00:00 It's That Time Again!

00:12 Forrest Frank is On Fire

03:30 Things To Come...

03:58 David and Bathsheba: A Lesson in Repentance

09:51 The Consequences of Sin and God's Grace

12:13 Closing Remarks and Prayer

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Hey, welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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What's happening, folks?

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It's Tuesday the 13th.

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Tuesday the 13th.

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Dun.

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Yeah.

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There's not, it's not a big deal.

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Not a bad day.

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Yeah.

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No, not on Tuesdays at least.

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Hey, you went to a concert recently?

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I did.

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How did that go?

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I expect it went fantastic.

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Went to go see Forrest Frank

with my two oldest and my wife.

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Wow.

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So we saw that the tickets were selling.

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They're resale Tickets.

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Tickets

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Rod: we're going for thousands.

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They, some of them were, yeah.

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What's up with Forres?

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Why does everybody love Forrest Frank?

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PJ: I think talk about that.

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His music is just easy to listen to.

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It's super catchy.

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It's not super complicated.

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It's, his songs are short, so

it is not a big investment.

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Should we do them for worship?

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I don't

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Rod: know,

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PJ: was

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Rod: down, but now

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PJ: oh or no, ls?

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Yeah.

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No, I just, he's churning out

a song like every other day.

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Like it's, and they're

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Rod: good too.

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They are.

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They're good.

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He's catching on sec in

a secular environment.

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He is.

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Yeah.

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It's not just the Christian, which

is what I find so fascinating.

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Whenever there's a crossover

artist, you have to say what is

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capturing people's attention.

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Yeah.

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I think part of it is he's so optimistic.

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They're upbeat songs with upbeat

messages that are in a world where

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everything is doom and gloom and.

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You know this is going wrong and

there's microplastics and everything.

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It's nice to be like, man,

I'm about to have a good day.

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PJ: That's that.

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I just was thinking about that.

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'cause he did reels where he sat on

a park bench with a sign that said,

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if you're having a bad day, sit down.

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Yeah.

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And random people would sit

down and put the headphones on

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and he did play on that song.

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Yeah.

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And they would start listening

and start smiling and okay.

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Rod: Yeah, he's a, he's striking gold

with a wide ver so not just Gen Z or Gen

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Alpha, but he's hitting a lot of different

demographics, which is so fascinating

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when you have an artist like that.

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It's special.

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Now my question is he's gonna be

around for five, 10 years or is he

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gonna be like a Johnny come lately.

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So he's already in his thirties,

which I didn't realize.

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He's old

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PJ: man.

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Yeah, dude.

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And time to pass a baton.

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He went on his first tour, I guess

last year and we didn't go to that one.

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And I remember Josh being a little

bit upset 'cause he was like, man for

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said, he doesn't know how long he's

gonna tour because he's got a family.

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Like he's got a wife and his kid

and so he just doesn't know that he

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really wants to do this very long.

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And I was like, I bet you

it, at least he'll do.

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And so he's coming back around.

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So we're going as we're recording

this, we're going tonight on

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Saturday, but it's Tuesday now.

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So I'm, I hopefully the

concert was fantastic.

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Rod: Yeah.

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Yeah.

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PJ: If your voice is totally shot,

I'll know you had a good time.

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There we go.

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I I, yeah don't grade it on that.

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If Josh's voice is totally

shot, then I don't know, man.

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It was a good time.

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Rod: I think you'll be screaming

at the top of your lungs

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PJ: for Yeah.

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Man, it's over in Fort Worth,

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Rod: though.

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PJ: It's, that's a hike.

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It's the Dickies Arena over there.

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That is a

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Rod: hike.

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Now we drove to Fort Worth recently.

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Yeah.

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To go see one of Adam's concerts.

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So Adam plays trumpets for

those of you who don't know, and

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he's part of the regional band.

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And so the Salina team drove

or not drove they performed at

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a competition in Fort Worth.

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And I'm like, man, that took me

a solid hour to get, oh yeah,

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maybe it was closer to 45.

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I can't recall.

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But it was definitely no.

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I take it back.

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It was an hour, I remember it was

an hour there and an hour back.

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Yeah.

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And that was taking the toll roads.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Rod: Whew.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Rod: So if the sermon was, if I

was dreary or a little tired on

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Sunday, that, that's why, 'cause we,

'cause you got home at 4:00 AM Yeah.

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You guys were partying hard.

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Almost.

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Almost, yeah.

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Because you gotta get

food after a concert.

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You know that right?

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Do you, you do because you're hungry

after putting in all that effort.

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And you don't wanna buy food at the venue.

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No.

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'cause that's gonna be ridiculous.

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So you, you go to the drive

through, you get some fast food,

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Mexican, and then because you

ate that, the night goes poorly.

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Because you know what?

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You just ate not gonna,

it's not gonna do well.

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And so then you have a terrible

night of sleep and then you

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go to church and preach.

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So God bless you.

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We're getting dinner before the

concert, so hopefully that'll work.

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You're gonna need some after too.

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For sure.

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PJ: Hey it is the 13th and why

that matters to you, it may not too

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much except that a month from today

we're gonna be at the Rangers game.

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And so June 13th, we're going as the

church family to watch them play the

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White Sox, and it should be a great time.

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We're gonna tailgate ahead of time, so

your ticket is gonna include the ticket.

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For entrance into the game as

well as the dinner that we'll

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have there together beforehand.

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And we've got a t-shirt that we'll

be having for the the event too.

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So a month out, make sure that you

are signing up for the Rangers game.

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Should be a great time as a church family.

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Alright, let's jump into our text.

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We've been forecasting that things

are about to go bad for David, and

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you probably already know this and

we were just talking about this.

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This is a familiar passage

in the life of David.

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You think about different

things with David and Goliath.

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David and Bathsheba is probably

the number two thing that comes

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to mind when you think of David.

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And so this is familiar ground in

Second Samuel, chapter 11 and 12 here.

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And yet it's good for us to

read it again and it's good for

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us to come back to it again.

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And the Apostle Paul, I think I said

the writer of Hebrews the other day,

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and I was off on that, but the Apostle

Paul is the one in Corinthians who

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says, Hey, God wrote these things

down for us for our instruction.

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And he's referring to

the Old Testament here.

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So there are things here for

us as New Testament believers.

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To be able to look at and

learn from and understand.

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And one like this, some of the

lessons are just low hanging fruit.

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The lessons of purity, the lessons

of battling temptation and fighting

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sin, the lessons of covering up sin.

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Hopefully not the lesson

of do not Murder, I hope.

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Let's pray that everybody on

our team got that one down.

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Never know.

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But there's things for us to note

here and observe and say, okay,

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this is a good reminder for me.

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Even just the idea that we, we

are, but a sliver of a hair breath

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width away from falling ourselves.

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That if we look at this and go, this

would never be me, then that's where

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we have to be the most careful.

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Let him who stands take

heed lust, he fall.

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And so we need to be careful.

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You often tell the students that

they're one dumb decision away

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from ruining their entire life.

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I do.

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And that's not just true for them.

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That's true.

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All I it of us.

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I to, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Rod: I look in the mirror, I tell myself

all the time, rod, you're just one dumb

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decision away from ruining your life.

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Don't do it.

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Don't do it.

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Don't

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PJ: do it.

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Yeah.

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This is gonna be familiar.

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The story of David Bathsheba is one that

even the secular world knows pretty well.

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And then the story of Nathan

and the confrontation of David

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afterwards in two Samuel ch chapter

12 is one that is familiar and yet

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it's good for us to look at that.

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And then what always strikes me

is just the way that David is

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broken in just a moment's notice.

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He falls.

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By going up and lingering on the rooftop.

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But then when Nathan comes back to him

and he's listening to Nathan's story and

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he's en raptured with Nathan's story,

and then the, you get to the culmination

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when David goes, the man deserves to die.

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And Nathan says, you are that man.

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And then immediately David is broken.

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It's like the spirit of God

just wrecks him in that moment.

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And that's something that is painful.

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And that was miserable.

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And that is just it's crushing.

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In fact, he describes that in

some of the Psalms we're gonna

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look at, I think, in tomorrow.

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And yet it's also such a grace

of God that he does this.

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And it's such a good thing when

the Spirit brings conviction in

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our life and we need to respond to

that conviction like David does.

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We need to not try to shove

that conviction away or

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ignore the conviction or.

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Try to justify our sin.

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We need to be able to be with David and

just be broken in the face of our sin.

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The way that David is

here, David responds well.

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Now this is gonna set and chain set in

motion a chain of events for the rest of

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David's life that are not gonna go well.

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But there is something that is,

is good for us to observe in the

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way that David is broken and does

confess and does acknowledge his

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sin when Nathan confronts him.

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Rod: Absolutely.

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And let's be clear here this passage.

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I don't know, I wince when I read it.

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I don't like it for obvious reasons.

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There's so many different areas here

that just cause me to grimace as

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I'm like, ah, I know how this goes.

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I don't wanna see this again.

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But it's so good for you.

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Number one, let's understand

here that David's sin.

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DA Davidson is grievous, but

David's repentance is what gives us

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confidence that he is a true believer.

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To your point, what you just said, when

he's confronted by Nathan, he's willing

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to confess and say, yeah, that's it.

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It's almost like it's superficial.

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Hi.

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His covering of sin was like,

I'm covering it, but barely.

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All Nathan had to do is just.

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Point to the sin and say, there it is.

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And he's yeah, you got me.

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I'm red handed.

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When you sin, one of the temptations is

that you're gonna hide just like David.

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You're not gonna wanna tell people,

you're just gonna keep it to yourself

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and hope that no one finds out.

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But the Lord knows.

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And the Lord, if he loves you,

will want to uncover your sin

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so that you can repent of it.

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The Lord will never let

you get away with sin.

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Christian, be sure of that.

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Your sin is grievous to the

Lord, and because he loves you,

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he won't let you keep it hidden.

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Better for you just to

acknowledge it on the front end.

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Don't make him discipline you

by sending someone like Nathan

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to offer you more conviction.

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He'll do it if he has to.

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Better for you to open your mouth

your mouth and confess to the

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Lord, confess your sins to one

another that you may be healed.

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So that's the first thing

you should be aware of.

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Number two, a lot of people will look at

David and say David committed adultery.

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He did these grievous things.

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He's a murderer.

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So maybe I can sin in some grievous

ways and it's not as bad as David.

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Therefore I can I'm okay.

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A couple thoughts about that.

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Number one, David did not have the New

Testament spirit dwelling within him.

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He had the spirit the anointing of the

spirit to do his job, but he does not

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have the spirit of God like you and I do.

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So something like this even under

the old covenant, was still grievous

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and egregious under the new covenant.

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It's especially so because we have the

spirit of grace operating within us.

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It's not to say Christians

won't make mistakes.

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They will, we will, we

do all the time, but.

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The severity of the mistakes that we

make are, I think, are gonna be far away

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from what David was able to do, even

as a believer, because again, he did

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not have the spirit of God within him.

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Secondly I think it's Thomas

Brooks who wrote the book precious

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Remedies Against Satan's Devices.

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Can you check that name?

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Is it Thomas Brooks?

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Precious Remedies.

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Precious Remedies Against Satan's devices.

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He says something to this effect.

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You might be able to sin

with David, but can you re.

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Repent with David.

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You can sin like he does, but

can you repent like he does?

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Thomas Brooks.

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Thomas Brooks.

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Good.

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That's worth reading by the way.

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If you have not yet read that Puritan

paper bag, that is well worth your time

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just because that's it, that's the one.

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Just because you can sin similarly

does not necessarily mean that

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you can repent the same way.

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Repentance is a gift.

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Never presume upon the Lord to do

something grievous and assume that I'll

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just repent when I'm done with this.

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I'll persist in this season

of sin and when I'm done.

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I'll confess that's

not the way this works.

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Beware lest you harden your

heart against the Lord.

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Take David's story and be warned,

just like you were saying,

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PPJ one Corinthians 10 13.

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Beware and keep a close watch on yourself.

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I'm conflating verses

now, but you get the idea.

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Yep.

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PJ: What happens there in two

Samuel 12 that leads us into

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one Chronicles 20 is at the end.

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After this and after this horrific

result, which is the death of the

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child that Bathsheba bore, which is

just a whole nother thing that we

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probably don't have the bandwidth

to get into in the podcast here.

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But our belief in God's grace towards the

the innocent, if we can put it that way,

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that the children would allow us to say

we believe that God took this child to be

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with him that this child was not a victim.

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That was.

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Killed by God and then sent to hell.

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Now it's still difficult because

God does afflict the child.

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And so the our belief in God's sovereignty

is again, challenged here for us to

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say, okay, God, you know what is good?

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You know what is right.

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You know what is just and even when

it doesn't appear that way, it's,

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we're gonna trust you in that.

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All that to say David.

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Mourns, the child dies, he goes to eat,

and then Joab does something interesting.

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Joab goes out and wins a battle,

and Joab then calls to David and

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says, David, you need to come

take the crown from this king.

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It's yours.

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You need to come be the

king for the people.

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Again, this is a downfall.

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This is horrific,

everything that's gone on.

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But David, it's time for you to

step back into the role and lead

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the people Now even kinda like we

talked about last Sunday with Peter,

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it's okay, Peter, you deny Jesus.

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But Jesus has now offered you his mercy.

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His grace is forgiveness, and now it's

time for you to go and lead the church.

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It's time for you to go

do what you need to do.

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And so Joe Abbott is doing that a

little bit here, I think in two Samuel

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chapter 12, the end, and then also first

Chronicles chapter 20 with this battle

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that he wins and then calling David to

come and seal the deal, so to speak.

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Rod: Absolutely.

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And don't forget in verse 24 what happens.

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This is one of the darkest

times in David's life.

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For obvious reasons.

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It getting dark, it's gonna get darker.

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There's gonna be things ahead of him.

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But notice this, David comforted his wife,

Bathsheba went into her, lay with her, and

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she bore son and called his name Solomon.

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And here's something cool.

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The Lord loved him.

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In fact, his name does mean Beloved.

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His name is beloved of God, and he's

gonna be the one that's gonna be.

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That, that will take over the

Davidic reign after David's finished.

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And so you have a glimmer of

hope, and this is what God does.

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Even amidst a very dark season

of life, God still sends rays of

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his grace and sunshine to say,

look, I've got this under control.

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Jed, by the way, that's what

it means, the beloved of God.

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So Solomon's nickname is Jed,

and that means beloved the Lord.

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So you see some bright rays

of hope despite the fact that

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there's some very dark clouds of

sin in day's life at this point.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Rod: Yeah.

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PJ: Let's pray and then we

will wrap up another episode

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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God, we are thankful for your grace,

your mercy in our lives and how you

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work in our lives to to restore us and

to use us for your glory and your good.

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And God I pray that we would not be

careless or reckless when it comes

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to our sin, that we would not rush

headlong into sin thinking that it's

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no big deal or even as pastor was

saying, presuming upon your grace to

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allow us to repent or even desire.

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To repent afterwards.

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And God, I pray that you'd keep

us faithful to you and in sharp

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in your hand to be an instrument

for your good and for your glory.

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And God we pray that we need the

spirit towards that end, and we need

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to be sensitive towards the spirit.

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So help us to do just that,

we pray in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said