“So you’re not going to continue preaching on the life of David?” I had decided not to do so because I didn’t have the stomach to deal with the “down” side of David’s extraordinary life—when so many bad things happened and he had so little to look forward to. But 55 God continued to speak: “Don’t you know that that is where most of your people are?” I wasn’t prepared for this. I wanted to assume most of our people were godly and blameless and would find 2 Samuel 13 to 24 quite irrelevant to them. I still don’t know (and am not sure I want to know) what God knew about my church, but I continued
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