“What a Tangled Web” (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 1 January 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Many assume our choices only affect ourselves, but history proves otherwise! On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg traces the devastating, lifelong ripple effects of King David’s sin with Bathsheba and shows how it extended throughout his family and kingdom.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. Welcome to Truth for Life where we're kicking off 2025 with a study in Second Samuel. |
| 0:32.2 | Alistair Begg begins by considering the long-term consequences King David faced because of his sin with Bashsheba. |
| 0:39.4 | When we face temptation, we often assume our choices only affect ourselves in the moment. |
| 0:44.2 | But as we trace the devastating lifelong ripple effects of King David's sin, |
| 0:49.1 | we'll see how it extended throughout his kingdom and affected his family. |
| 1:04.1 | Well, I invite you to turn with me to 2nd Samuel and to Chapter 13. |
| 1:14.2 | And I should probably just say, as I read this passage, and before we seek to look at it together, that in some ways, this talk should have not a government health warning, but it should have a little |
| 1:23.7 | asterisk that says for mature audiences only. And I don't mean that in any superficial |
| 1:29.4 | way at all, that some of you are here with your children this morning, and I want you to know, |
| 1:34.7 | before we actually turn to this passage, that some of the material that we deal with may not |
| 1:40.3 | be the kind of material that you want to have coming to your children in this context, but may be the kind of material that you want to have coming to your children in this context, |
| 1:45.7 | but may be the kind of material that you would rather deal with at another time and in another way. |
| 1:52.2 | I say that not to dissuade anybody or to end with a mass exodus of young people, |
| 1:57.6 | but out of courtesy and out of a genuine concern for you in your parental responsibilities. |
| 2:07.4 | Having said that, I will tackle it with as much care as I can. |
| 2:13.2 | 2 Samuel 13, verse 1. |
| 2:17.0 | Now, Absalom, David's son, had a beautiful sister whose name was |
| 2:21.2 | Tamar. And after a time, Amnon, David's son, loved her. And Amnon was so tormented that he made |
| 2:28.6 | himself ill because of his sister, Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed impossible to Amnon to do anything |
| 2:35.9 | to her. But Amnan had a friend whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimea, David's brother, |
| 2:43.0 | and Jonadab was a very crafty man. And he said to him, O son of the king, why are you so |
| 2:48.1 | haggard morning after morning, will you not tell me? |
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