What You Measure is What You Treasure | Shannon O’Dell

Absalom had everything going for him. Good looks, a following, and five pounds of hair he weighed in front of the whole town once a year. He also had ambition his father never handed him, and it cost him his life in a forest outside the city.

In this message, Pastor Shannon O'Dell walks through 2 Samuel 14 through 18 and what the Bible has to say about hair, image, and the environments we wander into. The woods killed more of Absalom's men than the sword did. They were good soldiers. They were just in the wrong place.

If you've been fighting a battle you were never called to fight, or carrying bitterness toward someone who hurt you, this one is for you.

Scripture referenced: Matthew 10:30, 2 Samuel 14:25-26, 2 Samuel 15:1, 2 Samuel 15:6, 2 Samuel 15:24, 2 Samuel 16:23, 2 Samuel 18:5, 2 Samuel 18:8-9

0:00 Why hair is a big deal in the Bible

2:30 God counts the small things

3:41 Meet Absalom, the third son of David

4:54 Five pounds of hair and a public scale

6:31 What the Nazarite vow did with hair

7:37 Whatever you measure is what you treasure

7:56 Building his own throne at the gate

9:10 Two years waiting on his father

10:19 The battle begins and 20,000 die

10:50 Wrong environments are found in the woods

13:07 Lost near Mount St. Helens

16:13 Ambition is found in the woods

17:53 David leaves and sends back the Ark

19:52 When you're right and still shouldn't fight

21:25 Anointing is from heaven

21:40 Image without integrity is found in the woods

22:42 The majority is usually wrong

23:29 Bitterness is found in the woods

25:04 Who Ahithophel was

26:49 The hair snare

28:13 Caught in the tree

29:45 Absalom and Judas

30:35 The heart of the Father is in the woods

32:57 Two monuments

33:55 Response and prayer