Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kay and I'm recording this on Sunday, May 14, 2023. Welcome and happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there. God bless each and every one of you. Amen. Welcome. This message is called Give It to God, Psalm 3. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We ask that our ears are open, our eyes are open, that we could see and hear your word, and that our hearts and minds are open, that we receive, apply, live it, and don't forget it. Lord, thank you for your word to live within us. And thank you for your son, Jesus. Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for our sins. And thank you for showing us how to give it to you and to be blessed and saved because we gave it to you in the glorious name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. Let's go to our opening scripture here. Very excited about this message. First, I taught a brief version of this Tuesday night at Empower Hour. It is a women's Bible study on Tuesday night, 6:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time at Bundy Canyon Christian Church. Now, we do it online through Zoom. So, if you're interested, it's anyone in the world can join. It's 600 PM Pacific Standard Time. send me um your contact information and um through the House of Faith Ministries website and uh send me your email address. We'll send you the link to the Zoom and you can join us. It is wonderful. It's something blessed by and I truly enjoy it. So, I taught this there Tuesday night. Um basically gave everyone some homework. So, we're going to elaborate further on those scriptures in this message because I can go a little longer here. And um you know, as you know, we're getting ready to move out of state. So, this is something I plan to continue to be blessed with and continue to delve into on Tuesday nights with this church here. It's a beautiful gem of a church. If you're in the local area, this is something you want to come and see. They God's anointing is there is there is awesome. I truly enjoy it. All right, let's go to our opening scripture here. We're going to start in the very first two scriptures of Psalm 3 1-2. David is writing and he says, "Lord, how they have increased who trouble me. Many are they who rise up against me. Many are they who say of me. There is no help for him in God. Sah." All right. So, let's lay some foundation work here because to understand this psalm and to understand what David said in this psalm, why he said it, we have to go back and look at the situation that he's in at this moment. Because I'm going to tell you right now, that's the thing is there's people here who are not really grasping the situation that David is in. He is in a very remarkable situation because we deal with family dynamics. uh each of us have brothers and sisters, aunts, uncles, parents, children. We all have to deal with our personalities that tend to clash in the family dynamics. So, you're going to see what David does here and you're going to see the deliverance, the salvation take place. It is truly an awesome message that I'm It's worth teaching twice. Amen. All right. So, we're going to go back to 2 Samuel here because we want to go back to what David is dealing with. So, we need to go to 2 Samuel chapter 13. We're going to start here in verses 37-39. But Abselam fled and went to Talmi, the son of Amihood, king of Geisher, and David mourned for his son every day. I want to pause there. So, Abselam is David's thirdborn son. And his mother's name is Maaka. Sorry, I may have butchered that. I humbly apologize. Uh, but basically, um, here's this young man, Absilon. Actually, a very handsome man. Apparently, he had some thick, gorgeous hair that all the women went after. Um, apparently he had it cut once a year and it weighed about 200 shekels. I don't know what that means, but I know that it was heavy. He had to have it cut every year because it was heavy. But you know us girls, we like a good head of hair and we all wish we had it in our own hair. Amen. Anyway, so here's Abselam. He is doing something that something happened here. So David's got many wives. He's got all these children. They're stepchildren, step halfiss, half sisters, half brothers. And uh he Abselon ends up killing one of David's other sons named Amnan. Amnan had an infatuation with his sister Tamar. Uh he was so in love with her he ends up raping her. Uh he ends up u then hating her viciously. And Abselum was just so hurt by the situation that he went and killed his brother Amnan. And he figured out a way to do it. He leaves the family. He goes away. He's fleeting. That's the scripture we're in right now. Eventually, when Abselon has his own children, excuse me, I'm getting over a cold. When he starts to have his own children, one of his daughters he names Tamar. So, she he you can tell there was something there that Abselon loved his sister and he hated his brother. He went and killed him. So, here he is fleeting fleeing. Let's go take a look at the scripture. And I pray, Lord, let my speech come out eloquently. Let's do this right. Amen. All right, let's do this. Um, so Abselum, but Abselum fled and went to Talmi, the son of Amihood, king of Gisher. And David more mourned for his son every day. That's his son Amnan he's referring to. So Abselum fled and went to Gisher and was there three years. And King David longed to go to Abselum for he had been comforted concerning Amnan because he was dead. So basically David has moved on from the death of his son Amnan. he really wanted to have um a restoration between him and Abselum. And a lot of time goes by and there's there's this dynamics now where you've got a father and a son who just don't come together in forgiveness. And you're going to see that play a huge role here. It changes the dynamics of everything. Let's continue on. We're going to be now in chapter 14. We're going to read verses 19- 21. So the king said, "Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?" All right, let's pause here for a moment. So Joab sees what's going on between David and Abselum. So Joab decides to try to make an effort. He gets Abselum. He brings him back to the city and basically David refuses to go see him. So that's what's going on here. So Abselon sends this woman to David and she ends up talking about two sons that she had. One kills the other. Now the justice system is trying to kill the other son and she's like, "I'm not going to have an inheritance." She goes to David about this. So David says, "I promise you we're not going to kill your other son." And she speaks up. Now let's look at what and and notice the king, by the way, is going to figure out Joab was involved with this. So this is the king now figuring out what's going on. David's figuring out. So he says to the king, "Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?" And the woman answered and said, "As you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken. For your servant Joab commanded me," and he put all these words in the mouth of your servant to bring this about this change of affairs. Your servant Joab has done this thing. But my lord is wise according to the wisdom of the angel of God to know everything that is in the earth." And the king said to Job, "All right, I have granted this thing. Go therefore bring back the young man Abselum. So now he gives him back. But you're going to find here he refuses to see him. David, King David refuses to see him. Look, look at here. David, as much as he's the apple of God's eye, he's got a lot of issues. I mean, he had an affair with Basheba and God and then kills her husband because now she's about to have a child that's his and he actually murders someone. So, David's got issues, but God keeps blessing him. I really want you guys to see that. You know, it doesn't matter who you are. As long as you believe in Christ and you keep giving it to the Lord and just keep seeking the presence of the Lord, your humanity does define you, but Jesus over impressions that he he overcomes that and you get change as you mature. And you're going to see David go through this maturity level here when he forgives Abselon. This is truly amazing. This is so remarkable that you have to understand that the spirit of God is involved with this. This is not a human thing. Okay? Want you to understand that. All right. Let's go look. Joab goes to bring back uh Abselon. This is in 14:23. So Joab arose and went to Gher and brought Abselon to Jerusalem. And the king said, "Let him return to his own house, but do not let him see my face." So Abselon returned to his house, but did not see the king's face. you will find that David refuses him for three years. So David is like, "All right, you can bring him back. I'm not going to kill the kid." Okay, he he but he he's not going to forgive him either. Now, unforgiveness causes death in the long term. You hold on to unforgiveness, you hold on to bitterness, you will eventually die of some sort of cancer, blood disease or something because you were unforgi you could not forgive. You see, Jesus forgave you of your sins. He forgave me of my sins. And if he can forgive us, as long as you forgive others, he will forgive you as well. Let it go. Give it to God. You're going to see how we do that here very shortly. Let's continue on and see the transactions that you can see now we have this um unresolved relationship between David and Abselum. And now you're going to see how it blows out of proportion. Let's continue on and see their lives and what happens here. Now we're in verses 25 and 26 in chapter 14. And this is 2 Samuel we're still in. Now in all Israel there was no one who praised as much as Abselon for his good looks. From the sole of his foot to the crown of his head, there was no blemish in him. And when he cut the hair of his head, at the end of every year, he cut it because it was heavy on him. When he cut it, he weighed the hair of his head at 200 shekels according to the king's standard. So, very beautiful young man. All the women loved him. The people loved him. He's the son of the king. He's got a lot of favors and blessings going his way. Look at what happens here. This is now verse 33. So Joab went to the king and told him and when he had called for Abselon, he came to the king and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king. Then the king kissed Abselon. So eventually three years go by. You can go read the in between verses here. Otherwise, if I read all of it, the time we've really run out of time, but basically Abselum gets frustrated. He's in Jerusalem. He is waiting there. Three years go by. His dad won't see him. So he Joab had a field next to where Abselon was staying. And so Abselon burns Joab's field. Job goes, "Why'd you do that?" And Abselon says, "You brought me here. You got to get my dad to see me." And so this dynamic is going on. And here Joab is playing a third party role in here. And so now finally Joab convinces David to see his son. His son sees him and kisses him. But notice there's still no resolution. What else happened? Where did this go? Let's go to chapter 15:es 1-6. Look at this. After this, it happened that Abselum provided himself with chariots and horses and 50 men to run before him. So Abselum is welcomed back into the city. He's welcomed back into the kingdom. He is the prince's son, the the king's son, a prince, and he has an inheritance, but he decides to do something here. So, let's look at what he decides to do. Because now you're going to see the heart of Absilon. You're going to see what this guy is really like on the inside. He might look good on the outside, ladies, but sometimes we got to go for the other ones because man, the heart on the inside is what the heart is. In this case, it's not very pretty. 50 men to run before. In verse two, now Abselum would rise early and stand beside the way to the gate. So it was whenever anyone who had a lawsuit came to the king for a decision that Abselon would call to him and say what city are you from and he would say your servant is from such and such tribe of Israel. Then Abselon would say to him look your case is good and right but there is no deputy of the king to hear you. Moreover Abselon would say oh that I were made judge in the land and everyone who has any suit or cause would come to me. that I would give him justice. And so it was whenever anyone came near to bow down to him that he would put out his hand and take him and kiss him. In this manner, Abselom acted toward all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Abselom stole the hearts of the men of Israel. Now, just so you understand what's going on here, people would come up to the gate and they would be allowed in to bring their case to the king. The king was the judge. He's the acting judge. He's the one who made all the decisions for the people's cases. And Abselum decided to intervene, bring it on himself. Now, you know, I'm sure they told David and I'm sure he's looking at this going maybe this is uh he's my son. He could be the future king here. Maybe he needs to learn it. Let him do it. So, there's now this dynamic that's happening. Absalom is basically saying, "I'll take care of your case. I scratch your back, you scratch mine. Quit proquo." So now the people are falling for Absilon. They They have a thing for him. They are realizing, "Hey, he's got a lot of potential. Future king on our hands." H I wonder what that means. I mean, let let's think about this for a minute. Is there anything wrong with that? He took the role of a functioning king, limited the role to the king and brought it to himself to the people like a deceiver would come in between God and the Christian who trust in God. Think about that for a moment. When deception comes in, it's so subtle and yet this this was very subtle. So subtle that 40 years go by and nobody realized what's going on. Let's continue. Let's read. Let's find out what else is going on in the king's life and in this prince's life. So now verses seven and 8. Now it came to pass after 40 years that Abselon said to the king, "Please let me go to Hebron Hebron and pay the vow which I made to the Lord. For your servant took a vow while I dwelt at Gisher in Syria, saying, "If the Lord indeed brings me back to Jerusalem, then I will serve the Lord." Pause. We know that the scriptures are complete and they tell the truth. And you can find this in in Chronicles and in Samuel. You'll find that you've got man's version and you've got God's version written here. I will tell you this much. Abselon did not make that kind of a vow 40 years earlier when he was in Geisher. He did not. How do I know this? Because this is the first time you're hearing of it 40 years later. Almost as if it magically just appeared in his mind that, oh wait, I did talk to God. I made a vow to him. And he ends up believing it. And now he's saying to his father, let me go to Hebron. By the way, where did King David rule first? in Hebron. Do you see what the enemy is sneaking in to do now? He's been, you know, and David is the acting gobetween between God and his people. He's the one that has the in between. And so the people are blessed because David is blessed because David's going to God. So people go to David. David goes to God. God goes to David. David comes to the people. Now Abselum is skipping the God part. So you have a godly people and you have an ungodly people and you can see a line of division taking place. So now Abselum is ready to make his move. He thinks he has enough people on his side. Let's continue on and read what else happens here. It's very important. Now we're in verses 10 and 11 chapter 15. Then Abselon sent then Abselum sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel saying as soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet. Then you shall say Abselum reigns in Hebron. And with Abselum went 200 men invited from Jerusalem. And they went along innocently and did not know anything. Oh, look at how subtle his dark secret comes out in the word of God, doesn't it? So now he's declaring himself as king in Hebron when the nation of Israel already has a king and they're all united under David. So let's see what happens because now we're going to figure out what's going on. So now a messenger, this is verses 13 and 14. Now a messenger came to David saying the hearts of the men of Israel are with Abselum. So David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, "Arise and let us flee, or we shall not escape from Abselum, make haste to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly and bring disaster upon us and strike the city with the edge of the sword." Okay, this is very, very important. David has more people on his side. The nation is for him. If he stood up and made a stand, the people would stand for him and they will overcome Abselum. But David didn't make that decision. He decides to leave Abselon alone and step aside. That's crazy. But you have to understand David. David David has a very interesting history throughout the Bible. He's the most spoke about king in the Bible. And he he had the opportunity to kill King Saul twice. I mean, he was at the foot of King Saul, and David said, "I ain't messing with God's anointed." You see, David understood who God is. Even when he uh had the affair with Basheba, they killed her husband Uriah, God took that baby and took him home. Didn't let David and Basheba raise him. For whatever reason, God took him. But David begged and begged and begged. God said no. David already understood that his son that he didn't get to know and didn't get to raise was in God's hands. A much better place for the record. So David now sees his other son who's now grown. He's his own man trying to take over the kingdom. And instead of causing death and destruction between the two houses, he decides to let him be and he's going to let God deal with it. He is doing this because he doesn't want anyone else to die. It is an internal family matter. Yes, it does affect the whole nation because he is king. But at the same time, everyone who serves him follows him and he knows what God can do. So David decides to flee. Now in Psalm when we read verses 1 and two, we're going to get back to that here in just a moment. David begins a journey. He leaves Abselum. He decides to step aside and he goes on a journey and things come out of the woodworks. Let's go take a glimpse of that right here. We're now in chapter 16:es 5-8. Now when King David came to Bahurim, there was a man from the family of the house of Saul. Now remember, he didn't kill King Saul, he had the opportunity to, but King Saul died in war. An arrow hit him and then his armor bearer took his life. That's how King Saul died. Now look at what this guy who is a descendant of him whose name was Sheime the son of Ger coming from there he came out cursing continuously as he came there was a man from the family of the house of Saul yeah so he's part of the house I don't know if he's actually a family member ancestor might just be somebody who supported King Saul's family not sure again you can delve into these scriptures and and learn about this on your own. This message is already long as it is, so I'm trying to keep things as brief as I could. But whose name was Shimmy, the son of Garrett, coming from there, he came out cursing continuously as he came. He threw stones at David. And all the servants of King David, and all the people, and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left. And Shimmy said thus when he cursed, "Come out! Come out, you bloodthirsty man, you rogue. The Lord has brought upon you all the blood of the house of Saul in whose place you have reigned. And the Lord has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Abselum, your son. So now you are caught in your own evil because you are a bloodthirsty man. Here comes all the curses. So you can see now that now that people are getting more bold because Absilon has declared himself king of Hebron people are now looking they're thinking maybe we do need a new king somebody fresh young uh sounds attractive he's he did this for me did you know that and you know all the rumors are flying and David doesn't say anything he just steps aside. Look at what happens here next. If I recall, um, and David, so Aishi and all his servants, see how my son who came from my own body, he's talking now. David is talking to Aishai in his servants. See how my son who came from my own body seeks my life. How much more now may this Benjamite basically this guy, what's his name again? Abishai. He says to David prior to these scriptures, "You want me to go chop his head off?" By the way, David's army is the most remarkable army I have ever recognized. Um, they are men of God, but they are men of war. They're bloodthirsty men. They truly are. They They would rather kill you and apologize later than to question you and find out what's going on. So this guy says to David, "You want me to go chop his head off?" He did ask. At least Joab doesn't. You're going to find out about Joab here in a little bit. Joab doesn't ask. Joab is really one of those that uh I think modern day CEOs would love to have him because he would get things done. But anyways, he's asking Dave, "You want me to go chop his head off?" Here's David's response. He says, "He seeks my life. How much more now this Benjamin let him alone and let him curse? For so the Lord has ordered him. You notice this? He's recognizing that God's in control here. And the Lord ordered this guy to curse him. And he's recognizing this. Wait a minute. I'm getting cursed by my friends, by the doctors, by my work, by the road. All these people flipping their fingers off. I mean, all I am is doing. I'm in my lane. They're the ones who crossed over into my lane. Blah blah blah blah. that all these curses are coming along and David says the Lord ordered him.

There's a whole different way of thinking here, isn't there? Look at David. Look at this man of God. Look at this. Let him curse for the Lord has ordered him. It may be that the Lord will look on my affliction and that the Lord will repay me with good for his cursing this day. There's something David understood here. You see, remember, he didn't kill King Saul because he says, "I'm not messing with God's anointed." He knew King David knew he's God's anointed. He's the king of the nation of Israel. He was established. Samuel anointed him. He knew this was his kingdom. Even though he stepped aside, he knew he was on God's side. So, he steps aside saying, "Let him curse." Cuz he knew that curse was going to bounce off of him and go back to him. And which then he also knew then that means I'm gonna be blessed for it. Let them curse. What you're gonna find out here at the end of Psalm here in just a minute how they don't have a bite. Let them curse. It means nothing as long as you're God's anointed. You come before God. You humble yourself before God and you don't curse back. Look at what David is showing us. Showing us this. let it go. Give it to God attitude in his life in the actual circumstance he's dealing with. And we're talking life and death here. Because if his son had enough people, they would come after him and they're going to kill him. He This is life and death. But instead, he says, "Let him curse. Let him curse." So, let's go back to Psalm three real quick because I want you to know, now you see David where he is. You got his son who's got now a small following. You've got him on his journey and these guys are cursing him. Excuse me. Cursing him. He gets up to the top of this mountain. He's got his hood on, his robe on and he's coming to God and he's praying. Watch. Let's look at all the stuff. So first saying, he talks about all the people coming out of the woodworks. It's what we read earlier. Lord, how they have increased who trouble me. Many are they who rise up against me. Many are they who say of me, there is no help for him in God. Look at that Benjamite that came out that was of Saul. He came out and tell him, you know what? This is God removing you. You see that? I mean, how does this Benjamite doesn't know that? But here, David is saying, here they all come, Lord. Here they come. He's talking to God. He's speaking. You need to speak, Lord. And you put Lord Jesus over your circumstance, and salvation takes place. Watch this. Let's continue on verse three. But you, oh Lord, are a shield for me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head. Now imagine, put put yourself in David's shoes, which you probably can. You've got your family members, not all of them get along, even parents to children. You have grandparents. There the dynamics of the family situation in the world today is horrific. There are very few families that hold it together, but there there are there's some there. It's just that there's not very many. So then you have those you've got your work. You've got our whole economy. You got our presidency. You got our government. The way things are going. I mean, all hell's breaking loose. Your head is weary. It is down. But you say, "Lord,

Lord Jesus." Oh, look what happens when David does this. I cried to the Lord with my voice and he heard me from his holy hill sa I laid down and slept. I awoke for the Lord sustained me. He cried. His head was weary. He had it down on his table or on his pillow. He was curled up in a ball and he's crying Lord and he knew that Lord heard him heard him and he slept. Remember Jesus the Sea of Galilee on the ship and it's being battered by a storm and the the people on board are like what are you doing sleeping? We're about to die. Jesus is like, "I'm at peace. What are you talking about?" And he tells the storm to stop. He spoke to the storm. David spoke to God. Both actions required speaking. Could David have spoken to his son? To the people? Sure. But he went to God, which was the better way to handle this. Jesus is the son of God. So Jesus, he heard his people on that ship come to him. Aren't you even afraid? Because they're now talking to him. They spoke. Lord, aren't you afraid? They spoke. You know, you can go to God and say, you know what, Lord, I'm scared of this situation. I don't know what's going on. I know you're there. You haven't moved. I see you sleeping, but wake up because I need you. Jesus woke up and he spoke because you went to him. cuz you spoke. Oh, you guys got to give it and you give it to the Lord. You let it go. David had deliverance. If you ever go into the deliverance ministry, the one thing you will see and know and understand is people weep. They break on the inside and they let it go. That's exactly what David did. And he slept. Then he awoke and he says, "The Lord sustained me." Let's continue. Look at this. I lay down and I slept. I woke for the Lord sustained me. And then look at this. I will not be afraid of 10 thousands of people who have set themselves around me. Look at this here. He was weary. He was his head was so heavy. He he he was broken on the inside. But he called on God. Now his spirit man on the inside all of a sudden got strength, holiness, and says, "I'm not going to be afraid of these 10,000 people." For the record, he had more people than Abselum anyways. And his men were seasoned men who killed. David just said the commandment, they did it. So he outnumbered them. He outmanned them in the sense of these are men that were seasoned warriors. So David had this one, but at the same time here he is before the Lord crying to the Lord cuz he couldn't see it. Part of it is this is his son and he's realizing God is probably going to take my son away. But remember David had already learned the lesson about this. I think I'm going to teach on this next time.

God has a place for people after death. And David understood this. I'm just going to say that here for now because I want to teach on that in more depth with a lot more scripture. But I'm telling you here and now. David knew the God he served. He knew what he had done already with his one son. He knew he would take care of his second son. He knew David now was at peace and he knew what would take place. All right. So now let's go back to Abselon because now Abselon is attempting to maneuver the army, go after David. He's attempting to do this. Let's go look and see the scriptures that talk about this. So here is we're in chapter 18. We're going to read verses 9-1 15. Then Abselum met the servants of David. So they're kind of having a like a talk about what they're going to do and come up with this. So here Abselon's meeting with the servants of David and Abselon rode on a mule. Now this mule went under the thick bows of a great terabin tree and his head, this is Abselon's head, got caught in the terabin. So he was left hanging between heaven and earth. And the mule which was under him went on. So the mule kept going and that thick luscious head of hair ladies got stuck in the tree and he couldn't get himself out and he was hanging there. He was stuck.

That's a God thing. Yeah. I'm just saying. Think of Hollywood. They trip up and get lost in their own beauty. What they think is beauty. And here the Lord got Abselon hanging here on a tree. Now let's continue. I want to read this. Now a certain man, verse 10. Now a certain man saw it and told Joab and said, I just saw Abselon hanging in a terabith tree. I don't mean to laugh, but at the same time, that's funny because, you know, this this guy's like, he sees him there. He doesn't know what to do, but he's like, I'm not touching him. You see, this is a guy that follows David and knows, don't touch God's anointed. Not that this guy's anointed. He's the son of the king. So, he's like, I'm not touching David's son. But he's telling Joab, remember I told you about Joab, told you about these people, this man especially, he likes to kill and then apologize later. Let's read the scripture. So Joab said to the man who told him, "You just saw him and why did you not strike him there to the ground? I would have given you 10 shekels of silver in a belt." But the man said to Job, "Though I were to receive a thousand shekels of silver in my hand, I would not raise my hand against the king's son. For in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and it saying beware lest anyone touch the young man Amselon. So David already warned him don't you dare kill him. Don't you dare do it. And look what happens here. Otherwise I would have dealt falsely against my own life because this man is still talking to Joab. And for there is nothing hidden from the king and you yourself would have set yourself against me. In other words, what he's saying is, "If I had killed him, you would have killed me." Simple as that. So, look what Joab responds with. Then Joab said, "I cannot linger with you." And he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through Abselum's heart while he was still alive in the midst of the Terabin tree. And 10 young men who bore Joab's armor surrounded Abselum and struck and killed him. Apologize later. Kill him now. So Joab took matters into his own hand. Remember though, let's take a look at potential scenarios here. You you got to understand this. Absolum hung there for who how long? So this guy sees him. He has to leave, go see Joab, which is probably over a hill. Could have taken 15 minutes, half an hour, maybe an hour. Then you know they had their little argument and Joab has to come back to kill him. So it's a potential hour there that this guy hung.

Did this guy Abselum call on God? He had plenty of opportunity. God put him in a in a situation where no one could help him unless he reached out to God. And Abselum did not reach out to God.

You don't repent. You don't come to God. you don't give up your unforgiveness, you will die. Whether it's in a tree with your hair or through cancer or blood disease, all because of unforgiveness, because of bitterness or desire. Maybe he really wanted to be king and figured now's my time to become king. Whatever the motive was, he was unrepentive, which tells me if you repent, you will live a long and blessing of a life. Why? Because that's what God does. He blesses his anointed. You repent, you become his anointed. Understand that. Grasp that. Let's go back to Psalm 3 now and see what else David says about this because I want you to see the conclusion of the matter. Because now again, he loses a son. But watch verse 7. Arise, O Lord, save me, oh my God, for you have struck all my enemies on the cheekbone. You have broken the teeth of the ungodly. Now I'm going to stop. David felt the pressure of the situation he was in. Now remember, he's the one who fled. He stepped aside. He decided to let God handle the situation. But David felt the pressure because how many people came out of the woodworks to vote for Abselum, live for Abselum, curse him at the same time. So he felt the pressure. He had a bite on his arm. It hurt. The pressure was there, but God kicked the teeth out of their mouth. And guess what? They were gumming him in the spirit. They could not break through him because they had no teeth. They had no cheekbone, no strength in their mouth. It was just gummy. There was no real danger of any real pressure of being killed or anything for David. It was not there. felt like it because there was pressure there. But you know how many times you play with a kitten or a puppy and they bite, but they don't have the fully formed teeth. They're they're it doesn't hurt. It doesn't break your skin. It's just a little pressure. It's cute. Do you see what David is acknowledging here? He is telling you that you all hell's broken loose. But he went to God. He said, "Lord, and now he says the Lord took their bite." They have no bite. They can only gum you. And even gumming, depending how how much of a bite they try to take, they can't get a whole lot with just gumming you. That goes to show how ineffective the enemy is against a believer in God who says, "Lord, say it. Speak it." Look what happens next. The last verse here in Psalm three verse eight salvation belongs to the Lord. Your blessing is upon your people. Say salvation being saved. You're saved to this situation. And guess what? He David is acknowledging that you want to get saved that belongs to the Lord. Don't try to save yourself. Go to God and he will save you. It belongs to the Lord. Oh, and then your blessing is upon your people. And then the blessings pour out on his people. All those people that chose to follow Abselum, they disappeared quickly, pledged faltty to King David, and the nation came back together. There was never though any resolution of forgiveness between David and Abselum. And I'm sure David's preference, by the way, would have been that. But he had to give it to the Lord because that unforgiveness had fettered festered, excuse me, for 40 years. God knew the hardness of the heart. He knew the condition of the heart of Abselum. But David trusted God enough to know that even if you take him, he belongs to you, not me. Even though he's my son, he belongs to you. And what you choose to do with him, I know that when I will be in your presence, cuz someday we will all be in the presence of the Lord eventually. We will be comforted and at peace because we can trust in the Lord with what happens after death. Can't see it now, but we'll know when we get there. What a powerful word of God. Let it go. Give it up. Give it to the Lord and say, "Lord, you take care of this." Imagine saying that over your family members, over your finances, over your body, your health. So, you swell up. tell God he's Lord of Jesus over your inflamed body or um swollen body. You know, as we age, these are the things that we have to deal with as we age. But if you put the Lord first, he takes good care of it. Amen. Amen. Amen. Give it to the Lord. Let it go. And watch God's salvation work in your life. He will move mountains. He will move the desert. He will move everything to make certain that he blesses you because you gave it to him. Imagine if everyone was doing that. Oh my goodness. What kind of world would we be living in? Huh? Oh, anyways, this is an awesome message. Let's close in a word of f in a word of prayer. Father God, thank you for your blessing and your anointing in your word. And we thank you and I I pray that people hear this, respond and receive and and walk in it, Father God. letting go of their unforgiveness, letting go of their pain and suffering and saying, "Lord, you are Lord Jesus over this." And I give it to you. And I pray, Lord, that you walk in the principle of your word, which I know you are honorable and faithful to do so. And then I look forward to seeing people's lives changed because they said, "Lord, thank you for your word, Father God, in the glorious name of Jesus." Amen. Amen. God bless you. Happy Mother's Day again. I will see you in the next video. Bye-bye.