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Truth For Life Daily Program

A Grief Observed (Part 1 of 2)

Truth For Life Daily Program

Alistair Begg

Religion & Spirituality, Alister, Truth, Bible, Parkside, Allister, Begg, Truthforlife, Teaching, Alistair, Christianity, For, Life

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🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

As mere humans, we’re unable to set the parameters for God’s deliverance. Listen to Truth For Life as Alistair Begg examines the unfolding events as David sought a decisive victory over his enemies while trying to protect the son who instigated the revolt.

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0:00.0

Thank you. As human beings, we're in no position to try to put parameters around God's deliverance.

0:31.8

Today on Truth for Life, Alastair Begg examines the events that unfolded when King David was seeking a decisive victory over

0:38.3

his enemies, and at the same time, trying to protect his rebel son who had orchestrated

0:43.4

a revolt against him.

0:49.9

To Samuel 18 and from verse 1.

0:55.0

Then David mustered the men who were with him and set over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.

1:03.5

And David sent out the army one third under the command of Joab, one third under the command of Abashai, the son of Zeroi, Job's brother,

1:14.8

and one third under the command of Ittai, the Gittite.

1:19.5

And the king said to the men, I myself will also go out with you, but the men said, you

1:26.1

shall not go out. For if we flee, they will not care about us.

1:31.2

If half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore,

1:39.0

it is better that you send us help from the city. The king said to them, whatever seems best to you, I will do.

1:47.4

So the king stood at the side of the gate, while all the army marched out by hundreds and by

1:52.3

thousands, and the king ordered Joab and Abashai and Ittai, deal gently for my sake with the young man, Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave

2:05.4

orders to all the commanders about Absalom. So the army went out into the field against Israel,

2:11.9

and the battle was fought in the forest of Ephraim. And the men of Israel were defeated there

2:17.2

by the servants of David,

2:18.9

and the loss there was great on that day, 20,000 men. The battle spread over the face of all the

2:25.9

country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword. And Absalom happened to meet

2:33.4

the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule,

2:37.5

and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak, and his head caught fast in the oak,

2:43.5

and he was suspended between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on.

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