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This powerful reflection weaves together two seemingly different stories - Jackie Robinson's groundbreaking courage in baseball and King David's devastating moral failure - to teach us profound truths about character, consequences, and redemption. We celebrate Jackie Robinson not just as a trailblazer who broke the color barrier, but as someone who possessed both exceptional talent and extraordinary mental fortitude. His ability to excel under immense pressure reminds us that true leadership requires both skill and character.
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SPEAKER_01Welcome back to another episode of Baseball in the Bible. I'm Riker Dotson here with my father, Ryan Dotson. We're back for another podcast on Jackie Robinson Day slash week. The week where we celebrate one of the most monumental baseball players in history.
SPEAKER_04That's right. So today when we're recording this, we're recording on April 15th, 2026, 79 years after Jackie Robinson played his first game and broke the color barrier. And so we are honoring him today, even though when you're watching this, it's a few days after that fact. We're still celebrating Jackie Robinson in this whole week and what he meant for the game of baseball and for Major League Baseball. And so today, normally, if you watch, we have multiple jerseys hung up. But just like uh all of Major League Baseball, we are only going to have one jersey today, number 42, uh hanging from the wall here.
SPEAKER_01Because we couldn't hang anything Cardinals on the wall, just out of respect. Me and Dad decided to fully wear Cardinals gear to still bring the Cardinals to the podcast.
SPEAKER_04We've got to have him represented. But only Jackie gets hung up on the wall today. Again, just like uh they do in the major leagues on April 15th. So today, when we're recording this, that's what's happening. All the players are wearing uh number 42. Really cool things uh going on there. The video that we actually opened with um that was showing in all the ballparks across the the league that day. You know, the whole We Are Jackie theme for this year, which is really cool. It was a good video. CC Sabathia doing the narration on that. And uh, but all the players are wearing 42, and this year, even a little tweaked, like they're the 42 is actually kind of a uh blue like this. Uh they have blue on the sock or 42 on the socks. I saw, and then even some of uh the hats that everybody's wearing today has the special patch, but on the inside, really cool hats. Uh they had they have a picture of Jackie, like printed, like made into the inside of that hat, and then his stats and April 15th, 1947. Yeah, just really cool uh things. So again, everybody, players, uh coaches, umpires, everybody's wearing 42 on April 15th, and so we're honoring Jackie today. That actually started well, they retired his number in 1997, which would have been 50 years. So right this year it'd be 79. Next year it'll be 80 years since that happened. But they retired uh 42 across baseball in 97, uh, and then it was 2004, I think, when they made April 15th Jackie Robinson Day. And then 2009 is when they started everybody started wearing 42.
SPEAKER_01I I I saw uh speaking of like the gear and stuff, I saw this uh pair of Jackie Robinson cleats I thought was cool. They had like an image of him stealing. Oh, really? Oh that's pretty cool.
SPEAKER_04So we honor Jackie today and uh just uh awesome dude, but not just for what he did. Even when we when we first started the pod, we were making our all-time team, you had him as your all-time second baseman. Because it wasn't just what he did in crossing the color barrier, because honestly, if he wasn't good, it wouldn't have worked, you know, because I think it would have uh there was such pushback to it. Whoever was that guy had to be great mentally strong enough to handle all of the stuff, and he was, but also had to be good at baseball to show that it to show that it can actually happen and to give it merit and and open the door for our other guys in the future. And so Jackie was was a trailblazer, but he was more than just a trailblazer, he was a really good baseball player. So we're gonna again, if you go back and watch early episodes of baseball in the Bible, you can see us highlight Jackie's stats, but we'll read some of them again. Um again, made his debut April 15th, 1947, almost 80 years ago today, uh, for the Brooklyn Dodgers uh at Ebbett's Field was his his first game there. Didn't have a good, I think his first game he was over three, so it didn't have like a great game, but he ended up he was rookie of the year that year. Um he won the NL MVP just two years later in 1949. Um he was the batting champion in 1949, two-time stolen base leader, 47 his rookie year and 49, uh, six-time All-Star, and was a World Series champion in 1955 with the Dodgers. Uh and again, number retired across all of baseball, and rightfully, rightfully so. So just a cool thing. Uh even as a as a current player, if you were in the league to to get to have that day where you can wear his that number on your back, it'd be pretty awesome. Yeah. So we salute Jackie Robinson, the man, the legend, the trailblazer, but also the baseball player and the great. And he played, I think, in his um when he first came in, he played first, but then he transitioned uh to second base. And so some of the stories that you hear about him at first, you know, guys trying to spike him and things like that running by those and along with all the other off-the-field stuff that the guy had to deal with. Yeah, um just incredible uh that he was able to do both, yeah, be good at his craft. I mean, even then, you think how much better could it have even been if he wasn't dealing with all of that? Because everybody's human and that does have to take a toll on you, but he still had a career batting average of 313, 141 career home runs, 761 uh runs batted in. So last appearance was 1956. So, you know, only a nine-year MLB career. He had obviously played earlier than that um before he was allowed to play in the majors, but uh nine-year career, and even in that time for his on-the-field stuff, he was Hall of Fame worthy. And then you factor in the the off-the-field and his impact in the game and in America at large, you know. So happy Jackie Robinson Day. A few days later, as you're watching this, or whenever you're watching this, but we wanted to salute the man, the myth, the legend, the myth, the man the man, the myth, the legend. So Jackie Robinson Day. All right.
SPEAKER_01Back to current MLB.
SPEAKER_04Back to current MLB, we can do again. Everybody was honoring him this week. Um, there were some great things that that happened, so we're gonna get into some of that. Let me pull up my pull up my stats. We we can start with the standings.
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SPEAKER_04Right now, again, we'll just kind of do that every week. And you know, again, we're doing this middle of the week. Time you're watching this, things can change, but it's gonna stay that way as we go through this from week to week.
SPEAKER_01Standing of Wednesday, April 15th, yeah.
SPEAKER_04And so uh, real quick throughout the league, uh Pittsburgh still is leading the the central. Uh they're tied with the Reds. Cards are one are really a half a game back. There uh Pirates and Reds are 10-7, cards are 10 and 8. They played today, Pirates and Reds play later tonight. So they both lose as of today. Cards could be tied for first place, which is just a great start, you know. Everybody as we go through these, I mean, for the most part, every division, well, every division is jumbled up, and most of the divisions are a couple games apart from top to bottom because it's still so early. Nobody has separated yet, but cards are there, cards are doing good. I just I'm proud of our our guys as of today, just one series against Cleveland. Um they're showing showing a lot of stuff. Weatherhole just had a two-run, uh, two game, two home run game, uh, and then his first of his career. And Jordan Walker is we kind of mentioned him a little bit last week, but he's on fire. I really thought he'd be our player of the week, uh, but um he's not gonna be this week. We're gonna stick with it.
SPEAKER_01He could be our batter of the week.
SPEAKER_04Well, the player of the week is technically um, well, it's not, but he the in the national league, uh the hitter of the or the player of the week is a hitter, but we'll get into him in a second. But Jordan Walker gets an honorable mention 100 as a player of the league. He's he's we'll get into the stats. He's leading the league in home runs as of today, but he's just doing doing really good. So proud of that. Brewers and Cubs are rounding up, but a long way to go. In the East, the Braves are winning, uh, leading right now, 11 and 7 at this point. And you got Miami, Philly, Washington, and the Mets, you know, against still early. Everybody's close. In the West, I joked last week that the Dodgers had already wrapped it up. Um, and while they're off and running, the Padres are actually doing well and are the Diamondbacks. Both of them are doing good. So 13-4, the Dodgers are. Padres and Diamondbacks both have 11 wins. So they're doing good in the American League. Um, Yankees got off to a hot start. They've fallen back a little bit. Tampa's leading that, but everything's close. Uh, you got Yankees, Baltimore, Toronto, and Boston right now. Central, probably the hottest team right now, as we're recording, is you know, are the Twins, uh, who are 11-8. Cleveland, 10-9 after losing to the cards today. That's a good ball club, though. I know we we both neither one of us picked them, and I was kind of down on them. Uh, but they're watching them, I mean that it's just obviously they have Jose Ramirez, who's a uh a stud that doesn't get talked about a lot, but you know, at least people know he's but just throughout their lineup, they just guys have guys that put the ball in place. Steven Kwan, uh the rookie, or I think he's a rookie, uh DeLouder, Chase DeLouder. Um just a solid lineup all the way, and their pitching is good. So uh then you got Detroit, Kansas City, White Sox, and the West, hometown, Rangers are still leading nine and eight as of right now. Um, that's all really close there. So uh Rangers kind of been treading water the last 10, 5 and 5, but um still think White Langford's been out a little bit, so we'll get him back, but still think those guys are gonna be good. Seattle's starting to turn it around, they're 8 and 10. But we got a long way to go. But that's that's our where we're at right now. Now let me give you a quick couple quick stats. You want to hear some stats?
SPEAKER_01Why not?
SPEAKER_04One thing while I'm looking this up, we also had we had a game this week. The Yankees were playing the Angels. Um and so you had Aaron Judge and Mike Trout. And so you have two guys that have won the MVP at least three three times um facing off each against each other, and they both in that same in one of the games, they both had two home runs. So it was only the fourth time in history where you had two it's a it's a crazy stat. Two three-time MVPs did two home runs each in the same game. And and it hadn't happened in a long time. All the other ones were back, I think, in the 40s and 50s. So it hadn't happened in a in a minute.
SPEAKER_01I do want to say Mike Trout does have one more prestigious honor that Aaron Judge doesn't. He was on our podcast thumbnail. Aaron Judge can't hold that over, Mike Trout.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I'm sure that that he's honored. Yeah. I guarantee you. He is honored. So um, yeah. So you got you have that. That was a that was a great, great game. Um nothing crazy like last week with the the three home run robberies, but um that was probably the in that game there was a that night uh baseball, there was a whole bunch of I think there was nine players that had multi-home run games, so just a big offensive night. Uh Weatherholt was one of those, I believe. So quick stats looking around the league, and this is major league uh total. Jordan Walker is leading the league. Majors in home runs at eight as of today. Aaron Judge seven, Brandon Lowe seven, Sal Stewart, who got off to a crazy hot start for the Reds, seven. Some familiar names there. Jordan Alvarez, six, Gunner, six, Schwarber six. Those are kind of your some of your guys in the top there. Uh our average leaders right now, Chandler Simpson for Tampa Bay, 400. Uh, second, this guy's he was a player of the week in major leagues a couple of weeks ago. He's been on a tear for the Dodgers, of course, like they need anybody else to step up, but Andy Paes is batting 397. He's also, I think, leading, yeah, leading the league in RBIs with 20. Uh, so he's off to a crazy start. Uh OPS leaders, on base plus slugging, Ben Rice of the Yanks, um, Sal Stewart, Jordan, CJ Abrams, and Pajes is fifth, Jordan Walker sixth. So uh some quick pitching stats, uh strikeouts, Jacob Mizarowski for the Brewers. We talked about him. He's a strikeout phenom. He's leading the lead of the majors 33 so far. Or Jose Soriano, we're about to talk about for the Angels, has 31. Mackenzie Gore, who's doing well. We've talked about him for the Rangers, he's 30. So um see here your ERA leaders, uh Jose Soriano, uh 0.33, Michael Waka, 0.43, uh Bryce Elder, 0.87, and then your league leader in wins is the aforementioned Jose Soriano uh with four wins to this point. And so that's gonna that's gonna lead into our player of the week discussion.
SPEAKER_01I'm a little disappointed.
SPEAKER_04Skeens wasn't on the skins is up there and he's he's up there with strikeouts and win. I think he's got three wins, so it's just again, it's so early. But um off to a good start. And so the players of the week this year, this week for Major League Baseball, um uh, and they get those are get get announced every Sunday. So we're just gonna go with there, who they chose for the for the week ending in April 12th, uh, was Jose Soriano for the Angels, posted a 0.33 ERA, 31 strikeouts, and four wins. And for the National League, James Wood was the hitter I was talking about, who uh this week has hit 500 with four home runs and 11 RBIs. So um, and and the cards that played them earlier in the year, he was kind of scuffling, but he's found his groove now. So uh those are your players of the week. We didn't have anything personal. We could have gone Jaywalk, but we're gonna go with who the major league who major league baseball is. The actual professionals just yeah, so we'll go Jose Soriano and James Wood as our players of the week.
SPEAKER_01Okay, okay. I I do want to say I you gotta think like Walker, he's walking around with a little more pride now because he has more home runs than Aaron Judge.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I mean again, I think he he is, but you also have to understand that he's got a long way to go. Um, Aaron Judge has three MVPs, he's got skins on the wall. But but Walker, again, I I'm excited for him because it's been he's only 23, but he came up in the majors when he was 20. Uh, and these first few years, I thought he was like I've always I've been drafting him in my fantasy draft thinking this is the year, this is the year, and I didn't this year. Oh my god. And then even early on the season, he had a couple, and I was like, I'm not buying it, I'm not picking this guy up because every time I do, and so I didn't, but now somebody else has them and he's lighting it up. But I'm cool with that, let him do his thing. But I just it's he was he was the top prospect coming up, and then it just it hasn't materialized, but he's still only 23. So and he is a he's a big man if you look him up. He's a big guy like Aaron Judge. One inch short. Um, yeah. So we'll see. We'll see if he can sustain it. I don't even care. He doesn't have to be Aaron Judge. If he can be any, you know, he can have 30 home runs a year, I'll take it. And and and cut down, you know, right now he's batting 319. So if he can be anywhere close to 300, my goodness, I'll take it. Um so uh because what he's been to this point hasn't even been close to that. So but you never know. Maybe something clicked. All right. That's our weekly update for the major leagues now. Let's get into our devotion.
SPEAKER_01Okay, okay. I I just want to give a quick uh viewer discretion warning. Not for what we're gonna say, but if you go home and read this on your own, if you're a kid, I recommend parents.
SPEAKER_04Well, we've talked about this in the we talked about this last episode, and we've talked about this even in 1 Samuel. This is this is uh it's not a I don't know how the word children's book. Well, again, I mean it is it's the word of God, and so it's it's but it's not like if you read it, there may be some questions that come up because there's a lot of heavy parents, a lot of heavy stuff that happens, especially in chat in verse chapters 11 through 20, right out of the gate with 11. And so much like we've done even what we did last episode with some of the the war and the fighting.
SPEAKER_01Count's cool.
SPEAKER_04Okay, but there's other parts, you know, we still have to, we're gonna we're weaving our way through this, right? And so we're gonna just touch on a few things and let you figure out how much of a deep dive you want to do. It's it's it's I mean, the the stories are gripping, I would say. Like they are. I mean, like these are these stories are like you know, again, they would be they would be great movies, um, and we've said that a lot, but uh but there is mature content content in some of them. So yes, we give a just we give it very rated R movie. We yeah, we're gonna keep it really G. So we're gonna work our way through this. Um again, this is not a this is the word of God that we're reading. It's not something that we have to be embarrassed about, but we also don't want to we're not gonna use certain words, all right? So we'll work our way through it. Um but we'll start in uh in in chapter 11. And and again, some of this we're gonna read a little bit in chapter 12. We're gonna read several verses, but some of this we are gonna be very, very vague, and you are gonna have to go do your own homework. But I would encourage you to do it because there's there's great truth, even though it's a heavy subject, there's great truth that we can get out of this story. Again, it's the story of David, and we all know his story. That's why we got into this, you and I, because we know his story, but there's so much more to him than just Goliath. Yeah, and when we hear he's a man after God's own heart, and we and all of the great things, he was a flawed man, he was a man like you and I, and he made mistakes, like you and I make mistakes, and you make mistakes. And again, uh, I think we're gonna get into a key part of that, and his the difference even in his mistakes to like Saul's mistakes, and is his response. So, um, so in chapter eleven, do you want me? To give the summary, the safe summary, or do you think you can do it?
SPEAKER_01Uh I think we talked about it pre-podcast. I think I can see what you got. The cleaned up summary here.
SPEAKER_04Let's see what you got.
SPEAKER_01So this is so this is in the spring. Basically, this is when all of the kings are supposed to go to war. And problem number one, David's not at the war. This is mistake number one.
SPEAKER_04Mistake number one is he's not where he should be. Exactly. So to all of us Be where you should. Be where you're supposed to be. Because the following ha ha only happens because he's where he's supposed to be, this next thing doesn't happen. But he's not.
SPEAKER_01So he uh he sees a woman.
SPEAKER_04He's on his roof.
SPEAKER_01Uh Bathsheba.
SPEAKER_04Bathsheba.
SPEAKER_01He he sees her on the roof. Not on the roof, but he is on the roof.
SPEAKER_04He's on the roof.
SPEAKER_01Sees her. And then says that she is beautiful.
SPEAKER_04Correct.
SPEAKER_01And tells her uh tells his like servant to go and get more information about her.
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SPEAKER_01And then he gets David to Mintel, uh, you want to take it from here?
SPEAKER_04Sure. And so he finds out that she's married to Uriah. Right. And he does a couple of so in between there, David makes a mistake with Bathsheba and does something he shouldn't do. And to try to cover that up, he tries to a couple of tactics with Uriah, tries to you know get him drawn. He just he tries to do a couple things that that would cover his tracks. That doesn't work because Uriah was being honorable uh and didn't want to leave his men in battle. And um, and uh so then David, like like so often happens when we make mistakes and we're trying to cover it up. Um the cover-up is often worse than the crime. And uh and so David sends Uriah to the front of the battle. The front of the battle where he knows Yeah.
SPEAKER_01It's like you you get that command, you're like, well crap, he just gave me the death sentence.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and again, and so he sends Uriah to the front of the battle, and Uriah is killed. Um, and then uh David receives word of that. Bathsheba mourns is lost, and then David basically sends for her and says, Wants you to be my wife, and then they're married, and she bore him a son. Uh and the end of chapter 11, the last few words says, But the thing David had done displeased displeased the Lord, and so then we pick up in chapter 12, and again, I've told you this many times. It came true in my life so many times when I would try to do something that I knew was wrong, and even in the moment I think I got away with it. And you didn't there's somehow the Lord, you know, will bring that sin to light and bring it and expose it. Uh, I've warned you about this your whole life. You may think you're gonna get away with it, but you're not. Uh, and so David may have thought he was gonna get away with it, uh, but he's about to find out he's not. And so we're gonna read quite a bit of this because we're gonna skim through so much of the next few chapters. Um, but this is where Nathan or where Nathan comes the prophet and and rebukes and calls out David. So do you want to read? You want to read maybe the read the first nine to ten verses and then or um read the first six verses and then I'll pick up.
SPEAKER_01Okay, uh yeah, our verse of the uh week is in this.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's in it's in this, yeah. So just go ahead and start one to six? Yeah, start with one to six.
SPEAKER_01The Lord sent Nathan to David when he came to him, he said there were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other poor. The rich man had very large number of sheep and cattle, but the poor man had nothing except for one little ew or ew lamb he had brought he had bought. He raised it and grew it up with him and his children. It shared his food, drank from his cup, and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him. Now a traveler came to the rich man, but the rich man refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveller who had come to him. Instead, he took the ewe lamb that belonged to the poor man and prepared it for the one who had come to him. David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, As surely as the Lord lives, who the man who did this must die. He must pay for that lamb four times over because he did such a thing and had no pity.
SPEAKER_04Keep going. You want to you read the next part too. So David was just told this story, and he was furious at the main character of this story, and then he's about to hear this. So you go ahead and pick up in verse 7. Yep.
SPEAKER_01Then Nathan said to David, You are the man. This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says.
SPEAKER_04So hold on. Usually when we say you are the man, it's a good thing. Like you're the man.
SPEAKER_01You're the man. This is not one of those things. This is an accusing. This is accusing. You are the man.
SPEAKER_04This is not the one that you want to hear, you are the man.
SPEAKER_01Okay, sorry. Okay, anyway.
SPEAKER_04Uh sorry, I didn't mean to mess you up there. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_01You are the man. This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says. I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. I gave your master's house, yeah, I gave your master's house to you, and your master's wives into your arms. I gave you all Israel and Judah, and if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more. You want to Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own. This is what the Lord says, Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity on you. I'm going to skip a little bit of that. You can read it later. Um, basically saying what you did in secret is going to be in broad daylight. And then verse 13, which again is a key verse to this whole thing and to David's life. Then David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. Nathan replied, The Lord has taken away your sin. You are not going to die. But because by doing this you have shown utter contempt uh contempt for the Lord, the son born to you will die. And after Nathan went home, if you keep reading that, um the son becomes ill and eventually does uh does pass away. And we'll stop there in 12. But again, the rest of chapter 12 is just him. Uh he's he's praying, he's pleading, fasting, fasting, and then there's a part like he won't eat, and they they try to get him to eat, and then when the baby does die, he kind of gets up, cleans himself up, eats, worships the Lord, eats, and they ask, like, how come you're eating now? And he basically was like, I was when the baby was still had a chance. I thought maybe the Lord would, you know, change his mind basically.
SPEAKER_01And then when he didn't, he's like, What I'm you know, what am I gonna do if he if I go to him, he will not come back?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, he's saying, I'm gonna go to him at some point because I'm gonna die at some point, but he's not coming back here, so I gotta wait till I pass away. But just a really sad um end there to chapter 12. But it's it's him reaping the his the consequences of his mistake. And again, if more consequences to come. More consequences to come in his family. Again, there's a part there where it says uh the sword will never depart from your house. And you and you start to see that over the next couple chapters. And we're gonna we are gonna skim past these, but 13, 14, 15, you start to see this with some of David's sons and his family, and some drama and some bad mistakes that start to happen, um hurting one another, uh ultimately killing one another. Uh Absalom, who's his son, uh, ends up killing Amnon. Uh, and then he runs, runs away. Um, but just some really sad uh family stuff that's happening. Messed up. Messed up stuff that's happening over the next several chapters. Um and and really that's why we're gonna kind of skim by some of that, but I would say read it. I think the the key thing again, if we 12, third, chapter 12, verse 13, is when David just again has his acknowledgement that he had sinned uh against the Lord. Um and then in in 2 Samuel 18, uh Absalom uh dies. Uh, and again, it's just it's heartbreaking for David, even though Absalom had done some wrong things, um, still his son. Uh, and so again, I think because there's so some some tricky things in these chapters, we're gonna just highlight some some key things here. So I in our in our notes, we have um sin starts small, right?
SPEAKER_01Yes, for sure.
SPEAKER_04So we talked about that. I mean, the the first mistake was just him not being raised. So for for all of us, putting ourselves in a in a wrong situation, in a wrong location can sometimes lead to to consequences. So where we're at, who we're with, wrong place, wrong time, it matters, yes. But sometimes that's out of our control, but a lot of times it's in our control. Um God calls it out, repentance happens. This is kind of a summary of it, and then consequences follow, life gets messy. But I think again, the one the thing that we can get through this, you know, uh, is is David. I think so many times, like even today, in today's world, um even in like church world and political world, especially when you have these guys that are raised up to be leaders, they're put on these pedestals, uh, and then they make mistakes and they're torn down. Now, again, there are consequences to our mistakes, but I also think that, and you know, even in David's life, consequences, big time consequences there. But the Lord is we can we can repent. Doesn't mean there's not earthly consequences, you know. I can be if I do something really wrong, illegal, I can be sorry and repent, and the Lord will forgive me, but I might still go to jail. Right? So there are consequences, but also think that we we don't have to demand perfection. Uh again, leaders fail. And I think that's the thing, I guess, is like even when we look at our leaders, our bosses, our coaches, uh, your parents, people that are leaders, um, they're not perfect. None of us are perfect, and so those people do mistakes, do make mistakes. And so, again, as a leader, you're held to a higher standard. So, I'm not like saying that's okay, but just because you make a mistake also doesn't disqualify you as a leader.
SPEAKER_01As you being a leader.
SPEAKER_04Again, it could cost you your job, it may make you disqualify quali disqualify you as a leader in that role or at that job or that team. But we can all repent, we can all grow uh from our mistakes. And again, I think the key thing for David was whereas Saul was making mistakes, and it was almost like, don't challenge me on that, I'm the king, David, and all of his mistakes, and he makes other mistakes if you go through his life. I mean, he's not perfect, not perfect. He made mistakes, but he had a repentant heart, a heart toward the Lord, and a soft heart, and and that's important to to have that because we are gonna we are gonna goof up, sometimes big, sometimes small. So um, for all of us, I think the lesson today is be where we're supposed to be.
SPEAKER_01Nice, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Right. So um, I think that's it. I you know, again, uh we talked through this. We're gonna pick up at the end of 2 Samuel and we'll do that. But I I just we tried to highlight what we felt like we could without um starting some, if you're listening to this or watching this, some conversation that you don't want to have with your kids. So read it and uh read it and go through it. But there's life lessons in these verses and these chapters, powerful story of David. Um, but our sin has consequences, right? Our mistakes have consequences.
SPEAKER_01Absolutely.
SPEAKER_04So we know that. All right, but thankfully, the good news of it all, we have a loving Lord, a loving father, and thanks to Jesus and his sacrifice, we can be forgiven and we can be restored and made right. Right? Absolutely. So that's it. Anything else you want to share?
SPEAKER_02Nope.
SPEAKER_04Riker was really looking forward to these. Yeah, what not really looking forward to these chapters and the uh conversation? No, no, so yeah, yes, all right, almost took us down a tragic path. Yeah, well, again, it's uh it's uh worth reading. So I encourage you to do that. Thank you guys for joining in with us today, and we'll see you again on the next one. See who's doing what in the major leagues, yep, and see how this uh incredible story of 2 Samuel, see how it wraps up on the next episode.
SPEAKER_01Absolutely.
SPEAKER_04All right, pray for us, son, and we'll get out of here.
SPEAKER_01Lord, thank you for this day. Thank you just for anybody watching this, Lord. I just pray that they would know that although that we sin and you forgive us, that there will still be consequences, Lord. And I just pray that anybody watching this video that has not fully committed their life to you, Lord, I just pray that they would fully commit, Lord, and leave nothing of their old life behind. Lord, I just want to remind anybody in the audience that nobody is perfect, even King David, one of the most iconic characters, is very imperfect. Lord, uh, thank you for another podcast. Thank you for every viewer watching this. In Jesus' name, amen.
SPEAKER_04Thank you guys. See you next time.