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If Longfellow could take a worthless piece of paper, write a poem on it, and instantly make it worth 1000’s of dollars.
If Rockefeller could sign his name on a worthless piece of paper and make it worth millions of dollars.
If an artist can take the course material, paint a picture on it and make it priceless.
I often wonder...What do you think Christ can do with a sinful and desolate life?
In 1980, Johnny Lee sang some of the most famous words repeated for more than a decade.
“Looking for love in all the wrong places.”
In our society and culture today, we continue to endure this continued crisis as we continue to look for love in places and faces and it erases all hope of ever finding it.
Specifically, we do find that one of the contributing factors to this problem, is the inability of being able to tell the difference between love and lust.
In our promiscuously charged, pornographically pervasive, and crafty culture the distinction is getting blurred more and more every day.
Pornography is now being called adult entertainment.
If nakedness is on HBO or Cinemax or Showtime it’s being called visual art.
Crafty is it not?
Lust is called Love and it is leaving lives in utter loveless desolation.
Fornication, Adultery, Rape are all too common and oh the ruined lives it leaves.
It seems that it is the same today as it was back then.
But family… I want us to know that there is no life of ruin too great for our Lord to repair.
He can take a desolate life and bring it out our darkness and into His marvelous light.
He can take a life of ruin and make all things new.
He can take a life stained with sin and turn it into the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.
He can make us whiter than snow.
He creates a symphony of salvation.
True unconditional love is not found in places and faces, but in a place and a face.
Being found in Christ.
Now remember David witnessed the early fulfillments of the covenant the Lord had made with him and the blessings were a wonderful and magnificent display of victory upon victory.
But as we saw the unfolding of the Covenant, David, by nature, a man corrupted with sin, committed both adultery and murder.
Consequences came.
Not only did he lose a child, but his family will fall into chaos.
Today the chaos begins.
Tamar was very very beautiful and the scriptures declare that Amnon her half-brother was desperately in love with her.
He was so obsessed with her that he became ill knowing he could never have her.
But never fear, Amnon, had a very crafty friend named Jonadab who was the son of David’s brother which would make him his cousin.
He had an idea.
Pretend to be sick and when David comes to check on you tell him that you would like Tamar to take care of you.
She came and cooked for him, but when she served him the food, he refused to eat and told everyone in the room to get out.
When Tamar began to feed Amnon he grabbed her and told her to come to bed with him.
She said no my brother… this is an outrageous thing, you will be called a fool and I will be rejected in utter shame for the rest of my life.
Just talk to the king and he will let you marry me.
But Amnon did not listen and he raped her, but his love turned to hate.
He told her to get out of his room.
She begged him not to do it for it is worse than what he did to her already, but he told his servant to get her out and lock the door behind her.
She tore her robe put ashes on her head and ran away crying.
Her brother Absalom saw her and asked if Amnon had been with her.
Don’t worry my sister, hold your peace.
She lived with Absalom, but as a desolate woman.
The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.
1. Deceptive Love
2. Loveless Desolation
3.
All Things New
We will see characteristics of what it is be sinfully desolate because of deception.
First, we will see the deceptive love of the crafty and second, we will see the consequences of an evil act leaving a life in loveless desolation.
Finally, we will see how our Lord will take a life of deception and desolation and make all things new.
Thesis: Though the crafty deceptions of the pattern of this world and remaining sin in us, continue to leave us and those we love in sinful and loveless desolation, our Lord Jesus, the better King, renews, and restores our desolate life with a love that will never be shaken.
I. Deceptive Love
- Can we tell the difference between love and lust?
A. It’s getting harder and harder today.
First we will look at the deceptive love.
Amnon, yes it is said that he was desperately in love.
But, back then, as it is today, we continue to confuse love with lust.
And what a descriptive picture we have here concerning this.
The passage said he was so in “love” that he got sick (the scriptures version of being love sick), but the reality was he was actually so lustfully obsessed that he probably got sick in despair for he could not ever have her.
Anxiety, panic attacks, depression ect.
Symptoms of a crack addict needing a fix and can’t get one.
It is a despair over what we can’t have.
If he really loved her, then he would not be being doing this.
B. Cue the sinister music… In comes Jonadab, his friend and cousin.
Now this man was crafty.
Now he was a crafty man.
When I say that, it should remind you of something else that was called crafty?
Do you remember the serpent in the garden?
Craftiness came in.
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He was skilled in problem solving and devised a plan to get Amnon what it is that he wants.
He knows what he wants and helps him?
He is going to use his God given innovative abilities to help his cousin rape his cousin.
How could he?
She was his cousin?
He was even the cool head for David when panic ensued after Absalom killed Amnon.
He is the evil politician.
And in this fiasco probably the most dangerous man in this chapter and because we focus so much on what Amnon did that we can miss this import piece.
This is the wickedness of deception by those who sow discord for political and or personal gain.
D. Dr. Davis writes, Amnon’s evil is relatively restricted; he will always be in bed with someone, tending his hormones.
But Jonadab has the skill to leak evil everywhere.
He is dangerous because he has skill without scruple, wisdom without ethics, insight without integrity.
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Not only in secular culture, but also in the church we have probably seen how those with the greatest gifts in the church become the churches biggest threat.
Here is a key point.
If our gifts and abilities in the church is not wrapped in godliness, what a disaster for the bride of Christ.
Disaster for the body of Christ.
What do I mean?
F. It is extraordinary.
This is one of the biggest effects of sin.
It makes things that are inherently good, downright evil.
A man who is a skilled orator can actually lead an entire nation into rebellion.
Wealth can become the source of division and greed.
Strength can be used to hurt instead of bring protection.
And in our society today, sin is one of those topics that is simply cast aside, justified, magnified or just simply ignored.
Because of the craftiness of the world…many are eternally condemned and now don’t even know it.
G. Let us not let the crafty deceptions of this world and remaining sin in us lie to us about sin.
It is destructive, ripping people, families, societies, countries and churches apart.
We cannot ignore it.
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