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1TIRRNATIONAL 13e8SON M1ENTS FOR NOVEMBER :A Subject: A bsalon lRebels Agahist David, 2 Sam. 15-Golden Text, Ex. 20:12-Commit Verses 5,'0 -Read 2 Sam. Chs. 13, 16. TIMI.-1026-1022 U. C. -PLACE. &---Jeruisa lem. EXPOSITION.-T. Absalom's In. trigu'ing, 1-6. An appropriate Golden Text for this lesson would be Gal. 6:7. T)avid was sijmply reapinj v.hat lie l:i sown. Though God hat fully forgIven David's sin, I)avid diu not on that acemtoiit escape the natural con 'quences of his sin. God had told him at the time tht the sword should !Ivvr (imat from, his house, and that t!, :votild raise up ovil for him out of his own house (2 Sam. 12:9-12). Seven years had elapsed since David's sin. )avid's dlaughter had been dis honored, one son had been murdered, and another was the murderer. Ab se.lom had only b'en embittered by his banishment from the king's pres ence. and his restoration to favor had not helped matters in the least. He was one of thos' incorrigibles that is helped by roilther severity nor by kindness, a thoroughly self-centered man. 111rilliant but without charac ter, a far more dangerous and des. picable man than the ordinary des perado. Absalom's first step in an nouncing himself as a candidate to the throne was by riding in a state that David himself did not affect (cf. 1 K. 1:33 and 1:5). It was expressly forbidden by God (D. 17:16; 1 Sam. 8:11). Many would be pleased by Absalom's departure from the sim 'plicity of his fathqr. Absalom .dis played diligence in seeking to steal his father's throne. So did Christ's -enemies in their iflots against Him (Matt. 27:1). There is no one more ,liligent than the devil. The Hebrew of v. 2 indientes that Absalom "was of rising ear)y." It I if Christians were as uaking the throne that them. Absalom sought the discontented, the uisual practice of politicians. Indeed, all the methods of Absalom are much In vogue to-day. He utterly misrep resented the facts about his father's administration (cf. ch. 8:15). He was guilty of three sins, of (1) Not 'honoring his father (Ex. 20:12). (2) -Sneaking evil of the ruler of his peo ple (Acts 23:5; Ex.. 22:28). (3) Bearing false witness (Ex. 20:16). These are all common sins to-day. Absalom deftly suggested that if only 'be were in power everything would be all right. In earlier days David had been a man of genial spirit,-but In later days he seems to have drawn Into his shell. Perhags the memory of his sin and its consequences was responsible for this. Absalom prac ticed his art on "all that came to the king for Judgment." H-e succeeded for the time, he "Atole the hearts of the men of Israel." But it was David himself who had undermined the power of law and loyalty in the king doi. le had 'opened the way for the people to transfer their ::ffections to another by himself stealing the heart of another man's wife. Any man that commits the sin that David did is sure to lose men's esteem. 11. Absaloml's Conspir,acy, 7..12. It 'uay be that the forty years of v. '7 refers to the years of David's reign, but it is more likely that it 'should read "four" (see Ri. V. Marg.) and re fers to the years of Ahsalom's in triguing. If Ahl'om had made such a VOW as he prete'nded (vs. 7, 8) b had been at least six years indifferent to It. Quite strange that he should wake up to it so su(ddenly'. Many men wVake up to their religious obligations when they have some endl to gain by doing so. David seems to have lost his grip, or he would have suspected something in the light of what was going on. Nothing so soon robs a man of his grasp of practical affairs' as the entrance of sin into his life. It is not likely that Absalom had ever made such a vow. If he had he had not kept it. and he was not keeping it wow. Absalom next hired sorte sho:ters and( trumpmeters. This, too, is a favorite method of modern poll-. ticiar R. Them mass of men are quite easily carried by a hurrah. 1Dven Biblical crities sometimes -adopt the same methods. H-e chose Hebron ad the centre of operations because of its sacred mnemuorie.s (chi. 2:1, 11; 8:2, 3; 5:5). A bsalom tried to make it apipear' that all the best men were on his side, by taking with him 20'0 who had no knowled(ge of what was going on. it is always wise when one gets invitaons from such men as.Absatom to look into them before accepting them. Many a fool&h- one is caught in t,his way. Ahithophel was Absa loin'a chief adviser. The woman whom David had wronged was his grand-daugter. (ch. 11:3; ef. ch. 23:34). David felt' no other defec. onSO keenly as .his (P~s. 41:9;. ~5:12-14). But again he was reap' l ag only what he had solved.- Absa -J.om, like many another unmitigated / Scoundrel, observed Carefully *4Ww'rd religious rites (V. 1; cf. Nu-. 2 14 30, 1 K. 21:9,--1). "The colIsDf 0c was strong" Absalom's follower* *erd 'continually incoreasing. 'The y p90)1 . were saying of David1 "Ther a .help for him in G' (?s. 8:1,g) yid was niotdoee of o Abis arkeMs boul'(Ps.St , 'left God out il a utter' failure SAt brings -!bk ito.to pogr,, sore, %Va~ ,Wlth bIt a f9 exter p t Who is so ignorant kno Df.i Mitchell's famo ej4 dive ,04 "here. Price 25 A ndle lights others and tnes - i4self.-Dutch. HAD mozE3IA Xs rZAB*. Mrs. Thomas Th'om pe 6f Olarkmovill Oft.. writes, uvd,er d*eQt &"1l , IfI:OI Auffered 15 yonrs with tormenting eosema; bad the best doctors to Pfescribo; but. noth ing did me as&y.good until I gtjt.VXTr31y1L Is cured me. I am so itakful." Thousands of others can ttify simila oures. TaTTau4 I*. sold -by duggists -e 2"nt b mail for 50e. by J. T. bmup-raumm, Dept. , Savannah. Ga. What wil the American heii-ess do for excitement and amusement when she has bought up all the titles in Europe. BoWS This? 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