Speaker 1: 0:01

Good morning, nice to see everybody this morning. Would you stand with me? Thank you, stand with me. We're going to get started with our worship this morning. It's good to be in the house of the Lord. Amen, that's right. No better place to start the week in my book.

Speaker 1: 0:18

Of course, my lovely wife and our new baby, whit, is here this morning, so thank you for praying for us. He's doing happy and healthy, so we praise God for that. That's all we can ask for, right? Let's start the service with a word of prayer. Lord, we thank you for this morning. We just thank you for this opportunity to be in here, lord. We know that we have amazing opportunities and blessings in the country that we live in to worship you without fear, and we just thank you for that. We thank you for your son and what he did for us, and we just want to be an example and just be like him. Lord, help us be more like Jesus every day so that people can see what true love and sacrifice and mercy and gentleness looks like. And we thank you for your Holy Spirit, lord, that you sent for us, and we just ask that that spirit is in here this morning as we worship you and help lift up your name, and it's in your son's name that we pray. Amen, amen.

Speaker 2: 1:32

Amazing grace shall always be my song of praise, for it was grace that bought my liberty. I do not know just why he came to love me so he looked beyond my fault and saw my need. I shall forever lift mine eyes to Calvary to view the cross where Jesus died for me. How marvelous the grace that caught my falling soul. He looked beyond my fault and saw my need. Amazing grace shall always be my song of praise, for it was grace that bought my liberty. I do not know just why he came to love me so he looked beyond my fault and saw my need. I shall forever lift mine eyes to Calvary To view the cross where Jesus died for me.

Speaker 2: 3:41

How marvelous the grace that caught my falling soul. He looked beyond my fault and saw my need there is beyond the azure blue. A God concealed from human sight. He tinted skies with heavenly hue and framed the worlds with His great might. There is a God he is alive.

Speaker 2: 4:27

In Him we live and we survive From the star. God created man. He is our God. The great. I Am Our God, whose Son upon a tree, a life, was willing there to give that he from sin might set man free and evermore with Him could live. There is a God, he is alive. In Him we live and we survive From dust. Our God Created man. He is our God. The great in man is our God, the great I am. We are a moment. You are forever.

Speaker 2: 5:37

Lord of the ages. God, before time, we are a vapor. You are eternal Love everlasting, reigning on high Holy. Holy Lord, god almighty, worthy is the Lamb who was slain. Highest praises, honor and glory be unto your name. Be unto your name. We are the broken. You are the healer, jesus, redeemer, mighty to save. You are the love song We'll sing, forever, bowing before you, blessing your name. Worthy is the Lamb who was slain. Highest praises, honor and glory be unto your name. Be unto your name Holy. Holy Lord, god almighty, worthy is the Lamb who was slain. Highest praises, honor and glory be unto your name. Be unto your name.

Speaker 1: 8:16

Be unto your name.

Speaker 3: 8:17

Amen. Let's begin with a word of prayer. Father, we thank you so much for your love, god. We thank you for the way that you love us, thank you for the way that you forgive us. Father, we're thankful for the way that you continually pursue us, that you use things to get our attention, that you use people and bring people into our life to help guide us in the direction that we need to go. We're thankful for uncomfortable moments that help us grow closer to you. So, in Jesus' name, we pray amen.

Speaker 3: 8:52

Good morning, we are finishing a series this week on uncomfortable love and the idea of being in uncomfortable situations, sometimes being in situations that bring conflict, and what I was thinking about this week is that we get defensive or we get upset about silly things. We get really defensive about silly things. No, you don't. Yes, right, rigo says no, I don't about silly things. No, you don't. Yes, right, rigo says no, I don't. But I was thinking about this and I was reminded of this this week because Morgan and I usually, after the kids go to sleep, we try to watch a little bit of TV.

Speaker 3: 9:36

You know really spend time together and so right now we're trying to watch the Chosen, which is a great show. It's a great picture of Jesus and a lot of great things. It's a great TV show. But I've developed this bad habit of after 9 o'clock. If I sit down, I become that guy right there. And the other night we're watching and I'm sitting straight up in the bed, I'm sitting up against the headboard, straight up, and I can feel myself. I'm like I'm not to that deep sleep yet. I can feel it. I'm like, but I'm aware enough to know that I'm like falling asleep, but I'm not asleep yet. So I'm like falling asleep, but I'm not asleep yet. So I'm like she's going to catch on in a minute. So I'm like I'm over there, like prying my eyes open, because what she does is she hits me guys. She'll nudge me and say you're sleeping and you know what I do. No, I'm not. I'm not, I'm not. Well, it just happened. Well, with the chosen, it's a little bit easier to act like I know what I'm doing. Yeah, you just healed that guy. No, he didn't. That was last episode. Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 3: 10:58

But we get defensive about things like that. That's the silliest thing. Am I asleep? Yes, things like that. Like, that's the silliest thing. Like, am I asleep? Yes, I am. I have three kids. They wear me out. I'm tired, but it's like I know I'm not supposed to be sleeping in that moment, so I get defensive about being asleep in the moment. Does that make sense? And a lot of the guys are shaking their head. You know what I'm talking about. All right, this next one. I'm going to click through this one kind of quick because I don't want to make anybody sick. Okay, here we go. Okay, so here's what happens also.

Speaker 3: 11:30

Sometimes you know you might be with somebody that really cares about you and they really like you and they want to. You know, watch out for you. So they might say, hey, like they might give you like a little sign, like some code language there. Sign, some code language there. You got something there and I don't know why, but I get mad about it. I'm like why'd you say that right in front of everybody? I'm just trying to help you out. It's the same thing when you have something stuck in your teeth.

Speaker 3: 12:01

You're having a conversation with somebody and your spouse kind of nudges you like you got something right there, and why do we get mad about it? We get frustrated. Why did you say that right then? Why did you have to bring that up Now? Everybody knows. Well, it was going to be there all afternoon if she didn't tell you. Okay, we get frustrated about those things, all right. So Every man has this look when his wife is driving. It is a written rule in marriage that you have to compete on who's the better driver, and we get defensive about it. I'm the better driver. Morgan and I have had this conversation for eight years now. The only thing she's got on me is she says I'm the better driver. Morgan and I have had this conversation for eight years now. The only thing she's got on me is she says I'm more experienced.

Speaker 2: 12:50

She's older than me.

Speaker 3: 12:55

We get defensive about it, though it's like you're going off the road. No, I'm not. I just wanted to see what that gravel felt like. I wanted to know how deep the ditch was. Right Like it's, we get defensive about it. We've got some other things here. If you can't read that, it says step one load it badly. You're loading the dishwasher and somebody says the cups should go on the top and you respond with they're all going to get clean anyway, Right, gentlemen, but you get defensive about it.

Speaker 3: 13:32

Like you're loading the dishwasher but she has the nerve to tell you you're not doing it right and you get a little defensive about it. It's like it's all going to the same place, it's all going to get soaped, it's all going to get washed, but it could be more effectively done if it's in the right place. I got another one here. We get mad when people don't like our music. This one says my taste in music is perfect and if you disagree, you have bad taste in music and you probably smell Like. We get upset if we show somebody a song and they're like that's not my style and they're like it's a good song, I don't know why you don't like it. Or we sing a song in here on Sunday. You're like I didn't like that song. It's like well, that's a good song.

Speaker 3: 14:17

Question of the day Does peanut butter go on both pieces of bread or just one? Peanut butter go on both pieces of bread or just one? Raise your hand. If you're just a one breader, okay, how many of you are crazy? And put peanut butter on both sides? All right, we got a few of you. Okay, this one doesn't matter as much as the next one.

Speaker 3: 14:44

How do you cut a sandwich With a knife? Yes, do you cut it down the middle, or is it diagonal? I found this one. This was funny. The geometry is too complicated to explain here. But cutting a sandwich diagonally gives you more sandwich. It doesn't make any sense. I can't explain it. But cutting a sandwich diagonally gives you more sandwich, it doesn't make any sense. I can't explain it. But that's the way If you don't cut it. That's why I had somebody in the A30s like don't cut it, you have one big sandwich, one big, beautiful sandwich. But these are the things that we get like worked up about, like you cut the sandwich wrong. No, I didn't, I cut it the way it's supposed to be. I got a couple more here, one of the greatest commercials that have come out recently.

Speaker 3: 15:30

Sometimes our memory and reality do not actually line up. So sometimes we think we did something. Did you take the trash out? Yes, I took the trash out. I 100% took the trash out. Why would you question me if I took the trash out? Guess where the trash is sitting In the kitchen right there where she left all those boxes and piled everything up so high Because it just makes sense for her to pile it up and you take it out. I'm making all the ladies mad today. But Progressive made this commercial where you get a challenge flag and you can throw it and you can go back and watch the film and figure out what happened, because sometimes our memory versus reality and sometimes we get upset with it. No, I know I did that. Or somebody might say well, you said that and you in your head, like I never said that.

Speaker 2: 16:21

No I didn't.

Speaker 3: 16:24

You didn't say that. Well, guess what. You probably said it, but your memory doesn. You didn't say that. Well, guess what. You probably said it, but your memory doesn't remember you say it. And last one, tag a friend who always blames the ref when their team loses. The Steelers never actually lose the game. It's the ref's fault that we lost, right? They never own up to it. Well, we can laugh about these things this morning because they're little things, but the truth is is we often get defensive when we're confronted with real issues.

Speaker 3: 16:55

Today's story is no different. Today we're going to be in 2 Samuel looking at a guy by the name of Nathan. Nathan was a prophet of God. He was a prophet of the Lord and Nathan gets this task to go see David. David has gotten himself into a situation. David has gotten himself in this moment where he's at, and Nathan is the guy that has to go confront him. We talk about confrontation. Nathan is the one that has to go. So before we can truly understand what's taking place in 2 Samuel, we have to go back to chapter 11. So you're going to get the spark notes edition of chapter 11 this morning.

Speaker 3: 17:36

Here's verse 1 of chapter 11. It says in the spring, at the time when the kings go off to war, david, who was the king, sent Joab with the king's men and the whole Israelite army, but David remained in Jerusalem. So right away, something's kind of off. The kings were supposed to lead, the king was supposed to lead the army into the battle. But David chooses to what. He decides to stay back in Jerusalem. He decides to stay back. Now David has put himself at the wrong place at the wrong time, which sets up for his downfall. One evening, david is up on the rooftop and he looks out over the scenes and he sees a beautiful woman on the other rooftop. She's taking a bath and instead of looking away or walking away, he allows that desire to take over. So, if you remember this story, david inquired about Bathsheba.

Speaker 3: 18:43

If you remember this story, david inquired about Bathsheba. He learns that she is married to Uriah the Hittite, who is one of his soldiers, who is out at war. So all red flags that should scream. I shouldn't pursue this any longer. But David sins for her. He uses his royal authority, if you would, to bring her to the palace.

Speaker 3: 19:07

2 Samuel 11, verse 4, says she came to him and he slept with her. There was no romance in this story. It was just kind of a king abusing his power. It's kind of like Samson and his relationships. Right, there's nothing really foundational about it. He just saw something he liked and wanted it, and he uses his power well. Afterwards, when she returns home, she sends him a little message a few moments or a little bit of time later that she is now pregnant. So that's a disaster.

Speaker 3: 19:42

The king has now got someone pregnant. That's not his wife and she is the wife of someone else. She's actually the wife of one of his soldiers. So he's caught in the middle of what really is a crime of adultery. Do you know what the sentence would have been death. He should have died, but because of his position he's able to kind of cover things up. So instead of repenting, instead of owning up for what he's done, he tries to cover up his sin, like many of us do too. So he calls Uriah home. He sends for Uriah. Uriah, why don't you come home and have like a little vacation and spend time with your wife In hopes that maybe he would believe he got her pregnant and assume the child was his? But Uriah, uriah's a good dude.

Speaker 3: 20:33

Uriah refuses to go home because his men are out fighting. And so he says I'm not going to go home, I'm not going to take comfort, I'm not going to relax when my people are fighting. He's a good dude, kind of the opposite of David in this story. He says I'm not going to do that, so he stays back. So David is still pursuing this opportunity to cover up what he's done wrong. So he says I've got to come up with something else. So he tries to get Uriah drunk. If he just starts drinking, maybe he'll loosen up a little bit and maybe he'll go home and sleep with his wife. So that I can cover this all up. It's a perfect plan, right? That didn't work. Uriah refuses to do it. So when that doesn't work, david has to take it one step further. So he writes a letter to the general of the army instructing to put Uriah at the front of the line of the battle and then, when Uriah was at the front of the line, the rest of the army would pull back. So that what would happen to Uriah? He would be taken out. The really horrible part of this story is David writes the letter, seals it, hands it to Uriah and Uriah delivers it to the army general, his death sentence, basically All of this so David could cover up his sin. So he hands the letter. Uriah is killed in the battle.

Speaker 3: 22:12

After a period of mourning I don't know how long it was after some mourning, guess who marries who? Because the relationship was built on such a great foundation, david and Bathsheba become husband and wife. They get married. So from the outside, looking in, it seems like David got away with it. He pulled it off, the greatest cover-up of all time. But the last verse of chapter 11 says this but the thing David has done displeased the Lord. So now God tells Nathan this is where we pick up today. God tells Nathan, the prophet, you're going to go see David and you're going to share with him, basically that I know what you did, I saw it all and I know what happened. So if you're Nathan, would you want to go see David? Probably not. But that leads us to our first point Uncomfortable confrontation with others.

Speaker 3: 23:15

In uncomfortable confrontations with others, we need to have courageous obedience. When we don't want to do something, we come up with all the excuses. For Nathan, he could have said something like this well, david's the king. I have no right to go in front of the king For Nathan. He could have said well, I could have said I could go before David, but if I make him mad, guess what he's going to do to me. Nathan could have said this this is none of my business. Nathan could have said this God will deal with it in his own way. He doesn't need me to do this. Nathan could have said well, maybe David already repented in his heart and I don't have to touch that area. Nathan could have made every excuse in the book.

Speaker 3: 24:14

In moments of confrontation, in moments of conflict, we often I'll speak for myself we often come up with excuses as well. We'll say things like I'll do it later. What's that called Procrastination? Right, I'm just going to push that down the road just a little bit more. It's not that important, we'll just wait, I'll do it later. We say things like that it's not that big of a deal, I'll take care of it when I can take care of it. So we kind of minimize the issue. We may say something like this Someone else will handle it. So we kind of minimize the issue. We may say something like this someone else will handle it. If I don't do it, somebody else will. If I don't confront that person. Somebody else will eventually, we kind of pass that responsibility to somebody else. You ever done that? Yeah, we say things like this I'm just too busy. I can't have that conversation today. They're standing right in front of me, god aligned it to happen, but I can't. I can't do that, I'm too busy. We use the convenience of busyness and we can all use that one.

Speaker 3: 25:17

We may say something like this Well, I don't want to cause a scene. You ever said that? You ever heard that before? I don't want to cause a scene. You ever said that? You ever heard that before? I don't want to cause a scene. I don't want to. I know I'm supposed to. Or we may say this one, it's not my place. We'll tell somebody else what they're doing wrong. Well, that's so-and-so, he's doing all this stuff and he's sleeping with you-know-who and doing you know what. But it's not my place. We won't go confront the person. We'll confront everybody else and say, well, that's not my place. These are all excuse. You see how these all stack up. These are all things we've heard and do.

Speaker 3: 25:50

We may even say something like this well, what if it goes wrong? So the fear of rejection or failure? Here's what happens, though. True love doesn't stay silent. Silent in this moment, nathan chooses his obedience over comfort, and so we have to let our love for God motivate us and our love for people Went to Winterfest about like 20 years ago, and they taught this lesson L1, l2. We're supposed to love God and we're supposed to love others. It was a real simple lesson. Never forgot it. L1, l2. If we allow our love for God to influence us to love people, that's what we have to use to motivate us.

Speaker 3: 26:36

Uncomfortable confrontation requires patience and discernment and knowing when to speak and how. It may not go great, guys. If you confront somebody, it might go poorly. It may not happen right away. There might not be a solution right away. We mistake Scripture sometimes for thinking things happen immediately, because we're able to turn the page and read what happens next. But sometimes in these moments, years went by, months went by. We were talking in the 830, this confrontation probably happened months after he slept with Bathsheba. I don't know how long God had been prompting Nathan. You're going to go tell this man that he's in the wrong.

Speaker 3: 27:27

But Nathan goes and he tells David this story. He says there was once two men in a certain town. One was rich and one was poor. The rich man owned a great many sheep and cattle. He had all kinds of stuff. The poor man owned nothing but had one little lamb that he had bought. He raised that little lamb and it grew up with him and his children. It ate from the man's own plate and drank from his cup. He cuddled it in his arms like a baby daughter. That dude had a pet. I know all of you guys have a pet. That is like another member of the family has a seat at the table. That's where this man is at. The poor man has this one lamb, just one, and he treats it like it's family. It eats with them, it sits with them. It's his lamb.

Speaker 3: 28:17

Okay, so Nathan is telling this story to David. There's a man that's rich. He's got all kinds of stuff. There's a man that's poor and has one lamb. He says this. He says one day a guest arrived at the home of the rich man but instead of killing an animal from his own flock or herd, he took the poor man's lamb and killed it and prepared it for his guest. The rich man gets a visitor, he knocks on the door. The rich man says I've got to feed this visitor of mine. He looks at his own flock and says Nah, not today. And he goes over to the poor man, takes that one lamb and kills it and feeds it to the guest.

Speaker 3: 29:02

David is outraged when he hears this story. David is so mad. David is angry. That's not right. He took something that wasn't his. He took something that didn't belong to him. It wasn't for him and he gave it to somebody else. This man should die. He should get the capital punishment. This is what David is telling Nathan. He took something he shouldn't have and he needs to die. In fact, he needs to pay back four times the amount and then it should be capital punishment.

Speaker 3: 29:32

Now, that's just a story that Nathan was telling. Whose attention was he trying to get David? David, dude, you took something that wasn't yours, you tried to cover it up and it leads to this moment Uncomfortable confrontation with our convictions. Uncomfortable confrontation with our convictions. That's where Nathan leads David into, because in v 7, here's what we get. Then Nathan said to David you are the man, david. This isn't about anybody else, this is about you.

Speaker 3: 30:22

What a moment for David the guilt and the shame that he had shoved so greatly down to the very bottom and shoved it clear to the back of his mind, the guilt and the shame of the thing that he I believe David knew he did wrong. I do believe that, but he did, like you and I do. Sometimes, with our shame and our guilt, we shove it so far back, we don't want to see it, we don't want to talk about it, we don't want to discuss it. And so David has pushed it all away and he really thinks at this point, I got away with it. It's almost like it's not there. But in this moment, when Nathan says you are the man, it all floods up, it all flashes forward for David and he says David, you are the man. And I have to imagine that that sound, that voice, that saying David, you are the man, echoed in David's mind. It just kept going you are the man, you are the man, you have sinned, you have messed up.

Speaker 3: 31:26

Many of us can relate with this moment. For David, the sin is evident, it's there, but we've tried to hide it, we've tried to cover it up, we've tried to act like it's not there, but it's there. But notice v 13. Then David confessed to Nathan I have sinned against the Lord, I have sinned against the Lord, we learn something about confession. Confession doesn't have to be long to be real and sincere. It's not like that. David falls to his knees and says this prayer that lasted an hour of how I've sinned against you, lord. It's just a simple statement. Lord, I have sinned against you. I've been hiding this for months, I've been pushing this away for years and I need to just sit here and I need to say it out loud Lord, I have sinned against you. Confession doesn't have to be long to be real or sincere. But there is a time that we have to call sin what it is, and sin is sin. And we lost the computer screen, doesn't matter. Here we go.

Speaker 3: 32:45

Sometimes we don't refer to sin as sin. We come up with other words for it. We say, well, I made a mistake. We say things like I made an error. Oh, that was a mess up. Oh, I have a problem. We don't like to use the word I have sinned. We'll claim it, I'm forgiven of my sin. But we don't like to in the word I have sinned. We'll claim it, I'm forgiven of my sin. But we don't like to, in the moment, claim the sin. We use every other word for it. I messed up. I made a mistake. That was an oopsie, but it's sin David did. What David did was sin. It separated and affected his relationship with God. We have to take that personal responsibility for what we've done. And here's what I want you to know.

Speaker 3: 33:34

Conviction is not meant to lead to shame, but to repentance and renewal. The discomfort of conviction has a purpose to bring us to a place where we can receive God's love, forgiveness and restoration. Conviction is not meant to lead us to shame, but to repentance and renewal. That leads to number three. I'm going to add one word there. Don't write real quick, okay. Uncomfortable confrontation with God's love. Uncomfortable confrontation with God's love.

Speaker 3: 34:14

So David is in this moment. He's heard the story, he knows that he's made a mistake, he knows that he's sinned and he says out loud I have sinned against the Lord. And I want you to notice what Nathan says to him next. This is what Braxton read for us this morning. This is verse 13. Right after David says I have sinned against the Lord, nathan says this yes, but the Lord has forgiven you and you won't die for the sin. Yes, david, you have sinned, but you are forgiven. It's not that the Lord will forgive you, but it's in this moment that you are forgiven. What a moment this has to be for David to recognize the Lord has forgiven you. The Lord's not going to forgive you, but he has already done it. The moment you confess, repent, that you were in the wrong, the Lord has forgiven you. And it leads us to this idea Forgiveness is immediate.

Speaker 3: 35:20

There's no probation, it's immediate. Now, if you're a young kid and you do something wrong, usually they may say you have to do a little bit of community service. And then they're going to say well, now you're on probation and they're going to give you some guidelines. If you have to be home by 10 o'clock and you've got to report to so-and-so, what's the purpose of that probation? To kind of keep you out of the trouble, to help you that you don't go into it. But it also that time of being in probation reminds you of what, what you've done wrong. God's not in the probation business, he's in the forgiveness business. And so he says you're forgiven and it's immediate.

Speaker 3: 36:03

One of Satan's greatest tactics is to make you feel shame and guilt for as long as possible. Because if you feel shame and if you feel guilt, guess what? You're not going to tell people. You're not going to tell them about God's love because you're going to feel convicted in your shame and your guilt and you're not going to know if God loves you because you're stuck in this. Satan wants to trap you in guilt, in shame, because if he does that, you're not going to freely worship the Lord. If he does that, you're not going to freely share what God has done in your life, because you're going to question every single move you make, because you're trapped in sin and in shame and in guilt.

Speaker 3: 36:38

The Bible tells us that when we are baptized into Christ, our old self is put away and our sins are washed away. And, as a baptized believer, he continues to wash away our sins. Woody always used the analogy that it's like a windshield wiper and it's consistently washing you away. That's true, it's a great illustration, but sometimes I think we forget to the moment, get to the moment of confessing, saying Lord, I messed up, lord, I sinned against you, and when we confess, we repent of those things. God washes away our sins, but we struggle with this, though. This idea of God's love is uncomfortable, that God could actually love me even though I'm in sin. It makes us uncomfortable because, as people, we struggle to forgive, which makes us struggle to feel forgiven. We struggle with that. People like to hold things over us, people like to make us feel shame and guilt and make us remind us of what we've done, and so it's hard for us to relate with forgiveness sometimes, because we don't always see it in our human relationships. It's uncomfortable because, as people, we struggle with that, we struggle with that and God doesn't want us in that moment. God wants us to live a life where we're free of our shame and our guilt, so that we can go out into the world and live a life of love.

Speaker 3: 38:11

Let's pray, father. We thank you so much for who you are. God, we're thankful for your truth of your word and God. Like David, many of us, all of us, have fallen short, father. We've made mistakes and we've sinned against you and God. At times we try to hide our brokenness from you. Father, we're thankful for your great mercy, that you don't leave us in our brokenness, but instead that you pursue us, that you convict us and invite us into repentance. Father, to restore us, lord, I pray that this morning that you'll help us understand your love for us, that a love that is so great that you sent Jesus to die on the cross for us, that we would understand how deep the love of yours is for us, that you would give your only son for us. Father, give us the hearts this morning, give us the mindset to be able to look at our lives and to understand where we've fallen short, where we've fallen into sin. And bring those things to you this morning, father, that we would admit our brokenness to you. And, father, that we can walk in the freedom of your grace, knowing that we are forgiven. We thank you and we love you. We give everything to you, jesus, it's in your name we pray, amen.

Speaker 3: 39:28

The story takes a turn In just a second. David gets told you are forgiven. You are forgiven, but there's going to be consequences for what you've done. And the rest of the chapter gets kind of crazy. I'll be honest with you. David and Bathsheba have that child and God tells them that that child is going to get a sickness and is going to die. And so in that midst of that moment, david starts fasting and praying that the Lord would find mercy and have mercy on them. And many people were questioning him. Why are you doing this at this moment if God already told you that your son would be lost and he's praying and he gets the news that his son has passed away. And then we get verse 20 that says then David got up from the ground and washed himself and put on some lotion and changed his clothes and he went to the tabernacle and he worshiped the Lord. After that he returned to the palace and was served food and he ate.

Speaker 3: 40:28

Some of us this morning need to get up and worship the Lord. Some of us this morning need to get up and worship the Lord. Some of us this morning need to understand God's love is for us and that we are able to get up and we are able to worship the Lord. I imagine David would love to sing the song how Deep the Father's Love is for Us. We've been singing that song over the last few weeks with verses like this that say how deep the Father's love for us.

Speaker 3: 40:53

We've been singing that song over the last few weeks with verses like this that say how deep the Father's love for us, how vast beyond all measure. Reminding us of God's love is not superficial or detached, but it's deep, it's sacrificial and it's unshakable. Nathan shared that with David that God loves him when he confronted David about his sin, it was because of this very love that God has for him. God's love is so deep it is unwilling to allow us to remain in our sin. We get verses like this that the Father turns his face away as wounds which mar the chosen one that brings glory to him. It reminds us of God's great love. It's going to have a great cost, just as David's sin had consequences, but Jesus took the ultimate consequence for us. And then we get this verse I will not boast in anything no gifts, no power, no wisdom but I will boast in Jesus, his death and His resurrection.

Speaker 2: 41:55

How deep the Father's love for us, how vast beyond all measure that he should give his only son To make a wretch his treasure. How great the pain of searing loss. The Father turns His face away as wounds which mark the chosen one bring many sons to glory. Many sons to glory. Behold the man upon the cross, my sin upon his shoulders, shoulders Ashamed. I hear my mocking voice call out among the scoffers. It was my sin that held him there Until it was accomplished. His dying breath has brought me life, life. I know that it is finished.

Speaker 2: 44:00

I will not boast in anything, no gifts, no power, power, no wisdom, but I will boast in Jesus Christ, his death and resurrection. Why should I gain from His reward? I cannot give an answer, but this I know with all my heart His wounds have paid my ransom. But this I know with all my heart. My heart, his wounds have paid my ransom, amen. You call me out upon the waters, the great unknown, where feet may fail. And there I find you, in the mystery, in oceans deep my faith will stand and I'll call your name.

Speaker 2: 45:59

Keep my eyes above the waves. When oceans rise. My soul will rest in your embrace, for I am yours and you are mine. Your grace abounds in deepest waters. Your sovereign hand will be my guide when feet may fail and fear surrounds me. You've never failed and you won't start now, and I will call on your name. Keep my eyes open when oceans rise. My soul will rest with your embrace, for I am yours and you are mine. Oh Spirit, lead me where my trust is without borders. Let me walk upon the waters.

Speaker 2: 47:39

Wherever you would call me. Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander, and my faith will be made stronger In the presence of my Savior. Spirit, lead me where my trust is, without borders. Let me walk upon the waters wherever you would call me. Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander, and my faith will be made stronger in the presence of my Savior, and I'll call on your name. I'll call your name. Keep my eyes for the way. Rest me in your embrace, for I am yours and you are mine. I am yours and you are mine.

Speaker 1: 49:06

Amen. God bless you everybody. Have a great week. Tell somebody about Jesus this week.