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The Four Seasons of Failure Part 2

April 21, 2018

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The Connection with Skip Heitzig

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The Four Seasons of Failure Part 2

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version of Humpty Dumpty.
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We might say, "Humpty David sat on a wall.
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Humpty David had a great fall."
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Here is David looking over the walls of Jerusalem.
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The view from his pinnacle was of the kingdom that he ruled
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and reigned over.
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But he had a great fall and he would never
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be the same after this fall.
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Oh, he'll be forgiven, but he'll never be the same.
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Skip: From the king's house, you can virtually see
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every house around you in plain view.
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Rooftops are flat, people will often be out there.
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So, David's on his rooftop looking down at every other
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rooftop in the valley.
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And he saw something, something entered his view that every man,
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every man can understand.
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He saw a woman very beautiful to behold.
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I suppose if this were written in modern times it might say
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that David was sitting on the couch with his TV remote late at
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night, or David was sitting in front of his computer screen,
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sort of aimlessly searching and surfing the Internet.
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But David, the king of Israel, was on his house
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and he was looking out.
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Now, there's two words in verse 2 I want you to compare.
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I'm glad you brought your Bibles to see this.
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Notice the two words, the first is he saw a woman
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and that she was very beautiful to, what?
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What's the next word? Behold.
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See those two words, saw and behold,
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now, those words are different.
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The first word suggests a glance.
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He just saw her, he noticed her, couldn't help that.
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That's what he saw. It came into his view.
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But the second word suggests a gaze, not a glance.
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He went from seeing to beholding.
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He couldn't help the first look.
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It's the double take that killed him.
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It's the "What, what?"
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And he stayed looking and fixated
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and it turned into a lustful look.
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Jesus said in Matthew 5, "You have heard that it was said to
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those of old, you shall not commit adultery, but I say to
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you that whoever looks at a woman to lust after her in his
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heart has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
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As I said, David's sin wasn't the look.
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It was the lingering look.
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Men, every man, men have a visual ignition switch, that is,
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the pleasure centers of the male brain are turned on,
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revved up by simply seeing someone like David saw.
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And by the way, those pleasure centers are indiscriminate.
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It could be any woman.
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And this is where the battle is won or lost because once you see
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something, it's now what do you do with what you see?
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Do you keep on seeing?
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Do you go from seeing to beholding, or do you turn away
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and see something else?
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David should have done that.
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What David should have done couldn't help the first look,
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he noticed, "Oops, out of here."
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I mean, Joseph literally ran from his situation.
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Genesis 39, Potiphar's wife grabs him and says,
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"Come to bed with me."
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And he didn't stay around and,
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"Go, well, let me pray about that."
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He just ran away.
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So can you.
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Job understood the power of the look,
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that's why in Job chapter 31, verse 1
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he says, "I've made a covenant with my eyes
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that I will look upon a young woman."
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A wise driver once said, "He who looketh on a woman
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loseth a fender."
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I'll tell you a true story, honest confession,
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I was 15, maybe 16 years of age.
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I went from a permit to a driver's license,
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southern California.
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My mode of transportation was a Honda 305 motorcycle.
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And I--the first, the only accident I've ever been in where
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I got in an accident while I was driving was this one.
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I'm on a motorcycle, I'm driving down the street almost home.
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I'm following a car, but I'm distracted by a beautiful girl
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on the side of the road and my eyes followed her.
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I'm following her.
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I'm following her, and I'm supposed to be driving
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and what I don't notice is the car in front of me
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is now slowing down to make a turn.
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I plow into the back of the car.
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I fly over the car and land on the street in front of the car.
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Talk about a wake-up call in this area,
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that did it.
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Now, we naturally focus on David, and David's lust, and
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David's sin, but I do have to say something about Bathsheba.
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If Bathsheba wasn't taking a bath out on the top of her
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rooftop in plain sight, it sure would have helped.
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She had to have known the vulnerability of that situation
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given the topography of Jerusalem if you can walk out
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on your roof and see it that easily,
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she had to have known that.
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So, I just want to say, women, try to be part of the solution,
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not part of the problem.
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Help us out here a little bit. You know what I'm saying.
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Your physical appearance can be a snare.
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Don't give us something to lust after.
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Don't make it easy.
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A.W. Pink, Arthur Pink writes,
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"If lustful looking is so grievous as sin,
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then those who dress and expose themselves with a desire
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to be looked at and lusted after are not less
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but perhaps more guilty.
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In this matter, it is not only too often the case that men sin
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but women tempt them to do so.
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How great then must be the guilt of a great majority of modern
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misses who deliberately seek to arouse
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the sexual passions of young men."
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Bathsheba, take it inside.
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So now, we go down to verse 3 and we go from the springtime in
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David's city, the summer time in David's sight, to the fall.
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This is the fall. This is Humpty Dumpty falling.
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This is fall time in David's sanctity.
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So, David sent and inquired about the woman.
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Seems innocent at first.
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"I just want to ask a few questions, find out a few facts,
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just one little step toward Sodom,
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like Lot did, just find out."
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He inquired about the woman and someone said,
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"Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam,
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the wife of Uriah, the Hittite?"
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Then David sent messengers and took her and she came to him
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and he lay with her.
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Oh, I hate reading this. It's so quick.
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It's so cold. There's no love here.
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This is just pure passion, raw sex.
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"For she was cleansed from her impurity
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and she returned to her house.
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And the woman conceived and she sent and told David and said,
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'I am with child.'"
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You probably know that kings in those days
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could take anything they wanted, anyone they wanted.
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They would develop a harem, but, but this is a different king.
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This is God's king. This is the kingdom of Israel.
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And according to the law of Israel, there should be one man
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and one woman for one lifetime.
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And kings especially were told in the Scriptures to not
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multiply wives unto themselves.
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How many women did he have altogether?
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Seventeen, seven wives, ten concubines.
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What does that tell us?
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It tells us, this is a pattern with David.
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He's a polygamist. He has a harem full of women.
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Now, think about this, you would think 17 women
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would satisfy him.
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It doesn't.
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Now, why is that?
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For a very simple reason, the more you have,
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the more you want.
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It's not like the more you have,
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you'll finally reach a saturation point, "I'm done."
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David's not done.
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David looked, and David lusted, and David lived out his fantasy
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because he had done it before over and over again.
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This is a pattern with him.
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David didn't collapse in a weak moment.
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David cultivated a weak moment.
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This is his one minute in the chair,
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but he has cultivated for a long time.
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I see verse 3 as a warning, do you?
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Somebody said, "Is this not Bathsheba the daughter of Eliam,
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the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"
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That's a warning, "Hey, David, David,
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that's somebody's daughter.
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David, that's somebody's wife, hands off.
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You already stole from her in looking at her, her privacy.
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You already took from her what belonged only to her husband
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when you gazed at her.
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This is somebody's wife. This is somebody's daughter."
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Can I be blunt? Not that I haven't already.
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Do you think it was fun?
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Do you think that night David had with Bathsheba was fun?
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I mean, you can be honest here.
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Was it pleasurable?
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Absolutely it was.
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It was hot.
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It was sizzling.
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As they crawl between David's sheets, it was magnificent,
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but it lasted one night
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then it's over.
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When darkness feels greater than the light,
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you're the everlasting fire that won't burn out.
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When fear is screaming louder than my peace,
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you are singing words of promise over me.
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You never fail, you never leave,
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you never stop holding me.
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You're the one who never sleeps.
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You're the God over all.
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In the day when shadows fall,
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you're the one who never sleeps.
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I'm resting in the one who never sleeps.
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I'm resting in the one who never sleeps.
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Only you give rest to weary eyes.
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You're my song of hope to get me through the night.
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And you're by my side whenever it comes.
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When the storms are reaching high,
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you're still above.
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You never fail, you never leave,
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you never stop holding me.
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You're the one who never sleeps.
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You're the God over all in the day
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when shadows fall.
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You're the one who never sleeps.
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I'm resting in the one who never sleeps.
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I'm resting in the one who never sleeps.
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You keep our wonder, God, you never slumber,
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watching over us,
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watching over us.
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You won't be shaken.
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You're our firm foundation, watching over us,
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watching over us.
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You never fail.
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You never leave.
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You never stop holding me.
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You're the one who never sleeps.
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You're the God over all.
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In the day when shadows fall,
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you're the one who never sleeps.
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I'm resting in the one who never sleeps.
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I'm resting in the one who never sleeps.
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I'm resting in the one who never sleeps.
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I'm resting in the one who never sleeps.
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Skip: Hebrews 11 says it speaks of those who enjoy
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the passing pleasures of sin.
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Do you ever hear--ever note that phrase,
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it's the passing pleasures of sin.
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It's pleasurable.
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It is pleasurable, but it's passing.
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What David and Bathsheba thought they had
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only lasted for one night.
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Well, she gets pregnant.
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The rest of the chapter is a coverup
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so David sends for Uriah, her husband,
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from the front lines of the battle to come home,
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hoping that he'll spend a night with his wife,
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sleep with his wife and nobody will ever know the kid
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that will be born is my child.
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But what he underestimates is the integrity of Uriah.
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Verse 11, "Uriah said to David, 'The ark, and Israel, and Judah
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are dwelling in tents, and my Lord Joab and the servants
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of my Lord are encamped in the open fields.
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Shall I then go to my house to eat and drink,
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to lie with my wife?
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As you live and as your soul lives,
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I will not do this thing."
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Uriah the Hittite has more integrity
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than the king of Jerusalem.
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That must have pierced David's heart
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when his man Uriah said this.
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Now, who is Uriah? Who is this guy?
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Uriah, the Hittite was not a common soldier,
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he was one of David's 30 valiant men,
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the Bible tells us, that's why his house
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was so close to David's house.
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He had been one of David's valiant men
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since David had been a fugitive running from King Saul.
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He was born a Hittite.
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His parents converted to Judaism and gave him a Hebrew name.
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The name Uriah means, "My light is the Lord."
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But this soldier comes home and he says,
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"David, I should be in battle, not sitting in a palace."
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Well, David now tries to get him drunk thinking
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if he's drunk he'll go home, lie with his wife.
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Didn't happen. His plan failed.
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So, David arranges for his assassination.
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He says, "Take Uriah the Hittite,
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place him in the fiercest part of the battle
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and let him get killed."
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Here's what I want you to see.
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One sin always leads to another sin.
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It's not like one and it's over.
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David's lust led to a adultery, that led to deception,
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that led to entrapment, that led to murder.
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And that's not the end of the story.
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It's not gonna just blow over.
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It's like the husband and wife
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who were shopping at Christmastime in the mall.
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They're in the same store and as they're shopping for items,
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this beautiful woman walks through the store
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and the man's eyes follow her throughout the whole store.
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His wife didn't even look up, but she says,
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"Was it worth the trouble you're now in?"
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We might ask David,
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"David, was it worth the trouble you're now in?"
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And you know who David is in trouble with.
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He's in trouble, not only with his family and his army,
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but with his God.
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So, Uriah the Hittite goes back, he gets killed
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and a report comes back.
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In verse 24, "The archer shot from the wall at your servants
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and some of the king's servants are dead and your servant
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Uriah the Hittite is dead also."
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Now listen to David's response, "David said to the messenger,
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'Thus you shall say to Joab,
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do not let this thing displease you.
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For the sword devours one as well as another.
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Strengthen your attack against the city and overthrow it.
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So encourage him.'"
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We go from springtime in David's city,
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summertime in David's sight, fall time in David's sanctity,
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to the coldest time of all.
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It is now wintertime in David's soul.
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Listen to how callous he is about one of his mighty men.
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"Ah, whatever, people die."
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He caused his death, no remorse. You know why?
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'Cause David's doing this inside,
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"Whoo, man, no one will ever know what I've done."
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Ah, he's leaving something out.
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Look at verse 26.
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"When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead,
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she mourned for her husband.
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It tore her apart.
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When her mourning was over, David sent and brought her to
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his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son but,"
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notice this last sentence,
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"but the thing that David had done displeased the Lord."
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Ponder that phrase.
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Let that sink in.
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"But the thing that he had done displeased the Lord."
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Sin is the most expensive thing in the world
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because it offends God.
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David thought it's hidden from everyone.
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Nope, Proverbs 5, written by David's son later on, Solomon.
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It says, "The ways of a man are before the eyes of the Lord
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and he ponders all of his goings."
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David is busted.
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Chapter 12 will tell the story
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when God sends Nathan the prophet to him.
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Now, David will confess his sin.
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You know Psalm 51, you know Psalm 32,
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those are both written after this.
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This is David's confession of his sin
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and listen to how deep it is.
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Psalm 51, "Have mercy on me, O God.
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Wash me thoroughly, cleanse me from my sin."
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Can't you hear the emotion in David?
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Here's the deal though, you know how long it was from the night
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David fell that night with Bathsheba until the time
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he confessed in chapter 12?
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One year, one year.
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The best time for David to cry out to God was between
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verse 4 and 5, sitting on the edge of his bed say,
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"Oh God, what I have done? Oh Lord, forgive me."
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But he covers it up, kills a man, gets him drunk,
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orders his assassination, and doesn't pray for one year.
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It is wintertime in David's soul.
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David loses trust with his family.
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He loses trust with his army, and he loses intimacy with God.
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Now, when David saw Bathsheba when he's standing on his
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veranda, his rooftop, he's looking down at her bathing.
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He must have thought he has never seen a more beautiful
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sight in all of his life.
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That's how men think at times like that.
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"I've never seen a more beautiful woman in all my life."
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And at that moment when the look turned into a lingering look,
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a lustful look, David forgot everything
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'cause sin, especially lust, does that.
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It just sort of cauterizes sense.
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You become insane.
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David forgot who he was.
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David forgot about his family.
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David forgot about his army.
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David forgot about all those psalms he had ever written.
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David forgot God.
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He wasn't mad at God, he just forgot God.
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That's why if you could just somehow rehearse
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before you act what the consequences
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might be but stop a person.
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Randy Alcorn, who has written so many good books,
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he's a pastor and an author said,
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"When I feel particularly vulnerable
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to sexual temptation,
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I find it helpful to review what effects my actions could have."
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And he makes a list. I'll just read a few.
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"Grieving the Lord who redeemed me,
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dragging his sacred name through the mud.
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One day having to look Jesus, the righteous judge,
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in the face and give an account of my actions.
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Inflicting untold hurt on Nancy, my best friend and loyal wife,
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losing Nancy's respect and trust, hurting my beloved
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daughters, Karina and Angie.
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Causing shame to my family as they ask,
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'Why isn't daddy is pastor anymore?'
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Losing self-respect, creating a form of guilt
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awfully hard to shake.
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Even though God would forgive me, would I forgive myself?
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Bringing great pleasure to Satan, the enemy of God,
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and all that is good.
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Causing shame and hurt to friends,
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especially those I have led to Christ and discipled."
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And he says, "I listed those names."
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Boy, that would stop you if you could rehearse
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the consequences before you act.
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Did David write more psalms? Yes, he did, he will.
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Will David be forgiven? Yes, he will.
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Immorality is not an unforgivable sin.
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Of course he'll be forgiven.
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Yes, and that's a whole different message, but I want
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you to hear is that the consequences of sexual sin
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are unique in the pain and the shame that they bring.
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And as we are about to close in prayer, I want you to think of
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what Paul wrote to the Corinthians when he said,
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"Let him who thinks he stand take heed lest he fall."
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All of us, every man, all of us,
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men and women, we are all vulnerable.
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So, as you're sitting in your chair for one minute
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looking at the shotgun, is it worth it?
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