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Second Samuel 13, I want you to come right to the middle of the chapter, to verse 23.

This is one of those times when I wish so much that everybody in here had been in here

last week because this lesson is so important and can really only be understood in light

of where we've been in the last lesson. We've been talking about three children of David,

two by the same mother, Absalom and Tamar, and then Amnon, his firstborn, by a different mother.

And last week we talked about Amnon's desire being for Tamar, his half-sister,

until it made him physically ill or so he thought. And in capturing her through trickery,

he raped her. She ran to Absalom, he knew then after talking to her what had happened to her

and he gave her the advice that is so common,

don't take this to heart and be quiet. I want you to see that it says in verse 23 something very

important two years later. And we've already seen at the very end of verse 22 that David is

furious but he is not doing anything. Absolutely nothing. Two very long years pass and I want to say

something to you before we begin to read the rest of it. Don't let anybody ever tell you that time

heals. Time does not heal. Time can is easily and bitter as it could ever heal. God heals. God heals.

Time can do all sorts of things and for someone who has just let bitterness crawl into them all

in the world it does is take a deeper route. Time just causes whatever was already true

to escalate and to grow. It is God who heals. Begin reading with me then in verse 23 two years later when

Absalom sheep's shears where it bell has are near the border of Ephraim. He invited all the king's

sons to come there. Absalom went to the king and said your servant has had shears come. Will the

king and his officials please join me? This was supposed to be a time of great celebrating and

know my son the king replied all of us should not go we would only be a burden to you. Although

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