HSMS-211S2A2.27
The
manuscript in the first video above is from 2 Samuel 11:2-27, with some other
verses from the Bible as well. I also
made an additional video that has no manuscript which is included below.
There
is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of
death.
Pro 14:12.
The
knowledge of good and evil, and why most choose the evil, is a sin I too have been
guilty of in times past. I believe the
soul that truly loves and belongs to God understands this conflict better than
those who have decided that they are going to live for themselves and the
pleasures of the flesh.
How
do you reach them, the ones who allow themselves to be taken captive by
the things that are contrary to God's word, while convincing themselves that they are
right? Why does God choose to become
intimate with some and provide an overwhelming desire in them to preserve
their integrity against the evil that is being committed against them, while
they suffer in this world?
Uriah
was one such man, for when he was tried, he held to his integrity and
duty. He chose not to please the flesh;
and those walking in the flesh (for pleasures of the flesh), chose to rob and
kill him for his virtue.
My
motivation for the videos comes from the sympathy I feel for Uriah. Not only was he married to a dirty woman that had
no morals (proven by her temptation of David and her adultery), but they also
killed him so she and her paramour could enjoy a temporal life in the flesh.
In
our society, the divorced remarried adulterers (and those who are separated and
living in common law marriages with others while having a living spouse) have placed that
relationship above a relationship with God.
Everyone I have encountered has an excuse that they cling to that
soothes their conscience in sin when it comes to divorce remarried adultery, and
they think they are right. In David’s
case, he eventually repented, and after the episode with Absalom (when David
put away his concubines) and the death of Michal (David’s legitimate wife),
Bathsheba became his lawful wife.
Although
what happened to Uriah was a tragedy, at least he did not have to suffer
through the humiliation of being joined to a wicked woman any longer because
his death followed on the heels of her adultery. So, I ask again, why does God allow some to see the truth of the sin of adultery, but allows those who think they are
right to continue headlong into the ways of death?
The
answer must be simple; it is because they think God is like them, and what
feels so right to their flesh (and the selfish thoughts of their minds), must be
approved of by God. And because they
lack that overwhelming spiritual intimacy with God to know the difference, they
live in a delusory religious state that measures everything in accordance with
their imaginations and errant thoughts:
These
things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was
altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in
order before thine eyes. Psa 50:21.
And
those who are walking in the Spirit and have that intimacy? Well, they are going to continue to suffer at
the hands of those who love themselves and this world more than God.
However, be of good cheer and find joy in the fact that their temporal
pleasures of this life are fleeting, and your walk of integrity is not in vain as eternity
is everlasting. Your testimony and walk
will be part of the order God will set before them when they are reproved.
And
he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he
may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented
in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime
receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is
comforted, and thou art tormented.
Luk 16:24-25.
There
is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of
death. Pro 16:25.
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