The series works backwards into how the family got there, through the part most sermons skip. Pastor Adam names two failures — minimizing trauma, and the inability to communicate — then asks the room not to judge too fast, since David was a neglected son himself.

A series on Scripture’s most dysfunctional family opens at its end, with Absalom dead against David’s explicit order. Pastor Adam’s framing is blunt: an amazing son of God and a great king who was not great in regard to family.

Pastor Adam spends a whole message on Bathsheba before returning to David, noting the text never blames her and that Matthew’s genealogy declines her name, calling her the one who had been the wife of Uriah, keeping the wrong in view generations later.

“I will not leave you as orphans” only means something if the condition is real. Pastor Adam inventories what an orphan actually lacks, name, history, belonging, legitimacy, and argues Jesus is naming a spiritual condition that shows up in people whose households were fine.

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