Summary: How sin eventually evolves into outright rebellion

The Evolution of Rebellion

Review

Psalm 19: 1-6 – General Revelation

Psalm 19: 7-10 – Specific Revelation

Psalm 19: 10-11 – Transitional Truth

Psalm 19:12 – 14 – Spiritual Revelation

Every sin has in it the very venom of rebellion

1. Who can understand his error?

2. Cleanse me from my secret fault

3. Keep back thy servant from

presumptuous sin

Presumptuous Sin has one or more of these elements to it

1. Sin committed willfully against manifest light and knowledge

 Our own conscience

 Admonition of family and friends

 Voice of God

 Circumstances of life speaking to you

 Watching others

 God fingers it in your life

 Your own oaths and vows

2. Deliberation

 The lust that tempts is not a passer-by but a lodger at home.

3. Matter of design

 Deliberation of the sin has the motive of throwing it in the face of God. Does not have to be done with this motive as the intent.

4. Through a hardihood of fancied strength of mind

 I know how far I can go

 I’m not like those

 I can handle it

 Pride has fed our ego that we think we can go just far enough not to prevent ruin

Keep back thy servant from presumptuous sin!

Curb your servant, keep him back or he will wander to

the edge of the precipice of sin

4. Let them not have dominion over me.

 Sin now has gone from a disobedient act to a deep-seated strong hold that has perverted our thinking, distorted our beliefs and changed our personality.

Help me not to get to this state is the cry of the Psalmist.

 David understood the progression of sin from the error state as it matures and grows and eventually gives birth to the great transgression.

 David allowed sin into his life and it grew and matured to a place where it had the mastery of him and was controlling his life.

 What he would do next would determine if he would become rebellious and lawless or a broken delivered man.

 Psalm 51 was written in David’s repentant state

Unfortunately when we allow sin to get its roots in this deep there sometimes comes with it unreversable or life long consequences.

Consequences of sin

Immediate – His son’s death

Long Term – The sword and turmoil in

his family forever

Effects the innocent – The child and his

yet to be family

This whole situation was a designed plot of Satan to destroy the “Man after God’s own Heart”. Obviously it turned out but not without a high price.

We traced the sin of David from a seemingly harmless error and watched its progression grow to an overwhelming bondage. A strong hold so deep in his life it drove him to commit adultery, to lie, be deceptive, be devious, plot murder and create a believable cover-up.

What David didn’t realize is that although he found immediate forgiveness excepted the consequences of his sin he allowed a cursed seed to be sown that would show up in a later generation a seed of rebellion and lawlessness.

The Evolution of Rebellion

Absalom – Son of Peace

3rd son of David to Maacah daughter of Talmai King of Geshur

A wife based on a political alliance with a nation northeast of the Sea of Galilee. Most likely while David was in exile from Saul.

Chileab the 2nd oldest died young and left Absalom second in line to Amnon

Rebellion can be a characteristic passed down as an iniquity in seed form to future generations and not necessarily be a characteristic that manifests in your lifetime.

 David was a man after God’s own heart

 David also had serious issues

 Lust being one of them

 At the time of David’s sin with Bathsheba he already had 6 sons by 6 wives he had taken while in Hebron not including any concubines he may have had. He had 10 of them while in Jerusalem before Absalom’s rebellion.

 Absalom was obviously a young child or even a teenager when all this was happening

 Rebellion did not manifest within David because when he was confronted with his sin he became a broken man.

 True Repentance - David after his repentance did not take another wife and even another concubine. Towards the end of his years when his circulation was poor and they brought a virgin to him to keep him warm he did not have intimate relations with her.

 Although the bondage did not manifest into full blown rebellion. The iniquity was passed on the tendency of sexual sin and rebellion was passed on through the curse and seed. The curse causeless shall not come. Proverbs 26:2

 With each generation the sin gains strength and opens the door to greater perversions

 Sins of the Fathers do visit their children the good news is that the blood and the cross have defeated them and we can break the chain.

2 Samuel 13: 1-39 – Sin of Amnon

Verses 1-3 – How they are related

Amnon - is David’s oldest son with Ahinoam, heir to the

throne

Tamar - Amnon’s half sister Absalom’s full sister

Jonadab- Is cousin to all of them.

Fair - Beautiful

Subtle- crafty, cunning, shrewd wily and conniving

Loved – lust, attraction, human appetite for- it is in the

imperfect tense which means it was an action or

process which is incomplete

Verse 4 –7 - The Plot

Amnon learned how to play out a devious plan from his

father.

It had all the characteristics of his father’s plot

Lust

Deceit

Subtlety

Played on the innocent

Verse 8-19 – Execution of the Plan

Verse 12-13 – Lust is stronger than the voice of reason.

 To rape her would bring shame and humiliation to both of them.

 It was forbidden by the Levitical Law for you to marry your full sister – Lev. 18

 The king had the authority to grant her to him in marriage because she was his half sister.

Verse 14 –18 - Amnom’s sin

Because he physically and the lust that was driving him was stronger than her physically and the reason she was pleading he raped her.

 Amnon’s lust for the moment was satisfied and because lust is totally self centered and desires to get at the expense of others and true to the devil’s form he had no more use for her. She was just a trophy to gain she meant nothing to him.

 Satan always paints a bigger pleasure picture of sin then what it really is.

 What he was going to do now was worse than the act of the rape itself. According to the law if a man raped a betrothed women he alone would have to die. If he raped a virgin he would have to ransom her, marry her and could never divorce her. Lev. 22

Verse 18-20 – Rape is revealed

 Tamar remains hidden in Absalom’s home a virgin her entire life. Once again the innocent pay for the sins of others.

Seeds of Rebellion began to take hold – Verses 21 –22

David heard of it but did nothing but get angry

 Amnon was the first born heir to the throne may have had a special place in David’s heart to protect him. We do our children a grave injustice when we try to cover –up their sins or not allow them to suffer the consequences of their wrong doing

 How could David call for his own son’s death when he himself should have died for basically the same type of sexual crime?

What was happening to Absalom?

 Hatred for his brother

 Resentment for his Father

 Injustice – no justice for his sister

 Jealousy - favoritism

 Slighted- nothing was done

 Revenge- avenge his sister’s rape

David’s sin and the curse that followed opened the door to the following for his generation to come.

 Treachery Incest Murder

 Violence Jealousy Envy

 Deceit Betrayal Power Playing

 Rejection Lust Insurrection

 Conspiracy Flattery Undermining

 Cursing Bitterness Offense

Eventually the Great Transgression

Just like his father what Absalom would do next would determine whether he would follow the path of rebellion or ruin. Luke 15: 17 – 21 - Read