Hence the root difference between David and Saul's misadventures.
The "I should be able to get away with x" or "Here is why I should get away with y" crowd uses God's grace as if it were an EBT card. The type of entitled folks who use the cards to buy filet mignon and expensive organic snacks, having zero thought, respect or regard for the ones who are actually paying the bill.
The parasitic class will be shocked, confused, and outraged when their cards go dead. *Especially* when card of the young mother (who is grateful for the sustenance after being abandoned by her husband), continues to work just fine.
Spiritual concepts really do sit right out in the open and manifest plainly. Somewhere along the way, the spirit of the law became conflated with the letter of the law, so when some people see "Law" they have a strong, negative visceral reaction. Mindfulness (thoughtful observance and respect) became a "work", thus "not necessary" for salvation.
The word "Christ" is not a nebulous doctrinal concept, just as the phrase "son of David" is not a mere genealogical detail. Without interacting with him personally (physically), people have the volume of documentation in the text of all who he is and how he does things.
Moses described him (e.g. Deu 6:5-9), and David also, and many others. People either believe God's word (written evidence), or not.
Matthew 12:41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
Well said. WE get so hung up on the letters, we miss the meaning of the WORD; forest for the trees, and all that...;)
Thus we replace preaching on how bad sin is and how great salvation at so great a cost by so great a savior and judge is much replaced with preaching that avoids this and rock songs with trite lyrics (if you can even hear them) in contrast to classic hymns.