WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:28.800 A little children downstairs for their level of teaching, well it is so good to see everyone 00:28.800 --> 00:37.160 here today. My look around we have a nice crowd for a very busy weekend. Last Sunday 00:37.160 --> 00:42.360 we had 190 in church. I think that's pretty neat don't you? And we had a good 00:42.360 --> 00:46.320 crowd the first session at first, started out kind of slow and before long of 00:46.320 --> 00:51.760 course the back fuse filled up and we had a nice crowd. So we have had an 00:51.760 --> 00:57.680 extremely busy week and the big Brian is back from Jamaica Mon helping the 00:57.680 --> 01:02.320 orphanage there and we think we raised around a thousand dollars over the 01:02.320 --> 01:09.200 weekend for the work to go back to Jamaica and the orphanage there and I 01:09.200 --> 01:13.800 think everyone's just a little bit tired but that's what this world is all 01:13.800 --> 01:19.880 about reaching out and also we had what we thought one of the busiest seasons 01:19.880 --> 01:24.920 we've ever had with the school and I think one of the best Kent Winchell 01:24.920 --> 01:29.960 would you stand up for just a second. This is the chairman of the school board 01:29.960 --> 01:35.320 and I just want to say publicly we had a grand year thank you and with all the 01:35.320 --> 01:40.440 rest of the school board members stand up would you just mind just quickly if 01:40.440 --> 01:50.640 you serve with capacity there well done well done we had a wonderful day and 01:50.640 --> 01:55.440 then I'm supposed to Kevin we're having a men's prayer breakfast next Saturday 01:55.440 --> 02:01.560 we had 11 last week and if we weren't a tremendous dramatic success do you 02:01.560 --> 02:06.640 realize did you get in on that last week when the men gave their little thing 02:06.640 --> 02:10.880 for the ladies or a couple of weeks ago wasn't that fabulous what a bunch of men 02:10.880 --> 02:16.920 you know I mean that was something and so there are a lot of things going on and 02:16.920 --> 02:20.320 I just pray that you keep busy in the Lord and that's a little bit of what 02:20.320 --> 02:27.960 sermon is about today let's bow our heads please oh gracious father I pray 02:27.960 --> 02:33.040 for all my lovely ones who are out on the road and I know that so many families 02:33.040 --> 02:38.280 are happy and I see the fact since have something to be proud about today and 02:38.280 --> 02:42.240 the Barrett's have family with them to be proud of today and I know that there 02:42.240 --> 02:46.240 are others father that I may not have named but I I'm just thankful that we 02:46.240 --> 02:50.560 have our families and that we can get together with our loved ones and I just 02:50.560 --> 02:55.040 pray you'll send them all back safely and be with those lovely ones who have 02:55.040 --> 02:59.160 left us our boys and girls out all over the face of the earth and for our 02:59.160 --> 03:04.520 missions ventures thank you that Brian is back safe and sound and I just pray 03:04.520 --> 03:09.960 for the reach out program this summer as they go to Jamaica and all the kids may 03:09.960 --> 03:16.920 have dreams to win the world father I do thank you most of all for Jesus and for 03:16.920 --> 03:22.920 the gift of eternal life and his name we pray amen now if you'll turn to second 03:22.920 --> 03:27.200 Samuel's chapter 11 and 12 we're telling a story out of the life of the great 03:27.200 --> 03:33.600 warriors of God Jesus the boy the hard saying is if Jesus are over but there's 03:33.600 --> 03:38.160 some hard lessons to be learned here in the Old Testament and I just pray that 03:38.200 --> 03:44.400 you take to heart the mission which is presented here this is extremely 03:44.400 --> 03:50.960 pragmatic or practical it's not a theologic sermon but it is a practical 03:50.960 --> 03:55.800 and David and a bath she but now you all you may not know much about Dave 03:55.800 --> 04:00.720 and Bathsheba if you go to the movies you certainly know and this is the story 04:00.720 --> 04:05.560 that if I were God I would have left out of the Bible wouldn't you it's got 04:05.640 --> 04:10.360 everything under the sun in it that kids probably ought not to look up to the 04:10.360 --> 04:14.400 kids I want you to know and adults I want you to know that you tend to get 04:14.400 --> 04:20.240 more trouble than the kids do that there's a lesson to be learned here and 04:20.240 --> 04:26.240 a very important one okay second Samuel chapter 11 and I'm just going to read 04:26.240 --> 04:29.880 fragments of it because you can't read the whole thing and get it done but I 04:29.920 --> 04:36.680 will I will have it done on time I promise you now there was a war on and 04:36.680 --> 04:40.480 they just whooped the Ammonites and they're going on to another city and 04:40.480 --> 04:44.840 they're surrounding it there's going to be a fight and there is a fight it's got 04:44.840 --> 04:47.840 like Christianity today a lot of folks don't realize there's a fight going on 04:47.840 --> 04:52.920 you realize we're losing it and we want to win it and one way to win a fight is 04:52.920 --> 04:57.480 to get everybody behind the fight and get them to know that they're in a fight 04:57.880 --> 05:05.160 and that they're being assaulted by very formidabble forces formidable indeed 05:05.160 --> 05:10.720 they are and they are raid against us there was a fight going on way off in 05:10.720 --> 05:16.360 another city rabah but David remained in Jerusalem now if you had the top 05:16.360 --> 05:19.320 general in the face of the earth you'd want him where the fight was but he's 05:19.320 --> 05:24.440 in Jerusalem see that doesn't make any sense you wouldn't you wouldn't do that 05:24.440 --> 05:27.560 would you want to win the world you can't stay here in the valley can you 05:27.560 --> 05:31.120 you ought to win the world you got to go out and notice I'm just going to read 05:31.120 --> 05:39.080 fragments of it but David remained in Jerusalem 11 verse 1 what's he doing 05:39.080 --> 05:44.640 there that clown well one evening verse 2 David got up from his bed and he walked 05:44.640 --> 05:49.080 around on the roof of the palace and from the wolf he saw a woman bathing the 05:49.080 --> 05:52.480 woman was very beautiful oh no I can't believe that remember this is the day 05:52.520 --> 05:58.280 before silicon influence and shapes that you saw on women in these days were the 05:58.280 --> 06:05.360 way God intended them to be shaped come see come saw but they weren't artificial 06:05.360 --> 06:09.760 shapes you can bet if the Bible says that was a beautiful woman she was a 06:09.760 --> 06:14.080 beautiful woman always gets my heart here because I look out over the crowd and 06:14.080 --> 06:17.840 I see some of the beautiful women that we have in the church here and it scares 06:18.000 --> 06:25.640 me sometimes wow that I think of that adjective wow see and the woman was very 06:25.640 --> 06:28.520 beautiful you know what in the world was he doing up there looking over someone 06:28.520 --> 06:34.520 else taking a bath well he was bored with life and I think you'll find that 06:34.520 --> 06:38.280 you'll be in less trouble if you're not bored that if you'll keep busy busy in 06:38.280 --> 06:45.720 the name of the Lord and so something was conceived in his heart lust and he 06:45.760 --> 06:51.720 commits that sin which leads to adultery and which leads to other compounding 06:51.720 --> 06:59.400 now we're going to see that sin is a stair step sin is never still sin is 06:59.400 --> 07:03.520 never static it's always progressing it's always changing and we'll see that 07:03.520 --> 07:09.000 here very definitely see the woman conceived and sent word to David saying 07:09.640 --> 07:13.400 I am pregnant now those three words have changed more lives than probably any 07:13.400 --> 07:18.760 other three words on the face of the earth I am pregnant I'll swear I had a 07:18.760 --> 07:23.680 major in zoology and biology and paleontology and every other thing but 07:23.680 --> 07:29.720 we had four or five kids before we realized what was involved and maybe you 07:29.720 --> 07:33.840 see that that happens doesn't it you know you're not in the control of 07:33.840 --> 07:37.880 everything you see under all circumstances not at all and certainly 07:37.880 --> 07:44.440 this was not the case I am pregnant can change a lie and quite often to the 07:44.440 --> 07:51.040 wonderful goodness and quite often to the deterioration of lifestyle and that 07:51.040 --> 07:56.400 ought not to be really should it be well now the king had something on his 07:56.400 --> 08:01.800 heart and mind here he is consorting with a woman that doesn't belong to him 08:01.800 --> 08:06.880 and she is pregnant and you know after about nine or ten months it's obvious 08:07.640 --> 08:12.760 and I have a picture of kitty standing before Buddha in San Francisco and she's 08:12.760 --> 08:16.520 nine and a half months pregnant ten eleven months pregnant and she's about 08:16.520 --> 08:19.880 the size of old Buddha and you know you couldn't keep that a secret from 08:19.880 --> 08:24.160 anybody could you like some a little old church ladies when someone gets married 08:24.160 --> 08:28.720 you know they just what are you how many months is it in all this goodness me I 08:28.720 --> 08:33.240 hope we're more involved in life than that well some a little old men are 08:33.240 --> 08:40.480 involved in that business too so you know as I worry about the life and the 08:40.480 --> 08:45.120 circumstances which are involved here in our own day in our own rate he had a 08:45.120 --> 08:49.120 problem he wanted the woman didn't want to give her up so he had to get rid of 08:49.120 --> 08:56.000 the husband so look at verse 10 verse 10 your eye was a wonderful man of God and 08:56.000 --> 09:00.200 he had a two-edged sword and he stood there toe-toe with the worst enemies on 09:00.240 --> 09:06.080 face of the earth and he was a hero like we have heroes in the congregation here 09:06.080 --> 09:10.120 today I mean men who laid their life down who suffered who were prisoners 09:10.120 --> 09:17.680 against our enemy you know and I'm just so proud of them and I just love them 09:17.680 --> 09:22.400 warriors you see aren't afraid they may be afraid but doesn't show in their 09:22.400 --> 09:27.200 performance does it oh yeah flesh and blood has to be frightened but these were 09:27.200 --> 09:34.600 fighters and your eye was God's holy man and he called the king called him home 09:34.600 --> 09:38.280 because what he has to do is have him spend some time with his wife so that 09:38.280 --> 09:43.440 he's not charged with the new little baby that's born in this they look here 09:43.440 --> 09:49.880 that's kind of sad isn't kind of sad a little but guy needs a papa little guy 09:49.880 --> 09:54.560 needs its mama that's the way it's supposed to be in God's plan but your 09:54.560 --> 09:58.480 eye was a funny guy he came to the king he said I'm not gonna go down there and 09:58.480 --> 10:04.120 stay with my wife and eat good food and just lounge around while God's men are 10:04.120 --> 10:11.400 dying in behalf of the cause if what a hero he had a recreation break and he 10:11.400 --> 10:19.360 choose not to take it he chose not to take it I he's a hero he says if my men 10:19.360 --> 10:23.720 are laying out in the field that I'll lay at your feet oh king of mine to serve 10:23.720 --> 10:29.120 you and see that your cause is made well now we have a problem here don't 10:29.120 --> 10:35.120 first of all we had the eyes that see oh be careful little eyes that see 10:35.120 --> 10:39.620 remember the little kids saying that and then that leads to adultery and adultery 10:39.620 --> 10:44.240 leads to a bunch of lies and eventually it's gonna lead to murder isn't it and 10:44.240 --> 10:49.080 if I see sin never whole still doesn't never stays the same it just grows so it's 10:49.080 --> 10:53.560 got to grow the other way smaller or it's got to grow greater it never stays 10:53.560 --> 10:57.080 the same you can't just have it I'll just have this little sin and I'll let it 10:57.080 --> 11:02.920 just I'll just let it you know kind of ride it don't it won't ride it will get 11:02.920 --> 11:09.960 worse it will get worse so look at this this is cool why didn't you go home the 11:09.960 --> 11:14.600 king says get out of my you know get on there so that you can cover my lies see 11:14.960 --> 11:21.280 we didn't tell him that did he now look on the next page in my Bible number 14 11:21.280 --> 11:28.240 put Uriah in the front line where the fighting is fierce then withdraw from 11:28.240 --> 11:34.520 him so he will be struck down and die now that's pretty chicken isn't it he just 11:34.520 --> 11:38.920 didn't have a sword fight over this woman that didn't belong to him he killed 11:38.920 --> 11:45.040 him the coward's way put him in a vulnerable position by the way you know 11:45.040 --> 11:49.960 great heroes are the ones who go against the walls and they can pour liquid 11:49.960 --> 11:55.880 Greek fire on you with boiling oil or drop stones on your head or shoot you 11:55.880 --> 12:01.840 with a rain cloud of arrows and that's where the heroes are hand to hand nose 12:01.840 --> 12:06.960 to nose see with the tough people of life I'd like to thank those of the 12:06.960 --> 12:11.680 missionary those who are out there you know even far removed from the golf 12:11.680 --> 12:17.080 course doing hard things they're the heroes and Uriah was one of them so 12:17.080 --> 12:24.240 he'll be struck down and he will die look at verse 27 that happened you plan 12:24.240 --> 12:27.120 the murder of another one it's liable to happen that's why he says don't even 12:27.120 --> 12:31.640 think of murder don't even think of lust don't even think of a woman because 12:31.680 --> 12:37.920 those things lead to action never stays the same and sure enough the Uriah's 12:37.920 --> 12:42.640 killed one of God's great men and after the time of morning was over verse 12:42.640 --> 12:49.360 27 David had brought her to his house and she became his wife and she bore him a 12:49.360 --> 12:57.240 little boy with the thing David had done displeased the Lord now you think of 12:57.240 --> 13:04.000 that he not only caused death not only cheated on a good man and be smirked an 13:04.000 --> 13:13.080 honorable woman's reputation but what it displeased God now that's the heart and 13:13.080 --> 13:21.200 soul of sinning isn't it makes God angry now if you can afford to make God 13:21.240 --> 13:30.360 angry have your way notice in chapter 12 that Nathan a little country boy 13:30.360 --> 13:34.120 preacher there's five Nathan's mentioned in the Bible he's not particular he's 13:34.120 --> 13:40.160 not that special but he's a fearless man of God I tell you I look at the world 13:40.160 --> 13:46.680 folks and it's 666 that's the nicest thing I can say about it that isn't much 13:46.720 --> 13:54.080 to say about the world and the world is very cruel to its devotees Satan requires 13:54.080 --> 14:03.720 much of his disciples Satan requires everything as God would require everything 14:03.720 --> 14:09.720 but one of them pays off and the other pays off unto eternal damnation in hell 14:09.720 --> 14:13.800 I know that there are people said here who may not believe in hell but brother 14:13.800 --> 14:17.280 you better look around in the world if you don't believe in hell you're not 14:17.280 --> 14:26.200 having your eyes open and the world is not very nice to its citizenry the world 14:26.200 --> 14:31.840 never pays off to those who love the world it does not I mean you may think 14:31.840 --> 14:36.760 so so here's a real hero here's the greatest king that Israel has ever 14:36.760 --> 14:44.160 faced he's a warrior he's a winner he's a fighter he's everything that you look 14:44.160 --> 14:50.680 up to he was pleasing to God and yet he is capable of making the say and this 14:50.680 --> 14:56.920 little country preacher has to tell his country's most powerful man you've messed 14:56.920 --> 15:03.000 up buddy mr. King you've done the wrong thing now there's a lot of folks who 15:03.000 --> 15:07.560 wouldn't have the courage to there are many pulpits in the land today who will 15:07.560 --> 15:13.560 not say anything that they figure would be unpleasant for people to hear what we 15:13.560 --> 15:19.560 need to say on occasion and you need to tell me man you're ugly and don't you 15:19.560 --> 15:23.880 go around like a little bandy rooster because you're not pretty big boy and 15:23.880 --> 15:28.840 play it straight with me and I need that and you need that too and what you're 15:28.840 --> 15:36.040 doing isn't pretty now and then we need to just be powerful preachers and the 15:36.040 --> 15:41.760 word of God commands us what to say it isn't just what we find pleasing or 15:41.760 --> 15:45.280 comfortable but we want us the preacher that'll make us a little bit 15:45.280 --> 15:51.560 uncomfortable from time to time now it didn't go work if he's the phony guy 15:51.560 --> 15:55.960 well if he talks about working for the kingdom of God and if he talks about 15:55.960 --> 16:00.520 tithing you better expect him to do it you ought to throw any man off this stage 16:00.520 --> 16:06.080 who who isn't doing any of those things you really all just throw him out here we 16:06.080 --> 16:14.080 don't need anybody like that don't rush don't rush stay back and notice what he 16:14.080 --> 16:18.600 says and he tells the funniest little story I know we've got sheep people here 16:18.600 --> 16:23.200 and cattle people but you know ewe is a funny word isn't it and it's a female 16:23.200 --> 16:28.960 sheep probably a Doug doesn't pronounce it that way but we'll say ewe's because I 16:28.960 --> 16:33.520 think that's the way it ought to be pronounced the Lord said Nathan to David 16:33.520 --> 16:39.400 and he said this there were two men in a certain town one rich and the other poor 16:39.400 --> 16:43.840 the rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle he had everything but 16:43.840 --> 16:50.200 the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought well I know 16:50.200 --> 16:57.600 it's you that seems flat doesn't it one little ewe lamb he had bought and he 16:57.600 --> 17:01.920 raised it and he grew up with him and his children it shared his food and drank 17:01.920 --> 17:08.840 from his cup and even slept in his arms it was like a daughter to him and I just 17:08.840 --> 17:12.160 think of that poor little guy and you know in this day and age that was your 17:12.160 --> 17:17.080 meat that was the wool that was milk that was your life that may be his 17:17.080 --> 17:21.520 children's future help in the next few years me that was the start of a little 17:21.520 --> 17:27.200 flock see and he loved that little sheep and that seems hard could anyone love 17:27.200 --> 17:32.920 just an animal yes you could at the dog show we saw people who obviously loved 17:32.920 --> 17:37.120 dogs I've we saw the most gorgeous dogs while their whole hair was comb better 17:37.120 --> 17:43.400 than mine sort of their fingernails were shinier and my they inspected those 17:43.400 --> 17:47.560 dogs more than I would ever expect another human being but they must have 17:47.560 --> 17:53.520 been something wonderful to adore and some of those ladies had on long silk 17:53.520 --> 17:59.040 gowns as they chased those dogs around the arena it was something special but 17:59.040 --> 18:04.120 this man's life and his sustenance depend on this little sheep and the rich 18:04.120 --> 18:08.480 man said well I don't want to give him of mine let's just take his because I have 18:08.520 --> 18:16.360 company coming and I want the fatted sheep for my food and he took it away from 18:16.360 --> 18:21.600 that little guy now this just ticks me off that isn't right but you see he took 18:21.600 --> 18:30.520 away the innocence of another man's life his wife he just stole it did just like 18:30.520 --> 18:35.840 this man and look at old David see maybe this is why God likes David chapter 12 18:35.960 --> 18:42.760 second Samuel verse 5 David burned with anger against that man and said to 18:42.760 --> 18:49.680 Nathan as surely as the Lord lives the man who did this deserves to die well I 18:49.680 --> 18:55.560 wonder I wonder if in being indignant something didn't come to him if this man 18:55.560 --> 19:01.520 in this story a parable a simple story with the spiritual truth that's all a 19:01.600 --> 19:06.400 parable isn't just a simple story with the simple with the truth the spiritual 19:06.400 --> 19:11.600 behind it it's more than dealing with little ewees we don't have trouble with 19:11.600 --> 19:16.920 ewees too much do we but I'll tell you we do have trouble with problems of 19:16.920 --> 19:24.040 transferring sin in our lives saying who's to blame of who needs to be put 19:24.040 --> 19:30.760 down see and surely as the Lord lives the man who did this deserves to die and 19:30.800 --> 19:36.720 maybe that was the beginning of knowledge and so after that you see after 19:36.720 --> 19:44.400 lying after adultery after murder and then you see life gets more confusing 19:44.400 --> 19:48.680 and you have to tell more lies and you have to set up more covers over and so 19:48.680 --> 19:57.240 sometimes sin gets to be a real pain it really can be a drag and you know if you 19:57.240 --> 20:04.760 think of affairs just all fun it's a nightmare it's a nightmare and God 20:04.760 --> 20:09.160 decreed that there was one way that we all live together and honor preferring 20:09.160 --> 20:16.600 one another in honor preferring one another he said therefore a curse will 20:16.600 --> 20:21.480 follow after verse 10 the sword will never depart from your house because you 20:21.480 --> 20:28.560 despise me and took the wife of your rather hittite to be your own and you 20:28.560 --> 20:35.320 know I think that's frightening or it says that it gave the people outside the 20:35.320 --> 20:41.000 kingdom of God contempt for God's people oh is the way this is the way those 20:41.000 --> 20:47.200 godly people treat one another is this the way the church cheats on one another 20:47.200 --> 20:51.840 hey hey in the world today you can cheat on anybody it isn't even the 20:51.840 --> 20:57.120 disgraceful thing it isn't it's disgraceful in the house of God but see 20:57.120 --> 21:05.680 it's not in the world it is not in this church that you can do those things with 21:05.680 --> 21:12.040 impunity something must follow after and that is God's divine judgment and verse 21:12.040 --> 21:16.600 13 it hits him bang you know this guy maybe you'd have to take a hammer to 21:16.600 --> 21:20.760 hit him between the eyes and maybe he would wake up in that most manner kind 21:20.760 --> 21:26.280 of like that aren't they is that right ladies I mean it takes a fairly blunt 21:26.280 --> 21:31.080 instrument between the eyes to shape your husband up from time to time doesn't 21:31.080 --> 21:37.240 but it does happen and repentance genuine does come look verse 13 then 21:37.240 --> 21:44.160 David said to Nathan I have sinned against the Lord confession is made into 21:44.200 --> 21:49.200 salvation isn't we see that in the New Testament confession is made into 21:49.200 --> 21:54.480 salvation confess his name confess your sin confess your faults one to another 21:54.480 --> 21:59.440 it's just a biblical thing share that responsibility and Nathan replied the 21:59.440 --> 22:04.520 Lord has taken away your sin you're not going to die you deserve to die you 22:04.520 --> 22:08.640 rascal you but you're not going to die I deserve to die but I'm not going to die 22:08.640 --> 22:14.440 I'm going to look toward as long as I stay with Jesus as long as I seek his 22:14.440 --> 22:20.680 will in my life as long as I'm part of his body as long as I love the Lord and 22:20.680 --> 22:26.000 his command must I don't need to worry about eternal damnation I don't need to 22:26.000 --> 22:30.720 worry about hell hell is not a big problem to me it's the hell that I find 22:30.720 --> 22:36.120 on earth that worries me more than eternal hell eternal hell is real for 22:36.120 --> 22:41.280 those the light at the end of the tunnel is there but it may or may not be the 22:41.280 --> 22:45.760 bonfires of hell or it could be the glowing gates of heaven I tell you 22:45.760 --> 22:49.800 there's a choice that needs to be made in this life and having made it you can 22:49.800 --> 22:55.440 relax you can relax and you can be at peace with the Almighty God when 22:55.440 --> 23:00.000 you're born again when you love the Lord when you're seeking his will in your 23:00.000 --> 23:06.840 life then forgiveness comes after repentance see but because by doing 23:06.840 --> 23:13.280 this thing you have made the enemies of the Lord show utter contempt the son 23:13.280 --> 23:18.120 that you will bear will die now I just can't believe that that's just plump 23:18.120 --> 23:24.720 pagan what kind of God do you have bully God well I hope who broke the law 23:24.720 --> 23:32.600 anyway who cheated on another man who killed contemptibly in a coward's way 23:32.600 --> 23:41.800 another man who asked for problems the man who committed the sin and we have 23:41.800 --> 23:46.520 it don't we in Romans the soul that sin if it shall surely die one thing you can 23:46.520 --> 23:50.760 count on today folks the soul that sin if it shall surely die unless you have 23:50.800 --> 24:00.080 Jesus Christ it's just true as anything on the face of the earth well I think 24:00.080 --> 24:04.760 sometimes the church is held in contempt sometimes those things happen now not 24:04.760 --> 24:10.840 100th as often as it happens in the world in the world it's so commonplace 24:10.840 --> 24:15.800 that people cheat on each other but it is not commonplace in the house of God 24:15.840 --> 24:22.760 I'm thankful for that and so in seven days the little boy dies the little baby 24:22.760 --> 24:26.760 dies but you know don't weep for the little boy wonder what happens to little 24:26.760 --> 24:33.280 boy we don't believe that so much baloney that you hear about the soul that 24:33.280 --> 24:37.880 Senate that shall die did the little baby commit a sin he did not therefore he 24:37.880 --> 24:42.880 does not die that little baby I just love I'm at an age where I think about 24:42.920 --> 24:47.560 going home to be with the Lord Jesus and I pray that my heart and my soul is as 24:47.560 --> 24:52.880 pure as the tiniest little baby we had a little baby here one year old last night 24:52.880 --> 24:57.480 is that about right was that when the birthday was bless her heart and what I 24:57.480 --> 25:06.440 love to have her soul pure innocent sweet right with God had made a single 25:06.440 --> 25:11.480 mistake in her life yet and won't though she's accountable to God Almighty 25:11.480 --> 25:15.560 that's the way it ought to be I I'm so thankful that we I think it's pagan to 25:15.560 --> 25:22.280 believe anything else it belongs to God the life of a tiny child thank God for 25:22.280 --> 25:27.160 that that someone doesn't have to come sprinkle hers come baptize her do 25:27.160 --> 25:31.640 something else but she's not ready she hadn't done anything worthy of being 25:31.640 --> 25:37.560 cleansed yet sure her soul will soar to heaven and so did the little boy seven 25:37.600 --> 25:41.920 years ago I bet he was a beautiful little boy at that don't you and that's a 25:41.920 --> 25:46.960 sadness isn't then a conclusion here in this chapter when the little boy dies 25:46.960 --> 25:52.640 he is abjectly crushed because now he sees that there is a problem with sin 25:52.640 --> 26:00.040 there are results there are results and it leads to the death of the tiny boy as 26:00.040 --> 26:05.600 well as the death of his daddy and many other things as well as all the lies and 26:05.600 --> 26:10.040 all that and so he prays oh spare the babies spare the baby but when it does 26:10.040 --> 26:15.080 not he washes his face and shades and he goes out before the people to worship 26:15.080 --> 26:26.320 publicly with them and he said this in verse 22 of 2nd Samuel 12 the Lord may 26:26.320 --> 26:35.000 be gracious to me and let the child live but now he is dead why should I fast 26:35.000 --> 26:39.840 can I bring him back again I will go to him but he will not return to me and he 26:39.840 --> 26:46.440 realized some things done cannot be undone and you can try to restore sins 26:46.440 --> 26:52.240 and the damage done and you can repent of sins but always be aware there will be 26:52.240 --> 26:59.200 problems inevitably with sin the best thing to do is to not get involved with 26:59.200 --> 27:05.280 sin to do the right thing when it is time to be done and then listen to the 27:05.280 --> 27:11.440 conclusion in verse 24 then David comforted his wife Bathsheba and he went 27:11.440 --> 27:17.280 to her and lay with her she gave birth to a son and they named him Solomon well 27:17.280 --> 27:23.440 you see it's not all bad Solomon the wisest man who ever lived Solomon who 27:23.440 --> 27:28.280 continued the reign of God and it was eventually you see with repentance 27:28.320 --> 27:35.480 there can be rectification of sin so not total restitution will never be so but 27:35.480 --> 27:41.560 God didn't kill one of his great men God didn't just kill every sinner no no he 27:41.560 --> 27:45.720 wants you to live let me come up with three conclusions because the subject of 27:45.720 --> 27:51.320 this sermon's title was this is there a way to learn from our mistakes let's see 27:51.320 --> 27:56.280 if there are I think that there are survival in this veil of tears is pretty 27:56.280 --> 28:02.280 tough isn't it you work your labor you try you make mistakes and I think life 28:02.280 --> 28:06.920 is pretty much a trial and error don't you think and you know that you're going 28:06.920 --> 28:11.440 to make mistakes but God has provided a way out of your error and everyone here 28:11.440 --> 28:15.720 ought to be covered I never murdered I never did what this man I never lied 28:15.720 --> 28:20.280 like this man did and yet he's one of God's great people and there's a 28:20.280 --> 28:24.000 wonderful grace here now and that's not a cheap grace because you see there was a 28:24.040 --> 28:28.760 price for this and there is no cheap grace not when you talk about the death 28:28.760 --> 28:33.160 of Jesus Christ on the cross there's nothing cheap about grace and I've 28:33.160 --> 28:38.240 heard people so kind of well you know God will take care of the hindmost but 28:38.240 --> 28:44.040 there may be some uncleaned up messes that need to be cleaned up you see I 28:44.040 --> 28:49.760 think it's easier realizing there is a battleground to stay with the folks of 28:49.760 --> 28:53.840 God to stay with the people to stay with the church I really believe that with 28:53.840 --> 28:57.920 all of my heart I think you'll get in less trouble in the kingdom of God than 28:57.920 --> 29:04.400 you will in the world it's just too easy to do that Roman 718 says for I have a 29:04.400 --> 29:09.680 desire to do what's good but I can't carry it out are you like that sometimes 29:09.680 --> 29:14.880 schizo frenic split minded schizo schism split 29:14.880 --> 29:21.800 frenia brain head split headed split minded that's what it means the frontal 29:21.960 --> 29:27.160 split minded split headed nothing wrong with split headed there's a lot of 29:27.160 --> 29:32.120 split headed people go on two ways at once that makes a split between the two 29:32.120 --> 29:41.000 done two ways one well stay with a bunch in Romans 12 10 Paul said now in honor 29:41.000 --> 29:47.400 you prefer one another in honor now you see that word in honor was modified you 29:47.640 --> 29:52.520 walk with integrity with your brother and sister you walk in honor with those 29:52.520 --> 29:57.560 who love the Lord and I think you're safer there and I believe the environment of 29:57.560 --> 30:01.160 the soul is better with the people of God than anywhere else in the face of 30:01.160 --> 30:08.120 there if not how fully it is numbers 32 23 I think one of the easiest ways to 30:08.120 --> 30:12.600 break a habit and to break the power of sin over is to realize how intensely 30:12.600 --> 30:17.880 dangerous and ugly sin really is the world makes sin kind of pretty doesn't it 30:19.400 --> 30:22.840 you know when there's when they're selling those scotch whiskey ads you know that 30:22.840 --> 30:29.320 smoky whiskey you know that's good for your teeth it will kill a lot of germs 30:30.040 --> 30:38.200 it'll kill off something else in your life too but it's beautiful people isn't it it's beautiful 30:38.280 --> 30:44.680 people that drink those things in the ads distinguish men with lovely suits you know 30:45.240 --> 30:52.520 and a little savoir-faire you know it's never this gross out bum drooling on himself is it 30:53.880 --> 31:00.520 oh no that may be the result of that but what is it it's this very swab and sophisticated guy 31:00.520 --> 31:04.520 you know who can have a little bit of feminine almost you know the way he turns in his feet you 31:04.520 --> 31:13.240 know and that's what sin is about see the a feat the intellectual the cool the rich the 31:13.240 --> 31:21.880 well-to-do you know the one with manners those wild and crazy kind of guys you know what I mean 31:21.880 --> 31:28.920 that's what sin is broadcast is see and the eyes that appeals to kids but there's a terrible price 31:28.920 --> 31:36.760 to sin what is it remember a baby died an innocent little boy who could have thought 31:36.760 --> 31:41.800 what would he have looked like would he have been strong and tall like his warrior daddy 31:42.760 --> 31:50.120 would he have been great in the household of god but who's to know sin kills him off 31:51.560 --> 31:57.400 sin takes a little boy away I wouldn't want to lose a little boy 31:59.880 --> 32:05.640 and I've deserved the same thing I wouldn't want to lose a little boy I only had one ugly little 32:05.640 --> 32:14.120 boy I couldn't give him up to save my life and you know I've had women say you know well bully 32:14.120 --> 32:20.600 God would he take away that innocent child duck how 32:21.480 --> 32:29.000 well 42 million people perish because of an idiot named Heinrich Schickelgruber 32:33.160 --> 32:39.320 six million jews perish did they deserve it no they didn't deserve it they were innocent 32:40.840 --> 32:46.280 I'll be aware that sin has a terrible price and you'll help break some habits when you realize 32:46.280 --> 32:48.440 what sin leads to now 32:52.120 --> 32:59.080 Ephesians 6 10 and 11 I'm going to break a habit which is learning from my mistakes 32:59.960 --> 33:06.840 Hebrew 6 10 through 18 I'm just going to have time for 10 and 11 this is what he says put on the full 33:06.840 --> 33:13.640 armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil schemes against the devil schemes 33:13.640 --> 33:21.880 for we see we don't fight against flesh and blood you see vain imagination intellectual 33:21.880 --> 33:31.640 arguments theological stuff that's that's what we wrestle with ideas I'm not afraid of an eight foot 33:33.400 --> 33:41.560 giant from Gath because one pebble took care of him you see with God a small stone is enough to 33:41.560 --> 33:50.440 defeat that kind of thing see it's the ideas of the world humanism socialism communism atheism 33:51.240 --> 33:57.960 all those things of modern life the occult world just attracts kids right and left done 33:57.960 --> 34:05.240 it's an imagination thing and it gets hold of their imaginations well put on that full 34:05.240 --> 34:09.320 armor of God and finally be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power now you can read through 34:09.320 --> 34:14.840 that 10 through 18 but he talks about prayer he talks three times about the word of God and the 34:14.840 --> 34:20.280 sword of the Spirit is the word of God it's an offensive weapon then he says put on the whole 34:20.280 --> 34:27.240 armor of God see I think with God's people today they'd have to add some armor across the rear 34:27.240 --> 34:31.400 end because a lot of the time the church is retreating they're going the other way and a big fat 34:31.400 --> 34:38.360 derriere is being exposed to a spirit for us but in those days you didn't run you didn't run the 34:38.360 --> 34:43.640 church chooses to run way too many times I'm not I'm not discontent sometimes with that I hope that 34:43.640 --> 34:52.600 you are too and we need to put on the whole armor of God keep busy because remember that sin just 34:52.600 --> 34:58.760 gets worse with time unless it's eradicated unless you throw it out you've not resisted 34:58.760 --> 35:06.360 unto blood he said in fighting against sin not a one of us has paid the price by the way I just 35:06.360 --> 35:14.200 talked about it 27 Chinese in a small house church in northern China in a town where they 35:14.200 --> 35:21.880 melted steel and made heavy machinery because they were caught in church and had bibles 35:22.600 --> 35:28.840 27 were staked out in an arena and the hot slag from the steel mill was poured over their body 35:29.800 --> 35:38.280 steel cools off at 2700 degrees Fahrenheit in the Sudan over 120 people have been crucified 35:38.280 --> 35:45.320 who belong to the Lord Jesus Christ in this day and age they had a crisis in their belief didn't 35:46.280 --> 35:52.200 and you and I haven't been called to do that it is good then to realize what sin can do it can 35:52.280 --> 35:58.920 take our lives away and then lastly listen to this bring every thought into captivity I'm going to 35:58.920 --> 36:06.920 break bad habits if I'm going to clean up my act I need to watch my mind have this mind in you which 36:06.920 --> 36:12.840 is also in Christ Jesus I got to know about Jesus I'm going to win the battle I'm going to win that 36:12.840 --> 36:26.120 fight listen to what it says Job 31 verse 1 if I'm to bring every thought into captivity I 36:26.120 --> 36:34.280 got to get a control of my mind you've got to get control of yours Job 31 one says I made a covenant 36:34.280 --> 36:42.440 with mine eyes not to look lustfully at a girl Jesus said that you know if you're going to lust 36:42.440 --> 36:47.080 after ruin you've already committed a daughter that means you better control that mine I was 36:47.080 --> 36:54.840 sitting there I bought 262 dollars worth of fun stuff for diabetics and I just hate that and I 36:54.840 --> 37:00.760 was so bored and I was draped over the deal there at Albertson and I was watching people go by 37:01.640 --> 37:08.520 it's amazing the shapes and sizes and styles of people here's people that look like they're on 37:08.520 --> 37:13.720 their last leg here's people who are 24 years old and they look like they got less time than the 37:13.720 --> 37:21.400 older folks do and then here a little number comes skirting by there and and I did a little double 37:21.400 --> 37:30.440 take like I'm and said wow what was that and you know you'd think at my age I wouldn't be distracted 37:30.440 --> 37:37.320 but don't you believe that I wish sin would just go away someone said well you old folks you don't 37:37.320 --> 37:42.680 have problems with sin like us young people oh yeah we've got less time to sin in than you do kid 37:43.560 --> 37:49.720 we're gonna make the most of this while we can see I didn't think it unseemly that I stood there on 37:49.720 --> 37:57.960 the top of the shelf rack to see where she was going you know I was trying to act like I was 37:57.960 --> 38:04.840 checking the lights or something but you know it's so easy did Jesus ever have such a problem well 38:04.840 --> 38:09.320 I'll tell you what I'm sure Jesus saw a well turned ankle down at the well I have no doubt you know 38:09.320 --> 38:18.360 why because in every way tempted as we are but what did Jesus do Jesus never ever sin 38:20.200 --> 38:30.120 never ever sin and he just turned his head away what would Jesus do that's a very important 38:30.120 --> 38:35.800 thing you know what Jesus would do dissociate himself with that not dwell on that turn away 38:35.800 --> 38:41.400 from that and it's hard to do in this society because you can see every act perform between 38:41.400 --> 38:49.480 animals and men on public TV anytime you wish to see it during the day you can just feel your heart 38:49.480 --> 39:01.400 my small small you can see why children today are under a tremendous barrage of temptations and 39:01.400 --> 39:08.760 wickedness well keep busy keep your eyes single look what he says in Matthew 26 22 the eye is the 39:08.760 --> 39:13.720 lamp of the body if your eyes are good your whole body will be full of light but if your eyes are 39:13.720 --> 39:21.400 bad your whole body will be full of darkness see if the eye is good you'll see things I knew a guy 39:21.400 --> 39:28.520 my name is dirty mouse Smith and shell oil brilliant doctor brilliant I mean he said words I never 39:28.520 --> 39:38.680 understood and we got out of the field up there in Black Hills gorgeous early morning seven o'clock 39:38.680 --> 39:45.240 a big tom turkey strutted out there across the meadow and the early morning sunlight just bathed 39:45.240 --> 39:53.320 in there and turned that iridescent peacock color of that great bronze turkey and he said hey that's 39:53.320 --> 40:00.040 all say nasty words this is a doctorate in geology because there was an echo and he says we'll get 40:00.040 --> 40:05.560 to hear him twice and I thought so much for education is a way to solve the problems of the world 40:06.440 --> 40:12.920 that's all that it inspired me and he had a mouth he used a dirty word as a noun a preposition 40:13.960 --> 40:21.080 and a positive predicate adjective and as an adverb think about that he used a filthy word as an 40:21.080 --> 40:27.560 adverb there's no hope in the world now that's pretty heavy but you think about that when you go home 40:28.040 --> 40:36.040 that is stupid that's evil and that's wickedness see if your right eye causes you to see and 40:36.040 --> 40:41.720 gouge it out and throw it oh that's a little bit too far but no wait a minute Jesus is talking here 40:41.720 --> 40:52.600 see it is better for you to lose one part of your body than your whole body to be thrown into health 40:53.000 --> 40:59.400 and along the small eye for an eternity with the Lord Jesus Christ which would you take 41:00.280 --> 41:05.240 I think it'd be a better deal to go through the sight without an eye go through life without the 41:05.240 --> 41:12.760 eyesight wouldn't you well remove your hands if it's money that's bugging you folks this morning 41:12.760 --> 41:17.080 you get rid of that job that's got you around money you don't belong there don't tempt yourself 41:17.080 --> 41:22.680 daily see watch what you see don't be around money if that's if it's drinking you stay away from the 41:22.680 --> 41:30.440 bars that's not a good place to meet a future husband or future wife in first place you stay 41:30.440 --> 41:38.120 away from there if that's a problem if it's drugs you don't even experiment with it because most 41:38.120 --> 41:44.520 people cannot handle drugs of any kind especially the very dangerous ones and don't even experiment 41:44.520 --> 41:50.760 with it see don't begin the best way to break the habit is to not begin it is to not begin it I 41:50.760 --> 41:57.000 conclude with this thought doing God's will requires a crisis of belief a wonderful book 41:57.000 --> 42:07.080 by Thomas Blackaby and it said this doing God's will requires a crisis of belief you know 42:07.480 --> 42:16.200 God has the world he's not working very hard in the world today the world is working hard to give 42:16.200 --> 42:25.560 you sin they're making sin delightful they're making sin false Satan never rewards well those who 42:25.560 --> 42:33.240 follow after him it is only Christ who rewards people with eternal life when they follow after 42:33.240 --> 42:41.160 him Satan requires you to live a pig's life a disgusting life and then gives you hell at the 42:41.160 --> 42:50.680 end of it but Jesus Christ I see that beautiful face those scar hands reaching out and say come 42:50.680 --> 42:59.800 on home brother yes you lied yes you committed adultery yes you murdered but hey you belong to 42:59.800 --> 43:09.320 me now I am your source of life I am the living waters the Holy Spirit dwells in you come on home 43:11.640 --> 43:18.600 Satan doesn't work in the world very much he likes to work with those who have everything 43:18.600 --> 43:35.400 to lose and nothing to win as we sing that hymn of invitation would you come 43:48.600 --> 43:49.400 you