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    Sinning Like David: Repentance

    David was a shepherd boy turned celebrity king.  His life was huge.  He killed a giant, battled violent armies, hid behind enemy lines and faked insanity out of self preservation, recruited renegades and turned them into a military force, and ruled Israel for decades.  David also sinned outrageously.  We can learn a lot by watching the progression of his biggest mistake.  He knocked up a military officer’s wife (Bathsheba), and had him killed in the line of duty to cover it up.  BUT (and it’s a big but), he repented wholeheartedly.  Psalm 51 is David’s prayer of confession for his sin with Bathsheba.  It’s an incredible example of what brokenhearted…