WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:00.719 Well, good morning. 00:00:00.880 --> 00:00:04.639 We are studying our way through the book of 2 Samuel. 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:07.919 Today we are in chapters 11 and 12. 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:14.400 Up until this point in 1 Samuel and in 2 Samuel, David has been an absolute hero. 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:18.719 You would think at this point that we should just worship David, forget about Jesus. 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:22.480 I mean, he has been absolutely amazing. 00:00:22.719 --> 00:00:28.399 But it turns out that David is like me, and David is like you. 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:30.640 David is not perfect. 00:00:30.879 --> 00:00:40.960 So, 2 Samuel 11, 1 through 5, in the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel. 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:44.240 And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:47.200 But David remained at Jerusalem. 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:57.600 It happened late one afternoon when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king's house, and he saw from the roof a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful. 00:00:57.759 --> 00:01:05.760 And David sent and inquired about the woman, and one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:09.200 So David sent messengers and took her. 00:01:09.439 --> 00:01:11.359 She came to him, and he lay with her. 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:15.040 Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness. 00:01:15.519 --> 00:01:22.640 Then she returned to her house, and the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, I am pregnant. 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:27.040 So we have six points to make our way through this story. 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:33.200 Point number one is this is that sin often begins with subtle neglect. 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:38.400 Verse 1 is clear, David should have been somewhere else. 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:40.159 But he wasn't. 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:44.400 He didn't magically just end up in bed with Bathsheba. 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:52.239 There were several steps in a short period of time, and it began with subtle neglect of his responsibilities. 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:56.000 What we see with David is we see the common progression of sin. 00:01:56.719 --> 00:02:04.560 From seeing to desiring to taking, and then we all know the regretting. 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:08.560 When our girls were little, we would always go out to the Gwinnette County Fair. 00:02:08.639 --> 00:02:09.680 Do we have any fair people? 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:10.960 Anybody else, fair people? 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:12.639 It's an interesting lot of people. 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:17.199 We'd go out to the Gwinnette County Fair because Christy and I grew up going to the fair. 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:18.800 We went to the fair every year. 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:21.360 It was a major highlight in Lawrenceville, Georgia. 00:02:21.439 --> 00:02:27.199 And so I grew up going to the fair, so we would drive out there, we'd take our girls, there we are, years ago, out at the fair. 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:28.879 That's how happy we looked going in. 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:31.439 You never look that happy coming out of the fair. 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:32.319 Never. 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:36.960 And we'd risk our lives on some rides and we'd eat some horrible food. 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:39.360 We'd always get a funnel cake. 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:40.000 Right? 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:47.680 You walk by the funnel cake stand a few times, you smell it, you see it, it looks so good, and it smells so good. 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:50.879 And I want it, I want it for the girls, you know, I want it for them. 00:02:51.039 --> 00:02:56.479 And so I'd buy one and we'd split it up and then I would finish it off. 00:02:57.039 --> 00:03:03.439 And never, never did I say, I feel amazing. 00:03:03.759 --> 00:03:05.840 I feel fantastic. 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:07.680 I'm gonna have a second funnel cake. 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:09.120 Never happened. 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:11.280 Sin is the funnel cake. 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:19.759 Big promise, a decent time, and then consequences and regret. 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:25.039 After Bathsheba gets pregnant, David keeps digging his hole. 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:28.800 Her husband Uriah was off at war where he should have been. 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:33.599 So David sends for him and he says, Hey, Uriah, go home. 00:03:33.759 --> 00:03:36.319 Have a good time, be with your wife. 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:38.719 But Uriah is an upright guy. 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:40.240 He says, How can I go home? 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:41.919 Or people are away fighting. 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:43.759 How can I go home and do that? 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:45.840 No, no, no, I can't go home. 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:47.840 So that attempt fails. 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:49.439 So David tries another method. 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:51.280 I'm gonna get him really drunk. 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:52.240 That'll work. 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:56.639 So he gets Uriah drunk, but still Uriah doesn't go home. 00:03:56.960 --> 00:04:00.400 So David digs the hole even deeper. 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:04.000 He sends Uriah back to war with a letter. 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:06.400 2 Samuel 11, 15 through 17. 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:16.720 In the letter he wrote, set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down and die. 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:23.519 And as Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant men. 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:28.800 And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, and some of the servants of David among the people fell. 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:31.759 Uriah the Hittite also died. 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:36.639 So point number two is this sin multiplies through deception and control. 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:41.040 Instead of confession, the easiest way out. 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:42.720 I'm a mess. 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:47.360 I messed up, I'm sorry, I need to come clean, I need to confess. 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:49.199 That's the easiest way out. 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:51.120 David digs the hole further. 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:55.199 He goes from adultery to deceit to basically murder. 00:04:56.000 --> 00:05:01.920 And so the story goes on, and David hears back that Uriah's dead, 2 Samuel 11, 25 through 27. 00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:09.920 David said to the messengers, Thus shall you say to Joab, do not let this matter displease you, for the sword devours now one and now another. 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:12.639 Strengthen your attack against the city and overthrow it. 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:13.839 And encourage him. 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:21.040 When the wife of Uriah, that's Bathsheba, heard that Uriah, her husband, was dead, she lamented over her husband. 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:31.199 So now she's pregnant from a man who basically forced himself on her, and now her husband's dead. 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:35.439 And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house. 00:05:35.519 --> 00:05:37.279 So now he takes her. 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:39.920 And she became his wife and bore him a son. 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:42.720 But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord. 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:47.600 Point number three is that sin hardens our hearts against compassion toward others. 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:53.759 No part of the story is David thinking about Bathsheba. 00:05:55.199 --> 00:06:05.839 He's caught up in his own mess so much that he can't extend thought, compassion, any energy toward Bathsheba or her family. 00:06:06.079 --> 00:06:12.639 Instead, he minimizes his sin, he normalizes his evil to fit his own needs. 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:16.240 But the story is not over. 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:22.480 God graciously interrupts David's path, which we all need. 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:24.639 God's gracious interruptions. 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:27.199 Now this is a bit of reading, 2 Samuel 12. 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:28.000 We're going to read all of it. 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:31.920 2 Samuel 12, 1 through 7, and then we'll jump to 10 through 15. 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:36.160 And the Lord sent Nathan to David. 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:37.439 See, there's the interruption. 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:39.439 The Lord sent Nathan to David. 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:45.360 He came to him and said to him, There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor. 00:06:45.519 --> 00:06:54.480 The rich man had very many flocks and herds, but the poor man had nothing but one little ew lamb which he had bought. 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:58.160 And he brought it up, and it grew up with him, and with his children. 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:04.079 It used to eat his morsel and drink from his cup and lie in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him. 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:11.680 Now there came a traveller to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the guests who had come to him. 00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:17.199 But he took the poor man's lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him. 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:20.240 So Nathan's telling this story. 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:25.439 Hoping to get to the heart of David, verse 5. 00:07:25.519 --> 00:07:33.120 Then David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, As the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves to die. 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:38.720 And he shall restore the lamb fourfold because he did this thing and because he had no pity. 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:43.360 Nathan said to David, You are the man. 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:58.720 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me, is the Lord speaking to David, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife. 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:14.560 Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house, and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun, for you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun. 00:08:14.879 --> 00:08:19.120 David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. 00:08:19.839 --> 00:08:24.560 And Nathan said to David, The Lord also has put away your sin. 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:26.319 You shall not die. 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:33.039 Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord, the child who is born to you shall die. 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:35.919 Then Nathan went to his house. 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:41.279 Point number four is this God is gracious to expose our sin. 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:46.720 He is gracious to interrupt us when we're digging our hole. 00:08:47.519 --> 00:08:53.679 And God is fully gracious to us in Jesus, all his justice is satisfied. 00:08:54.320 --> 00:09:00.320 He does not penalize us for our sin, but he exposes it and he will discipline. 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:09.759 And the repercussions of my sin and your sin, even while we're fully forgiven, the repercussions in the natural world will still exist. 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:12.960 2 Samuel 12, 15 B through 18. 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:17.440 And the Lord afflicted the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and he became sick. 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:19.840 David therefore sought God on behalf of the child. 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:28.639 And David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground, and the elders of the house stood beside him to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them. 00:09:28.799 --> 00:09:31.440 On the seventh day the child died. 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:37.279 Point number five is that our lives will have both God's grace and natural consequences. 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:43.120 When I eat the funnel cake or fried Twinkie, did anybody get the fried? 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:44.960 Don't go for the don't that's too much. 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:47.840 God still loves me. 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:51.440 When you eat the funnel cake, God still loves you. 00:09:51.919 --> 00:09:53.919 But you're gonna feel like trash. 00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:54.480 Right? 00:09:54.639 --> 00:10:02.399 Like our lives have the fullness of God's grace, but we'll still have natural consequences of our sin. 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:04.480 David was truly forgiven. 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:05.919 Verse 13 is clear. 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:08.559 The Lord also has put away your sin. 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:09.679 Gone. 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:12.480 Yet the baby dies. 00:10:12.639 --> 00:10:14.480 Alright, so what about the baby, right? 00:10:14.639 --> 00:10:16.720 The baby didn't do anything in the story. 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:19.919 We can kind of read over the baby, but the baby didn't do anything. 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:23.200 The baby dies, seventh day, the baby didn't do anything. 00:10:23.519 --> 00:10:27.919 Well, three points are made theologically about this death of this baby. 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:34.399 The first is that the child's death is not presented as any condemnation on that baby. 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:39.440 The child's death is part of God's public dealing with David as king. 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:42.799 Now that's tough to swallow, but that's how it's presented in the text. 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:54.879 Now, the third point I think is the most applicable to us, and that's that after the child dies, David says, I shall go to him, but he will not return to me. 00:10:57.759 --> 00:11:03.440 Now, David's baby's death was discipline, and we know that because God told him it was. 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:09.120 Now, when something horrible happens in your life, I don't know if it's discipline or not. 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:13.679 You don't know if it's discipline or not, but it could be discipline. 00:11:13.840 --> 00:11:19.039 Now that's a little bit harder, but that's how the New Testament frames the idea of God disciplining us. 00:11:19.200 --> 00:11:22.799 It's not punishment, but it could be discipline. 00:11:23.039 --> 00:11:34.480 But what we do know in Christ, because he bore all of our condemnation, every hardship that comes to us now comes through the hands of the loving, sovereign Father. 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:40.080 So it could be discipline, or it may be mystery, or some combination. 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:43.279 That's not easy. 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:48.080 But that's what it means to walk in faith through a broken world. 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:50.080 Now back to the baby. 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:53.279 Here's what Charles Spurgeon said about this baby dying. 00:11:53.519 --> 00:12:01.759 Spurgeon said, I cannot conceive that David would have been comforted by the thought, I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me. 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:06.639 If he merely meant I shall die, there is far more in that sentence than that. 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:10.879 And what Spurgeon was saying is that this baby is in heaven. 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:15.600 And this brings great comfort to any of us who have lost a baby. 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:22.080 If you've miscarried or you've lost a very young infant, a young child, brings great comfort. 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:24.320 We know where that child is. 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:31.200 The Westminster Confession states elect infants dying in infancy are regenerated and saved by Christ through the Spirit. 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:34.559 This is the confidence in God's sovereign grace. 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:38.480 Even to our little ones who have yet to profess anything of faith. 00:12:38.799 --> 00:12:42.559 See, this is the only way that David could have said this. 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:48.240 And it brings huge comfort to us if we lose a baby. 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:50.480 So the baby dies. 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:56.720 And finally, David stops digging the hole. 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:02.080 In Psalm 51, we can read of David's repentance. 00:13:02.879 --> 00:13:11.519 51.1, have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love, according to your abundant mercy, blot out my transgressions. 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:16.720 So it's a repentance according to steadfast love. 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:20.399 So the confession is inside of God's steadfast love. 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:27.279 That's also stated in the New Testament in Romans 2, 4, God's kindness leads us to repentance. 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:29.200 That's not what I was taught growing up. 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:34.320 I grew up with a shame-based, fear-motivated repentance. 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:38.080 You better or this, you better or else. 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:42.240 Point number six is God's kindness leads us to repentance. 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:50.399 Pastor and Professor Jack Miller, he used the phrase gospel-kissed repentance. 00:13:51.120 --> 00:13:54.879 And what he said is he said, repentance is not self-condemnation. 00:13:55.200 --> 00:13:57.519 Repentance is not trying harder. 00:13:57.840 --> 00:14:02.720 Repentance is returning to the Father in weakness. 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:08.000 Repentance grows out of assurance of grace, not fear of rejection. 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:13.200 Now, most of y'all know that I love to fish. 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:14.159 Here's a picture of a fish. 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:15.600 I've shown you this picture of this fish before. 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:16.960 That's a cutthroat trout. 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:18.799 That is my favorite fish I've ever caught. 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:19.679 I love that fish. 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:21.200 I think about that fish all the time. 00:14:21.279 --> 00:14:31.120 And the reason why I think about that fish all the time, it was the first fish years ago that I caught all by myself, my own gear, no guide, no friend. 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:32.320 I saw the fish. 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:37.519 I spotted it, I hunted it, I cast to it, I hooked it, I netted it, I did it all. 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:39.039 First fish I ever did that with. 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:40.639 So I think about this fish all the time. 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:43.840 I also think about this fish when I think about repentance. 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:53.759 Because as badly as I wanted to pull this fish out of the water, this fish knows nothing except the water. 00:14:54.159 --> 00:15:03.840 Everything it knows about life, about how he works and he swims and he eats, is inside the context of water. 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:13.279 My point, of course, is that in Jesus, everything we know is in the context of God's kindness. 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:15.600 The water of God's kindness. 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:16.879 It's all kindness. 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:20.960 So if we're talking about repentance, it's inside of God's kindness. 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:24.639 So I want to give you two frameworks of repentance. 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:27.279 The first is Jack Miller's framework of repentance. 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:30.320 There's in a book called Repentance years, decades ago. 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:34.000 And Jack Miller is a theological guy, pastor, professor. 00:15:34.159 --> 00:15:42.720 If you think before Tim Keller, Paul Tripp, Scotty Smith, before this is like the grandfather of grace in the 70s. 00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:48.720 And Jack Miller had a framework he called the branch and root framework for repentance. 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:58.080 Miller says Jesus does not merely trim our branches, our behaviors, he goes after our heart, the root, because God is after the heart. 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:00.080 So it might look something like this. 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:01.919 Anger may be the branch. 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:02.799 That's a problem. 00:16:02.879 --> 00:16:04.639 That's going to have consequences. 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:07.440 But control may be the root. 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:10.000 Anxiety may be the branch. 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:12.559 Unbelief may be the root. 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:15.120 People pleasing may be the branch. 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:17.919 A hunger for approval may be the root. 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:35.679 And Miller said, as we grow in our assurance of being a beloved son and daughter of God through Jesus alone, not our record or performance, the more we grow in that assurance, the more we're able to move past the branches and get to the root. 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:41.679 Out of that, Tim Keller develops his idol framework for repentance. 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:43.919 That's in his book, Counterfeit Gods. 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:45.120 At least it's the clearest there. 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:47.120 It's throughout all his writings and teachings. 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:48.879 The clearest in counterfeit gods. 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:51.440 He said this: an idol is anything. 00:16:51.759 --> 00:16:55.919 So when we're thinking about the root, Keller goes, all right, the root, we're talking about idols. 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:57.679 So this is where this idol framework comes from. 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:08.000 Keller says, an idol is anything we look to for what only God can ultimately give us identity, security, worth, control, comfort, or hope. 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:13.519 So success, family, approval, work can all become idols. 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:17.920 Idols function beneath our behaviors. 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:21.119 It's the heart craving something. 00:17:21.279 --> 00:17:29.599 So we have our surface sin, our behaviors, and then we have this deep idol, the root, which is becoming a false savior to us. 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:38.319 And Keller gives us good diagnostic questions like, what do I feel I must have? 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:44.160 What if lost makes life feel meaningless? 00:17:45.359 --> 00:17:48.319 What functional savior am I trusting? 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:55.119 And the solution is to replace the false savior with the true savior. 00:17:55.440 --> 00:17:56.720 Which would go like this. 00:17:57.119 --> 00:17:59.839 Jesus gives me the approval I seek. 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:03.119 Jesus gives me the security I crave. 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:06.240 Jesus gives me the identity I chase. 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:10.720 Jesus gives me the worth I try to earn. 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:19.519 Back in the fall, I went on a father-daughter retreat with my oldest daughter, and we did a truss fall. 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:20.960 Have you ever done a truss fall? 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:22.240 Like, you know, you're in a group. 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:41.599 Okay, but it's all there's a group of us as dads and daughters, and the platform is probably six feet tall, and you climb up a little ladder, you get the platform, you get your you get your heels on the on the edge of the platform like this, and the group's all down below you, about six feet below you, and you cross your arms and your phone is just straight as a board, and you fall straight back. 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:44.640 Well, we all go, and the leader's saying, you know, we're gonna catch you, it's no problem. 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:46.720 There's one guy, big dude. 00:18:46.799 --> 00:18:48.240 One guy's a big dude. 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:49.519 Just a big dude. 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:50.880 Okay, I'm a skinny dude. 00:18:50.960 --> 00:18:52.240 I didn't worry too much about it. 00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:55.039 Big dude was a little worried about it. 00:18:55.359 --> 00:18:58.480 Honestly, I was a little worried about it, let's say the truth. 00:18:58.720 --> 00:19:01.759 Uh but the leader's like, no, we got you. 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:03.920 We are enough for you. 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:06.400 And big dude goes, we catch him. 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:07.680 No big deal. 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:11.519 Because our supply was enough for him. 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:16.960 We never wavered, we didn't get tired, we didn't run away, we caught everyone. 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:19.200 And that's an image of repentance. 00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:24.079 Falling backward into that which is enough for you. 00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:25.519 That's what Jack Miller said. 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:35.279 Repentance is our ongoing calling to collapse on Jesus, acknowledging our need and receiving his supply. 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:39.119 Our ongoing calling to collapse on Jesus. 00:19:39.440 --> 00:19:49.680 So we have repentance as a becoming a Christian, and then we live the life of repentance, which is not shame-based and it's not fear-motivated. 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:54.480 It's born out of the assurance of who we are as sons and daughters. 00:19:54.720 --> 00:19:56.319 Not our performance and not our record. 00:19:56.400 --> 00:20:01.759 So we're free to repent as a process of growth, as a process of healing. 00:20:02.079 --> 00:20:06.079 I close reading David's repentant words in Psalm 51. 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:09.200 Psalm 51, 10 through 12. 00:20:10.640 --> 00:20:14.960 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:19.279 Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. 00:20:19.599 --> 00:20:25.200 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:30.960 If you have any questions about this sermon or you would like to be prayed for, I'll be down front afterward. 00:20:31.359 --> 00:20:32.160 Love to pray with you. 00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:33.279 Let's pray together. 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:41.599 Heavenly Father, we're so grateful that you don't leave us in our mess, but you interrupt us in your sovereign grace. 00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:44.880 We welcome more interruptions. 00:20:45.519 --> 00:20:49.839 For we know that our hearts are not always where they should be. 00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:52.000 Our behaviors are not where they should be. 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:57.119 Our branches can be messy because there's a root that needs to be dealt with. 00:20:57.279 --> 00:20:59.920 Would you shine light on that this morning? 00:21:01.359 --> 00:21:05.119 Would we feel even more free in Jesus to repent more? 00:21:06.240 --> 00:21:11.440 To fall backward into your sufficiency of forgiveness and love and transformation. 00:21:12.319 --> 00:21:18.400 Call us to a life of repentance that we might be all the more free as your sons and daughters. 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:19.440 In Jesus. 00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:20.240 Amen.