The Oh. Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.

That popular line from a poem could have been written about King David in his attempts

to hide his sin.

Now that snowballed into more sin and more deception along with increased restlessness and

physical ailments.

Today on Truth for Life weekend,

Alistir Beg shows us how God's heavy hand on us

can be an act of kindness and mercy. Father, that is our prayer as we turn to the Bible.

We thank you for the way our hearts and minds have been led in praise and we ask that you will help us

now and speak to us, give us ears to hear and eyes to see, for we pray in your son's name, amen.

I invite you to turn to Sam 32 and we reached the end of verse 4. We dipped momentarily

into verse 5 but not to do it justice and so we will pick our studies up essentially from there.

Martin Luther referred to the Sams as a Bible in miniature. Luther between 1513 and 15

I wrote his first series of lectures on the Samms. And I was intrigued to discover that he wrote more

on the Psalms than on any other book in the entire Bible, including every New Testament book.

Twelve centuries before that, I'm including every New Testament book.

Twelve centuries before that, another gentleman who benefited greatly from the Sans was Augustine.

And I was intrigued to learn in my studies this week that apparently this 32nd

Sam was the favorite Sam of Augustine and it's not a surprise when we think of

probably his most famous quote being, oh God, our hearts are restless

until they find their rest in you. Because here in Sam 32 and particularly as we saw last Lord's Day evening in verses 3 and 4

we have a description of the restlessness of the human heart.

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