David Assherick: 1. You Can Understand Bible Prophecy: 2. How Ancient Babylon Foretold the End of the World: 3. How Near is the End: 4. Bible Prophecy's Answer for. Episode 101: Daniel’s Birthday/ Daniel’s Picnic. Daniel’s Birthday Today is Daniel Tiger’s birthday! Daniel is very excited to go to Baker Aker’s bakery to. Lesson 1. 1: Getting Right When You’ve Done Wrong (2 Samuel 1. After a tough exam, two college roommates headed to the campus tavern to have a few beers and relax. When they parked the car, the rider pointed out a sign that prohibited parking in that area. Since he usually lent the money to pay off his roommate’s large collection of parking fines, he was annoyed. Quite often we go right on sinning, but we try to skirt around the consequences of the sin. In each Martha Speaks episode, the characters use certain vocabulary words throughout the show. See if you can find these words when you watch! Explicit words, marked. Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo: Episode 3 by javabeans. The story heats up and there’s a lot more of everything in Episode 3—more blood, more intrigue, more. On Game of Thrones, death is one of the few things (aside from winter) that the people of Westeros and beyond know that they can rely on. The impermanence of life is. Rowling may be busy working on the second film in her Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them trilogy, but one fan film is getting reading to tell us a much. Instead of dealing with the real problem, we work overtime at inventing ways to get away with it. While that may work in some cases with the law of our land, it never works when we violate the law of God. As we saw in our last study, David tried to cover up his sin with Bathsheba. But he encountered one inescapable flaw: “.. David had not reckoned on the fact that “all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do” (Heb. God let David go for about nine months to a year. The child conceived by David and Bathsheba’s illicit union had been born (1. Then, when God, who knows the hearts, knew that David was miserable in his guilt and ready to repent He sent Nathan the prophet (1. Nathan wisely told David a story about a rich man with many sheep who mercilessly took the only pet lamb of a poor man and slaughtered it for his dinner guests. When David’s anger flared at the rich man in the story, Nathan sprung the trap by pointing his finger in David’s face and saying boldly, “You are the man!” David had condemned himself. While we could study this episode as a classic example of how to confront someone who has fallen into sin, I am not going to approach it that way. Instead, I want to look at how we can get right with God when we’ve done wrong. God has made provision for us to experience consistent victory over sin. But in spite of this, we all do sin. It is therefore important that we learn how to deal with our sin God’s way so that we can be restored in our relationship with Him and go on growing in His grace. David’s response to Nathan’s rebuke shows us that. We get right with God when we’ve sinned by confession and by submission to God’s dealings with us. David confessed his sin openly (1. Psalms 3. 2, 5. 1) and he submitted to God’s discipline (the death of the child and the ongoing painful consequences in David’s family . But before you tune out, I would point out that most spiritual failure involves a violation of some basic spiritual principle. In my years of pastoral experience, I have often mistakenly assumed that a person was applying the basics of Christian living. But quite often that is not the case, even with people who have been Christians for years. Thus we all can profit by studying this portion of God’s Word which shows how David got right with God after he had done wrong. We get right with God when we’ve sinned by confession. To understand confession, we must first look at .. What confession is not: Covering our sin. Since Adam and Eve fell into sin, there has been the innate tendency in the human heart to attempt to cover our sin. Sin results in guilt and estrangement from God and from our fellow man. Our sin embarrasses us and so we try, as Adam and Eve did, to put our fig leaves in place to cover our sin. There are various types of “fig leaves” that we use in our attempts to hide our sin from God and from one another: (1) Deception and lying. David tried this first. He brought Bathsheba’s husband Uriah home from the battle and tried to get him to have relations with his wife so that the child would appear to be his. The human heart “is more deceitful than all else” (Jer. So almost invariably when there is major sin, there is also deceit and lying.(2) Being judgmental of others. The person who covers instead of confesses his sin is often judgmental of the same or even lesser sins in others. Note David’s harsh reaction to the rich man in Nathan’s parable (1. The law of Moses did prescribe four- fold restitution for the sheep (Exod. Certainly taking the man’s pet lamb was a crime, but it was nothing compared to David’s crime of taking a man’s wife. David’s harsh condemnation was a fig leaf to cover up his own wrong. If Nathan had not known better, he would have thought, “My, how zealous David is against evil!”Some guys put limburger cheese very gently on a fraternity brother’s moustache while he slept. He woke about an hour later and said, “This room stinks!” He walked into the hall and said, “This hall stinks!” He walked into the living room and said, “This living room stinks!” Then, still perplexed as to where the smell was coming from, he walked outside and exclaimed, “This whole world stinks!” The real problem wasn’t the house or the world; the real problem was right under his own nose- -just like sin in our lives! When you excuse sin in your own life, you often become very critical and judgmental of others. A third “fig leaf”: (3) Attacking the one who confronts us. David did not do this with Nathan, probably because Nathan was so shrewd in the way he got David to condemn himself. But if Nathan had been more direct, who knows but what David would have said, “Who are you to condemn me? You’re just a legalist, Nathan!”Even though David didn’t yet realize it, the rich man in Nathan’s parable confronted David. David’s angry response was to attack the man: “He deserves to die.” We sometimes attack our confronter by applying the law to him but not to ourselves. If a man who stole a lamb deserves to die, what about an adulterer and murderer? We’re often like the college student who was filling out a questionnaire to help determine roommate compatibility. By the questions, “Do you make your bed regularly?” and “Do you consider yourself a neat person?” he checked the box marked “Yes.”His mother read his answers and, knowing they were far from the truth, asked why he had lied. As someone put it, “Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.” We’re all adept at applying God’s standard to others, but dodging its application for us. So, the one being confronted often attacks the confronter, rather than facing his own sin. Two brief applications: (a) If you find yourself getting angry and attacking the person who confronts you with your sin, it should serve as a warning that there may be some truth to the charges.(b) If yougo to confront someone in their sin, be prepared to bear the brunt of their anger. Recognize it for what it is- -a fig leaf- -and don’t take it personally. A fourth fig leaf: (4) Rationalizing our sin. David did this when he sent word to Joab, “.. In other words, “That’s the way it goes! We’re not responsible for such mishaps.” We rationalize when we make up excuses to absolve us of responsibility for our sin. Our whole criminal justice system has bought heavily into this mentality. Everyone is a victim, but no one seems to be responsible for his actions: “It’s just the way I am!” “I had a tough childhood!” “If you had been through what I’ve been through, you’d understand why I behave like I do!” A fifth fig leaf: (5) Blaming others or God. David did not use this one, as far as the text reveals, but I include it because it’s so common. Adam blamed Eve and the Lord who gave Eve to him; Eve blamed the serpent. And we’ve all been in the blame game ever since. David could have blamed Bathsheba for bathing in a visible location. He could have blamed God for giving him such a strong sex drive. But if you’re blaming, you’re not confessing. Whatever fig leaf we use, covering our sin is not confessing it. What confession is: Admitting and exposing our sin. David confesses his sin in 1. I have sinned against the Lord.” In Psalm 3. David’s confession, to extol the blessings of God’s forgiveness), David wrote, “I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I did not hide; I said, . God’s method is not to hide sin, but to expose it. Thus to confess our sin means to admit and expose it openly before God and usually to those we have wronged. For confession of sin to be genuine, three elements must be present: (1) Accepting full responsibility for my sin. As long as we shrug off sin or see ourselves as a victim of circumstances, we are not accepting responsibility for our sin.(2) Agreeing with God concerning my sin. This means that I see my sin as God sees it. It is primarily “against the Lord.” Sin is despising God and His Word (1. God sees sin as serious enough to separate us from His holy presence. That’s why He took the drastic solution of sending His Son to die for our sin. I need to see how my sin has wronged the holy God above all others. Just as God sees it as evil (1. I. Agreeing with God means that I must turn from it. But if we stopped there, we would all be afraid to confess our sins. We would want to run from God rather than run to Him.(3) Applying the blood to my sin. Only God can forgive our sin, and that only on the basis of the shed blood of Christ: “Without shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness” (Heb. Living under the Old Covenant, David’s forgiveness was based on what the sacrificial system pointed forward to. Living under the New Covenant, our forgiveness is based on the finished work of Christ on the cross, where He paid the penalty for all our sins. All of your sin is forgiven at the moment you put your trust in Christ as Savior. God has once and for all reconciled you to Himself through the cross. But when you sin subsequent to salvation, in order to experience God’s forgiveness and to enjoy fellowship with Him, you must apply the blood of Christ by confessing your sin. It’s best to keep short accounts with God. The instant you’re aware of sin, whether in thought, word, or deed, turn from it and confess it to Him and you will enjoy renewed cleansing and communion with our holy and gracious Father. But confession is only part of the matter. Many people don’t understand God’s holy opposition to all sin. So they expect there to be no consequences once they’ve confessed their sin. But if our confession is genuine, we will submit to God and His dealings with us. Phil - Episode Guide. Please read the following before uploading. Do not upload anything which you do not own or are fully licensed to upload. The images should not contain any sexually explicit content, race hatred material or other offensive symbols or images. Remember: Abuse of the TV. Teaser Trailer Released for Unbelievably Cool Voldemort Fan Film. J. K. Rowling may be busy working on the second film in her Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them trilogy, but one fan film is getting reading to tell us a much cooler story: How He Who Shall Not Be Named became, well, He Who Shall Not Be Named. Tryangle Films has released the debut trailer for Voldemort: Origins of the Heir, a high- production (and non- profit) fan film based in the Harry Potter universe. According to the plot synopsis, it’s inspired by events in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, detailing how Tom Riddle collected the Horcruxes and amassed power.. What happened in those years, and what really went down at Hogwarts when he came back? There are some clues in the books which have not been transposed at all in the movies, but a lot goes unspoken. This is the story we want to tell: the rise of the Dark Lord before Harry Potter and his first demise. The production company is currently raising funds to complete the film, which they said will come out this October (assuming they raise the funds). In a statement to Buzz. Feed, the production company says they have an agreement with Warner Bros. Check out the trailer below, and marvel at how far fan films have come in the past decade, growing from home videos in the garage to fully professional feature- length presentations. Wands up for this one.
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