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all of you we went
on a family vacation after christmas
my parents
treated us all to disney world
and when my kids got to their house guest this morning their suitcases were
packed in it was surprise we're going to florida
which was a wonderful gifts for our family that i would say having to drive
that far with that many kids in the event like mine
sometimes i question was a really a gift to my parents trying to get me back for
a lot of the ears of a lot of stuff
but it is a joy to be back with you are in this
series year
as we're celebrating the epiphany and now we come into this
time where we continue to look up on all the work they got does in our lives
and not just as that the christ child in the manger anymore but
has more
for eternity
and we're getting this series
called i'd dent iti theft
and i have to do is say it's not that we're not going to be talking about
securing your social security number with wife locker or anything like that
uh...
but i what do you think about the identity that you
as someone be long
homestead don
now i'm gonna start
with a little bit of a pathways
it's going to be a pretty simple
created the heavens and the earth and all that are contained
with it now
dyed yarns are very sure about that
my we're likely to hear them
their children's sermon here
guy
uh...
god created everything
in the heavens and in the her
and everything at
below the sea
and he promptly them to be
something he said they are
do it yes i mean you know it
collecting
when god looked up on his creation step-by-step
as he took the day after day and put into motion this world
he looked up on it and proclaimed it to be good
anne hag of gardening and nagar team where a man ana one and they were days
you had a mini
and they were good
but
all of those creatures in creation
why is the circuit
though why why earliest the crash
activists
little sucker those things are terrible our day
i don't like snow
i was in africa one time and i saw this snake slithering down the side of the
road
and many stopped operon top of this wall that was like three feet high and i put
that aside
note-taking jump to
so i really don't like to st
pjm
optus ee
ease and you know in case they had a his sattar
he hissed t
about this special tree
in the center of the guardian
and he told this line to her
because yesterday he
did not say eight you cut in t from actually said yep got set a five eat
from that chari free eat that
groups
we moved on
and that little snake in haste you know
well
that's not true if you would
from that
tree
you will know the knowledge of good ended evil
practice award you to be as why says god is god doesn't want you to know what god
knows
and
doesn't that
look appealing
doesn't it look delicious
many years
thought about it for a moment and what did she do
took a bite
uh... as my breakfast
accepted by accident renowned
it was good
officially told adam about it she said adam
you want to take a bite to you
and what did he do
policy tricked him into it didn't she has bats are sometimes we tell that
story time
saliva islam
to go ahead and heat from that
ally
still
eves identity
because they have the guardian to themselves they were able to
from a hall of the fruit
eventually everything that was there
and instead they've received this expulsion
where they were put out into the world where they had declined a land labor to
get their food
and they had to to work in fighting against
all of the water old things that lived outside of that guarding
and it's this line and lived with
for all of creation ever since
because we
as human beings are created to be the modern day he didn t image of god
when god created us men and women he looked upon as indeed clare dallas and
related
so much of our world
has fallen away from that
and so much of our worlds
tries to continue to live at odds and steal that identity
that we have
and so these next few weeks we're going to be working around these myths that we
have in our world
that have been part of the live at the serpent still hisses and a hard years
so that hopefully we can learn
to disregard that
and get back to you we are created to be as god's people
and so if you're ready to journey with me
uh... our first live that we're going to unpacked today
is the lie
i happen to be strong
and
viewer discretion is advised that can we go to the video
c_f_ you've ever felt like this woman
piece
piece
for the horror movie isn't it
how many of you have
found yourself in that situation
raise your hand
staring in the mere se i've got to be strong come on i can get through this
out to do this
it could be before a big presentation at work it could be
before you have to go to court it could meet before any number of things that i
have to be strong
and that's why wary don't around
this we're gonna look at that one of the strongest characters
that we have in the bible
and this whole series rickety looking at his story but it's king david
we're going to do
think about some of the ways that king david has bought into these lines
because we have a story that we looked at
and second samuel
which is
caps one of the greatest moments of saying that and broken is that david has
in his life
remember david was plucked from obscurity he was a separate boy he
wasn't even the oldest in his family in the place of honor
and god kicked in out of there to be his anointed one his machine dot
his anointed and son of god
who was going to be taking over all of israel
all this whole story is is messed up because why does israel even me
picking besides died
they don't
but they have lived in the smith
every other kingdom around them has a king city want one too
and through series of events when god finally relented and gives them want he
gives indeed
and debate has been at this point in the scriptures very successful i thinking
he's going to war against all kinds of different territories
and at this in this time of year in this season
all of the other teams are going off to war
but not david
when you're yet you know and when you are
reached the pinnacle when you're the king of kings when you're that the most
powerful
you don't even know that need to go to war anymore and now he sent show at the
do that joe at in charge of his troops sent them off to war instead
it's a lot of time on his hands
that's his leads to problems amen so debate in the
evening time is out on the roof of the palace
because it's cooler out there a lot of times people would sleep on the roof
in the in the heat of the spring in the summer
and he did
eases over the side of
the what i heard his palace while looks down
like some people watched you guys see what's happening around jerusalem
and few does he catches baby
sharina nasi padang
and she lines
i don't remember the exact word i remember translating the scripture in
hebrew class
and it wasn't the word wasn't just a beautiful back to that
highest degree
so if you could think about the most beautiful woman in the world that's
that she does level level
she was a tenant
word eleven or twelve need and i don't know she's gorgeous
and david warren at her for his own
it so we have your brought to the palestinian election pins
she ends up with a child
which is a big problem cuz ur husband is one of the very faithful warriors in
david's army he's out
on the front lines inc
and so they have to
fix this problem
and david
this is where david really falls
down
because he begins this series
and actions
is essentially saying i have to be strong david
it's going to solve this problem on his own
does he take any time out to to go before the war against a point me in the
right direction god
now he just starts teaming
all of these plans that he has
he says bring your riot back in as he meets with your eye and he he says u dry
white tell me about the war how's everything going
well while you're here why don't you go home and rest in your own bed
visit with your wife
but you're right is more rights is then that is indeed is what does he tell the
king
certificate do that
appear to be part of the covenant and all that good israel's troops there
all-out in the wilderness
sleeping in tents how can i go home
and be with my wife finley in my own bed
shirley
surely i can do that
he actually sleeps outside on that
in teenage
pat's not helping his plan any
david says
okay let's try this again and i'm going to get on lots of food
and lots of drink and then try to push him in the right direction to go home at
your white wash your feet
here i am
ahahha
where your i am not a faithful man he wants
he's still sleeps out in the streets out at the palace ke
bentsen david he indeed it's gotta be strong scott have something happen
and so he instructs all the troops of israeli
he says okay put your riot in the
and as he draws nearer to the city
withdrawal from him they put your ryr right
how bryant
and he is quickly kill
in the battle
so after his writes this man is slain
david brings taxi by ending his household and hey problems inside
albright
he got away with it
he's a good guy he comforted this burned-out
now
no
david tried to show and get in again how strong he was how powerful he was
banks beat it dot there was a
profit who came to him
we all need profits to come to us and remind us from time to time
what the truth really it's
headset mason comes david
anne he begins to tell this parable about a man with a single you land
and how this man
treasured the u_n_ than this
king came in
took it from him
and when david begins to say what a terrible guide this person must have
been to see a lot was rightfully this week
belonging to the southern man
nathan says aha
dot cc you are the wide
david in all his string
is deflated
piece has to seeing to his knee
in repentance
and i want you to take out
your your bibles and heard this song fifty-one
psalm fifty one
because david has written a song as a response to that moment when nathan came
to him and called him out
then repentance c
david writes this song
and he says have mercy on me gone according to your faithful love
wipe away a my wrongdoings according to your great compassion
wash me completely clean
enough my guilt
purifying me from my saying because i find out my wrongdoings
my scene is always right in front of me ads saying that gets to you
you alone
five comedic evil
in your site
he comes to died
and he comes clean he says i know that i'm a sinful man im know that i have
made a mistake
you see that moment of weakness before god when david lays it all out heat
he had knowledge is what he has died
and he realizes that the only wind that can save him at this point is god
and got a room
missus reversal that we need
need to break the chain of events to break
these chain of this chain of lives that keeps devolving downward downward this
cycle
immediate david to stop it
and say can't be strong anymore
i've heard
belongings
reply god is the warning
who can't seem me
and regardless of what the punishment maybe
he regardless of what god's verdict is
that he comes before the war
broke in and ready for god alone to put him back together
bc its when we are
adam varied weakest when we are laid out before diving
where honest to the core of our hearts and we are at least eight guy
i had to say and against you in your world
that's when died
is able to bring restoration
when we go before our lord and say i can't cannot do this
a two-week
and don is the one who can say
but i a m strong
we find that throughout scriptures signal more desire strength
and our shield and ever-present
that they'd surely abdel more is our strength
nothing that we do on our own in our own power
will ever be able
to conquer what god can do when we are vulnerable enough to say board i can't
do this that you can
had said david goes before godin says deliver me
need from violence god god of my salvation
so that might tonk and saying of the year right just miss
more to open my lips on my mouth will proclaim your praise
you don't want sacrifices friday even entirely burned offering you wouldn't be
pleased
but a broken spirit is my sacrifice god
you won't despise a heart god that is broken and crashed
do good things for zion by your favor
rebuild jerusalem's walls and then you will again what sacrifices of
righteousness
david knows
thank god is going to give him a fresh part
that god is going to bring restoration
and god is faithful to that
but it's hard
david being the tiniest
and so i ask you today
where is it that you're trying to be strong on your own spy on your own
where is it that you're trying to hold it all together in your own strained and
you just
feel the weight of the world crashing down upon you
i ask you in the name of god to lay that down
to realize that the god that created you did not get knows you and loves you is a
guide
who wants to be the strength
bore you
when we are weak
and god is strong
made that be
the truth that we've lived with
animeid knowing who we are as god's people be our identity
regardless of the lies that they don't get that serpents still cases in our
years
thanks t_v_ guide that we know his truth
and we look back at this story
and we know that david is going to be restored
because he
and the wife of your eyes
part in the genealogy of jesus christ
award
me we have that kind of restoration as well
thanks be to god
when you pray with me