David Wisniewski – Developing Spiritual Intelligence – Class 5 – Faith

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All right, we’ll get ready to
begin our third session for the

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David’s ask that we take an
introductory reading this

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morning of Romans chapter 4
verses one through 8.

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Romans chapter 4, verses one
through 8.

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And this is from the New King
James Version.

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And what shall we say then?
That Abraham our father is found

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according to the flesh.
For if Abraham was justified by

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works, he has something to boast
about, but not before God.

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For what does the Scripture say?
Abraham believed God, and it was

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accounted to him for
righteousness.

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Now to him who works, the wages
are not counted as grace, but as

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debt.
For it.

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To him who does not work, but
believes on him who justifies

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the ungodly, his faith is
accounted for righteousness,

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just as David also describes the
blessed, the blessedness of the

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man whom God imputes
righteousness as apart from

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works.
Blessed are those whose lawless

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deeds are forgiven and whose
sins are covered.

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Blessed is the man to whom the
Lord is.

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Shall not impute righteous, or
shall not impute sin.

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This is Watch and Lake Bible
School 2025.

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Our speaker is our brother David
Wisnasky, and his series for the

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week is Developing Spiritual
Intelligence from the Lives of

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David and Jonathan.
This is his fifth class entitled

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Faith, and we had an
introductory reading of Romans

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chapter 4, verses one through 8.
Well, good morning once again,

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my dear brothers and sisters.
OK, we are awake.

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This is going to be a tough one.
Well, if you would put a marker

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in Romans 4, because we’re going
to go back to the Psalm that we

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ended with yesterday, which was
Psalm one O 1, and start there,

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but we will in due time come
back to Romans 4.

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Our consideration is, you may
have guessed from the screen

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before you is David in his sin
and the process of

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reconciliation.
We’ve already witnessed this

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man.
David was an incredible man of

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faith, a man whose faith
overcame a giant.

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Before that, a lion and a bear
and then 10s of thousands of

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Philistines as the women sang,
as he returned back into Israel,

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into Jerusalem.
Or rather Gibby I guess it was

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at that time.
Who had faith to?

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Overcome Syrians, Edomites,
Ammonites, Moabites, Amalekites,

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Aramites.
But our class today is a

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consideration of a battle of a
different type, a battle in

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which his faith in God is put to
an ultimate test.

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And so in our class yesterday,
we considered the inspiration

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that Jonathan had and a couple
of Psalms that David had penned,

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and one of those was Psalm 133.
And the last was Psalm one O one

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O 1, which I suggested was
David’s prayer to God before he

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ascended to the throne.
And he makes a personal

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commitment to God, and he also
makes a commitment concerning

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the circle of influence that he
would create for himself as he

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ruled from God’s throne over
God’s people.

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That personal commitment is
found in verses 2 and 3 of Psalm

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one.
O 1, I will behave myself wisely

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in a perfect way.
O when wilt thou come unto me, I

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will walk within my house with a
perfect heart.

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I will set no wicked thing
before mine eyes.

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And there was David’s personal
commitment when he came to the

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throne before his God.
And then, secondly, we saw that

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he would discern who would be in
that circle of influence in

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David’s life.
And so we read in verse 4A.

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Froward heart shall depart from
me.

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I will not know a wicked person
who so privileth privily

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slandereth his neighbor Him will
I cut off him that hath an high

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look and a proud heart Will I
not suffer?

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But mine eyes shall be upon the
Jonathans of the land, that they

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may dwell with me.
He that walketh in a perfect

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way, he shall serve me well.
First, I want to consider

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David’s failure in the second
commitment to limit his circle

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of influence to those that were
spiritual, like Jonathan.

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Do you remember David’s criteria
that he gave for someone to rise

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to the position of the captain
or the general over his army?

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This would be a person that
would stand beside him and

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strategize in battle.
This is the person that would

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help him take the Kingdom.
This is the person that would

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help him win over the hearts of
Israel.

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This is the person that would be
beside him through thick and

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thin, through trial and triumph.
And what was the contest?

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Well, it was a contest of
strength.

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Who could take Jabus?
And so the man who took J Boost,

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the man that went underneath the
city and came up into the middle

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of city and heroically defeated
that city was Joab.

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A man who was loyal to himself
and his own interests, A man who

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was proud, a man that had a high
look, a man that was willing to

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kill anyone who got in his way.
And that was the first of those

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closest peoples of influence
that David would put beside him

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as he sat upon the throne later.
We know that he learnt because

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when David lists his Mighty Men
of Valor in Second Samuel 23,

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there’s a very obvious and
glaring absence in the list.

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The person who had been the most
mighty, the person who had

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triumphed over the Jebusites,
the person who had won the

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contest to become his captain
was not listed in his Mighty Men

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of Valor.
But another person’s name was

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found in that list.
That was Uriah’s name and many

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Gentiles were in that list in
Second Samuel 23.

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And of course in the first half
of David’s life, in the first

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half of David’s service of king,
he spent most of his time

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killing Gentiles.
And then when he wished to build

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a temple, which is the topic of
consideration, God willing

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tomorrow, and was rejected from
doing so because he was a man of

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blood, he started to think about
his ways and he started to

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convert Gentiles.
And although the process of

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conversion is not spelled out
for us in the scriptural record,

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we know from Second Samuel 23,
we know from Absalom’s rebellion

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that David’s court started to be
filled not just with Jews but

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also with Gentiles, which was
his motivation then for bringing

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the tart, the Ark of the
Covenant, to Jerusalem.

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Of course, that was where God
had said he wanted the ark

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throughout the law, but his
motivation in setting up a

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separate tent and not bringing
down the Tabernacle was so that

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all of those that were part of
his circle of influence could

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worship God together, united and
Jerusalem.

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But David at this time, at the
outset, had failed in upholding

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this commitment to God, and then
he also failed in his personal

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commitment to behave himself
wisely in a perfect way, to walk

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within his house with a perfect
heart, and to set no wicked

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thing before his eyes.
Turn with me back, please, to

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Second Samuel Chapter 11.
We won’t belabor the point.

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We know David’s sin, but we want
to draw a couple of observations

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that will help us.
I believe in similar battles

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against sin in our own life.
We read it Second Samuel 11 and

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verse one, and it came to pass
after the year was expired.

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At the time when kings go forth
to battle, the David sent Joab

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and his servants with him and
all Israel, and they destroyed

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the children of Ammon and
besieged Rabba.

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But David tarried still at
Jerusalem.

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And I suggest, brothers and
sisters, that this is where

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David failed in his battle
against the flesh.

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This is where the failure began,
as Joab and his servants and all

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Israel went out of Jerusalem at
that time, should not David have

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reflected upon this action that
he was acting more like Saul

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than he was like Jonathan?
And David, of course, would have

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known his own weakness.
This was not the first time,

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Second Samuel Chapter 11 that he
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Uriah was his in his mighty men.
Uriah frequented the court of

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David’s house.
Uriah and his wife would have

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sat at his table as as would the
other mighty men and their wife

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and their children, who were
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Royal Court, the House of David.
And so David makes his first

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mistake here.
He creates his own opportunity

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for sin in his life.
He creates his own opportunity

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for sin in his life.
And so we need to be cognizant,

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brothers and sisters, of the
path that we take to

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transgression and sin.
We need to know ourselves.

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We need to judge ourselves.
Paul says that we be not judged.

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And in judging ourselves, maybe
we need to write it down on a

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piece of paper.
We can burn it when we’re done.

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But just to acknowledge what was
the path that led to the sin

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that I committed?
What was the first step?

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What was the trigger?
See in in in Second Samuel

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Chapter 11 and verse 1.
The lust was not yet inflamed in

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David at this point in time.
He’s made a mistake, but the

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woman is not in front of him, in
his sight.

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He could have simply gone out to
battle, as he had always done

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before Israel, and given himself
no occasion to sin.

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So may we behave ourselves
wisely with a perfect heart, and

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might we walk in our homes in a
perfect way by understanding our

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weakness, by comprehending our
triggers, and by removing or

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safeguarding ourselves against
those triggers in our own homes

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and in our own lives.
There’s an old adage that says

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if you play with fire, well, you
will get burned.

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And not only that, but then
David gives himself a second

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opportunity when we come to
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And it came to pass at evening
tide that David arose from off

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his bed.
It was past the time of bed.

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He’d already gone to bed.
He should have just stayed in

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bed.
But instead he gets up and he

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walks on the roof of the King’s
house, and he aspires a woman

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washing herself in the court of
her house.

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And so twice David gives himself
occasion to sin.

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And the consequence not just of
that sin, but then of him trying

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to cover up the sin is that by
the time we get to the end of

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Second Samuel Chapter 11, this
man who could overcome Goliath,

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who could overcome armies, has
failed a battle in his own mind

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not only once but twice, not
only having adultery with

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Bathsheba, but also murder of
Uriah.

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Well, with that background, let
us go back to Romans chapter 4.

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In the book of Romans, Paul is
writing to the ecclesia there in

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Rome, which consisted of both
Jew and Gentile, and he’s

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arguing against the Jewish
mindset that salvation is not by

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works but by faith.
His thesis is that salvation is

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a free gift of God that comes to
us by the obedience of faith in

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Jesus Christ, who is both the
Son of God and the Son of David

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after the flesh, and that
salvation does not come by the

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works of the law.
In other words, Paul says in the

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book of Romans, salvation cannot
be earned.

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And what a wonderful equalizer,
brothers and sisters, that

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salvation is a free gift.
Of course, the faith that we

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have needs to be manifest in the
works that we do, in the actions

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and the words that we speak.
And it will be, because when

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we’re exercising faith in our
minds, that faith will manifest

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itself in our lives.
But it’s wonderful that it’s not

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something that’s earned.
Some of us have talents that are

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less visible than other talents.
Maybe we flourish at being a

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good listener.
And so people in the ecclesia

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find it easy to share their
burdens with us.

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And we’re a good burden bearer.
Well, that’s what Christ was.

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Cast your burden upon me, he
said.

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Maybe we’re good at mowing
someone’s lawn who’s sick or too

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old to take care of it
themselves, or bring a meal, or

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just say a kind word.
In due season sums, some

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people’s works is more visible.
But we must apply our talents to

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our service to God in the
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Ultimately, it’s not the service
that will get us into the

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Kingdom.
It’s faith that God will count

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our service done in faith for
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It’s not our service that will
get us into the Kingdom.

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It’s our faith in God that he
will count our service in faith

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for righteousness and thus grant
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And as Paul ponders how to
convey this message to the Jews

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and Gentiles that were part of
the ecclesia at Rome, he comes

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up with two individuals that
were outside the law and yet

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were justified, counted
righteous by God.

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And those were in the reading
that we had read for us this

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morning in Romans chapter 4.
And so the first example that he

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gives is that of Abraham.
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justified outside the law.
Why?

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Well, because Abraham lived
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Of course.
Parts of the law existed before

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We know from Judah, we know from
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We know from other parts of the
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that parts of the Law had been
given by the angels to the

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believers.
But the law of Moses was not in

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effect in Abraham’s day, and so
Abraham here is justified by God

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before the law existed.
So it could not have been the

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works of the Law that justified
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Now the Rabbis, Paul himself,
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that Abraham actually had a
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works.
He had so many good works that

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he could have stopped the good
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the Kingdom of God, and he still
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good works.
Abraham had a surplus of good

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works.
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well, actually he was before the
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So they weren’t the works of the
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And then he quotes in in Romans
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What shall we say then at verse
one that Abraham our father is

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pertaining to the flesh hath
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For if Abraham were justified by
works, he where hath whereof to

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glory, but not before God.
For what say at the Scripture

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Abraham believed God and it was
counted to him for

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righteousness.
Well, let’s go back to the place

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that Paul is quoting from,
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going back to Genesis chapter
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We’ll pull this thread, as it
were, by visiting the place that

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Paul quotes from.
So in Genesis chapter 15,

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starting at verse one, after
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battle against Keeter Leomer and
against the kings that were

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allied with him, after
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natural family of Abraham and
bringing them back into the

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land, and after having
fellowship, a fellowship meal

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with Melchizedek.
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the Lord came to Abraham in a
vision saying, fear not Abram, I

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am thy shield in thy exceeding
great reward.

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And Abram said, Lord God, what
will thou give me, seeing I go

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childless, and the steward of my
house is this Eliezer of

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Damascus.
And Abram said, Behold, thou has

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given me no seed, lo, one born
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Another words, a child of
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And behold, the word of the Lord
came unto him, saying, This

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shall not be thine heir, for he
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thine own bowels, and of Sarah
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And he brought him forth abroad,
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heaven, and tell the stars, if
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And he said unto him, so shall
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And he believed in Yahweh, and
he counted it to him for

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righteousness.
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Abraham, his own heir, would be
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from his bowels.
Now I believe that when Paul

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points us back to Genesis
chapter 15 at verse 6, he

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doesn’t want us to just consider
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But also consider when this
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in Genesis chapter 22.
Because now the one that God has

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given him, who would be heir to
all things that Abraham had, God

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tells him to put him to death.
And James tells us that when he

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rose up early on that morning, I
think I would have slept in as

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long as I possibly could have.
But Abraham rose up early that

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morning.
And James tells us that he had

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already sacrificed Isaac in his
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And why was that a test of this?
Well, because God said your heir

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will be one born to you,
Abraham, and the only one born

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to him of Sarah was Isaac.
And now God was asking him to

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put that son the heir to death.
And and an heir cannot go.

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An inheritance cannot go to
someone that precedes you in

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death.
If you’ve ever worked on, if

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you’ve ever worked on at will,
the inheritance goes to those

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that are alive.
And so when God told Abraham to

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put Isaac to death, we know that
Abraham believed God would bring

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him back to life.
He believed God and it was

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counted to him for
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So turning back to Romans
chapter 4, we may say to

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ourselves, well, I understand
why Paul has taken us back to

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Abraham.
I understand why Paul has made

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reference to this account in
Abraham’s life, because here we

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have a man who had such great
faith.

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Not only did he believe God when
God said that he would have an

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error of his own loins that
would come forth of his own

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progeny, but he continued to
believe God when God told him to

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put him to death.
And so the first example that

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Paul gives us, somebody who can
be justified by faith, is a man

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who was willing to sacrifice his
own son, his only begotten son,

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whereby he takes on the name,
the friend of God, because he

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understood what God would go
through when he sacrificed his

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son, which by the way, is the
same location that David carried

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the skull to.
It’s how he knew where to take

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the skull of Goliath was the
place where Abraham would offer

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Isaac.
But now Paul gives us a second

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example of justification by
faith.

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And so we come down to verse 6
of Romans 4 where he says, even

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as David also describeth the
blessedness of the man unto whom

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God imputeth righteousness
without works, saying blessed

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are they whose iniquities are
forgiven and whose sins are

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covered.
Blessed is the man to whom the

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Lord will not impute sin.
And of course he’s quoting from

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Psalm 32, David’s own prayer.
Blessed are the man.

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Blessed is the man to whom the
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And if God sees us sinless, well
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So here’s the second example,
then of someone justified by

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faith.
And So what Paul has done then

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is he’s created a framework for
us within which individuals, all

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of us, can be justified by
faith.

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And at the top of that
framework, he’s given us

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Abraham, who was willing to
sacrifice his own son, believing

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that God would bring him once
again from the dead so that he

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could indeed become heir to the
promises that he had made.

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And on the other end of the
spectrum, he gives us David, who

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had committed murder of Uriah of
one of his best friends after

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stealing his wife and taking her
to himself.

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And what Paul is doing outside
of just expositing to the

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ecclesia in Rome, expositing
that outside the law, you can be

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justified.
Why was David outside the law?

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Well, first of all, he was king
who was going to execute the

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law.
We know what the law said about

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what David had done.
Murder, death, adultery, death,

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sacrifices, none.
David was outside the law.

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There was no sacrifice for the
sins that David had committed.

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And so giving these two
examples, as he does in Romans

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chapter 4, he sets the bounds,
as it were, of God’s grace and

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of God’s mercy.
And So what Paul is telling us

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is that if you’re somewhere
between Abraham, whose faith in

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God was so great that he was
willing to sacrifice his own

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child, probably a little higher
than most of us ever achieved in

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our life.
Or if your faith is greater than

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David, who committed murder and
adultery, probably lower than

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any of us will ever sink.
If you fit somewhere in that

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range, well, God is able to
forgive your sin if you believe

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that God is able to.
There is only one sin that

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cannot be forgiven, and that is
any sin that you do not believe

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God can forgive.
I’ll repeat that there is only

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one sin that cannot be forgiven,
and that is any sin that you do

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not believe God can forgive.
So what God asks of us is it no

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matter how bad we feel after
we’ve committed a sin and

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whether it’s a sin that’s only
impacted us because only we know

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about it, or it’s a sin that has
impacted the whole ecclesia or

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maybe even an ecclesial
community, and maybe has us

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wondering how we’re even able to
move on.

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The only thing God asks of us is
to believe that he is able.

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He is able to forgive that sin
and he is able to give us his

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Kingdom.
There’s the scope of

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justification, as it were, not
to say that if somebody’s

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committed to sin worse than
David, that couldn’t be

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forgiven.
Those are just the outer

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extremities that Paul draws on
by way of reference to

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demonstrate to us how broad is
God’s mercy.

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Well, David recognized that God
could forgive sins that the law

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condemned to death.
Let’s turn back now, leaving

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Romans 4 once again to the Old
Testament record, Second Samuel,

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chapter 12.
In Second Samuel chapter 12 we

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read it verse one, and the Lord
sent Nathan unto David.

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We read it verse 27 of second
Samuel Chapter 11.

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But the thing that David had
done displeased the Lord, the

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murder of Uriah and adultery
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And how much time do we think
may have transpired?

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Well, we know at least nine
months, because in this chapter

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the child born of adultery will
die.

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But actually we know, do we not,
that this was not the first son?

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First Chronicles chapter 3 and
verse 5 tells us that Solomon

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was actually the fourth son.
So the son that replaced this

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son that died was Bathsheba’s
4th child.

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So David, after having committed
adultery with Bathsheba and

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murder of Uriah, sits on the
throne and continues to govern

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Israel while the first child
starts to grow.

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And then he has a second child
with Bathsheba, and he remains

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on the throne unrepentant, and
has a third child with

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Bathsheba.
And now Nathan is sent by Yahweh

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unto David, and by this time God
is angry with David.

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That was done this thing in
secret, but I will do it before

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all Israel, says the Lord.
He had been given over three

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years to bring his sin privately
to God, to confess and ask,

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repent and ask for forgiveness,
but he persists.

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David talks about this period of
time in his life as it being a

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roaring because he’s not dealt
with this sin in his life.

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And so Nathan comes to him with
an absolutely brilliant method

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of exposing sin.
And I want to think about the

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process here that Nathan uses,
no doubt by divine instruction,

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but none the less what David
does by telling this parable of

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these two men in a city, one
who’s rich and one who’s poor,

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rich with many flocks, poor with
just one little lamb.

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And the little lamb is is there,
it’s in their house.

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It drinks from his cup, it
snuggles into him at night at

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plays with his children.
And the rich man, when a

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traveler comes, takes that
little lamb and he slays the

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poor man’s little lamb instead
of going to one of his own

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flock.
By telling this story, what

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Nathan accomplishes is helping
David realize that what he’s

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done is sin before he starts
with the accusation.

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Do you see that?
It’s as if David has pulled

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Nathan, has pulled David to his
side, and by telling the story

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has has caused David to look at
the sin without getting

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defensive because he hasn’t
identified.

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It as his.
Own sin.

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Yet what an incredible skill
this was to be able to tell a

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story, to give an account of
something parallel to the sin

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that that brings us to the same
conclusion that what had been

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done was sinful.
So that the person beside us can

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walk with us down the path of
recognizing this is sin.

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And then after having given that
recognition, Nathan says to

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David at verse 7, thou art the
man.

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And so if we’re going to be a
Nathan brothers and sisters,

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then let’s not sit across the
table from our brother or our

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sister.
Definitely.

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Let’s not pick up the phone
horrifically.

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Let’s not send a text message or
a social media message or an

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e-mail or even a letter.
But sit beside your brother,

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your sister, and help them first
acknowledge that the activity

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that has brought the two of you
together is indeed sin.

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And having come to that
acknowledgement together, you

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make room for growth.
You make room for

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acknowledgement, you make room
for repentance.

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And so after issuing this
command, he then goes on to give

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the consequences of David’s sin.
Because even if we’re forgiven

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from our sin, we know that sin
has consequences.

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Even if it’s a private sin, the
Proverbs tell us, can someone

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take fire into their bosom and
not get burned?

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Even the secret sins that we
commit still burn.

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They still make an impact in our
life.

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Even once we’ve been forgiven.
But there’s another point that

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comes out in Second Samuel
chapter 12.

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What was David’s response when
Nathan tells him the parable

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about a man who steals another
man’s lamb?

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00:34:58,880 –> 00:35:03,280
What was David’s judgement?
What was David’s sentence for

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00:35:03,280 –> 00:35:08,280
theft?
He’ll repay him fourfold and

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00:35:08,280 –> 00:35:14,200
then put him to death.
Put them to death for theft.

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Was that the law?
Death for theft.

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And what we’re being told,
brothers and sisters, is that

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when we have unresolved sin in
our life, it clouds our

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00:35:32,360 –> 00:35:36,680
judgment.
What I’m not saying.

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Is that if we haven’t figured
out how to overcome sin, it

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clouds our judgement.
I am not saying that because

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either if that were the case,
then none of us could help our

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brother, our sister with sin in
their life.

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00:35:52,840 –> 00:35:57,240
What I’m saying is if we have
unresolved sin, if we’re David

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sitting on the throne three
years later, four years later,

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00:36:00,600 –> 00:36:04,480
still denying that adultery and
murder was sin.

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00:36:05,840 –> 00:36:11,240
It clouds our judgement if we
haven’t gone through the process

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00:36:11,240 –> 00:36:14,960
that David does that we’ll walk
through together with him in

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Psalm 5051 in a moment.
We’re not in a position to judge

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because judgement becomes
extreme when we have unresolved

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00:36:31,120 –> 00:36:35,160
sin in our own life.
Put a man to death.

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00:36:35,680 –> 00:36:40,440
For theft they clouded his own
judgement.

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00:36:42,560 –> 00:36:47,840
So once Samuel is done, at the
end of verse 12, thou has done

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this thing secretly, but I will
do this.

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The sword will not depart from
thine house.

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00:36:52,760 –> 00:36:57,280
Your wives will be taken to it
by a neighbor they’ll be laying

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00:36:57,280 –> 00:37:01,280
with under the sun, which ended
up being Absalom, one of his own

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00:37:01,280 –> 00:37:04,120
sons.
You did this thing secret

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00:37:04,120 –> 00:37:06,440
secretly.
I will do it before all Israel

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00:37:06,800 –> 00:37:09,960
and before the sun.
And so in fact, the picture that

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I put before you, I’m not
convinced of myself.

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I’m not sure I, I selected this
or I, I had AI create this

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00:37:19,040 –> 00:37:24,760
picture because Matthew 18 says
go and confront your brother in

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private.
But I’m not 100% sure that that

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would have been the case.
He may have been sitting on the

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throne.
Surrounded by the court of the

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00:37:35,040 –> 00:37:41,600
king, we don’t know, but I do
believe that after Samuel

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00:37:41,600 –> 00:37:46,400
finishes, David falls to his
knees and says a prayer to God

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00:37:46,760 –> 00:37:49,520
before he says to Nathan, I have
sinned against Yahweh.

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00:37:50,240 –> 00:37:53,520
And that prayer is found in
Psalm 51.

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00:38:09,640 –> 00:38:17,400
And so David begins his prayer.
The process of reconciliation

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00:38:18,640 –> 00:38:25,040
first began with sin being
exposed, which took Nathan to do

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00:38:25,040 –> 00:38:28,160
in this case.
But it doesn’t have to involve a

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Nathan.
If we judge ourselves, we will

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00:38:31,200 –> 00:38:34,560
not be judged.
So it can be our own selves that

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00:38:34,560 –> 00:38:38,640
acknowledges, that exposes our
sin before God.

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00:38:40,800 –> 00:38:43,040
So David falls to his knees and
he prays.

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00:38:43,040 –> 00:38:47,000
Have mercy upon me, O God,
according to thy loving

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00:38:47,000 –> 00:38:50,280
kindness.
To what does David appeal to

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00:38:50,280 –> 00:38:55,960
God’s own character, according
to thy loving kindness, and

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00:38:55,960 –> 00:38:58,960
according unto the multitude of
thy tender mercies?

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00:38:59,280 –> 00:39:04,040
Blot out my transgression, wash
me throughly from mine iniquity,

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00:39:04,320 –> 00:39:09,480
and cleanse me from my sin.
And so David, clearly

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00:39:09,520 –> 00:39:15,000
understanding God’s character
from Exodus 33 and Exodus 34,

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00:39:15,520 –> 00:39:20,000
appeals to God’s loving kindness
and to God’s mercy to forgive

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00:39:20,000 –> 00:39:22,760
his sin.
And the first thing he does

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00:39:22,760 –> 00:39:26,200
then, in verse 3 and 4 is
acknowledge his sin.

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00:39:26,440 –> 00:39:30,240
For I acknowledge my
transgressions, and my sin is

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00:39:30,240 –> 00:39:35,600
ever before me against thee.
Thee only have I sinned and done

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00:39:35,600 –> 00:39:39,880
this evil in thy sight, that
thou mightest be justified when

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00:39:39,880 –> 00:39:44,520
thou speakest, and be clear when
thou judgest I deserve death.

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00:39:45,960 –> 00:39:54,120
You know it says in Lamentations
3, If God were not merciful, we

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00:39:54,120 –> 00:39:59,600
would all perish.
If God were not merciful, how

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00:39:59,600 –> 00:40:05,240
would his plan and purpose?
Be worked out if God were not

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00:40:05,280 –> 00:40:10,600
merciful, we all deserve death
for the sins that we committed.

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00:40:11,280 –> 00:40:14,880
Whether it’s a little sin, a
slip up of the tongue and saying

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00:40:14,880 –> 00:40:18,320
something bad about someone else
or whether it’s murder and

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00:40:18,320 –> 00:40:22,320
adultery.
The wages of sins is Paul is

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00:40:22,840 –> 00:40:24,800
death, doesn’t matter which one
it is.

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00:40:25,840 –> 00:40:28,360
So I guess in a sense, David
might have been right with theft

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00:40:28,360 –> 00:40:31,480
is death, the wages of sin is
death.

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00:40:33,360 –> 00:40:36,320
But if God executed that
judgement, well, we would all be

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00:40:36,320 –> 00:40:39,920
dead, and there would be no one
to fill the earth with his

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00:40:39,920 –> 00:40:44,280
righteousness, with his
character, with his glory, when

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00:40:44,280 –> 00:40:47,440
the Kingdom comes to be
established upon the earth.

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00:40:48,480 –> 00:40:56,880
And so God is in name merciful
and loving and kind, and he

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00:40:56,880 –> 00:41:02,320
acknowledges that should God
judge he was worthy of death.

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00:41:03,360 –> 00:41:07,400
In fact, he says in verse 16,
For thou desirest not sacrifice,

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00:41:07,400 –> 00:41:09,280
there is no sacrifice.
Under the law.

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00:41:09,520 –> 00:41:12,760
Else would I give it Thee.
Thou desire delightest not in

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00:41:12,760 –> 00:41:15,680
burnt offerings.
The sacrifices of God are a

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00:41:15,680 –> 00:41:19,640
broken spirit, a broken and a
contrite heart.

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00:41:19,640 –> 00:41:31,280
O God, thou wilt not despise.
See, sin in its own way has a

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00:41:31,280 –> 00:41:36,360
way to create a spirit in US
unlike any other experience in

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00:41:36,360 –> 00:41:42,960
our walk in the truth.
It truly creates humility and a

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00:41:42,960 –> 00:41:48,560
contrite spirit.
It creates in us an emptiness,

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00:41:48,560 –> 00:41:56,280
realizing how far we have gone
and letting our Father down and

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00:41:56,280 –> 00:42:02,800
having come to that point in our
life, then we desire to fill our

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00:42:02,800 –> 00:42:09,240
life back up with godly things
because you recognize that in

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00:42:09,240 –> 00:42:13,920
US, outside of God’s work in us,
there is no good thing.

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00:42:15,920 –> 00:42:20,800
So David acknowledges this and
then he goes on to repent as we

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00:42:20,800 –> 00:42:25,000
come down to verse 10.
Create in me a clean heart, O

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God, and renew a right spirit
within me.

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00:42:29,680 –> 00:42:31,880
Do you notice what David does
not say?

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00:42:32,760 –> 00:42:38,520
God, I commit to you never to
sin again.

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00:42:40,480 –> 00:42:48,400
No, what he does is he asks God
to help him fight this battle,

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00:42:49,520 –> 00:42:53,360
to fight these battles.
He doesn’t say I’m never going

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00:42:53,360 –> 00:42:56,880
to do that sin again.
He says God create in me a clean

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00:42:56,880 –> 00:42:59,000
heart, renew a right spirit
within me.

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00:42:59,160 –> 00:43:03,440
Without you God, I can not
overcome.

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00:43:05,560 –> 00:43:07,760
And that is a fact in the
reality.

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00:43:07,760 –> 00:43:14,600
Without God we cannot overcome.
It is only with God helping us

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00:43:15,440 –> 00:43:20,080
to make the right decision to go
out with the army of Israel and

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00:43:20,080 –> 00:43:24,280
not create opportunity for sin
in our life that we are able to

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00:43:24,320 –> 00:43:29,320
overcome.
And finally, as he did at the

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00:43:29,320 –> 00:43:31,480
outset, he does again at verse
7.

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00:43:31,840 –> 00:43:35,360
He does again through verse 9.
He does again at verse 14.

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00:43:35,720 –> 00:43:39,840
He prays for forgiveness.
Deliver me from blood, blood

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00:43:39,840 –> 00:43:44,120
guiltness.
O God, Thou God of my salvation,

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00:43:44,120 –> 00:43:47,440
and my tongue shall sing aloud
of thy righteousness.

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00:43:48,280 –> 00:43:51,120
And indeed, that was the last
part of his prayer, wasn’t it?

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00:43:52,560 –> 00:43:59,760
Having experienced the mercy of
God before now, David

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00:44:00,320 –> 00:44:03,560
intellectually knew about the
mercy of God.

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00:44:04,680 –> 00:44:09,640
He no doubt could quote Exodus
34 and the character of God in

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00:44:09,640 –> 00:44:13,520
verses 6 and seven.
He does hear in his prayer as he

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00:44:13,520 –> 00:44:18,160
kneels before Nathan, know
before God, and acknowledges his

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00:44:18,160 –> 00:44:23,440
sin.
He knew it intellectually, but

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00:44:23,440 –> 00:44:28,520
now, now he will know it
experientially.

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00:44:28,520 –> 00:44:34,480
Because when we turn back to
Second Samuel chapter 12, David

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00:44:34,480 –> 00:44:37,040
says to Nathan, I have sinned
against Yahweh.

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00:44:38,320 –> 00:44:44,160
And Nathan says unto David, And
Yahweh has put away thy sin,

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00:44:45,240 –> 00:44:51,080
Thou shalt not die.
And now David had experienced

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00:44:52,280 –> 00:44:56,960
love.
Now David had experienced

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00:44:57,520 –> 00:45:02,080
patience.
Now David had experienced

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00:45:02,520 –> 00:45:07,800
forgiveness.
Now David had experienced mercy.

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00:45:09,040 –> 00:45:12,000
He didn’t just know about it
from what he’d read or what he

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00:45:12,000 –> 00:45:15,400
heard, he now had experienced
it.

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00:45:16,200 –> 00:45:22,040
And having experienced it, he
said, God, I want to help others

567
00:45:23,200 –> 00:45:32,720
experience what I experienced.
I want to help others experience

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00:45:32,720 –> 00:45:41,160
your mercy by acknowledging
their sin to you, by asking you

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00:45:41,160 –> 00:45:46,320
to work mightily in their lives
to help them overcome sin, and

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00:45:46,320 –> 00:45:51,520
then to receive your outpouring
of love and mercy and kindness

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00:45:51,520 –> 00:45:59,200
and forgiveness.
How do we respond, brothers and

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00:45:59,200 –> 00:46:05,560
sisters, when our sin is
exposed, maybe by a spouse,

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00:46:05,560 –> 00:46:10,480
might be by a sibling, maybe a
parent, maybe a friend, maybe

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00:46:10,480 –> 00:46:12,440
another brother or sister in the
ecclesia?

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00:46:13,080 –> 00:46:18,280
What is our response when
somebody comes and exposes to us

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00:46:18,280 –> 00:46:23,360
a sin that we’ve committed?
Proverbs says reprove not a

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00:46:23,360 –> 00:46:27,960
scorner lest he hate thee, but
rebuke a wise man, a wise woman,

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00:46:28,520 –> 00:46:32,280
and they will love thee.
Ecclesiastes says it is better

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00:46:32,280 –> 00:46:36,200
to hear the rebuke of the wise
then for a man to hear the song

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00:46:36,200 –> 00:46:38,080
of fools.
Of course we love hearing

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00:46:38,080 –> 00:46:42,000
praise, but praise isn’t going
to get us into the Kingdom.

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00:46:43,920 –> 00:46:54,040
But if someone has the courage,
if someone takes the time, if

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00:46:54,040 –> 00:47:02,160
someone exposes themself by
coming to us to rebuke us, to

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00:47:02,200 –> 00:47:08,360
expose a sin in our life that
we’re not dealing with well,

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00:47:08,360 –> 00:47:14,920
let’s be a wise man and a wise
woman and receive it in the

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00:47:14,920 –> 00:47:16,800
spirit within which it was
given.

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00:47:18,520 –> 00:47:26,080
Can you imagine being Nathan?
I want you to put yourself for a

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00:47:26,080 –> 00:47:31,320
moment into Nathan’s shoes.
This was a man who loved David.

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00:47:31,320 –> 00:47:35,280
We know that’s the case.
Second Samuel 7, which is part

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00:47:35,280 –> 00:47:38,640
of the topic of consideration
for a class tomorrow when David

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00:47:38,640 –> 00:47:42,040
wants to build a temple.
Nathan is so enthusiastic.

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00:47:42,040 –> 00:47:46,200
Yes, go for it, David.
Nathan was there in the court,

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00:47:46,200 –> 00:47:48,000
he was in his house, he was with
David.

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00:47:48,160 –> 00:47:51,600
He was a confidant of David, he
was a counselor of David.

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00:47:52,920 –> 00:47:56,280
And for these three 4-5 years
that David sitting on the

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00:47:56,280 –> 00:47:59,440
throne, Nathan has no idea.
And then one day God says

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00:47:59,760 –> 00:48:03,720
Nathan, David actually murdered
Uriah.

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00:48:03,720 –> 00:48:06,040
That wasn’t an accident when he
died in battle.

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00:48:07,960 –> 00:48:14,240
And he actually took Bathsheba
before Uriah died, not after.

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00:48:18,160 –> 00:48:23,080
Nathan would have been in tears
on the floor.

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00:48:23,400 –> 00:48:28,040
David, the one who has a heart
after your own heart, the one

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00:48:28,040 –> 00:48:35,480
who walks in integrity.
David has murdered Uriah and

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00:48:35,480 –> 00:48:37,600
committed adultery with
Bathsheba.

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00:48:39,880 –> 00:48:44,320
And after Nathan picks himself
up off the floor, he realizes

605
00:48:44,320 –> 00:48:48,200
what God’s asking him to do,
what he’s been compelled to do,

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00:48:48,400 –> 00:48:51,960
to go talk to David.
Well, this is the king.

607
00:48:51,960 –> 00:48:54,520
The king could have his head cut
off, of course.

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00:48:54,520 –> 00:48:57,440
He was, I’m sure, confident
that’s not how it would go.

609
00:49:00,400 –> 00:49:06,960
But this was his friend and he
now needed to go talk to David

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00:49:06,960 –> 00:49:13,280
face to face and exposed to
David the sin that he had

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00:49:13,280 –> 00:49:18,320
committed.
I can tell you brothers and

612
00:49:18,320 –> 00:49:24,960
sisters, it takes courage beyond
what we naturally have.

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00:49:27,040 –> 00:49:32,400
We can only have such courage
when we ask God for help to go

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00:49:32,400 –> 00:49:39,200
and talk to those that we love,
those that we have self

615
00:49:39,200 –> 00:49:45,840
sacrificing love for, those that
we’re willing to put above

616
00:49:46,680 –> 00:49:50,280
ourselves because none of us
want to go and have that

617
00:49:50,280 –> 00:49:55,240
conversation.
And it takes God’s wisdom,

618
00:49:55,680 –> 00:49:59,440
wisdom beyond what we have.
And you know what?

619
00:49:59,440 –> 00:50:03,480
If somebody comes before us and
exposes our sin and they say it

620
00:50:03,480 –> 00:50:07,520
in an awful way, like a verbal
slap across the face, it’s OK

621
00:50:08,720 –> 00:50:16,280
because we need to pause, take a
deep breath, let the animal part

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00:50:16,280 –> 00:50:19,520
of our brain be suppressed by
the logical part of our brain

623
00:50:19,520 –> 00:50:24,760
where the Spirit resides, the
spirit word of God, and think to

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00:50:24,760 –> 00:50:30,720
ourselves, how much courage, how
much time did it take for this

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00:50:30,720 –> 00:50:35,440
person to build up the courage
and come and talk to me?

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00:50:37,840 –> 00:50:43,080
And then what do you say?
Well, what Nathan said was

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00:50:43,080 –> 00:50:44,760
brilliant.
We already went through that,

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00:50:44,760 –> 00:50:47,800
didn’t we?
He pulled David alongside of

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00:50:47,800 –> 00:50:50,520
him.
He didn’t stand up on the table

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00:50:50,520 –> 00:50:52,720
and point down to David and
said, you’re a Sinner.

631
00:50:53,240 –> 00:50:59,800
No, he stood alongside him.
See, that’s why we shouldn’t try

632
00:51:00,320 –> 00:51:03,520
to help other people root sin
out of their own lives before

633
00:51:03,840 –> 00:51:09,680
we’ve learned the process that
David went through in Psalm 51

634
00:51:10,640 –> 00:51:16,720
of making ourselves bare before
our God, of asking God to help

635
00:51:16,720 –> 00:51:23,040
us overcome in temptation
because then we have a right

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00:51:23,040 –> 00:51:26,000
spirit.
Now we’re in a position to

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00:51:26,000 –> 00:51:28,120
judge.
David was not in a position to

638
00:51:28,120 –> 00:51:36,880
judge, but once he prayed, once
he was humbled, well then he had

639
00:51:36,880 –> 00:51:41,800
the right spirit to be able to
judge because he recognized that

640
00:51:42,040 –> 00:51:45,560
no matter what that sin is that
your brother, your sister has

641
00:51:45,560 –> 00:51:53,880
committed, we’re no better.
The sentence is the same whether

642
00:51:53,880 –> 00:51:59,240
you just lied and they’ve
committed adultery, whether you

643
00:51:59,240 –> 00:52:02,720
gossiped and they’ve stood up
and taught false doctrine and

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00:52:02,720 –> 00:52:05,400
LED people away.
Yes, they may be different

645
00:52:05,400 –> 00:52:09,600
consequences to the two sins,
but ultimately the sin has the

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00:52:09,600 –> 00:52:12,840
same ultimate consequence,
death.

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00:52:14,640 –> 00:52:20,320
So we’re together, we’re here,
we both deserve death.

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And if it weren’t for God’s
mercy, says Jeremiah and

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Lamentations, we would all be
consumed.

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Now we’re ready to share that
God is able to put away sin and

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to help someone else walk
through the process.

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And David was justified, says
Paul.

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David was justified.
Why?

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Because our God, our heavenly
Father, is faithful.

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He’s faithful to his own name,
to his own character.

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And not only does he want to
forgive our sins, not only is it

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his very nature, his very being
to forgive our sins, He

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justifies us when we believe
that he has forgiven our sins.

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For God has not appointed us to
wrath, but to obtain salvation.

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By our Lord Jesus.
Christ, you know what?

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Some point in time after this, I
think a shattering thought came

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into David’s mind.
We’re in First Samuel 12, Second

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Samuel 12.
In Second Samuel 7, what had

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happened?
God had made a covenant with

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David.
God had promised David his Son

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would sit upon his throne.
God had promised David that he

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would be the father to his son.
God had promised David that his

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son would build a house.
And David might have wondered,

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is all of that undone by my sin?
I think he did.

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Turn over to Second Samuel
chapter 23 and consider these

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words.
Second Samuel 23 at verse one.

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Now these be the last words of
David.

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David, the son of Jesse said,
and the man who was raised up on

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high, the anointed of God, the
Jacob, the God of Jacob, the

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sweet psalmist of Israel, the
spirit of the Lord spake by me,

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and his word was in my tongue.
The God of Israel said, the rock

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of Israel spake to me.
He that ruleth over men must be

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judge, just ruling in the fear
of God.

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And He shall see the light be as
the light of the morning when

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the sun riseth, even as morning
clouds as the tender grass

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00:55:04,400 –> 00:55:08,040
springing out of the earth by
clear shining after rain.

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Although my house was not always
so with God, yet He hath made

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with me an everlasting covenant,
ordered in all things and sure.

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For this is all my desire.
For this is all my salvation,

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and all my desire, though He
make it, not to grow so at the

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end of his life.
David’s very last words, he had

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considered that God might undo
his covenant because of that.

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00:55:48,800 –> 00:55:53,720
And that’s why I believe the
covenant with David becomes

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known as the sure mercies of
David, which of course speak of

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the resurrection.
They were applied to Christ in

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00:56:00,480 –> 00:56:04,480
Acts 13.
Do you know how Isaiah 55, which

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talks about the sure mercies of
David, goes on It says, the let

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the wicked forsake his way, and
the unrighteous man his

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00:56:12,640 –> 00:56:16,120
thoughts, and let him return
unto the Lord, and he will have

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00:56:16,120 –> 00:56:20,600
mercy upon him and to our God,
for he will abundantly pardon.

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00:56:21,000 –> 00:56:26,040
Sure mercies of God are
introduced in the in the context

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of God’s mercy in forgiving sin.
For my thoughts are not your

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00:56:34,720 –> 00:56:39,440
thoughts, neither are your ways
my ways.

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00:56:41,680 –> 00:56:47,200
Brothers and sisters, how many
times have we misquoted that

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verse?
Because I’ve heard that verse

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00:56:50,840 –> 00:56:56,040
many times quoted to indicate,
well, God is sinless and we’re

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sinners.
That’s not the context of Isaiah

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00:56:59,760 –> 00:57:04,240
55 and verse 8.
God saying my thoughts are not

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00:57:04,240 –> 00:57:07,560
your thoughts, Neither are your
ways my ways because I’m able to

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00:57:07,560 –> 00:57:11,800
forgive where so often you would
not be able to.

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00:57:13,440 –> 00:57:17,760
That’s the context of My
thoughts are not your thoughts.

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00:57:18,080 –> 00:57:24,600
God’s thoughts are that He wants
every wicked person upon the

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00:57:24,640 –> 00:57:30,080
earth to repent, for He takes no
pleasure in the death of the

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00:57:30,080 –> 00:57:33,720
wicked.
Those are God’s thoughts.

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00:57:34,800 –> 00:57:39,960
God’s thoughts are is that He
wants to have mercy upon us and

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00:57:39,960 –> 00:57:45,720
abundantly pardon.
And consider how abundantly he

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00:57:45,720 –> 00:57:50,440
pardoned David.
This is how God remembers David

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00:57:50,880 –> 00:57:54,600
to Solomon.
If you, Solomon, walk before me

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00:57:54,760 –> 00:57:59,240
as David thy father walked in
integrity of heart and in

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00:57:59,240 –> 00:58:01,480
uprightness, well, hold on a
minute.

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00:58:01,480 –> 00:58:04,840
Didn’t he murder Uriah?
Didn’t he commit adultery,

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00:58:06,160 –> 00:58:11,200
integrity of heart, uprightness?
Or later when he chastises

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00:58:11,200 –> 00:58:14,920
Solomon, who turned and says
your heart has not been perfect

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00:58:15,160 –> 00:58:18,640
with the Lord your God, as was
the heart of David his father.

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00:58:19,240 –> 00:58:23,760
David’s heart was perfect with
Yahweh Elohim of Israel.

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Or later when he talks to
Jeroboam and says, You have not

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00:58:28,400 –> 00:58:31,800
been as my servant David, who
kept my commandments, who

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followed me with all his heart
to do only that which was right

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00:58:36,080 –> 00:58:40,400
in mine eyes.
And throughout the Scriptures,

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when God refers to David, he
still calls him a man after his

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00:58:44,560 –> 00:58:47,480
own heart, a man who had a
perfect heart, a man who walked

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00:58:47,480 –> 00:58:50,080
integrity, a man who did all
that he commanded.

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00:58:50,240 –> 00:58:53,720
God knew that he sinned.
God knew that he had committed

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00:58:53,720 –> 00:58:55,960
adultery.
God knew that he had committed

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00:58:55,960 –> 00:58:59,360
murder.
And what God is teaching us is

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that his way is not our way, and
His thoughts are not our

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00:59:03,520 –> 00:59:06,480
thoughts.
And although we can’t forget,

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God can.
For my thoughts are not your

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00:59:12,280 –> 00:59:16,760
thoughts, neither are your ways
my ways.

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00:59:17,680 –> 00:59:22,360
I can wipe it from the record.
I can cast your sins behind my

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00:59:22,360 –> 00:59:25,240
back.
I can separate you from your

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00:59:25,240 –> 00:59:27,560
sins as far as the East is from
the West.

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And of course they never meet.
That’s how God can deal with our

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00:59:33,760 –> 00:59:37,320
sins.
We’re not quite the same, and He

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00:59:37,320 –> 00:59:41,040
doesn’t expect us to be the
same, because we can’t forget.

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00:59:43,800 –> 00:59:50,600
May we, brothers and sisters,
have the greater faith of David.

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Sure, he had faith to slay lions
and bears and giants and armies,

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00:59:57,680 –> 01:00:05,080
but now he had the faith that
could slay the thinking that had

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01:00:05,080 –> 01:00:09,640
overtaken his mind.
Not that he would overcome every

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01:00:09,640 –> 01:00:14,240
time, but now he knew the
process that just as God would

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01:00:14,240 –> 01:00:18,560
help him in the battle against
Goliath and guide that stone, so

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01:00:18,560 –> 01:00:24,760
God could help him.
If he sought God’s help in

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01:00:24,760 –> 01:00:29,800
closing opportunities for sin
instead of creating

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01:00:29,800 –> 01:00:33,360
opportunities of sin.
And so may we have faith like

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01:00:33,360 –> 01:00:37,720
David, not creating
opportunities for sin, but

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01:00:37,720 –> 01:00:41,240
recognizing that even when
moving forward seems impossible,

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01:00:42,200 –> 01:00:48,000
God will forgive.
And not just forgive, but count

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01:00:48,000 –> 01:00:56,160
it to us for righteousness,
because we believed that God is

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01:00:56,160 –> 01:01:01,720
faithful and God is able.
And so there’s our first

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01:01:02,320 –> 01:01:06,520
principle in developing the
spiritual quotient of faith,

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01:01:07,320 –> 01:01:10,320
recognizing that God is
faithful.

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01:01:11,440 –> 01:01:19,080
The second is experiencing God’s
mercy, which transforms

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01:01:19,080 –> 01:01:23,120
intellectual knowledge into
experiential knowledge that

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01:01:23,120 –> 01:01:27,200
we’re able to share with others.
The third is learning to put our

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01:01:27,200 –> 01:01:32,200
trust, our belief, our faith in
God who was able able to forgive

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01:01:32,200 –> 01:01:37,280
our sins and able to see us
without sin that we might enter

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01:01:37,280 –> 01:01:42,240
into his Kingdom.
The 4th is to understand that

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01:01:42,520 –> 01:01:47,160
rebuke well received by us
builds our faith.

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01:01:47,920 –> 01:01:54,000
And finally, having learned how
to receive rebuke and receive

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01:01:54,000 –> 01:01:59,400
God’s mercy, also understand
that rebuke, well delivered,

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01:02:00,360 –> 01:02:02,320
builds the faith of others.