Passivity Will Destroy Your Life | Historical Books | 2 Samuel 14

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🗓️ 26 June 2025

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Does passivity tempt you? Do you act or react? Are you willing to take responsibility? In today's episode, Patrick shares how 2 Samuel 14 encourages us to repent of our passivity and turn to the God of action, who sets us free to do right in the world. If you're listening on Spotify, tell us about yourself and where you're listening from! Read the Bible with us in 2025! This year, we’re exploring the Historical Books—Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, and 1 & 2 Kings. Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: 2 Samuel 14

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:08.8	In the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.6	I'm Patrick Miller.
0:11.6	Yesterday, we read the tragic story of Amnon and Tamarm.
0:16.4	If you didn't listen, here's the quick story.
0:18.7	They were half siblings and they were both children of
0:20.9	King David that just had different mothers. And as the story goes, Amnon starts lusting after Tamar,
0:27.6	and then he feigns sickness to get Tamar into his bedroom where he tries to seduce her. And
0:32.9	when she refuses, he ultimately rapes her. It's a story that's incredibly dark, but it reminds us how
0:38.8	real the Bible is, because the truth is that sexual violence, it's a part of many lives. And it's
0:45.6	often perpetrated by family members or the people that we know and trust. And so this story, it's one of
0:51.8	those stories. And it's even more real than that because afterwards Amnon, he starts to hate Tamar.
0:57.2	But we all know it's really that he hates himself for what he's done.
1:01.1	And Tamar, for her part, she's traumatized.
1:03.0	She never fully recovers.
1:04.2	She goes into the house of her full brother, Absalom, spends the rest of her life in hiding.
1:09.9	Now that name, Absalom, another of David's sons,
1:12.9	perhaps his favorite son, it means father of peace, father of shalom. It's the way we would think about
1:18.3	God, but neither Absalom nor his father knew much about peacemaking. David is completely
1:25.2	passive in this story. He refuses to hold Amnon accountable. He does nothing to help Tamar.
1:31.9	It's a gross miscarriage of justice. And as a result, there's no peace. He's not a peacemaker.
1:38.0	Absalom, he ends up waiting three years. And then he tricks David into sending Amnon with him to a sheep shearing. And when he's with Amnon,
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