by Shirley Connolly
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Final Review:
- Discuss different ways in which Christians can avoid unhealthy idleness and damaging boredom.
- Discuss with Group the following verses, their significance to Bathsheba's life, and how those verses might apply to us.
| Isaiah 55:7, Micah 7:18, 1 John 1:9 |
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- Discuss victories you have had during times of temptation.
Final Words:
What might our response be if a king or someone in power ordered us into his "royal court" for the purpose of committing sin against
our husbands? Would we be willing to protest? The Bible tells us in 1 Corinthians 10:13 God always gives us a way of escape. What
other avenue could Bathsheba have taken realizing she was a subject of the king and called to obey his whims? Gien Karssen, in her
book Her Name is Woman, Book 2, stated, "Often in the past David had been open to the advice of other people, whether it came from
a woman such as Abigail or from his other subjects." (Reference: 2 Samuel 18:3-4) When we look at Bathsheba, it helps to remind us
to look at the clear perspective of God and his holiness, and how that should be ever on our minds.
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
 1 Corinthians 10:13 KJV.
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