Thank you. When we fail to keep a tight rain on lust, that inevitably leads to devastation.

And today on Truth for Life, Alastor Begg examines the events between King David's son Amnon and his half-sister Tamar in 2 Samuel

Chapter 13. We'll hear an important warning and learn the best question to ask ourselves in any

situation.

So we're told that we find in verse 8, Tamar arriving at her brother Amnon's house. Notice where he was

lying down. The way in which this story is told is very, very good. All, every time you get lying

or lay, it's there in order to build the context, for sure. I want to be lying

down. I want her to bring it from her hand. I want to. The sense of what is unfolding is the kind

of thing that you get, when movies very skillfully, create just the sense in your mind

without it being immediately obvious. You say, I think this is going to go badly, or I think this is

going to go in a certain direction. And so in verse 8, essentially we have Tamar in the kitchen.

He is lying down and she made food in his sight.

So the picture, it would seem, is that this simply advances for him his sense of anticipation.

From the vantage point of where he lies, he can see her.

Given what's going on in his mind, the very experience of her presence, and the activity in which she engages,

would be stirring to him without any question at all.

And when you think about this in literary terms, as we should do as well, because this is a

masterful piece of narrative, this little section here slows the action down, doesn't it?

Isn't it interesting that in the middle of this, you have a description of how she

bakes or what she's doing? And in seeing her, as it were, in the kitchen,

not only does the moment slow the story, but it also reveals, or if you like, establishes her

character, and at the same time, it increases a sense of anticipation, an anticipation on

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