Jim Batterton - That night, January 9, 1989, I paced around my room. All of the memory verses I had ever learned were racing through my mind. I knew I really needed to be saved, and as I became increasingly more upset, I was realizing that I really didn’t know how to be saved...
Memory Verse: Galatians 6:7 Memory Verse Text: God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Attention Getter: What would be the saddest thing for your parents to lose?
Point 1: Absalom was able to win the hearts of the people because he was handsome and charismatic. He used fair speeches and lies to get everything going his way. The King kissed him in spite of his waywardness, and he bowed down in pretence before him, but everything was not right. Point 2: Absalom continued and strengthened "his program" to dethrone the one that God had made king, which was tolerated for a time. His actions even caused his father, King David, to have to flee at one point, as well as to receive mocking abuse from some of his subjects. Point 3: However, the day came when the tide turned and Absalom became the one who had to flee in battle. Perhaps Absalom thought that he could look out for himself, but he didn't know that the woods in which he took cover held the very instrument that would bring about his death. Point 4: The saddest part of this story was David's grieving; only a parent can fully understand the enormity of his loss. David's loss was made even greater due to the fact that Absalom was eternally lost.
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Jim Batterton
