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Words with Friends

Scripture ESV/point for Screen (Bold Bible reference use in notes with fill in blanks)
Hebrews 11:3
Matthew 12:36-37
Romans 10:9-10
Proverbs 11:9

Think before you speak
Proverbs 11:12

Think before you post
Proverbs 16:12

Just because you think it, doesn't mean you have to say it.
Proverbs 16:24
Proverbs 18:21
Our words have the power to destroy and the power to build up.

Next Steps:
Who do you need to forgive?
Who do you need to apologize to?
What post do you need to delete?
What lie do you need to stop believing?
What truth do you need to start believing?

How to Make Right Decisions
Proverbs 3:5-6

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And do not lean on your
own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He
will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6
Psalm 5:8 Lead me, O’Lord in your righteousness because of my
enemies – make straight your way before me.
1. Cling to God.
2. Humble yourself.
3. Bring God into every situation.
Psalm 20:7 Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust
in the name of the Lord our God.

Part 1 of a series on Kings.

Check out Pastor Allen's next sermon in the Samuel Series: "Freedom Isn't Free"
Freedom Isn’t Free

2 Samuel 12:7-14
Conceal your sins.
Confess your sins.
If you confess your sin, Christ will cover your sin.

“He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.” Proverbs 28:13

I. Repent
Psalm 51:1-6
1. Acknowledge your sin, v.13
2. Ask for forgiveness, v.14a
3. Accept responsibility, v.14b
“Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.” James 5:16

II. Receive

Psalm 51:7-11
“If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:8-9

III. Restoration
Psalm 51:12-17

Watch as Pastor Allen takes us through the next sermon in the Samuel Series, "Our Sins Will Find Us Out".

Our Sin Will Find Us Out
2 Samuel 11

11 In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent
Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army. They
destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David
remained in Jerusalem.
2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on
the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The
woman was very beautiful, 3 and David sent someone to find out
about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of
Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
1. Sin will cost you more than you want to pay.
 4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he
slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly
uncleanness.) Then she went back home. 5 The woman conceived
and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”
6 So David sent this word to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.”
And Joab sent him to David. 7 When Uriah came to him, David
asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war
was going. 8 Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house
and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the
king was sent after him. 9 But Uriah slept at the entrance to the
palace with all his master’s servants and did not go down to his
house. 10 David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” So he asked
Uriah, “Haven’t you just come from a military campaign? Why
didn’t you go home?” 11 Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel
and Judah are staying in tents,[ a ] and my commander Joab and my
lord’s men are camped in the open country. How could I go to my
house to eat and drink and make love to my wife? As surely as you
live, I will not do such a thing!”

12 Then David said to him, “Stay here one more day, and
tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem
that day and the next. 13 At David’s invitation, he ate and drank
with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah
went out to sleep on his mat among his master’s servants; he did
not go home.
2. Sin will take you further than you want to go.
14 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with
Uriah. 15 In it he wrote, “Put Uriah out in front where the fighting
is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and
die.”
16 So while Joab had the city under siege, he put Uriah at a place
where he knew the strongest defenders were. 17 When the men of
the city came out and fought against Joab, some of the men in
David’s army fell; moreover, Uriah the Hittite died.
18 Joab sent David a full account of the battle. 19 He instructed the
messenger: “When you have finished giving the king this account
of the battle, 20 the king’s anger may flare up, and he may ask you,
‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Didn’t you know
they would shoot arrows from the wall? 21 Who killed
Abimelek son of Jerub-Besheth[ b ]? Didn’t a woman drop an upper
millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why
did you get so close to the wall?’ If he asks you this, then say to
him, ‘Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.’”
22 The messenger set out, and when he arrived he told David
everything Joab had sent him to say. 23 The messenger said to
David, “The men overpowered us and came out against us in the
open, but we drove them back to the entrance of the city
gate. 24 Then the archers shot arrows at your servants from the

wall, and some of the king’s men died. Moreover, your servant
Uriah the Hittite is dead.”
25 David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Don’t let this
upset you; the sword devours one as well as another. Press the
attack against the city and destroy it.’ Say this to encourage Joab.”

3. Sin will keep you longer than you want to stay.
26 When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she
mourned for him. 27 After the time of mourning was over, David
had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore
him a son. But the thing David had done displeased the Lord.

Psalm 32:1 “Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven,
whose sins are covered.”