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BUT, AMNON HAD A FRIEND (5)

by Donald Cantrell

Scripture: 2 Samuel 13:1-33
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But, Amnon Had a Friend (5)
Series: Guardrails for Life Series from Proverbs
Donald Cantrell
2 Samuel 13: 1 - 33


2Sa 13:3 KJV - But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.

But, Amnon had a friend. He had a friend. Amnon had a friend!!!

This is a follow up sermon that goes along with sermon 4 in this series, which deals with friends and friendships.

I - The Sinful Feelings of Amnon (1 - 2)

II - The Subtle Friend of Amnon (3 - 14)

III - The Shocking Feelings of Amnon (15 - 19)

IV - The Sobering Fall of Amnon (23 - 33)

This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.

Theme: ''The danger of having a Jonadab in your life''

The Danger of Being Outmatched

Michael Plant was one of the world's best yachtsmen. Numerous times he navigated the oceans, gaining skill and notoriety. Then early in the fall of 1992, he decided to go all the way and set out from the East Coast on a solo voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to France.

He purchased a state-of-the-art sailboat with the best navigational equipment money could buy, christening it ''The Coyote.'' With one press of a button, its emergency global positioning locator could transmit a signal to a satellite, relaying it within seconds to either of two ground locations that could pinpoint his exact coordinates, even in the middle of the vast ocean. The Coyote was the most fail-safe vessel of its kind.

But on the fourth day of his voyage, ground locators lost contact with the Coyote. Weather scans of the Atlantic showed storms causing high seas, and it was assumed that Plant was navigating the storms and would soon regain contact. But he never did. Search-and-rescue squads were deployed to the last known location of the Coyote but to no avail. Commercial airliners were asked to monitor their emergency channels in case Plant was broadcasting signals for help.

Two weeks after his departure, a ship ...

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