WE ALL HAVE ENEMIES. WE MUST LEARN FROM OLD TESTAMENT EXAMPLES.

SISTERS AND BROTHERS WE GIVE OUR ENEMIES TOO MUCH CREDIT. WE WORRY ABOUTN WHAT THAY SAY ABOUT US. ALL OF GOD PEOPLE HAVE ENEMIES. YES YOU HAVE ENEMIES. IF YOU ARE A SERVANT OF GOD YOU HAVE PLENTY OF ENEMIES

DAVID HAD ENEMIES. REMEMBER THE PHILISTINES,THE AMORITES,THE AMMONITES,THE SYRIANS AND OTHERS ALL THESE ENEMIES ARRAYED AGAINST DAVID. NOTICE WHEN DAVID WAS IRIGHT AND IN GOOD FELLOWSHIP WITH THE LORD NO ENEMY COULD STAND BEFORE HIM. DAVID SLEW THEM BY THE TENS OF THOUSANDS AND EVERY ENEMY FEARED HIM. THIS IS THE PROBLEM EVEN WITH US . WHEN DAVID SINNED AND BECAME ESTRANGED FROM GOD HIS ENEMS BECAME BOLD AND TRIUMPHED OVER HIM . WHAT HAPPEN? SIN CAUSE HIM TO LOOSE HIS COURAGE AND CONFIDENCE AND THEREFORE MADE HIM WEAK BEFORE ALL HIS ENEMIES. DAVID SIN ADULTERY IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW ONE OF HIS GREATEST VICTORIES.THE AMMONITE-SYRIAN WAR WAS ONE OF ISREAL'S GREATEST BATTLES SYRIANS FLED BEFORE ISREAL SEVEN HUNDRED CHARIOTS WERE DESTROYED. FORTY THOUSANDS HORSEMEN WERE KILLED AND ALL THE KINGS ALLIED. THIS GREAT MAN OF GOD BEGAN TONLUST AFTER BATHSHEBA,KILLED HER HUSBAND URIAH AND COMMITTED ADULTERY THAT CHAPTER CLOSE BY SAYING THEY MADE PEACE WITH ISREAL,AND SERVED THEM (2ND SAMUEL 10:19 BUT THE THING DAVID HAD DONE DISPLEASE GOD (2ND SAMUEL 11:27). SO HE SENT THE PROPHET NATHAN TO DAVID NOTICE THIS POINT THE PROPHET DID NOT COME WITH A MESSARE OF LOVE,AND UNDERSTANDING HE DID NOT COME TO COUNSEL DAVID OR TELL HIM HOW TO HANDLE THIS SIN. HE WENT STRAIGHT TO THE POINT ""YOU ARE THE MAN" YOU HAVE DESPISED THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD YOU ARE GUILTY OF A SECRET SIN (2ND SAMUEL 12:7-9) THE IS THE POINT SIN BRINGS ON ITS OWN JUDGMENT. TO A MAN AFTER HIS OWN HEART,GODHAD TO SAY BEHOLD, I WILL RAISE UP EVIL AGAINST THEE OUT OF THYN OWN HOUSE (2ND SAMUEL 12:11) SHORTLY HIS SON ABSALON TURNED AGAINST HIM AND THI GREAT MAN FLED FOR HIS LIFE IN TO THE WILDERNESS. WHAT HAPPEN TO THIS GREAT MAN OF GOD? HE CAVED INTO THE WEAKNESS OF HIS FLESH


WHAT MUST WE DO TO OVERCOME? THAT WILL CONTINUE ON THE NEXT BLOG HERE IS A HINT I MUST LEARN TO HUNGER FOR HOLINESS AND TO HATE MY BESETING SIN.