Sermon Tone Analysis

Get Back In the Game

In : David is in grief.

The victory was turned into mourning – exactly opposite of what God does.

The victory was turned into mourning – exactly opposite of what God does.

God specializes in turning your day of morning into a day of victory.

Here, victory is turned into defeat and sorry.

God specializes in turning your day of morning into a day of victory.

Did you know that you can experience morning during a time of victory?

We can experience depression in a place of provision.

We can experience what appears to be failure during a season of success.

So much of life is not just the event, but our ability to process the event on the correct level.

David has lost so much (his son) that he can’t celebrate the victory.

Although the solders won the battle, their heads were hung in shame and there was no parade.

His sorrow is pronounced and he is about to lose what he has left.

Here, victory is turned into defeat and sorry.

David is so upset about what is gone, he is about to step right over and miss it.

Because waiting for him is the support of the troops and resources for him to reclaim his throne and get back what is his.

Did you know that you can experience morning during a time of victory?

• We can experience depression in a place of provision.

• We can experience what appears to be failure during a season of success.

So much of life is not just the event, but our ability to process the event on the correct level.

But his is not ready yet and he is weeping in isolation over the gate.

However, Joab (the general) had the guts to go into the chamber and confront David.

David has lost so much (his son) that he can’t celebrate the victory.

We should get in the habit of thanking God for those people that tell us what we do not want to hear.

Those are the ones that really love you.

Joab give the gift of confrontation.

Sometimes the gift of confrontation is better than the gift of comfort.

Although the solders won the battle, their heads were hung in shame and there was no parade.

Joab says that David has humiliated those that love you and support him.

Joab says: Why do you keep attaching yourself to stuff that is no good?

Why do you keep running back to things that hurt you?

His sorrow is pronounced and he is about to lose what he has left.

You love those that hate you and hate those who love you.

Why is this?

Stop chasing that which is trying to walk away from you at the expense of what God has given you.

Similar to what David asks Saul: “How long will you morn over what God has rejected?”

After some constructive coaching by Joab, the king got up and took his seat in the gateway.

David is so upset about what is gone, he is about to step right over and miss it.

Because waiting for him is the support of the troops and resources for him to reclaim his throne and get back what is his.

But his is not ready yet and he is weeping in isolation over the gate.

Today’s message: “Get Back In The Game.”

However, Joab (the general) had the guts to go into the chamber and confront David.

With David, we are seeing the inexpiable relationship between character and confidence.

It is impossible to sustain your confidence with a faulty character.

Without the deep-seated core of character, it is impossible to sustain a sense of real confidence.

We should get in the habit of thanking God for those people that tell us what we do not want to hear.

David let’s in somethings in that are now overpowering him – and little by little after years of dysfunction.

The trouble that David has now is related to how he dealt with the dysfunction.

It is never your dysfunction that relates to how God chooses you – it is how you deal with the dysfunction.

When David fought Goliath, he fought from a distance – which is a good strategy.

Goliath was skilled in hand-to-hand combat and David was a slinger.

This is also the way David lived his life.

Recall the story that is not told in vacation bible study: See - David wrote this after his greatest moral failure.

See Bathsheba (wife of Uriah).

See .

Those are the ones that really love you.

Joab give the gift of confrontation.

- David wrote this after his greatest moral failure.

See Bathsheba (wife of Uriah).

See .

He was supposed to in battle with his army, but he wasn’t.

It is where he wasn’t and what he didn’t do that brought him to a place where he had freedom of capacity to do the things that he was not supposed to do.

If he did what he was supposed to do, he would not have done what he did.

Because he ended up sleeping with a woman that was taking a bath and then had the husband killed to cover his tracks.

Sometime the gift of confrontation is better than the gift of comfort.

Joab says that David has humiliated those that love you and support him.

Joab says: Why do you keep attaching yourself to stuff that is no good?

Why do you keep running back to things that hurt you?

Where David messed up was not necessarily his sin (which was wrong), but it was how he responded to his sin buy compounding his sin vs. seeking God’s grace.

Any so rather than deal with the dysfunction of his disobedience, he piled several layers of shame on top of his sin – until Nathan the profit called David out.

You love those that hate you and hate those who love you.

Why is this?

You can pick your decisions but you can’t pick your consequences.

Stop chasing that which is trying to walk away from you at the expense of what God has given you.

Yes, David did receive grace but it left a residue.

David’s sin would play out in his family line where his son raped his half-sister Tamar.

And you thought that your family is dysfunctional?

David dealt with his dysfunction from a distance.

In , Absalom and this troops are chasing David until his long adorable hair gets caught on a tree and is thrown from his horse.

Be careful what you wish for.

The thing that makes you great outwardly makes you vulnerable inwardly.

Absalom gets caught up by the thing that made him so attractive.

Absalom is then killed by David’s men.

Now David is grieving.

Similar to what David asks Saul: “How long will you morn over what God has rejected?”

After some constructive coaching by Joab, the king got up and took his seat in the gateway.

There are times when the challenge of responsibility will want to make you want to walk away from something that you love.

And people will judge you in that moment and think that you are walking away – because your lazy – but you are not lazy – you are thinking about walking away because you do not think that you have what it takes – and this is the danger of disengagement.

It is when you find yourself in a state of shame or fear or trauma or exhaustion and your walk away from what God gave you – because you do not know how to manage it.

It is the danger of disengagement.

There is danger in showing up in body and not in mind.

Sorting like coming to church vs. being in church.

Today’s message: “Get Back In The Game.”

With David, we are seeing the inexpiable relationship between character and confidence.

It is impossible to sustain your confidence with a faulty character.

Without the deep-seated core of character, it is impossible to sustain a sense of real confidence.

I have learned that there is a big difference between coming home and being home.

There is a big difference between having a child and being a mom.

And sometimes, the temptation is not exactly to run away - but to disengage.