around. It's just phenomenal what God's doing like.
00:57:15
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The resurrection power of Jesus is readily available to absolutely anyone and who opens the Lord.
00:57:24
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But the onus is on us. not to waste the grace.
00:57:34
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What Absalom could have done here, well, first he should never have set Joab's field on fire, but Absalom could have come before King David in humility and said, Dad, I'm so sorry for what I did to Amnon. I'm not worthy of the prophet, but if you will receive me, you know, restore me, let's build back.
00:57:56
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and this kingdom back to it to restore our relationship. Punish me if you think punishment is needed. There should have been some sense of guilt or remorse, but evidently there wasn't any.
00:58:10
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But instead, Absalom actually wants to get back into the palace. This has nothing to do with restoration to David, restoration to his family,
00:58:25
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His eye is on David's throne.
00:58:30
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And as we're going to see you next week, even the most wicked and reprobate people, if the righteous do nothing, if the righteous take their eye out ball, even the most wicked, slime, disgusting people can steal your destiny and get what God has promised you.
00:58:53
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His eye is on David's throne. Will he get it? Come back next week to find out. But for now we are going to look at the king who did sacrifice everything for us.
00:59:04
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And us as God's kids. Thank you. Who have received the grace and are using it to be in the right relationship with him. Unlike what Absalom did.
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Absalom is everything a Christian should not be.
00:59:23
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So Lord, I thank you for the cross of Jesus Christ.
00:59:30
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I thank you, God, that your goodness and your grace are so immense that while we Absalons, while we were lost in our sin,
00:59:46
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while we were like water spilled out in the ground that could not be recovered, and so we must die and perish, that that was not what you desired. Rather, you devised away the cross of Calvary so that we banished people that did not remain banished from you.
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But instead, we are brought into right relationship with you.
Reflections on Sacrifice and Grace
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That while Absalom returns to your throne room with wickedness in his heart and your throne and David's throne in his mind, we come boldly before the throne of grace to find help in our time of need, help we do not with birth, but you say that we're worthy of it.
01:00:36
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Whether we were, the prodigal son's story, brother restless who became brother reckless,
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whether we were brother reliable who became brother resentful,
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You say that we are worth your love on the basis of being yours. Our worth is through our birth. Our worth is seeing the fact you sent us the earth in the first place.
01:01:08
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So Lord, as we take this time of communion, God, and we eat the bread or the crackers with the solids, whatever it is God's people have chosen before them, whatever communion element,
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Jesus, recognize that your body was broken to put ours back together again.
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Your body was broken to put our destinies back together again. Your body was broken to put our souls back together again. Your body was broken to bring our dead spirit to life.
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Your body was broken so that the things that we have broken can be restored and put back together again.
01:01:53
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um Whatever drink, Lord God, whatever cup your people are drinking from, recognize, Lord Jesus, that your blood was poured out to wash us clean.
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Blood is normally seen as something defiling, but we were already defiled in our sin, and this scrubs the wickedness away.
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And what's more, supernaturally, the blood of Jesus that flows through all of our veins. Everyone in the sound of my voice, God, on the live stream, on YouTube. Well, it's not that YouTube, do on YouTube. And it's made us a family, Lord.
01:02:39
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Lord, you say to we have communion to focus on the the body, the blood, to discern universal body of Christ, we're part of the family.
01:02:49
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Will you all tell to check ourselves?
01:02:54
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Lord, if there's anything in us contrary to the new life you've given us, a victimization mentality, woe is me, misery, misery, misery, sin, addiction, bondage we've chosen to come under, I'm going give us all a moment bring those before the throne of grace, even our own hearts,
01:03:23
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and to nail them onto that cross. spar If there is anything in me, in anyone, in the sound my voice, bring it to mine, Lord, in a moment of repenting and relenting, of doing a 180 degree turn.
01:04:23
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Thank you, Mimia. I also lift up my sister in Madrid who's getting water baptized today, Lord God, in a picture, physical picture. There's no power in being dumped. That's my rule.
01:04:40
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But Lord, it's a physical picture of um
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the dead self being buried in the cross of Jesus. and a resurrected self rising up. It's a physical picture, Lord God, just like communion a physical picture.
01:05:01
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And Lord, strengthen and empower her as you get to Lord of Tides and also to be sharing communion,
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to walk the walk and to talk the talk. that our lips would not be used for deceit, but to proclaim the name, the good news of Jesus.
01:05:26
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And that we would walk in the ways of righteousness, not varying to the right to the left, but in step with your good, perfect, even well-prong.
01:06:56
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All right, everybody. Thank you for joining today. was giving it to have to push at three o'clock. It becomes the norm. I can't believe we're wrapping up a fight. That's what not going to know ourselves how long our Sunday is.
01:07:14
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um I will find out from Catherine about what time Ramsay's in the courthouse is tomorrow and am expect an announcement if we do prayer in the morning for that.
Community Engagement and Future Gatherings
01:07:29
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so I know we did last time it was very, very powerful.
01:07:32
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And then knocking on the gates of heaven to shake the gates of hell. It's spiritual warfare, what's going on.
01:07:43
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And... all the time that we've been lifting up in the past and praying and proceeding. God's been doing amazing things and just shaking things in that courtroom, you shaking the platforms of evil in and over it to a very foundation. So we'll look forward to that announcement a little bit later today on the WhatsApp chat. um And on Wednesday, we will be having discipleship on Zoom 8 and
01:08:16
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I know last week I said the teaching was on Gideon. It was on Joshua. This week I think it's on the tabernacle. It'll be a little bit similar to the teaching did a few weeks ago. Sorry, not the tabernacle. We've done already.
01:08:29
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On ah the temple. And which we'll be looking at. Again, chapters of the Bible that most people just kind of skip. Because just goes on and on. and All the architecture and jewelry and design and furnishings.
01:08:43
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Most people have no interest in in the artsy side of things, but it all points to Jesus. It's all very, very prophetic and regarding the person, the coward, and the destiny of Christ.
01:08:56
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So we'll be looking at the Temple God on Wednesday. And other than that, um we're going have the next installment in the Absalom epic this day next week.
01:09:10
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the van If any of you need ah anything during the week, um prayer, inter interpretations, the like, just reach out. Just keep the lines of communication open. But other than that, have a beautiful, fantastic, phenomenal, amazing, successful week walking in the authority you have in Christ.
01:09:29
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And always remember, G-I-A-G. Got it. Absolutely good. Amen.
01:09:40
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David Price- Your friends like that. David Price- bye. Price-
01:09:51
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David Price- Sorry everyone.