A Repentant Heart - Part 1

The Slippery Slope of Sin

How did a man after God’s own heart end up committing such atrocious acts as adultery, murder, and conspiracy?

Compromise (5:12-13)

David began to multiply concubines to himself in the midst of God’s blessing. Something that God had told Israel not to allow their kings to do. It was a “little” compromise.

2 Samuel 5:12–13 ESV

And David knew that the Lord had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel. And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to David.

Deuteronomy 17:14–17 ESV

“When you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, ‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,’ you may indeed set a king over you whom the Lord your God will choose. One from among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. Only he must not acquire many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the Lord has said to you, ‘You shall never return that way again.’ And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.

Duet 17:14-17

Deuteronomy 17:15–17 ESV

you may indeed set a king over you whom the Lord your God will choose. One from among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. Only he must not acquire many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the Lord has said to you, ‘You shall never return that way again.’ And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.

David was not thankful for the wife God had granted and it led to sin of passion. Thanksgiving, gratefulness an keep us from falling into the trap of lust and sin.

David was not thankful for the wife God had granted and it led to sin of passion. Thanksgiving, gratefulness an keep us from falling into the trap of lust and sin.

Complacency (11:1-2)

He should have been out leading the army, but allowed himself a life of ease.

He should have avoided the rooftop in the evening, but placed himself in a position to be tempted.

The Scripture does not condemn Bathsheba for bathing. David, should not have lingered.

Conviction (Ignored) (11:3-4)

David received warning from his servant, but he had put God out of his mind and was too full of passion to listen. “she is the wife of Uriah.” Both her father and her husband were part of David’s mighty men. Her grandfather was David’s chief counselor. He should have known better, but he was blinded by his lust.

James 1:13–15 ESV

Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

James 1:15 ESV

Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

Cover-Up (5-13)

Just as he sent for her, now she sends word to him, she’s pregnant.

This was a chance to confess and repent, instead he sought to cover his sin.

Proverbs 28:13 ESV

Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

David concocts a plan to cover his sin, but Uriah has more integrity than David at this point. He will not enjoy pleasure while his men are in the battlefield.

Conspiracy (14-27)

David’s plan ends in conspiracy to kill Uriah. It results in the death of many of his men and the involvement of Joab in his murderous plot.

David thinks that everything is taken care of, but it was “evil in the eyes of the Lord.”

It was “evil in the eyes of the Lord.”

David’s fellowship with the Lord was broken and he entered a period of emptiness in his soul.

Psalm 32:

Psalm 32:1–5 ESV

Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah

Thanksgiving helps to prevent us from falling into sin.

Colossians 3:15 ESV

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.