05/29/2023 DAB Transcript

2 Samuel 12:1-31, John 16:1-33, Psalms 119:65-80, Proverbs 16:4-5

Today is the 29th day of May welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian and it is wonderful to be here with you today as we gather yet again around the Global Campfire and move forward together on our journey through the Scriptures this year. And our journey will lead us back into the book of second Samuel, where we have been camping out in moving our way through as we learn of the reign of king David. David has made mostly right moves, moves from a good heart and good character but he’s also made a really bad maneuver in taking another man’s wife, Bathsheba and having her husband killed to cover it up, which creates a lot of unrest in David’s family. And, so, David’s daughter has been raped by her brother Amnon and Amnon has subsequently been killed by his brother Absalom and Absalom has been sent away from Jerusalem back to his grandparents. And, so, let’s pick up the story. Second Samuel chapter 14 verse 1 through 15 verse 22 today.

Commentary:

Okay. So, the erosion in…in the Kings family, king David’s family is on full display. We watched David running for his life from King Saul. We watched him holding on to God for his next breath. We watched his integrity grow. We watched the people’s hearts turn toward him because they were seeing his character shine through as a leader, that he truly loved the people, that he truly loved God. And God blessed and a national identity was established under David’s rule, a palace for the king, a capital city and then David saw a beautiful woman that he wanted that belonged to someone else and the aftermath was pregnancy and loss of a baby, the murder of Bathsheba’s husband, Uriah, and then repercussions in his own family, the rape of his daughter Tamar by her brother Amnon. And then another brother Absalom taking out his revenge on Amnon by killing him for raping his sister. And then Absalom was exiled away from Jerusalem to Gesher to his grandparents and kept away from the king. And then finally…finally, Absalom comes back but he can’t see the king and he goes about the business of stealing the hearts of…of the Israelites away from the king. And, so, now what we have is Absalom has gone to Hebron and is declaring himself king and a revolt, coup is underway. David has gotten word about this. All of his instincts kick in. He knows what it’s like to be on the run and fighting to stay alive. So, he sees the writing on the wall. And, so, he has to leave the palace, gather some kind of bodyguard and…and get like some little semblance of government together and get out of there. Otherwise, Absalom will come with his troops and there will be civil war going on in the…the holy city of Jerusalem, the capital city. And, so, David is…is back on the run again. He was given rest. He was given blessing. He was made the King and now he’s back on the run again. And we can look at this and we have to appreciate the impact that has happened in the reign of king David because of the choices that he made. We watched a tremendous offense grow between Absalom and David over the course of years and it's…it’s led to war. If we want to step back and allow the Scriptures to read us and…and try to apply this to our lives, then we have to look at the offenses that we’ve allowed to fester over long periods of time. We have to look at the things that have become poison in our relationships because we already know where the road goes. Like the bonds that bound us in relationship become frayed and broken and can turn to the opposite of relationship which is…which is non-relationship, which is war with each other, animosity toward one another. We’re seeing this happen to King David and his kingdom, but it is the same for us. And everybody does make mistakes. There is no perfect one outside of our Savior and we have an example of that. But when we fall short, we are human beings, we fall short a lot more we even…than we even acknowledge. We give ourselves a lot of grace but we make a lot of mistakes and some of them are small and some of them are big but there is a repercussion for the choices that we make and some of those can be devastating. But even when things are absolutely blown apart and broken we still are making decisions each and every day to move through the day. And, so, we either reinforce the battle lines, we bring more ammunition to create more evil, or we find a way to humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God and repent, which doesn’t mean everything gets fixed all of a sudden, but humility and hope for grace and a heart of repentance, these can be miracles in relationships. So, let’s look at what’s happening to David and look into our own lives for…for parallels. And probably we don’t have the same kind of parallels. The kind of stuff that David’s gotten himself into are pretty big things, but the principles remain. We’ll continue this story as we continue to move forward through the Scriptures and we will see that the animosity that has risen between Absalom and his father David. Absalom’s total disdain and disrespect and near hatred for his father is going to cause a lot of pain. May we learn from this example.

Prayer:

Father, we invite You into that. And as we were just saying, most of us don’t have stories like king David, but we all have stories and they’re human stories and most of our stories involve interaction and relationship with other people in some sort of way and we have done well and we’ve done poorly in the choices that we’ve made about the relationships that we’ve had. And, so, we first humble ourselves before You and ask Your Holy Spirit to show us the way that we should go and how to be a part of Your story of redemption rather than just continuing to drop battle lines for bloodshed and more devastation in our hearts and in our lives and in the lives of those around us. Come Holy Spirit show us the way to go in the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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