David's Journey: Lessons in Flaws and Redemption
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "Heroes by nature are people that we look up to. Heroes are people that represent a life that we find ourselves longing to experience, in some way, shape, or form. We see that the life that they are living is rewarding. There's something intriguing about it. And so we place people because of who they are, because of what they've done. We put them up on this hero pedestal. And we all do it, right? In my own story, there are many people in my life journey that I would call heroes of faith, people that I have looked up to, people that I lean on, teachers and pastors, colleagues, friends, among others." [01:02:26]
2. "I learned so much more in my failures, right? You learn so much more when you get it wrong because when you get it right, you just pat yourself on the back and say, yeah, I know that, right? I got this. And you don't have to think about it. You can just move forward and you just keep going like nothing's changed. But you get it wrong you obsess about it a little bit, right? You think about how you could have done it differently, how you could have gotten it right, how you could have fixed things, how things could have played out." [01:01:12]
3. "Church isn't just a game, right? Not just an activity that we do on the weekends because we don't have anything better to do because we're off our sports schedule. We don't have an activity this week. Church is a life. It's a people. It's a journey that we're all on together. And the truth is, every one of us finds ourselves at different places of that journey. Some of us are working through some things. Some of us are putting our hands up saying, I'm not really sure I'm in it right now for it. But as a church, we're in this together. We're not against each other. We're for each other." [01:43:43]
4. "Coveting is a word that we probably don't use in our regular day-to-day language, but when you really unpack it really simply, it's to want something very much, especially when that something that I want belongs to somebody else. And for David, it was this root cause that creates the bigger things that we sometimes want to focus on. That if David could have handled things at the root level, just maybe he would have saved himself and the people a whole lot of heartache and pain." [01:12:57]
### Quotes for Members
1. "The consequences are going to be there. The struggles are going to be there. If you read on the rest of the story, you're going to see that God doesn't take all of the consequences away. He takes away the fact that he's going to die. He takes that consequence off the table. But there are still others that he's going to face as a result of the decision. And sometimes we allow the consequences not to allow us to move forward and actually embrace our forgiveness. Because we're not sure how to face those challenges." [01:31:10]
2. "David's story of downfall was a result of stepping into his covetous thoughts and his desires. It's so easy for us to sit here and point the finger and say, How dare you, David? You could have done better. You could have made a better choice, a better decision. But he doesn't. David steps in it. For us, we would want to point the finger and the blame at somebody else. It's so much easier to call out their sin and their problem, to look at the person next to you and say, You're the problem. This is your issue. It's so much harder to look at it than to look at ourselves." [01:28:17]
3. "David's spiral of coveting mind continue to take him deeper as now we see him coveting his innocence that he has now lost as he begins to try to cover up the scandal. As he begins to find himself in a place now where he wants to find any way to make it right get himself out of the mess that he's created himself for himself. And so he does what he thinks is wise in his own right because he's a strong, wise military leader." [01:19:44]
4. "The root cause that I want us to look at here today, there are probably several, if truth be told, but one of the specific main root causes as I've seen them is one that we see play out in the life of our hero of faith. I want to simply ask you to ask yourself the question, Have you ever stepped in it? Knowingly or unknowingly? Desired something that wasn't yours? A relationship? Wisdom? Money? A job? Recognition? Admiration? Respect? Authority? You want something so bad, but you refuse, and you will stop at nothing to get it, even if that means leading you into sin." [01:28:41]
5. "David's life was one that succumbed to disobedience because he couldn't get control of the root problem of a coveting mind. Coveting is a word that we probably don't use in our regular day-to-day language, but when you really unpack it really simply, it's to want something very much, especially when that something that I want belongs to somebody else. And for David, it was this root cause that creates the bigger things that we sometimes want to focus on. That if David could have handled things at the root level, just maybe he would have saved himself and the people a whole lot of heartache and pain." [01:12:57]
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1. "Heroes by nature are people that we look up to. Heroes are people that represent a life that we find ourselves longing to experience, in some way, shape, or form. We see that the life that they are living is rewarding. There's something intriguing about it. And so we place people because of who they are, because of what they've done. We put them up on this hero pedestal. And we all do it, right? In my own story, there are many people in my life journey that I would call heroes of faith, people that I have looked up to, people that I lean on, teachers and pastors, colleagues, friends, among others." [01:02:26]
2. "I learned so much more in my failures, right? You learn so much more when you get it wrong because when you get it right, you just pat yourself on the back and say, yeah, I know that, right? I got this. And you don't have to think about it. You can just move forward and you just keep going like nothing's changed. But you get it wrong you obsess about it a little bit, right? You think about how you could have done it differently, how you could have gotten it right, how you could have fixed things, how things could have played out." [01:01:12]
3. "Church isn't just a game, right? Not just an activity that we do on the weekends because we don't have anything better to do because we're off our sports schedule. We don't have an activity this week. Church is a life. It's a people. It's a journey that we're all on together. And the truth is, every one of us finds ourselves at different places of that journey. Some of us are working through some things. Some of us are putting our hands up saying, I'm not really sure I'm in it right now for it. But as a church, we're in this together. We're not against each other. We're for each other." [01:43:43]
4. "Coveting is a word that we probably don't use in our regular day-to-day language, but when you really unpack it really simply, it's to want something very much, especially when that something that I want belongs to somebody else. And for David, it was this root cause that creates the bigger things that we sometimes want to focus on. That if David could have handled things at the root level, just maybe he would have saved himself and the people a whole lot of heartache and pain." [01:12:57]
### Quotes for Members
1. "The consequences are going to be there. The struggles are going to be there. If you read on the rest of the story, you're going to see that God doesn't take all of the consequences away. He takes away the fact that he's going to die. He takes that consequence off the table. But there are still others that he's going to face as a result of the decision. And sometimes we allow the consequences not to allow us to move forward and actually embrace our forgiveness. Because we're not sure how to face those challenges." [01:31:10]
2. "David's story of downfall was a result of stepping into his covetous thoughts and his desires. It's so easy for us to sit here and point the finger and say, How dare you, David? You could have done better. You could have made a better choice, a better decision. But he doesn't. David steps in it. For us, we would want to point the finger and the blame at somebody else. It's so much easier to call out their sin and their problem, to look at the person next to you and say, You're the problem. This is your issue. It's so much harder to look at it than to look at ourselves." [01:28:17]
3. "David's spiral of coveting mind continue to take him deeper as now we see him coveting his innocence that he has now lost as he begins to try to cover up the scandal. As he begins to find himself in a place now where he wants to find any way to make it right get himself out of the mess that he's created himself for himself. And so he does what he thinks is wise in his own right because he's a strong, wise military leader." [01:19:44]
4. "The root cause that I want us to look at here today, there are probably several, if truth be told, but one of the specific main root causes as I've seen them is one that we see play out in the life of our hero of faith. I want to simply ask you to ask yourself the question, Have you ever stepped in it? Knowingly or unknowingly? Desired something that wasn't yours? A relationship? Wisdom? Money? A job? Recognition? Admiration? Respect? Authority? You want something so bad, but you refuse, and you will stop at nothing to get it, even if that means leading you into sin." [01:28:41]
5. "David's life was one that succumbed to disobedience because he couldn't get control of the root problem of a coveting mind. Coveting is a word that we probably don't use in our regular day-to-day language, but when you really unpack it really simply, it's to want something very much, especially when that something that I want belongs to somebody else. And for David, it was this root cause that creates the bigger things that we sometimes want to focus on. That if David could have handled things at the root level, just maybe he would have saved himself and the people a whole lot of heartache and pain." [01:12:57]
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