“Where Is Your Loyalty?”

September 27, 2018

“Where Is Your Loyalty?”

Blessings folk!

Absalom now enters Jerusalem.

David was gone.

But, David was not without sources…as planned…

2 Sa 16:15-19

Then Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, entered Jerusalem,
and Ahithophel with him.

Now it came about when Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, came to Absalom, that Hushai said to Absalom, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”

Absalom said to Hushai,
“Is this your loyalty to your friend?
Why did you not go with your friend?”

Then Hushai said to Absalom,
“No! For whom the LORD, this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen,
his I will be, and with him I will remain.

“Besides, whom should I serve? Should I not serve in the presence of his son?
As I have served in your father’s presence, so I will be in your presence.”

Absalom, all the people and the men of Israel entered Jerusalem.
Ahithophel was with him.

Hushai, David’s friend, came to Absalom and declared “long live the king, long live the king!”

Absalom was uncertain.
He smelled a rat. Happy
He questioned Hushai’s loyalty.
Was he with David?
Was he with him?

Hushai declared “no…whom the Lord, this people and all the men of Israel have chosen, his I will be and with him I will remain?

Absalom would assume Hushai spoke of him.
I suspect Hushai meant David.
Subterfuge was at hand.
Hushai knew that the Lord had chosen David, not Absalom.

Hushai stated that he would serve.
He would serve in the presence of the son - Abaslom - in the same way that he had served in the presence of the father - David.

Of course the question begs to be asked - service who?

Was Hushai serving the Most High God by serving David by advising Absalom?

I think so.

Who do you serve?
For what purpose?

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