Don’t Use God to Cover a Lie

Key Passage: 2 Samuel 15
Date: June 7, 2024

Turn your Bibles, if you would, to 2nd Samuel chapter number 15. 2nd Samuel chapter number 15. We have been going through the life of David for well over a year now, for a good while. And we are at the point where…

David’s son, Absalom, he is leading a rebellion trying to take over the kingdom. Temporarily he does.

But he does, the son, Absalom, he does win, if you will, temporarily. He takes the throne and David flees Jerusalem. But this is right before that, and we kind of want to just look at how Absalom grew a crowd, how Absalom grew a crowd. And we just want to look at that.

Some truths we’re going to read about six or seven verses, and we’ll go back through those and try to glean some truth from them tonight. Did you come hungry for God to speak to your heart tonight? Did you do that? I hope you are. If you’re hungry, God promises He’ll fill you, and so if you hope you are, maybe whisper a prayer even now: Lord, give me something. You come to church, you come to get something, you know. I hope you like that and want God to speak to your heart tonight.

We’re in 2nd Samuel 15. We’re going to start verse number 6. 2 Samuel 15, verse number 6. We’re going to start verse number 6. 2nd Samuel 15, verse number 6. Good deal. Verse number 6.

“And on this manner it Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.”

Now, just a word to make sure everybody’s on board. Absalom’s the son. David’s the king. Absalom stole the hearts of the people. And now he’s trying to take over the throne. All right.

Verse number 7: “It came to pass after 40 years, I believe that’s 40 years since David was anointed, that Absalom—Absalom wasn’t very clear—Absalom is not 40 years old at this point—that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I vowed unto the Lord in Hebron. For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode in Geshur in Syria, saying, If the Lord shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve him.”

“And the Lord said unto him, Go in peace.” So he arose and went to Hebron.

“But Absalom sent spies who had all the tribes of Israel saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron.”

“And with Absalom went 200 men out of Jerusalem that were called. And they went in their simplicity, and they knew not anything.”

“And Absalom sent for Ahithophel, the Gilonite, David’s Counselor, from his city, even from Gilo, while he offered sacrifices, and the conspiracy was strong, for the people increased continually with Absalom.”

I want to just kind of go back through this briefly. Let’s just look back at verse number six right there. I’m sorry, verse number seven, verse number seven.

“And it came to pass after 40 years that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I vowed unto the Lord.”

Now, when the King James Bible has capital L-O-R-D, all letters capital, that’s Jehovah. And he’s saying, let me go unto Jehovah in Hebron. Now Hebron’s down south. It is a place where David was anointed king at the beginning. Remember seven years you just came down in Hebron, later on all Israel.

Then he says, verse number eight: “For thy servant vowed a vow while I was at Geshur in Syria.” That’s up north. “Saying, If the Lord shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve the Lord.”

Now here’s the thing. This boy, this son says, look, let me go down there. I vowed this vow. Let me go down there because I vowed a vow to the Lord. And it’s going to go down to Hebron because this fulfilled my vow. He said, I made the vow when I was up north in Syria. Now here’s the thing: that was a total pack of lies. He was going down to Hebron to be anointed king. He was going down there to try to take the kingdom. He was just flat lying. I mean, just all the way lying.

But here’s the thing I want you to note: Did you notice how he used God’s name to cover up the lie? “Boy, I vowed a vow unto Jehovah.” And I’ve got to go down there and do what I’ve said I was going to do. And I made this vow years ago.

And I say this to say it’s not unusual for people to use God in His name to cover up their sin in the world, in the church. It’s not unusual. And I want you to just maybe gain a little bit of wisdom from this tonight. Friend, don’t be shocked just because someone uses, “Well, I think this is the Lord’s will.” It doesn’t mean it’s the Lord’s will.

You know, it’s interesting. I checked this out a little bit today. Even Hitler—Hitler would say statements like this. Hitler said this: “Hence today, I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator by defending myself against the Jews. I am fighting for the work of the Lord.” That’s Adolf Hitler.

Now, friends, I’m just saying that we’re just trying to get us a little wisdom tonight. It’s very common. I never forget a fellow said, “Well, I don’t love my wife anymore, so I think the Lord is leading me to divorce my wife.” Someone will go chew someone out, just chew them out. “Well, I think the Lord led me to do that.” And sometimes the Bible does talk about reproving and rebuking.

But friend, it’s so common for people to use—I don’t know, maybe because the book’s so wicked, they’ll try to put a good cover on it. I’m not sure. But I just know it’s not an uncommon thing. You know, we have preachers nowadays that are promoting sodomy—well, I should say, quote-unquote preachers—that say they’re mouthpieces for the Lord. But don’t be shocked about it. These sayings have been going on for centuries, so don’t get shocked about those things. Same thing’s happening right here.

And look, just because someone puts the name of—just because I might put the name of the Lord somewhere, that doesn’t make it right. Check it out with a Bible. Is it biblical? Let’s line up with a Bible. Would you be able to go in a room full of godly Christians and be able to say, “Well, I think God wants me to do it,” and would a room full of godly people buy that? Would you maybe go to a godly counselor before you act on it?

I’m just saying this fellow Absalom, he wanted to take the kingdom, and he could have used a ton of excuses. He could have just said, “Well, I want to go down to Hebron because it’s beautiful down there, and I’m going to go take a visit down there.” You don’t mind if you take a vacation to do, but he didn’t do that. He wanted to put the Lord’s name in there, something: “Well, I vowed a vow, and I’m going to go down there and serve the Lord, like I said I would.” That’s uncommon.

And it’s very important that we realize these things. Don’t be shocked about that.

I thought about this preparing the message. I was a room monitor, they called them in college back in the day when I was there for years, and you didn’t do that much. A room monitor did, but you’re supposed to make sure the room kind of is somewhat civilized. You know what I mean? Only three pizza boxes out instead of 20? You know what I’m saying? I mean, just, you know, somewhat civilized.

And over the years, I had pretty good roommates. The one that I had the worst time with was a fellow he always—now, that the chapel, the House Anderson Chapel back in the day, I’m telling you, everybody’s fighting for the front row. Brother Josh goes to House Anderson online, he just joined up, you know. But the man, back in the day, everybody’s fighting for—if you got the front row, I mean, you’ve got to get there early. You’ve got to kind of fight for it. Then over here’s the amen corner. It’s a pie shape. I would go sit in the amen corner if I’d work real late the night before. Usually got off at midnight. If I worked real late, I’d go, because you’re going to shout amen. They’re going to shout amen. You know, you can stay awake sometimes like that, you know.

But this guy, he always—I don’t know how he always somehow got a front-row seat in chapel, and he would yell, “Amen,” pretty much louder than anybody in the whole college. And he was kind of known for that. And yet when you lived with a guy, out of all the roommates I had over the years, and I had a ton of them, I had a more difficult time with that guy than any of them. Would not take care of his room? Just simple things. Didn’t want to listen to anybody.

And I’m simply saying, be wise. I want to be wise, but just because someone uses the name Lord doesn’t mean it’s right.

And Absalom, oh, Absalom, when he wanted to go take over the kingdom and go down to Hebron, the first saying was, “Well, I made a vow unto the Lord.” Fool he on you. You don’t know the Lord; he’ll serve the devil. And so I want you to be wise to that.

Look at just a couple of things we want to point out tonight. Look at verse number 10. Verse number 10. Y’all want me tonight, amen? Oh, still out there. Verse number 10, chapter number 15, 2nd Samuel, verse number 10. By the way, we’ll get verse number nine in there. Get verse number nine.

“And the king said unto him, Go in peace.” I’ve always been curious; I don’t know if David perceived what Absalom was doing or not. Maybe David knew full well; I’m not sure. But I thought it was interesting. He said, “Go in peace.” So he arose and went to Hebron.

“But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel saying, As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron.”

Now, I want you to notice this: Absalom had this thing set up, and he had these spies, these wicked men, all over, throughout all the tribes of Israel. And when they heard the trumpet, the trumpet was a little bit like their telegraph, if you will. They often would have a chain type thing to get messages out. And he said, “Now when you hear that trumpet, I want you wherever you’re at, I want you with your mouth—maybe these guys played the trumpet too, I don’t know—but he said, I want you to just say, ‘Hey, Absalom reigneth in Hebron.’”

Now, can you imagine, if you would, that would be equivalent—and I already in time for destiny, this would be equivalent for destiny here, for young folk—for something to go up, they say, and it goes viral. It just goes all over. That was Absalom’s goal. He wanted to get the message out real quick all over. He was trying to gain some momentum, some people on his side. He wanted it to look like he had a majority. You understand what I’m saying? He wanted it where, I mean, once the trumpet started, and all across Israel, the talk is, “Hey, Absalom’s king in Hebron.”

Now let me tell you, and here’s the problem with this. Remember that Ephesians 2:2 over there? Satan is called the Prince of the Power of the Air. Okay. And here’s what Satan—Satan always tries to make it look like as sinful people are the majority. Now sometimes they are; sometimes they’re not. But he’s going to make—if he can convince people of America that the vast majority of young people are sodomites, then that’s what he wants people to think.

That’s why pretty much every modern-day TV show or movie, they’ve got to have a sodomite somewhere in there because he wants you to think, and he wants to put it in young people’s minds, “Boy, there’s tons of people, sodomites all over the place.” That’s always how Satan works. He wants to convince you that—he wants to convince young people, “Well, nobody goes to the marriage altar pure nowadays.” He wants to convince you of that.

Satan is always crafty at trying to make the—and he realized sometimes it’s not near as bad as we think. But Satan has got a lot of loudmouth followers. Look, that’s why YouTube and Facebook and something, they censor everything now. It’s because they want to look like the wicked are everywhere.

Which in truth, there’s a whole lot of good people in America for you. Amen. Man, I love just take trips sometimes on the interstate, the billboards that talk about Jesus Christ and God. You see crosses everywhere. I mean, last time you went over to Gatlinburg, how many crosses did you find on the side of the road? I mean, friend, there’s a lot of good people in America, but Satan doesn’t want you to realize that. He wants you to feel like, man, we’re such a minority and the wicked are just everywhere. And there are some wicked folk there, but Satan’s going to promote that. He’s going to make that go viral to the best of his ability. He’ll convince a young person, “Well, every young person’s got to go out and sow their wild oats. You got to get drunk a time or two.”

Friend, I’ve never been drunk a day in my life. But Satan’s going to promote his junk, and he’s going to make it look like the best he can is going to make it look like that the majority. He wants you to think that everyone gossips. Everyone’s got a bad attitude. Nobody really tithes off the increase or increase. I mean, it just—he’ll try to promote these things and make it seem like every—

Well, I can remember my dad. This was his answer. I was telling Brother Anthony this morning. My dad had medicine for everything. Now, it was always the same kind of medicine; it was called the belt. But I remember telling my dad, “Dad, I forgot.” Well, “I got some medicine to help you remember next time,” you know. And every one time, I really did not do it. I can’t remember what it was, but I sincerely did not do it. And I said, “Dad, I didn’t do it.” He said, “Well, this is for one of those times you did it and you didn’t get caught. You’re getting some medicine, boy.” He had medicine for everything, you know, just medicine, medicine.

But here’s the thing. I said, “Well, everybody’s doing it.” And Dad said, “Not everybody’s doing it because you ain’t doing it, boy.” I used to say, “I’m not going to call my son ‘boy’.” Then I got in the heat of the moment, “Boy!” He’s called my son “boy” too, you know.

No, not everybody’s doing that, but Satan’s going to make you think they are. And he’s so sly and crafty at that. And he’s conditioning—now listen to me—Satan is conditioning us the best he can for us to go by the polls, what everybody else is doing, what everybody else thinks is right. And he’s going to make you think everybody’s doing it. And friends, so much of life, it doesn’t matter if everyone is doing it. If it’s not in this book, it’s not right. Friend, don’t you set what is right or what is wrong by the polls. You set what is right or wrong by God’s holy word. That’s where you set it from. Satan, he’ll do his best to make trash just everybody’s doing it.

That’s exactly what Absalom’s doing. He’s trying to make everybody think, “Well, Absalom’s king.” Let’s get these spies out of it throughout all the tribes. So when the trumpet sounds, everybody says the same thing: “Absalom’s king in Hebron.” Don’t get conditioned by what the world and Satan make look so popular. Even if it is popular, it doesn’t make it right.

Sometimes it’s not near as popular as Satan makes it seem. There’s interesting—2005 in Turkey, a little bit outside of Istanbul, in Turkey. I tried to pull up a video about it, but it had their own kind of music in it, but there’s a true story. There’s a sheep, just a herd of sheep, and there was one sheep, the leader sheep, that literally, literally went off the cliff, just walked off of it. Well, sheep, they follow. They’ll follow the shepherd, but they’ll also follow the sheep, and they followed.

It ended up—it ended up about 1,500 sheep followed off the cliff. Different estimates. It was Fox News and different ones covered it. But some say around 400, some say about 450, but some of the sheep died. But the thing is, once so many had just walked off the cliff following the crowd, the herd, and then so many dead bodies began to pad the bottom, so the last 1,100, whatever it was, didn’t die. But they walked off the cliff too.

And you see that in high schools all across. You see it in churches. You see it all across America, around the world. One person falls off, and so just follows. And if the crowd’s doing it, well, it’s the thing to do. You ever hear somebody say, “Well, if they’re jumping off the cliff, you’re going to follow them to do that?” Well, the sheep did. A lot of them died in the process. That’s why Satan’s always trying to promote and make sin and feel to look like he’ll magnify it. That’s exactly what Absalom’s plan is.

Well, he said this: “As soon as you hear the trumpet, say Absalom’s king in Hebron.” In Hebron, all throughout Israel, they were saying that.

Let’s just keep going here just a little bit. Look at verse number 11. Verse number 11. Just trying to pull out, glean some truths here. Verse number 11, chapter number 15. And y’all still there? Y’all with me here? Good deal.

Verse number 11: “And with Absalom went 200 men out of Jerusalem that were called. And they went in their simplicity. See, these other guys were spies; they knew what was going on. He already told them, say, ‘Hey, that Absalom’s king in Hebron.’” But these guys are different. These guys were in their simplicity, and they knew not anything.

Now, this 200 people following the answer—they didn’t know what was going on. Now, listen, stick with me here for a minute. In any conflict battle with the minds and the hearts of people, there’s usually at least three categories of people. Would you look over in Proverbs 1:1 real quickly here? And let’s just look at a couple categories of people here. Proverbs chapter 1. And would you look down in verse number 22? Proverbs 1.

And it’s interesting, every class, your 10th-grade class, whatever, it’ll have these groups of people. A bus route will have these groups of people. The youth group will have these three groups of people. A church has these three groups of people. You’ll find them. And there’s others; this is not all. But I want you to see these groups of people. Proverbs 1. Look in verse number 22, if you would, please. Proverbs 1:22. Before this, wisdom’s been crying and trying to give out wisdom to these people.

Now verse number 22: “How long ye simple ones,” that’s the first category, “will ye love simplicity? And the scorners,” that’s the second category, “delight in their scorning? And here’s the third word: And fools hate knowledge.” There’s always that category, at least that category, of people.

In this group here we just read about, these 200 men, they were the simple. They did not know what was going on. In fact, he even uses the word simplicity.

Now, a simple person, these categories—a simple person is one that does not have permanent marks on their life. It’s a blank page, if you will. They haven’t got truth marked on them, and they don’t have, oh, maybe falsehood permanently written on them. They’re in between; they’re in simplicity. They do not have permanent marks on them. In fact, they love some—now that’s the downfall—they love simplicity. And unfortunately, they want to stay there sometimes.

Now, fools, he mentions fools there. A fool, all he cares about is having fun. And he hates instruction because it might not—it might, excuse me—it might take away from his fun. He’s not going to listen to anybody. He don’t want to hear any instruction because it might take away from his fun. Okay?

And then the scorners. A scorner is usually someone that has been hurt, typically by authority. And so they have proud wrath, Proverbs says. At wrath, they’ve been hurt; they get in some inner smoldering. You mix pride with it, and you get a scorner. And they go around just critiquing everybody and everything and looking for any kink in the armor they can find, especially in a leader. They’re just watching everything, and they like to criticize them. They’re scorners.

Now, these 200 men, they were simple. They did not have permanent marks. They didn’t understand what was going on with it. That’s a very interesting group. Can I say this? For the most part, that’s the crowd we’re after. The fools, they don’t want to listen. Proverbs is all about that. They don’t listen. Scorners—look at a couple places. Look over in Proverbs 9. And you’re in Proverbs already. We’ll look at three different passages real quickly about a scorner, and I want you to notice something here.

Proverbs 9, look at verse number 8. Proverbs 9, verse number 8. Once you find it, would you say, “Praise the Lord”? Good deal. Proverbs 9, verse number 8: “Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee; rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.” Let’s say, right, reprove not a scorner.

Look at verse number 19, chapter 19, verse number 25. Proverbs 19:25. It’s very interesting. He says, “Smite a scorner, and the scorner gets better.” No, that’s not what he said. He says, “Smite a scorner, and what?” “And the simple will beware.” He said, don’t reprove a scorner; he’s not going to listen to you, but sometimes you’ve got to smite the scorner why? So the simple will beware. Smite a scorner, the simple will beware, and reprove one that hath understanding; he will understand knowledge.

Look over in chapter 21, chapter 21, chapter 21, verse number 11. 21:11. “When the scorner is punished, the scorner straightens up and gets right?” No. “When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise. And when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.”

Now look, friend, in our Sunday school classes, our ministry, our soul winning, our bus ministry—more often than not, the person we’re looking for is the simple. There’s still hope. The scorner, they’re going to criticize; they’re going to look for any problem they can. They don’t want to listen. They don’t want to learn. The fool, he hates knowledge. But the key is that simple. Maybe we can take the truth of the Word of God, not the truth of the son of God, but the truth of the Word of God, and maybe we can put some permanent marks of truth on their heart and their mind. That’s what we’re after. We’re trying to mark on them the love of God or the truth of God and the desire for God. We’re trying to put that in them.

More often than not, that fool don’t want to listen to anybody. And the scorner, you’ve got to get on to him sometimes, why? So the simple will be made wise. But if we let the scorners walk over us and we never deal with the fool, then the simple never gains wisdom. And there’s 200. 200 is a lot of people. We worked hard on Easter to get 200. I had 211, and thank the Lord for that, pretty lot of people. And yet these simple people, in their simplicity, they had no idea.

Hey, in the workplace, I guarantee you there’s some simple people there. And the scorners are going to try to fill their heart and their mind with every critical thing towards God and Christianity they can. And the fool is going to, “Hey, don’t listen to anybody or anything because it might take away from your fun. Let’s just go party.” And yet those simple ones, there’s hope.

Now, he does talk over there in Proverbs 1, “How long will the simple love simplicity?” So he said, “Turn you at my reproof; behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you.”

Sometimes Christians don’t want to get permanent convictions and standards and truth in their life. They don’t want to hear about the King James Version. No, no, no. Listen: How long are you going to love simplicity? If you turn, God says, “I’ll open up your eyes. You’ll get things out of there you never dreamed,” and “I’ll pour out my spirit.” But you’ve got to say, “I don’t want to stay simple. I want to learn. I want to grow. I mean more for the Lord.” I’m not going to gain truth and God’s love in my life. So these 200 were the simple, all right? You almost always find this simple, and more often than not, those are the people we’re looking for, trying to pray that God would work in their lives.

Let’s keep going. We’ve just got five simple things we’re looking at tonight. We’re on the fourth thing right now. Look in verse number 12, if you would, please. Verse number 12. Y’all still out there tonight? Anybody tired tonight? I’ve seen a couple people looking a little tired there, you know.

Verse number 12, chapter number 15. “And Absalom sent for Ahithophel, the Gilonite, David’s counselor from his city, even from Gilo, while he offered sacrifices, and the conspiracy was strong, for the people increased continually with Absalom.”

Can I just say this: the majority or the crowd that is growing oftentimes are dead wrong. Just because they’re growing and they’re gaining ground in the polls, that doesn’t make them right. More often than not, the majority is going the wrong way.

Hey, how many is going to go the way that leads to destruction? How many is going to go there? Many. How about those that are going to go up to heaven, the narrow way? The narrow way is not you being good enough. The narrow way is just one way: Jesus. That’s the narrow way. How many is going to go that way? Few. So be careful if you say, “Well, they’ve got to be right; a whole lot of people, and they’re growing over there.” Friend, that doesn’t make them right. There’s going to be a whole lot of people that die in burning hell for all eternity. Let’s make them right.

It’s interesting. We were talking with somebody the day. It’s just amazing you think about it. But how could the majority of Germany under Hitler be deceived? How could that happen? Well, maybe part of it, they said, “Well, everybody else is going that way. It must be all right. It’s growing. Pretty popular.” Not many took a stand against it. Of course, Hitler used to say, “If you say something long enough and loud enough, anyone will believe it.”

How those interesting? Horace Greeley used to say this, a great, great American statesman. He said, “Is it impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people?” Because that book doesn’t change with the majority. Even if the wrong crowds are growing and you’re getting popular, the book doesn’t change. I just remember that, and I’m sure you’ve heard it before. Just remember this, though: God plus you, if you’re on God’s side, the right side of God, you make a majority. The whole world could be on the devil’s side, and yet if you’re on God’s side, you’re in the majority. Everybody in your class, everybody in your social network, they say sodomy’s right, nothing wrong, the rock and roll music, whatever—one of them can say totally opposite what you believe—and yet if you’re believing where God stands, you’re in the majority. Always in the majority: God plus you is always a majority.

Now, here’s the thing about Ahithophel. I want you just look at Ahithophel for a little bit here for just a moment or two. We’re going to be done just a little bit here. But Absalom found a friend in Ahithophel because David—excuse me—because Absalom and Ahithophel had a common enemy in David. And he said, “Wait a second, I thought Ahithophel was David’s counselor.” He was. But I want you to notice something else about Ahithophel, if you would. Would you look over in chapter number 23 of 2nd Samuel?

Second Sam—you’re there already, chapter 15. Look over to chapter 23, and let’s just for a moment let’s find out who this Ahithophel is. Chapter number 23 and verse number 34. Would you look over there? When you find that, would you say, “Glory”? Good deal. Good deal. Verse number 34, chapter 23: Eliam, the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite.

Don’t ask me to read that word again, please. The son of Bathsheba, the daughter of—who’s that? Eliam. Yeah. The wife of Uriah the Hittite. Now, help me out here. So Ahithophel’s son is Eliam, and who is Bathsheba’s dad? So that makes Bathsheba Ahithophel’s granddaughter. How many got grandchildren in the room? You got grandson, granddaughter in me? Come on, there’s more than that around here. Come on, yeah, yeah.

Do you love those grandkids? If we ever get an amen, we’ll get an amen out of that right there, you know. Yeah. And how would you like it if a big, rich, fancy, fancy guy came along and stole away the heart of your granddaughter and led her to commit adultery and then had her husband killed? How would you feel about that guy?

Man, don’t get your guns out. You know what I mean? Don’t kill the guy; you’ll be in jail. Don’t get your brass knuckles down. Yeah. In fact, we’ll study that a little bit a couple of weeks and nights from now. In fact, Ahithophel, he said, “Man, absolutely, let me go after—give me some army, man. Let me go after David. I’ll kill him.”

Absalom did not follow his advice because of another counselor that David had, help him out. And actually, Ahithophel went and hung himself when he didn’t get to go kill David.

And I say that to say, birds of a feather—help me out—birds of a feather, what? Yeah. Absalom said, “But I got somebody over there; he’s against David.” Yeah. And he said, “I got somebody over there; he’s after David too.”

Can I just say this? We won’t belabor the point, but be very careful. I’m not saying it’s always wrong, but be very careful of friendships that are based on a common enemy. Now, sometimes, I’m not saying it’s always bad. If the common enemy is the devil, that’s a pretty good common enemy. But sometimes if you have a common enemy person, when that person’s gone, what kind of friendship do you have?

And can I say this? Maybe—maybe you ought to say, “All right, I believe my friendship is that common enemy. Who is the enemy?”

Here’s just a little side note about all this that has been an encouragement to me talking about people that get together because they’ve got a common enemy. I think politically about the liberal crowd. Someone said recently, and there’s some truth to it, I believe. I didn’t like it, but there’s some truth to it, but they said, “You know, the one thing the liberals have on us is the liberals, they tend to be able to stick together a little bit better than us. And us conservatives, we fight with one another.” I didn’t like it. It kind of bothered me. I don’t want to give the stinking liberals anything. You know what I’m saying? I just don’t want to give them any credit for anything. It kind of bothered me. That’s probably some truth to it, but I just don’t like it.

But this verse was encouraging. Would you look over real quickly in Proverbs 11? And look in verse number 21. Proverbs 11, verse number 21. With that fault in your mind, I read this thing, and boy, it was an encouragement to me. Not that I hate individuals that are liberals, but that crowd sure bothers me. Do they bother anybody else out there? Yeah, I like justice to be served sometimes.

Look over in Proverbs 11:21. This is a blessing to be—that liberals, well, they can stick together. What does the Bible say? Proverbs 11:21: “Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished.” Friend, not wicked can hold hands. They can be together all they want. God says they’re not going to be unpunished. They can stick together all they want. When it’s all said and done, God says they can hold hands all they want; they’re wicked, and they’re not going to be unpunished. But the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

But you see Absalom, he’s gathering this crowd that is against King David. One more fault, and we’re done. Look back over in verse number 12. We’re back over in verse number 12, the last part of it. First—excuse me—2nd Samuel 15, look at verse number 12. We’ll finish it out tonight. You’re trying to glean some truths from God’s word here.

2nd Samuel 15, verse number 12: “And Absalom sent for Ahithophel, the Gilonite, David’s counselor from his city, even from Gilo, while he offered sacrifices, and the conspiracy was strong, for the people increased continually with Absalom.”

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# Don’t Use God to Cover a Lie

Don’t Use God to Cover a Lie