00:00 Welcome Back to the Daily Bible Podcast

00:10 Reflecting on Mother's Day and Men's Retreat

00:43 Exploring the Dynamics of Men's and Women's Retreats

01:05 The Art of Being Interesting Without Revealing Too Much

02:21 The Uniqueness of Names and Their Stories

04:21 The Phenomenon of Local Fame and Its Impact

05:49 Diving Deep into a Tough Section of Scripture

10:24 Analyzing David's Actions: Consent, Power, and Repentance

12:51 The Consequences of David's Sin and the Role of Nathan

15:56 The Death of David's Child: Divine Justice or Punishment?

21:20 Solomon's Birth and the Aftermath of Tragedy

21:54 David's Military Triumphs and Leadership

24:05 Reflecting on Biblical Narratives and Their Lessons

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Yeah.

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So we're talking about here that

we need more bookmarks for this.

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Daily Bible reading plan.

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Well, we're glad that you're

back with us for Monday's edition

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of the daily Bible podcast.

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The Monday, hope your

mother's day was great.

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We're glad to be back,

but now you're done moms.

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No.

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Honor.

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Yeah.

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Next year.

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Yeah, next year.

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We'll hit you up again.

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We're done praising you for now.

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Yeah, we are.

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In fact, you know, we talked

about our men's retreat last year.

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We almost put the men's retreat

over mother's day weekend.

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We did.

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It was, it was closed.

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You would never do that.

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Yeah, but no, but we talked

about doing a second one.

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Before the women's.

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We did.

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We didn't do it.

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I mean.

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I'm not going to lie.

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It was fun.

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I'd go back.

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I'm going to go back.

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I plan on being there next year.

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Yeah, I'm just saying, I don't know

if I want to wait a whole year, but I

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get why we need to, I understand that.

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I just don't want to, well,

maybe you can go to the women's

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retreat and preach over there.

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You know, pastor Ben up in Idaho does

that he preaches at the women's retreat,

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goes to the women's retreat and he

preaches, he leaves the room with retreat.

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Yeah, well, he at least preaches there.

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And I think his wife does Holly as well.

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I think she preaches one or two sessions

and he preaches one or two sessions.

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So, wow.

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Okay.

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Interesting.

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Yeah.

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Yes, I would agree.

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Yeah.

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We're going to get somebody.

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Who's going to be like you

guys say interesting too much.

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I so let's change that.

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Then I have to add that intriguing.

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Uh, yeah, I D I have no other, yeah.

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Interesting is a, it's one

of those neutral boards.

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You're not, you're not saying

negative and not saying positive.

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We're just like, oh, that's interesting.

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It's the, it's the go-to when

you don't want to affirm, but

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you don't want to negate right.

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It's like, okay.

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Yes.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Right.

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That.

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Oh, it seems more passive, aggressive.

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Interestingly, at least, uh,

it's potentially positive.

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Yeah.

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But you're not saying that you're

not revealing your cards, right.

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It interests me perhaps in a way that I'm

like really in an, and then perhaps in a

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way that I'm like, oh, That's a good idea.

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Yeah, I w.

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When I say, I typically mean

I'm interested, like, oh, I

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want to learn more about that.

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Yes.

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I don't always mean that.

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But most of the time I,

there is an element of, oh,

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I need to think about that.

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You typically mean what you

say when you say what you say.

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I'd say typically I do.

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Yeah.

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Typically you don't often waste words.

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We were talking about that the other day.

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I try not appreciate that about you.

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I want to use my words wisely.

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I, on the other hand, I'll

just blow, smoke all the time.

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I don't think that's the case.

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No.

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Yeah.

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I don't think that's the case, but.

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We're we're different.

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Yes, different approach.

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Yeah.

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Different helpful.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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It's like peanut butter and jelly

complimentary, we might say yes, which.

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One of us has peanut butter,

which one of us is jelly.

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I don't know, but that was a nickname

that people called me at summer

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camp, of course, because of PJ.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That makes sense.

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So.

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I got that.

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I got pajamas.

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I got everything.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I see that.

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That's why, when people started

asking me, what does PJ stand for?

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I started just going.

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Feel better.

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The Peewee Jenkins, Peewee, Jenkins.

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And, uh, what's awesome is when

people laugh and then, cause I've

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gotten to the place where I can

hold a straight face with that.

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I'm like PB Jenkins.

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And they look at me and they're

like, oh, that's why he go by PJ.

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That's why.

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Your dad.

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Doesn't love you, mom.

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Doesn't love you.

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Yeah, well, You know, Yeah.

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I don't know, man.

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Yeah.

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We don't know if they love you to.

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Here's the deal.

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I'm not to sell out my mom.

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I love my mom.

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She listens to the podcast.

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She does.

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Yeah.

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So thank you for listening to the podcast,

mom, but she almost named me Bromley.

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Bromley Bromley.

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It's strong.

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I like Brahm Brahms.

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Cool.

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Yeah.

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Well, we've got Berhanu here and we,

he goes by Bron, which is a similar.

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Oh, that's strong.

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I like that Brahm.

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Yeah, Bromley.

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The Brahm, the whole name.

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Yeah.

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I struggle with that, but I do

like Braum Braum sounds cool.

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B R O M I L E Y.

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Bromley.

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Oh, Braum Millie.

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Yeah.

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And my wife was almost Kendall, Kendall.

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Bromley and Kendall.

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Bromley and Kendall.

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Oh, man.

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BK.

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Yeah, I don't have it your way.

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That's the name of your church?

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Yeah.

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There it is.

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There it is in another world and we would.

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Be pastors.

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You would both be best to dude.

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That your life could have

been completely different.

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Yeah.

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We were probably in Kendall.

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I'm thankful for this one.

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I'm thankful for this one.

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Bromley and Kendall.

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Yeah.

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You know what I think

what we need is a novel.

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A novel novella, a series of

novellas of Bromley and Kendall.

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Church planting pastors

in an alternate universe.

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That would be the best

someone get on that, please.

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Yeah.

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And then donate the proceeds

to the church, of course.

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And of course take that like 50 cents

and we'll go do something special.

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Right.

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We.

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We'll go to Hutchins and get one 16th.

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Of a Twinkie, right?

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Yeah, man, it's been awhile

since I've been to Hutchins.

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Yeah.

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We need to fix that.

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Drove by it this morning on the way

down to our, well, Saturday on the

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way down to, to men's Bible study.

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I was like, oh, there's

such, there's Hutchins.

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My, my, my love.

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You know, ever since that

influencer blew them up.

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The lines have been much longer

and they've noticed it they've

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said something they've said as much

like, oh yeah, they, they put, they

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posted publicly on their Instagram.

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Thank you, whoever it was, hopefully.

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Yeah.

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Thank you.

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Keith Lee for your peer positive

review, because since then, they've

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just been, you know, their coffers

have been just overflowing and

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not that they were hurting before.

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No, not at all, but now it's

even more annoying for those of

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us who are locals, who are like,

we just want to eat Hutchins.

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Yeah.

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They're not waiting an hour, but

there's an interesting phenomenon.

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Have you noticed this?

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That if something gets too popular,

Then people turn against it.

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It's it's like all of a sudden

people are like, oh, well, you

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know, that's, that's trendy one.

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That's the light cliche one to

go to, but if you are a real

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barbecue, you gotta go down here.

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You gotta go this place.

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And.

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Hold on the wall that

starting to happen with them.

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Like I've noticed some comments on

Facebook posts and Instagram posts.

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And that people are like, oh, well,

you know, everybody goes to Hutchinson.

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Because it's good.

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It's delicious.

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Yeah.

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I've heard good things about Goldie's

still not been there, but I've

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heard great things about Goldie's.

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Yeah.

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Hurtado.

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I had that.

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My wife heard.

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Yeah, it was okay.

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I mean Hutchins brisket.

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There's nothing that I've

had that comes close.

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And they're local too.

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I appreciate that.

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Bark on the she's.

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But forget it.

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We're not doing podcasts.

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Let's go to Hutchins.

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All right.

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All right.

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You guys canceled by.

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No, I'm just getting

worse back we're back.

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It's like full now.

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Yeah.

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At our Phil.

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Yeah.

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Let's talk about the thing

that we're avoiding though.

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This is a tough section of scripture.

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Let's just start with that.

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We almost skipped it up.

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We, we really were like,

let's just not do this.

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This is a tough passage.

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It's tough because of the questions

behind it that are hard to answer so

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hard and we're not going to be able to.

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Tie this in a neat bow for you.

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So if you're hoping we will.

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Sorry, but we're not going to

sorry, but let's jump into it

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anyway, punching the computer.

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That upset.

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Ah, All right.

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Second Samuel 11 and 12.

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This is the downfall of David.

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And it opens if you've heard this,

if you've heard anyone preach on this

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before, one of the first things out of

the gate that they point out is man David,

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wasn't doing what David should have been

doing from the outset, the Kings go to

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battle the Kings, go with their armies.

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And David didn't do that.

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He stayed back in Jerusalem and why.

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Well, we don't know.

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No.

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It doesn't say, yeah.

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The Kings would go to

battle in the spring.

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Typically, as you know, it

was a nice time of year.

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It was more pleasant.

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It was more comfortable for the

king to be out during this time.

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That's when they launched their

attacks most often, because again,

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it was more pleasant, it was easier

to travel and everything else.

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David doesn't go.

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Um, There's going to be a time

later on in David's life, where

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his men say, Hey, you're done.

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You need to stay back in Jerusalem, right?

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That's not the case here.

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He chooses this.

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He happens to go up on his roof because

it's cooler up there during the day.

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And by the way, they had

flat roofs are roofs here.

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That's the steepest things

I've ever seen in my life.

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I have.

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I've deliberately avoided my

route for just such a reason.

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No one could put a bathtub

on any of these routes.

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No.

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I've tried.

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Okay, well, That's interesting.

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But both porcelain tubs are broken now.

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I can't see the poop anymore.

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The porcelain covers the law and

finally insurance, the insurance is.

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I'm like, why did you anyway, see,

we don't want to talk about this.

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We're coming up with insane things.

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Uh, David sees Bathsheba

bathing on the rooftop now.

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Is Beth Sheba, a Vixen and a

harlot for bathing on her rooftop?

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No, this is what people would

do for, for most people.

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This was privacy because the rooms were.

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On par with one another, they

were on level with one another.

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So there was a degree of

privacy up there, but the palace

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was at an elevated position.

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So the king would be able to look down

over all of the rooftops in his kingdom.

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Now, did David go up there

knowing what he would find?

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I mean, I it's possible.

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This is not something that would

have been uncommon again for somebody

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to be out bathing on the rooftop,

but he happens to see Bathsheba.

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And the problem is, is not the site,

not the initial site, but the lingering.

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He sees, he lingers he lusts and

then Lusk gives birth conceives

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and gives birth to the sin.

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Uh, long story short, he

sends his servants, overtakes

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Bathsheba, and lays with her.

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She conceives.

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And then let's just summarize

the rest of the events here,

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at least in, in chapter 11.

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He conspires against Uriah Uriah

demonstrates more integrity, even drunk

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than David did sober by refusing to go

in and sleep with his wife because he

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cared for his men who were out still

on the battlefield that doesn't work.

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David can't can't deceive him.

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And so David decides to conspire to

murder him, involves his commanders.

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And, uh, and the messengers that he

dispatches was the orders and Uriah is

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placed in a place of, of severe fighting.

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And basically everybody falls back and

doesn't tell you, riot and Uriah is killed

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and David thinks that's the end of it.

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Um, so this is a messy situation, but

there's a, there's some questions that we

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need to address in the passage question.

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Number one, everybody wants to

know they've heard it before people

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have said it on Twitter slash X.

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That David.

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Our star P E D.

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Bathsheba is that true?

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Yeah.

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Th this is one of those things

we can't tie a nice, neat bow on,

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um, The text is not clear on it.

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And there is.

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From this point, this

is not the same thing.

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Let's, let's put it this way.

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This is not the same thing as happens with

Amman Amnon Tamar in the next chapter.

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A couple of chapters here.

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Uh, David.

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Eventually Mary's Bathsheba.

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After all of this, about the

sheep, it becomes a significant

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presence in David's life.

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She gives birth eventually to

Solomon who would become the next

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king after David got honors here.

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Yeah.

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So th there's there's a

different situation here.

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Uh, if at minimum we can

see this David as the king.

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But she didn't really have a choice.

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I don't think at least to say.

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Ah, thanks.

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But no thanks.

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I'm going to hang out here in my tub.

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So was this by force.

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I guess at least politically.

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And, and by his, his position,

was he abusing his position

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in his power in that sense?

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Yes.

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Can we go further than that to say

that this was not a consensual act

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on her part, we just don't know.

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The text is not clear on that.

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Does scripture have a way to

talk about our star P E D.

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In other places, does

scripture use that terminology?

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Well, I.

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Yeah, I think in chapter 13 it does.

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Right.

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You see that with Amnon and Tamar.

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So should we draw a

whole lot of conclusions?

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And by suggesting that that

word is not used about David

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and best Sheba in this context.

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Yeah, I am comfortable with that.

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I don't think that we can press the

issue to say that David raped her.

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Um, I was trying to be discreet, but okay.

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Yeah.

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Guard your kids.

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Sorry about that.

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Um, I don't think we

can press it that far.

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Yeah, I think with Amnon.

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Tamar it's it's much clearer.

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And to your point, because

it's not that way here.

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I don't think we can press it that far.

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Right.

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And just to, just to read it here, verse

four, David sent messengers and took her

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and she came to him and he lay with her.

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There's there's no, there's

no sense there of force.

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Although again, by right a position,

there is some force to it, for sure.

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There's an abuse of power taking place.

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But there's nothing in the text that

tells us that's exactly what happened.

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Now, what they should do for

us then is give us a sense of

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David's incredible brokenness.

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He is a sinful man.

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Even though he's a great king.

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A man after God's own heart, he is

still woefully short of all that Israel

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needs, which then only highlights

the need for a true and better.

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David.

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Well, and.

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You talked about yesterday in

yesterday's episode, I think

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keeping a short account with God.

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And we don't see that

quick repentance here.

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We're going to, at the end of David's

life, David's going to more, right.

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David's going to count that

he's going to issue a census.

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That's a simple thing.

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And he immediately feels a Pang of

conscience and immediately repents.

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Right.

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I think it's because of the lesson

that he learns here, that he has that

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response later in his life, because here.

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He.

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Seeks to cover it up through first,

through to seat by trying to get your

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ride to go in and sleep with his wife

and, and be like, look, the baby's yours.

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Congratulations.

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You guys are having a baby.

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But then afterwards he

actually murders you riot.

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And I think that the most.

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One of his best friends, probably.

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This is my mighty man.

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He was one of the closest, one of the 30.

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Yeah.

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And so one of the things that, that.

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That is, is, is just a glimpse

into the darkness of his heart.

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At this point in his life.

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Uh, is in verse 25.

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David said to the messenger, thus,

you shall say to Joanne, do not

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let the matter displease you.

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And then jumped down in verse 27, but

the thing that David had done displeased

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the Lord someone's displeased, right?

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So David is not, but God is.

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And, and so often.

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When we trivialize or minimize sin

and when we don't deal with it, when

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we don't bring it to light, when we

don't repent of it, when we don't

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keep those short accounts with God.

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It's it's as though we're thinking

it's not a big deal and that's

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where David's at right now.

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Don't let this thing displease you.

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This is not a big deal.

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Everything's going to be good.

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We can now move forward and

everything's going to be fine.

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No one will ever know.

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But the thing just pleased the Lord.

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The Lord knows.

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And that's.

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What we're going to

find out in chapter 12.

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Because the Lord is going to send

Nathan remember from back in chapter

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seven, Nathan's the one that told

David yeah, go build the temple.

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And God said, wait a minute, Nathan.

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So now he's going to send Nathan to

David and D Nathan comes with a parable.

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This is an example of an

old Testament parable.

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Sometimes we say, are there any

parables in the old Testament?

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Yes.

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Here's one right here where Nathan

tells the story of the rich man and

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the poor man and the poor man had one.

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The tiny lamb that he had raised with his

family from, from the time it was born.

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They love this lamb at the Richmond

had many lambs in a great flock

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and the rich man took, took the

young or took the poor man's lamb.

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Slaughtered it and fed a

visitor and David is enraged

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and David said the man must die.

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And then there's that moment.

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Where Nathan says you are the man.

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And, and in that moment, David's whole

house of cards that he has built around

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him thinking that he's, he's gotten

away with this comes crashing down.

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And his sin is exposed.

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And then Nathan.

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Uh, God, rather through Nathan continues.

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Verse eight.

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If this were too little or consider

everything I've done, I would

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have done so much more for you.

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And yet you've despised the word of the

Lord to do what is evil in his sight.

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Why David?

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Why did you do this?

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And so often when we are sober through,

in, in the aftereffects of sin, That's

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the question that should haunt us is why.

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Why was it worth it?

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And in the end, I think the

only conclusion after sin

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is no, of course it wasn't.

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And when we're in our right state of mind,

We can see that it's when we're consumed

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by the lust of the flesh, the lust of

the eyes and the Postville pride of life

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that we don't see that made in the end.

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This is not going to be worth it.

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That's one of the most sanctifying

helps in battling sin is.

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Being able to have the sober mindedness

to, to fast forward to the result of

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our sin and to say, what's the outcome.

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What's the payoff.

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Is this going to be worth it in the end?

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And if we're thinking biblically thinking

rightly about this, we're going to say

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no, it's not worth it every single time.

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And I want to point out to notice

that because of God's love for

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David and his commitment to David's.

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Eventual progeny and his house.

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Uh, notice that God does not

allow David to get away with it.

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And this is true for you and me.

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Because God loves us.

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You should never plan to

get away with your sin.

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If there's a sin in your life that

continues to AOUS in that you think is

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remaining undercover, and God's just

being patient or God's being gracious.

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He's not going to uncover this.

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There is a time there is a line.

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Or God's going to say, okay, I

I'm going to expose you because

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you need this because I love you.

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God will not let his children

continue in sin without bringing it

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to the light at some point in time.

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And I think David's a great example

of this because he loves David.

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He does this.

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I want to draw one more point to

your attention in verses nine.

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And 10.

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Both speak to despising something

verse nine says, why have you

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despised the word of the Lord?

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And then in verse 10, he says, because

you have despised me and taking the wife.

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Uh, you are taking the wife of Uriah.

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I think there's a very close

relationship between God and God's word.

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Where to despise the word of God is

to despise in some way, God himself.

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That connection is there,

although it might be a bit loose.

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I think it's evident enough to say.

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May it never be in your life or in

your heart that you despise God's word

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because in doing so, you very well

may be despising the Lord himself.

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We've got to deal with a

difficult subject as well.

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Not that those subjects so

far haven't been, but the

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consequences for David's sin here.

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Uh, because the Lord says the

child that, that she's pregnant

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with now is going to die.

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Um, so she gives birth to a child

and in verse 15, it says the Lord

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afflicted, the child that you're right.

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His wife bored of David

and he became sick.

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Um, Th th the difficulty here is that.

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Yes, this is a consequence

for David and for Uriah.

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This is punishment on both of them.

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Which perhaps speaks to the earlier thing

that we were talking about, if your RIAA

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was perhaps, or if, if, uh, Bathsheba

was perhaps innocent in this, that, that.

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It would be hard for the Lord to take.

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The child from her.

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But what's so difficult.

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And this is, this appears that

the child is suffering and

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punished because of the sin of.

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The parents, the parents or the

data, at least in this case.

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Yeah.

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And that's a, that's a tough.

525

Tough one to reckon with

it's a tough pill to swallow.

526

Um, this child dies and.

527

Uh, according to two things that we've

talked about before in the podcast.

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I believe goes and is with the Lord.

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I believe that that when David

died, he was reunited with his son.

530

Now, I don't think that's

what it means in the text.

531

When David, after the child died,

I said, I will go to him, but he

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won't return to me right there.

533

David seems to be just

talking about the grave.

534

Um, the child's dead.

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I'm going to die, but the child's

not going to come back to life.

536

So if I go on weeping and

mourning, it's not like that's

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going to resurrect the child.

538

That's a Davidson implication there.

539

But we believe because of other things

that we've talked about in the podcast

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about the knowledge of the right

hand from the left-hand and so forth.

541

And so on that that the child

died and went to be with the Lord.

542

So in, in some ways the child was spared.

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The suffering of life that

he never had to experience.

544

And yet it's, it's a hard

thing to wrestle with it.

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God kills.

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The child as punishment for

the sins of the parents.

547

The text, doesn't say that, right?

548

It doesn't the text.

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Doesn't say God is punishing the

child for the sin of the parents.

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So I think, I think at least

in some sense we have to say,

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okay, there's, there's something

happening here that looks like that.

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It looks like there's punishment on

the kid's part for the parents sin.

553

But the text doesn't tell us

that it tells us that the Lord.

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Like did the child.

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Uh, this is, this is

God's sovereign position.

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He can afflict with sickness, anyone

whom he wants, he can give life.

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You can take life and he's none.

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None.

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The more wicked God has not wicked at

all, but he's not wicked in doing so.

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God has sovereign responsibility

for everyone's life.

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So.

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I dunno, I, I get that.

563

And I know that that that's a temptation,

but I don't think we can say that with

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confidence that God punished the kid for

this, because of that reason, we don't

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have that, that the lines are there.

566

And I will agree, man.

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That just feels, it feels hard.

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But I don't think we can say

this text, doesn't say that.

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But the text does say that as a result.

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God says you, your child will

die because of these things.

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Your child will die.

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Yes.

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Because you have scorned the Lord, the

child who is born to you shall die.

574

Okay.

575

So here's another, here's another thing

I thought of a lot of studying this.

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There's something here and again,

notice to make it a ton better.

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But David is the he's the.

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The type of Jesus.

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And in this case, the David remains alive.

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But there's an innocent, innocent

one who dies in his place.

581

David should have died.

582

And if Bathsheba's complicit,

she should have died.

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And yet God preserves David and

Bathsheba, whatever role she had in this.

584

But he still demands

some atonement for sin.

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And this case, the one who

is innocent dies on behalf

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of the guilty again, does it.

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Is there anything that we could

say, okay, this points to the

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future, what Jesus would do.

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And this is kind of

like Abraham and Isaac.

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You know, with a Ram caught in the

thicket this time, it's not a Ram.

591

Is there anything that we

could see in that regard?

592

Yeah, and this is where, when we

begin to turn over every rock and

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look for a type under every rock

in the old Testament, and I'm not

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saying that's what's happening here.

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I mean, obviously this child

was born with a sin nature.

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He was born corrupt in Adam and, and

that's why it was subject to death.

597

Um, I again, I, I believe that that

God has a dispensation of grace

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reserved for those that are, are,

we would call them the innocent.

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We understand about the relative

innocence relative innocence.

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But still the show was

born with a sin nature.

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And so that's why the child was

prone to sickness and prone to death.

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And that the ultimate offspring

of David, who is the innocent

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one who will die for the others.

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Uh, for the, the guilty

is innocent completely.

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It does not have that sin nature.

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So I do think we can

see a type here in that.

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And that's perhaps the silver lining on.

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On reading this, but to your point,

it doesn't take away the bitterness.

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Th that's, that's still there with it.

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This is hard.

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It is.

612

Yeah.

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And if you're reading this and

you feel like, man, this is hard,

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be encouraged that we do too.

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Um, and that's what we

met at the beginning.

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We can't tie nice, neat bros on this.

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This is a.

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This is not.

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Th this is not a fun portion

of the Bible to read and.

620

Yet, it reminds us of, of its

truthfulness of its veracity, because

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if this is a man-made book, we're

not recording all of these things.

622

At least not with this level

of transparency, amen to that.

623

And that's one of my constellations

when I encounter texts that

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caused me to feel icky.

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I realize I'm coming against my manmade.

626

Responses and God's actual responses.

627

He's the one who's governing the universe.

628

Yeah.

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And while I may struggle to wrap my

mind around why he does this or that.

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I can still be confident.

631

He's the one behind it.

632

He is sovereign.

633

He's doing good.

634

He will be vindicated in my job as a trust

that he knows what he's doing and I don't.

635

Yeah.

636

Yeah.

637

Well following the death of this child.

638

Uh, we get a bright spot when Solomon

is born, uh, verse 24, David comforted

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his wife and she bore a son and she

called his name Solomon in the Lord.

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Loved him.

641

That's an interesting addition there

that, that we get there from the.

642

The author, the Lord loved him.

643

Um, after this, you get Joe, I being

what I, I, as I read this, I'm curious

644

to get your thoughts pass around it.

645

And this is really by the way, what

first Chronicles 20 is about as well.

646

First Chronicles, 20 doesn't focus

on the sin of David and Bathsheba.

647

It really focuses on the second portion

here that we're reading about in the

648

last part of second Samuel chapter 12.

649

So, meanwhile, they're

battling the Ammonites.

650

We talked about the Ammonites

a few episodes ago, right?

651

So that's still going on.

652

So, so job goes out fights against

robot of the AMA Ammonites, this

653

city and takes the Royal city.

654

Now remember Dave is not there

because David didn't go out.

655

Stay back in Jerusalem.

656

Well, Joe hub, I think, is

being a good friend to David.

657

And trying to help him

work through his grief.

658

Even my St.

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David.

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Come on.

661

I want you to be the

one to take the crown.

662

You need to come and

be the king right now.

663

The people need to see you as their king.

664

Uh, and so he, he brings them out.

665

He sets them up.

666

He kind of tees it up for him to

be the one that, that, that is the

667

ultimate sealer of the victory here.

668

And David gets to take this massive

crown, this super heavy crown.

669

And place it upon his head.

670

And it takes it off the, the, the

other king and it just, this, the

671

symbol of victory for David when David

needed to, when Joel was there as

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his friend to help him get the win.

673

Just show job was the

commander of his army.

674

I think job's doing his job well.

675

call a job.

676

A lot of things, you cannot,

you cannot charge the guy

677

with being reckless reckless.

678

In this case, he is, uh, he's shrewd.

679

That's the word I was looking for.

680

He, Joe is a shrewd man.

681

He knows how to play the game.

682

And he, in fact, in a couple of

chapters, Now he's going to, he's going

683

to call David out for morning when he

should be celebrating with his army.

684

And your we'll read about that soon

enough together, but here he recognized.

685

Look, if I do this.

686

This is going to take

away credit from you.

687

So he's being a good second in command.

688

He's being a good right-hand guy.

689

And he's saying, David,

you got to do this.

690

Otherwise, this is not

going to be good for you.

691

This is not good for your PR.

692

You need to do this, come and do this.

693

And I think that's good for David,

especially having just wrapped up

694

the situation with that Sheba and

suffered the consequences of it.

695

I think joy is being a good friend too, to

be sure, but I think he's also operating

696

as a really good commander of the army.

697

Yeah.

698

Yeah.

699

I would agree.

700

Yeah.

701

Yeah.

702

By the way, that crown weights, 75 pounds.

703

That's how heavy microbus.

704

Heavy is the head that wears the crown.

705

Is that or, yeah, heavy is the neck.

706

How does that sentence go?

707

All right.

708

Something like that.

709

Yeah, but to be a neck that king must

have had no neck, like it should have

710

been shoved down into your shoulders.

711

Massive, a massive neck muscles,

because he was just so strong

712

for holding up that crap.

713

He's getting gains all day long.

714

It's just a six pack on his name.

715

Well in first Chronicles 20, again,

we get the parallel account, but

716

then it gives these, these, uh,

descriptions of battles fought and won

717

against some of the Philistine giants.

718

So that's interesting.

719

There's more giants besides Goliath

are here and some of the battles

720

and victories are listed there

for us in first Chronicles, 20.

721

So, how did they survive the flood?

722

Yep.

723

We've asked this question before,

maybe, maybe, maybe, I don't know.

724

That's a short answer.

725

We don't get, we don't, they,

they, they could have survived

726

in some way, or there's more

angels that did the thing later.

727

Who knows, or, you know, how,

where, how do you explain shack?

728

Well, Mark Hogan.

729

Anyways.

730

Yeah.

731

Hey.

732

We love you guys, keeping your Bibles

and tuning in again with us tomorrow.

733

For another episode of

the daily Bible podcast.

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See you then.