Caption transcript for The Warrior King: “Family” (3/8)

• 00:52 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU
• 00:54 AND WELCOME TO ANOTHER SEGMENT OF ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS
• 00:59 WHERE WE'RE PRESENTING THE LIFE OF DAVID.
• 01:02 USUALLY A GOOD STORY BUT TODAY NOT SO GOOD TO TELL YOU THE GOD'S HONEST TRUTH.
• 01:07 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 01:09 DAVID FOUGHT MANY FOES BUT NONE WERE AS FORMIDABLE AS HIMSELF.
• 01:16 HE JUST ABOUT GOT HIMSELF IN TROUBLE IN A BAD WAY, BUT ABIGAIL SAVED HIM.
• 01:22 IN ANOTHER STORY HE DID GET HIMSELF IN A BAD WAY WITH A WOMAN, BATHSHEBA.
• 01:27 WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT THESE STORIES... THEY'RE NOT ALL GOOD,
• 01:29 BUT IT'S ALL PART OF THE BIBLE STORY.
• 01:31 AND SO OFF WE GO TO CONSIDER DAVID
• 01:34 AND SEE WHAT WE MIGHT LEARN TO HELP US WITH OUR OWN STORIES.
• 01:41 MY HUSBAND HAD BEEN A FOOL IN NOT EXTENDING HIS FRIENDSHIP TO DAVID
• 01:45 AND NOW IT HAD COME TO THIS, A MISSION TO SAVE MY HUSBAND'S LIFE.
• 02:01 MY MASTER, LET ME TAKE THE BLAME.
• 02:08 PLEASE DO NOT THINK ABOUT NABAL.
• 02:10 THE LORD, GOD WILL ALWAYS PROTECT YOU AND HE WILL APPOINT YOU AS RULER OVER ISRAEL.
• 02:15 WHEN THAT HAPPENS YOU WILL NOT FEEL GRIEF OVER ANYTHING
• 02:18 FOR YOU HAVE NOT SHED THE BLOOD OF INNOCENT PEOPLE.
• 02:21 WHEN THE LORD GIVES YOU SUCCESS, PLEASE REMEMBER ME.
• 02:25 I WAS HUMBLED BY DAVID'S RESPONSE.
• 02:28 "THE LORD BLESS YOU", HE SAID, "FOR YOUR WISE ADVICE AND WHAT YOU DID."
• 02:32 "YOU STOPPED ME FROM SHEDDING BLOOD TODAY."
• 02:35 "GO IN PEACE, I WILL DO AS YOU'VE REQUESTED."
• 02:46 GREAT THOUGH DAVID INDEED WAS, HE WAS STILL A MAN WHO WAS SUBJECT TO HUMAN FRAILTY.
• 02:51 AND SO IT WAS HE WAS INDEED IMPERFECT.
• 02:55 HIS ACTING IN THE LESS THAN PERFECT MANNER IS UNDERSCORED IN THE BOOK SAMUEL.
• 03:01 IT'S A BOOK THAT'S NAMED AFTER HIM, HE DIDN'T WRITE IT ALL.
• 03:04 THE REASON WHY IS BECAUSE IN THE 25TH CHAPTER WHERE WE ARE TODAY HE DIES.
• 03:09 AND THIS MAN'S DEATH PRECIPITATES A CRISIS FOR DAVID
• 03:14 BECAUSE IT WAS SAMUEL WHO LAUNCHED HIS CAREER.
• 03:17 WE'RE TOLD IN CHAPTER 25, VERSE 1,
• 03:19 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 03:24 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 03:31 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 03:35 WE'RE TOLD AS WELL THAT SHORTLY THEREAFTER,
• 03:38 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 03:48 AND WHEN HE GOES THERE DAVID IS STILL REELING SOMEWHAT FROM NEWS OF THE DEATH OF HIS MENTOR.
• 03:54 AND AS IF THAT WASN'T BAD ENOUGH FOR THE MAN,
• 03:57 AS WITH THIS WAGON, HE WAS VERY LOW ON PROVISIONS, IN MANY RESPECTS EMPTY IN FACT.
• 04:04 SO DAVID DID... AND THE STORY'S UNPACKED IN THE 25TH CHAPTER,
• 04:08 DAVID FOLLOWED THE CONVENTIONS OF THE DAY
• 04:12 AND HE WENT BACK TO SOMEONE THAT SHOULD'VE BEEN A PATRON TO HIM.
• 04:17 DAVID AND HIS MEN WEREN'T OUT ACTING AS BRIGANDS, STEALING OFF THE LAND
• 04:23 BUT RATHER THEY WERE POLICING.
• 04:26 AS HIS MEN WERE OUT AND ABOUT,
• 04:28 GRANTED ON THE RUN FROM SAUL,
• 04:30 THEY STILL WERE PROTECTING VARIOUS ESTATES IN THE WILDERNESS AND IN THE COUNTRYSIDE
• 04:37 AND DECORUM HAD IT THAT THOSE THAT PROTECTED SHOULD BE ABLE TO GO BACK AND GET SOME BASIC PROVISIONS.
• 04:42 SIMILARLY I HAVE A CAREER AS A POLICE OFFICER AND I WORK AS A COP USUALLY LATE AT NIGHT.
• 04:50 IT WASN'T AT ALL UNCOMMON I'D PULL INTO A GAS STATION AND THEY'D GIVE ME SOME COFFEE,
• 04:55 THEY'RE GLAD THAT I PULLED IN THERE.
• 04:57 YOU KNOW, THESE STOP AND GO GAS STATIONS GET ROBBED ALL THE TIME
• 05:01 AND POLICE PRESENCE IS GOOD SO THEY'RE HAPPY TO FEED ME A LITTLE BIT
• 05:05 AND GIVE ME SOME BEVERAGE JUST FOR ME COMING IN THERE.
• 05:08 SIMILARLY DAVID'S MEN WERE ACTING IN AFFECT AS POLICE OFFICERS
• 05:12 AND WHAT HAPPENED IS THAT WHEN DAVID WAS RUNNING LOW ON PROVISIONS
• 05:16 HE WENT TO ONE FELLOW NAMED NABAL, WHICH MEANS FOOL.
• 05:20 AND IF ANYONE EVER LIVED UP TO HIS NAME, HE DID.
• 05:23 AND HE ASKED IF HE COULD HELP HIM OUT A LITTLE BIT.
• 05:25 IT'S THE EQUIVALENT OF A TIP.
• 05:27 IS HE REQUIRED TO TIP? NO
• 05:30 ARE YOU REQUIRED TO TIP THE WAITRESS OR THE WAITER?
• 05:34 NO, BUT YOU DO.
• 05:36 BUT WHAT HAPPENS IS NABAL DIDN'T
• 05:39 AND I WOULD IMAGINE IT WAS BECAUSE DAVID WAS FEELING A LITTLE RUDDERLESS.
• 05:43 YOU KNOW HE JUST LOST HIS MENTOR AND HE'S LIKE A KITE UP THERE IN THE SKY AND HE DOESN'T HAVE THE STABILITY.
• 05:49 WHEN WORD GETS TO HIM THAT HIS MEN AND HE WERE DISRESPECTED BY NABAL,
• 05:55 DAVID WAS FIT TO BE TIED LITERALLY, RANTED AND RAGED
• 06:00 AND HE SAID "EVERY MAN GIRD UP YOUR SWORD ON YOUR THIGH" AND DAVID WENT TO KILL HIM.
• 06:05 THINK OF THAT FOR A MINUTE.
• 06:07 THIS FELLOW IN A FLASH OF RAGE OF DISCONSTERNATION IS READY TO GO SHED INNOCENT BLOOD.
• 06:14 NOW IT MAY WELL BE THAT A GUY LIKE NABAL ISN'T FIT TO LIVE
• 06:18 AND YOU MIGHT HAVE SOME PEOPLE IN YOUR WEBS OF RELATIONSHIPS THAT ARE LIKE NABAL.
• 06:23 YOU FEEL SO MISTREATED BY THEM, SO MISUNDERSTOOD,
• 06:27 SO DISRESPECTED, YOU JUST KNOW THAT YOUR WORLD WOULD BE BETTER PLACE IF THEY WEREN'T IN IT.
• 06:33 WELL YOU KNOW WHAT?
• 06:34 THAT MAY BE TRUE AT SOME LEVEL,
• 06:36 BUT IT'S NOT YOUR JOB TO BE JUDGE AND JURY, THERE'S A GREATER JUDGE.
• 06:42 IN ANY CASE AS AN EXTENSION OF HIS OWN RAGE AND ANGST, DAVID WENT AFTER HIM TO KILL HIM.
• 06:47 ABIGAIL HEARS OF THIS, NABAL'S WIFE, AND SHE GOES AND BRINGS PROVISION
• 06:52 AND TREATS DAVID VERY, VERY, VERY RESPECTFULLY WITH THE NET RESULT THEN THAT DAVID'S ANGER IS WAYLAID.
• 07:00 THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.
• 07:02 DAVID THEN, WHEN HE REALIZES THAT ABIGAIL SAVED HIM FROM SHEDDING INNOCENT BLOOD,
• 07:08 HE SAYS, AND I QUOTE,
• 07:09 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 07:14 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 07:21 DAVID WAS SMART ENOUGH TO ALLOW HIMSELF TO BE INSTRUCTED.
• 07:27 AND I WANT YOU TO HEAR ME ON THIS.
• 07:29 AS GREAT A MAN AS DAVID WAS HE WASN'T TOO GREAT TO GET SOME ADVICE FROM A WOMAN.
• 07:34 WOULD THAT WE SIMILARLY, WERE OPEN TO ADVICE FROM ALL KINDS OF PLACES
• 07:39 AND ALLOWED OURSELVES TO BE LED BY OTHERS.
• 07:45 IT WAS A WARM SPRING EVENING AND THE KING COULDN'T SLEEP.
• 07:48 WITH HINDSIGHT THE ROOF OF MY MASTER'S PALACE WAS FAR TOO ACCESSIBLE.
• 07:53 SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL TO LOOK UPON.
• 07:56 THE KING WAS TAKEN BY HER AND HE SENT ME TO FIND WHO SHE WAS.
• 08:02 HER NAME WAS BATHSHEBA, THE WIFE OF URIAH THE HITTITE.
• 08:07 WHAT HAPPENED IN THE SHADOWS OF THAT EVENING WAS JUST THE BEGINNING.
• 08:11 THERE WOULD LATER BE DECEIT, BLOODSHED,
• 08:14 AND FOREVER A DARK STAIN STAMPED UPON THE LIFE OF KING DAVID.
• 08:22 DAVID, DAVID, DAVID. HOW COULD YOU?
• 08:27 YOU'RE A GOOD ENOUGH SORT I GRANT, BUT IN YOUR 50'S SIR YOU SURELY LOST YOUR WAY.
• 08:35 THIS WAS EVIDENCED ONE EVENING WAS IT NOT?
• 08:38 YOU SHOULD'VE BEEN OUT WITH YOUR ARMIES.
• 08:41 GOD ANOINTED YOU TO LEAD, TO INVEST YOUR ENERGIES IN SOLVING ISRAEL'S TROUBLES,
• 08:46 BUT NO, APPARENTLY YOU RETIRED PRE-MATURELY
• 08:50 AND THEN EXPERIENCED SOME TROUBLES OF YOUR OWN.
• 08:54 IT'S SAD TO SAY.
• 08:56 IN THE PREVIOUS SEGMENT WE LOOKED AT HOW DAVID WAS BESTED BY ANGER AFTER HIS MENTOR DIED.
• 09:02 HE IS GOOD TO GO KILL SOMEONE JUST FOR AN INSULT.
• 09:05 AND HERE HE'S GONNA KILL SOMEONE JUST TO MASK HIS OWN INDISCRETIONS.
• 09:12 DAVID, DAVID, DAVID. HOW COULD YOU DO IT?
• 09:15 WELL THE FACT THAT DAVID COULD DO IT TELLS ME THAT SO COULD I
• 09:20 AND IF WE'RE GUT LEVEL HONEST, SO COULD YOU.
• 09:25 DAVID DIDN'T DO ANYTHING THAT I NEVER THOUGHT OF.
• 09:28 NOW I'M NOT TRYING TO DO CONFESSION HERE ON NATIONAL TELEVISION.
• 09:30 THE POINT IS I'M A MAN; I'M SHACKLED WITH A HUMAN NATURE.
• 09:34 WE HAVE TO KEEP THIS BUSINESS UNDER CONTROL.
• 09:37 OUR STORY TAKES PLACE IN 2ND SAMUEL CHAPTER 11 ONE EVENING
• 09:42 WHEN DAVID LET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG.
• 09:44 IN VERSE 2,
• 09:46 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 09:49 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 09:52 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 10:00 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 10:09 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 10:21 WAS DAVID BEING A LITTLE VOYEURISTIC UP THERE?
• 10:23 NO DOUBT.
• 10:25 COULD BATHSHEBA BEEN A LITTLE MORE CAREFUL DOWN THERE?
• 10:28 NO DOUBT.
• 10:31 SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE TWO IT WAS AN ACCIDENT.
• 10:35 IT WAS A SPARK THAT WAS IGNITED
• 10:38 AND IT SET AFIRE A HOUSEHOLD THAT TORE UP MANY A ROOM AND MANY PEOPLE IN THEM.
• 10:43 WE'RE TOLD,
• 10:45 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 10:56 DAVID, DAVID, DAVID. HE SAW, HE TOOK.
• 11:04 WHEN HE FOUND OUT LATER THAT HIS ONE NIGHT STAND WAS IN DANGER OF BEING EXPOSED,
• 11:11 BECAUSE BATHSHEBA WAS PREGNANT,
• 11:13 HE THEN HATCHES A SCHEME TO TRY AND MASK HIS INDISCRETION.
• 11:19 URIAH'S SUCH A GOOD SORTED FELLOW, A LOYAL SOLDIER.
• 11:23 HE WOULDN'T SLEEP WITH BATHSHEBA BECAUSE HIS MEN WERE IN THE FIELD AT THE FRONT
• 11:28 AND SO DAVID SENT HIM BACK TO HIS FRONT CARRYING ORDERS FOR HIS OWN EXECUTION.
• 11:33 HE TOLD HIS GENERAL,
• 11:35 "TAKE THAT GUY URIAH, PUT HIM IN THE FRONT OF THE BATTLE,"
• 11:39 "AND WITHDRAW THE TROOPS AND LET HIM FALL."
• 11:41 AND SO IT WAS, HE DID, AND THE REST IS HISTORY.
• 11:46 HE'S GOING TO THEN MARRY BATHSHEBA.
• 11:47 OH, DAVID, DAVID, DAVID, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MAN, HOW CAN YOU DO IT?
• 11:53 THIS IS A DARK SIDE IN AN OTHERWISE ILLUSTRIOUS CAREER.
• 11:58 AND WE'LL LOOK IN THE 3RD SEGMENT,
• 12:00 WE'LL COME BACK TO THIS IN A MOMENT
• 12:01 AND SEE HOW DAVID REAPED A HARVEST BECAUSE OF HIS DISCRETION,
• 12:07 BECAUSE OF HIS INABILITY TO REIGN IT IN.
• 12:11 NOW LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU WITH SOMETHING.
• 12:13 IT COULD VERY WELL BE A PROGRAM LIKE THIS THAT GOES INTO MILLIONS OF HOMES.
• 12:18 I KNOW THAT THERE ARE SOME OF YOU
• 12:20 THAT WHEN I TALK ABOUT SEXUAL INDISCRETIONS WITHIN THE HOME, SOMEWHERE THAT HITS PAY DIRT.
• 12:26 NOW LISTEN TO ME.
• 12:27 I DON'T WANNA MAKE YOU FEEL GUILTY.
• 12:29 WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO IS EXPERIENCE THE FORGIVENESS THAT DAVID EXPERIENCED.
• 12:33 EVEN A GOOD MAN LIKE THAT GOT HIMSELF IN A GOOD BIT OF TROUBLE.
• 12:37 HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO DO.
• 12:39 IT SAYS IN THE SCRIPTURES...
• 12:48 LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO THAT.
• 12:50 LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU AS WELL TO NOT ONLY TO HONEST WITH GOD, BUT BE HONEST WITH ANOTHER.
• 12:54 VISIT YOUR PASTOR, GET ON YOUR KNEES, REACH UP TO GOD.
• 12:58 THERE'S A GREAT AND GLORIOUS FUTURE FOR YOU.
• 13:01 DAVID LEARNED THAT GOD'S GRACE EVEN COVERED THIS.
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• 13:46 YES, IT IS WORTH THE TRIP,
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• 13:53 OH, I TELL YOU
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• 13:56 IT'S JUST SUCH A PRIVILEGE
• 13:59 TO BE ABLE TO COME WHERE OUR LORD WAS BORN
• 14:03 AND CRUCIFIED AND WAS RISEN.
• 14:10 I'VE BEEN IN MANY STORES IN ISRAEL
• 14:13 AND HAPPILY WHEN I GO THERE I STUMBLE UPON THIS SYMBOL;
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• 14:24 I'VE BY THE WAY PURCHASED THIS FOR MY WIFE IN THE FORM OF GOLD JEWELRY.
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• 15:08 WE LIVE IN A WORLD TODAY WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF NEWS, IT'S NOT ALL GOOD,
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• 15:17 BECAUSE WE WANNA BRING TO YOU TRUTH, THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY.
• 15:21 AND TALK ABOUT THE BAD AND THE UGLY, THE STORY WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT NOW IS TRAGIC.
• 15:26 DAVID SINNED, HE GOT FORGIVEN,
• 15:28 BUT HE SET IN MOTION PROBLEMS THAT HE WASN'T ABLE TO EXTRICATE HIMSELF FROM.
• 15:33 IN THIS CASE HIS OWN SON TURNED AGAINST HIM.
• 15:36 AND OFF TO THAT STORY WE GO AS WE LOOK AT THE LIFE OF DAVID.
• 15:43 MY ANNOUNCEMENT TO KING DAVID CAME WITH NO GREAT SURPRISE.
• 15:47 WE HAD KNOWN FOR SOME TIME THAT ABSALOM WAS WINNING THE HEARTS OF MEN THROUGH ALL OF ISRAEL.
• 15:52 NOW HE WAS INTENT ON USURPING THE THRONE OF HIS FATHER.
• 15:59 THE KING ACTED QUICKLY FOR HE KNEW THAT THERE WOULD SOON BE BLOODSHED IF WE REMAINED IN JERUSALEM.
• 16:05 THE KING WAS ESCAPING FROM A SON WHO WAS VEXED WITH POWER,
• 16:10 FROM A SON WHOM HE FEARED, AND YET LOVED DEARLY.
• 16:22 JEWS CONSTRUE THAT IT'S IMPERATIVE FOR A FATHER TO TEACH HIS SON A TRADE AND TO LEARN THE RELIGION AS WELL.
• 16:29 THAT IS, THE BURDEN IS ON THE FATHER TO INCULCATE CERTAIN THINGS IN THE NEXT GENERATION.
• 16:35 AND IN THIS REGARD, SAD TO SAY, DAVID FAILED MISERABLY.
• 16:40 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 16:41 BECAUSE DAVID HAD TOO MANY SONS.
• 16:44 20 SONS ARE NOTED IN 1ST AND 2ND SAMUEL AND 1 DAUGHTER.
• 16:47 AND BEYOND THAT WE'RE TOLD THAT HE HAD OTHER WIVES
• 16:51 AND OTHER CHILDREN THAT AREN'T EVEN NOTED BY NAME.
• 16:54 THE MAN HAD TOO MANY WOMEN.
• 16:56 MOSHE RABANU, MOSES, WARNED I BELIEVE IN DEVARIM, IN DEUTERONOMY,
• 17:01 THAT KINGS WILL TEND TO MULTIPLY WOMEN TO THEMSELVES.
• 17:06 WHAT HAPPENS IS, IS DAVID HAD A FAMILY THAT WAS TOO BIG TO MANAGE AND HE WASN'T GIVEN TO MANAGING HIS OWN FAMILY.
• 17:13 AND THE NET RESULT IS THAT HE WHO COULD FORGE A KINGDOM FAILED AT HOME.
• 17:19 AND ISN'T THAT BY THE WAY A TRAGIC STORY THAT IS SEEN PLAYED OUT WAY TOO MANY TIMES TODAY?
• 17:26 THE MEN GO OFF AND THEY CONQUER IN VARIOUS WAYS, BUT THE CHILDREN ARE NEGLECTED.
• 17:31 I MENTION THIS HERE BECAUSE TRAGIC IS THE FACT THAT DAVID'S SONS TURNED ON HIM.
• 17:40 FOR ME, I'M A DAD AND I'VE RAISED SONS.
• 17:45 THE LORD HAS SEEN FIT TO GRACE ME WITH BOYS.
• 17:48 OH, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD IT SCARES ME TO THINK HOW I'D FEEL IF MY BOYS TURNED ON ME.
• 17:55 FOR ME I LIKE TO BE RESPECTED PERSONALLY
• 17:58 AND IF I FEEL I'M DISRESPECTED AT WORK OR WHEREVER, IT BOTHERS ME, IT'S MY ACHILLES HEAL.
• 18:06 AND IF I FEEL LIKE I'M BEING DISRESPECTED AT HOME THAT IS PARTICULARLY EGREGIOUS.
• 18:12 RAV SHAUL, THE APOSTLE PAUL ALIGHTED UPON THAT WHEN HE SAID,
• 18:16 "WIVES RESPECT YOUR HUSBANDS"
• 18:19 AND THEN HE SAID
• 18:20 "HUSBANDS LOVE YOUR WIVES."
• 18:22 THE RESPECT FACTOR IS SIGNIFICANT.
• 18:24 WELL THE STORY IN THIS LITTLE SEGMENT IS PLAYED OUT AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF DAVID, NOT ONLY BEING DISRESPECTED BY HIS SONS,
• 18:33 BUT BEING FORCED TO FLEE, AS ONE OF THOSE SONS...
• 18:36 AND IT'S NOT JUST ONE;
• 18:38 IN VARIOUS WAYS ON VARIOUS DAYS DIFFERENT ONES WEIGHED IN AND LOOKED TO UNDERMINE DAVID.
• 18:43 ABSALOM WAS PARTICULARLY EGREGIOUS.
• 18:47 IT WASN'T JUST THAT HE WAS BENT ON REVOLT,
• 18:50 BUT HE MOBILIZED OTHERS TO KNOCK THE LEGS OUT OF HIS FATHER DAVID
• 18:55 AND THEN TO USURP HIS OWN FATHER'S AUTHORITY AND TAKE THE KINGDOM.
• 18:59 WE READ IN 1ST AND 2ND SAMUEL ABOUT DAVID'S RISE AND DEMISE.
• 19:04 WE DISCOVER THAT HE'S FORCED TO FLEE.
• 19:06 THERE'S A TRAGIC TEXT HERE, I CAN'T READ ALL OF IT.
• 19:09 IN 2ND SAMUEL CHAPTER 15 WE'RE TOLD,
• 19:13 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 19:21 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 19:32 ABSALOM, WERE HE'D TO HAVE HAD HIS WAY WOULD'VE BEEN DAVID'S UNDOING.
• 19:38 TRUTH OF THE MATTER AND DAVID KNEW THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER
• 19:40 AND THAT IS THAT ABSALOM REALLY WASN'T HIS PROBLEM.
• 19:44 THE PROBLEM WAS IS THAT DAVID SINNED.
• 19:46 THE PROBLEM WAS IS THAT DAVID WAS REAPING WHAT HE SOWED.
• 19:51 HE WASN'T FAITHFUL WITHIN THE CONFINES OF HIS OWN MARRIAGE CONTRACTS.
• 19:55 HE HAD LET IT ALL GET AWAY FROM HIM AND WHAT HAPPENS IS HE'S REAPING THE HARVEST.
• 20:00 NOW LISTEN, THERE'S MUCH IN THE BIBLICAL LITERATURE TO COMMEND THAT'S POSITIVE,
• 20:04 BUT HERE'S A STORY THAT'S NEGATIVE.
• 20:07 YOU EVER HEARD THE EXPRESSION, "THAT A WISE MAN LEARNS FROM HIS MISTAKES".
• 20:10 WELL THAT'S TRUE.
• 20:11 BUT LISTEN TO ME.
• 20:12 A WISER MAN LEARNS FROM SOMEBODY ELSE'S.
• 20:14 BETTER IT IS THAT WE LEARN FROM DAVID AND NOT REPEAT IT.
• 20:18 AND WHY DO I SAY THAT?
• 20:19 DAVID COULDN'T TAKE CARE OF HIS SEXUAL BUSINESS.
• 20:21 TOO MANY WOMEN, TOO MANY KIDS, IT ALL GOT AWAY FROM HIM.
• 20:25 HE EXPERIENCED GOD'S GRACE TO BE SURE AND WAS FORGIVEN
• 20:28 BUT STILL THE CONSEQUENCES OF ALL THAT PLAYED OUT.
• 20:31 NOW LISTEN TO ME.
• 20:33 EVERYONE WITHIN THE SOUND OF MY VOICE WE ALL POSSESS A HUMAN NATURE.
• 20:37 BETTER IT IS IT SEEMS TO ME THAT WE GET ON TOP OF OUR BUSINESS SO WE DON'T HAVE TO GO THIS WAY,
• 20:42 SO WE CAN HAVE STRENGTH IN THE FAMILY.
• 20:44 ALL SAID I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THERE IS A GRACE THAT'S AVAILABLE.
• 20:47 GOD IS SO VERY GOOD.
• 20:49 DAVID FINISHED HIS DAYS WELL HIS DIFFICULTIES NOT WITHSTANDING AND YOU COULD FINISH WELL TOO.
• 20:53 BUT LEARN A LESSON FROM DAVID THE WARRIOR KING.
• 20:58 (Jeff Speaking) THANKFULLY WE HAVE AN ALMIGHTY GOD
• 21:00 TO WHOM WE CAN BRING OUR SHORT COMINGS AND SHARE OUR PRAISES.
• 21:05 PAUL WILBER JOINS US NOW
• 21:07 FROM THE KING OF KINGS PRAVILION IN JERUSALEM
• 21:09 SINGING "ADONAI".
• 21:13 ♪LORD OF ETERNITY,♪
• 21:17 ♪MYSTERY BEHIND THE VEIL♪
• 21:22 ♪LORD OVER HEAVEN AND EARTH,♪
• 21:25 ♪GOD OF ISRAEL♪
• 21:30 ♪COME WITH YOUR WISDOM AND POWER♪
• 21:35 ♪CLOTHED IN YOUR HONOR AND STRENGTH♪
• 21:39 ♪LORD HEAR THE CRY OF OUR HEARTS♪
• 21:42 ♪COME O CONQUERING KING♪
• 21:46 ♪COME LORD♪
• 21:48 ♪AND EVERY EYE WILL SEE YOUR GLORY FILL THE SKY♪
• 21:56 ♪ADONAI, ADONAI♪
• 22:00 ♪EVERY KNEE WILL BOW TO YOU LORD MOST HIGH♪
• 22:05 ♪ADONAI, ADONAI♪
• 22:10 ♪YOU ALONE ARE GOD EVERY TONGUE WILL CRY♪
• 22:14 ♪ADONAI♪
• 22:25 ♪HERE JERUSALEM WAITS PRAISES LIFTED ON HIGH♪
• 22:33 ♪HERE THE BEAUTIFUL GATES LONG TO SEE YOU ARISE♪
• 22:42 ♪AND ALL OF ZION SINGS BARUCH HA BA B'SHEM♪
• 22:52 ♪ADONAI, ADONAI♪
• 22:56 ♪EVERY KNEE WILL BOW TO YOU LORD MOST HIGH♪
• 23:00 ♪ADONAI, ADONAI♪
• 23:05 ♪YOU ALONE ARE GOD EVERY TONGUE WILL CRY♪
• 23:10 ♪ADONAI, ADONAI♪
• 23:14 ♪EVERY KNEE WILL BOW TO YOU LORD MOST HIGH♪
• 23:18 ♪ADONAI, ADONAI♪
• 23:23 ♪YOU ALONE ARE GOD EVERY TONGUE WILL CRY♪
• 23:27 ♪ADONAI♪
• 23:36 ♪ADONAI♪
• 23:45 ♪YOU ARE LORD...
• 23:52 WORSHIP IS EXCITING ISN'T IT?
• 23:53 AND WHEN I EXPERIENCE PAUL WILBER I'M REMINDED OF THE FACT THAT WE SERVE A GREAT GOD.
• 23:59 AND WHEN I CONSIDER DAVID
• 24:00 I'M REMINDED OF THE FACT THAT WE DON'T ALWAYS SERVE HIM IN A GREAT WAY.
• 24:05 THIS IS EVIDENCED BY THE FACT THAT DAVID SINNED ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION.
• 24:09 GOD BORE WITH HIS FOIBLES, HOWEVER,
• 24:11 AND IN 2ND SAMUEL CHAPTER 7 HE MADE A COVENANT WITH HIM.
• 24:16 HE PROMISED HE'D BEAR WITH HIM.
• 24:18 AND NOW ZOLA LEVITT TEACHES ON THE DAVIDIC COVENANT.
• 24:23 THE COVENANT HAD FOUR ESSENTIAL PARTS.
• 24:26 IT'S STATED BY THE WAY IN 2ND SAMUEL 7:16 IN A SINGLE VERSE,
• 24:40 JUST THAT SIMPLE.
• 24:42 THE PROPHET NATHAN SPOKE THAT TO DAVID FOR GOD.
• 24:45 AND IN THE PREVIOUS VERSES, 14 AND 15 WHILE I'M HERE,
• 24:48 HE'S TALKING ABOUT DAVID'S SON WHO WOULD REIGN AND SO ON, AND GOD SAYS,
• 25:07 HE ESTABLISHES A PRINCIPLE.
• 25:09 DISOBEDIENCE FROM ONE OF GOD'S COVENANTS DOES NOT CANCEL THIS COVENANT.
• 25:12 THIS IS AN IMMUTABLE, EVERLASTING COVENANT
• 25:15 SO IF A KING DISOBEYS, AND THAT DID HAPPEN,
• 25:18 GOD WOULD CHASTISE HIM AS A REMEDIAL CHASTISEMENT,
• 25:23 NOT A PUNISHMENT UNTO THE CANCELING OF THE COVENANT.
• 25:29 IT'S IMPORTANT TO STRESS
• 25:31 BECAUSE THERE'S A DOCTRINE THAT'S BEEN AROUND CHRISTENDOM FROM THE BEGINNING
• 25:34 SAYING THE JEWS DISOBEYED SO GOD'S THROUGH WITH THEM.
• 25:36 THAT'S NOT THE KIND OF GOD THIS IS...THAT'S ALL.
• 25:39 THE JEWS HAVE BEEN CHASTISED AS KING DAVID AND KING SOLOMON WERE CHASTISED.
• 25:44 BUT GOD IS NOT THROUGH WITH THEM ANYMORE THAN HE WAS THROUGH WITH THOSE OTHERS.
• 25:51 WELL THAT WAS ZOLA AND AS YOU KNOW THIS STORY IS NOT REALLY ABOUT ZOLA LEVITT,
• 25:54 IT'S NOT ABOUT JEFFREY SEIF
• 25:56 AND AT ONE LEVEL IT'S NOT EVEN ABOUT DAVID.
• 26:00 WHAT THEN?
• 26:01 WELL IT'S ABOUT THE GRACE OF GOD THAT'S MANIFESTED IN THE LIFE OF DAVID
• 26:06 AND THAT'S TALKED ABOUT BY ZOLA LEVITT OR JEFFREY SEIF.
• 26:09 BUT IT'S NOT EVEN ABOUT DAVID OR ZOLA OR JEFF, IT'S REALLY ABOUT YOU.
• 26:16 THE BIBLE IS CHOCK FULL OF GRACE STORIES
• 26:18 THAT EXTEND TO US IN ORDER TO IMPRESS UPON OUR MINDS EYE
• 26:22 THE FACT THAT GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE WANTS TO MAKE PEACE WITH IT,
• 26:27 BUT WE'VE GOT TO MAKE PEACE WITH HIM.
• 26:29 WE SEE A GRACIOUS GOD KINDLY BEARING UP HUMAN FOIBLES
• 26:34 AND WHEN WE SEE THAT HOPEFULLY WE'RE INCLINED TO WANNA WALK WITH HIM.
• 26:39 OH, I HOPE THAT YOU'RE INSPIRED TO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.
• 26:43 PLEASE MAKE YOUR WAY TO A GOOD BIBLE BELIEVING CHURCH.
• 26:46 AND AS YOU GO, SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:50 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM