# Watch Your Life

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Podcast: [Remsen Bible Fellowship Sermons](https://stenobird.com/podcast/remsen-bible-fellowship-sermons-6744465)
Published: 2025-12-01T12:31:00+00:00
Episode link: https://remsenbible.substack.com/p/watch-your-life
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## Resource

This has to be one of the hardest texts in scripture, and I had a hard time just like, one of the things you wanna do as you’re preparing to understand something, let alone to teach it, is to read it over and over. And I had a hard time reading this passage over and over. It was just, what the greatest privilege in my life is, is being able to—that might be a slight exaggeration. I do like being married and having kids too. But one of the greatest privileges in my life is getting to study and teach God’s word. And this week, this text was hard for me. It’s just not fun. First Timothy chapter four verse 16. Paul tells Timothy to watch your life and your doctrine closely. Now that has a direct application. Obviously, he’s speaking to a pastor. He’s telling him to watch his life and doctrine closely for in doing so, he’ll save both himself and his hearers. But it has a secondary application, I think, to all of us as Christians that we all should be watching our lives. It’s not just what we believe that matters. It’s how we live that matters. Sin is ugly. And the apostle Peter says Satan is there prowling around, creeping at the door, wanting to tempt us to sin. In the book of Genesis chapter four, God says to Cain, Sin is crouching at your door. And it’s crouching at all of our doors. Here in second Samuel chapter 13, we’re going to be lingering over some evil, and we’ll see three negative examples. There’s actually four negative examples in this text, but we don’t have time to get to the fourth one today. We’ll look at three negative examples, and then we’ll stop to listen to one cry for help. The first negative example we see is the godless lust of Amnon. Second Samuel 13, beginning in verse one, says, Now Absalom, David’s son, had a beautiful sister whose name was Tama…

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