The Consequences of Not Trusting God (Video) — David Wilkerson

The Consequences of Not Trusting God

I'll talk to you about tonight about the consequences of not trusting God. The consequences of not trusting God. I want you to keep your Bible open to the 12th chapter of Genesis. Genesis the 12th chapter and leave it open on your lap.

Please at Times Square Church from now on will not say if you have your Bibles. Because we know you have your Bibles chapter 12 just leave it there because that's where I'm going to be preaching from.

Tonight the consequences of not trusting God. Lord it's been a good day. It's been a wonderful day in your presence. I give you. Thanks. We give you. Thanks Holy Spirit now we come to the word. How we love your word?

How we yearn for your word to change us and to mold us into your image. Jesus. Lord, there's nothing. Nothing that touches us more than your word. Jesus you are the word. This is the living Christ. We glorify you Lord.

We magnify you tonight, and I acknowledge my need of your anointing. I can't preach this in my own strength or power. I give it to you Lord. We take authority over every demon power of her prince of pot and power of darkness.

We pray Lord you give us a hearing ear and let this word flow out of my heart as you caused it to flow into my heart. Sanctify this vessel. I pray in Jesus name. Amen, I'm gonna make a statement that may offend some of you, but I believe it to be the truth.

An Untrusting Generation in a Time of Crisis

With all the talk today about faith and all the books and the tapes the teaching and the preaching. I Believe this is one of the most untrusting generations of all time with all our Training books everything we have preached and taught about faith.

We have had more written and taught about faith in any generation, but we are the most untrusting of all I believe in history. We talk faith we preach it we sing about it and in good times that may be all right that may Suffice for a season, but when really hard times we don't have often what it takes.

Like the children of Israel we cry God, where are you? We come to church. We sing God can make a way. I'm glad you say because it's in my message, but then we get in a hard time say Lord. Where's the way?

We start questioning God where where am I where are you and We fail when the real test of the difficult times Comes upon us the Bible says that just to live by faith. Now that's not just for eternal salvation.

That means your daily life. That means everything that you are and everything that you do in life. You are going to live by faith and folks there are times. They're coming on me so hard so difficult so Calamitous you're going to live by faith.

You will not be able to afford doctors. You're going to live by faith. The time is coming that this Scripture will be more than just something we read and forget about it the just or the righteous shall live by faith.

Jude Speaking of those living in last days said this beloved build up your yourselves in your most holy faith. Praying in the Holy Ghost. He said it's time to build yourself up here the last day build up your faith because you're going to need it in this hour.

No, beloved. This is not a time for wavering faith. Not at all in Psalms 22 David said of our spiritual fathers our fathers trusted in thee Lord. They trusted you did deliver them that cried unto thee and they were delivered.

They trusted in you and they were not confounded. Our fathers lived by faith. Our Fathers believed that you would keep your word. They were never confused and they were not confounded. God made a way for our fathers and one of the fathers that David is speaking about was father Abraham.

Abraham as an Example of Tested Faith

Bible says the father Abraham he staggered not at the promises of God through unbelief. But was strong in faith. Giving glory to God and being fully Persuaded that what God had promised he was able also to perform.

Now God has set before us an example of a man who Bible says was not weak in faith. He never staggered the promises of God once he came into full faith. Now he didn't come into full faith until he got his faith named Abraham.

He was called Abram up to the time. His faith was being grounded and tested. I Want to take you on a little trip with me tonight and talk a little bit about faith. We'd like to have this kind of faith that's described here as belonging to father Abraham not weak not wavering fully persuaded all doubts that are conquered.

But folks that kind of faith does not come easy. That kind of faith comes only through failure after failure. Test after test and that's what my message is about tonight. First Peter 1 7 that the trial of your faith being much more precious than of gold.

That perisheth don't be tried by fire may be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. Folks our faith is going to go into the fire. We are about to go into the fire. I Told you from this pulpit a few months ago.

In fact, probably four or five weeks ago when the stock market was way down. Almost 15 I said it's going to go back up again. There's going to be a phony Rise, it's going to be a manipulated market.

It's going to be a fool's market and that's where we are. Just as we talked about from this pulpit, but folks watch out. We are headed for the fire and it's going to come. But the Bible says out of that are going to come up people with a tested tried faith.

There's going to be unshakable. Unmovable who are kept by the power of God through faith to salvation. Ready to be revealed in the last time in the last time God is going to reveal a body of people a body of Christ that has an absolutely unshakable faith.

They're going to live by faith and their example of living by faith living without fear is going to be a testimony to the whole ungodly world. Tested faith tried faith coming forth as gold. Now Abraham Abram was a good and righteous man.

Here's a man that takes a journey of faith. God calls him to a walk of faith. He started out with just a simple trusting obedience in the Lord. The Lord came to him and said and let me read to you from verse 1 chapter 12.

Faith Begins With Abandonment to God's Call

Look at verse 1 now the Lord had said unto Abram Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and from thy father's house unto a land that I will show you. Folks this is look at me. No, this is where faith begins.

This is where the little germ of faith begins a call to abandon oneself. Into the hands of God. The whole future just total abandonment to the will of God. Faith has to begin there. This man is called to take a journey.

Now he doesn't know where he's going. He's not told about the hardships. You're going to face on the way. He's not told what he's to expect when he gets there. He's told simply to get out of his comfort zone and take a leap of faith in the arms of his heavenly father.

And he says I want you to just Pick up everything now. This is a step of faith for this man because he's got children. He's got family. He's got relatives. He's got a cattle business. This man's got a pull-up stakes.

He's got to pull up everything and he's going to go out to the unknown. He's going to go out and head 300 miles into a desert hot Sun snakes wild animals. He had no idea where he's going. Now folks, that's faith.

That's where it begins. Where you take a leap into the arms of your heavenly father. You look into the arms of Jesus and Jesus has made that call to all of us. He says the just so live by faith. That's the call Abram got.

You take a leap of faith into the arms of the Lord and say I commit my life. He says he says come and follow me put your life in my hands is what he said day grip Abram. Pick yourself up in your comfort zone.

You've had it nice now. I'm going to ask you to go out into the unknown. Totally, I know God told him out of your laws will come a great nation. I'm going to bless you Abram. Gonna make you great. You're going you're going to be a great blessing.

Now folks, you've got to understand. The magnificence of what God was saying the importance of this statement that he's just made Abram. He said all the families are going to be blessed by you. Now folks, he's not talking about Abraham himself, but his seed.

He's talking about Christ. He's talking about Jesus. The whole world is going to be blessed by the seed that comes out of your very loins. This points to Jesus Christ. He's saying deeper. I'm going to make you the father of a new race a new Kind of people that I've been looking for from the very beginning of creation.

He's seen the sin in a debauchery and had to do away with the whole race other than Noah. No, he says I want a race that's going to walk by faith. I Have to have a man who walks by faith and I'm calling you to myself to abandon yourself to me and folks.

He's talking about he's he's laying a foundation for a new race of people who will walk blindly by faith. Because you see what is coming. It's going to have to he's going to have to believe. He's going to have to have faith.

He's going to have to believe in the impossible. Because there's going to be a child born to a man who's no longer fertile. Into a womb that is already dead and the seed is speaking about an immaculate conception an absolute impossibility.

He's talking about the coming people of God the race that he's going to raise up named Israel. And God's talking about the Impossible things are going to happen. Going to be a Red Sea that opens and people walk on dry ground.

He's talking about bread falling out of heaven angels food falling out of heaven. He's talking about water coming out of a rock. He's talking about impossible humanly impossible things. A whole race who believes and sees the impossible.

How can He be the father of a race. Believing God for the impossible unless he has that kind of faith. He went out. Now here's the definition of faith as far as I'm concerned. Here's the definition of the beginning faith where here's the seed of faith.

And he went out. Not knowing whether he's going. He went out not knowing where he's going. I've been there. He's saying Lord. I'm stepping out. He takes this step is I am stepping out in faith. Now. I laid down all my own ideas of how I'm supposed to live.

I'm not going to try to work out my own blessings. I'm not going to try to how to lead my family my own way. I'm not going to try to provide my own living by my own wits Lord. I'm going to put everything in your hands.

I'm going to go to fully trusting your leadership. Lord, you're calling every shot from now on. I'll lay it all down. You told me to pick up and just follow you. You said you'd leave me. You'd guide me every day.

Faith Is More Than Intellectual Theology

All right, he abandons himself into the hands of God and he sets out. On this journey, he's 75 years old. His wife is in her 60s. She's a beautiful woman in their 60s. Just like my wife score one for the preacher.

Don't don't. Try to tell Abram that faith is easy. Don't go to him say yeah. Explain faith to me just like we do today. Explain faith to me Abram. Give me your theology on faith. You see that's our preoccupation today in the church.

We dissect it. We analyze the word we go to the Greek we go to the Hebrew. We write books and we study it. Abram have nothing to do with that. Abram simply say faith is simply trusting your life your future fully into the hand and care of the Heavenly Father.

An obedience. To a call to yield my life fully into his hands that just so live by faith. He went out not knowing where he went. All right. You can check your map. It was about a 300 mile trip and it was a rough trip.

No doubt there there were a few watering holes or all kinds off there were hot Sun beating upon him and he he finally gets to a wilderness an abandoned awful-looking wilderness. Called Canaan and the Lord stops him.

Now. What do you get? When you set out to walk by faith. So I'm going to give everything in the hands of God. I'm not going to call the shots him. I'm going to pray and trust God to lead me the rest of my life.

I'm gonna obey him. I'm gonna love him. I'm gonna be intimate with him. I'm going to get into his word. I'm gonna seek him as never before. What does it get you? She's right. You know what? He got a famine a Severe famine.

God says Abram. This is the land That I have promised you there are no trees now everything is withered there's no water for the cattle. There's no pastor. There's nothing and God said it's all yours every way you put your foot is yours and he's thinking I don't want it.

We know he's thinking that because of what he did next He built an altar and I can tell you knowing human nature know what he did next, you know what he's praying Lord. I don't understand this. I Have walked in holiness before you.

I have built an altar. I'm a worshiper. I'm intimate with you. He's called a friend of God. He has intimacy. He walks with God. He's in righteousness. He's in total obedience to the Lord. He's doing exactly what God tells him to do and he winds up in a severe famine he's He's looking around and he's saying to his wife.

I Must have heard the wrong voice we can't eat here. There's nothing here There there's no food we have children lot was with him and his family he had servants. He had he had all this cattle his there's a range full of cattle and he said what are we going to do?

The famine was grievous in the land. It says you've never Prayed that he said Lord Never in my life if I obeyed you more than I have now I've been in your word. I've loved you. I've walked by faith the best I know how and sud you're face to face with a crisis and Can you God says I'm leading you and finding when you get to the place where the Lord just says stop and then suddenly you?

Are face to face with an absolutely impossible Situation there's trouble. There's there's a crisis right in front of you. And this man must be thinking did I miss it somewhere did I get out of his will.

Did I listen to the wrong voice? How can a dry barren? unfulfilling place be a reward for obedience. After all, I've desired after you Lord, how? Could I end up in a famine? How many of you here tonight right now in this building at this very place?

You know that you love God with all your heart and you've been faithful to him and after all your fasting and all your praying And your devotion to the Lord your cry for holiness. You're being led into a crisis and Doesn't make sense.

It seems contrary to everything, you know about the Lord and his leading now. Let me give you an exam few examples of that. Here's Someone that's been praying for a better paying job and and Believing God and through prayer God opens it and you get that better paying job and in you you'd be in to thank him.

Thank you. Lord. You've been so for you are leading me. It does pay to pray and read the Word. Look God's given me this wonderful job two weeks later. The company downsizes and the last hired first fire and suddenly you're out without a job face to face with a crisis.

What about? That telephone call that somebody gets from someone close to them in the family and there's somebody hysterical and other the light and says I I don't know how to tell you but I Have cancer.

Inoperable cancer and I've been given six months to live and You say wait a minute. That's my family and I've been walking in covenant with God and I've been praying. I've been fasting been seeking the Lord and now I'm led into this.

Is this the reward for faithfulness? To store there's a young lady who prayed and prayed for God to bring somebody into her life a spiritual man because she wasn't Lusting or anything up, but she had spent a lot of time in faith with the Lord.

And she knew God would answer and she met a spiritual young man and that young man. She seemed to be good that seemed to be so right and she felt good about it. She thought this was the answer to her prayer.

He just walks away one day and gives no explanation. He says I don't care anymore. You can be holy obedient devoted walking in faith. Walking in the major faith. God is let give you and be led by God right into the test of your life.

He was led by God to this severe famine. It was God's leading wasn't a devil. All right. You're right for the next step. Whatever measure of faith Abram had up to this time. It still lacked a dimension and Many of us are lacking this dimension.

God led him into a crisis that demanded an even bigger leap of faith. He had to take a leap of faith to leave everybody everything and make the decision to commit his life and his future and his direction.

In the hands of the Lord to take directions from the Lord and to totally yield his family his future and everything into the hands of God and now God is Brought him into a situation that demanded another leap of faith.

God has brought Abram now to a place Where he was going to bring Israel to the rim of the Red Sea. Where it was humanly impossible to be delivered outside of a miracle. Abraham had been led into a place where his very life is now at stake the life of his family his children all of those people with him.

Nothing to eat no way to survive. Do you remember what the devil said about Job. The devil said skin for skin. He all that a man has will he give for his life? But you put forth your hand now you touch his bone and you touch his flesh and he'll curse you to your face.

And that's the same accusation. The devil flings at God concerning every one of his children today. He said oh, yeah God. Your brother your sister that's how to use they'll serve you until you touch their belly.

You start putting him in a hard place you bring a depression. You bring hard times and when there's no food in the belly, they feel their hunger pains. They feel pain in there in a hard time and you you allow some crisis come into their life.

They'll turn on you and curse your face God. That's still the accusation from the pits of hell. Abram is brought to a place he's either got to move into the miraculous and believe God for the impossible or take matters in his own hands and Folks, that's why God brings us to this point.

To see whether you're going to absolutely believe them to be the miraculous God of the impossible. Or you're going to take matters into your own hands and do it your way in the flesh. Did Abraham pass the test?

Abraham's Failure in Egypt

No, he miserably miserably failed. And Abraham went down to Egypt to sojourn. He wasn't willing to stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. He's not ready to take that leap of faith into Believing that God can do the impossible.

Know what David said about people in a famine. He said God delivers his people from death and he keeps them alive in famine. David said now this this is later, but see this is the heart of God. David was revealing.

It was always the heart of God in the days of famine. They shall be satisfied or they shall be fed in the days of famine. In fact a hundred years later his own son Isaac is in another famine. And the Bible said there was a famine in the land and you'll find this generation.

Isaac Learns to Remain in the Land

Genesis 26 chapter. This is a hundred years later. This is his son Isaac there was a famine in the land beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham and The Lord appeared unto Isaac and said do not go down to Egypt.

God said to Isaac if you'll just stay here. I'll feed you. I'll take care of you and God does that. God fed him. God kept him through the famine. He learned to hold on by faith, but you see Abram. Faith began to shake.

You see faith begins with a total abandon oneself into God's hands. But faith is never passive. But it's always active. There must be full confidence That God can and will do the absolute impossible the impossible.

Jesus said with God all things are possible. And in Luke 1 37 for with God. Nothing, nothing. Say it folks. Nothing shall be impossible. Nothing shall be impossible. Faith says God's enough. God's enough.

See the Lord here is making a man of faith. He's trying to make a man of faith. He's he's led this man into a hopeless crisis now. Hoping he'll just give up all human thinking and say God live or die.

You sent me here. You have been leading me. I've been living by your word. I've been living honestly before you take over. Never die. I'm the Lord's that's what God wanted. God wanted totally Lord here I am.

If I have to sit here and die, I'll die in your will. I'm not moving. I'm gonna stand still and see the salvation of God folks. There's listen to me now. There's no greater peace on the face of the earth than to trust God for everything in everything.

There's no greater peace Than to have had to have absolutely abandoned yourself. To faith when God's power to do the impossible when you've given up control of everything in your life to him. It's here and dot overwhelmed Abram and now he's crying Lord.

Get me out of this. Get me out of here. But you see the truth is faith is not meant to get you out of a hard place. But to change your heart in the hard place. It's not about changing your conditions by changing you and changing me.

God most likely is not going to change any of our circumstances. Occasionally he does. But you see if you are not changing if God just pucks you out of it. You have not learned to trust him. You've not learned the lesson at all.

You've not really learned the grace of faith at all. You see the Hebrew children met Jesus in the furnace. Daniel saw the grace of deliverance in the lion's den. If he'd have been suddenly pulled out he've never known the miracle.

He'd have never seen the miracle. He would have never had a faith built on knowing that God does the impossible. Jesus Remember is in the back of the boat when the storm hit the disciples boat and In panic they wake him up said master.

Don't you care that we're about to drown? Jesus is fast asleep. The wind is blowing howling the waves water coming in the boat and Jesus is fast asleep probably a beatiful smile on his face. Jesus is awakened and he stands up said peace the wind stops the rain.

Everything is a calm, but there's what kind of man is this and they're marveling at this great miracle. But they missed the biggest miracle. They missed the greatest Evidence of faith. They missed the real miracle.

The miracle was the man asleep in the storm. There's the testimony. That's some so resting in the hands of God. He's committed everything to the Lord. He knows God's made him a promise that he's going to be redeemed of the world.

He knows the devil can't kill him. Okay, devil can't kill you. Since I've been in New York. My life's been threatened at least five times and I walked this occasionally. I used to look back once in a while, but I know devil can't kill me.

God has some reason. God would have to have a reason for it. I can't think of one right now. Don't you offer me one either you see it's it's the person it's it's so Absolutely yielded into the hands of the father by faith to lick you the sleep of faith.

My god can do the impossible. If I'm out of my job, I'm out of job. My god knows that he gonna take care of me and being able to go to sleep at night and just rest. It's not the Fancis gets up. And Everything's alright.

Zap you out of your problem. No, no. No. It's the Christian that can come into the house to God. Walks the streets and everywhere else for the total peace of God. My god can do the impossible. My gods are delivered.

God's going to keep me. Hallelujah, the miracle was the man sleeping in the storm. God wants us to be able to sleep. I mean the peace of God rest through the coming storms. Whatever crisis it may be. Hallelujah.

The Flesh Attempts to Control God's Promises

Going down to Egypt is just saying Lord. I'll take it from here. That's all it means Lord. And you know what? You know what going down to Egypt means it's the flesh presuming that it's made a mistake heard the wrong voice and go and straighten it.

I'm gonna straighten it out. I miss God so I've got to go back and make it right and maybe I can hear better the next time and That that person usually doubts than everything God ever said to him. And Abram leaves the path of faith and he gathers his brood together and he says we're getting out of here.

We can't make it here. I don't know how I got sidetracked. I must have heard the wrong voice now the good news is that Faith strong faith comes often through failure, but I'll tell you there are consequences When we leave the path of faith and we move into the flesh.

Those who operate in the flesh gonna pay some pretty awful Consequences. Let me go over just a few of them. First of all when when you leave the path of faith and Don't just commit it all to the Lord lay every burden on him.

So I'm not handling this Lord. It's yours. I'm not gonna try to step at night and figure it out. I'm not gonna do anything and it's yours. I'm gonna pray and trust you. I know you're leading me you take over.

You get a call from somebody in the family and unloading problems on you. You just said Lord, that's your problem. I'm gonna seek you. I'm gonna worship you. That's your problem. I'm not taking it. You if you want to keep taking all these problems on you, you're not gonna be able to walk in faith.

But you see The number one consequence of leaving the path to faith and moving in the flesh. That you're going to have to start scheming and manipulating to survive Abraham Abram concocts a scheme for survival.

He knows that these Egyptians are full of lust and that They they they had something of a lust toward fair Fair Fair women for complected women and He strikes it he Concocts the scheme. He said now look you're very beautiful woman.

What 60 I like to like. I said, I'd like to know what kind of face cream she uses. I'm not trying to be facetious. But man at this you look at this story. She's in her 60s and Abraham's telling is his wife.

These men are going to lust after you. They're going to go after you and and and they're gonna kill me thinking or seeing me as your husband. So if you don't mind to save my life, I Want you to tell a white lie?

I want you to tell him we're a brother and sister that way. I'll not Be killed. Those who walk in flesh are very self-centered and very selfish. Because they're not trusting in God. It's always me taking a look at looking out for number one.

And so She must have a great love for this man to do this. What a great love. She must have had. For Abram her son her husband, but you see the the man or the woman who trust in God. Believing the Lord for protection and for the impossible.

Doesn't need any human resources. They don't need to make excuses. They never have to manipulate. They don't have to have a personal agenda. Because they're totally surrendered to the will and the purposes of God leave the results to him.

But see Abram is not at this point yet. He'll get there eventually and become the father of faith because faith is coming out of failure now God's building something. So if if you've had your faith faltering and you've failed a lot take heart.

God's building something in you. David remember ran from Saul. Rather than the stay in the land and trust God who'd already delivered him from a bear a giant a lion and a whole host of enemy Philistines God had already proven himself and God had already told this man that he God would be a shield to all those who trust in him.

He'd written this already. Yet he runs at the first threat from Saul and he runs down to Gath and The king of Gath finds out that David is in the camp and he says go get him his soldiers get him and the word Gets David you're going to be killed.

You're going to be assassinated because what you did to their giant and David panics. He's now an enemy territory. He's running. He's in the flesh now. He's not trusting God with his life in his future.

And now he's in the flesh. He's doing things his own way. Then he gets in a mess. He's manipulating now. He's got to do something. He never thought he would ever do he pretends he's insane. He starts babbling like a moron.

Fiddles running down his beard. He's clawing at everybody a man of God. I can see his soul. Just go home. I King of Israel. He's playing like a madman because you see when you're not walking in faith.

You have to pretend you're something you're not. And do things that you'd never do. You have to manipulate you have to scheme and David's manipulating he's scheming and they bring him to The king and he's wallowing on the floor.

He's spitting he's Acting like a crazy man. And king of desert get him out of here. What do I want to do with a madman? When we don't trust God and take matters in our own hands. We come just the same place where we have to try to be something.

We're not. Jacob did the same thing with his mother Rebecca. All his life. He had to be taught by Rebecca what God told her when these two boys were still in her womb. That the elder would serve the younger she had a promise that the birthright belong to Jacob and they waited for years and it didn't happen and Rebecca gets Nervous about it.

She can't wait. She loses her faith. And so does Jacob and so he tries to be somebody else pretends his own brother. He becomes a deceiver. You remember the story how the mother wrapped wool on his arms to Mock to say that he's his Harry Harry brother.

You see the manipulation and the scheming and Being somebody you really aren't. And I would tell you it took Jacob 20 years to get back on track to the faith walk. 20 years Scheming till he came back to faith because you see when you get in the flesh and get away from trusting God and obeying him his way.

You're going to thwart the purposes of God and you're going to have to go into another test that is even worse. Another consequence of not fully trusting God is that we literally put other people's lives at risk.

How Unbelief Harms Others

We mess up other people but by our unbelief. The Abram really put his wife's life at risk. Sure enough the princess of Pharaoh seer and get the word to Pharaoh. One of the historians said that Pharaoh had already sent a contention of his army to another nation where he had found word that there was a beautiful woman and he had killed a whole lot of people just to get this woman and I don't know if Abraham was aware of that or not.

But sure enough word comes and she is taken. Because she's they ask is this your wife? You didn't know. This is my sister. Is he your husband? Oh, this is my brother a half truth. He just hid the truth the full truth.

We're used to that today from the White House on down human nature never changed as and. And so she's taken away into Pharaoh's harem. You understand the risk that this man took this man has been given a promise out of his loins would come.

Really is the Redeemer that all men should be blessed and some I believe Abram knew that. Because about Jesus later said Abram saw his day. He puts this woman at risk of Becoming Pharaoh's wife one of his wives and giving birth to a heathen child.

What a horrible risk that he put you so many people are hurt when a Husband or wife is not walking in faith. But walking according to their own mind in their own will doing things their own way. It's the same with the man or woman who's trying to establish their own righteousness rather than walk and receiving the righteousness of Christ by faith trying to work and in their Efforts to try to be holy in their own strength people are hurt everywhere.

Their standards are imposed on everybody. Anyone else that's not living according to this standard. They're going to be walked over and choked and hurt and preach that. Do you know God plagued Pharaoh's harem in his house.

In such a way that he had to get to the bottom of and somehow they must have gotten it out of Sarai. They must have gotten it out of Abram. Somehow they got the word is because you have a woman of God Jehovah God and she's the cause of this.

Abram is called on the carpet said why didn't you tell us that this was your wife and He commanded his soldiers to take this man of this woman to the border and they were unceremoniously cast out of the land.

And I want you to know that the testimony of this man was absolutely ruined. What kind of a God is this allows you to lie and put your wife at risk? Can you imagine what David did how he put to risk the honor of God how all of those in gather said what kind of God that takes his heroes and after he's finished with them turns them over to madness and Folks, that's what happens when we walk in the flesh trying to achieve our own righteousness.