“Glory to the Precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ”

Matthew 18: 21, 22

Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?”

Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen

We, the bride, the church should not fret regarding our people (the church, our brothers).

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in the portion of the Bible that we meditated upon in the past days, we meditated that we, the bride, the church will not be punished by the Lord without any mistakes.

Next what we are meditating upon is that

2 Samuel 14: 1 – 10

So Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was concerned about Absalom. 

And Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman, and said to her, “Please pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel; do not anoint yourself with oil, but act like a woman who has been mourning a long time for the dead. 

Go to the king and speak to him in this manner.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.

And when the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground and prostrated herself, and said, “Help, O king!”

Then the king said to her, “What troubles you?” And she answered, “Indeed I am a widow, my husband is dead. 

Now your maidservant had two sons; and the two fought with each other in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other and killed him. 

And now the whole family has risen up against your maidservant, and they said, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may execute him for the life of his brother whom he killed; and we will destroy the heir also.’ So they would extinguish my ember that is left and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the earth.”

Then the king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you.”

And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord, O king, let the iniquity be on me and on my father’s house, and the king and his throne be guiltless.”

So the king said, “Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you anymore.”

In the above-mentioned verses, what is being said is that Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was concerned about Absalom. And Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman, and said to her, “Please pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel; do not anoint yourself with oil, but act like a woman who has been mourning a long time for the dead. Go to the king and speak to him in this manner.” So Joab put the words in her mouth. And when the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground and prostrated herself, and said, “Help, O king!” Then the king said to her, “What troubles you?” And she answered, “Indeed I am a widow, my husband is dead. Now your maidservant had two sons; and the two fought with each other in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other and killed him. And now the whole family has risen up against your maidservant, and they said, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may execute him for the life of his brother whom he killed; and we will destroy the heir also.’ So they would extinguish my ember that is left and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the earth.” Then the king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you.” And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord, O king, let the iniquity be on me and on my father’s house, and the king and his throne be guiltless.” So the king said, “Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you anymore.”

Then what he told the king was that in

2 Samuel 14: 11 – 17

Then she said, “Please let the king remember the Lord your God, and do not permit the avenger of blood to destroy anymore, lest they destroy my son.” And he said, “As the Lord lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground.”

Therefore the woman said, “Please, let your maidservant speak another word to my lord the king.” And he said, “Say on.”

So the woman said: “Why then have you schemed such a thing against the people of God? For the king speaks this thing as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring his banished one home again. 

For we will surely die and become like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises means, so that His banished ones are not expelled from Him. 

Now therefore, I have come to speak of this thing to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. And your maidservant said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his maidservant. 

For the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from the inheritance of God.’ 

Your maidservant said, ‘The word of my lord the king will now be comforting; for as the angel of God, so is my lord the king in discerning good and evil. And may the Lord your God be with you.’”

When the king understood what that woman was trying to say in the above-mentioned words to the king, that Joab was trying to change the fretting that the king had towards Absalom and so he put the words in the mouth of that woman and sent her. That is, if we do not accept those who have been chased in the world, after we die God will not accept our life with him and if we do not accept what has been chased in that day God thinks about it and we can understand that. Also, the king said to the woman, “Please do not hide from me anything that I ask you.”

Then the king in

2 Samuel 14: 18 – 20

Then the king answered and said to the woman, “Please do not hide from me anything that I ask you.” And the woman said, “Please, let my lord the king speak.”

So the king said, “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 maidservant. 

To bring 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 woman said, “Please, let my lord the king speak.”

The above-mentioned words the king is asking the woman “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” and the woman is telling all the truth. And the king said to Joab, “All right, I have granted this thing. Go therefore, bring back the young man Absalom.” Then Joab in

2 Samuel 14: 22, 23

Then Joab fell to the ground on his face and bowed himself and thanked the king. And Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, O king, in that the king has fulfilled the request of his servant.” 

So Joab arose and went to Geshur and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

The above-mentioned words, Joab according to the word of the king arose and went to Geshur and brought Absalom to Jerusalem. And the king said, “Let him return to his own house, but do not let him see my face.” So Absalom returned to his own house but did not see the king’s face.

My dear people, when we meditate upon the above-mentioned words, whatever each person may do we must not fret regarding any one and we are reading this. The word of God says that if we fret regarding anyone, mainly brothers if we fret about them then the Lord will not unite us along with them. But today also many are fretting and knowingly or unknowingly we are in this manner. Also, the children of God who reading this word of God whomever it may be in our life whoever have done any evil against us, we must not keep it in our mind and be revengeful, but we must leave it, then God in his kingdom he will accept us along with him. If not, God will forsake us. This is because God is forgiving our mistakes, we must also forgive the mistakes of others. But if we do forgive, our heavenly Father will not forgive our mistakes, and this is sure. Regarding this only God is using David and showing us as a pattern. Therefore, my dear people let us confess the mistakes that happened within us and we must fret regarding anyone and let us submit ourselves to safeguard our soul.

Let us pray. May the Lord bless you all abundantly. 

       - To be continued