Bible History Unmasked: Bathsheba’s Hidden Dynasty: From Scandal to Royal Lineage

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Welcome to the Diary of a Black Woman podcast. I'm your host,

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Connie Morris, and this is Faith on the Go, where you take the word with you

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Before we get into today's word, let's take a moment to center ourselves with a familiar prayer.

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The prayer of Jabez.

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Oh, that you will bless me indeed and enlarge my territory.

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Let your hand be with me and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.

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Father God, we come before you this day asking that you will indeed bless us,

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not just with what we have, but in who we are becoming.

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Enlarge our territory, Lord. Expand our capacity, our mindset,

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our ability to receive what you have for us.

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Let your hand be upon us, guiding us, covering us, and leading us in every decision we make.

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And Father, keep us from harm, physically, emotionally, and spiritually,

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that we may walk in peace and not in pain.

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And Lord, just as you heard Jabez when he cried out to you, hear us now.

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Your word says that you granted his request, and we believe that you are the same God today.

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So we come boldly before you, knowing that you hear us, knowing that you see

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us, and knowing that you respond to the prayers of your people.

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Have your way in this moment as we sit, listen, and receive your word.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Hello and welcome back to Bible History Unmasked.

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I'm your host Connie Morris and this is the Diary of a Black Woman podcast and

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we're continuing our journey through the Bible, learning about ethnicity,

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learning about characters,

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but we're going to finalize the story of Bathsheba because there's more to her story.

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We know that she had an incident. We went into detail last episode.

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Something happened with her when David saw her doing her purification,

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but we know that Bathsheba married David, and they had several sons.

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Solomon was not her only son.

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And so this episode, we're going to explore her sons.

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We're going to compare and contrast them to David's sons.

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And how does that differ? Why does it differ so much?

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The last time we left Bathsheba in the story that her husband was old and cold

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and she hired a handmaiden to keep him warm.

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And my question was, why didn't she keep him warm?

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So that's where I left out. Like, I think that's interesting.

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But that's not here or there. You know, in castles, people do different things in those castles.

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I don't know about those different things. I've never lived in a castle,

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but it's on my bucket list, right?

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To at least see one. And maybe I have to wait till I get to heaven. I don't know.

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But let's start this story out with, I love this. I'm so excited because I discovered

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she has sons because I was meditating on Bathsheba. I'm thinking like,

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wow, but she went through a lot.

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She went through some trauma, some drama. She married this man, this man named David.

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David still has some things. he had to work out with the family because Nathan

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put the woozoo on him about what's going to happen with his family.

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You know, Nathan pretty much said, your family is going to give you the drama,

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trauma that you caused in Bathsheba.

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Not those exact wording, but similar. And so we're going to go through Bathsheba's

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story, and that will be the episode. Next one, we're going to study this man,

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Uriah, her husband, who she mourned.

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So it wasn't an adultery kind of situation.

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Bathsheba was called. Bathsheba was summoned. Bathsheba was,

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in my opinion, had unconsensual relations with a man that she probably knew

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as her husband's boss. Think how invasive that is.

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You know, and when he found out that was his wife, he still didn't stop.

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And God came to him and took Nathan, the prophet, and says, I am displeased with you.

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Isn't that something? God said, I am displeased with you.

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Because many times when we walk, if we walk right into sin, there's always these

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roadblocks that keep you from sinning.

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Your flesh says, no, your mind playing tricks on you. You start to think like,

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maybe I shouldn't, maybe I shouldn't.

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And then you do that sin. And then it's like, you feel dirty.

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You feel kind of like betraying God, knowing that he was displeased.

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Because like I shared with you before, God does not close his eyes on sin.

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He doesn't close his eyes purely. He's up all day and all night.

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He never slumbers and he never sleeps.

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So there's nothing going on in this world or in your life that he doesn't know about.

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And so we're going to start this story off with Bathsheba's son.

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And you know how we've been covering this Bible history on mass.

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It's been really interesting to me because I'm finding things that I didn't really know.

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You know, first I didn't know there was blacks in the Bibles.

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Now I'm finding out with these Bible characters who are black that their story

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brings so much drama and trauma. It's like a soap opera in the Bible.

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But underneath all this studying, I am learning, and I hope you are too,

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how God works in every situation.

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And one thing important that I love the most is how he works with his women in the Bible.

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We saw different things. You saw Eve when she sinned and how he handled her.

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Then we had some other ladies that we covered that how he, like, remember it was Hagar.

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How he handled Hagar, how he handled Sarah, how he's handling Bathsheba,

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how he handled the queen of Sheba.

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Come on now. So God loves his women.

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This is Diary of a Black Woman podcast, so it's made for women.

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And so I hope you're learning about how much God loves us.

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And even if something happens bad, God always turns things for your good.

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He don't say it's good, but he turned it around for your good or for the good,

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the Bible says. So, you ready?

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I know. I get so excited. And so let's go. And so today we're going to step

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into what the royal household of King David.

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We already visited the rooftop scandal.

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We're not going to retell that whole story again because we did that in four

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episodes plus, right? You're not going to hear about that.

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A little bit of review so you remember.

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Then we're going to dive right into Bathsheba's sons, the hidden dynasty,

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and then we're going to keep going.

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So Bathsheba did have more sons by David, which to me was a surprise because

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in the Bible that I read, I never, I knew she had some more kids,

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but they don't start no drama.

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So you don't get to see them in full play like you see David's kids,

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his children by these other women. You see what I'm saying?

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And so Bathsheba had sons. Yes, she had four boys, no girls.

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She had four different destinies that she was working with.

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Four branches of a family that would shape Israel monarchy.

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Ultimately connect to the coming of Messiah.

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Remember, I'm trying to put that story and put this together that the people

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that God shows, the ones that are highlighted in the Bible, and even some not,

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God shows this family to come through the royal lineages of the Messiah.

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Isn't that powerful? But she did not know that her incident, her story.

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Her trauma and her drama, that's good, will turn for her good and she will marry

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the king, become a queen, and raise up a son that ended up being a king.

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And so she gave birth. So each of those kids are a princess in that book, right?

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So think about that. She lost her first child, but the rest of her children

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lived to tell the story, but not the drama story, right?

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We want to always tell our kids the truth about what happened,

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but we don't want it to end there.

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We want to tell them that you have an opportunity to not live that drama story,

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that you have an opportunity to be way more than I ever was,

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because I'm going to tread that ground before you.

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I will be that example, just like Bathsheba was.

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I don't know if she was a Christian or she believed in Jesus,

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but I can see her relationship with God becoming really, really strong because

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she recognized that God was in her life, that she wasn't alone.

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So we're going to understand that difference between those sons,

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and we're going to see why does Bathsheba's sons stand out, even though we don't

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read about them in the Bible a lot about what trouble or drama they were involved in.

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But they are part of the lineage of Jesus.

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You know, and I want to show you that.

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So let's unmask this hidden dynasty. Let's start out with this little reminder,

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a little backstory that remember Bathsheba's story started what? In a crisis.

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When she entered the biblical narrative and it comes in 2 Samuel 11,

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3-5. Let's read that. This is a refresher.

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It shouldn't be that much of a refresher because we just finished this story, but let's go through.

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We want to see here what happened to Bathsheba and how her story starts in a crisis.

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It says, And David sent and inquired after the woman.

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And the one said, It is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Elam,

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the wife of Uriah the Hittite?

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And David sent messengers and took her, and she came in unto him, and he laid with her.

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For she was purified from her uncleanness, and she returned unto her house.

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And the woman conceived and sent and told David and said, I am with child. Look what he did.

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I forgot that other episode. She, he laid with her.

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And then sent her home. That's still more drama to me, right?

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Can I just spend the night? You already took it. Can I just spend the night?

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I'm just talking, but sent her home.

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So we see here that she calls and says, I am with child, or she sent it through

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her messengers that I am with child.

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So when David sends for her and she conceives, her husband Uriah is later killed

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and she becomes David's wife.

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But her first child dies under divine judgment.

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Divine judgment. Let's go to 2 Samuel 12, and let's look at 15 to 18.

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Let's see what happens after Nathan begins to tell David what's going to happen

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since you did this to this woman in full knowledge that that was one of your

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employees' wives. Help me understand that, folks.

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You know, this man was so faithful. But we'll get into our story later,

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but let's continue. 2 Samuel 12, 15-18.

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And Nathan departed unto his house, and the Lord struck the child with Uriah's

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wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.

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And David therefore besought God for the child. And David fastened and went

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in and laid all night unto the earth.

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And the elders of the house arose and went to him to raise him up from the earth,

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but he would not, neither did he eat bread with him.

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And it came to pass on the seventh day that the child died, and the servants

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of David feared to tell him that the child was dead.

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For they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke unto him,

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and he would not hearken unto our voice.

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How will he then vex himself if he will tell the child, if you tell him the child is dead?

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So David tells David that the child will die. Wow. He said that first child was going to die.

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So David was interceding for that child. The child becomes ill and dies after seven days.

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That's a hard death. It's different if they die. Death is death. Don't get me wrong.

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But after seven days, that's a heartbreak, right?

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You know, but then David has a revelation about what can happen.

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Now, David needed this revelation before the story, but you know, we're all not perfect.

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I love that God put this in the Bible for our learning and so that we can study

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to show ourselves approved, a workman that needeth not be ashamed.

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So even though David did this thing, you'll hear more about David,

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he still goes to God. He had a relationship with God.

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He just had a man moment. For a moment, he saw a naked woman and he just,

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oh my gosh, I got to have her. And the process began. But let's continue. Let's continue.

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David says this in that verse. He says, I should go to him. Let's continue.

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But when David saw that his servant whispered, David perceived that the child was dead.

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Therefore, David said unto his servant, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.

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And David rose from the earth, washed and anointed himself and changed his apparel

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and came into the house of the Lord and worshiped.

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Look at that. Then he came to his own house and then he required that they set

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bread before him and he did eat. Let's talk about this part.

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We skipped over it in our other story because this wasn't about David.

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It was about Bathsheba. But I want you to see David's heart.

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So David arose. Once he knew the baby was dead, he took a shower.

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He put on his anointing, probably his garment. It said he changed his apparel.

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So kings wear apparel, right? Okay.

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Came into the house of the Lord and worshiped. He went straight to the Lord and he worshiped.

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He didn't go to Bathsheba. He didn't go to his boy's house. He didn't go have

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one for the homie drinks.

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He went straight to worship God.

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That's powerful. We're going to study David at a later time,

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but I want to see why he has the heart of God.

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That's why God said, you're not going to die. If he didn't have this heart, he would be dead.

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But God, like, I'm going to give my man another chance.

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And then he came to his own house and he required and he set up bread.

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When you set up bread, I mean, he ate, but I bet you he gave a communion.

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He had like a little communion service before God so that he can cleanse out

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that whole mess, get right with God. And then he ate.

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But then we know that also, when we flip the script, we also know that the Bible

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said that Bathsheba mourned.

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So her motherhood, her first child begins in grief.

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And her later children are born into a palace under divine correction,

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a household learning repentance after David's sin.

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Her legacy begins in sorrow, but it does not end there.

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Let's go to Nathan's, I got to set it up for you. Get ready, on your seatbelts.

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2 Samuel 12, 9 through 12. And it talks about David's sin. What's going to happen when David sins?

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And we knew right away that that first baby was going to die.

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But let's talk about what happened with his family. And so we 12 verses 9 through 12.

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He said, Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord to do evil in his sight?

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Thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with a sword, has taken his wife to be thy

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wife, and has slain him with the sword of the children of Amnon.

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Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house,

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because thou hast despised me. He said.

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That twice. God says, wait a minute. Okay. But I want to, they're taking our time, no rush.

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But I want you to see when God says it twice, he ain't gonna be nice,

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right? Sometimes he's nice. But I'm saying like, think about what he says.

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He said, you kill Uriah the Hittite and you took his wife in verse nine.

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And then also he says, you said it in verse 10, like you forgot,

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like now therefore the source shall never depart thy house because thou has

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despised me and has taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite. What despised God the most?

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For him to take that man's wife and kill him.

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Think about that is why David could not build the temple because he had blood on his hand.

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Not from wars, from doing this act, this very act. God said, don't build me nothing.

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I'm going to have your son do it. Verse 11, thus says the Lord,

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behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thy own house.

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And I would take thy wives before thy eyes and give them unto thy neighbor.

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And he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of his son. He said,

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I'm going to give your wives away.

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Just as you treated this wife, like you treated Bathsheba, Uriah's wife,

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your wives are going to be treated similar to that.

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Did we get that out of that last episode? No, I rushed through it because we

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were talking about Bathsheba.

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Remember, David has sons and so did Bathsheba and David has sons.

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I want to show you the difference. For thou did it secretly,

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but I will do this thing before all Israel before the sun.

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God said, everything that you've done in private is going to come through your

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family, but I'm going to do it in broad daylight.

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When he snatched up Bathsheba, or maybe I cannot say it right,

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when he sent for Bathsheba.

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Sounds like it was okay. It was not okay, David, to go send for somebody else's

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wife. We know that's wrong.

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And so when I say snatched up, I mean, she didn't have a choice.

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She could have said, I don't think so.

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What would David have done? We don't know. He killed Uriah. So we know that

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death killing was in his heart.

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And so we see here that David's sin that was prophesied through Nathan the prophet

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had a devastating message.

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It read that the sword would never depart from your house.

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Sword means death, that there's going to be some death in your house.

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You already lost your first child. There's going to be more death in your house.

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And he says, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house.

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So your house is going to turn against each other, family battles,

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and that what you did secretly, I will do this thing before all Israel.

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We understand now that the sin is not a good thing to have.

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In your house. Sin is like having feces in your coffee or in your milkshake, right?

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Nothing about that is delicious. But God says, you displease me.

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And so this is what's going to happen to you in your house.

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How would you feel? You did that one thing, which was devastating.

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Murder gets you life in prison, needless to say. But he didn't get life in prison.

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He got to live his life out loud. And it was like a prison, like watching a

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soap opera that never ended, but always ended in death.

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And we understand that this prophecy became the spiritual backbone of David's family story.

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It explains why David's household descends into conflict, why violence erupts

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among his sons, why rebellion rises from within, and why the royal family becomes a place of turmoil.

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The sword never leaves David's house exactly as God said.

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God said his word will not return void. It will prosper where it's sent.

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When God says it, it is as good.

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Has done, bad or good. But this word really bothers me. I want to look it up.

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It says displeased. What does displeased mean? It says to make someone unhappy,

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annoyed, dissatisfied, or offended.

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To displease God means to act in a way contrary to God's will or offensive to him, right?

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Think about that. Was that offensive to God when David knew that man's wife?

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Who is this lady? And they said, that's Uriah's wife.

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They asked him a question. He asked her like they didn't know because they didn't

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want to offend David, right?

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He was like, don't that look like Uriah's wife? Like questionable, knowing that they know.

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And then David, once he heard Uriah, which that name sounds familiar,

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wife, that should have put a pause on him, but it didn't. Let's continue.

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When we think about David and what he did and what God said will happen in his

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family, let's look at his family because this is about Bathsheba.

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We haven't got there yet. We got to set up the drama that she is entering into.

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She married this man, David. I call this man. But she married him after what he did to her.

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But God protected her in a way that she know. And so God put the curse on his family. But he still...

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Then the Bible says, after God's heart. We might have to study David in a separate

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series because it might get really long with David.

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Because David covers a lot of ground in the Bible. But we might put a little

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story on him. But we learned about him now. So let's count that as good for now.

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Let's talk about David's sons.

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Because she was married into this family. So I wanted to make sure we understand

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what she took on. Not only did she have drama trauma from David,

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the family came. You ever met a family that always has drama trauma in it?

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You know, and we all come from a little bit of that in our lives.

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You know, and one thing I want to share, I'll take a little side note, because it just came up.

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It's like when you have this drama trauma in your life where every time you

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get together, you either fuss and fight and it's just not a good thing.

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No matter where you are, even if you're on Zoom for a family meeting,

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there's going to be some drama. You show up at an event, it's going to be so

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drama. It's just, it was set to do that.

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You know, you always ask what happened? Why did that happen?

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We always have to check the man of the household, right?

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And did my dad send, you know, my dad has passed. I won't show out his business, but nobody's perfect.

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But as I think about this, I'm thinking about what happened to the main man

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of the household is supposed to protect you and they're out doing stuff.

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Do you know that affects your family? That actually affects your family.

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And so I just want to share this quick dream I had. So I had this dream.

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At the time, our family was going through. We couldn't get along for nothing.

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And so much so, you just kind of, I'm not going to be at the event because I

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don't feel like arguing and fighting with you. I know, raise your hand if that's you.

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And so I asked the Lord, I said, Lord, what is going on?

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In my family. I wanted to stop.

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And I had this dream and it was shortly after my brother had passed and my brother

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was in the dream and he was showing up in my dreams a lot after he passed. So he was passed.

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But as I was in this dream, I was talking to my brother, but behind him was

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this ugly devil looking creature, demonic looking creature.

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And it was trying to stir up drama behind him. And you know how you dream and I go, what is that?

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I'm thinking a lot like, oh, and then God said, that's your trouble right there.

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And I must have woke up because I asked before I went to bed and I woke up and

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I said, I just started praying, praying the evil out of my house,

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binding them, everything I did.

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And this was like in the middle of the night and I was asleep,

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but I woke up just to put the devil under my feet. And I woke up and I had this

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dream. I always write out my dreams and I wrote that down.

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And the Lord showed me that what was in our family.

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And shortly after that, I say about two or three weeks later,

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things started to calm down. It took about a year because, you know,

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some, you got to keep praying. Don't just pray once. Sometimes you got to keep praying.

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But I saw a change in my family.

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You know, I saw a change in my family because you have to bind the enemy in your family.

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Even if somebody else has sinned and your family is a hot mess and you don't

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understand it, you just go to God and God will show you what is happening.

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He revealed to me in my dreams because I'm a dreamer, you know,

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and yet he still, as I was praying, it wasn't words that I had.

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It was words that God put in my mouth to pray for my family.

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It wasn't the first time I asked him. It was the first time I said,

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show me what's going on in my family.

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And he showed it to me. And so even though we're on the story about David and

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his trauma drama and all the disasters happening in his family,

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I want you to take control of

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what's happening in your family

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because God wants us to walk in peace and love and happiness, right?

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And joy and peace and the Holy Ghost. God wants that for us.

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But we see when sin is in there, sometimes the kids don't know.

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The children don't know why they don't like each other. The children don't know

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why they compete each other.

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We have now in our time where children are killing their brothers and sisters.

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You know, and that's how serious it gets if we as parents don't bind the enemy in our family.

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Sorry about that. We'll keep going. That was good. God reminded me.

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So I shared that story, my personal business on the air.

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Let's talk about David's sons and the pattern of strategies.

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I'm sorry, the pattern of tragedy.

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Nathan's prophecy unfolds the lies of David's older son. We know that Amnon,

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let's talk about Amnon. What did Amnon do?

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2 Samuel 13. Remember, we're still in 12. It's right across the street.

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It's right there. 2 Samuel 13.

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13, verse 14. What did he do?

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What happened is he had incest, there go, sex with his sister.

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13, 14. It says, how be it that he would not hearken unto her voice,

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but being stronger than she, forced her and lay with her.

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Then Amnon hated her exceedingly, and that the hatred whereeth he hated her

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was greater than the love whereeth he had loved her.

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And Amnon said, rise and be gone. He did the same thing that his dad did, but not his sister.

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He did the same. Think about this. The dad sent for Bathsheba.

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Amnon played like he was sick and he only wanted Tamar to take care of him.

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And when he got along with her, he forced herself on her.

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And then he sent her home just like Bathsheba. I know that's in the Bible.

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It's for our learning, you know? And so he forced her. He, once again,

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like his dad, raped this woman.

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They call it an assault, Amnon.

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And I want to read the commentary on this. Amnon, the son of David,

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was in love with his sister Tamar.

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They had different mothers. He raped his sister. They said that in the Bible,

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at least in my Bible, in my original African heritage edition.

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If it don't say that in your Bible, then get another Bible.

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He raped his sister Tamar and was later killed by the order of Absalom, his other brother.

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Tamar brother, incest is looked upon in African society as a great taboo.

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Rape is also against a normal moral order.

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Fornication, incest, rape, seduction, homosexual relations, sleeping with blood

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relatives or domestic animals, and even intimacy between relatives all constitute sexual offense.

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In the giving community. Chapter 13, verses 1 through 15.

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Think about that. So you think God was displeased, disappointed in Amnon?

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Psalm number one. Psalm number two, Absalom. What did Absalom do?

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Let's go to chapter 13, verse 28 through 29.

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Now, Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now that Amnon's heart

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is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, smite Amnon, then kill him.

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Fear not, have I not commanded you, be courageous and be valiant?

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And the service of Absalom did unto Absalom Anon as Absalom had commanded.

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Then all the king's sons arose, and every man got him up on his mule and fled.

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Wow. So now we see that Absalom protected his sister, and so he killed his brother.

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That sounds like what's happening on the news today.

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So we got this drama still happening within the family of David.

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And this is what Bathsheba married into.

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Let's go to 2 Samuel 15, verse 10. Absalom. What happens with Absalom?

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Absalom reigneth in Hebron.

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Verse 10 tells us, But Absalom sent spies to all tribes of Israel,

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saying, As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you should say,

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Absalom reigneth in Hebron. So we have another son.

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Amnon is great to his sister. Absalom wants to be king.

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So he declares himself king and leads a rebellion against David.

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What happens to Absalom?

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Let's go to chapter 18. I told you David got a long story. It takes up a lot of.

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Ground, a lot of real estate in the Bible, 18 verses 14 and 15.

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Then Joab, remember Joab back another day, Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee.

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And he took three darts in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom

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while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

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So Absalom ended up hanging, but he had a lot of hair. He had long,

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healthy hair, and he was hanging by his hair.

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And then we see Joab, which is really, what, a partner with David, a commander of his army.

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Verse 15, it says, And ten young men that bared Job's armor compassed about

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and smoked Absalom and slew him.

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And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned for pursuing Israel.

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For Joab held back the people, and they took Absalom and cast him into a great

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pit in the wood and laid a very great heap of stones upon him.

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And all of Israel fled to one tent.

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Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reeled for himself a pillar,

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which is in the king's dale, for he said, Have no son to keep my name and remembers.

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And he called the pillar after his own name. And it was called on that day Absalom's

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place. So you got to read the story.

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He rebelled against David and he ended up was flying on a horse and his hair

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got caught. And so he was hanging by his hair as a horse fled for under her.

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So now he's hanging and he was suffering and we see Joab killed him. That's two sons dead.

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We have Amnon and then we have Absalom.

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And let's go to Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and

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Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand

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and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand

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and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand

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and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand

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and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand,

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and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand

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and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand

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and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand and Anand

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off them, but there's a quiet son that David had.

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And, you know, always a quiet son that God keeps in the background.

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There's all because they're, if Solomon wants to act up, guess who's going to

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be king? We don't hear about him, but his name was Shiliab.

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And I've never heard of him either. And so that's new to you. Let me know.

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But Shiliab, I think you say it that way. He's found in 2 Samuel 3.3.

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And it says, and the second, and his second Shiliab of Abigail's wife.

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So that's from Abigail, the wife of Nabal, the Carmelite, and the third,

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Absalom, the son of Macha, the daughter of Talmud, the king of Jeshur.

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So now we have this son that we know nothing about, but that was the son of Abigail.

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If you know the story of Abigail, Abigail had a husband that wouldn't let David

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have any food. And David was kind of really wroth with him, and he was going

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to go and just take his life.

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But Abigail, his wife, came out and says, I'm his wife.

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He's like, don't do anything because he's not with himself.

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And she went out and brought all this food for David and his army.

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The next day, Abigail's husband died because after Abigail told him what was

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about to happen to him, he had a heart attack and he died.

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And so we see here that David had sons from all kinds of women.

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And so, but this one was a quiet son.

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And I believe that because of Abigail, Abigail was a good wife.

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And so she was a good wife and I bet she was a good mother.

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And remember, Abigail's story was so short that once she had the baby,

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once they got married and he took her, it was it. There was no more story of Abigail.

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And so that's why that story about Abigail's son.

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Is quiet. He plays no major roles. He actually is the quiet son,

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and he's done that by Abigail. So David did shoot some good wives,

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and then you see the other wives, so it's the pickings.

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Let's continue. So we see here that David also experienced exactly what Nathan

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foretold, sexual sin, murder, rebellion, humiliation, and death.

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And this is the world in which Bathsheba sons are born. So I told you Bathsheba

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had more kids inside of this drama family.

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So let's talk about Bathsheba's son.

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They're found in 1 Chronicles chapter 3. Now, how do you raise good sons in

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the midst of all that drama?

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1 Chronicles chapter 3 verse 5, it says, And these were born unto him in Jerusalem,

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Shemiah, Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four of the Bethshua and the daughter of Emile.

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So she had four sons. She had Solomon, then she had these other ones.

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I think one of these were before Solomon. I don't know how they ordered,

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but they say they were born.

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Jerusalem says Shemia was probably the oldest, then it went down to Shobab,

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Nathan, and then Solomon, which is the youngest. And the youngest one got to be the king.

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These four sons form a distinct branch within David's family. Like, save it.

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After David's repentance, they are notably absent from the cycle of violence

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and rebellion that marked several of David's older sons.

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The drama happened when David was younger, but as he got older,

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you know, some of that was not, these kids were still young,

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right? So they didn't really realize what was going on around them, but Bathsheba did.

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Let's talk about her kids. We see Shamiah, they call him the quiet prince.

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Like I said, they put him in order. So Shemiah was listed as Bathsheba's oldest son.

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In 2 Samuel 5.14, his name appears among David's sons buried in Jerusalem.

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So scripture records no scandal, no rebellion, no violence associated with Shemiah.

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In a palace often defined by intrigue and conflict, his silence becomes its

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defining characteristic.

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His story reminds us that faithfulness often leaves fewer headlines than rebellion.

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I want to take a pause right here and think about this is Black history unmasked.

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And when I think about this story, we always seem to focus on when the Israelites

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were slaves. We don't get into it deep enough to understand that everybody wasn't a slave.

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They come from a heritage of slavery because that's how God set it up. But guess what?

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This is royalty, black royalty, which we don't see in the news.

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It's never a black royalty in the news. I'm just going to take a pause on that one.

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I wonder why, right? Black royalty. Think if you read your Bible the way I'm

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teaching it back before you read.

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Became socially poisoned about Black history, what would you feel?

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What would you do differently?

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Now that you say that, do differently.

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Walk with your head up high. You are from royalty.

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When you accept Jesus into your life, you become an heir of salvation.

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An heir, come on now, ain't broke. I did a series on that one.

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An heir has royal blood running through them. So let's continue.

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And we understand that even though a palace is full of intrigue and conflict,

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it did not affect Shemir.

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He's the oldest. So when you're the oldest, and if you're the oldest,

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raise your hand. Okay, I'm the oldest.

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And so you see things that the youngest don't even remember.

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They don't even know what they're living through because they're so small.

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And so our job as the eldest of the family is to what?

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Protect the youngest. And sometimes stories are told to them in a proportion

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to their understanding, right? And so let's talk about her second son.

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And Shobab is titled The Forgotten Son. And we listen to him,

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we see he's the second one.

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And Shobab appears in the genealogical records, but nowhere else in scripture.

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Isn't that interesting?

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So although little is known about him, his inclusion in the family record is significant.

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Unlike David's sons who lives ended in turmoil, Shobet passes quietly through biblical history.

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His legacy is not found in dramatic stories, but a simple fact that his line endured.

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Think about that. David had one side was drama. And you know what?

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God did not curse Bathsheba's sons by David.

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It's those other boys that he did. And we have to understand,

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not all of them, except Abigail's son.

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Nice. And let's look at this person, Nathan, the hidden branch.

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Nathan, I wonder why he named him, why she named him Nathan.

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Because remember Nathan the prophet told, and I bet that prophecy was told to him by David.

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I don't know if Bathsheba was there, but I'm quite sure she heard of what happened.

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So we know that Nathan is important because it's a mind you of the Nathan the

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prophet, but that's not Nathan the prophet.

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This is a total difference. This is Bathsheba's son.

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Go with me to Luke chapter 3, verse 31, and let's see what we got.

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It says, which was a son of Malia, which was a son of Menon,

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and which was a son of Matea, and which was a son of Nathan,

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which was a son of David, which was a son of Jesse, which was a son of Obed,

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which was a son of Boaz, which was a son of Solomon, which was a son of Mason.

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See how that baby is in the history books.

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Nathan never becomes king. He never leaves a rebellion.

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He never appears in palace drama.

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Yet his name reappears. centuries later in Luke's genealogy.

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This is New Testament. Many Christian scholars understand Luke's genealogy as

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preserving Jesus' lineage through David's son, Nathan.

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While Matthew records records secessions through Solomon, Nathan becomes a quiet

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son with a loud legacy. So we see here.

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This is so powerful. These are still David's son.

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Don't get me wrong. So God did not curse the whole family. Gene, just a few.

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And we don't know why he chose those few.

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But we see here that David is part of the lineage of Jesus. We know that. That's part of it.

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But look at his children. Call that son. I bet he says, and remember,

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the man named the children. Let's call him Nathan.

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But God named the two. I want you to call this one Nathan.

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Got something great for him. And then we see Solomon is found in 2 Samuel 24-25.

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And let's go there because this is powerful too.

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Because now out of all the kids, the children, he chose Solomon to be the one to carry it on.

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12 verses 24-25.

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It's 1 Samuel 12 verses 24-25. And David comforted Bathsheba,

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his wife, and went into her and lay with her. And she bare a son.

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He called his name Solomon. man. And the Lord loved him.

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Wow. Verse 25. And he sent by the hand of Nathan, the prophet,

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and he called his name Jediah because of the Lord.

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So the Lord gave David and Bathsheba a son.

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And the Lord loved him. They called him Jediah.

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You know, when you have an A-H, it's kind of like God likes that feedback God

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name in him. So his name was Jediah.

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Let's go to 1 Kings chapter 1. And we know that story. We read it.

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And that is, we're going to go there, Abed Sheba and Nathan from the prophet

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secured Solomon's throne. And so we know how she did that.

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Remember they went, Nathan, the prophet, and Abed Sheba went to talk to David

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the king, who was now in his bed. He was old and he was cold.

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And I always say that because he was old and cold because he had it.

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I'm just being funny, but it was old and cold, but they end up securing Solomon's throne.

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And then Matthew 1, 6, you'll see that the royal genealogy passes through Solomon.

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Solomon becomes Bathsheba's political legacy.

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Nathan becomes her genealogical legacy. Together, these two sons connect Bathsheba

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to one of the most remarkable stories in Bible history.

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You want to know who? We'll get to that shortly. And so let's look at over,

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let's look and compare with David's sons to Bathsheba's sons.

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We saw Amnon, his legacy is sexual violence. Absalom, his legacy is murder and rebellion.

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Adonijah, he tried to do an attempted coup and that didn't work.

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And then we see the other kids, Shelob, he had a quiet life.

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These are Bathsheba's children by David.

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And then Shamia, a quiet life. Shobab, a quiet life.

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Nathan appears in Luke's genealogy. You know, what happened through Luke,

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remember Mary and the Holy Spirit encounter.

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And then we have Solomon, the king of Israel.

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Several of David's sons become symbols of family tragedy.

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And Bathsheba's sons, by contrast, are remembered for continuity,

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stability, and preservation.

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They are the branches that quietly endure. So there's the wild ones,

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and then there's the quiet ones.

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And they can carry on the family legacy without drama.

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It can happen. It can happen in your family, too. Bathsheba's sons,

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by contrast, I remember for what?

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Stability, you know? And we saw that David's other sons, because these are all

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David's sons, were remembered through trauma, drama, and violence.

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And we continue this story.

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So we understand just for background purposes that Nathan warned Bathsheba about.

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Ananias attempt to seize the throne and advises her how to approach King David. We covered that.

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And we see here that there's two Davidic lines.

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We have one that passes through Solomon.

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And then we also have Jesus' ancestry through his son, Nathan.

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For centuries, Christians have

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known that Matthew and Luke follow similar branches of David's family.

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One longstanding interpretation is Solomon's lives preserves the royal procession.

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Why? Because Jesus is what? The king of kings and the Lord of lords.

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Why wouldn't he come through a king's lineage?

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And then Nathan's lives preserved Jesus' ancestral descent from David.

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And David was a king also, right? So under this view, two branches of Bathsheba's

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family converged on the story of Jesus Christ.

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Whether viewed historically, theologically, or genealogically,

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how you say that word, Bathsheba occupies a remarkable place in the Davidic story.

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You know, as we close out, we see here that Bathsheba becomes the mother of

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kings. She didn't start out that way, right? But she became the mother of kings.

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And you know what she taught her kids? How to be a king.

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Now Solomon, you know, his story, he took a little bit after his dad.

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And so he got into some trouble. But God loved him and God gave him.

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He was the richest man in the world.

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One of his downfalls was that he had too many concubines. If you read it,

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he had like over 300 and so many wives. It was just too many women in the kingdom.

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But he helped bring that through, right? So, you know, there's babies out there everywhere.

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And when God brings us all together, we're going to see our lineage.

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We probably come from Solomon, you know?

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Because he had a lot of ladies. And we also see how she became the centralized

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figure in David's household.

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That's interesting. Bathsheba is the least likely of the one that would be queen.

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But yet, she is the queen who carries the sons and then become the lineage of Jesus.

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So there was something in Bathsheba's heart that God liked. Even though David

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displeased him, there was something in Bathsheba's heart that God loved.

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And then she becomes the most influential woman in the scripture. Why?

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Because she is part of the heritage, the lineage, the genealogy of Jesus.

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We know how her story began, but her story doesn't have to end.

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Her story ended with a dynasty.

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You know, her story ended with a dynasty. I want to encourage you with some

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scripture, and then we're going to close it out.

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What happens when you are in them? And many times our story,

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if we really pay attention, God is speaking through us through these stories.

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And we see here that when we step back from the story, we see more than genealogy.

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We begin to see the faithfulness of God.

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You know, David sinned, Bathsheba suffered, a child dies, a family is fractured.

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Brothers turn against each other, a kingdom faces repeated crisis,

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yet the purposes of God never fail.

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And in this scripture, Romans 8, 26 to 28, this is what Paul wrote.

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And I love this. It says, likewise, the spirit also helpeth our infirmities.

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So we're not made perfect, but through the Holy Spirit, we can become perfection, right?

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But we know not what we should pray for as we are, but the spirit himself make

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his intercession for us with groaning, which cannot be uttered.

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And he searches the hearts.

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Knowing what is in the mind of the Spirit, because he make his intercession

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for the saints according to the will of God.

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And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God,

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to them who are called according to his purpose.

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You see that? So as you begin to pray and ask God, I share my many dreams that

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you want to get some things right with him.

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Remember, the Spirit of God is what helps us pray through his perfect will.

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Then we have Jesus as a mediator between God and man. So he's helping us.

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But then we see here with Presheba that

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all things work together for good to them that love God.

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It don't work good if you don't love God because you're not doing the things he's asking you to do.

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And most times you're not doing good. You're definitely not praying because

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prayer will keep you out of a lot of things. Notice that Paul does not say,

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he does not say that all things are going to be good. David's sin was not good.

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Uriah's death was definitely not good. Taking Bathsheba against her will was not good.

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Family drama and trauma is not good.

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The grief Bathsheba experienced was not good, but God was able to work through

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every tragedy without being defeated by it.

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That's exactly what we see in the story of Bathsheba's son.

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And in the story of Bathsheba, out of grief came Solomon.

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Out of broken household came a preserved dynasty. Out of a family marked by

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rebellion came a branch that endured, and out of David's troubled house came

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the line which God continued his covenant promise.

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And if God could work through the broken pieces of David's family,

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he can work through the broken pieces of our lives as well.

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We may not understand what God is doing at this very moment,

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but Sheba certainly could not have seen the future while mourning her first child.

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David could not see the full story while facing the consequences of his sin,

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but God could because God's purposes are larger than our failures,

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larger than our pain, and larger than our understanding.

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The hidden dynasty of Bathsheba's songs reminds us that God is still writing

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the story when we think the chapter is over.

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History remembers the scandal. Scripture remembers the dynasty.

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And then Roman reminds us of the deeper truth behind it, that God is still working

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all things together for his purpose.

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Even when we can't see it, we don't know it, we don't feel it.

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On what he is building. God is writing.

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Our story. That is powerful. And so I want to thank you for joining me in this

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deep exploration of Bathsheba Hidden Dynasty, the sons who emerged from one

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of the Bible's most painful chapters

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and became part of one of its most enduring legacies.

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From the troubled life of David's older son to the quiet endurance of Shema,

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Shobad, Nathan, and Solomon, we see a powerful truth.

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God's purposes are not stopped by human failure. Remember, he shows humans to

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work through, but often unfolds through unexpected people, forgotten branches

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of history. No life is perfect, right?

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The whole story about Shiva's sons is really a story about how God brought preservation

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out of chaos, purpose out of failure, and promises out of pain.

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I want to thank you for joining me on the Diary of Black Women podcast.

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I'm your host, Connie Morris. And the next time we get together,

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it's going to be the story of Uriah.

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Before we close today, I don't want to take for granted that everyone listening

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knows Jesus personally.

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If you have listened to this episode or any other episodes and felt something

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stirring in your heart, maybe you know about God, but you're not sure you truly know him.

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Maybe you grew up in church, walked away, got hurt, became tired,

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and never fully surrendered your life to Jesus.

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I want you to know this. God loves you.

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He has not forgotten you. He is not waiting to shame you. He is calling you home.

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The Bible says in Romans 10, 9, if you declare with your mouth,

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Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

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Salvation is not about being perfect.

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It's about surrendering to the one who is perfect.

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Jesus died for your sins, rose again, and made a way for you to be forgiven, restored, and made new.

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So right where you are, you can pray this prayer with me.

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Lord Jesus, I come to you today with an open heart. I believe you are the son of God.

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I believe you died on the cross for my sins. And I believe that God raised you from the dead today.

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I confess that I need you. I repent of my sins.

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I ask you to forgive me, cleanse me, and make me brand new. Jesus, come into my heart.

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Be my Lord, my Savior, my Redeemer, and my King.

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I surrender my life to you. I give you my past, my present, and my future.

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Teach me how to walk with you. Fill me with your Holy Spirit.

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Lead me in truth, healing, obedience, and love.

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From this day forward, I belong to you. In Jesus' name, amen.

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If you pray that prayer from your heart, I want you to know that heaven has

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heard you. This is not the end.

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This is only the beginning of your walk with Jesus.

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Find a Bible-believing church, begin reading the word of God,

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pray daily, and ask the Holy Spirit to help you grow.

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God is not looking for perfection from you. He is inviting you into relationship,

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transformation, and eternal life through Jesus Christ.

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And remember, you are loved, you are not forgotten, and God still has a purpose for your life.

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Thank you for listening to the Diary of a Black Woman podcast.

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Until next time, keep walking in truth, faith, and freedom.

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Family, thank you for spending time with me today.

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To every woman listening who has ever felt hidden, overlooked,

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or pushed aside, hear me clearly.

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God has not forgotten you, and neither have I.

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Now let's go before the Lord and close this out with a word from God.

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Because someone out there needs this reminder today.

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Jeremiah 29, 11, verses 11 through 14.

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For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you

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and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

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Then when you call on me and come and pray to me and I will listen to you,

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you will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

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I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and bring you back from captivity.

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Father God, we thank you for your word, that it is true, that it is living, that it is for us.

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You said you know the plans you have for us, plans to prosper us and not to

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harm us, plans to give us hope and a future.

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So today we receive that, not just in our minds, but in our hearts.

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When we feel overlooked, remind us you still see us.

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When we feel forgotten, remind us you still have a plan. And when we feel hidden,

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remind us you are still working.

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Your word says that when we call on you, you will listen.

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So we call on you now. Hear us. Strengthen us. Guide us.

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Help us to seek you with our whole heart, not halfway, not sometimes, but fully.

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And as we seek you, let us find you in every season, in every place.

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Even the hidden mark. Restore what was lost, renew what feels broken,

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and remind us that nothing in our lives is wasted in your hand.

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Lord, we trust you, we believe you, and we stand on your word. In Jesus' name, amen.

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This is Diary of a Black Woman podcast, and I'm your host, Connie Morris,

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and I'll see you on the next episode.