John Luke Robertson

He still stayed, even through the consequences and the revenge that God got on David for the people that he hurt, God was still with David and still gave David the opportunity to come back.

And that is what Zach was saying too, is encouraging to me myself of,

as a leader, which hopefully, I mean, I pray, I do what I can to have a relationship with God so that I'll stay faithful.

But if that happened or if someone I know that happened to, I know that that's not the end.

Like there's another part of the story.

Yeah.

Wait, hold on.

Here's my example for all you youth pastors out there that you can use for your kids and your youth to cringe at.

David didn't have a phone, but he had rooftops.

And he was up there scrolling through the rooftops.

Scrolling through the rooftops.

Well, speaking of his men, you know it had to be over a long period of time because when you get to...

2 Samuel 23, which is one of my favorite chapters, and it goes on to David's mighty men, this kind of like last section.

I've always loved reading that and thinking about these men who were just...

doing just crazy adventures.

Like the Maimon do all kinds of stuff.

They're doing their job while David's sitting at the house.

Exactly.

And you see all the people around him see him go down, and you can see them all pulling away.

As he gets worse, they're all like, don't talk to David, don't say anything, don't get away.