Bible History Unmasked: Uriah the Hittite: The Faithful Soldier David Betrayed

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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, 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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and 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 Diary of a Black Woman podcast. I'm your host Connie

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Morris and today we're going to, like we always have for the summer,

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is continue our series Black History Unmasked.

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But today's topic is going to be Uriah the Hittite, the forgotten hero of David's kingdom.

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And as I was kind of reading through the story of Uriah and about him,

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it really touches my heart because this was one of David's faithful men.

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Oh my gosh, he was faithful to him. He was one of his top 37 men that defended

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him when Saul was after him, defending him when he's in battle and where David was sitting

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at home while his men were defending and fighting a battle.

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And so I don't quite understand, which we do a little bit because we read the

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story, why he had to kill this man and why he had to sleep with his wife.

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I don't know. That still bothers me. And so I share the story with Uriah the Hittite.

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We know his history. We know a little bit about his race, and we know that he

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wasn't a white man. Uriah was not white.

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Neither was David, Bathsheba, or any of those children.

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So it's pretty much Bible history and math for sure, because we're seeing things,

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we're knowing things that we didn't really read about. We didn't really know.

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We kind of skipped over the Bible.

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And so I'm just reminded that We need to put on our thinking cap so we can pay attention.

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And then our spiritual hat, which is the helmet of salvation,

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so that we can have the mind of Christ and have a sound mind.

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So that we will know and see some things in the story of Uriah that we can learn from, right?

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That we can study, show, or prove a workman that need is not be ashamed of the gospel.

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And so, as you see, I'm not ashamed of the gospel. And it's powerful because

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the more I think about the Word of God, remember the Bible tells us to meditate.

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On the word of God. Meditate, meditate. I mean, think about it,

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ponder about it, you know, figure out what is missing and go looking for it.

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And God will definitely show it to you. So we, in our last episode,

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we explored about Bathsheba's son, the hidden dynasty, and those that they survived

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through the chaos of David's household.

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We examined the princes born in Jerusalem, which were Bathsheba's sons.

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I love that. And we follow the branch that endured.

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And now we're going to cover Nathan.

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And we're going to see how Nathan and Solomon became part of the continuous.

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We studied that continuous story of God's covenant of David.

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But none of that story begins with Solomon. None of the story begins with Nathan.

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It begins with a man history often forgets, a soldier, a faithful soldier,

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a foreigner, a warrior, and a husband, a man whose loyalty was greater than his king's integrity.

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This man's name is Uriah the Hittite.

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Today, we're going beyond the familiar story.

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We're going to get behind about knowing who was Uriah and why the scripture

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repeatedly called him a Hittite.

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And why does God refuse to let David forget this?

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And why does Matthew mention Uriah and the genealogy of Jesus nearly a thousand years later?

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This is the story of one of the most honorable men in the Old Testament,

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of forgotten heroes whose life became the turning point of David's dynasty.

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So let's unmask the history behind the text. The man behind the name.

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Most people know Uriah as Bathsheba's husband.

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Scripture presents him as much more. When Bathsheba first appears in the narrative,

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David asks about her identity.

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2 Samuel 11, 3, set it up.

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11.3, and David sent and inquired about the women and said, is it not that this

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Bathsheba, the daughter of Elin, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?

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Is not this Bathsheba?

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Notice the scripture merely identified him by his ethnicity.

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It said, is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Elin, the wife of Uriah, Uriah the Hittite?

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Remember, he wasn't just Uriah. He was Uriah the Hittite.

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That's very important. When God puts it in the Bible and he keeps repeating

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it and keep repeating it and repeating it so that we will not forget.

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When he sees this detail throughout the narrative of David and Bathsheba's story,

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the Bible wants us to remember this. Why?

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Because Uriah's story reveals one of the greatest surprises of biblical history.

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It was before and it becomes more faithful than the king. You just love this man right off the bat.

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I mean, and you took his only lamp.

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I'm still kind of like tripping on this because when you read the Bible,

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if you don't get emotional about it, you know, because these are real people

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having these real life experiences, these real traumas, these real dramas.

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And you think of this man, we're going to get into him in a few minutes,

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but Uriah was the faithful one.

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Uriah was part of David's army, his safe, his secure army, the one that would

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die for him. He was that type of man.

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So let's go on. What was a Hittite? Ancient readers immediately recognized the

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name. Modern readers often do not. The Hittites appeared throughout scripture.

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Abraham negotiated with Hittites. Israel encountered Hittite territories.

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Hittite kings are mentioned later during Solomon's reign.

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Historically, the Hittites at once controlled one of the greatest empires in the ancient Near East.

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By David's time, the empire was gone.

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Yes, Hittite community still existed throughout the region.

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That means that Uriah was almost certainly not ethnically an Israelite.

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He was an outsider by birth, a foreign by ancestry, and yet he had become one

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of David's most trusted warriors.

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Most importantly, he appeared to have praised the worship of Yahweh.

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Even his name reflects devotion to Israel's God.

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The outsiders became part, this outsider became part of God's covenant community.

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Man, I just can't really, I told you it really touches my heart because this

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man was just, it wasn't like a neighbor that moved into the neighborhood.

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But he was one of David's close confidants, warriors, soldiers. Let's continue.

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He was also one of David's mighty men. It talks about David's mighty men in

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the Bible. We're going to cover that too.

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Many readers miss critical detail. Remember we got on our thinking caps.

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We got on our spiritual mindset that Uriah was not an ordinary soldier.

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His name appeared in David's elite military unit. Let's find that.

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That's 2 Samuel chapter 23. I take you to the Bible so you know I'm not making this up.

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2 Samuel 23, verses 39. And it's in the chapter 23, the whole chapter of 23

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talks about all his mighty men.

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And in the last verse of chapter 23, which is verse 39, it says, they listed them all.

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And it says, Uriah the Hittite, 30 and 7 in all. He is listed among David's mighty men.

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Those who were most celebrated warriors in the kingdom, the man who fought beside his death.

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Fought beside David, the man

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who helped secure his throne, the man who risked their lives for Israel.

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This changes everything. David was not a betrayer of a stranger.

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He was a betrayer of one of his finest soldiers, one of the men who helped build

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the kingdom, one of the men willing to die for him.

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And the deeper you investigate the story, the darker David actions become.

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That's why I paused because I'm more of, you know, as a police officer, you're investigating.

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Like, why did he kill him? Why did you choose that man's wife?

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Like, my question is why? So I had an opportunity to interview David.

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I want to know why. Because in my opinion, that wasn't the first,

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it's not in the Bible, but you know how lust grows?

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That wasn't the first time she saw him.

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He saw her, you know. Remember, if you're one of David's elite soldiers,

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remember they had to go recover their wives.

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So at that time when the enemy came in and stole all their wives and children

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and all their stuff, the mighty warriors went with David to return to them.

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And they were going to hurt David because of his bright idea,

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right? And then their wives and kids. So at the time, the wives and the children

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are part of the military family.

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So as a leader, as a king, you know these family members.

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And so that's why I'm thinking, because I'm thinking, that wasn't the first time you saw Bathsheba.

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You probably knew her name. You know, they don't write stories about her.

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They write stories about her on the roof.

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But what about before the roof? There was a lot of interaction with David before the rooftop.

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But that's not the title today. But I want you to understand,

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there's more background than this. But let's keep going. when you understand how how

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how Uriah was part of David's mighty men, you understand that that was a close relationship.

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And if you ever had worked in a company or even you work at your job and you

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have a boss and you have maybe a Christmas event or any holiday event,

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and you bring your wife to the event and you,

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introduce her to your boss, and.

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They might not know a lot, but they know that that's your wife.

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So if you see her anywhere else, she might be at the mall, might be at the store,

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might be just chilling with her girlfriends, and you see your boss,

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he knows right away that is Bathsheba Uriah's, the Hittite's wife.

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So I want you to understand how this story is starting to unfold.

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I'm not more of a drama, but I like background. You can't tell me a story.

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I have to ask the question, why did he kill her? Why did you choose Bathsheba?

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Why was God so angry about that? Remember, God was, she said, I was displeased.

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I was disappointed. Like a dad looking at you saying, son, I'm disappointed in you.

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Or daughter, I'm disappointed in you. We see here that

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the most shocking story about this story of Bathsheba, David,

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and Uriah was the fact that David's sin affected what? Everybody.

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But it was Uriah's righteousness. Think about that. Your boss telling you to

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go home and sleep with your wife.

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Anybody else be like, what are you, what? Excuse me? And then when David discovers

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Bathsheba is pregnant, David didn't discover it.

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Bathsheba knew. Bathsheba said, okay, I bet you I'm going to get pregnant after

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this. You know, This ain't going to end well because women knows.

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And then she said, I am pregnant.

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She didn't have a long conversation about that story. She said,

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like, what are we going to do?

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What are you going to do? I got a baby and it ain't my husband.

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I got to tell him the whole story, you know? But what did David try to do?

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David discovered she was pregnant and then the incident grows.

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She tries to hide it. We know that.

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He brings Uriah from home, from the battle, and the plan begins. Go home, see your wife.

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And no one will suspect a thing, but Uriah refused it. Uriah was smarter than

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you think. Wow, this man.

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Let's go to 2 Samuel 11.11.

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We're going to get inside his head.

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This guy was one of David's mighty men. Not just any old man, not just any old woman.

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This was part of a family. Verse 11, And Uriah said unto David,

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The ark and the Israel and Judah abide in tents. And my lord Joab and the servants

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of my lord are encamped in the open fields.

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Should I then go unto my house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife as

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thou liveth and as thy soul liveth?

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I will not do this thing. And David said to Uriah, Terry here to this day also,

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and tomorrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode on Jerusalem that day and tomorrow.

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Then David called him, and he did eat and drink before him and made him drunk. He made him drunk.

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Remember, he's so obedient to David. I don't know how you can make somebody drink.

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You know, go ahead, drink again, drink again. You know how people urge you to

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drink more than you're supposed to?

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So David saying, hey, drink, drink, drink. Come on, David. And David,

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he got drunk. And even the went out to lie on his bed with the servant of the

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Lord, but went not to his house.

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And it came to pass in the morning that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it to the hand of Uriah.

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And he wrote it in the letter saying, Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest

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battle and retire ye from him that ye may be smitten and die.

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And it came to pass that Joab observed the city that he assigned Uriah to a

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place where he knew that valiant men were.

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And when the men of the city went out and fought with Job and there fell some

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of the men of the servants of David and Uriah the Hittite died also.

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So not only did Uriah die, the more you read the story, the more you understand

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that we talk only about Uriah death, but it says here that he assigned valiant men there.

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And then he says, and the men of the city went out and fought with Job and there

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fell some other people of the

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servant of David. So there was other people that died along with Uriah.

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Uriah, he set out to kill only one man. But in the military,

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you can't just set one man out there and he died. That looks kind of suspicious. So you have a crew.

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So he set one man out. The letter said, set Uriah out.

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I wonder if the letter told him who else to pick about that.

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Because remember, God is listening.

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He's paying attention. And so you see here, Uriah said, I'm not going to go

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see my wife. Not even going home.

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You got me drunk. How you made him drunk? Come on, David.

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But, you know, we don't want forces of alcohol down. But you ever been with

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friends and you say, I'm not going to drink. And they say, hey, just one.

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Come on, you can do two. You can do three. Ain't nothing wrong. You can do four.

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And now you're drunk because you're being encouraged. And then stuff happens. You get in trouble.

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And you knew right away that these are not your friends. You're like, you know what?

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You are not my friends. And you leave. And you don't come back.

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So think about this. The king is living selfishly.

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The soldier is thinking about God, Israel, and his fellow warriors.

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And that's why I think God was displeased with him, with David, because Uriah was still.

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A foreigner, but he had chosen God to be his Lord and Savior and his King in his life.

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You see? And so think about another Christian killing another Christian.

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You think God would be displeased at that?

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And so we see here that the King pursued pleasure. The soldier embraced sacrifice.

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The King acted dishonorably because he's supposed to have been at war.

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Think if he would have been at the right place. And the moment Uriah becomes

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a moral hero of the story, We just read the whole thing about how this letter of death.

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And so we talk about more than just Uriah was killed.

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There was other of David's soldiers killed during that time.

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Here, ancient kings often eliminate rivals that was common.

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That makes this event so tragic is Uriah was not a rival. He was loyal.

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He was faithful. He was trusted.

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And David destroys one of the men that was most devoted to him.

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And then God speaks for Uriah. After Uriah dies, David believes the matter is

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finished, but heaven disagrees.

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Nathan the prophet arrives, and God confronts the king. 2 Samuel 12,

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9 Wherefore thou hast 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, and hast taken his wife to

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

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And therefore, those swords shall never depart from thy house,

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because thou hast despised me and has taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite.

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God said, I can't even get over this. You took the wife of Uriah the Hittite.

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Your faithful servant, you took the wife of Uriah the Hittite.

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Think about something that God is saying over and over. You took the wife of Uriah the Hittite.

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You took the wife of Uriah the Hittite.

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You took the wife of Uriah the Hittite. And thus, O Lord, behold,

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I will raise up evil against thee out of thy own house, and I will take thy

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wives from before thy eyes and give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie

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with the wives in the sight of the son.

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For thou did it in secret, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the son.

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God did not simply say you sinned. He names Uriah over and over again. Why?

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Because God has not forgotten his faithful soldier.

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The powerful lady silenced a man.

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God, but they can't erase him from God's memory.

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Uriah the Hittite. God loves Uriah the Hittite. God loves Uriah the Hittite.

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Because God is the God that fights our battles. Uriah couldn't fight his battle.

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He was still faithfully blinded to David.

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But God saw it and God says, I got you. Don't worry about it.

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I'm going to take care of that. And so we see here Uriah death becomes a spiritual

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hinge in David's dynasty.

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We read that the sword shall never depart from thy house. From this moment forward,

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David's family begins to fracture.

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Anon, Absalom, Adonijah, Adonijah, there we go.

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Conflict followed conflict. The king was once defeated.

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Israel enemies now suffer warfare within his own house.

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The consequences of sin spread across generations.

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And it all trace back to this very moment, the death of Uriah.

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But not only death, Uriah, but death of his faithful servant to cover up a sin that he had.

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Why God did not forget him. Matthew 1.6 tells us that David,

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the king, begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Uriah.

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This man is loved by God that he followed all the way to the New Testament.

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Matthew records a genealogy of Jesus.

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He could have simply said David begat Solomon. Instead, he writes,

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David, the king, begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Uriah.

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Matthew deliberately mentioned Uriah, not by Sheba's name, Uriah's.

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Even centuries later, Scripture refuses to erase him.

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The faithful soldier remains part of history.

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Uriah never became king. He never wrote a book of the Bible.

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He never formed miracles.

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Yet he stands as one of Scripture's finest example of integrity.

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He was a foreigner who loved Israel, a warrior who honored God,

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a husband who remained faithful, a servant who trusted his king,

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a victim of injustice, and a witness to the cost of sin.

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Perhaps this is why Scripture remembers him, because the story.

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Where David fell, Uriah remained faithful. The king fell, but the soldier stood.

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And through the life of one foreign warrior, God reminds us that true greatness

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is not measured by power, but by character. History remembers David.

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Scripture remembers Uriah. And the story begins behind the text reveals something extraordinary.

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One of the greatest heroes in David's story was not a king.

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It was a foreign soldier whose loyalty exposed to the failure of the kingdom.

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This is Bible history on maps.

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And the next time, we're going to dig deeper into the text.

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And we'll cover that. I want to get into David's story, but that's a long story.

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So we might save it for something else. I don't know.

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I'm going to pray and see what's next. But we're going to end that in Uriah.

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We want to honor Uriah because God honored Uriah.

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He honored Bathsheba. He honored the people who actually honors him. And let's continue.

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Let's talk about just a few things before I close out about Uriah.

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Uriah was loyal and honorable yet, murdered by David's command.

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Matthew keeps his name in genealogy records.

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Uriah is treated as a side character in the Bible, but really he is the main character.

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The world remembers David's son and the Bible remembers Uriah's blood.

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Uriah is not in a biblical line, but named in connection to Jesus' genealogy through Bathsheba.

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Because Bathsheba was his wife.

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Remember, they became one blood united. And so that ends the story of Bathsheba and Uriah.

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We'll see how we will cover David. We cover a lot of David.

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Story. Just want to just thank you for joining me on this journey. There's so much.

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There's so much. And yes, remember to pray.

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Your family is jacked up as David's family. Remember, God has an answer.

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He will give you a dream. He'll give you a vision. He'll give you scripture

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so that you can bring your family together.

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In Jesus' name, amen. Now, this is Connie Morris, your host,

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and with the Diary of Black Women podcast, and I'll see you on the next episode. Goodbye.

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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. He has not forgotten you.

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He is not waiting to shame you.

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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. 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 write 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. I ask you to forgive me,

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cleanse me, and make me brand new.

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Jesus, come into my heart.

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Be my Lord, my Savior, my Redeemer, and my King. I surrender my life to you.

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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.

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In Jesus' name, amen. If you pray that prayer from your heart,

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I want you to know that heaven has heard you. This is not the end.

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This is only the beginning of your walk with Jesus. Find a Bible-believing church,

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begin reading the word of God, 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 mind. 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.