Amnon Is Dead and Absalom Fled (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Revenge can be tempting after you’ve been wronged. When King David’s son Absalom sought retaliation for the violation of his sister, he left a long trail of destruction. On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg explains why vengeance is better left in God’s hands.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. It's always tempting to want to retaliate when we've been wronged, but as we'll see on truth for life today, |
| 0:32.7 | vengeance is always better left in God's hands. |
| 0:36.8 | Alistair Begg begins by describing King David, |
| 0:40.3 | who in his later life is drastically different from the courageous youth |
| 0:43.9 | who fearlessly faced giants and reigned victorious in battle. |
| 0:47.8 | We're looking at 2 Samuel chapter 13, verses 23 through 29. |
| 0:59.6 | Thank you. chapter 13 verses 23 through 29. And so what we see is that he is a weakened person. He's no longer resolute. He's easily manipulated. |
| 1:09.1 | He's either unwilling or unable to take control. In short order, he's not |
| 1:15.8 | living to a good old age. Maybe he doesn't listen to anybody. Maybe now he's peerless. Maybe now he's |
| 1:25.6 | friendless. Maybe now he just doesn't really care what any of his |
| 1:29.3 | wives have to say. Maybe he's just tired. Maybe he's just fed up. Now, I pause on that, |
| 1:37.9 | because let's just acknowledge that David's demise is a warning to us all. Somebody just showed me a photograph this morning that was |
| 1:46.6 | taken staggeringly in 1996. I don't say this to my commendation, but I looked at it, and I said |
| 1:56.9 | to myself, that must have been taking the year that I arrived. Because the year I arrived, |
| 2:01.0 | I was 31. At that point, I looked about 22, or maybe 14, on a better day. But I looked at the |
| 2:08.9 | thing, and I said, goodness gracious, I was 44 years old there. And some of you were, too. But we're not anymore. So the question is, are we going to go |
| 2:22.7 | the David route? We're going to allow ourselves to be jaded, disappointed, disenfranchised, lose our zeal, |
| 2:31.4 | lose our verve, say to ourselves, who cares? It's all over now. Nothing left to |
| 2:36.6 | say, just our dreams and the orchestra playing. Oh, I hope not. I hope not. That's what it says. |
| 2:46.6 | He let him go. And what happens? Well, in the same way that when he sent Tamar to Amna, he couldn't know the |
| 3:02.6 | disaster that was about to unfold. And when he allowed Amnon to go to the sheep shearing, he couldn't |
| 3:11.4 | know what was about to unfold. Tragically, if you look at verse 28, I wrote in my notes, |
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