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THE REVENGE FACTOR - PART TWO (5 OF 9)

by James Merritt

Scripture: I Samuel 25
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The Revenge Factor - Part Two (5 of 9)
Series: David: Life Lessons from a King
James Merritt
I Samuel 25


Welcome to those watching online and to those at our campuses.

Introduction

1. Gary Eugene Holmes and acne king had never met each other before and will probably never meet each other again. Gary is a full-grown man and acne was a three-year-old boy. Gary's life is ruined and acne's life is over, because of two words: road rage.

2. Acne's grandmother, Kim king-Macon was taking her little three-year-old grandson, acne, out on a shopping trip. They pulled up behind a stop sign behind another car and immediately, the man got out of his car, walked back to their car, fired a bullet into the car and killed that three-year-old boy in the backseat. The boy's grandmother said she was stopped at the stop sign in little rock, Arkansas, when Holmes honked his horn, got out of his car, and fired into her car. A woman, who was riding in Holmes' car told the investigators he was angry, because he thought the grandmother was tailing him too closely. His grandmother didn't even know he had been shot until she arrived at a shopping center about 10 miles away. He was shot in the back and died later that night in the hospital.

3. Because a man flew off the handle and lost his temper in the heat of the moment, he will spend the rest of his life in prison, sentenced to fifty years without the possibility of parole, while a mother and grandmother and so many others will mourn the loss of a three-year-old boy for the rest of their life.

4. Now most all of us have experienced road rage at some time or another. Maybe it wasn't on the road. Maybe it was in your living room, or your office, or on a football field, or a golf course or in a business deal when we feel like someone did us wrong, or maybe they did do us wrong and we immediately think about how we can get even and we fly off the handle. That phrase goes back about two hundred years and it refers to a lo ...

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