Through the years, many people have speculated as the reasons why David failed. A lot of speculation,

and I'm going to condense them all for you. But I want you to know it is a forewarning to every one of us without exception.

Your pastor is included. Because the moment you say, I got this, that's the moment the devil start working.

And these are not excuses. These are not rationalizing of David's failure. It's a forewarning

to all of us. First of all, it was boredom. It was boredom, which caused David to get into

this trouble.

Beloved, the average American is bored with life.

If I can understand what's going on, I can tell you, the average person is bored.

You ask a person who said, why do you work hard?

He said, so I can earn more money.

Why do you want to earn more money so that I can buy food? Why do you want to buy food? It's because I want to get strength. Why do you want to get strength? Because I want

to be able to work. Why do you want to work? And the merry go round. It just goes on and on and on and on.

I happen to be privileged to know people throughout my life who literally work hard for one reason,

and that's so they give money away to the Lord's work. That humbles me beyond measure.

This was David. When I think of people who literally live to work so they give money away,

this was David. Because if you remember in the

last message, he was giving his entire net worth for the glory of God. He was totally in,

he was totally committed. There was no doubt in his mind. He said, if God does not want me to build the temple,

I'm going to give all that I have for the future building, whoever God were raised to build that

building. That was David. And he said, what happened? What happened of David of 2nd Samuel

Chapter 7 to the David of 2nd Samuel chapter 11. Something has changed. Something has happened

when his life purpose was the glory of God and then all of a sudden he becomes bored with life.

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