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Good evening to you. Now we're in 2 Samuel chapter 11.
2 Samuel chapter 11, the Bible reads.
It came to pass after the year was expired at the time when kings go forth to battle that David sent Joab
and his servants with them in all Israel and they destroyed the children of Ammon and besieged Rabbah,
but David tarried still at Jerusalem.
It came to pass in an evening tide that David arose from off his bed and walked upon the roof of the king's house
and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
David sent him acquired after the woman and one said is not this Bathsheba the daughter of Eliam the wife of Uriah the Hittite
David sent messengers and took her and came in unto him and he lay with her for she was purified from her from her uncleanness
And she returned unto her house
And the woman conceived and sent and told David and said,
I'm with child.
And David sent to Joab saying, send me Uriah the Hittite.
And Joab sent Uriah to David.
When Uriah was come unto him, David demanded of him
how Joab did and how the people did
and how the war prospered.
David said to Uriah, go down to thy house
and wash thy feet.
And Uriah departed out of the king's house
and there followed him a mess of meat from the king.
But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house
with all the servants of his Lord
and went not down to his house.
And when they had told David, saying, Uriah, when not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah,
cameest thou not from thy journey? Why then dost thou not go down unto thine house?
And Uriah said unto David, the ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents, and my Lord Joab,
and the servants of my Lord, are encamped in the open fields. Shall I then go into mine house,
and to eat, and to drink, and allow with my wife? As thou livest, and as I so liveth, I will not do this thing.
David said to Uriah Terry here today also and tomorrow. I will let thee depart
So Uriah bowed in Jerusalem that day and the morrow when David had called him
He did eat and drink before him and he made him drunk
And that even he went down to lie on his bed with the servants of his Lord
But went out down to his house and it came to pass in the morning that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of
Uriah and he wrote in the letter saying
Set you Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle and retire you from him that he may be smitten and die
It came to pass when Joab observed the city that he assigned Uriah unto a place where
he knew that valiant men were.
The men of the city went out and fought with Joab, and there fell some of the people of
the servants of David, and Uriah the Hittite died also.
Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war and charged the messenger saying
When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war under the king
And it's if so be that the king's wrath arise and he say unto thee wherefore approached ye so nigh under the city
When you did fight knew he not that they would shoot from the wall
Who smote of Bemalek, the son of Jarobah Sheth?
Did not a woman cast a piece of millstone upon him
from the wall that he died in the bez?
Why went he nigh the wall?
Then said they thou, thy servant Uriah,
the Hittite is dead also.
So the messenger went and came and showed David
all the job that sent him for.
And the messenger said unto David,
surely the men prevailed against us
and came out unto us into the field.
And we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate.
And the shooter shot from the off the wall upon thy servants,
and some of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
Then David said unto the messenger, Thou shalt thou say unto Joab,
Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one, as well as another,
Make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it, and encourage thou him.
And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
And when the morning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became
his wife and bear him a son, but the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.
Let's pray to your Lord God, just thank you for this time we have Lord, to hear the preaching
of your word, Lord.
Just please be with us, Lord, in the congregation, that we maybe take these truths that you have
in your word, Lord, and apply to our lives, and please bless pastor right now and fill
me with your Holy Spirit, Lord, as you preach it unto us, your word, Lord.
We pray this all in Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
Okay, we're in second Samuel chapter 11 this evening and the title of my sermon tonight is David and Bathsheba David and
Bathsheba I want to go over the progression of sin in David's life here in second Samuel chapter 11
It's probably one of the saddest stories in my opinion of
King David King David is probably one of my favorite Bible characters
I obviously view him as a man who is very Godly, as many do.
He's a man after God's own heart, a lot of successes.
But of course, he's a sinner like everyone else.
So he makes mistakes and we see that the progression of his flaws
essentially starts here in 2 Samuel chapter 11
with the adultery that he committed with Bathsheba
and of course the murder of Uriah.
Now, one of the reasons that I believe God highlights
this particular story in David's life
is to kind of show us that this is the reality of life.
The fact that, you know, believers, Christians, those who we would consider to be God fearing,
make mistakes.
They sin.
They have blotches on their record.
The Bible's filled with stories of men who love the Lord, but were imperfect people.
And so it's a great story for us to take into account, to learn from, so we could avoid
some of the mistakes that David made.
in his personal life.
So let's get into it here.
We're gonna go over this entire chapter.
We're gonna glean some principles
from the mistakes of David with his sin, with Bathsheba.
First and foremost, let me start off by saying
that when it comes to the progression of sin,
it often is a result of great temptation.
that follows great success meaning that when you experience success in your
personal life just mark it down you know you're probably gonna get attacked by
Satan you're probably gonna be tempted by Satan be tempted by your flesh be
tempted by the world this is essentially the pattern that we see in our
personal lives then when you succeed in a personal area don't get so proud and
lofty don't rest on your laurels don't rest on your success recognize that you
that you're sober because your adversary, the devil, has a roaring lion walking about seeking whom he may devour.
And I think a lot of times Christians
can often view success, and then they let their guard down.
They think that, oh man, I'm doing so well in the Christian life.
I've won so many souls to Christ.
I've read so much Bible.
I'm in church.
I'm just doing so well.
They become prideful, and they don't take heed
in what they're standing in, and what happens
is that they end up falling into temptation and a snare,
making a lot of bad decisions.
And this is actually what we see with King David.
Because David in the previous chapters is experiencing a lot of success by this time
You know, he's already been established. His kingdom has been established
He's winning a lot of wars at this time and in fact in the previous chapter
He's feeling very benevolent. Okay towards a king by the name of Hanun and he wants to show some benevolence towards him
the children of Ammon, obviously Ammon is not necessarily friends of Israel, but he wants
to show some benevolence, he wants to show some mercy, he's experienced a lot of success
and so he basically sends messengers to the king there of Ammon to be a blessing to them
go to the king and say, hey, you really think David
really wants what's best for you?
He's coming here to mock you.
He's coming to hear what to see what he can take over.
And they end up shaving half their beards,
stripping them off half their garments
and sending them home packing, basically, right?
It's very embarrassing.
And this is the famous passage that we find
where they go back to Jerusalem and David says,
hey, go to Jericho to hear your beards be grown, right?
It's a very shameful thing.
It takes place so he rejects it and then David's like oh man
I'm trying to show you you know some benevolence
I'm trying to be a blessing and this is how you repay me right so then what does David do?
He's like alright
I'm sending Joab and my army to go fight against you guys and
In chapter 10 they realize they messed up
They're like oh man because you know David's a mighty man of war and so what they do is they hire
The Assyrians to kind of join them in battle against Israel
because they don't feel like they can win by themselves
and they're absolutely right.
So they end up joining forces with the Assyrians.
They hire the Assyrians to fight against Israel.
Look at chapter 10 if you would.
It says in verse seven, and when David heard of it,
he sent Joab and all the hosts of the mighty men.
And the children of Ammon came out
and put the battle in Array at the entering end of the gate
and the Syrians of Zoba, of Rahab, of Ishtab, of Mecca
were by themselves in the field.
When Job saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chose of all the
choice men of Israel and put them in array against the Syrians and the rest of the people he delivered
into the hand of Abishai's brother that he might put them in array against the children of Amin.
And he said, if the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me, but if the children of
Be of good courage, let us play the men for our people
and for the cities of our God and the Lord do
that which seemeth him good.
Now, let me just take a little bit of a break
to talk about Joab here.
That's probably the only good thing
that Joab has ever said, okay?
And, you know, Joab is essentially the dumbass speaking with man's voice where he's like
that broken clock that is right twice a day.
And so, you know, because if you look at his life, he's very wicked, the guy is super
devious, he's always, you know, plotting, and he's murderous, he's very vengeful.
But every once in a while he says something good, right?
I think the only other time after this is when he tries to encourage David Nott's number
But then here we also see that he tells his brother,
hey, be of good courage,
let us play them in for our people,
for the cities of our God.
And he's basically saying let's have faith in God,
let's be men for our people.
And of course, they end up winning the battle there
and doing well.
And the point that we can learn from that
is that just because someone says something good
doesn't necessarily make them overall good.
Okay, you know someone says one good they use one verse out of the Bible
You know what I mean? It's like oh man, this guy must be a Christian. Well, no
Necessarily, okay, you know don't judge a person based upon the one thing that they say look at their overall character and make a judgment off
Of that job is a perfect example of that because he is a very devious
Scoundrel, but yet he says something good here now look at chapter 11 if you would chapter 11
It says, and it came to pass after the year was expired.
So this shows us that this war between Israel,
Ammon, and Assyria was actually taking place
for about a year.
So this is a pretty dragged out battle here.
And what we're looking at here is that the greatest
temptation that David is going to face, the greatest trial,
actually comes after a lot of successes.
And you know what?
You may have experienced some successes this year.
You may have done well at your job.
Maybe you got a promotion.
Maybe you're doing well just as a Christian.
Make sure you take heed lest you fall, okay?
And never rest on your laurels and think,
well, man, I must be such a great Christian
because I've read so much Bible.
I've prayed so much.
I've got so many people saved.
I'm just a really good Christian overall.
But then, you know, pride comes before destruction,
a hotty spear before a fall, right?
And we see that often when this happens, we need to view the pattern that we will often be tempted with the lust of the flesh after we have experienced great success in our personal lives.
And you know, David was doing really well. He was conquering a lot of land. He was, you know, promoting the kingdom of God.
He was doing great. And then this temptation ensues and it follows.
The first thing we're going to look at after his great successes is the sin of omission.
Look at verse 1, it says, it came to pass after the year was expired at the time when
kings go forth to battle.
that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel and they destroyed the children of Ammon and besieged Reba
But David tarried still at Jerusalem. So what do we see here?
Well, there's a reason why the Bible says that it's a time when kings go forth to battle
Basically, implying that it was normal for kings to join the fight when conquering land,
when going to war, David should be there with them, right?
But instead of actually being there with the soldiers, fighting against Ammon, what happens?
He actually tears behind a Jerusalem and he allows, he sends someone else to do the job
for him.
Now, obviously, we can make the argument, well, he's the king, he's in charge, he could
But there's a reason why this is telling us this and quite frankly, if he would have gone to battle, he wouldn't have been tempted with Bathsheba, right?
What's the point? The point is that often sins of commission come after sins of omission.
meaning that often people commit sins such as adultery,
such as drunkenness, such as fornication,
after a long line of decisions
of committing sins of omission, omitting Bible reading.
omitting going to church,
omitting prayer.
Those two are very much bad in the eyes of God,
but one essentially leads to the other.
You know, you're less likely to commit fornication
if you're in church three times a week.
You're reading the Word of God.
You're around God's people.
You know, you're less likely to get drunk
on a Friday or Saturday if you're with God's people,
if you're soul-winning,
if you're doing what you're supposed to be doing.
The point that I'm making here is that often sins of commission follow sins of omission.
And people often think, man, I hope I never go back
to this particular sin.
Well, you gotta make sure you keep it up
with the commandments of God.
You gotta make sure you're not committing the sins
of omission in your personal life.
And make no mistake about it, folks.
Being in church helps with this stuff, okay?
Obviously, we want church attendance to be high.
Obviously, we want people to go to church.
But just for your benefit, just to kind of aid you
in your battle against sin, you need to be in church.
And you know what I've discovered?
The people with the weakest will
are those who have the weakest attendance.
That's a fact.
The people with the weakest will, resistance against sin,
is often the people with the weakest attendance,
the weakest Bible reading, the weakest prayer life.
That's a fact.
You wanna be a person who's able to resist sin,
resist temptation, you'd be a person who's strong
in the Lord and the power of his might
by reading the Bible every single day,
making sure you're in church every single week.
You're like, oh man, you know,
what if you're acting like church is really that important?
Are you saying that if I just don't go to church
for like a month or so,
that somehow that'll equate to my downfall?
It possibly could.
You'd be surprised how essential church attendance is in a person's life.
Aside from the preaching, just having me yell at you for an entire hour about sin, fornication,
drunkenness, things of that nature, just the mere exhortations that you receive from your
brothers and sisters in Christ, we're more likely to do right when other people around
us are also doing right.
We're more likely to make godly decisions and develop, listen to this, godly appetites
if we're around people with those same godly appetites.
You know something called peer pressure.
And everyone knows what peer pressure is.
A lot of people are peer pressured to doing bad things, but you know you can be peer pressured
into doing good things as well.
You know when you have the entire church going soul winning talking about soul winning more than likely you're probably gonna end up going soul winning
Because you don't want to be the odd ball out. It's like, oh, man. I don't really do so. I do even I do lifestyle evangelism or something
You know, that's the my that's my manner
So no you need to open your mouth bully to make known the mysteries of the gospel
And when you have a group of people around you talking about it it ends up increasing your appetite for that type of ministry
You see what I'm saying
The point that I'm making is that you will set yourself up for success if you're around
people who are succeeding in that area.
And here's a great place to start, the church.
Come into church hearing godly preaching, hearing good, having good peer pressure from
your brothers and sisters in Christ will aid you so that you don't commit the sin of omission.
You know, talking about Bible reading.
You know, it could be a little embarrassing when you're in a conversation about Bible reading,
right
It's just like oh, you know like this story. I was like
What story I never heard that story before you know, you know, you know, you know about this Bible character
I never heard a Bible. Well, you know, if you read the Bible, maybe you would though
That's good peer pressure. Amen, and I'm not saying that we have to know every single Bible character and sometimes it flees from our memory or whatever
I'm talking about in general though
You know we need to be exhorted daily to continue in the faith be strong in the Lord the power of his might to be a strong Christian
And you know what I guarantee you when you're here Sunday morning Sunday night Thursday evening
You walk home with more power more willpower to resist sin to resist temptation and less likely to commit the sin of omission
thereby leading to the sins of commission, okay?
Obviously the goal is to not sin.
By committing drunkenness, fornication,
you know, by being a covetous person,
by being a person of lust, as we see with King David.
But folks, it all starts off with the sins of omission.
And you know, the year's almost over.
The year's flying by.
I hope many of you, listen to this,
I hope many of you finish your Bible reading this year.
Because we're giving out the certificates, amen.
You know, we're giving out the certificates
for Bible completion, for one round, two rounds,
three rounds or whatever.
You know, I want to be able to give it out
to a lot of people in our church.
And you know, you're like, oh man, I failed.
Well, you got like two more months then.
Just cram it all in, if you can.
But you know what even if you don't finish what you should seek to finish as much as possible
But let's say you don't then at least in January make the decision and you know what this 2026 is my year
I'm gonna read the Bible through okay, you know, I'm not gonna spend so much time on social media
I'm not gonna spend so much time on frivolous, you know
Activities I need to spend more time
Investing into keeping God's commandments reading the Bible being in church not being so lazy
Not, you know, just staying home sleeping in going soul-winning making sure I'm doing the things that I'm supposed to do new year
new me
What am I saying don't get out of the fight?
What happened to David?
Well at a time when kings go forth to battle at a time when Christians are supposed to go forth and battle against their flesh
The devil in the world what happened with David he tarried behind a Jerusalem, right?
And we often lose the battle when we decide to get out of the battle when we decide well not today
I'm just gonna tear it behind at home instead of going to church where you're losing the battle at that point
You know, I'm gonna tear behind and not go soul-inning, you know, because I just don't feel like fighting today
You know, you're gonna end up
You're gonna end up in a position to be tempted to sin. You just never know what Satan has in store
He might have a Bathsheba for you and that's not supposed to be in an enticing manner
That's a destructive
Temptation that Satan brought his way
It says, and it came to pass after the years expired at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and of course he tarried behind in Jerusalem.
Go with me if you would. Go to 2 Timothy, 2 Timothy chapter 2, if you would. 2 Timothy chapter 2.
We often preach against the sins of commission, but we also need to preach against the sins of omission as well.
You know, you may be like, well, I don't commit sins of, you know,
affornication, drunkenness, but what about the other stuff, though?
Making sure you keep a clean heart,
making sure you are a spiritually disciplined person.
Making sure you're keeping up with the duties
of a believer of just being in church,
praying, soul winning, reading the Bible.
These are important things, my friends.
Now look at 2 Timothy 2 in light of King David
and the sin that we see in 2 Samuel 11.
Look at verse number one,
thou there for my son,
be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
And the things that thou has heard of me among many witnesses the same commit thou to faithful men
Who shall be able to teach others also?
Thou therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. What does he mean by that? Get in the fight?
Be a person who fights the flesh
Fight the devil fight the world endure that hardness as a good soldier. What does the soldier do? He fights
He's in that spiritual battle, right?
But notice this in verse 4.
No man that wareth entangleeth himself with the affairs of this life that he may please him who had chosen him to be a soldier.
Now, I'm not for using worldly terms to describe sins in the Bible.
You know, like you think of adultery, people often say, oh, you know, he's involved in an affair, right?
Just call it adultery.
But I do find it interesting that it says here,
that a man who is entangling himself with the affairs of this life
is someone who is not pleasing God, who has chosen him to be a soldier.
And if we're to apply that to David, that's exactly what happened.
He got entangled with the affair with Bathsheba
instead of going forth to battle, and what do we see at the end of the chapter?
The thing that David did displeased the Lord.
He says in verse 5 and if a man also strives for masteries, yet is he not crowned except he strives lawfully
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Joab tells David. Hey, you come get this crown. I'll take it from you kind of a thing right kind of like a foreshadowing
That you know God will not crown us because we're not striving lawfully if we're involved in sin
If we are allowing ourselves to be entangled with the affairs of this life, you know, and I can think of
Many instances of Christians that I've counseled and helped where I feel like they are ineffective in the Christian life
But it's because they're entangled
You know the world can entangle a person to essentially make them ineffective in the service of God
I don't want to be an ineffective Christian
I don't want to lose my salt.
I don't want to lose my savor.
I want to burn brightly.
I want to win souls to Christ.
I want to be able to lead my family,
lead my church, serve the Lord without hindrance, right?
But a person who's entangled with sin,
a person who's entangled with covetousness,
a person who's entangled with greed,
they will be ineffective.
And let me just remind everybody in our church
that you can get thrown out of church
for being a covetous person.
That is a sin according to 1 Corinthians 5 you can get thrown out for you know
We often think oh, yeah fornication of course, you know drunkenness of course
Those are like the two main things that people are thrown out for
You know in our era so to speak, but you know covetous this is in that list as well
And how do we quantify a covetous person in our church?
Well, if that's all you talk about when you come to church,
you become a covetous person.
If all you talk about is money, and how to make money,
and riches, and possessions, and you're causing others to become that way as well,
to talk about money, and how much money you make, and all the possessions you have,
you are now a person who's causing others to be covetous as well.
Save that talk till after church.
And I'm not saying hey, I got a raise, you know, that's not we're not talking about that
We're talking about that like the only thing that comes out of your mouth is just money money money
We're talking about I'm preaching to you and you're checking your phone to check your stocks
That's a covetous person
You know check that stuff when you leave the house of God when you get in your car go home
But don't bring it into the house of God
Why because covetousness is a sin that will get you thrown out of church if you choosing not to repent of that
And we had this issue years ago when people were all into Bitcoin and you know
They're all about Bitcoin and everyone was checking their phones on Bitcoin and of course
I'm like the last one to find out about it
Everyone's telling everybody about it and they're telling me oh yeah, man
They they're checking their phones during the services
They're checking the Bitcoin if it's going up or going down at this should cash out or whatever
And I'm just like whoa, this is major covetousness in our church
You know and the thing is it wasn't vocals just on their phones, but they're talking to each other about it
And so I ended up warning the people. I said hey either you repent of this stuff
Or you're getting thrown out of church because covetousness can't destroy a church and according to the Bible
You deserve to be excommunicated if you don't repent of that so stop and they're just like I'll stop
But folks sometimes I got to mention that less that comes back around
people think it's permissible to just talk about riches and possessions and
things that makes the heart covetous we need to make sure that we don't entangle
ourselves with the affairs of this life because entangling yourself with greed
and covetous will not only get you thrown out of church it'll just make
you an ineffective Christian period okay and so go back to 2nd Sammy if you
David is a perfect example of someone who was entangling himself with this
adulterous relationship with Bathsheba instead of warring against Ammon fighting
the Lord's battles expanding the kingdom he stayed tarried behind a Jerusalem
instead. Now you know what is that he should have been fighting well obviously
Ammon but just how about his own lustful desires. I don't think anybody's gonna
Bro was major majorly lustful. Okay, you know, how do you how do we know? Well?
Why is he going after breath she but when he's like he has like seven wives already?
Because up to this point I can't even name them all but you know he has about seven wives at this point
Like, you know, he's got Abigail, he's got Macau, a Hinoam, you know, he's got all these
wives and, you know, he's like collecting them like Pokemon or something, you know?
He goes to one city and he's just like expanding his kingdom, he's like, hello there, you know?
And then he throws the little ball, he captures it, all right?
But for some of you Pokemon lovers,
like, you know, I understand this application.
This is a good application.
So, you know, obviously polygamy is against the Bible.
The Bible teaches against polygamy,
and people will often point to Old Testament passages
of people who are committed in polygamy
as a justification for it, but that's not a justification.
That simply shows us that man is sinful.
Nowhere in the Bible does God place a stamp of approval on polygamy
Day twain shall be one flesh the Bible says right. That's how it was from the beginning twain means two not three not four not five
twain and
You say well, I got a question. How come David wasn't put to death?
For committing adultery well because David's the king
So he's the highest in the land
He's not going to put a sanction of something to put to death, you know, and quite frankly even prior to this
You know the death penalty wasn't really being instituted
According to the Levitical law, you know, they strayed from that
Excessively really and in fact when you get into the history of the nation of Israel
There are sodomites in the land and even when you got a righteous king where they put in them to death
No, they're just kicking them out of the land
You know what I mean? And so obviously they strayed from these these penalties that the Bible instituted and
David obviously is not now God could have destroyed God could have killed David
But he didn't and obviously we can see that it's possibly because of the fact that he repented
We see the Psalm 51 is an indication of that the point that I'm making here is that David had a lust problem
Okay, and you know, it's not like he just woke up one day and man
He just fell into the lust with Bathsheba. Obviously. This is something that was it's been in his heart for quite some time
Okay, it's a monster that he never took care of you know after his first wife
And this is kind of the reason why?
You know, it's not wise to give one man so much power
You know, the reason David is collecting, you know, wives like Pokemon is because of the fact that he's the king
He has so much power who's gonna tell him no, right?
He's obviously a man after God's own heart doesn't take away the fact that he was a godly man who loved the Lord
But he definitely had a lust problem and let me just you know park it here for a while to say, you know
You better take care of those pet sins
Right now while you have Macau
Right, you know why you're struggling with you know this particular thing you better take care of it now
Before it gets out of hand and becomes a Bathsheba
Because quite frankly, you know God was merciful to him even though he collected those seven wives
But it's the matter of Uriah and Bathsheba that really broke the straw. It was the straw that broke the camel's back
Right. That's what really did it for him. And so never think to yourself. Well, you know, I got this pets in under control
I got pornography under control. I got this then the other under control Bathsheba is on our way my boy
It's gonna destroy your life
And so he had about seven wives before Bathsheba.
And in fact, look at 2 Samuel chapter 12, if you would.
In verse number 8, after Nathan confronts David,
he says in verse 8,
And I gave thee thy master's house
and thy master's wives into thy bosom.
And gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah.
And if that had been too little,
I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.
What is this referring to?
It means that the mere fact that David possessed these things,
and women is an indication that God was merciful to him.
And think about this, you know,
there's probably sins that you have committed
that you haven't paid for, right?
Where God was merciful to you.
In other words, God kind of lets you get away with it
because he's being merciful to you.
It's not because he's an unrighteous God.
It's because he's a benevolent, you know, merciful God
and maybe he didn't allow you to suffer the consequences
of your actions right away.
You know, don't turn the grace of God into lasciviousness.
Don't act like, oh man, now this is an occasion,
I can take this, this liberty is an occasion to the flesh.
Use it to repent, to get right with God,
and go and sin no more.
We see here that David definitely had a lust problem.
And so, you know, that obviously got out of hand.
And unfortunately, he kind of passed this down to Solomon.
We see other men in the Bible who struggle with this.
Solomon being one of them.
David being one.
Samson being one of them, you know.
And so it can destroy a man if they don't take care of it right away.
Young men, take care of it right away.
And, you know, one of the best ways to take care of lust is to get married.
It's my opinion, right?
You know, obviously I can't make you get married. I can't bring I can't bring a girl to you
You know from the Philippines. I can't you know, I just I don't have that capability
But you know until then take the precautionary measures to make sure you don't fall into some wicked sin
But also prepare for marriage get married so you can fulfill that desire that God given desire in a righteous manner
And so this is important.
Now, what do we see also with David
regarding this particular sin that he committed?
Obviously, he committed the sin of omission
by staying in Jerusalem,
but he also delegated the battle to Joab, right?
He sent Joab and his men to go fight against Ammon, right?
That's what we see.
And I think the principle that we can learn there
is that our spiritual success
cannot be delegated to anybody else.
We cannot delegate our battles to someone else.
Hey young people, you can't delegate your battles
to your parents.
You have to win those battles yourself.
You cannot delegate your battles to me.
You cannot delegate your fight against sin
to anybody else.
You have to take care of that job.
There's certain things that can be delegated.
Spiritual success is not one of them.
Hey parents, you can't delegate raising your children
to the church.
You raise them.
You train them.
You discipline them and if someone else is disciplining them for you verbally then that shows that you're not really doing a good job while you're here.
It shouldn't be delegated. You need to take responsibility for your kids.
Hey men, we need to take responsibility for our wives.
You know, I don't want some dude online rebuking my wife because my wife is misbehaving online, amen?
I'm not gonna delegate that responsibility to someone else, but you know what?
You know, I I'll gladly take the responsibility to correct someone's wife to online if their husband's not doing it
Amen, and all the men said amen
You know, it's just like oh you can't say that to my wife. Well, I wouldn't have to if you did
So there you go. Yeah, you know correct your wife correct her behavior or just have her delete Facebook period
And then the situation will get settled
Okay, certain things can't be delegated and so we need to make sure we take care of business
We need to make sure that we're reading our Bibles. I can't do your Bible reading for you
I cannot I can pray for you, but you know what at the end of the day you need to pray for yourself
Save thyself and then they adhere thee you need to make sure you're putting in the work to be a godly person
Don't delegate it to Joab
Don't delegate it to the man to go fight Amnon, you fight Amnon.
You fight your lust problem, you fight your covetous problem, you fight your fear problem,
you fight your laziness problem.
People can age you and fight with you, but they can't fight for you.
You understand what I'm saying?
You know, David would have gone in the battle
and he would have had been fighting with him,
but he sent someone else to fight on his behalf instead.
It's not the right thing to do, okay?
We need to make sure that we are not delegating
our spiritual successes.
And let's just put it in a more practical manner.
We are a soul-winning church, but you know what?
You cannot delegate your success in soul-winning
to the people in our church.
You better make sure you're doing
some soul-winning yourself.
Preaching the gospel yourself getting people saved yourself, right? Well, I go to a soul-winning church, so I you know
I'm sure I'll get some of the rewards by being here. Yeah, you might get some
Rewards just for being here, but quite frankly this is a battle that you need to get involved with yourself though
and not delegate it to others.
Don't be someone who is a hero of the word
and not a doer only.
You need to make sure that you're not deceiving your own selves.
You're going out there to fight along with Joab
and the men to conquer Ammon.
Go back to 2nd Samuel, chapter 11.
So we see here, it's a time when kings go forth
to the battle, he chooses not to do that.
He delegates his spiritual battle to someone else, Joab.
And what's the result?
Look at verse two, and it came to pass in the evening time
that David arose from off his bed
and walked upon the roof of the king's house.
And from the roof, he saw a woman washing herself
and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
So what happens when you commit the sin of omission?
Now you're gonna be tempted.
Your idol.
And it says here that he's getting up at even time.
Now, I've heard interpretations of this and say,
well, he's a king, he can do whatever he wants,
if he wants to do that, whatever.
And yeah, that's true, but here's the thing though,
a person who governs himself just doesn't just allow himself
to do whatever he wants to do, right?
If you're governing yourself,
you actually give yourself less liberty.
Why? Because of the fact that if you're not structured,
if you're not disciplined, you can get in a lot of trouble.
You know, hey dads and husbands, you know, we're the bosses of our home
But that means we need to be even more disciplined to make sure because we don't have an overseer so to speak right?
So he arises off his bed in the evening tide and there's a lot of speculation
Regarding this they're like, oh, you think he knew the best she was bathing naked or you know
Maybe you know, she was trying to entice him and they come up with all these speculate. We don't know
At the end of the day, he just went to his rooftop, which is his.
He can do that if he wants.
And for whatever reason, there's some chick bathing naked, okay?
And that's what it seems, because I don't think she has clothes on.
She's washing herself.
I don't know if anybody washes themselves with clothes on, and she's very beautiful to
look upon.
Now, this kind of shows us right here that there are instances, listen to me, where you
could avoid temptation.
There's instances where you can go the other way and know for a fact, you know
I'm not going to be involved in this temptation, but there are other instances where temptation comes to you and
Everyone is going to be placed in a situation like this at one time one time or another in their life
Where temptation comes to you, you know like Potiphar's wife came to Joseph can't really do anything about that. He's working there
It's how you respond to the temptation that really matters
Now what should have David had done? Well, he should have done what he wrote about I shall set no wicked thing before my eyes
I hate the work of then to turn his side. It should not cleave unto me put some clothes on
Where the shower curtains at?
You know done something like that or just gone back in and go to another palace or something
He should have just gone back in and said hey messenger. I need you to go to the house
I need you to go to the market and go purchase some shower curtains
There's a lady bathing out there, and I'm not trying to see that because you know
I got seven wives. I got problem, you know, and you know, I ain't trying to collect the eighth one or whatever
Folks, it's important to avoid temptation,
but it's also important to predetermine
how you will respond to temptation when it comes to you
and you can't control the situation, right?
You need to be like Daniel, who purposed in his heart
not to defile themselves with the king's meat.
In other words, don't figure out what to do
when the temptation comes.
You should already have that figured out
before temptation ever arrives.
Like right now you just need to know like okay if a situation ever happens
This is the response that I have towards that temptation. Okay, and so, you know, obviously he sees the woman
And what does he do? He begins to entertain the thought of being with this woman. Look at verse 2 again
Or verse 3 it says in David sent and inquired after the woman
And one said, is that this Bathsheba, the daughter of Iliam?
Iliam, the wife of Uriah, the Hittite?
So we see here, he sees, and then what does he do?
He inquires.
He sees, and he inquires.
He should have seen and just said, you know what?
I'm going back in the house.
I'm not gonna inquire.
I'm not gonna go any further than this, you know?
And that's it, right?
But instead, he begins to entertain the possibility.
You know whoever this one is has to be of the Lord
Right, and I think sometimes that like you know a
One is sent unto you and to me to help us to overcome like a temptation or something
What am I talking about because he says and one said is not this Bathsheba the daughter of Eliem the wife of your eye the Hittite
So some dude was there, you know, he's just like hey, who's that girl and he's like I think this is Bathsheba
The daughter of Ilium the wife of Uriah the Hittite implying that he's one of David's mighty men
What is he doing? I think he's trying to get into David's conscience like hey, this woman belongs to someone else
And you know what if we don't have the one we have the we have our conscience
Right, we have the new man. We have the Holy Spirit that tells us hey is not this wrong
Isn't this wrong to do?
Isn't this sinful?
And what does David do?
He quenches it.
Look at verse 4, and David sent messengers and took her.
Brogess did not listen to that one guy.
And she came in unto him and lay, and he lay with her,
for she was purified from her uncleanness,
and she returned unto her house.
So we see that he saw, he inquired, he took, right?
And this is often the progression of sin for many.
We see that with Eve, right?
She saw, she desired, she took.
We see this with Achan.
He saw the Babylonian garment, he coveted, he took.
And what this shows is that sometimes sin begins
with the eyes.
And you can control what goes into the eye-gate and to the ear-gate,
but you can't control what it does once it passes the eye-gate and the ear-gate though.
And so it's important for us to respond to temptation to say,
if I can't control this because I work in this place,
my work environment maybe has this temptation,
then you need to decide what you're going to respond with when it comes.
Now, what do I mean by that?
Well, obviously, you could control your situation sometimes,
you know, your environment.
You know, if you struggle with lust,
you know, lusting for your girlfriend,
lusting for your boyfriend,
then don't hang out with them alone.
Right?
How about, you know, I know this is really old-fashioned,
but how about you don't ride in the car alone together?
Why, because then that temptation is there.
You're like, are you to be tempted?
Yeah, because I'm not gay.
You know, the mood is right.
You're in the car with her.
It's just you and her and the car.
Let's just be honest.
You know, don't give me this hyper-spiritual answer.
It's just like, well, I'm here.
I'm a man of God's own heart.
That's the thing, though, so was David.
David was extremely godly and he's like kind of there to show us like as godly as you are bro had issues
Because he may provision for the flesh to fulfill the lust or of
Okay, hey if you if you have these issues, you know
Don't put yourself in a precarious situation
Where you would be able to commit this sin and sin against the Lord flee for indication the Bible says
Don't put yourself don't be in a room alone with the opposite sex of the person you're dating. That's a good idea
Nothing's gonna happen. Take heed lest he fall
You know what I mean
You know, obviously, you know, I can't I don't impose these rules upon the church
I do impose them in my household, but when the Bible says it's good for a man not to touch a woman
I actually believe that like for you know people who are single, okay
Like I don't think you should be like making out or you know hugging on each other and just arousing each other
That's what's gonna happen
That's a fact
If you're not married and you're touching on each other,
arousal is going to happen, my friends.
Can I get a witness?
Oh, no, don't give me a witness.
Can I get an amen?
I don't want a witness.
Don't tell me that.
This is a fact.
Unless your testosterone is just super down,
it's in the negative red.
Unless you're like a femme boy or something.
Right?
You know, I don't know unless you're just like a like a eunuch or something like that
You know, but I think every young man has that temptation and ladies
I'm sorry, but that is a temptation that men will have to fight for the rest of their lives
Your boyfriend your husband your brother will fight that for the rest of the last because we're men
That's just the reality of things.
Doesn't mean it's an excuse to commit sin with Bathsheba,
but it's just kind of showing you
that that's the weakness of a man,
and you know what, that's why we need to make sure
that we're not like David in this situation,
that we're going forth to battle,
we're not placing ourselves in precarious situations.
If we see Bathsheba bathing naked,
we need to turn the other cheek,
go back inside, and go put on your armor,
and say, I'm on my way!
So where are you going? I you know, I I just have a desire to go battle now. I gotta get out of here
flee fornication
You know sometimes people think I'm extreme when I say stuff like this
But then they realize later on when they commit the sin. Oh, I guess it wasn't really that extreme
Yeah, I guess that was the reason why those rules were being instituted and
So it's important for us to realize how important it is for us to combat sin. I want you to combat falls doctrine
I want you to combat Zionism, I want you to combat, you know, the false gospel, but can you combat your flesh too though?
How good are you at fighting the flesh though?
That's what I want to know. How good are you at keeping your body, keeping under your body, bringing it into subjection?
Let's find a means when you preach to others, you yourself should be a cast away.
Yeah, I know your doctors really sound, but how are, like, are you a fornicator though?
Like how how why I know you're wise concerning good, but are you wise enough to stay away from fornication?
You know, maybe you got to delete your your what's that app called that dating app?
You guys know what I'm talking about. Don't give me that look what?
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Point that I'm making is that
King David, you know, he saw he inquired. He took he sinned
And this is always the progression look at James chapter one if you would go to James chapter one
James chapter number one let me continue reading here in second Samuel chapter 11 verse forces and David sent messengers and took her
And she came in unto him and he lay with her for she was purified from her own cleanest
And she returned into her house and the woman conceived and sent and told David and said I am with child
Look at James chapter one and
Verse 14 it says but every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed
Then when lust has conceived to bring forth sin
And sin when it is finished bringeth forth death do not err my beloved brethren. You know what the message is don't err
And again going back to you know dating couples, you know
Have some standards
You know and if it's that important for you to just hug on each other and kiss each other then just get married
Just get married you can do that all you want afterwards
That's that's a fact and you know what I'm I don't hold this philosophy that you should do test drives or whatever
And see if you like each other and kiss each other and do all that. That's nonsense. I don't believe in that
I wouldn't want someone doing that with my daughter
You know, I don't want that for my for my daughters. I don't want that for my boys either
And so you know you say well, how do they know if they're gonna like each other
Here's the thing folks, you know when people get married
Kissing and all that stuff, they'll like it, trust me.
You don't have to try to see if you like it, just trust me, you'll like it.
You really got to wonder?
It's like, how are you going to know that?
Here's the thing, folks, is that you have to find people with common ground.
that they're saved, they have the right beliefs,
you know, making sure that,
and I don't even think you have to marry someone
who's just like you either.
You can if you want, but sometimes it's just more exciting
when you get someone who's the opposite of you,
because then you compliment each other.
You know, loud person with a quiet person,
you know, an extrovert with an introvert kind of thing, right?
Different things, but you know,
obviously you want to have the same core values, right?
The same, you don't even have to have the same interest.
I don't even think you have to have the same interest.
My wife and I do not have the same interest.
We don't even like the same foods in a lot of ways.
I know if I like a food, if my wife hates it.
And vice versa, that's typically how it works.
You say, how do you guys get along so well?
Because we share the same core values.
We share the same core values.
We have the same philosophies, the same beliefs.
That's what kind of draws us together.
And so the point that I'm making here is that David, you know, committed this wicked sin of adultery,
really destroyed his life and the life of his children thereafter because we see after this the progression of the destruction
of David's family, his children because of this one bad decision.
And look, when we look at David's life, it's just like the Bible speaks so well of him.
But it always inserts that one little thing right except that the matter of your eye of the hit tight
It just always brings that up because that's like a blotch on his record. Okay, and
So it's important for us not to be idle if you're on the rooftop and you are presented with temptation run flee from it
Think about the consequences, the ramifications if you give into that temptation sometimes young people just kind of they don't think
About the the the ramifications right away. They just want immediate gratification
But they don't know the long-term effects that it will have on them
Afterwards listen to me thy mouth shall be filled with gravel. That's what the Bible tells us. Okay. Look at verse 6
And David sent Joab saying, send Uriah the hit type,
and Joab sent Uriah to David.
So now we're going to see David's pretense,
because she was just like, hey, I'm with child.
And David's thinking like, oh, this is really bad.
So what do we see David doing here?
Do we see him repenting?
No, instead, he begins to conspire.
He's trying to cover his tracks.
He's trying to make sure that no one finds out about this.
So he sends Joab to bring Uriah to him look at verse 7 and when Uriah was coming to him
David demanded of him how Joab did and how the people did and how the war prospered. He doesn't care by the way
This is a pretense. He does not care how the war is going. That's the last thing on his mind
He's just using this as a pretense
To tell Uriah what he's about to say verse 8 says and David said to Uriah
Go down to thy house and wash thy feet and Uriah depart out of the king's house and there followed him a mess of meat from the king
Well, David, you know, by the way, Uriah should have been like, why am I you just want to know how everything's going or what?
You know, but the reason he's doing this is because he wants to get him drunk not with alcohol
But basically with meat a mess of meat. This is not that he's not being ghetto here
He's like bass a mess of me a mess of me means there's like a lot of food
Like just like a variety of meats of foods. So he sends that to Uriah
Hoping that Uriah will eat his heart's fill
He will be comfortable go down to his house
Mate with his wife, and then he thinks that the baby belongs to him not to David. You understand what I'm saying?
This is the you know, this is what David is conspiring here
very wicked
So I just want you to understand David does not have your eyes best interest in mine
What is he what interest does he have in mind protecting himself?
This is how a backslidden heart thinks
Right, so godly man, but he's he's conspiring here go to Proverbs 23. Let's look at Proverbs 23 real quick
Proverbs 23 let me make sure I got the right passage here
Proverbs 23 and let's let's read Proverbs 23 in light of David and your rye
There's discourse that they're having look at verse one when now sit is to eat with the ruler
Consider diligently what is before thee and put a knife to thy throat if thou be a man given to appetite
Be not desirous of his dainties for they are deceitful meat now
What do we consider the mess of meat the David gate to Uriah deceitful meats?
He's not trying to nourish him. He's not just trying to be a blessing to him. They're deceitful meats
Skip down to verse six, it says,
eat thou not the bread of him to hath an evil eye,
neither desire thou his dainty meats,
for as he thinketh in his heart,
so is he, eat and drink saith to thee,
but his heart is not with thee.
You know what, David's heart was not with Uriah.
He's not calling him back to be a blessing to him.
He's not giving him the food just to be a blessing to him.
He's conspiring against him is what he's doing.
Okay, go back to second Samuel chapter 11.
So, what do we see with the person who's in this downward spiral, this progression of
sin, is that instead of repenting, they begin to come up with reasons on how to get out
of the situation instead, to conspire their way out of the mess that they put themselves
in.
Now, look, David could have easily just been like, hey, Uriah, I got bad news, man.
I committed adultery with your wife, and I'm really sorry about this, and I want to make
this right.
And you know what, yeah, it would have been a huge mess,
right?
Right?
It would have been a huge mess, but let me ask you,
what's worse, that or what he's going to do?
What he's going to do is a lot worse, okay?
And sometimes people, when they're in a situation like this,
where a sin is just getting completely out of control,
they continue to make bad decisions,
because they think to themselves, well,
the alternative is just really bad, though.
Yeah, but what you're about to do is worse.
What you're about to do is always worse.
Now look at verse nine
But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his Lord and went not down to his house
He's a principled man
So Uriah, you know, he has he's I mean, you know
Any soldier would want to go back to their home to see their their spouse to be with their wife
But this man is so principled. He's just like I'm not gonna do that. My
My army buddies are out there in the field. They're fighting
I'm not gonna just have a good time with my spouse when everyone else is fighting the wars of the Lord verse 10 and when they
And when they had told David saying Uriah went not down to his house David said into Uriah came it's not down from my journey
Why then does that now go down onto that house?
Uriah said into David the Ark and Israel and Judah of Biden tents and my Lord
Joab and the servants of my Lord are encamped in the open fields
Shall I then take going into my own house into my house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife as
Thou livest and as I so live it I will not do this thing
Just shoving that dagger into David's heart, right?
Because he's showing himself to be
a principled, righteous person.
David said to Uriah Terry here here today also in tomorrow and I will let thee depart so Uriah bowed in Jerusalem that day and
Tomorrow and when David had called him
He did eat and drink before him and he made him drunk and that even he went out to lie on his bed
With the servants of his Lord but went not down to his house
So he didn't eat the mess that was given to him in the first place
But now he's kind of forced to eat because he's before the king
So, David is trying to get him to eat, to drink, and to be married, and hopefully he
starts getting these euphoric feelings and longing for his spouse and just wanting to
relax, but he still doesn't do it, right?
He refuses to go down to his house.
Look at verse 14.
And it came to pass in the morning that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah
And he wrote in the letter saying set Uriah you Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle and retiree from him
That he may be smitten and die
What was here the progression?
He's like oh man. I committed adultery doesn't confess it
He calls Uriah down, lies to him,
tries to get Uriah to sleep with his wife
so that he can be, to think that that's his child,
he refuses to do so, so what's the next best thing?
Well, I guess we gotta kill Uriah.
And this, by the way, shows you
what a scoundrel Joab is, right?
Because obviously, Uriah, I mean, Joab is in on it.
Like, he knows what he's about to do, you know?
He gets the letter and he sees that.
But it also shows you that David
is a major scoundrel right now, too.
Because he's sending this letter the death warrant by the hand of Uriah
So Uriah is basically bringing his death certificate to Joab. I mean, this is extremely evil and wicked
What a what what a weird reunion when David went to heaven right and saw Uriah like hey, what happened, you know
Yeah, people have been telling me for years that you actually conspired against me during
But this is extremely wicked. It is extremely evil. It went from the sin of omission
To the sin of commission of adultery to the sin of lying and now to the sin of murder
Sin will take you farther than you want to go
Cost you more than you want to pay keep you longer than you want to stay
That's why it's important. You just confess it and face the music and just deal with the consequences of your sins
immediately
Because it just only gets worse
You're like, oh man, you know if I just but if I do that then I'm gonna be in so much trouble and this is gonna
Yeah, yeah, you are gonna be in trouble. Yes
No one's saying that you're not gonna be in trouble. No one's saying that there's no consequences or ramifications to your actions
Of course there are but what we are telling you is this is that if you don't the ramifications will be worse in the long run
It'll take you farther than you want to go. You know when David got up that morning. I promise you he didn't think to himself
I think I'm gonna murder Uriah
No one thinks that no one gets up in the morning saying I'm gonna commit this in it's from a progression
Step-by-step of making bad decisions all along the way
Look at verse number
Where we out here
Verse 14 it came to pass in the morning that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah
And he wrote in the letter saying say you Uriah and the forefront of the hottest battle and retire you from him
That he may be smitten and die
And it came to pass when Joab observed the city that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were and
The men of the city went out and followed Joab and there fell some of the people of the servants of David and Uriah
The Hittite died also. Here's the next point that I want to make is that when you sin you don't just affect yourself
You kill other people too
Why?
Because Joab don't care if people die.
In order to carry out the wishes of the king,
he's willing to send a bunch of guys so that one guy can die.
He wants to get rid of Uriah.
But in order to do so, it'd be weird to just send Uriah
to go to the hottest part of the battle.
He's going to send a bunch of guys.
This is a bad strategy as far as war is concerned.
But it meets the qualifications of what David wants.
The point that I'm making here is that, folks, when you sin,
you do affect others.
You will affect your children. You will affect your spouse. You will affect church members
Someone always goes with you when you sin you always end up influencing someone when you sin your sin
Will affect people it will destroy people you got to take those things into account. How many innocent people died here?
Because David is just trying to cover this up, right?
It says in verse number 17 and the men of the city went out
Or verse 18 then Job sent and told David all the things concerning the war and charged the messenger saying when now has made an end
Telling the matter of the war into the king
And if so be that the king's wrath arise and he's saying to thee wherefore approach so ye so nigh into the city when he did fight
knew you now
That they would shoot from the wall who smote a bimble like the son of Jerubah sheth
Did not a woman cast a piece of millstone upon him from the wall that he died in Thebes
Why won't you nine to the wall then say thou thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also so what is he saying?
He's like hey, so this is what you're gonna tell David
You're gonna tell him that a bunch of dudes died
This is what we did and if he gets angry with you just make sure you give him this piece of
Improving nation that Uriah is dead also that will give David an indication like oh, this is the man in which
You know Joe I've chose to essentially get rid of Uriah, okay?
Others died with Uriah many are affected because of your sin like a verse 14
Now here's the last point that I want to make is that
When your sin goes unrepentant unconfessed you actually become a cold person
And you know some of the coldest people I've ever met are just backslidden people
Just completely apathetic
completely cold-hearted
Just don't care, but I'll tell you why because they become desensitized to their sin
The the characteristic of a Christians to become tender-hearted, right?
To become tenderhearted not just to the sins that we commit, but how about just to the pain and sufferings of others, right?
We need to make sure that we are
Sensitive to the pain and sufferings of others and and allow things to bother us
But the problem is when you sin and you remain an unrepentant sin you actually become desensitized
Hardened through the deceitfulness of sin, and you know you end up becoming apathetic
Towards others look at verse verse 14 and it came to pass in the morning that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of
Uriah
Oh, I'm sorry. What verse are we in here?
verse 21
Let's look at verse
22. Oh wait, I'm in proverbs here. I think I put the wrong verse. Give me a second here.
Talk amongst yourselves. I'm just kidding.
22 says, So the messenger went and came and showed David all that job had sent him for.
And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed against us and came out unto
us in the field, and we were upon them, even unto the entering of the gate.
The shooter shot from off the wall upon the servants, and some of the king's servants
be dead, and thy servant, Uriah the Hittite, is dead also.
Now keep in mind, Uriah is one of what?
David's mighty men.
It's one of his closest guys.
So you would think that once someone gets the news of that they're just like devastated
But let's look at his response at verse 25 then David sent it to the messenger
They'll shout out saying to Joe let not this thing displeased him for the sword of ours one as well as another
Make that battles more strong against the city overthrow it and encouraged out him
That's cold
He's like, ah, it's alright. This happens in war. Just
Recognize one sword devours one as another just make the battle more strong and encourage him. You'll be fine. I mean, that's cold
It's cold, but this is the result of unconfessing, okay?
Verse 26, and when the wife of Uriah heard
that Uriah, her husband, was dead,
she mourned for her husband.
And by the way, mourned for her husband.
That's what wives are supposed to do when their husband dies.
Be sad, right?
Oh, how do you know what I'm talking about, guys?
That's weird.
Not the sermon, but it should be the sermon actually. Let's see how much time do I got nothing
Folks morning should be what you know when you're sad you wear dark clothing
It shouldn't be a WWE entrance, you know and fireworks going off and everything
How about where's the weeping and wailing?
She mourned for her husband, you know as wicked as that she was she was sad that you're that he died. That's her husband
She committed a wicked sin, but that was still her husband and if the Bible is telling us that she mourned
You know, it's telling us that she was very
sorrowful and sad and that she wept and she was overcome with this sadness
This is the verse 27 when the morning was passed
David sent and fetched her to his house and she became his wife and bear him a son and they live happily ever after
You know, he thinks he got away with it
All right, and you know from an earthly perspective
You know to a certain degree by this point. Yeah, he did
Nuns the wiser your eyes out of the picture
David can marry Bathsheba, and now it's okay that that's his son.
Everyone's going to think it's a noble thing.
Wow, look at the king.
He takes on Bathsheba after the murder of Uriah.
What a wonderful benevolent king.
And David's just like, oh, everything's taken care of.
None is the wiser.
Oh, hold on a second.
But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.
He looked left.
He looked right, but he forgot to look up.
and you know what you know what sin does to a person and makes them think that like God can't see them sometimes or
Should I say it makes them stupid?
It makes them not realize like God sees the inner recesses of the heart. He's displeased with this and by the way
You know obviously I'm done here, but
This shows us that God was probably waiting for David to repent
Don't take
You know God not punishing you for your sin as
The Lord being slack concerning his promises as some men count for slackness
Don't think that you just because you've gotten away with it for a year six months or whatever may be that somehow that means that
God's not gonna come come after you. It might be that he's just waiting for you to get right
It may be that he's just being merciful to you.
It may be that he's just being gracious with you.
It may be that he's just waiting for you
to just confess it, to get right with him,
to fix the situation.
But obviously, David didn't do that.
He stayed like that.
He committed adultery.
He committed murder.
And he thought no one would know.
But obviously, God knew.
And therefore, he sends Nathan the prophet
and he suffers the consequences of his actions.
What's the sermon?
The sermon is simply this.
Don't get out of the fight.
You might be lazy. You're tired. You don't feel like fighting. Look
Make yourself go get into the spiritual battle because the alternative is just a lot worse
Consequences to your actions are a lot worse. Go to Ammon. Go fight. Don't delegate your battles to someone else
Don't tarry behind at Jerusalem
And if you do and you see Bathsheba bathing get back in the house put on your armor and go fight
learn how to respond to temptation, learn how to respond to sin. Let's pray.
Father, we thank you so much for your word. Thank you for David's example, Lord,
and the bad example, unfortunately, in this particular story. Help us as your
people, Lord, to make sure that we make no provision for the flesh to fulfill the
luster of, Lord. Every man is drawn away of their own lust and entice, and I pray
In a
Situation like that where maybe we can't control the atmosphere in the environment
Help us to exercise our will to resist sin to flee from Satan to draw nigh unto God an
Order for us to be delivered from
Sin and I pray Lord that you bless us as we go on our way Lord help us to keep short accounts with you if we sin
Lord, help us to confess it, forsake it, and move on, to read our Bible, to pray, to make sure that we are walking with you, to live a life that's pleasing unto you, and to avoid the sins of omission so we can avoid the sins of commission as well.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.