II Samuel 13:1-22 – Generational Sin Patterns
The Living Word With Chuck Davis
II Samuel 13:1-22 – Generational Sin Patterns
>> Welcome to The Living Word with Chuck Davis. [MUSIC] >> Second Samuel 13, 1 to 22, generational sin patterns. Now, Absalom, David's son had a beautiful sister whose name was Tamar. After time, Amnon, David's son loved her. Amnon was so torment that he made himself ill because of a sister Tamar. For she was a virgin, and it seemed impossible to Amnon to do anything to her. But Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonah Dab, the son of Shymah, David's brother. And Jonah Dab was a very crafty man. And he said to him, "O son of the king, why are you so haggard, morning after morning? Will you not tell me?" Amnon said to him, "I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister." Jonah Dab said to him, "Ligh down on your bed and pretend to be ill. And when your father comes to see you, say to him, 'Let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it and eat from her hand.' So Amnon laid down and pretended to be ill. And when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, 'Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, that I might eat from her hand.' Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, 'Go to your brother Amnon's house and prepare food for him.' So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house, where he was lying down. And she took dow and needed it and made cakes in his sight and baked the cakes. And she took the pan and emptied it out before him and he refused to eat. And Amnon said, 'Send out everyone from me.' So everyone went out from him. And Amnon said to Tamar, 'Bring the food into the chamber that I may eat from your hand.' And Tamar took the cake she had made and brought them into the chamber of Amnon, her brother. But when she brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of her and said to her, 'Come lie with me, my sister.' She answered him, 'No, my brother, do not violate me, for such a thing is not done in Israel. Do not do this outrageous thing. As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the outrageous fools in Israel. Now, therefore, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.' But he would not listen to her, and being stronger than she, he violated her and lay with her. Then Amnon hated her with very great hatred, so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, 'Get up, go.' But she said to him, 'No, my brother, for this wrong and sending me away is greater than the other that you did to me.' But he would not listen to her. He called the young man who served him and said, 'Put this woman out of my presence and bolt the door after her.' Now she was wearing a long robe of sleeves, for thus were the virgin daughters of the king dressed. So his servant put her out and bolted the door after her. And Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore the long robe that she wore. And she laid her hand on her head and went away crying aloud as she went. Her brother Absalom said to her, 'Has Amnon your brother been with you? Now hold your peace, my sister. He is your brother. Do not take this to heart.' So Tamar lived a desolate woman in her brother Absalom's house. And King David heard of all these things, he was very angry. But Absalom spoke to Amnon, neither good nor bad, for Absalom hated Amnon because he had violated his sister Tamar. Interesting account of Amnon and Tamar in the middle of the David story. This guy is sick in love. He has a soul that's been made sick out of his lust more than love. He feigns physical illness, calls Tamar in, and he takes the advice of this aid, Jonah Deb, in the process Tamar tries to reason with him, but Amnon overpowers her. He gets what he wants, but then all of a sudden he realizes this is not what he wanted. And the scripture says that he hated her more than he loved her from before. He sends her way, bolts the door shut, Tamar again tries to reason with him, don't do this. The signs of grief that she bears is that she puts ashes on and she rips off the sleeves that symbolize her as a virgin. Sadly, the sin goes untreated. We are told in this text that Absalom was very angry, David is angry as well, Tamar is desolate. She can't believe this has happened to her. But David in his anger is passive. He had put his family at risk in the greedy taking of Uriah's wife. He's going to extend this now and being passive towards generational sin patterns that are beginning to develop. So what of this passage is a reminder that burying sin is dangerous. The story of Tamar makes us go back in the biblical record to another Tamar. Remember the story of Judah and Tamar. She is to experience the Kinsman Redeemer principle from Judah's family, but he fails on that as several of his sons die when they marry her. She plays the role of a prostitute, fakes Judah out, keeps his ring as a means of exposing him. We see that sin can't get buried. It will eventually come out in some way. It's sad in this text too that we get to see what happens to a person when they get their lust or their greed. It's disappointing usually. It's amazing how strong the initial attraction is. And when the sin finally comes upon us, the disgust that we feel afterwards. The now what of this passage is to deal with buried sins. We need to root them up. We need to confess them or at the worst times they will implode upon us. Things will go from bad to worse. We're going to see David go into a period of about seven years of consequences of his own sin, but then not dealing with this sin. So Holy Spirit, we give you permission. In fact, we long for you to shine the light within our soul to see if there's any buried sin within us. We want it rooted out so that what is planted in us, what we sow will reap good fruit in the days ahead. We pray this in Jesus' name. [BLANK_AUDIO]