A Planned Defeat

II Samuel 17:1-23

 Rev. Bruce Brown

 I.     The Counsel of the Wicked (verses 1-4)

II. The Confusion of Worldly Wisdom (verses 5-14)

III.    The Confounding of the Wretched   (verses 15-23)

"The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; he turns it wherever he will.”  ~ Proverbs 21:1

 “What a consolation there is here for us!  The evil of our day seems quite as invincible as Ahithophel’s counsel, but the same God who sovereignly set the boundaries for Ahithophel does the same with evil today.”  ~ Roger Ellsworth