Look and live, my brother, live! Look to Jesus now and live!
Tis recorded in his word, hallelujah! It is only that you look and live!
I've a message full of love, hallelujah! A message, oh my friend, for you!
Tis a message from above, hallelujah! Jesus said it and I know tis true!
Look and live, my brother, live! Look to Jesus now and live!
Tis recorded in his word, hallelujah! It is only that you look and live!
Life is offered unto you, hallelujah! Eternal life thy soul shall have!
If you'll only look to him, hallelujah! Look to Jesus who alone can save!
Look and live, my brother, live! Look to Jesus now and live!
Tis recorded in his word, hallelujah! It is only that you look and live!
I will tell you how I came, hallelujah! To Jesus when he made me whole!
Twas believing on his name, hallelujah! I trusted and he saved my soul!
Look and live, my brother, live! Look to Jesus now and live!
Tis recorded in his word, hallelujah! It is only that you look and live!
All right, let's open up in a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, thank you so much for this day,
and thank you for our church, thank you for our visitors, Lord, and I pray that you bless this service,
help us to worship and sing out to you from our hearts this evening.
We love you very much, in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
All right, for our second song, we'll go to song 220, Jesus is all the world to me.
220, Jesus is all the world to me.
Song 220, Jesus is all the world to me.
Jesus is all the world to me.
My life, my joy, my own.
He is my strength from day to day.
Without him I would fall.
When I am sad, to him I go.
One can cheer me so.
When I am sad, he makes me glad.
He's my friend.
Jesus is all the world to me.
My friend in trial sore.
I go to him for blessings,
and he gives them o'er and o'er.
He sends the sunshine and the rain.
He sends the harvest golden grain.
Sunshine and rain, harvest of grain.
He's my friend.
Jesus is all the world to me.
And true to him I'll be.
Oh, how could I this friend deny
when he's so true to me?
Following him, I know I'm right.
O'er me day and night,
following him by day and night,
he's my friend.
Jesus is all the world to me.
I want no better friend.
I trust him now.
I'll trust him when life's fleeting days shall end.
Beautiful life with such a friend.
Beautiful life that has no end.
Eternal life, eternal joy,
he's my friend.
Great singing.
Thanks so much for coming to Steadfast Baptist Church.
If you didn't already get a bulletin,
lift up your hand nice and high.
One of our ushers can come by.
They've got some extra bulletins there.
On the front we have our Bible memory passage,
John chapter 1.
And if you're 18 or under, you can quote verse 39.
You can get some ice cream or some candy or something
after the service.
We also have our soul winning times listed there
in the bulletin as well as our service times.
We have our church stats.
I'm going to capture any data that for some reason
you forgot to capture.
Is there any soul winning from the last few days
that you forgot to report to your soul winning captain?
Did you go with anybody?
All right.
Keep up the good work on soul winning.
Looks like we got to 1,000 now.
That's good.
Keep up the good work.
On the right, the expecting ladies continue to pray for them
as well as we also have our prayer list.
We like to go over that on Wednesday nights.
We have the Negara family continue to pray for them.
Miss Lucy, his mother's tumors,
Brother Cameron Hall's leg,
Miss Ashley Holder's husband's visa interview.
I guess they got through one stage.
Now they're on to the next.
We'll continue to pray for him and for their family.
Also for Matt Pendleton,
Faithful Word Baptist Church has brain cancer.
It's really sad.
We're just praying that God would perform a miracle for them
and just come for that family and to help them.
Also, Miss Natasha is her minnow's friend.
Cody and Isaac, she's praying for their salvation.
We'll definitely keep them in mind.
One woman's step-brother passed away.
We're praying for them.
Juan Carrasco, his baby Leilani's kidney's health.
We're praying for her.
Brother Wallach's coworker, Miss Kathy,
we're praying for her health.
I guess she's doing much better, so praise report there.
Also, the Cooper family, we're praying for their health.
Miss Riley Simpson, we're praying for wife Sarah's visa process as well.
We're just important people all over.
Praying for the Conley's friend, Bianca.
She was in a car accident, so we're praying for her.
I think the name was misspelled in there, but sorry about that.
Also, Brother Wallach, he sent in his son-in-law, Nicholas Williams.
They just got married, Nicholas and Haley.
I guess he's having some severe stomach issues or something,
some kind of stomach bug, and so they were asking for prayers for him.
If you have other prayer requests, please email them.
We'd like to put them in here and mention them
so that other people can be praying with you.
We'd like to just say a simple prayer on Wednesday nights together.
We'll go ahead and do that now.
Thank you, Heavenly Father, for our church.
Thank you for giving us this opportunity to be meeting together.
Thank you for our expecting ladies and for the babies.
I pray that you would just help them in their development,
help them to have a timely delivery and that you give them strength.
I pray also that you would just bless our church family
that has several health requests.
We know that you're the great physician,
and we just pray that you would just give them healing,
that you could give them a miracle.
In some cases, if need be, that no matter what,
you'd give them comfort and peace during this trial and tribulation.
I pray that you would just help with our other various church requests,
and you know them better than we do.
We just pray that you'd give us favor and blessing.
For our whole church family, we just thank you for what you give us.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
On the back, we have the note about the Naim family,
the congratulations on the birth of Leila Grace Naim.
She was born August 8, 3.32 a.m., weighing 7 pounds and 5 ounces
and measuring 21 and a half inches long.
So congratulations to them. Super exciting. That's great.
And it's great to see our church family growing.
Also, our men's conference is this Thursday.
So I sent out, with Dylan's help, an email this afternoon
about just some reminders or just things to bring and everything like that.
But if you have any questions or anything, you can always contact me.
Again, if you're doing church transportation, it's at 9 a.m.
Now, here's the thing. I didn't do a sign-up.
I don't know if the sign-up sheets were pleat on church transportation,
but if you're not here at 9 a.m., I assumed you didn't want to ride with us.
So we will not be waiting for you.
You can always drive yourself.
So if you want to be a part of the church transportation, be here before 9 a.m.
and we go down there.
And I think we're going to have a great time.
I talked to Pastor Thompson today, actually, in fact, and he's doing really good.
And so it's going to be exciting to see him and have him coming out.
He's going to be preaching for us on Friday, and you'll be stuck with me on Thursday.
But, hey, that's where we can just let it rip, right?
It's only men that are coming to the conference, hopefully.
So, also, we are having a friendly competition on the Friday morning,
so I'm excited about that if you want to participate.
And if you can't participate, just pray for us that things would go well
and that we'd have a good time, everyone would stay safe and survive,
and that we would get back. No, I'm just kidding.
But it'll be a lot of fun, as always.
And we also have, in this Sunday, because Pastor Thompson is coming,
he's going to be preaching for us on Sunday. So he's going to be here.
He's going to be preached Sunday morning, Sunday night, and it's going to be a huge blessing.
I highly encourage you, come Sunday, Pastor Thompson is larger than life in every way you can imagine.
So, really, it almost feels like he should be in Texas since everything's bigger in Texas.
But, you know, maybe one day, God willing, you know, we never know what's going to happen.
But he's a great friend of ours, and we love Pastor Thompson and his family,
and they gave us Ms. Jasmine, and we suffered Dylan, so that's kind of the situation.
And the kids, obviously. They're the best part, right?
And then we also have, coming up pretty soon, August 28th, we're going to have Sunday Sundays.
So that's going to be a lot of fun.
Shreveport, Louisiana Marathon, September 24th.
So, I do want to make one quick announcement, just off the record real quick.
Shreveport, Louisiana Marathon, September 24th.
Layer One, Tell Me the Story of Jesus.
Two, Tell Me the Story of Jesus.
Again, that's song 232.
Tell me the story of Jesus.
two three two tell me the story of Jesus
tell me the story of Jesus right on my heart every word tell me the story most
precious sweetest that ever was heard tell how the angels in chorus welcomed
his birth glory to God in the highest peace and good tidings on earth tell me
the story of Jesus right on my heart every word tell me the story most
precious sweetest that ever was heard
fasting alone in the desert tell of the days that are past how for our sins he
was tempted yet was triumphant at last tell of the years of his labor tell of
the sorrow he bore he was despised and afflicted homeless rejected and poor
tell me the story of Jesus right on my heart every word tell me the story most
precious sweetest that ever was heard tell of the cross where they nailed him
writhing in anguish and pain tell of the grave where they laid him tell
how he liveth again love in that story so tender were there never I see
stay let me weep while you whisper love paid the ransom for me tell me
the story of Jesus right on my heart every word tell me the story most
precious sweetest that ever was heard
while the offering plates are passed around please turn in your Bibles to
second Samuel chapter 16 second Samuel chapter 16 as is our custom will read
the whole chapter and you can follow along silently starting in verse number
one there in second Samuel chapter 16 where the Bible read and when David
was a little past the top of the hill behold Ziba the servant of
Mephibosheth met him with a couple of basses saddled and upon them 200
loaves of bread and in hundred bunches of raisins and in hundred of summer
fruits and a bottle of wine and the king said unto Ziba what meanest thou
by these and Ziba said the asses be for the king's household to ride on and
the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat and the wine that
such as be faint in the wilderness may drink and the king said and where
is thy master's son and Ziba said unto the king behold he abideth at Jerusalem
for he said today shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my
father then said the king to Ziba behold thine are all that pertained
unto Mephibosheth and Ziba said I humbly beseech thee that I may find
grace and thy sight my lord o king and when King David came to Bahuram
behold thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul whose name
was Shimei the son of Gira he came forth and cursed still as he came and
he cast stones at David and at all the servants of King David and all the
mighty men were on his right hand and on his left and thus said Shimei when he
cursed come out come out thou bloody man and thou man of Belial the Lord
hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul in whose stead
thou hast rained and the Lord hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of
Absalom thy son and behold thou art taken in thy mischief because thou art
a bloody man then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king why
should this dead dog curse my lord the king let me go over I pray thee and
take off his head and the king said what have I to do with you you sons of
Zeruiah so let him curse because the Lord hath said unto him curse David
who shall then say wherefore hast thou done so and David send to Abishai
and to all his servants behold my son which came forth of my vows seeketh my
life how much more now may this Benjamite do it let him alone and let him
curse for the Lord hath bidden him it may be that the Lord will look on
mine affliction and that the Lord will requite me good for his cursing this
day and as David and his men went by the way Shimei went along on the
hillside over against him and cursed as he went and threw stones at
him and cast dust and the king said and all the people that were with him
came weary and refreshed themselves there and Absalom and all the people the
men of Israel came to Jerusalem and Ahithophel with him and it came to
pass when Hushai the Archite David's friend was coming to Absalom that
Hushai said unto Absalom God save the king God save the king and Absalom
said to Hushai is this thy kindness to thy friend why wentest thou not with
thy friend and Hushai said unto Absalom nay but whom the Lord and this
people and all the men of Israel choose his will I be and with him
will I abide and again whom should I serve should I not serve in the
presence of his son as I have served in thy as I have served in thy father's
presence so will I be in thy presence then said Absalom to Ahithophel give
counsel among you what we shall do and Ahithophel said unto Absalom go in
unto thy father's concubines which he hath left to keep the house and all
Israel shall hear that thou would abhorred of thy father then shall the
hands of all that are with thee be strong so they spread Absalom a tent
upon the top of the house and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in
the sight of all Israel and the counsel of Ahithophel which he counseled in
those days was as if a man had inquired at the Oracle of God so was
all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom. Let's
bow our heads forward a prayer. Father God we thank you for 2 Samuel
chapter 16 and for the opportunity we have this evening to listen to this
portion of Scripture be expounded by the man of God I pray that you fill him
now with your spirit Lord and just help him to preach to us and just
minimize distractions the room so we can listen and learn in Jesus name I pray
amen. Amen. So last Wednesday we did 2 Samuel chapter 15 I only did like the
first 11 verses and so I ended up Sunday night preaching the second part
of chapter number 15 and so now we're in chapter number 16 and it's a very
timely chapter it's pretty interesting but you know what's interesting about
2 Samuel especially this section is it's a lot of chapters dedicated to one
really specific event of Absalom essentially rebelling against David and
it's kind of just like a whole diatribe about Absalom's rebellion
and Absalom's life but specifically Absalom has been going through this
long period this long strategy of stealing away the hearts of the men of
Israel flattering them perverting judgment suggesting to them that David
should no longer be king but Absalom should be king and Absalom is a son of
David but he's not been described according to the Bible to be the next
heir the next king so it's not his position to take so he's conspired
against his own father he's gathered men and they went to Hebron to
supposedly go serve God but really it was just to anoint Absalom as a pseudo
king and then march into town and to take over the main capital of Israel
Jerusalem and in this process David finding out he kind of had to flee and
so David kind of fled Absalom kind of came into the town and that's kind of
where we find ourselves in chapter number 16 and some of the people kind of
shuffled around in the sense that some people stuck with David some people he
sent back to kind of be spies on Absalom and try to figure out because not only
is David a threat here of losing the city but honestly just being a threat
by being alive because as long as David's alive there's always going to
be this little bit of conflict struggle for power who's really the one in
control here you know who voted this bozo in right but look what it says in
when David was a little past the top of the hill behold Ziba the servant of
Mephibosheth met him with a couple of asses saddled and upon them two hundred
loaves of bread and a hundred bunches of raisins and a hundred of summer
fruits and a bottle of wine and the king said in the Ziba what meanest thou by
these and Ziba said the asses be for the king's household to ride on and the
bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat and the wine that such as be
faint in the wilderness may drink and the king said and where is thy master's
son and Ziba said unto the king behold he abideth at Jerusalem for he
said today shall the house of Israel store me the kingdom of my father and
said the king to Ziba behold thine are all that pertain it unto
Mephibosheth and Ziba said I humbly beseech thee that I may find grace in
thy sight my lord o king now as David was fleeing many people kind of caught up
to him and we're suggesting to him that they wanted to abide with them their
loyal servants David of those Ziba now Ziba according to the Bible is the
servant of Mephibosheth. Mephibosheth is Jonathan's son so we had Saul
Saul was the king Saul had a son Jonathan Jonathan David were friends
they were kind of contemporaries Mephibosheth was a son of Jonathan now whenever the
house of Saul was destroyed the nurse of Mephibosheth Jonathan's care you
know Jonathan's like au pair or the person taking care of his children
ended up taking Mephibosheth out in haste and he fell and was crippled and
was lame on his feet and when David was coming back into power he wanted to
show kindness in the house of Jonathan because of the covenant made with him
and so he decided to pick Mephibosheth because he was the only one he could find. Ziba was kind of there saying like
oh hey there's Mephibosheth he's of the household of Saul through the lineage of Jonathan and so
that's kind of how Mephibosheth became friends with David and Mephibosheth actually got to sit at
David's table and eat with the king so he kind of got this honored position
and you know just pictures the fact that we're lame and Jesus lets us sit at his
table you know our sins basically have crippled us to the point where we
can't do anything for ourselves yet David shows mercy and grace into us
that we don't deserve and allows us to eat at his table. Well also Ziba here
being his servant he comes and he talks to David but according to Ziba you
know as we read a little bit further or as we read in the story you know he's
kind of making it out to seem like that Mephibosheth didn't really want to be
with David that he's kind of fallen aside that he's not interested in
serving David it's just Ziba is just kind of out here on his lonesome he's giving him
he's giving the food of his own accord because in verse number three it said
behold he abided Jerusalem for he said today shall the house of Israel restore
me the kingdom my father. Now that just seems a little weird
okay think about it this way why would Absalom after having taken the
entire kingdom now just hand over the kingdom to Mephibosheth like that's kind
of weird that wouldn't happen
okay also do we really think that Mephibosheth who's lame his cripple is
just going to go Rambo on Absalom and take the kingdom away from Absalom in
this situation. Neither of those really make that much sense honestly if you
kind of think about it but we don't really know I mean sometimes people
just say dumb things you know or they're just crazy or they're so
prideful and arrogant that you're just like well that would never work but
okay you know but David does for whatever reason just seems to believe
Ziba here and here's the reason why he probably believes him is because he
just gave a bunch of food he was starving okay here's another thing
sometimes you always make the best decisions when you're starving all right
I know this from personal experience all right especially when you go on a
diet you know every all of your sound reasoning and logic so if I sound
crazy tonight I'm gonna blame the diet all right except why I'm very hungry
right now but that could be a reason why you have poor judgment you know you're
just kind of you're kind of crazy you know if you're out in the middle of the
desert people start seeing things they see the Oasis they see water and
they see mirages and they see these things just because their minds playing
tricks on them they're they're exhausted and everything like that so
they can just start envisioning things seeing things so I think that it's
plausible that David he's already on the run this guy gives him food he
just kind of like yeah whatever he must be he must be telling me the truth hey
if this if this thing works out you can have the entire portion that was going
to be Mephibosheth's you know I just this is my personal opinion but
when we read these chapters it just seems like David just sometimes it's
just always quick just make these like really extravagant promises or like these
really big O's are just kind of like just says things and and then like in
hindsight it's kind of like oh well I guess I've changed my mind or yeah
maybe that wasn't quite right or you know just like when it's talking about
the parable of this guy who stole the sheet from the poor man just like
kill him you know and it's like you're the guy it's like oh man that was
harsh right so it's like sometimes it's costly eat his words right or that
lady tricks him that was coming from Joe lab and he's basically saying like you
know what don't let anybody say anything about that and then she's like
well you're the guy like oh man I gotta eat my words again so it's just
like David constant has to eat his words so that's why it's also
important that when you think about making judgments you need to make sure
that you're making judgments that are sound here's the question did he
interview Mephibosheth does he have a second witness is there really does
the story even make sense so he probably and best-case scenario to me
this is what he should have done at minimum he should have said well you
know what if that checks out and that's what Mephibosheth really said
then I will give you his portion because that way it's not like he's
actually locked into giving him that portion but then at least it's saying
like you know what hey if you're being honest with me sure then you
know what I think you should get some reward for this but if you're kind of
flattering me here you're trying to take advantage of a bad situation here
then you know that's not necessarily nothing's gonna good is gonna happen to
you for this okay so you just want to be careful that you just don't always
like think that everyone's always honest and always telling you the
truth and always there and on your side you know we kind of have to think
about things a little bit be skeptical of why someone is telling you these
things another thing that I thought was a little interesting is just how the
Bible says here that he brought a bottle of wine and and the reason why
that's just kind of interesting to me is because all the other quantities are
like really high have you kind of noticed that like all the other
quantities of the food are like a lot higher and look at the look at some of
these quantities it says 200 loaves of bread and a hundred bunches of raisins
and a hundred of summer fruits and a bottle of wine it's like it's like man
that was like a lot of food and then it's just like a juice box you know
it's like have fun with that and then even think about this look at
verse 2 is the end that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink so
it's even insinuated that a lot of people would benefit from this singular
bottle of wine and you know that's just kind of like an interesting thought
will keep your finger to Proverbs chapter number nine from the reason why
bring this up is because people always scoff at the idea that wine in
your Bible is often a reference to juice ok now that's because they're
ignorant and idiots or they're purposely lying because they like to
get drunk but the Bible this very clearly has two different wines in it
you can prove this a million different ways the Bible even specifically says
in Proverbs chapter 23 there's a certain wine you shouldn't even look
at and then it describes the fermentation process so that makes it
just evident of the fact that there's different kinds of wine when there's a
certain wine you're not even supposed to look at whereas then there's other wine that's
considered a blessing and cheers the heart of man and every other positive
mention you can possibly have the Bible talks about grapes or fruits being
squeezed into a cup to drink from no one believes that that's alcoholic
beverages that's being squeezed straight from the the juice of a great ok and
people like juice was never invented it's like you think that no one on
planet earth ever squeeze a fruit and realize that juice came out of it and
drink that it's like it wasn't invented it's like what all you have to do is
squeeze it oh invention you know it's like that wasn't even something that
need to be invented everyone already knew that everyone has ever eaten any
fruit realize there's juice coming out of it so it wasn't rocket science
to realize like if I squeeze this I get juice they're like well the
preservation process you know some of the more modern preservation process
sure I get that but just because they didn't have it every single day of
their life just because they didn't have a convenience store in every single
corner with refrigeration and they could have juice in the middle of
winter yeah I get that ok it might have been a delicacy it might have been
a seasonal thing you know even today with all the technology and all the
advances we have there are still foods and things that are seasonal they can
only get at certain parts of the year and certain parts of the world and
everything like that because it's a seasonal type option that doesn't mean
it didn't exist it's just seasonal ok and I guarantee you wine specifically is
a more seasonal type product and of course it's a product that's typically
only enjoyed in the east and for the king and rich people because it's kind
of a luxury type item but I've actually done a lot of research on
this in the past and there was a lot of ways that they could preserve juice and
wine in times past ok have you ever heard of wine cellar you know why they
kept wine and sellers because it's cool underground and what does that do
it preserves things longer doesn't it ok also I went camping when I was
young I was like 10 12 I can't remember the exact age and I'd never
been camping city slicker but we had to walk up this mountain like several
miles and then we would just basically fish by this dream well they
brought all this like refrigerated type items and coolers and I remember
thinking like that's weird and then when we had dinner someone hands me
like an ice-cold coca-cola and I'm like how did you get that like this
awesome and they like you want ice on it and it's like because the streams up on
this river are freezing you know they would do is they would take all
refrigerated items they put it in a basket or something and they would
just put a weight on it and they just put it in the street and just go
find a shallow part of the stream to put all the stuff in there and it kept
all the items cold it's like where do you think the idea of refrigeration
even came from it's not like someone just sitting there like we should
make things cold you know it's like they already had things cold they were
figuring out ways to preserve that or bring it in fact even in America they
used to go up in high parts of the mountains and they would get big
chunks of ice and they would transport them down and even though the edges and
the outsides would melt they would still have such a big chunk of it
that they could then chisel it off and they would sell it to
restaurants and the high-end places and even in the eighteen nineteen
hundreds depending on what part of the country lived in depending on if
you're rich and whatever they still have ice in their beverages
ok and you know when we start going back beyond 1817 these timer times we
really have like zero historical documents and we have like very limited
information so we don't even know what technologies we don't even know what
devices I mean when they've done excavations of the Mayans or some of
these other civilizations they've noticed they have tools and and writings
and stuff that make it seem like they were doing brain surgery and they were
doing all kinds of advanced technological things that have already
existed in times past and yeah it might have been a more primitive
mechanism they might not have had the exact same techniques but you know
back then their doctors didn't think men were women so you know you gotta
argue like which technologies are better you know back then they didn't
necessarily think that everything was created from nothing
ok back then they didn't have to they didn't have a computer in their pocket
called a telephone to rely on they actually had to be smart
they actually had to have knowledge they actually had to have a lot of information so it's like we like to
think of ourselves as just having all these things that nobody ever had
before and all this technology and all this stuff but we don't really know and really the Bible
teases there's no new thing of the sun
ok but this is the point that I wanted to make about the wine and look at
Proverbs chapter 9 verse 1 wisdom hath builded her house she hath hewed out her
seven pillars she hath killed her beasts she hath mingled her wine she hath also
furnished her table another thing that people would do is they would take all
of the grapes and they would they would smash it down and get the juice
and everything like that but then they would boil it and then after they
would boil it become like this sap type of a product that then they could
kind of store and then what they would do with the sap is they would just
basically take a little bit of it mix it with water and it'd be juice cocktail
which in fact most people if you're not ignorant almost all fruit beverages are
like 90 some percent water anyways I mean if you go to the store you get
apple juice off the shelf you get cranberry juice you get whatever it'll
say real big hundred percent juice but what they mean by that is the point
five percent of juice that they put in there that was a hundred percent that
point five percent it's never actually like a hundred percent juice in fact if
you actually buy like grape juice that is what like truly one hundred percent
only great just very expensive very hard to find and it is so rich it
would it would just be like so much different than any beverage are used
to so I believe when he brought this bottle of wine typically what's
happening here is there diluting it severely with water so one bottle of
wine actually brings out like hundreds of beverages and so that's just kind of
why you see these pictures like even we see here she had mingled or wine
was mixing it right so basically this woman is taking whatever process
he needs to do and making one you know I grew up and and I always made
lemonade who makes lemonade at home you typically have a jar of lemon juice
and that jar of lemon juice will make dozens of batches of giant things of
lemonade because you take like ninety percent water lots of sugar if
you're making it right and then you put just a little bit of lemon juice in
there and then you make lemonade and it's a really great beverage tastes
really good so why would I believe it's any different than back then they're
probably taking you know a very highly concentrated type juice beverage
in this bottle this bottle probably just only wine and you think about it
even the New Testament you have wine bottles talking about putting a new
wineskins except for they would burst and stuff because here's the thing if
I'm having this highly concentrated fruit beverage and I'm letting that get
exposed to the oxygen in the air what's gonna happen gonna ferment and it's
gonna eventually turn into an alcoholic beverage and it's an explode
or run the wineskin or do whatever you know we can't handle the
expansion or whatever and it could go back and of course obviously the
world was probably doing that on purpose because they probably got
drunk all the time but of course God's people and godly people they
were still just trying to preserve that wine to use it for good beverages and
for some juice think about even in the New Testament got Timothy the Apostle
Paul says use a little wine for thy stomach's sake also probably
insinuating he was mixing just a little bit of fruit beverage with a lot
of water diluting it down and then consuming that kind of beverage that has
nothing to do with really with the story but it just to me kind of
illustrates the point that they were probably diluting these these things
heavily when you look at the quantities right I mean hundreds of pieces of bread
and then one bottle wine you're like what's going on here it's not like one
little thing of grape juice it's just like it's probably a concentrate
that they're diluting and actually satisfying tons of people and it would
be nice if you've been out in the wilderness all day that you get to
mix something in there you know their their water might not have been that
great so mixing in a little bit of wine might have made actually taste
decent you know kind of get some of the dirt out I mean people like tea I
guess but I prefer dirt not in my water so that was just a plug for my
anti-tea rant all right look at verse number five and when King David came to
Bahuram behold thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul whose
name was Shemiiah the son of Gera he came forth and cursed still as he came
and he cast stones at David and at all the servants of King David and all the
people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left and
thus said Shemiiah when he cursed come out come out thou bloody man and thou
man of Belial the Lord has returned upon thee all the blood of the house of
Saul and whose stead thou hast rained and the Lord hath delivered the kingdom
into the hand of Absalom my son and behold thou art taken in thy mischief
because thou art a bloody man he's kind of like Texan all right okay so
this semi I just like this just bitter disgruntled just man of Belial and don't
you just love it when you're getting persecuted and then just men of Belial
come out of nowhere and start throwing stuff at you and yelling at you at the
same time I guess Dave is just a bad guy huh you know I guess Dave is just
so wicked you know Dave is not the man after God's own heart anymore he's not
the godly Christian because no you can't always base your life on circumstances
okay folks this is horrible what's happened to David and to some degree
deserves it because of his sins but he also the same time is being persecuted
I mean this isn't right what's being done to okay it's just that the God is
kind of allowing this to happen to him and yet here's the thing the
Absalom thing has to happen for a reason the shimmy I think is just kind of an
extra bonus here but let me tell you something God's never pleased that men
of Belial are getting to say this junk to men of God okay that's never
like just consequences of your actions that's like persecution always okay the
reprobates they it's never like God just like pleased and using them or
wanting to use them or whatever this is just always legit persecution and he's
screaming against the man of God and he's saying that all this bad stuff's
happening to him why because he's king and Saul's not now here's the
thing this is how you determine if it's persecution or if it is
punishment what if the guy got up and said you know what you should not have
line with Uriah's wife and killed him now what we think that doesn't sound
like persecution that sounds like punishment because you're getting
rebuked for the wicked sin that you did okay but wait a minute didn't God
put David in in the power didn't God use the Philistines to kill Saul
didn't God put you know this whole situation together so how is God then
gonna recompense David for doing good for doing right you know that's why you
should pay attention to what's actually happening it's like oh they're
really mad at you pastor Shelley for preaching the Bible that must be
punishment from God it's like no God's not gonna punish me for
preaching parts of the Bible God's not gonna punish me for going
soul-willing God's not gonna punish me for loving people God's not gonna
punish me for being a pastor God's not gonna punish me for helping a
church you know what God will punish me for sins okay so yeah obviously I'm not
perfect I have sins there could be things that people could say against
me that would be legitimate you know what if it's about things that are in
the Bible that's not punishment folks that's persecution okay so you kind of
have to sit down and think about okay what's happening who's saying what why
are they saying what okay this is obvious persecution okay that's why
it makes me mad when one of our friends gets persecuted for preaching
the Bible or a bunch of reprobates are attacking them and then these losers
come out of the woodwork like oh you ain't job oh you know you're being
punished for you know talking smack on me and it's like if I was being
punished for talking smack on you then wouldn't all the protesters have signs
that say like you railed on Michael Johnson he's a real man of God he's so
wonderful his preaching is great that's how you know it's flattery I mean
that's that's the joke folks okay that would be punishment but that's not
gonna happen I mean if you had an angry mob of people saying you railed
and you lied and you slandered and you stole and you cheated and you do X Y
and Z you better believe that that's punishment I mean you know we have seen
pastors get punished what happened well everyone got mad at them for their
sins for the sins that they were committing okay that is a giant
difference than a pastor everybody being mad at them for preaching the Bible
from doing what God said okay so we always want to make sure that we're
analyzing the situation through scriptural eyes we're paying attention
what the Bible says and it's like wait a minute that's fine that's all has
been replaced by David no problem I have no problem with that it's like oh
you guys are being punished for believing in replacement theology
replacement theology is biblical so that's your you know how you preach
against the Jews well you know the Jews need to be preached against it's in
the Bible have you ever seen Jesus have you read John the beloved gospel
of John it's like oh you guys are you know being persecuted against cuz you
preach mean we're in the Bible does it say like oh you were you were mean in
fact those I means found it usually means average okay it doesn't even mean
what you think it means okay that's that's the problem with the other
crowd they never know the definition of words do they they just make up
their own definitions but David is just letting this guy curse as we keep
reading look at verse nine then said Abishai the son of their eye under the
king why should this dead dog curse my lord the king let me go over I pray
they take off his head now I've heard a lot of this you know I've heard
people they're like pastor Shelley come on but wait a minute let's see
what the Bible says and the king said what have I to do with you you sons
of there you aya let him curse because the Lord has said in him curse David
who shall then say where for as they've done so so here's the thing you
actually have the wrong spirit when you say that did you realize that it's
like it's counterintuitive because the flesh is screaming let me take his head
off you know what that is the same flash that's coming from all the sons
of Zaria that were too bloody they were too carnal they wanted to take
things in their own hands they just wanted to just fight to fight and you
know what that is not a spiritual perspective the spirit of perspective
just says let him curse nuts to him I'm not going to I'm not going to deal
with that situation because I don't have to deal with that situation you
know what our job as Christians is to be peaceful as much as life in me now
obviously when someone breaks through the door the peace window has been
shattered okay then you bring out the peacemaker but I'm all about peace
okay when peace has been shattered I will make peace but you know what as
long as peace hasn't been shattered I'm not gonna shatter it I'm not gonna go
ahead and break that that glass myself okay and so you just want to
make sure that you're always staying within your boundaries now this gets
really extreme because keep your finger go to first Peter chapter number two
and hey I'm there with you I can sympathize with the sons of Zaria at
times because all of our flesh has that same thought it all has that same
desire it all has that same attitude but you know what even David
the greatest warrior arguably in the Bible had restraint had control had
temperance and was not willing to fight in battles that he wasn't supposed to be
not willing to fight in battles that he wasn't supposed to be fighting in okay
and would seek peace amongst people first Peter chapter number two look at
verse 23 the Bible says who when he was reviled reviled not again when he
suffered he threatened not but committed himself to him that judges
righteously so you know if Jesus Christ can walk up to Mount Calvary being
screamed at and yelled at every horrible thing you could ever imagine
when he's never done anything wrong in his entire life and he doesn't revile
back that tells me I have no excuse when he's on the cross and is getting
all manner of mockery all manner blasphemy spoken against him notice he
didn't threaten him he didn't say hey you're gonna have to give an
account for those idle words now he did say that but you know he didn't
say that in response to people threatening him he was just preaching
the Bible okay so yeah there's a time and a place to warn people and to
explain to people the dangers that exist you know he wasn't really
threatening people if you think about it he was warning because what's the
difference between a threat and warning I mean a threat is when you are
basically insinuating you're gonna do harm to them if they don't stop some
kind of activity whereas a warning is saying you're going in a dangerous
direction and I don't want you to get hurt I don't want you to get harm and
I'm warning you to try and stay away from that danger that exists out
there okay and Jesus was warning that generation of the evil that was going
to come upon them but you know even though he could have threatened them
he could have said well I would want to be you on Judgment Day you better
not say that again hey you just got ten feet lower ten feet lower try me
again 20 feet you know it's like he didn't do that kind of stuff right he
just took it and that's kind of what we have to do we have to just take it and
it's not fun I'm not you know it's not like David's enjoying this David
hates it in fact this guy's not even just saying words he's throwing rocks I
mean that's not fun I mean what would be your let me ask this question if
you walked into church tonight and they were throwing rocks at you what
would you have done and I'm not saying like giant rocks that would actually
hurt you and kill you I'm just saying they're just throwing little pebbles at
you just kind of piss you off you know just something just just a little
bit of dust just a little bit of just like a little kind of pebbles just
you know hit you get in your ear you know what did the Bible say you got to
let it go you just got to say you know what hey let him curse just think that
phrase let him curse let him curse let him curse you know this this evening I
showed up before service to go soul winning and I popped out of my truck
and I didn't notice anybody here just Ryan and I guess soon as I get in my
truck there's just like this person just starts screaming bloody murder at me
and I like it really startled me because I didn't think there was any
protesters or anything like that so like I just thought someone was like
dying or something I was just like whoa what happened you know I just
realized it's like the stupid loser that's always protesting is out there
just screaming you know how much he wants us all murder be murdered and
die or whatever the guy that always screams my Jesus doesn't hate you know
it's kind of a little ironic I guess but and then he's just like but
then he gets up there and screams that he wants all of us murdered and brutally
destroyed whatever and I was on the phone even and like it was so loud like the
person on the phone stop and said it's like what's going on and I'm like
I'm sorry I didn't realize the protester out there and they were like
okay and so I but you know you know that I thought let him curse and you
know why I think that is let's keep reading but it's interesting how David's
perspective is and David said to Abishai and to all servants behold my son
which came forth of my bowels seeking my life how much more now may
this Benjamin might do it let him alone and let him curse the Lord
has bidden him it may be that the Lord will look on my affliction and that the
Lord will quite me good for his cursing this day so said you know what if I
just let him alone maybe God will just like bless me somehow or God will do
me good somehow because of this guy cursing and it's just like hey my good
factor just went up because you were cursed me it's like the more you curse
me the more I just get better or something like that it's like the better
I get or the more blessing and my favor it's like if you actually looked
at it from that perspective when she would be like curse more right I mean
what if just as soon as someone cursed you a thousand dollars was just direct
deposit in your bank account like as soon as they say something in the next
statement is two thousand three thousand would you want to go over
there and take that guy's head off you'd be like come on let's go but
as soon as you egg them on it stops so you have to just take it
patiently but every time you take it patiently I mean you would show up and
be like and I really hope they're just but see here's the thing that is
what's happening spiritually to you your spiritual bank account is just it
just like skyrocketing it's just like exponentially exploding whenever you
get the only retake these things patiently it's just you don't have
spiritual eyes typically you're thinking in the flash because it's
really easy and so you just think like stop that I want to cut that off
or whatever but it's like it's like a gold mine it's like a gold rush I
mean you struck oil it's like let that thing go and then as soon as God
takes care of it it's just like sweet it's extra bonus you know it's just like
man that is wonderful when God takes care of it and you know what I didn't
do anything and then as soon as I came back as soon as I came back I got
in my car and I heard you know I hope that all steadfast and all of y'all
get up you know died it's just like like okay right in front of all the
cops that's pretty impressive and then just moments later just arrested and I
was just like hey praise the Lord you know if I tried to do something it would
have never been as good you know just let him curse just let them curse let
them do whatever let them show themselves to be the biggest hypocrites
on the planet you know they can say all day long we're hateful but at least
we own it yeah I do I hate sodomites yeah I hate all of them I hate the
sons of Belial it's like every place called hell Christ is gonna send more
people to hell than just the sodomites for all of eternity it's like the
Christian message is one of love yeah hey I preach the love of Christ hey I
don't want a single person to go to hell neither does God want anybody go
to hell but let me tell you something the vast majority of people are gonna
die and split hell wide open they're gonna die and burn for all of
eternity and you know what if we don't preach that God actually hates some
people you know what they have no fear of God and they won't get saved and in
fact you actually hate them to tell them that God just loves everybody no
matter what you bunch of liars hypocrites I love everybody no you
don't you hate everyone every person that says I love everyone is a liar
there is no one that loves everyone including God himself now there was a
point in time when God did love everyone he showed his love towards
everyone but you know what that wasn't a forever thing that was a one-time
moment of the gospel of Jesus Christ and in fact the Bible describes that
picture is Christ dying on the cross it wasn't like him just looking down
from heaven at some disgusting filthy freaks and a bar and thinking like I
love you know it was used as dying in the cross that he was thinking like I
love the world in this moment because I'm willing to sacrifice my son I'm
willing to give him for the sins of the entire world you know what God
looks at the wicked and he's angry with them every day every single day
God hates sin God hates rebellion to him you know it and God hates people
cursing the man of God God hates people cursing children of God God hates
people defiling children God hates these pervertors of the flesh God hates
them and despises them and is furious with them and you know what he
wants to pour out his wrath on them he wants to recompense them he wants to
requite them but you know what sometimes we get in the way by handling it
ourselves and so if we would just get out of the way and just say hey God get
in there he's just like yeah let me in let me coach and you're just like get in
there get in there you know I don't want to hold you back because you know
I can't I'm not that good you know you gotta realize when you're the bench
player okay and you just like you know what I'm the bench player Jesus
Christ is this is the starting position put him in you know and let
him go to town okay and there'll be a day there'll be a day when Christ
comes and he's gonna be put in and it's gonna be ugly for them okay but for now
let him curse let him curse you know what you do right let them do wrong you
don't be like the sons of Zariya don't be like Joab don't be like
these people that are too bloody to you know don't be one of these Fed
posters or whatever you just stay peaceful and do things right and you
some people act like they want to come to my church just to like make problems
or they want to do stuff and I'm like don't come to my church I'm not
interested I'm interested in soul winners hey you want to be a soldier
come with us and knock some doors we're not gonna go you know bastards and
skulls in okay that you know it wouldn't even be satisfying you would you
would never be satisfied with it people that do this they're never
satisfied in murder they're never satisfied it's just like anything you
just have to go on to the next one and bigger and escalates and that and it's
just never gonna get to the done point I mean if you're just gonna try
and kill every wicked person in this world good luck I mean please start in
Washington DC but I'm just saying like good luck I mean you're gonna get rid
of the whole world I mean what are you what are you gonna do like even just
our nation even though it's pseudo and he's kind of godly compared to some
other nations it would still be just a bloodbath if you were taking care of
all the really wicked people in our nation okay and God's obviously just
gonna have to wait for that to happen I mean it kind of makes sense
why you know he brings up stories about the tears amongst the wheat
because if there was just a giant bloodbath I've taken out all the
people that we need to be taken out I mean it would be ugly for us too it
would be hard even our whole society may not even be able to survive that I mean
if like 50% of our country just died or something I mean that would be really
hard to overcome a lot of functions of society would break down I mean
people don't realize how fragile our world truly is they don't realize the
fragility of our economics the fragility of our life I mean we all
just depend upon so much just perfectly time food delivery and gas
delivery and all these service jobs and all the the economics of just the it
the our generators and electricity and just like I mean if you just start
eliminating people like crazy it everything you just decay and just be
destroyed overnight become like Mad Max one of those like weird futuristic
movies where everything's just destroyed and it's just like wow wow Wes and it's
like that would literally happen but it's never going to happen because
Jesus basically explained to us everything's gonna be kind of the same so I
don't believe all these doomsday things on all these doomsday movies
and all these doomsday prophets like Alex Jones and stuff it's never going
to happen what is going to happen is a small group of people called
Christians are going to be rounded up and killed yeah there's gonna be some
wars and stuff we're never going to have that like weird these weird
apocalyptic I am legend with Will Smith I thought he died in the first
one how did how do they even have a second one didn't he like blow himself
up at the end or something like that it's like how do you have it's like
fake you know he's really still alive I don't know so stupid
okay this was this is brought in part to you by don't watch I am
led into okay now look at verse 13 and as David
and his men went by the way shimmy I went along on the hillside over
against him and cursed as he went and threw stones at him and cast
dust and the king and all the people that were with him came weary and
refreshed themselves there so it's like man this guy just not only
did he curse and he just following him around that doesn't sound familiar
people just following you around cursing you throwing stones at you
throwing dust at you just being just a complete just jerk right
but you know one thing he did he did say in verse number 11 as he
had said behold my son which came forth of my own bow's seek of my
life how much more now may this Benjamin do what David's kind of
trying to say is this he's like look if my own son hates me enough
to rebel against me why would this guy from the lineage of Saul not be
mad at me right now okay and we know he's a son of Belial okay
but it kind of just the thought made me think of Jesus Christ
in the sense of like maybe Jesus was just being really
compassionate like when he's on the cross is like father
forgive them for they know what they do it's like these
people just don't even really know what they're doing they're
just kind of mad and they're just they're just hating on
Jesus but they don't really understand the whole situation
and so like from David's perspective maybe David didn't
know he was a son of Belial I don't know so he's giving him
the benefit of the doubt but just from his perspective it's
like well of course if my own son is against me why
wouldn't just random people be against me too okay and I
didn't see any of y'all volunteering his tribute to go
take off Absalom's head so why why do we have to get the
low level guys right now it's like you're just trying to
act tough because you know you can act tough around this guy
right it's like why don't we deal with the bigger issue here
which is Absalom not this guy like think about their
situation it's not worrying about all the shimmy eyes out
there it's worrying about the Absalom that literally just
took the kingdom and is doing his thing and that's
another thing that's important it's like we're
working on getting people saved getting them baptized trying
to drag them into church use a King James Bible learn
why they should raise their family why they shouldn't
flush their family down the toilet with birth control why
they should dress like a godly Christian why they I mean
we're trying to get people to do that it's like the
last thing I need to do is worry about a bunch of shimmy
eyes and give all my effort and all my energy to a
bunch of shimmy eyes okay there's just no point and
just taking all I mean I only have so much energy I
only have so much time there's bigger fish fish to fry it's
like just nuts to them God God will take care of it and
you know if you have faith you can believe that God will
take care of that I don't have to sit here and worry
about every minor detail okay now look at verse 15 is
this an Absalom and all the people of the men of Israel
came to Jerusalem and Hitho with them and it came to
pass when who shy the Arkite David's friend was come
unto Absalom that who should I said an Absalom God
saved the King God saved the King and Absalom said
who's shy is this like kindness to my friend why
when is thou not with thy friend and who should I
said an Absalom nay but whom the Lord and this
people and all the men of Israel choose his will I
be and with him fly abide and again whom should
I serve should I not serve in the presence of his
son as I have served my father's presence so will
I be in my presence then said Absalom to hit the
bell okay so I want to pause for a second who
shy comes back he's a spy now arguably who
shy is lying here but but the thing is about who
shy statement is it's always easier to lie when
there's a lot of truth mixed in and and think
about some of his statements he had said in
verse number 19 whom should I serve okay and
previously said whom the Lord and then and
this people and the men of Israel choose but if
you think about it if you take those latter
portions out it's like whom the Lord choose
well yeah why would why would who shy not serve
the guy whom God said should be the king okay
but think about that statement it's kind of
misleading because he said I'm going to serve
whoever God chooses but he didn't say that God
chose Absalom okay so it's kind of like easier
for him to just kind of like say things that are
just for sure true and just kind of give a false
pretext or a false context to him to make him
feel like and think about also what he said in
verse number 19 and whom should I serve should
I not serve in the presence of his son as I
have served in thy father's presence so I be
in thy presence now again he does very
specifically say thy presence so it does that's
where I think the lie came into play but isn't
he supposed to serve Solomon I mean if Solomon
was the guy coming in so it's like he kind
of just says all these things are like true
true true true true but then he just kind
of like insinuates who says thy presence so he's
like well I guess it's you you know but here's
another thing that's interesting obviously
Absalom is a crazy character because think
about this Absalom has to know he's wicked but
at the same time it's like this guy's just
said I'm going to serve who God chose and then
Absalom is going along with it so either A
Absalom is dumb enough and so prideful to think
that God literally still wants him to be king or
he knows that's not true but doesn't want
anybody else to realize he thinks that and so
he's just playing along with the idea that God's
on his side either way it's really bad though
for Absalom's perspective right because he has
to know for just a fact if he used any logic
here if he was a humble person God didn't set
this up so either let his pride or his wickedness
allow himself to be in this position and of
course what happens anybody that does these
type of things they always pretend like God's
on their side you know didn't the guy that
shot John Lennon he's like God told me to do
it it's like God didn't tell you to do that
thou shalt not kill okay you know it's like
people always like to insinuate that they're
dying for a religious cause I mean how about
the Muslims and their jihad I mean their jihad
is all for God God told me so right you know
you pretty much almost always have these people
doing these things or you know even an atheist
perspective many of these atheists and
communist dictators would often just attribute
themselves as being God and then it's like you
know God told me because I am God you know
it's just like that's wicked you know for
someone to think that they're God or to
insinuate that they're God and so he kind of
just falls for this this trickery but here's
the thing when you build a kingdom on lies and
flattery it's your guess what you're going to
reap lies and flattery and a lot of
deceitful people coming and working for you
and serving you know if a ruler harken to
lies all servants are wicked what the Bible
says okay and as we keep reading it says in
Hitherfield said in Absalom go into thy
father's concubine I'm sorry verse 20 then
said Absalom to Hitherfield give a counsel
among you what we shall do and Hitherfield
said in Absalom go in under thy father's
concubines which you have left to keep the
house and all Israel shall hear that thou art
a port of thy father then shall the hands
of all that are with thee be strong so they
spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the
house and Absalom went in under his father's
concubines in the sight of all Israel
and the council of Hitherfield which he
counseled in those days is as if a man
had inquired at the oracle of God so is
all the council of Hitherfield both David
and with Absalom now I want to finish going
to a few places in the Old Testament we
got that story go to Leviticus chapter
18 go to Leviticus chapter 18 and here's
the thing sometimes when you read the
Bible it's not just always immediately
obvious what it's trying to say you
kind of have to read it a few times
study the context and pay attention
when the Bible is saying that a hit
the fell is as is of a man inquired of
the oracle of God this is not saying
that a hit the fell is godly it's not
saying he's Christian it's not saying
that he's you know right with the Lord
or a prophet the application that's
actually being made here is that he's
just he's really smart because if I ask
God anything God's gonna always give
me the right answer God's gonna
always give me the best advice okay so
whenever they inquire of a hit the
fell it's like a hit the bell is just
always going to give you the exact
right answer but here's the problem
with it though his wisdom is always
an earthly wisdom it's not a godly
wisdom and sometimes the exact right
answer carnally speaking is still the
wrong answer it's still the wrong
decision it's the wrong counsel okay
because humanly speaking things don't
always work out humanly right if it's
like okay I have to put money on the
Egyptian army or all these Hebrews are
trapped up against the Red Sea it's
like the Egyptians are gonna win like
it's not even question but here's the
thing then the God factor comes in
and they die okay so you have to you
know thinking about lots of things it's
like letting someone do you evil and
not paying them back doesn't really
make sense carnally speaking the smart
thing carnally is let's take off his
head but then he put in the God
factor and ends up not being the
right decision so why does it hit the
bell tell Absalom to go into his
father's concubines well because if
Absalom does this horrible atrocity
this horrible act it's gonna make it
abundantly clear that there's no going
back there's no way for him to turn
himself in and this makes me think of
gang initiations okay or like really
bad initiatives what a lot of times
people will do is in order to get in
part of a gang or to prove that you're
not a cop they will force you to do
an act that a cop or law enforcement
would never do because there's no
justification and there's no going back
so they'll have you kill someone
they'll go capture somebody from the
foreign gang or whatever and they'll
put the gun in your hand and they'll
videotape you doing it they'll take
pictures of you doing it and it's
their insurance that you're not a cop
it's their insurance that you're
actually not gonna go back because
here's the thing once you kill
someone you're not gonna go hand
yourself over to the cops and be like
hey just FYI kill someone because now
you're going to jail the rest of
your life so basically they have to
get you into a position where there's
just no chance whereas maybe they'd
be like oh hey actually sorry I wasn't
kicking David out this was a big
misunderstanding I don't know where
David went let's fix it you know
and then he's like actually a hit the
bell told me to do it and then it's
like okay well let's kill a hit the
bell or whatever you know let's kill
this servant so they don't want to
get this like blame game or
confusion so hit those basically
suggesting like look if you sleep with
your father's concubines there is no
going back there will be you know no
one will ever think that there's
reconciliation between you and your
dad ever again it's over and at that
point then they'll fight with you to
the death at that point then they'll
be on your team essentially you know
they'll kind of realize and and
here's the thing that's true what
he's saying is true and what he's
also saying will scare everyone because
if they see Absalom do that they're
going to think like there Absalom will
do anything like like you better not
mess with Absalom because there is no
boundary he won't cross you know all
the rules all the laws of God have
apparently just gone in the trash can
with Absalom and you know that's going
to strike a lot of fear into people
but you know I know it's not godly
wisdom because everything he says
violates the Bible now he obviously
didn't have the same wisdom coming from
Nathan because Nathan the Prophet
already told David that what he had
done in secret was going to be done to
him by one of his own house and as
we done before all the Sun and before
all Israel well if it heard that he
probably wouldn't given this advice
okay but look at this 18 chapter 18
verse 8 the nakedness of thy father's
wife shall not uncovered as thy father's
nakedness look at chapter 20 and look at
verse number 11 and the man that lies
with his father's wife have uncovered
his father's nakedness both of them
shall surely you put the death their
blood should be upon them notice if a
man lies with his father's wife he's
supposed to be put to death and think
about this why did Absalom get so mad
at David because of what Amnon did and
you know what Amnon deserve the
death penalty you know what Absalom is
about to do this ten times worse than
Amnon you know you think that you're
fighting evil but then all of a sudden
you end up being ten times worse
than the person you hated you become
ten times worse than the man that
you despise in your heart go to
Deuteronomy 22 go to Deuteronomy
chapter 22 that's why you need to
let go of anger you need to let go
of bitterness you need to not dwell on
wrath because it can turn you into a
very wicked person it can turn you to
very evil person and you know that's
what sin does the sin multiplies and
expands and makes you way worse than
you think Deuteronomy 22 look at
verse 30 the Bible says a man shall
not take his father's wife nor
discover his father's skirt go to
Deuteronomy 27 you know I'm showing
you all these places for this reason
if ahead the bell such a great godly
man how did he not know all of these
verses how is he so ignorant of
scripture it's because the head feels
not necessarily a godly counselor he is
a brilliant counselor he's smart but
that doesn't mean he's godly and
you know there's a big difference
between these two but the problem is
when you have only the earth's wisdom
you're still a fool the earth's wisdom
is foolishness in comparison to God's
wisdom okay Deuteronomy 27 verse number
20 cursed be that life of his father's
wife because he has uncovered his
father's skirt and all the people
shall say Amen now think about this
even though I hit the fellas right
that if he does this all the people's
hands will be strengthened to be with
them and he can't reconcile with his
father even if he kills David even if
he wins what did the Bible say cursed be
he so you know what Absalom is gonna
be cursed of God how could that ever
outweigh any of the benefits of
whatever that is I mean okay yeah I'm
aching I see the Babylonian ish
garment I see all the gold and I'm
gonna take it but you know what
taking all these riches taking all
this money I'm gonna get a curse on
myself you know you can be get
hay's eye and go out to name in and
say hey I'm sorry did we say we're
gonna do that for free you missed my
guy my buddy some some sons of
prophets came down and they need to
change the garment and some gold and
whatever what you want to give that
to me and then he comes back and what
does Elijah say hey guess what you
get with that prize leprosy you're
cursed and let me tell you
something there is no benefit when you
bring God's curse on your life that is
worth it it doesn't matter what that
benefit is oh but you don't understand
pastor Shelley this is such a good
opportunity this is such a good idea
this is such a great sin it's like
no sin is worth the curse of God oh
but you don't understand pastor Shelley
you know fornication is not that
big a deal no I don't want to be
cursed of God you don't understand
pastor Shelley you know our marriage
is bad adult is not that big a deal no
I don't want the curse of God oh but
you don't understand pastor Shelley
kids are hard I just I don't want to
have kids anymore no I just don't want
the curse of God you know the you
know it's harder than kids the curse
of God you know I talked to a lot of
people and you want to know the people
that are the most depressed sad and
have the most problems and are
complaining to me it's never the people
that just have lots of kids and I'm
not saying they don't have problems
I'm just saying that it's not just
people have lots of kids that are
always coming like kids are so hard
pastor Shelley what do I do it's people
that sin really bad that come up to
me and say what do I do in fact I
don't even know maybe they complain
to my wife some but like I can't
even remember I don't even know that's
ever happened in my life where a guys
come up to me and be like pastor
so they have too many kids I don't
know what to do what am I gonna do
pastor Shelley I'm just my life is
just so hard because I just all these
kids it's like you know I would try to
give them you know wisdom from the
Bible and try to explain to them why
it was a blessing I haven't even had
to do it because the Bible just as
happy as the man that had this quiver
full of them you know what people
that sin and do all kinds of wicked
evil stuff they constantly come up to
me and complain they're constantly
asking me my advice or what I should
do or like hey what I do the fact
that I can have kids you know or I
destroyed myself in this way or I
did some stupid thing or whatever you
know some woman calls me there's some
woman just go to our church you call
me and she's just like I have a kid
and my husband says that he's done with
me never wants to have any more kids
with me and I'm so sad and I can't
stop crying and I don't know what to
do and it's like okay well you know
are you making your husband all his
favorite meals no are you taking your
kid to church no are you going
soul-winding no do you read the
Bible your kid no it's like why does
God want to bless you more kids you
know and I I mean it's just like
people that are following God's
commandments really well never seem to
come up to me complain to me about
it they never like pastor Shelley it's
just too hard to love my spouse the
way God said you know I'm making them
all his favorite meals and I'm giving
him everything he wants and I'm I'm
blessing him I've never complained in the
last year I never complained last five
minutes you know whatever more
realistic sorry no I'm just kidding all
the kids are well dressed all the
kids are doing good and our marriage is
just wrecked it's like that never
happens it's always like I fight with
him and argue with him and yell at
him and he you know I don't do
anything for him he doesn't deserve it
blah blah blah why won't he spend
time with me and it's like I don't want
to talk to you I'm already like wanting
to get away okay you know or it's like
you marry some whore and she's like
she's a whore and you're just like
what do I do it's like don't marry a
whore it's like it's like no guys
ever come up to me and complain
about how God my wife's little too
godly pastor Shelley pastor Shelley my
husband makes too much money and takes
me on too many dates and is leading me
to spirit like he wants to teach me
the Bible all the time he always has
the answer for every problem he spends
so much time with the kids it's just
terrible pastor Shelley will you please
fix it what is it's like this guy's a
deadbeat who doesn't have a job and
is a loser and mean and a jerk and
the only Bible verse he knows in the
Bible is like wives obey your husbands
you know it's like the only verses
ever learn I'm just I'm just telling
you look you know are you getting
advice from a hit that fell in your
life are you getting advice from the
Bible you know it's been Shapiro
giving you advice or some some woman
online some woman's blog about how you
can have a 50-50 marriage some women
pastor Joyce Meyer Beth Moore I mean
it's like you're gonna yeah you're
gonna your life's gonna suck you're
gonna be cursed when you're not
following God's command get the hit
the fells out of your life get the
King James Bible into your mind in
your heart and you know what the
Bible says that that God uses the
foolishness of preaching to save them
with belief and let me tell you
something as foolish as my preaching is
it's still better than the smartest
unsaved person out there the worst
sermons of mine the most foolish
sermons of mine the weirdest
examples the choice words are still
better than Jordan Peterson there's
still better than Matt Walsh there's
still better than Ben Shapiro there's
still better than and it's not
because I'm special it's because the
Word of God is special my friend and
it doesn't matter how much I dilute it
down it's still the wine coming from
God okay that's special you know what
and I don't want the dirty tea water
that's coming from all these other
people sorry you couldn't resonate
with that example as well all right
heard more I am ends earlier okay but
we need to make sure that we're
getting the right kind of wisdom the
right kind of advice so we don't end
up like Absalom let's go some prayer
they give me father for the Word of
God thank you for giving us a
trustworthy source of information the
King James Bible I pray that we get our
hearts and minds on the scripture and
that we would go to it as our
counselor and we wouldn't trust the
wisdom of this world we wouldn't
trust the ahead spells out there they
want to lead us astray and not only
leads the straight lead us and right
into curses lead us into just a
complete destruction of our life and
our soul and of our mind our spirit
and our family I pray that we would
just we would ignore that stupid
advice out there and we would just
succumb to the Word of God in Jesus
name we pray amen for our final song
this evening we'll go to 212 Oh happy
day 212 Oh happy day song 2 1 2 Oh
happy day Oh happy day that fixed my
choice on the my Savior and my God
well may this glowing heart rejoice
and tell its raptures all abroad
happy day happy day when Jesus wash my
sins away he taught me how to watch
and pray and live rejoicing every day
happy day happy day when Jesus wash
my sins away Oh happy bond that seals
my vows to him who merits all my
love let cheerful anthems fill his
house well to that sacred shrine I
move happy day happy day when Jesus
wash my sins away he taught me how to
watch and pray and live rejoicing
every day happy day happy day when
Jesus wash my sins away is done the
great transactions done I am my Lord's
and he is mine he drew me and I
followed on charm to confess the voice
divine happy day happy day wash my
sins away he taught me how to watch
and pray and live rejoicing every day
happy day happy day when Jesus wash
my sins away now rest my long
divided heart fixed on this blissful
center rest nor ever from my Lord
depart with him of every good possessed
happy day happy day when Jesus wash
my sins away he taught me how to
watch and pray and live rejoicing
every day happy day happy day when
Jesus wash my sins away thank you all
for coming god bless you are dismissed