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First Samuel chapter 21 verses 1 and 2

then David came to knob to a him elect the priest and him

a came to meet David trembling and said to him why are you alone and no one with you

and David said to a him elect the priest the king has charged me with the matter and said to me, let no one

know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.

I've made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place.

So in this story, David is fleeing from King Saul.

But what happens in these verses, as David comes to knob and speaks with a

him elect, the priests, is that David is deceptive.

And David lies here, saying that he's on some official business for the king. And that lie we find out later will result in

the deaths of a himelek as well as the priests at Knob. So this is a sobering passage when you think about it.

Because yes, David was in many ways a man after God's own heart.

At the same time we see sinfulness, deception, lying, evil in David and his life that will lead to catastrophic consequences in others lives.

Here it's a himelek and the other priest that knob later it will be Bathsheba's husband, Uriah and others will follow after that.

We cannot overestimate the effects of sin in our lives, the effects here of lying, of deception,

of a lack of honesty. I just want to encourage you even as I encourage myself to

see sin as seriously as the Bible sees it, To see a small lie in our eyes as seriously as the Bible sees it.

Any lack of honesty or integrity in us is serious before God if we're not careful we can get into a routine where lying, half truths, deceiving, hiding this or that can start to seem like no big deal

to us. But when we compromise with sin in what seems like small ways, we have no idea.

The effects not only of that sin on others, but that sin in our lack of sensitivity to it

as we face further temptation in our lives and we grow more casual with sin in our hearts.

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