JESUS IS THE WAY!
Acts 4:12"... for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."
The Pornification of a Culture -- What's Going on in the Office Next Door?
Albert Mohler
Just when you think you are past being shocked, The Washington Times now reports that pornography "is a major workplace problem in contemporary American society."
Read the full article here
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Indentitiy (who you are and what you're all about)+ Expectatioins (what others associate with your presence and gifting) = Your Personal Brand (what you consistently contribute by your presence and gifting T.D. Jakes page 88. Reposition yourself Living Life Without Limits I am just a farmer from Iowa with a message! This is something I truely enjoy, Start breaking up them clods today! That's the first thing to do so let's get our John Deere and get to work. Much work to do if we want a harvest. I love plowing! Getting a little dirty? Comes with the job. The Good News Translation |
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Question: Where in the Bible is the first Respiratory Therapist?
You've too much time on your hands bro!
Yep, have perhaps what you call a job. Thankful for it, it comes really easy for me. Pays my bills God has given me the power to get wealth. I work 3 days a week helping sick people breath. There is a relation ship between breathing and living. Any Respiratory Therapist knows this.
4 days a week I like to present the naked truth. Tired of the watered down gospel, it’s everywhere. It’s the reason for the state we are in. Lukewarm Christianity makes God sick, He wants to barf. Christianity is in a sick condition and they don't even know it. They need to breathe again and wake up from their sleep. Look at the politicians. Don’t even know to tell the truth. These people we pay their salaries can’t keep their zippers up and we are supposed to be cool about it.
Not all Christians bow their knee to Baal. There still a remnant thanks be to God. I wish to be in this remnant and be on fire for God.
Answer: The First Respiratory Therapist happened to be a man of God.
1 Kings 17:17-24
17 And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him. 18 And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son? 19 And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed. 20 And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son? 21 And he stretched F119 himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again. 22 And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. 23 And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth. 24 And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth.
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I have heard African missionaries who say they understand this and they, the very poor are praying for us fat Americans not to be destroyed by our prosperity. The people that need the gospel the most right now happens to be the computer literate crowd. There is a problem to the flesh to every red-blooded American hetersexuals. Truthfully, this is a temptation common to all men. In this age it is possible to download as much free pornagraphy as you want. No longer do you have to go to seedy magazine stores. You no longer have to go to strip joints to see the strippers. Let's not let Hollywood define what pornography is. Just because it is shown on the boob tube doesn't make it right. From MTV and it's sisters to the ABC,CBS,FOX,CNN Networks on your personal television.
Sex sells is the norm, also the definition of Porn...Now that's easy to remember.
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Like a ton of bricks, it hits all of us. In my opinion it is a lot like overeating or eatting things you know isn't good for you. Eatting and sex we just cannot do away with and yet it can be abused. So if you are guilty, know that Jesus is alive and cares for every one of us. As the world becomes more and more dark, the gospel becomes brighter and brighter unto a brand new daystar. People that waist so much time on the internet it is certainly pathetic. Bible refers to redeeming are time for the days are so evil. According to statistics Christians are struggling. Like Samson of yore have shaken your self and fight against it.
What's with all the naked sluts on the internet? Solomon in all his wisdom said the eye is never satisfied. The lust of this world 1 John 2:15,16,17 “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And hear this all you global warming, disciples of Algore fear mongers, “And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever."
Talking of stuff as this doesn't make you win popularity contests. You know we are praying for our daughters future husbands. Praying the'll be good Christian boys. If speaking out against porn makes us unpopular, that's great! Got to stick up for what its right less we become what you are called a welcome mat to anybody, anything. My daughters deserve the very best.
Look at the prophets in the Bible and you won't see them trying to win any popularity contest. They did what Jesus would do, and that's the only way John 14:6 "Jesus said I am the way..." Got to take a stand against this and make our stand be known. Jesus, would not miss Him for the world thank you very much.
"And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmanent; and they that turn many to righteousnesss as the starts for ever and ever. But thou, O Daniel,shut up the words and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.".Daniel 12:3,4..
The Overcomer
Five Difficult Steps for Overcoming Sin
Dr. Chuck Betters
In His Grip
I have mixed feelings about making New Year's resolutions. In the first place, I'm not certain that it's a Biblical concept. The Holy Spirit, not a New Year's resolution, is the Agent of meaningful transformation in our lives. If, instead, our focus is on what we can do in our own strength, making resolutions has the same feel to it as the widely established non-biblical doctrine that "The Lord helps them that help themselves." The truth is, if you added the word "cannot," as in "The Lord helps them that cannot help themselves," you'd be on the road to sound biblical doctrine.
Another potential pitfall with New Year's resolutions is intentionally waiting for New Year's Day to fix something that is broken, especially if sin is involved. Sin needs our immediate attention. It's the same feeling you get when you hear an inexperienced parent give a disobedient child "until the count of three" to obey. The take-away message for the child, of course, is that a deferred 33% obedience rate is acceptable. In reality, "obey" and "later" (or "next year") don't work well together in the same sentence.
On the other hand, if anyone should have reason to make a New Year's resolution, it should be Christians. We have been freed from the bondage of sin by the Holy Spirit, Who is able to effect genuine transformation in our lives. If you want a picture of this liberation, put yourself in the place of the demon-possessed man in Mark 5:1-20. If God can overcome the spiritual bondage described in that passage, He can overcome the sin patterns in our life as well.
Jonathan Edwards was a man who made resolutions, though not in the form of New Year's resolutions. In his long list of resolutions He included: "Resolved, to live with all my might while I do live; Resolved, never to lose one moment of time, but improve it in the most profitable way I possibly can; Resolved, never to do anything, which if I should see in another, I should count a just occasion to despise him for, or to think any way the more meanly of him; Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge; Resolved, that I will live so as I shall wish I had done when I come to die."
For most, a more focused and realistic goal would be a resolution to cooperate with the Holy Spirit in order to be delivered from one particular area of sin in your life.
This will not come as a surprise to non-Christian onlookers, but just being saved does not give Christians immediate deliverance from sin patterns, especially those that have been developing over many years. Addictions to alcohol, drugs, and pornography, for example, are extremely hard to break. Nevertheless, there are concrete steps that you can take to put yourself in the path of God's grace for deliverance from all types of sin, but you must be resolute in your determination to be freed.
In my Father's Day sermon this year, I identified seven principles that every father must teach his children. One of those principles had to do with dealing with temptation and life-dominating sin. Here is an outline of a practical series of steps that you can follow when you are tempted to turn towards sin in your life:
1) First we should thank God for the temptation; it is an opportunity for our personal growth. Begin with a prayer to God thanking Him for the trial. Remember, it is not a sin to be tempted - temptation becomes sin when we turn towards that temptation in the direction of sin.
2) Next we must move away from the direction of the sin. If it is coming at you, change your course. Put as much distance as you can between you and the source of the temptation - run if you have to.
3) As you are moving way from the source of temptation, quote scripture that you have memorized that applies directly to the area of temptation. For example, if your struggle is with sexual immorality, quote 1 Corinthians 6:18-20. Do this while you are moving away from the source of temptation.
You can get help from your pastor, an elder, or another qualified trained counselor in your church to help identify scripture that applies your sin and to help identify other spiritual disciplines that can be employed to reduce the incidence of temptation.
4) Find yourself an "angel of accountability." Confess to that person that there is a specific sin that you are struggling with and ask that person to hold you accountable in that area. More is said about accountability partners below.
5) Finally, make for yourself and carry around a "think and do list" specific to your particular sin - sometimes called a "Philippians 4 list." In Philippians 4:8-9 we read "Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me - put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you."
So work with your accountability partner to make up a card or group of cards - one for each "whatever is…" in Philippians 4:8 - and come up with a list of things that you can do that would be admirable, or lovely, etc. This completes the process of dealing with the sin. The first part is to "put off" the sin; the last part is to "put something good on in its place." That is, do something good!
Your accountability partner MUST be willing to ask you pointed questions, such as the following two, each week; moreover, you must promise to answer honestly and to hide nothing from your accountability partner. The first question is "How many times were you tempted in your sin area this week?" The second question is "How many times did you turn towards the sin?"
As you struggle for freedom from sin patterns you will be tempted over and over again - consider keeping a detailed count of the number of times you are tempted for the purpose of tracking progress. It is NO sin to be tempted. We sin the moment we take a small step in the direction of the sin (rather than running away from the temptation). We sin the moment we hesitate from turning away from temptation. Again, to track progress, consider keeping, and reporting, a count of the number of times you actually sinned.
One other recommendation regarding your selection of an accountability partner - consider making it someone that you ABSOLUTELY do not want to have to report failure to, such as a younger Christian who considers you more mature in your faith, but who is mature enough to handle helping you with your spiritual temptations. Knowing that you will have to report failure, and knowing that it is someone to whom you do not want to have to report failure, is powerful motivation that will make you think before sinning.
This sounds like a lot of work, and it is - but if you employ these steps in dealing with sin struggles and in getting control over your thought-life, there is no reason to be resigned to defeat. Why not make a New Year's resolution to gain victory over one sin area in your life? And why not start working on that resolution today?
Dr. Chuck Betters has been the pastor of Glasgow Reformed Presbyterian Church in Bear, Delaware since 1986. He has a daily radio program, airing since 1994, In His Grip, which can be accessed online at www.MARKINC.org. Along with the development of numerous audio and video resources designed to help heal broken hearts, he is also co-author of Treasures of Faith, Living Boldly in View of God's Promises.
The world grows more darker, porn is accepted more
By Sean McDowell
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the end of last year I lead a class discussion on the topic of Internet
pornography (I teach at a private Christian school in southern
California). As we discussed openly with each other, a young man
sitting in the back became noticeably disturbed by the conversation,
which was evident by his body posture and lack of eye contact. He
stayed after class to talk and confessed to me that he had been hooked
on pornography for over six months. His dad would confront him, yet he
would just lie directly to his face. This was not an ordinary kid, but
a young man who grew up in a solid Christian home who had a great
relationship with his father. He shared with me how he could control
every aspect of his life but this one; and it was eating him up inside.
This experience impressed upon me the following reality: every kid today is susceptible to the alluring power of pornography.
Studies show that about 40 million adults regularly visit Internet pornography sites (Microtrends,
2007, p. 276). That’s more than ten times the amount of people who
regularly watch baseball. Which one, again, is America’s pastime? In
fact, the ubiquity of porn is so great that it has now become the norm.
Consider some statistics about pornography today:
- 70 percent of porn is downloaded between 9 am and 5 pm. 20 percent of men admit to accessing it while at work.
- In 2003, Today’s Christian Woman reported that 53 percent of men at that year’s Promise Keepers Convention admitted visiting a porn site the week before.
- According to Leadership Journal, 40 percent of pastors admit to visiting a pornographic website.
- Revenue from Internet porn exceeds by nearly a 2 to 1 ratio, the combined revenues of ABC, CBS, and NBC (Microtrends, 277)
- 25% of all searches are for sex, which is the number one search term people plug into Google and Yahoo!
- Sales of pornographic material on the Internet surpass the cumulative sales of all other products sold online (George Barna, Boiling Point: It Takes One Degree: Monitoring Cultural Shifts in the 21st Century, p. 223)
- 70% of 18-24 year-olds visit a pornographic website in a typical month (Pamela Paul, Pornified, 15).
- Average age of first Internet exposure to pornography is 11 years old (www.familysafemedia.com).
Consider three ways pornography has changed over the past few years. First, it is more accessible. People used to have to travel to seedy parts of town to get pornography, but now it comes looking for us—and our kids—while we surf the Internet or watch cable TV. Mark Penn, author of Microtrends says, “Where this may have the greatest impact is with teens who once bought illicit magazines, and then acquired videos. Now they have access through the Web” (p. 278). One result, he says, is that the age of first sexual contact is decreasing.
Second, pornography is now more accepted. Pornography is now seamlessly integrated into popular culture. Just ask yourself a simple question: When was the last time you heard the merits of pornography even being debated? For the most part the debate has died down, because it has become largely accepted. Women’s magazines regularly discuss porn but from a new perspective—how women can introduce it into their own lives. One Rolling Stones article said, “Until recently, public fraternizing with a porn star was pretty much a no-no; now it lends the musicians an aura of danger and intrigue.” A 2004 video game entitled, The Guy Game features women exposing their breasts when they answer questions incorrectly, available for X-Box and Playstation 2. It didn’t even get an “Adults-only” rating. In Pornified Pamela Paul observed, “Girls today emulate porn stars in the same way earlier generations gyrated to Madonna” (184). Pornography is largely accepted in society.
Third, pornography is more aggressive. Porn has become increasingly violent and nonconsensual. In one study, 25% of porn magazines showed some form of violence, ranging from verbal aggression to torture to mutilation, compared with 27% of pornographic videos. Usenet groups on the Internet depicted violence 42% of the time (Pornified, 58). The lines between hard-core and soft-core pornography are no longer distinguishable—everything is available easily online. Pamela Paul noted: “Soft-core pornography has become part and parcel of the mainstream media. The majority of men interviewed for this book [Pornified] did not consider Playboy—once the epitome of the genre—to even be pornography at all, because it doesn’t depict actual sex acts. ‘True’ pornography today is confined to the hardcore.” (5)
Pornography Shapes a Worldview
Viewing pornography shapes the worldview of young people (and really, all people). Sadly, pornography is now the primary place that kids learn about sex. In Forbidden Fruit, Mark Regnerus notes that, “Filmmakers understand that Internet pornography is certainly the primary—and for some, only—sexual education that teenagers now receive. Debates about whether educators will or will not address oral sex or anal sex or condoms or gay or lesbian sex are quickly becoming utterly irrelevant, since a few clicks of a mouse will bring any of us to a demonstration of exactly how each is performed and ‘experienced’” (p. 59). In one study, 60% of boys said they had learned “some” or “a lot” from porn” (Forbidden Fruit, 189).
The problem is that kids tend to think that sex online is not only real sex (sometimes it is), but normal sex. Consider just some of the implicit messages of heterosexual pornography: (1) all women want sex from men; (2) Women like all sexual acts men perform or demand; (3) Any woman who does not at first realize this can be persuaded with a little force.
Without exception, the more porn people watch, the more likely they are to believe that others are sexually active and adventurous. Porn gives the idea that sexual pleasure can be entirely divorced from a healthy relationship. In a study of 600 junior high school students over 66% of the males and 40% of females reported wanting to try out some of the sexual behaviors they had witnessed. In high school 31% of the males and 18% of the females admitted actually doing some of the things they had seen in the porn within a few days after exposure (Donna Rice Hughes, Kids Online: Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace).
Why is Pornography so Appealing?
Pornography meets a deeper need in many men (and women) beyond physical pleasure. For instance, porn depicts sex as an easy process, which is a welcome refuge for many young people from the difficult world of sexual politics they encounter every day. The user is put in complete control. In reality, men can reject women and make them feel inferior. But porn, on the other hand, offers sex without risk, vulnerability and humiliation. In Pornified, Pamela Paul says, “In the porn fantasy, a guy is no longer that tech geek that nobody liked in junior high school or the awkward college student lacking in social skills. In his mind’s eye—despite a paucity of dates and a sexual history confined to the girl from math class—he has always gotten the woman he wants.” (44)
Pornography is so alluring to young people is because many lack the healthy relationships God designed them to have. When we do not have intimate, healthy relationships, we are susceptible to all kinds of addictions, including pornography. In Hurt (2005), youth ministry expert Chap Clarks notes that one of the defining characteristics of young people today is their sense of loneliness from broken relationships with significant adults. No wonder so many are drawn to pornography.
What can we do?
Here are some quick thoughts for parents, youth workers, teachers, and others who care about reaching young people who struggle with Internet porn.
First, in talking to kids about sex and pornography it’s important to balance expectations with information. Most conservatives tend to talk about values, but not discuss the realities of
"it's no big deal"
s Porn Really That Big of a Deal?
Dr. James Emery White
Pastor, Ranked Adjunctive Professor of Theology and Culture Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
I've heard all of this, and more, from men.
So is it really that big of a deal?
Yes, and here's why:
It is sexual sin. Jesus made it clear that when we give in to lust, it is akin the act itself. It makes no difference whether you know the person or not; lust is not tied to relationship.
It is addictive. The ubiquitous nature of porn is new to our culture, and to human sexuality, but it is becoming increasingly clear that it is highly addictive in nature. As a result, it can not only begin to dominate a life, but can demand ever-increasing levels of exposure and ever-increasing degrees of experience to continue to stimulate.
It is degrading to women. In pornography, women are treated as objects. They are not fulfilling God's dream for their life as His precious daughter, nor are they fulfilling His design for sexual expression and fulfillment. You are watching a woman who is being sinned against, treated in a way that is contemptible to her heavenly father (whether she sees it or not - and the fact that many may not only adds to its tragic nature).
It leads to other sins. Studies are beginning to show that the effects of porn on men is more than temporary sexual stimulation: as they see women treated as objects, they begin to treat women that way. They become more sexually aggressive, leading to date rapes and expected "hook-ups."
It harms your relationship with your current, or future, spouse. It is absolutely bogus to say that watching porn enhances a sexual life. Instead, it cheapens it. Porn quickly becomes a substitute for sexual intimacy with your spouse.
It desensitizes your soul. Sin of any kind desensitizes your spiritual life. Continued exposure to a sin such as pornography is like shooting novocaine into your soul. It deadens you and grieves the Holy Spirit in your life, forcing Him to withdraw His utmost filling in a way that diminishes His power and presence in your life.
It distorts sex. "You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act," wrote C.S. Lewis, "that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you came to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food? And would not anyone who had grown up in a different world think there was some equally queer about the state of the sex instinct among us?"
I'm a pastor. I talk with men who are dealing with the spiritual torment and guilt of engaging in a sin while trying to rationalize it away; I talk with men who are having to fight it as an addiction; I talk with men who are finding it is leading them to a warped view of women; I talk with men who are experiencing it's direct path to other sins; I talk with men who are seeing its assault on their marriage; I talk with men who are trying to awaken their souls from its deadening grip; I talk with men who have distorted views of what sex is about.
I have a front-row seat to how it's impacting their lives. I don't need to wait for a host of studies. I'm in a living laboratory. So don't tell me it's no big deal.
I know the men who can prove you wrong.
Sources
For help with pornography, as well as accountability software, visit www.xxxchurch.com.
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianit
Enquiring minds want the dirty laundry
The church is falling short like a lot of us in its mission to address some very important issues. The reasons are many as you see falling Christian leaders all of the sudden make major front page news. I would say the press is the present day Philistines. Not a big stretch don’t you think?
How the Mighty Are Fallen!
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
... The beauty of
Tell it not in
n II Samuel 1: 17, 19–21
What we see and what God see's are different let's look to Ezekiel chapter eight
7 Then he brought me to the entrance to the court. I looked, and I saw a hole in the wall. 8 He said to me, "Son of man, now dig into the wall." So I dug into the wall and saw a doorway there. 9 And he said to me, "Go in and see the wicked and detestable things they are doing here." 10 So I went in and looked, and I saw portrayed all over the walls all kinds of crawling things and detestable animals and all the idols of the house of Israel. 11 In front of them stood seventy elders of the house of Israel, and Jaazaniah son of Shaphan was standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising. 12 He said to me, "Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? They say, 'The Lord does not see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.'
The Clarity of War. The Christian Mantra
The Clarity of War. The Christian Mantra
2 Samuel 11 - Study This Chapter
1 In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king's men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah.
David was victorious in his battles. Have defeated the Ammonites and its hired help Seria.
But David remained in Jerusalem. 2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace.
So David has encountered at ease in
From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, 3 and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, "Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of
Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"
So enough already with the Bathsheba and whose fault it was. Nathan the prophet knew whose fault it was. Warrior David was idle and looking.
4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (She had purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she went back home. 5 The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, "I am pregnant."
Look how one sin leads to another. Adultery starts in the heart and becomes acted upon. Jas 1:14,15 - Show Context
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
6 So David sent this word to Joab: "Send me Uriah the Hittite." And Joab sent him to David. 7 When Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war was going. 8 Then David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house and wash your feet." So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him. 9 But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master's servants and did not go down to his house. 10 When David was told, "Uriah did not go home," he asked him, "Haven't you just come from a distance? Why didn't you go home?" 11 Uriah said to David, "The ark and
14 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. 15 In it he wrote, "Put Uriah in the front line where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die." 16 So while Joab had the city under siege, he put Uriah at a place where he knew the strongest defenders were. 17 When the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of the men in David's army fell; moreover, Uriah the Hittite died.
18 Joab sent David a full account of the battle. 19 He instructed the messenger: "When you have finished giving the king this account of the battle, 20 the king's anger may flare up, and he may ask you, 'Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Didn't you know they would shoot arrows from the wall? 21 Who killed Abimelech son of Jerub-Besheth? Didn't a woman throw an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?' If he asks you this, then say to him, 'Also, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.'"
So David attempts to cover up his sin. Guess one thing leads to another.
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
22 The messenger set out, and when he arrived he told David everything Joab had sent him to say. 23 The messenger said to David, "The men overpowered us and came out against us in the open, but we drove them back to the entrance to the city gate. 24 Then the archers shot arrows at your servants from the wall, and some of the king's men died. Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead." 25 David told the messenger, "Say this to Joab: 'Don't let this upset you; the sword devours one as well as another. Press the attack against the city and destroy it.' Say this to encourage Joab." 26 When Uriah's wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him. 27 After the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing David had done displeased the Lord.
This is such great teaching for the Christian. You may say, hey, I have never killed anybody, didn’t cover my sin. But I did enjoy looking at the half-naked chicks dancing on MTV. I did enjoy Foxes reporting on, and showing the new Madonna in her best costume, berating the wrinkled white dude.
The clarity of war showed David’s real enemy, that being David himself. This is why I like KJV. Nathan says "Thou art the man.!" No question, Nathan was specific. If there was anybodyelse in the room, there was no question.
Who is it that has sinned Christian? 2 Samuel 12
Nathan said to David, Thou art the man! Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul; 8 And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things. 9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. 11 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee…
Thus Psalm 3 was written and we have the story of David's own son Absolon. The curse coming from David's own house. David's baby died from Bathsheba. David did pay dearly for his mistake.
What problems we bring upon ourselves. The tendency to stray is in all of us.
So then what must Christian do?...
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1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. 5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive F154 me. 6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. 9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right F155 spirit within me. 11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. 12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. 13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee. |
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