A Grief Observed (Part 2 of 2)

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Alistair Begg

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🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Believers often acknowledge God’s sovereign hand in victory—and rightly so! But how are we supposed to consider His providential role in tragedy? Hear the answer on Truth For Life as Alistair Begg follows the battle between King David and his son Absalom.

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0:00.0	As
0:00.9	As
0:03.0	as
0:04.0	you know,
0:05.0	as As believers, we ought to be quick to acknowledge God's sovereign hand over all of our victories.
0:30.2	But how should we consider his providential role in tragedy?
0:34.3	We'll explore the answer to that today on Truth for Life as we follow the battle
0:38.7	between King David and his son Absalom. Alistair Begg is teaching from 2 Samuel chapter 18.
0:45.1	We're starting at verse 9.
0:52.2	Let's keep in mind this Absalom fellow. He's handsome beyond measure. No blemish from the soul of his feet to the tip of his head. He had a hairstyle that was quite remarkable, enough for it to get mentioned in the local newspapers. He had decided that having established
1:12.7	himself in a position of erstwhile authority, that he would get a chariot for himself. That's
1:19.7	back in Chapter 15. He also, in dealing with the people, told them what they wanted to hear.
1:26.1	He's the consummate politician, and he then
1:29.8	stole their hearts by telling them what he wanted to hear. Look at him. He happened to meet the
1:36.4	servants of David. He has himself set up. His father wishes him no harm. But the Lord has ordained the defeat of
1:46.8	Athelthel's counsel so that he might bring harm upon Absalom. Because God is the one who
1:53.1	brings princes to nothing. Scarcely has their stem taken root. Scarcely are they sown,
2:00.4	then the wind blows over them, and they
2:02.6	wither. And so what we have here in 9 to 15 is that the forest, we might put it this way,
2:08.4	the forest is up to its tricks. One minute, he's on his mule, and if you remember on a previous
2:14.2	occasion, we're told that all the sons of the king left on their
2:17.8	mules. So it was sort of like a standard issue if you were a son of the king. You had a mule.
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