Authority leads through position. Influence builds others out of relationship.
If God did not care for you, there would never be a sense of a need to respond.
It's very different to live with a mask.
You can be genuinely forgiven by God and other people but still suffer the consequences from a particular sin in your life.
The question is not what was different about Bathsheba. The difference was what had become different about David.
Move with the movers.