Downfall of David
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1/7/25 Big Picture Pt. 35 David’s Downfall & Decline
Recap: Davidic Covenant
Recap: Davidic Covenant
Last time, Setting: David determined to build God a house—but instead God built David a house.
2 Sam. 7:11-16 “Moreover, the Lord declares to you that the Lord will make you a house. 12 When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14 I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men, 15 but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you. 16 And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.’”
✨ Long Term: FULFILLED in CHRIST
Short Term: SIGNIFICANT—KINGSHIP in JERUSALEM DURING DIVIDED KINGDOM…
VERY IMPORTANT in SUBSEQUENT WEEKS…
Focus: MEANTIME—THINGS GREAT for DAVID
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Background:
Background:
2 Samuel 8:14 (ESV)
14b And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.
DAVID’S LIFE = GOOD.
EXTENDED KINDNESS to JONATHAN’S SON MEPHIBOSHETH
CONSTANT MILITARY VICTORIES
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Transition: Today we’re GOING to SEE....
DOWNFALL of DAVID
=> WILL COLOR REST of HIS KINGSHIP…
Read: 11:1
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Teaching:
Teaching:
Scene 1: 2 Samuel 11—David & Bathsheba
Scene 1: 2 Samuel 11—David & Bathsheba
Setting: David Remains Home (v1)
Setting: David Remains Home (v1)
In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.
Problem: DAVID REMAINS BEHIND
“SENT” JOAB
⭐Note: KEEP TRACK of “SENT” in TONIGHT’S TEXT,, KEY WORD. ⭐
STAYING HOME ISN’T BIGGEST DEAL…RIGHT?
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Transition: WE’RE GOING to HAVE a PROBLEM…
Read: v2-5
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Rising Action: David’s Adultery (v2-5)
Rising Action: David’s Adultery (v2-5)
2 It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. 3 And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” 4 So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house. 5 And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, “I am pregnant.”
“IT HAPPENED”
SCRIPTURE IS SILENT on INITIAL GUILT//PREMEDITATION
DAVID PEEPING?? MAYBE.
BATHSHEBA SEDUCING?? POSSIBLY.
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“CHANCE” SITUATION—BUT NOT a “CHANCE RESPONSE… 💥
(Q) What’s David do? HE “SENT” to INQUIRE
(Q) What was the answer? SHE’S MARRIED to URIAH.
⭐Note: WATCH “SENT” & WATCH for BATHSHEBA’S NAME⭐
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DAVID HAS a SITUATION
VERY BEAUTIFUL WOMAN
MARRIED
BUT HE’S KING…
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Important: DAVID’S RESPONSE WASN’T CHANCE
Exhort: TEMPTATION COMES—BUT WE GET to CHOOSE HOW to RESPOND…
Quote, M. Luther: “Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.”
BAD SITUATION—ONE THING
EVIL THOUGHT—ONE THING
👉👉ACTING on IT—ANOTHER THING…
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1 Corinthians 10:13 (ESV)
13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
ESCAPING TEMPTATION = CHOICE👣
David’s Escape: SHE’S MARRIED
Background: EVEN MORE—MARRIED to ONE of DAVID’S MIGHTY MEN!
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DAVID MAKES HORRIBLE CHOICE
“SENT” for HER—SLEPT W/ HER.
Problem: SHE’S PREGNANT.
SCRIPTURE MAKES CLEAR SHE WASN’T PREGNANT B4
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DAVID = IN TROUBLE:
BROKE 2 of GOD’S COMMANDMENTS:
COVETOUSNESS
ADULTERY😱
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Transition: CAN HIDE an AFFAIR… BUT NOT a BABY...
WHAT DO YOU DO??
Read: V6-13
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More Tension: David’s Response (v6-13)
More Tension: David’s Response (v6-13)
6 So David sent word to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent Uriah to David. 7 When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab was doing and how the people were doing and how the war was going. 8 Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” And Uriah went out of the king’s house, and there followed him a present from the king. 9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house. 10 When they told David, “Uriah did not go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?” 11 Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.” 12 Then David said to Uriah, “Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. 13 And David invited him, and he ate in his presence and drank, so that he made him drunk. And in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.
Major Problem: WHAT = FIRST RESPONSE to DAVID’S SIN? COVER-UP!
BRING HER HUSBAND HOME…
HELPS UNTIL BABY LOOKS LIKE DAVID!😬
Conclusion: SURELY a SOLDIER WOULD WANT to BE HOME W/ WIFE…
Situation:
SMALL TALK W/ URIAH
SENDS PRESENT
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URIAH REFUSED.—HONORABLE GUY— NOT SLEEPING W/ WIFE WHILE MEN ARE AFIELD
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(Q) WHAT’S DAVID DO? TRIES AGAIN!
GETS URIAH DRUNK!
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✨Focus: URIAH = LITERARY FOIL (OPPOSITE) of DAVID
NOBLE— FAITHFUL to MEN @ BATTLE
DAVID— SLEPT W/ ANOTHER MAN’S WIFE!
Background: URIAH— FOREIGN HITTITE— BETTER EXAMPLE of ISRAELITE THAN DAVID!!
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Transition: DAVID’S PLANS = FOILED… WHAT NEXT?
Read: v14-21
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Climax: David has Uriah Killed (v14-21)
Climax: David has Uriah Killed (v14-21)
14 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 15 In the letter he wrote, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die.” 16 And as Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant men. 17 And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite also died. 18 Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting. 19 And he instructed the messenger, “When you have finished telling all the news about the fighting to the king, 20 then, if the king’s anger rises, and if he says to you, ‘Why did you go so near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall? 21 Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’ ”
**SEE HOW THINGS GET INCREASINGLY WORSE??**
HIDDEN SIN GETS WORSE & WORSE
ALWAYS BEST to COME CLEAN💡—OTHERWISE SIN COMPOUNDS & SNOWBALLS.
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Conclusion: NO HELP W/ COVERUP— HAVE AMMONITES KILL HIM..
JUST AS PLANNED—URIAH FALLS in BATTLE…
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Transition: We’ll SEE WHAT DAVID HAS to SAY ABOUT THIS…
Read: v22-25
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Resolution: Message Delivered (v22-25).
Resolution: Message Delivered (v22-25).
22 So the messenger went and came and told David all that Joab had sent him to tell. 23 The messenger said to David, “The men gained an advantage over us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate. 24 Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall. Some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.” 25 David said to the messenger, “Thus shall you say to Joab, ‘Do not let this matter displease you, for the sword devours now one and now another. Strengthen your attack against the city and overthrow it.’ And encourage him.”
David’s Response: PEOPLE DIE in BATTLE....
“DON’T LET THIS MATTER DISPLEASE YOU” // BE EVIL in YOUR EYES”
JUST the WAY IT GOES…
KEEP UP the FIGHT…
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Transition: AS FAR as WE CAN TELL… DAVID’S COVERUP HAS WORKED…
Read: v26-27
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Conclusion: David Takes Bathsheba as His Wife (v26-27)
Conclusion: David Takes Bathsheba as His Wife (v26-27)
26 When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she lamented over her husband. 27 And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.
BATHSHEBA LOGICALLY SAD—AFTER MOURNING DAVID TAKES HER…
⭐**MENTIONED EARLIER: WATCH for HER NAME… ANYONE SEE HOW MANY TIMES IT WAS USED? ONCE—V.3⭐
SHE’S CALLED “the WIFE of URIAH” 😬EVERY OTHER TIME UNTIL END of CH. 12...
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David’s Sin—BREAKS 4 COMMANDMENTS!
COVETING
ADULTERY
MURDER
STEALING
Exhort: TAKE HEED LEST YOU FALL—HUMAN DEPRAVITY = WORSE THAN WE’LL EVER KNOW.
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DAVID GOT AWAY WITH IT… FOR a TIME…
CHILD BORN—APPROX YEAR PASSES!
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Foreboding End: WHAT DAVID DID DISPLEASED the LORD👀
(Q) WHAT DID DAVID SAY to JOAB? “DON’T LET THIS DISPLEASE YOU.”
DON’T BE UPSET.
NARRATOR: GOD WAS UPSET.
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Fearful Truth: WE CAN HIDE from PEOPLE—BUT NOT FROM GOD… 😬
NO HIDING, NO COVER UP, NO NOTHING— WILL PREVENT GOD from SEEING…
GOD SEES: GOOD, BAD, UGLY, ETC…
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Transition: And as a result, GOD WILL ACT…
Read: 12:1-6
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Scene 2: 2 Samuel 12—Nathan Rebukes David
Scene 2: 2 Samuel 12—Nathan Rebukes David
Rising Action: The Lord Sends Nathan (12:1-6)
Rising Action: The Lord Sends Nathan (12:1-6)
12:1 And the Lord sent Nathan to David. He came to him and said to him, “There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor. 2 The rich man had very many flocks and herds, 3 but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children. It used to eat of his morsel and drink from his cup and lie in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him. 4 Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the guest who had come to him, but he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.” 5 Then David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves to die, 6 and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.”
(Q) WHAT DOES GOD DO in RESPONSE? SENT the PROPHET
**NOTE the IRONY??**
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DAVID SENT:
JOAB to WAR
ASKING ABOUT BATHSHEBA
TAKING BATHSHEBA
ASKING for URIAH
SENDING URIAH to HIS DEATH
NOW YAHWEH SENDS HIS PROPHET…
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COMES W/ STORY—NOT GUNS-A-BLAZING
(Q) DO YOU THINK DAVID KNEW IT WAS a PARABLE?? NOPE.
DAVID = KING = JUDGE…
CRIMINAL CASE— THIEF AMONGST US…
Problem: RICH MAN… STOLE PRECIOUS, DAUGHTER SHEEP from POOR MAN for BBQ😭
💡 Background: REMEMBER—DAVID = SHEPHERD B4 KING…
HEART-STRINGS
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(V5) DAVID’S RESPONSE: ANGER— MAN DESERVES to DIE— PAY 4-FOLD for the LOSS!!
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Transition: LITTLE DOES DAVID KNOW… THIS STORY IS FAMILIAR
Read: v7-15
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Climax: Nathan’s Charge (v7-15)
Climax: Nathan’s Charge (v7-15)
7 Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. 8 And I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more. 9 Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’ 11 Thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 12 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.’ ” 13 David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die. 14 Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord, the child who is born to you shall die.” 15 Then Nathan went to his house.
NATHAN BUILDS CASE— DAVID BRINGS SENTENCE— NATHAN DIRECTS BARREL @ GUILTY PARTY....
=> IT WAS DAVID.
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Charge: GOD WAS SO GENEROUS—AND IT WASN’T ENOUGH????💥
SHEPHERD BOY to KING— LAVISHED W/ EVERYTHING a MAN COULD WANT… & NOT ENOUGH?!
“I” ANOINTED YOU
“I” DELIVERED YOU from SAUL
BOTH HB. EMPHASIS— ITALICS
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C.C.: HOW ABOUT FOR US?
HOW MUCH SIN = RESULT of DISCONTENTMENT W/ GOD’S BLESSINGS… ???
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DAVID = CONFRONTED W/ SIN— HE KILLED URIAH W/ AMMONITE SWORD…
Exhort: YOU CAN’T HIDE from the LIVING GOD…
Wonderful Truth: GOD PURSUED DAVID W/ MERCY—INSTEAD of KILLING HIM
Background: ADULTERY & MURDER—DEATH PENALTY—UNDER M. LAW.💀
Key Truth: FORGIVENESS DOESN’T ALWAYS SPARE CONSEQUENCES… 🔑
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Mercy Mixed w/ Consequences
Mercy Mixed w/ Consequences
SWORD would NEVER DEPART
EVIL would be raised up from his OWN HOUSEHOLD
His WIVES would be GIVEN to ANOTHER—B4 the SUN!
CHILD W/ BATHSHEBA— WILL DIE.
=> IN GOD’S MERCY… DAVID WAS SPARED.
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Transition: NEVERTHELESS— GOD KEEPS HIS WORD…
Read: v15b-23
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Falling Action: David’s Child Dies (v15b-23)
Falling Action: David’s Child Dies (v15b-23)
And the Lord afflicted the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and he became sick. 16 David therefore sought God on behalf of the child. And David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground. 17 And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them. 18 On the seventh day the child died. And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he did not listen to us. How then can we say to him the child is dead? He may do himself some harm.” 19 But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David understood that the child was dead. And David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?” They said, “He is dead.” 20 Then David arose from the earth and washed and anointed himself and changed his clothes. And he went into the house of the Lord and worshiped. He then went to his own house. And when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate. 21 Then his servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child died, you arose and ate food.” 22 He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’ 23 But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”
HARSH CONSEQUENCE for SIN…
Few Thoughts:
1. Child WOULDN’T PAY ETERNALLY for DAVID’S SIN...
* TAKEN to BE W/ GOD…& SPARED TROUBLES of THIS LIFE…
2. GOD—AUTHOR of LIFE— AUTHORIZED to TAKE IT…
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DAVID PRAYED—BUT GOD HAD ALREADY DECREED JUDGMENT
DAVID HAD to ACCEPT WILL of GOD HUMBLY…
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Transition: IN MIDST of JUDGMENT—MERCY…
… IN MIDST of DARKNESS… LIGHT:
Read: v24-25
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Resolution: Solomon’s Birth (v24-25)
Resolution: Solomon’s Birth (v24-25)
24 Then David comforted his wife, Bathsheba, and went in to her and lay with her, and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. And the Lord loved him 25 and sent a message by Nathan the prophet. So he called his name Jedidiah, because of the Lord.
REDEMPTION—NEW SON is BORN
Solomon: LOVED of the LORD
FUTURE KING
TEMPLE-BUILDER
CHOSEN ONE—EVEN B4 DAVID’S SIN...
👉 SCANDAL of GRACE!!
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Transition: And now, our TEXT WILL CLOSE…
Read: v26-31
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Conclusion: Rabbah Is Captured (v26-31)
Conclusion: Rabbah Is Captured (v26-31)
26 Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and took the royal city. 27 And Joab sent messengers to David and said, “I have fought against Rabbah; moreover, I have taken the city of waters. 28 Now then gather the rest of the people together and encamp against the city and take it, lest I take the city and it be called by my name.” 29 So David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah and fought against it and took it. 30 And he took the crown of their king from his head. The weight of it was a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone, and it was placed on David’s head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount. 31 And he brought out the people who were in it and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes and made them toil at the brick kilns. And thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
Scary Truth: OUTWARDLY—THINGS CAN BE GREAT…
WHILE INWARDLY—FALLING APART… 😨
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(Q) HOW’D OUR STORY BEGIN?
DAVID STAYED HOME from BATTLE…
JOAB FOUGHT RABBAH, AMMONITES
SETTING for WHOLE STORY—WAR W/ AMMONITES…
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STORY CLOSES—DAVID TAKES CITY— WEARS CROWN…
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Transition: CRACKS in FOUNDATION…
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Takeaway: Repentance doesn’t guarantee the removal of all consequences:
Takeaway: Repentance doesn’t guarantee the removal of all consequences:
DAVID’S STORY BUILDS… UP TO THIS POINT…
… NOW IT WILL GO SIDEWAYS…
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Big Picture: Future Problems to Come
Big Picture: Future Problems to Come
CHILD CONCEIVED W/ BATHSHEBA PASSES
AMNON (SON) RAPES TAMAR
ABSALOM MURDERS AMNON
ABSALOM’S COUP
SLEEP W/ DAVID’S WOMEN on PALACE ROOF.
ADDITIONAL REBELLIONS & PROBLEMS…
1 KINGS—ADONIJAH KIILLED
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=> DAVID DECLARED 4-FOLD REPAYMENT…
CHILD W/ BATHSHEBA
AMNON
ABSALOM
ADONIJAH
THIS DECLINE — SETS STAGE for 1-2 KINGS,, WHERE WE’LL TURN NEXT…
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Transition: WHAT DO WE LEARN FOR US??
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Takeaways:
Takeaways:
We CANNOT HIDE OUR SINS— FROM an ALL-PRESENT GOD…
MUST BRING THEM INTO the LIGHT…
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Context: CONFESSING = OPPOSITE of DENYING
PS. 51— DAVID’S BEAUTIFUL PSALM of REPENTANCE…
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2. SOMETIMES… SINS STILL HAVE NATURAL CONSEQUENCES… DESPITE FORGIVENESS
* DAVID’S LIFE= SPARED… MAJOR PROBLEMS on HORIZON…
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3. FIGHT TEMPTATION W/ ALL YOU’VE GOT…
GRIEVES GOD
Ephesians 4:30 “30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.”
YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT IT’LL COST YOU…
TEMPTATION—SIN—DEATH…
James 1:12–15 (ESV)
14 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.
15 Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
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(Q) Closing Questions/Thoughts??
!! Close in Prayer !!
