Okay, so the ways David erred as a father are numerous. I think if we look at David's life and we pointed out the errors, just like the Corinthian church or Lot or maybe other men, we would even question whether David was even a Christian. And yet clearly he was, we know that he was, a man after God's own heart. But his errors as a father would include he did not establish for himself that he was a one-woman man. And so this pattern of unfaithfulness toward many women and having all these lines of conflict would be a tremendous thorn to him.

So this would be shown forth through his sons and such. And not only that, but he crossed the jurisdictional bounds of husbandry when he lay with Bathsheba and had her husband killed. He was involved in coverup. He had associates that he brought along. Proverbs 1 would actually speak against David as he brought Joab in to help in the shedding of the blood.

Proverbs 1 says when somebody asks you to come along, do not go along with them. So this was a tremendous error of David. His sons would see this as well. His sons would see that David in the springtime wrapped up in that example of Bathsheba did not go out to war as other kings did. And so while he had a tremendous courageous element about him, there seemed to be a tremendous lust of the flesh part of life, lust of the eyes part about him that was very significant.

And so we can learn these lessons about David and how he erred his father. You