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Gospel Baptist Tabernacle781 Salem Road, Rossville, GA 30741

Where the Love of God abounds, everyone is

welcome.

Children’s Church taught by Paul and Marsha

Davis during preaching.

www.rossvillechurch.com

September 15, 2013

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David has crossed the Jordan as he returns to

Jerusalem, and he and all the people are at Gilgal.

The fuss Who had the most right to be close to

King David.

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2 Samuel 20 1 And there happened to be there a man of Belial (worthless, wicked, ungodly), whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.

If they couldn’t have David to themselves, they wouldn’t have him at all.

Pride!

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Leviticus 26 (NIV) 14 "'But if you will not listen to Me and carry out all these commands, 15 and if you reject My decrees and abhor My laws and fail to carry out all My commands and so violate My covenant, 16 then I will do this to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and drain away your life. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.

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17 I will set My face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you. 18 "'If after all this you will not listen to Me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over. 19 I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze. 20 Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

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Pride is sin, and it causes other sins.

God hates pride, and we must hate it in ourselves.

Stubborn pride caused the rebellion of Sheba against David,

And stubborn pride causes us to rebel against our Lord, His Word and Spirit.

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2 So every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem.

The northern tribes had a long walk for nothing.

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3 And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.

Absalom had defiled them.

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4 Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present. 5 So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried longer than the set time which David had appointed him.

Amasa is David’s new general of the army, and he is not off to a good start.

Joab defeated Amasa during Absalom’s revolt.

Now, he’s late.

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6 And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants (David’s personal troops), and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us. 7 And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

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2 Samuel 20:8 (TLB) As they arrived at the great stone in Gibeon, they came face to face with Amasa. Joab was wearing his uniform with a dagger strapped to his side. As he stepped forward to greet Amasa, he stealthily slipped the dagger from its sheath.

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9 And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him. 10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

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Joab, Abishai, and Amasa are all David’s nephews.

First David’s son Absalom murdered Amnon, who had raped Absalom’s sister.

Now Joab has murdered his cousin Amasa.

God said it would be like this.

Then Absalom led a revolt, and Joab killed him.

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2 Samuel 12 (NIV) 9 Why did you despise the Word of the LORD by doing what is evil in His eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 10 Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised Me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.'

David’s troubles all go back to this day.

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So often people experience trouble and loss, but they never relate it to their sins.

Just bad luckBut there’s no such thing as luck for

a child of God.

We are either being blessed as we live life God’s Way, or getting into trouble as

we walk in our own way.

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Proverbs 1 29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: 30 They would none of My Counsel: they despised all My Reproof. 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

We all do what we really want to do.

We either choose to follow the Lord and live life His Way – according to His Word.

Or we choose to go our own way, fulfilling our own selfish desires.

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Make the only right choice.

Obey every Word of God. Willingly submit

to His Holy Spirit.

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God will produce in us the fruit of His Spirit, which is the character of God.