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March 15, 2-25 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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Today we will read from 2 Samuel Chapters 11-12 and Psalm 51. We will read about David committing sins and seeking forgiveness. In our discussion we will talk about when we sin we hurt God and treat Him like He is not important. We will be encouraged that when we do sin that we can ask for forgiveness and no matter what sins we have committed, nothing can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus because Jesus paid the price for our sins. Hallelujah!
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Introduction and Context
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Happy Purim, everybody. Today is Saturday. it is March 15th, 2025, and you are here with Robin at In the Family Way Coaching, and we're here for our daily Bible reading.
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We are reading through the entire Bible, and we are using the daily Day-by-Day Kids Bible, which has been written by Karen Henley.
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If you have been here for a little while, then I bet you know what time it is. It's time to bring out our calendar. I have my calendar out and I have my sticker on for today. Today is just about halfway through the month.
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We are just moving right along.
Understanding Purim
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So I opened up our video today with Happy Purim. Today is Purim, which is a festival. And this is the festival of Esther, where we remember that Esther and Mordecai ah were led by God to save the Jewish people from Haman and being destroyed.
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So I have been attending a Messianic Judaic church, or synagogue rather, and or congregation, however we want to call that. And so I was very happy to celebrate my first Purim festival today.
Technical Setbacks and Authenticity
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It was a lot of fun. So I was late getting back and ah then running errands and picking up, having lunch rather, with my husband. And then I got home and I recorded my video or my podcast here twice.
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And it crashed. my My program, my Zoom crashed. And so i I think God wasn't satisfied with my recording. And I i didn't feel satisfied either, to be honest with you.
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um so Here I am, take number three. if you are ah not If you are here and you haven't been listening from the very beginning, you may not know that I don't edit my videos.
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um One, i have been I had difficulty figuring it out, and when I did figure out a bit how to edit, I was not satisfied with how it looked, and I prefer these just to be very real, very honest videos, and because I'm a very real person.
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So I don't want anybody to think I'm producing these fabulously perfect videos because I'm not fabulously perfect. And so i I wasn't entirely satisfied with my video, the second one, anyways.
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So... I think that was God saying he wasn't satisfied with the video. And so he graciously ah crashed the system and I had to restart and wait for the computer. didn't even want to restart.
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So it is late to- tonight. I'm sorry. in a little trouble with my voice here. And it is ah almost 10 o'clock my time, and I'm in Pacific West Coast time.
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So I apologize for this late posting. I think Saturdays and Sundays tend to be my lowest view nights anyways. So um I tend to not have a whole lot of views on Sunday, and then I think ah people catch up on Monday.
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So I'm going to count that as a little bit of grace for my late videos. So thank you for being here with me, whether you are watching from your YouTube or TikTok or from my site or from Spotify or whether you are listening from your favorite podcasting app. Thank you so much for being here today.
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I really appreciate your time and I'm so glad that God has led you here.
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I may have to pause this a couple of times. and This is, again, like I said, my third recording, so my voice is getting a little tired ah from the whole day and everything, I think. We had some yelling at the festival today, too, in church.
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So I think my voice is tired today. So if it's a little hoarse or scratchy tonight, please forgive my reading. It sounded fine, the first two. Now I'm on the third, and my voice is like, and
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So today we are ah continuing our reading about David.
David's Downfall
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And today we are going to have a very serious reading because today we are going to see some sins that David commits.
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So ah we are going to be reading today from 2 Samuel chapters 11, 12, and Psalm 51. twelve and psalm fifty one So let's go ahead and start in.
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Our first section for 2 Samuel chapter 11 is entitled, On the Palace Roof. It was spring, and David sent his army to fight the army of Ammon.
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Joab led them, but David stayed in Jerusalem. One evening, David couldn't sleep, and he took a walk on the palace roof. From his roof, he saw a beautiful woman.
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So David asked someone one who she was. It's Bathsheba, someone said. She is Uriah's wife. Then David sent someone to get Bathsheba, and she came, and David loved her.
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He slept with her as if she were his wife, and then she went home again. Later, Bathsheba found out that she was going to have a baby. It was because David had slept with her like a husband would.
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Bathsheba sent a message to tell David about the baby. Then David sent a message to Joab. The message said, Send Uriah to me. So Joab sent Uriah to David.
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when ah when ah So Joab sent Uriah to David, and David asked him how the fight was going. He asked how Joab was doing, and he asked how the rest of the men were doing.
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Then David said, go home and rest now. And he hoped Uriah would go home and sleep with Bathsheba. Then it would look like the baby was Uriah's and not David's.
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David even sent a gift with Uriah. But Uriah didn't go home. He slept at the palace door with the servants. Someone told David, Uriah didn't go home.
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So David asked Uriah, didn't you travel a long way? Why didn't you go home? All the fighting men are staying in tents, said Uriah. They are camped out in the fields.
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How could I go home? How could I eat and drink? How could I sleep with my wife? No, I could never do that. Then stay here again today, said David, and tomorrow I'll send you back to the fight.
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So Uriah stayed, and David asked Uriah to come and eat and drink with him. David made him get drunk. But Uriah still didn't go home.
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He slept by the servants. The next morning, David wrote a letter to Joab. The letter said, Put Uriah in a place where the fight is hardest. Then pull your men back.
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That way Uriah will get killed. So Joab's men were fighting a city and Joab put Uriah where the fight was hardest. The men of the city came out to fight and they killed some of Joab's men and Uriah was one of them.
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Joab called a man to take a message to David. Joab told the man, tell the king about the fight. The king may get angry. He may ask why we were so close to the city.
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Or he may ask if we didn't know they'd shoot arrows at us. Then tell the king that Uriah is dead too. So the man left to take David the message. And he told David what Joab had said.
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The enemies were too strong, he said. They came out of the city to fight. But we pushed them back to the city gate and then they shot arrows from the wall. Some of our men were killed.
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And Uriah was killed too.
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Tell Joab not to be upset, said David. Sometimes people die in fights. So keep fighting against the city. Tear it down.
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Bathsheba heard that Uriah had been killed. She cried for him for a while. Then David sent for her. And she came to his palace and David married her.
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Sometime later she had a baby boy. But all of this had made God alive. very unhappy.
Nathan's Confrontation
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The Poor Man's Sheep, 2 Samuel 12 and Psalm 51 God sent the prophet Nathan to see David. Nathan told David, Once there were two men.
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They lived in the same town. One man was rich, the other man was poor. The rich man had lots of sheep and cows, but the poor man had just one little pet lamb.
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The poor man's lamb was his children's pet. It ate his food. It drank out of his cup. It slept in his lap. To the man, it was like his own child.
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And one day a friend came to visit the rich man, and the rich man needed some meat for dinner. But he didn't want to use his own sheep. So he took the poor man's lamb and had it for dinner.
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King David got very angry. That rich man should die, said David. He should pay the poor man by giving him four sheep. He took that poor man's only lamb from him.
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He didn't feel sorry for that poor man at all. You're that rich man, said Nathan. Then Nathan told David what God said. I chose you to be my people's king.
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I saved you from Saul. I gave you his kingdom. If that had not been enough, I would have given you more. So why didn't you care about my laws?
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Why have you done this terrible wrong? You killed Uriah. You took his wife to be your wife. Now fighting will never leave your family.
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You acted as if I was not important.
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I've sinned against God, said David. David wrote, Be kind to me, God. Show me your love that never stops.
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Erase my sins because you are so kind. Wash away all my sin and clean my heart. I know my sins. I always think about them.
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You're the one who has really been hurt by this terrible sin. I did wrong. You are right when you say what's good and bad. I know I was a sinner even when I was a baby, even before I was born.
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i know you want my heart to be true. You teach me to be wise. Clean me and I will be clean again. wash me and i will be whiter than snow let me hear joy let me be glad again let my sad bones know joy again hide your face from my sins erase all my wrongs and make me clean oh god put a spirit within me that stays true to you don't send me away from you don't take away your holy spirit
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Give me joy that comes from knowing that you saved me. Then give me a spirit that wants me to follow you. Then I will teach sinners your ways.
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They will turn back to you. Save me, God. You are the God who saves me. I will sing about how right you are. God, open my lips and my mouth will praise you.
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I would bring you a gift, but that's not what you want. The gift you want is a heart that's sorry about doing wrong. You won't turn away a sorry heart.
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God has taken away your sin, said Nathan. You won't die, but you've made God's enemies make fun of God. So your baby boy will die.
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Then Nathan went home.
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Bathsheba's baby did get sick. David begged God to make the baby well. David wouldn't eat any food. He stayed in his palace and he lay on the ground before God all night.
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The older people of David's family went to him and they begged him to get up and eat, but he wouldn't. Seven days later, the baby died. David's servants were scared to tell him the news.
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They thought, when the baby was alive, David wouldn't listen to us. What will happen if we tell him the baby died? He may do something bad. But David saw his servants whisper, and he guessed that the baby died.
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So he asked, did the baby die? Yes, they said. David got up. He washed himself.
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He changed his clothes. Then he went to the worship tent and he worshiped God. After that, he went back to his palace and he asked for some food and he ate.
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What are you doing? asked the servants. You cried when the baby was alive and you went without food. Now the baby is dead, but you're getting up and eating. Yes, I cried while the baby was alive, said David.
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I thought maybe God would send his kind love, and maybe he would make the baby well again. But the baby is dead. Why should I go without food?
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Can I make him alive again?
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All this time, Joab was still fighting Ammon. He was winning at the enemy city, so he sent a message to David. Get all the army together. Come and take the city yourself.
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If you don't, I'll take it and then it will be named after me. So David went to the city with his whole army. He took the enemy city. He took the enemy king's crown.
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It was gold and weighed 75 pounds. Beautiful stones were in the crown. David wore it. David took lots of things from the city, and he made the people who lived there work like servants.
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They had to work with saws and picks and axes. They had to make bricks, too. And the same thing happened to all the towns of Ammon.
Reflections on Sin and Forgiveness
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Then David took his army back to Jerusalem.
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And that's the end of our reading today.
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So we see that David committed a number of sins here.
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When we were given and God's commandments, he gave us 10 commandments. And I've bookmarked those so that I can go back to those here give us a little bit of a refresher on those.
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And we'll see how many of these rules did David break.
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Number one, don't have any other gods. Number two, don't worship idols. Number three, treat God's name as the most important name of all and use it for the right reasons.
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Number four, remember the worship day. Keep it special. God worked six days to make the earth and the next day he rested.
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Number five, treat your father and mother like important people and obey them. Then you'll live a long time in the land I'll give you. Number six, don't kill.
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Number seven, have sex only with your wife or husband. Number eight, don't steal. Number nine, don't lie.
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Number 10, don't want things that belong to someone else.
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When God sent his message to Nathan, he only mentioned two sins. He mentioned that he had killed Joab or Uriah rather, and that he had taken Uriah's wife as his own and slept with her as his own wife.
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But he also committed the number 10 where he says, don't want things that belong to someone else. And he also committed don't don't steal because he stole that wife from someone else.
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And what we see when God sent Nathan is that he told David,
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well, he asked him the question and he said, let's see, where is that here?
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He says, why didn't you care about my laws?
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Why have you done this terrible wrong? You killed Uriah. You took his wife to be your wife. Now fighting will never leave your family. You acted as if I was not important.
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And David acknowledged, he says, you are the one who has really been hurt by this terrible sin. When we commit sins, It isn't just other people that we hurt.
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It is God who is her actually really hurt by our sins. We are treating him when we disobey his laws as though he is not very important.
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And God told him through Nathan that he said, God's enemies, you have made God's enemies make fun of God.
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And we don't want God to be made fun of by his enemies. We don't want to make God feel bad when we sin.
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And I had never thought about that before. That when i sin, that it's really God that I'm sinning against because he is the one that is being treated like he is not important.
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That we are not considering, I am not considering him to be important, the most important. And we're supposed to put God above everybody. We are all sinners and we we try not to sin, but we continue to sin.
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And we are... Thankfully, we have Jesus who has saved us from our sins so that we are forgiven. And we see here that God forgave David's sins.
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And through Jesus, God also forgives us of our sins. And it doesn't matter how bad the sins were that David committed. God still forgave him it and God still loves him.
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And so I want us to remember that too, that even though we sin, if there are any sins that you have done that you think, oh, they're so great, God can never forgive me.
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That is not so, that is our enemy that wants us to believe that we have sins that we that are so big that we can't possibly go to God for forgiveness for them and that God won't love us anymore.
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And Jesus tells us that there is nothing, or the New Testament tells us there is nothing that can separate us from the love that is in Christ Jesus, nothing.
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So be encouraged that if, when we sin, not if, but when, that there is nothing that can separate us from God's love, but that when we sin, we it's really God who is being hurt.
Applying Biblical Lessons
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David was hurting Uriah by taking his wife, and he was hurting Bathsheba by having her husband killed and putting her in a position where she was now having a baby that wasn't her husband's.
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And those were bad enough, but really it was God who was most hurt by those sins. And I had never thought of that before.
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And so i want us for our daily application to remember and as to consider this when we are tempted to do things, when we are tempted to lie, when we are tempted to want what somebody else has, when we are tempted to, uh,
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make something else more important. When we are thinking about these things and our conscience is bothering us, when the spirit is bothering us and saying, this isn't right, that we'd be encouraged to withstand that temptation by remembering that it's not just people we are hurting, it is God we are hurting.
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And let us remember ah David and see ourselves in David's situation and know that if we commit this sin, it's really God that we're going to be hurting.
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And if we do find ourselves weak in committing a sin, that we come to him in and ask for forgiveness and know that he is faithful and he will forgive us.
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I know in my life, i'm i'm this is going to really impact me as far as trying to make the right decisions in my day-to-day life, not just to do them because it's the right thing to do, but to know that I simply don't want to hurt God.
00:23:07
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We talked a little bit in the past about grieving the Holy Spirit because God dwells in us. We have God's Holy Spirit. And David acknowledged that too. he He knew that he had God's Spirit with him and he didn't want the Holy Spirit to be taken away from him.
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And God doesn't take his Holy Spirit away from us, but we can grieve the Holy Spirit. And so i I know for me, that's always, I've talked about that before, that I don't want to grieve the Spirit.
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But I had never considered that my sins, ah you specifically that they are grieving the Spirit this way, that I am making God, I am treating God as though he is not the most important.
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So i I know for me that that's going to make an impact for me. And I hope for you that that is something that is helpful to you as you work in your daily life to overcome sin and to not be tempted.
00:24:05
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David led himself into that temptation because once he knew that Bathsheba was Uriah's wife, he brought her over anyways.
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And we talked a little bit about that with Samson, that where he was supposed to not do certain things such as to touch dead things and um and like that. and so he But he was curious, for instance, about the dead lion. He wanted to see what happened to the dead lion's body.
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And then he helped himself to the honey that the bees had made a ah comb in. And then he was eating honey, so he may have touched the dead thing. And so he was ah giving himself opportunities to be to be tempted into sin.
00:24:53
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And so this is exactly what David did, is that once he found out that Bathsheba was somebody's wife, and he was already noticing that she was very beautiful, that he should have never invited her over.
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So i want us to be mindful and me too, not just, not just you, my listeners, but for me as well, that when we come across situations where we can essentially be tempting ourselves, make it difficult for us to say no or make it easier to slide down that slippery slope of committing that sin that we consider David.
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And remember that when we sin, it's not just against other people. It's that we are sinning against God and we are treating him as though his rules are not important and we are hurting him, grieving the spirit.
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And remembering later, if we do feel convicted of our sin, to know that we can come to him and ask for forgiveness.
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And he is always faithful to
Conclusion and Encouragement
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forgive. And I'm so thankful for that. And I'm so thankful that Jesus died for my sins and that he died for everybody's sins so that nothing will separate us from God's love.
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So thank you for joining me today and thank you for listening. I hope that yeah you feel that God has lit your light today. And if that is the case, please click that light button.
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I hope everybody has a great rest of their Saturday or Sunday, whichever day they are reading this or listening to it rather. And i will be with everybody again here tomorrow.