DON’T BLOW UP – GO UP!

How did we EVER GET TO THIS POINT?

“But (Amnon) refused to listen to (Tamar), and since he was stronger than she,

he raped her…Amnon hated her with intense hatred… ‘Get up and get out!’”

2 Samuel 13:14-15

Absalom ordered his men, “Listen! When Amnon is in high spirits from drinking wine and I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon down,’ then kill him…” 2 Samuel 13:28-29

“So (Joab) took three javelins in his hand and plunged them into Absalom’s heart

while Absalom was still alive in the oak tree.” 2 Samuel 18:14-15

When respect, courage & treating people well DISAPPEAR

“Get this woman out of my sight.” 2 Samuel 13:17

“She is Bathsheba…daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”

2 Samuel 11:3

Saul to Jonathan “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman!” 1 Samuel 20:30

Christ-followers don’t blow by wrong & evil – we use courage, grace, truth and more grace…we LISTEN & LOVE!

“Please speak to the king; he will not keep me from being married to you.”

2 Sam. 13:13

“But the king said, ‘He must go to his own house; he must not see my face.’

So Absalom went to his own house and did not see the face of the king.”  

2 Sam. 14:24

(Absalom) “Look, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and

set it on fire.”… “Why have your servants set my field on fire?”  

2 Sam. 14:30-31

“Absalom behaved in this way toward all the Israelites who came to the king asking

for justice, and so he stole the hearts of the people of Israel.” 2 Sam 15:6

David once again OPENS HIS HEART UP to God

David: “Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.”  

2 Samuel 18:12

SPEAK WORDS OF mercy, love, grace, forgiveness

The king was shaken. He went up to the room over the gateway and wept.

As he went, he said: “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom!

If only I had died instead of you-- O Absalom, my son, my son!”  

2 Samuel 18:33

Let God’s LIGHT take over darkness; remove STAIN OF SIN

“God is light; in Him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship

with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth.

But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.”   1 John 1:5-7