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Our readings today are about man's choice

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Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said

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Who is on the Lord's side?

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Let him come unto me

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In recent years I've come to believe that to be on the Lord's side a man must choose between good and evil

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Without choice there is no morality I

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Read Joshua the

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24th chapter I

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Have given you a land for which you did not labor and

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Cities which she built not and ye dwell in them now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in truth

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And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord

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Choose you this day whom ye will serve

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The people answered and said God forbid that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods

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For the Lord our God he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt from the house of

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bondage

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In days of old when the boy Solomon was come unto the throne of Israel

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The Lord appeared and asked him

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What I should give thee I?

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Read Solomon's answer from first king Oh

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Lord my God

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Thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father and I am but a little child I

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know not how to go out or to come in and

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Thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen a great people

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That cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude

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give therefore thy servant an

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Understanding heart to judge thy people that I may discern between good and bad

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I'd like to read that last line again

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Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people that I may discern between good and bad

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Young Solomon could have asked for anything, but all he asked for was the power of choice I

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And the speech pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing and

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God said unto him because thou hast asked this thing and has not asked for thyself long life

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Neither has fast riches for thyself nor has to ask the life of thine enemies, but has to ask for thyself

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understanding to discern judgment

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Behold I have done according to thy word lo I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart

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So that there was none like thee before thee neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee

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And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked both riches and honor

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So that there shall not be among the Kings like unto thee all thy days

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And Solomon awoke and behold

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These readings have been from Exodus the book of Joshua in the book of Kings

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The book of Kings

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Today our readings are about David and Bathsheba

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And it came to pass in an evening tide that David arose from off his bed and walked upon the roof of the King's house and

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From the roof he saw a woman washing herself and the woman was very beautiful to look upon

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Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah the Hittite and David desired her for his own

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So he sent a letter to Joab the commander of his army

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And he wrote in the letter saying set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle and retire ye from him

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That he may be smitten and die

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And as David had plotted so it was done and accomplished

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And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead

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She mourned for her husband and when the morning was past David sent and fetched her to his house

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And she became his wife and bear him a son

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But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord

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What follows is one of the great chapters of the Bible for even a king

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Must do righteously. It is a lesson in the equality of justice. I read from the 12th chapter of the second book of Samuel

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And the Lord sent Nathan unto David and he came unto him and said unto him

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There were two men in one city

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the one rich and the one poor

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The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds

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But the poor man had not but one new lamb

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Which he had bought and nourished and it grew up together with him and with his children

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it did eat of his own meat and drank of his own cup and

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Lay in his bosom and was unto him as a daughter and

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They came a traveler unto the rich man and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd

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but took the poor man's one new lamb and

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David's anger was greatly kindled against the man and he said unto Nathan as the Lord liveth the man that hath done this thing shall

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surely die and

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he shall restore the lamb fourfold because he did this thing and because he had no pity and

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Nathan said to David

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Thou art the man

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Thus said the Lord God of Israel

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I anointed thee king over Israel and I delivered the other the hand of Saul and I gave thee thy

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Master's house and thy master's wives into thy bosom and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah

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And if that had been too little I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things

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Wherefore hast thou killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword and has taken his wife to be thy wife

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David said unto Nathan I have sinned against the Lord

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These readings have been from the first and second books of Samuel

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My readings today are about rules of living

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge

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In the book of Ecclesiastes and in the book of Proverbs you'll find a vast storehouse of wisdom

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For today we have brought together the Lord God of Israel and the Lord God of Israel

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The Lord God of Israel has been chosen from the book of Proverbs and chosen from its maxims which are a guide to life

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Happy is the man that findeth wisdom

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Length of days is in her right hand and in her left hand riches and honor

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Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her powers are peace

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She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her and happy is everyone that retaineth her

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The Lord by wisdom have founded the earth by understanding have he established the heavens

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By his knowledge the depths are broken up and the clouds drop down the dew

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My son keep sound wisdom and discretion so shall they be life unto thy soul and grace to thy neck

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Then shall thou walk in thy way safely and thy foot shall not stumble when thou liest down

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Thou shalt not be afraid

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Yea thou shalt lie down and thy sleep shall be sweet

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These are familiar sentences

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Phrases come down to us almost

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With our mother's milk listen now and tell me if these are not words as familiar as speech

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The soft answer turneth away wrath

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But grievous words stir up anger a merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance

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But by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken

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Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith

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Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith

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A wrathful man stirreth up strife

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But he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife

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The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom and before honor is humility

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And before honor is humility only five words, but important words

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Like all things in the book of Proverbs. They disclose new meanings each time you hear them. I

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Read on

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When a man's ways please the Lord he make of even his enemies to peace with him

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Better is the little with righteousness than great revenues without right

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Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall

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Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly than to divide the spoil with the proud

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Pleasant words are as a honeycomb sweet to the soul and health to the bones

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He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleeth his spirit than he had taken the city

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These readings have been from the book of Proverbs