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Handling Life\u2019s Failures\nOpen Shades\nMay 7, 2017\n\nPlease turn in your Bibles to 2Samuel 11 \n\nTo Air Dirty Laundry\n\n1: We must learn to be honest with one another about our struggles\n\n\u201cTherefore confess your sins to each other and pray for \neach other so that you may be healed.\u201d \nJames 5:16a\n\n2: We can\u2019t be honest for someone else\n\nThe progression of temptation (V 1-4)\n\n\u201c\u2026each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own \nevil desire and enticed. 15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.\u201d\n James 1:14, 15\n\nV 1: Laziness: He\u2019s in bed while his men are at war\nV 2: Lust: He focused on desire flesh\nV 4: Longing: He moved toward temptation\nV 4: Lure: He shunned warnings\nV 6-15: Loser: Cover it up with deceit \nV 15, 17: Laid Bare: Cover-up led to murder\n\n12:9: He\u2019s eventually exposed \n\u201cBe sure your sins will find you out.\u201d \nNumbers 32:23 (ref. Luke 12:2b)\n\n11:17, 12:11, and 14-15: The consequences were far reaching (see 1John 1:5-10)\n\nWhat is God\u2019s Spirit speaking into your life today? How must you respond?