(277) “Not Sin-Conscious, Relationship-Conscious”

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You just have to be reminded once in a while

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about how much he loves you and just get lost

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in his love. If you get lost in his love, you're

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not going to sin against him. You're just not.

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Because you get lost in his love and it's going

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to cause you to love him. And when you love him,

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you're going to keep his commandments. to pour

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out his spirit on all humanity. Welcome to Global

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Outpouring, where we contend for that promised

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outpouring, we equip for that outpouring, so

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that we may engage in that very outpouring. I'm

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Philip Buss. And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome to

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the podcast today. We want to talk about something

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that is really... Well, it's tenderizing my heart,

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and I hope that you'll have that same experience,

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because we want to talk not about sin consciousness,

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but about relationship consciousness. We're so

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by. And so we're coming to our subject today,

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not being sin conscious, but being relationship

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conscious. This has kind of been a how shall

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I say, it's not a thorn in my flesh or anything

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like that, but something that's bothered me in

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the scripture that I, you know, when we have

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these difficulties understanding something that's

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written there and our flesh goes, no, that's

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not true. We did a recent episode about the consequences

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of sin. Because the consequences, they're like

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a ripple effect that go out among others around

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you. That your sin that you do yourself isn't

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just affecting you. And it's not just affecting

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your relationship with God. It affects other

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people because you're allowing some darkness

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in and affects others. So one of the scriptures

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that has bothered me for... oh, probably decades,

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is Psalm 51, 4, where David is confessing his

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sin and he's repenting from his sin of having

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had an adulterous relationship with Bathsheba,

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his neighbor's wife, and his neighbor Uriah,

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who was one of his mighty men. Sent him to the

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front line purposely to get him killed. Yeah,

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yeah. Basically, Uriah's blood was on David's

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hands, really. So in this verse, David is saying

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against you, he's talking to God, against you,

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you only have I sinned and done this evil in

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your sight that you may be found just when you

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speak and blameless when you judge. And that

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just irked me that no. David, you're not seeing

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the big picture. This is hurting a whole lot

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of people. And the ripple effect was huge. We

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didn't mention it. We talked about this subject

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in that previous podcast. But we didn't talk

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about the fact that Ahithophel, who was one of

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David's counselors, turned on him because he

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was bitter and angry at David because Bathsheba

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was his granddaughter. So that's why he sided

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with... Absalom. When Absalom revolted against

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his father. It gave a legal right for that to

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happen. Exactly. All of these things were a ripple

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effect. But now David has been saying in the

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scripture, I've only sinned against you, God.

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And only you. Only you. And that just always

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bothered me. But then I ran across a scripture

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recently. that helped me to begin to understand.

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And now, you know, maybe you've always gotten

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this, but I didn't. So I'm just going to go off

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of... Well, we just didn't think as deep as you.

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No, but I mean, I didn't, I didn't, I just couldn't

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get it. But now I'm beginning to get it because

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I came across Leviticus chapter 6, verses 2 to

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7, that talks about trespassing or sinning against

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a neighbor. and that it's really a trespass against

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God. So it says in Leviticus 6, 2 -7, do you

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want to read that? If a person sins and commits

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a trespass against the Lord by lying to his neighbor

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about what was delivered to him for safekeeping,

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or about a pledge, or about a robbery, or if

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he has extorted from his neighbor, or if he has

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found what was lost and lies concerning it and

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swears falsely, In any one of these things that

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a man may do in which he sins, then it shall

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be, because he has sinned and is guilty, that

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he shall restore what he has stolen, or the thing

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which he has extorted, or what was delivered

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to him for safekeeping, or the lost thing which

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he found, or all that about which he has sworn

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falsely. He shall restore its full value. Add

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one -fifth more to it, and give it to whoever

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it belongs on the day of his trespass offering.

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And he shall bring his trespass offering to the

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Lord, a ram without blemish from the flock, with

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your valuation as a trespass offering to the

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priest. So the priest shall make atonement for

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him before the Lord, and he shall be forgiven

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for any one of these things that he may have

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done in which he trespasses. Okay, so here's

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how it began to come to me. Like, this is obviously

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a trespass against a person. But it says at the

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beginning, if a person sins and commits a trespass

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against the Lord, well, the dots connected in

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that moment. And I began to realize, hey, our

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sins, regardless of whom we sin against, our

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sins are really Against the Lord, because he

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gave us the rules. So if we're doing something

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against the rules, and when I say rules, I'm

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talking about the instructions that God gave

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us in his word. Because God said, if you'll do

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these things, you're going to be blessed. Everything's

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going to go well for you because you're doing

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these things. And here's some things you don't

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do. So don't do those things. Do these things

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and everything's going to go well for you. But

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when you choose to do something that is contrary

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to his word, something that's contrary to the

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instructions, like let's just take it back to

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the Garden of Eden. I was studying this the other

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day also that, you know, when God uses double

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words, It's really significant in the scripture.

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And we don't get it usually in the English interpretation.

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But if you go back into Genesis, where God is

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giving instructions to Adam, he says, of all

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the trees, you may freely eat. That's how it's

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translated into English. But in the Hebrew, it

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would be more accurate to translate it, eating

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you shall eat. And then he goes on in the next

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verse and says, but don't eat of the tree of

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the knowledge of good and evil. Don't eat of

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that fruit. Because in the day that you eat of

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it. You shall surely die. You shall surely die

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is how it's been translated for us. But from

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the Hebrew, it would be more accurate to say,

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dying you shall die. See, that was one of those

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other things that bothered me. from my youth.

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You know, if God said, you shall surely die,

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didn't he mean you're going to drop dead on the

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spot? You know, that's what I thought it should

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mean. But he didn't drop dead. But dying, he

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began to die. The process began in that moment.

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And in that moment, he realized, oh, I'm naked.

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Oh, the glory has departed. It's like when a

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body starts shutting down, you know, like organ

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at a time and all that. It's a process and it

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takes a while. Right, right. And it took over

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900 years for Adam. Dying, you shall die. But

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God's intent was because he had also given them

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instructions to reproduce. And so in order for

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them to complete. Those instructions that he

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gave them, he had to let the dying process go

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for a long time so that more generations would

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come forth and mankind would exist. Because if

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he dropped dead on the spot, God would have to

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start over and make another man out of mud. Another

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mud ball. So anyway, the thing that didn't enter

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my heart until now is that when we choose to

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disobey, We're actually hurting our Father. We're

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trespassing against Him. We're sinning against

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Him. Now, I have been thinking, and I understand

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this principle from Isaiah 52, verse 2. In the

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King James, it says, But your iniquities have

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separated between you and your God, and your

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sins have hid His face from you that He will

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not hear. And in the margin, it says, have made

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him hide his face from you but in the literal

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translations like young's literal translation

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it says but your iniquities have been separating

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between you and your god and your sins have hidden

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the presence from you from here yeah so you know

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when the presence of god leaves you when you've

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done something yeah well that that was part of

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what david prayed in that Psalm that we started

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with in Psalm 51, take not your Holy Spirit from

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me. May have already happened. And then Nathan

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just confirmed it when he came in and gave him

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the word. Yeah. You know. Yeah. So let's go on

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to talk about that. Yeah. I want to mention too,

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before this happened with Bathsheba, because

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you write in the first chapter, I mean, you read

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that at the time when kings go to battle. True.

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So David should have been in the battle. You

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know, because he lost, maybe he was just, I don't

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know. We don't know why he didn't go. We don't

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know why he didn't go. It could be another reason,

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but he got set up. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. He

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wasn't where he should have been. I mean, he

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can be out on your porch, but don't go looking

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down into your neighbor's window. Right. And

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apparently she must have had a very big window.

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I don't know. I think she was on the rooftop.

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On the rooftop? And he had a higher roof. Oh,

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wow. I think that's how it was. So before we

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go into the story, I want to emphasize that as

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we're talking about this, we need to think of

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God as our father. If you are a parent or if

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you have had good parents, knowing that God is

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our father should help you feel what he feels.

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Like the golden rule. that we learned as children,

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do unto others as you would have them do unto

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you. It's from Matthew 7, 12. Treat other people

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like you want to be treated. Yeah. Okay. Now

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think in terms of parenthood. As a parent, think

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about how you feel when your children disobey

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you. And think about how your father feels when

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you disobey his word. You know, sometimes a parent

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wants to just shut themselves away and cry at

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the disobedience of their children, especially

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as they get older. You know, I taught you better

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than that. Why are you doing this? You know,

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and especially as your children get older, you

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have to give them some space. You can tell them,

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The right thing to do, you can, probably the

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best thing to do is, if they're teachable, is,

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well, let's look at your choices. Tell me what

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you think based on your choices and teach them

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wisdom. Teach them how to make a wise decision

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rather than telling them what to do, right? But

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God does that for us. He teaches us from his

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word how to make good decisions. So anyway, let's

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go back and talk about God's dealings with David.

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2 Samuel 12, 13 to 25. Would you like to read

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that? So David said to Nathan, I have sinned

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against the Lord. Yeah, this is after Nathan

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has confronted him about his sin. You're the

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man. Yeah. And Nathan said to David, the Lord

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also has put away your sin. You shall not die.

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And I'll add there, according to Old Testament

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law, you know, you commit adultery. Yeah, you

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should die. You should be stoned, right? Yeah.

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Can't think about stoning the king. However,

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verse 14, Stop and to think about that. Your

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deed has given great occasion to the enemies

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of the Lord to blaspheme. Think about that in

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terms of, okay, so you've got the enemies that

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are In the physical realm. But you also have

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these enemies that are in the demonic realm.

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The demonic realm, yeah. And it's given them

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great delight. Yeah. And that loosed the spirit

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of sexual immorality in David's house. Yeah.

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So that Amnon went after Tamar. Tamar, yeah.

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And it loosed murder in Absalom that he would

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kill his brother for having raped his sister.

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And, you know, all of these demonic things were

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released. And Nathan points that out. But at

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the same time, David is saying against you, you

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only have I sinned. But David says, I have sinned

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against the Lord. And Nathan says, I've put away

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your sin. The Lord has also put away your sin.

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You shall not die. However, because by this deed

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you have given great occasion to the enemies

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of the Lord to blaspheme the child, also who

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is born to you shall surely die. Then Nathan

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departed to his house, and the Lord struck the

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child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it

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became ill. Okay, let's stop there. The Lord

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struck the child. Yeah. We've been taught that

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God doesn't cause disease. Because this is a

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child out of wedlock. Exactly. This is the fruit

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of disobedience. This is the fruit of sin. This

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is the fruit of, I mean, you've got adultery,

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and you've got... David trying to hide it by

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bringing Uriah back from the battle and sending

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him to his wife, he thinks. But Uriah wouldn't

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do that. So then he sends him out to be killed.

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So the Lord struck the child that Uriah's wife

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bore to David. Look at that phrase, Uriah's wife

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bore to David. And just go ahead and read the

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next little part. David therefore pleaded with

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God for the child, and David fasted and went

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in and lay all night on the ground. So the elders

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of his house arose to him to raise him up from

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the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat

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food with them. Then on the seventh day it came

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to pass that the child died, and the servants

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of David were afraid to tell him that the child

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was dead. For they said, Indeed, while the child

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was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not

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hear our voice. How can we tell him that the

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child is dead? He may do some harm. When David

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saw that his servants were whispering, David

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perceived that the child was dead. Therefore

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David said to his servants, Is the child dead?

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And they said, He is dead. So David arose from

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the ground, washed and anointed himself, and

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changed his clothes, and he went into the house

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of the Lord and worshiped. Wow, look at that.

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Yeah. And he knew why. Yeah. He knew. That the

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Lord was right in doing what he did. Remember

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what he said at the beginning of this in that

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Psalm 51 .4, that you may be found just when

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you speak and blameless when you judge. He knew

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that God was right in what he did. He was just

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begging for mercy. Then he went to his own house,

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and when he requested, they set food before him,

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and he ate. Then the servants said to him, What

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is this that you've done? You fasted and wept

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for the child while he was yet alive, but when

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the child died, you rose and ate food. And he

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said, While the child was alive, I fasted and

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wept. For I said, Who can tell whether the Lord

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will be gracious to me that the child may live?

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But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I

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bring him back again? I shall go to him, but

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he shall not return to me. Isn't that amazing?

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He understood what it is like to be an intercessor.

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He was begging God. Please have mercy. Yeah.

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And God had mercy on him. God had mercy, big

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mercy on him. But he recognized there might be

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a chance. You know, when he numbered the people,

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he said, I'd rather fall into the hands of God

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than into the hands of men. Yeah. So he understands

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he has a relationship with his heavenly father.

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He has a relationship with God. Yeah. So we don't

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know how much time goes by between verse 23 and

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verse 24. But read verse 24 and 25. Then David

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comforted Bathsheba, his wife, and went into

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her and lay with her. So she bore a son, and

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he called his name Solomon. Now the Lord loved

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him, and he sent word by the hand of Nathan the

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prophet. So he called his name Jedidiah because

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of the Lord. This is very interesting because

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this is the only time you'll see this in Scripture.

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Yeah. I love how it says that David comforted

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Bathsheba, his wife, after that baby that was

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born out of wedlock died. So now it's a legit...

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Yes. Now we have Bathsheba as David's wife. She's

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no longer Uriah's wife. She's now David's wife.

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And as David's wife, she can be the mother of

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the next king. And just as a side note, Ahithophel,

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her grandfather, was one of the wisest men ever.

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And so that's where Solomon got the DNA of wisdom.

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Interesting. That, of course, God embellished.

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God made it bigger. God made it better. Because

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this is a union of the granddaughter of a very,

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very wise man and her husband, David. is a man

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after God's own heart. So those two sets of DNA

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together could make Solomon the wisest man in

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the world. Unfortunately, he wasn't so wise when

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it came to foreign wives. And that kind of goofed

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things up for him. And I think a lot of these

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wives were gifts, too. Oh, that could be. A lot

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of them were gifts. I'm giving you my wife because...

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I'm giving you my daughter. Daughter. It doesn't

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mean that he had any relation, sexual relation

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with them. He probably did. Yeah. Moving right

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along. But those were political marriages. And

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because of being political marriages, and it

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says in another place that Solomon loved many

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foreign women. Okay. So he was loving them. But

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that's really not where we're going with this

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story. Let's go back to where we were. So the

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Lord sent word, it says in verse 24, that David

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called, the child Solomon. And in Hebrew, that

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name is Shlomo. Shlomo, yeah. It sounds a little

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funny to us because we're used to Solomon. Yeah.

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But Shlomo. Sounds Yiddish almost or something.

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Yeah. Hey, Shlomo, come here. Shlomo means peace

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or peaceful or peaceable. he was all about peace.

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And actually, Absalom was intended to be a peaceful

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man too, but he didn't end up being that. David

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was trying to bring peace into his house, really,

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because he had been a man of war all along, and

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he was still being a man of war. But Absalom

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also means, my father is peace. So David was

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trying to present himself as a peaceable king.

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Yeah. So anyway. Interesting. So Solomon is given

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the name by David, and it says that the Lord

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loved him. Yehovah, the God of David, loved this

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baby, loved this child. And he sent word by the

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hand of Nathan the prophet. So he called his

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name, he meaning. God called his name. You could

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say Jedidiah, that's anglicized, but it's probably

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Yedidiyah. And it means beloved of Yehovah or

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beloved of Yah. Gezaniah says the delight or

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the friend of Jehovah or Yehovah. Yedid means

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beloved or friend. So it was intended by our

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father that Solomon. the one that came after

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David's sin with Bathsheba, that Solomon would

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be his friend. And he started out really well.

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Started out well. The Lord appeared to him. Yeah,

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yeah. And because you didn't ask me for riches

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and silver and that for wisdom, how do I lead

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this people? Right, right. Wow. But he didn't

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do a great job of following after the Lord. And

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that's not the point of this. The point of this

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episode is that our sins are sins against our

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Father. So let's look at a story that Jesus told

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about a father and a son sinning against him.

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In Luke chapter 15, we have the story of the

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prodigal son, and we know that the beginning

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of the story is that The man had two sons, and

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the one son, the younger son, he just was bored

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with working on the farm. And he said, come on,

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Dad, you're going to divide the inheritance between

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us when you die. Why don't you just do it now?

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My big brother gets twice as much as I do, but

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give me my portion. You know, the firstborn gets

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the double portion. So big brother gets the double

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portion. Just give me my portion. I'm going to

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kiss you goodbye and go and live the way I want

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to because I just don't like working in the fields.

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I wasn't born for that. That's not how I like

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it. So the father actually did what the younger

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son said. Yeah, that was quite amazing. But that's

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the story, though. Yeah, yeah. So the young man

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goes and he spends his money wildly. gains friends

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that will help him spend his money ridiculously

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and he wastes it. And then when the money's gone,

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a drought comes to the place where he has gone.

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He's gone to some foreign country and he's desperate

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now. He's hungry and he's penniless and he doesn't

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know what to do. So he goes to work on a farm.

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Only this time it's not a kosher farm. That's

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what's interesting because this is a Gentile.

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Yeah, well, he's gone to a foreign nation, obviously.

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He's hanging out with Gentiles. So now he's feeding

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pigs. And that's just about as low as you can

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go. That's what you call lower than a sow's belly.

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Yes, that's a good way to put it, honey. So,

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you know, here he is, and he's so hungry that

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he's ready to eat the husks that he's feeding

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the pigs. The pigs have food and he doesn't.

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Ugh, awful. So then he comes to himself. You

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want to read that? Luke 15, 15. Then when he

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went and joined himself to a citizen of that

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country, and he sent him into the fields to feed

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his swine, and he would gladly have filled his

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stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and

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no one gave him anything. But when he came to

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himself, he said, How many of my father's hired

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servants have bread enough to spare, and I perish

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with hunger. I will arise to go to my father

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and say to him, Father, I have sinned against

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heaven and before you. I have sinned against

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heaven. Yeah. And before you. Thy kingdom come,

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thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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Right. Uh -huh. Verse 19. And I am no longer

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worthy to be called your son. Make me like one

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of your hired servants. And he arose and came

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to his father. But when he was still a great

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way off, his father saw him and had compassion

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and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

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And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned

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against heaven and in your sight, and I am no

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longer worthy to be called your son. But the

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father said to his servants, Bring out the best

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robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand,

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sandals on his feet, and bring the fatted calf

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here and kill it. Let us eat and be merry. For

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this my son was dead and is alive again. He was

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lost and is found. And they began to be merry.

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So we're not going to go into the deal with the

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older brother. That's not the point of this podcast.

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The point of this episode is I have sinned against

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heaven and against you. We have to recognize

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that our sin, when we stumble, when we are trying

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to make a decision about, am I going to do the

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thing that I want to do, even though I know I

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shouldn't do it, if we'll just stop and think

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about our father and think about how the prodigal's

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father must have felt when he watched his son

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walk away. And now he's so excited that he's

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come back. And that's how our father is when

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we come back to him. When we do like David did

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and said, I have sinned against you. I'm sorry.

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Please don't take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore

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unto me the joy of my salvation. You know, all

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of those things that David did and his expressions

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about how I've hurt you. I'm so sorry that I've

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hurt you. If we could just stop and think before

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we make that blunder, before we trip on that

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thing, before we do something that's ultimately

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going to hurt lots of people, not just ourselves,

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it's those little decisions that we make when

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we think nobody's looking. When you think nobody's

00:29:26.019 --> 00:29:29.799
looking. Yeah. Those things come back to bite

00:29:29.799 --> 00:29:35.299
you. You know, Satan will tempt us. And then

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once we have fallen into that thing, then he

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smears us and slimes us with shame. And look

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how many ministries were within a previous sin,

00:29:46.559 --> 00:29:49.519
all of a sudden, that maybe it's been repented

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for. But see, God forgives, but man doesn't.

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Man has a harder time. Well, it's true. And you

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have to think about the people that you're hurting.

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Yeah. And then they come back and... Or their

00:30:02.339 --> 00:30:05.519
family comes back to get you. Yeah. Maybe they

00:30:05.519 --> 00:30:07.380
won't, but somebody else in their line will.

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Yeah. It reminds me of the scripture that we

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just read a little while ago about what the Lord

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said through Nathan. By this deed, you have given

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great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to

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blaspheme. And that's why all of these people

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that are being exposed now. And I just read something

00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:29.799
recently about... some ministry or school or

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something that was supposed to be a Christian

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organization, and they were trafficking children.

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Evil. Absolute evil. We have caused great blaspheme.

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It's horrific. But you can't blame Jesus when

00:30:46.640 --> 00:30:50.539
somebody that names his name goofs up. But the

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point is that we're hurting our relationship

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with our Father. When we make those bad choices.

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And God wants to redeem. That's the whole point.

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He wants to redeem. You know, we were raised,

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you and I, we were raised with the idea that

00:31:08.049 --> 00:31:12.789
you do things right because people are watching

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and what will they think if we do something wrong?

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Yeah. We weren't raised with, don't you realize

00:31:19.289 --> 00:31:22.490
that you're hurting God? Yeah, I never. Never

00:31:22.490 --> 00:31:24.670
heard that. I never thought of it that way. But

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that's really what this is about. That you're

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actually hurting our Heavenly Father. His disappointment.

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It's just so sad. He grieves. It's not His will

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for anyone to perish and go to hell. It's not

00:31:43.190 --> 00:31:46.369
His will. It's His will that we all be saved

00:31:46.369 --> 00:31:50.470
and come to the knowledge of Him. And it grieves

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Him. when his children get the wrong attitude

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about other people who are sinning. And they're

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not really taking his side. They're looking for

00:32:01.420 --> 00:32:04.740
his wrath to come. And I was just looking that

00:32:04.740 --> 00:32:08.779
up today. I found it very fascinating that where

00:32:08.779 --> 00:32:12.920
it talks about the wrath of God. So the word

00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:16.079
wrath, and I'm thinking King James. Okay, I looked

00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:19.559
this up in King James. Wrath, including all of

00:32:19.559 --> 00:32:22.710
man's wrath. occurs, the word wrath occurs 197

00:32:22.710 --> 00:32:27.069
times. Wow, okay. The word, and I spelled this

00:32:27.069 --> 00:32:30.289
venge, V -E -N -G -E, so it includes revenge

00:32:30.289 --> 00:32:35.029
and vengeance, okay, 34 times. The word anger

00:32:35.029 --> 00:32:40.049
plus the name Yehovah, 109 times. Wrath plus

00:32:40.049 --> 00:32:44.450
Yehovah, 27 times. Wrath plus God, 20 times.

00:32:45.109 --> 00:32:47.750
Okay, and some of those are included in the previous

00:32:47.750 --> 00:32:51.910
verses. If you look at the name of the Lord,

00:32:52.069 --> 00:32:56.390
Yehovah, and the word chesed, which means loving

00:32:56.390 --> 00:33:02.829
kindness, it appears 246 times. Wow. He loves

00:33:02.829 --> 00:33:06.710
us. He loves us. He loves us deeply. And the

00:33:06.710 --> 00:33:10.970
word for tender mercies, racham, that appears

00:33:10.970 --> 00:33:15.930
32 times. And it's translated, racham, is that

00:33:15.930 --> 00:33:19.019
the right one? Oh, I see Raham plus the Lord

00:33:19.019 --> 00:33:24.160
or God. But there's 44 times it's translated

00:33:24.160 --> 00:33:29.140
as mercy or compassion or like your gut feeling.

00:33:29.460 --> 00:33:33.339
Okay. And Deuteronomy 7, 7 to 9 says, the Lord

00:33:33.339 --> 00:33:35.819
did not set his love upon you nor choose you

00:33:35.819 --> 00:33:38.660
because you were more in number than any people.

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For you were the fewest of all people, but because

00:33:42.000 --> 00:34:08.159
the Lord loved you. Do you realize a thousand

00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:11.659
generations is more than 40 ,000 years? Wow.

00:34:12.590 --> 00:34:14.929
And, you know, we've only been on the planet

00:34:14.929 --> 00:34:21.349
for about 6 ,000 years. So his love and his compassion

00:34:21.349 --> 00:34:25.369
goes for, well, pretty much forever. I mean,

00:34:25.389 --> 00:34:30.010
it's beyond time. Time is short. You know, this

00:34:30.010 --> 00:34:33.730
time is just up until the judgment of the devil

00:34:33.730 --> 00:34:36.110
and, you know, all of the fall of Lucifer and

00:34:36.110 --> 00:34:38.730
all that host of heaven that fell with him, the

00:34:38.730 --> 00:34:43.230
one third. But our Father has this love for us.

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And his most important commandment is, love Yehovah

00:34:48.789 --> 00:34:51.489
your God with all your heart, with all your soul,

00:34:51.570 --> 00:34:53.409
with all your mind, with all your strength. If

00:34:53.409 --> 00:34:56.050
you love him, you're not going to sin against

00:34:56.050 --> 00:34:59.269
him. And how do we keep from sinning against

00:34:59.269 --> 00:35:02.469
him? What does the Bible say? How do you keep

00:35:02.469 --> 00:35:08.389
from sinning against him? Psalm 119 and verse

00:35:08.389 --> 00:35:11.900
11 says, Your word have I hidden in my heart,

00:35:12.039 --> 00:35:14.539
that I might not sin against you. Yeah, that

00:35:14.539 --> 00:35:18.079
was going in my head before I even saw the scripture.

00:35:18.780 --> 00:35:21.400
And I like what it says in the Young's literal

00:35:21.400 --> 00:35:25.400
translation. In my heart I have hid thy saying,

00:35:25.619 --> 00:35:28.780
that I sin not before thee. What does it say

00:35:28.780 --> 00:35:33.039
in the Passion Translation? I consider your prophecies

00:35:33.039 --> 00:35:36.360
to be my greatest treasure, and I memorize them

00:35:36.360 --> 00:35:39.369
and write them on my heart. To keep me from committing

00:35:39.369 --> 00:35:43.409
sin's treason against you. Sin's treason. See,

00:35:43.570 --> 00:35:46.389
that's what it is. Treason, treason. It's treason

00:35:46.389 --> 00:35:50.409
against the Lord. Wow. And even in the Ten Commandments,

00:35:50.429 --> 00:35:56.429
the first one is, I am Yehovah your God. Have

00:35:56.429 --> 00:36:00.250
no other gods before me. Don't put anyone in

00:36:00.250 --> 00:36:02.389
front of me. Don't put anything in front of me.

00:36:02.469 --> 00:36:05.630
Don't make an idol and bow down to it. Yeah.

00:36:05.769 --> 00:36:11.059
I am your God. And I think we have really left

00:36:11.059 --> 00:36:14.780
that out of our teaching. I certainly didn't

00:36:14.780 --> 00:36:17.139
get it as a child. It was all about, you know,

00:36:17.159 --> 00:36:21.099
don't sin. But it was really more about what

00:36:21.099 --> 00:36:23.880
other people are going to think of you. Yeah.

00:36:24.500 --> 00:36:27.579
I mean, really. And that's the wrong reason.

00:36:28.380 --> 00:36:32.239
The Lord is looking for joyful obedience. Joyful

00:36:32.239 --> 00:36:34.820
obedience. He's looking for loving obedience.

00:36:35.460 --> 00:36:38.679
He's looking for, there's a scripture that talks

00:36:38.679 --> 00:36:41.559
about, because you didn't serve me with gladness,

00:36:41.619 --> 00:36:44.860
therefore. And that's where the curses begin.

00:36:45.340 --> 00:36:48.699
So the point here is, it's not about being sin

00:36:48.699 --> 00:36:50.900
conscious. Because I think we were raised to

00:36:50.900 --> 00:36:54.460
be sin conscious. We were raised to watch out

00:36:54.460 --> 00:36:57.449
for sin. This is sin, that's sin, this is sin,

00:36:57.550 --> 00:36:59.650
do this, don't do that. It was mostly don't do

00:36:59.650 --> 00:37:02.010
this, don't do that. Yeah, a lot of don'ts. Right.

00:37:02.329 --> 00:37:06.050
But not for the right reason. It's about our

00:37:06.050 --> 00:37:09.969
relationship with God. When we sin, we hide His

00:37:09.969 --> 00:37:14.010
presence from us. Take not your Holy Spirit from

00:37:14.010 --> 00:37:17.309
me, Lord. It's only against you that we sin.

00:37:17.530 --> 00:37:21.449
I would say it's primarily, it's first. First

00:37:21.449 --> 00:37:24.449
we sin against Him. And when we sin against Him,

00:37:24.780 --> 00:37:27.800
it gives the devil something to work with to

00:37:27.800 --> 00:37:32.019
bring blasphemy against God. Because he's really

00:37:32.019 --> 00:37:36.340
looking out to bring accusations against us,

00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:41.659
like is written in Revelation chapter 12, verses

00:37:41.659 --> 00:37:45.840
10 and 11. And I heard a loud voice saying in

00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:48.940
heaven, now is come salvation and strength and

00:37:48.940 --> 00:37:52.900
the kingdom of our God. This is after the accuser,

00:37:52.900 --> 00:37:55.849
the brethren, is cast down. okay verse 9 says

00:37:55.849 --> 00:37:58.969
the great dragon was cast out that old serpent

00:37:58.969 --> 00:38:01.670
called the devil and satan which deceives the

00:38:01.670 --> 00:38:03.989
whole world he was cast out into the earth and

00:38:03.989 --> 00:38:06.269
his angels were cast out with him and i heard

00:38:06.269 --> 00:38:08.809
a loud voice saying in heaven now is come salvation

00:38:08.809 --> 00:38:11.510
and strength and the kingdom of our god and the

00:38:11.510 --> 00:38:15.199
power of his christ or his messiah For the accuser

00:38:15.199 --> 00:38:18.119
of our brethren is cast down, which accused them

00:38:18.119 --> 00:38:21.099
before our God day and night. And, verse 11,

00:38:21.400 --> 00:38:25.539
they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and

00:38:25.539 --> 00:38:28.800
by the word of their testimony, and they loved

00:38:28.800 --> 00:38:32.940
not their lives unto the death. And that is really

00:38:32.940 --> 00:38:37.099
our answer, like when we do fall into sin. In

00:38:37.099 --> 00:38:40.639
1 John 4, 7 -9, it says, if we walk in the light,

00:38:40.760 --> 00:38:44.000
as he is in the light, We have fellowship one

00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:46.980
with another and the blood of Jesus Christ, his

00:38:46.980 --> 00:38:50.559
son, cleanses us from all sin. If we say that

00:38:50.559 --> 00:38:52.500
we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the

00:38:52.500 --> 00:38:55.840
truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he

00:38:55.840 --> 00:39:00.039
is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and

00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:05.280
to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Hallelujah.

00:39:05.900 --> 00:39:09.840
So if we can just recognize that when we sin,

00:39:09.980 --> 00:39:14.019
we're sinning against our father. We're hurting

00:39:14.019 --> 00:39:17.239
him. Just like as a parent, you hurt when your

00:39:17.239 --> 00:39:20.239
child sins against you. When your child disobeys,

00:39:20.260 --> 00:39:22.920
you know, when daddy comes with the paddle and

00:39:22.920 --> 00:39:24.539
says, this is hurting me more than it's hurting

00:39:24.539 --> 00:39:27.500
you, kid says, no, I don't believe that. But

00:39:27.500 --> 00:39:30.800
until you become a father, you don't get it.

00:39:31.099 --> 00:39:33.519
But when you become a father, you realize how

00:39:33.519 --> 00:39:36.539
much it hurts to have to hurt your child. But

00:39:36.539 --> 00:39:40.840
if you don't correct your child, it's going to

00:39:40.840 --> 00:39:43.989
be worse. If you love him, you won't spare the

00:39:43.989 --> 00:39:48.489
rod, whatever form that takes. But our Father

00:39:48.489 --> 00:39:53.329
is waiting for us to come back. So if you find

00:39:53.329 --> 00:39:55.829
that you are in one of those places where you

00:39:55.829 --> 00:40:00.769
have blundered, where you have willfully done

00:40:00.769 --> 00:40:02.969
something you shouldn't have done, and you haven't

00:40:02.969 --> 00:40:06.010
repented of it, now's a good time. Now's a good

00:40:06.010 --> 00:40:09.400
time to ask God to forgive you. and to cleanse

00:40:09.400 --> 00:40:12.599
you from all unrighteousness that's what the

00:40:12.599 --> 00:40:15.820
blood of jesus does and that's how we overcome

00:40:15.820 --> 00:40:19.860
we overcome that accuser once he's blotted our

00:40:19.860 --> 00:40:22.300
sin out the accuser has nothing to work with

00:40:22.300 --> 00:40:26.500
our slate has been cleaned And that's the beauty

00:40:26.500 --> 00:40:29.639
of this relationship with our Father. He wants

00:40:29.639 --> 00:40:33.559
to gather us up into His arms. He wants to keep

00:40:33.559 --> 00:40:36.780
us close to His heart. He wants us to be able

00:40:36.780 --> 00:40:39.659
to hear His very heartbeat of how much He loves

00:40:39.659 --> 00:40:44.559
us. We don't hardly get it. No. Hardly. This

00:40:44.559 --> 00:40:48.300
week we, you know, how YouTube offers you...

00:40:48.489 --> 00:40:50.969
things that you can click on, right? Well, I

00:40:50.969 --> 00:40:53.110
clicked on one of those and I'm not sorry I did.

00:40:53.389 --> 00:40:56.150
I don't spend a lot of time doing that, but once

00:40:56.150 --> 00:40:59.829
in a while. And what I ran across was, and we'll

00:40:59.829 --> 00:41:01.590
put it in the show notes because it was life

00:41:01.590 --> 00:41:04.610
-changing for me. We've interviewed Dean Braxton

00:41:04.610 --> 00:41:08.250
and we love the experience that he had in heaven.

00:41:08.429 --> 00:41:10.949
Well, this is a young man that had a similar

00:41:10.949 --> 00:41:14.869
experience of going to heaven. And the way he

00:41:14.869 --> 00:41:17.690
describes it agrees so much with what Dean says.

00:41:18.429 --> 00:41:21.409
But what he said was that when he got to heaven

00:41:21.409 --> 00:41:24.530
and he's standing before Jesus, every part of

00:41:24.530 --> 00:41:28.349
Jesus was loving him. He said even his nose hairs

00:41:28.349 --> 00:41:32.070
would have been loving him. And this is a little

00:41:32.070 --> 00:41:34.969
chorus for me, but he said if he had boogers,

00:41:35.050 --> 00:41:37.190
I didn't see that he had boogers, but if he had

00:41:37.190 --> 00:41:39.510
boogers, his boogers would have been loving me.

00:41:39.590 --> 00:41:42.650
I mean, he was that complete in his love for

00:41:42.650 --> 00:41:46.210
this young man. And Dean didn't put it that way.

00:41:46.909 --> 00:41:49.590
Everybody has their own way to put it. And this

00:41:49.590 --> 00:41:51.989
interview was with Randy Kay. Now, Randy Kay

00:41:51.989 --> 00:41:54.130
also went to heaven. He had a death experience

00:41:54.130 --> 00:41:58.389
and went to heaven and met Jesus. And so Randy

00:41:58.389 --> 00:42:02.909
is interviewing Gabe Poirot. And then Gabe Poirot

00:42:02.909 --> 00:42:05.989
interviewed Randy on his YouTube channel. So

00:42:05.989 --> 00:42:08.510
I'll put the links to both of those. Because

00:42:08.510 --> 00:42:12.650
if you want to get... a better handle on how

00:42:12.650 --> 00:42:15.750
much our Father loves us. I strongly suggest

00:42:15.750 --> 00:42:17.869
that you listen to these because I think it'll

00:42:17.869 --> 00:42:20.409
be life -changing for you like it was for me.

00:42:20.449 --> 00:42:22.329
You just have to be reminded once in a while

00:42:22.329 --> 00:42:25.590
about how much He loves you and just get lost

00:42:25.590 --> 00:42:28.530
in His love. If you get lost in His love, you're

00:42:28.530 --> 00:42:31.230
not going to sin against Him. You're just not

00:42:31.230 --> 00:42:34.250
because you get lost in His love and it's going

00:42:34.250 --> 00:42:37.409
to cause you to love Him. And when you love Him,

00:42:37.530 --> 00:42:40.849
you're going to keep His commandments. Would

00:42:40.849 --> 00:42:43.190
you like to pray for our listeners, Philip? Yeah.

00:42:43.570 --> 00:42:45.969
Well, Father, we thank you for your great love.

00:42:46.110 --> 00:42:49.789
And Father, for your great mercy. And Lord, that

00:42:49.789 --> 00:42:52.610
you're always there. And that, Lord, you forgive

00:42:52.610 --> 00:42:55.989
us. But Lord, sometimes we have a hard time forgiving

00:42:55.989 --> 00:42:59.710
ourselves because of consequences and things

00:42:59.710 --> 00:43:02.550
that happen. But Holy Spirit, we thank you that

00:43:02.550 --> 00:43:05.949
you are so faithful, that you're there nudging.

00:43:06.110 --> 00:43:09.690
But the nudge sometimes... The temptation is

00:43:09.690 --> 00:43:12.750
there too. And sometimes we listen to the temptation

00:43:12.750 --> 00:43:15.230
more than we do the nudge of the Holy Spirit.

00:43:15.489 --> 00:43:17.889
And we end up doing something we shouldn't do.

00:43:18.349 --> 00:43:21.929
So we thank you, Lord, how much you really love

00:43:21.929 --> 00:43:24.849
us. Yes. And that you died for us, Lord. You

00:43:24.849 --> 00:43:28.579
shed your blood for us, Lord. Picture you, the

00:43:28.579 --> 00:43:31.599
price that you paid, that, Father, that we can

00:43:31.599 --> 00:43:35.179
be free and stay free, Lord. Yes. So we thank

00:43:35.179 --> 00:43:37.280
you, Father, that Holy Spirit that you continue

00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:40.039
just to quicken us. And, Lord, that we would

00:43:40.039 --> 00:43:42.539
just be filled, just stay filled. And the more

00:43:42.539 --> 00:43:46.809
we stay filled, the less temptation. that we'll

00:43:46.809 --> 00:43:49.030
be able to get through to us. The more we keep

00:43:49.030 --> 00:43:52.349
our eyes on you, the more that temptation will

00:43:52.349 --> 00:43:54.710
bounce off of us. Yes, and the more we study

00:43:54.710 --> 00:43:57.969
your word and hide it in our hearts, the better

00:43:57.969 --> 00:44:00.829
chance we have of not sinning. Yes. Thank you,

00:44:00.829 --> 00:44:10.050
Father. In your name, Lord Jesus. Amen. If you

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