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Now it came about after this that Absalom provided for himself a chariot and horses and fifty men as runners before him.
2 Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the way to the gate; and when any man had a suit to come to the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, “From what city are you?”
And he would say, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel.”
3 Then Absalom would say to him, “See, your claims are good and right, but no man listens to you on the part of the king.”
4 Moreover, Absalom would say, “Oh that one would appoint me judge in the land, then every man who has any suit or cause could come to me and I would give him justice.”
5 And when a man came near to prostrate himself before him, he would put out his hand and take hold of him and kiss him.
6 In this manner Absalom dealt with all Israel who came to the king for judgment; so Absalom stole away the hearts of the men of Israel.
David sought the presence of the LORD.
We have been gathering all the numbers from your generosity from last year and what we accomplished as a church and it a lot, and we can’t wait to share it with you.
We have also been praying through plans and changes that we need to make as a church in 2018 to make sure that we are doing everything we can to chase down Our Mission of Glorifying God.
In 2 weeks, On January 28th we want to present all of that information to you and Pastor Scott will be sharing his vision of 2018 with you during what we is known around here as “The Big Day.”
Then February 4th we will start a new sermon series called “Believe.”
As a church we will be walking through the Gospel of John.
Excited to see what God does during that extended sermon series.
Come’ On Man! – If we do these things we will restore relationships and prevent future hurt.
Confront Wrong Behavior
With that being said, Pastor Scott told me how he was going to end “Chasing after the Heart of God,” and then said, and I quote, “I don’t know how, but you need to cover from -the end”… umm…, say what?!
· Communicate Face to Face
As I read and reread this portion of scripture, I find it to be so sad, anti-climatic, and shocking.
Communicate Face to Face
Here is our Hero.
I mean, for Jews and Christians, King David is our Hero.
Reconcile Quickly
· Reconcile Quickly
Absalom - Focused on Building His own Kingdom
· He is the boy who has killed bears, and lions
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Dad, if your aren’t going to rule the people, I will
· He walked up to a Giant, when no one else would, and cut off his head with the Giant’s own sword.
And since you aren’t going to stop me for ruling the people, I’m going to become king
o Why did he have to use the giant’s sword?
Because David decided it would be a good idea to just face Goliath with a slingshot
· David was so good at guitar, that King Saul had him come in and play Smooth Jazz to calm his temper.
· He takes that guitar and writes a ton of Psalms
The Story
· When King Saul is chasing Him down to kill him, David, with the perfect chance to kill Saul, spares his life because he is loyal to the king, and faithful to God.
· David is the one who brings the Ark to Jerusalem
o As he bringing it in, dances naked in the streets
· He is a strong leader, a mighty warrior, and leads Israel in victory after victory…
Until he doesn’t, until he is sin puts so much shame on his life.
Last week Pastor Scott talked about the weight of the shame and challenged us to get free of our the condemnation of our sin.
As I story told about the return of the King Saul and David to Jerusalem after defeating Goliath and the Palestinians… I am going to story tell so you can get the picture of the end of David’s reign as king.
More so how tragic sin is when we do not deal with.
Now I said as I am reading these chapters, I realized how shocking it is.
You know when you get new Cable or Satellite and your provider gives you 3 free months of HBO, Starz, and Cinemax.
And you have heard so much about a show or a movie and you decide to watch it.
Then that screen comes up…
Welcome to the Feature Presentation… This Program Contains
· Adult Content
· Adult Language
· Graphic Violence
· Nudity
· Sexual Situations
Welp!!!! Can’t Watch that.
Funny, story… I re-upped my contract with my satellite provider 2 years ago, Brandon Lehmann was living with me at the time and we got our 3 free months, but decide to call and ask them to remove the channels.
You should have heard that conversation!
The poor guy on the other side of the phone could not fathom why we didn’t want free channels.
To make the guy feel better I let him give me free MLB TV!
I don’t care which TV Show it is, or movie, or drama it is…
They don’t have anything on this portion of Scripture…
It has it all
· Adult Content
· Adult Language
· Incest
· Adultery
· Murder
· Graphic Violence
· Intense Sexual Situations
· Nudity
· Backstabbing
· Betrayal
· Conspiracy
I’m serious, if they made a movie about David’s life and made it factual and true to life, no one in here could watch it.
This actually goes for much of the bible, especially the Old Testament.
The world is a very violent, sexual, dog eat dog, hopeless place.
It remains that way until the grace of Christ comes into the world, until forgiveness of sin through Jesus.
Let me tell you the story… then we focus in on some scripture and talk about a few take aways.
I do encourage you to go home and read the story for yourself, I am going to try to make it a simple as possible by taking out any extra names and tell you whom the main characters are.
We will begin in Chapter 13 where we were last week and then I will double down on the wisdom that Pastor Scott shared.
The Story
David’s first 7 Sons were all born to different women
· Amnon – whose mother was Ahinoam
· Chileab – whose mother was Abigail
· Absalom – whose mother was Maacah
· Adonijah – whose mother was Haggith
· Shephatiah – whose mother was Abital
· Ithream – whose mother was Eglah
· Unnamed Infant – Born to Bathsheba because of the Adulterous affair
· Solomon – Born to Bathsheba
7 Different Women… we know this is going to get ugly
The boy born to Bathsheba dies… the servants around David thought he was unstable and might kill himself when he found out that the baby had died.
Solomon and Nathan are born to Bathsheba and David goes off to war.
When he captures the cities of King Ammom, David is on a rampage…
He also brought out the people who were in it, and set them under saws, sharp iron instruments, and iron axes, and made them pass through the brickkiln (fire).
And thus he did to all the cities of the sons of Ammon.
Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
Now.
It was after that…
Absalom and Tamar are full brother and sister and are apparently very good looking.
Now in all Israel was no one as handsome as Absalom, so highly praised; from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no defect in him.
starts out with Amnon wanting to be with his ½ sister Tamar.
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