David and took his throne. He defiled his father’s concubines and sent the men of Israel out to hunt down and kill David. The plot failed, and Absalom was killed. Three of David’s sons died because he had exposed his family to the enemies of God by his transgression. I have seen ministers’ children who are on drugs, hostile to church and bound to lust and homosexuality because their parents forfeited their positions in the spirit through transgression. We need to take the Bible seriously when it