Title: David and Bathsheba
Scripture: 2 Samuel 11:1-27
Speaker: Nathan Miller, NathanM@cckc.church

What sort of freak then is man! How novel, how monstrous, how chaotic, how paradoxical, how prodigious! Judge of all things, feeble earth-worm, repository of truth, sink of doubt and error, glory and refuse of the universe… Man’s greatness and wretchedness are so evident that the true religion must necessarily teach us that there is in man some great principle of greatness and some great principle of wretchedness!

- Blaise Pascal

You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

- The Dark Knight

Where do I see the warning signs?

We aren’t prepared for such a David. What begins as a lustful whim develops in an enormous sex-and-murder crime. How does such sin happen? As with most sins, gradually and unobtrusively.

- Eugene Peterson

All at once a secret, smoldering fire is kindled. The flesh burns and is in flames. It makes no difference whether it is sexual desire, or ambition, or vanity, or desire for revenge, or love of fame and power, or greed for money… At this moment God is quite unreal to us, he loses all reality, and only desire…is real… Satan does not here fill us with hatred of God, but with forgetfulness of God…

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Where do I feel entitled?

Where am I minimizing the cost of my sin?

Where will I turn when I fail?

Vulnerability reduces shame and leads to freedom.

- Jay Stringer