Sermon Tone Analysis

The REALITIES of David’s Sin

This is a familiar passage .

David has went completely off the rails.

[I often say that it is not the first look that get’s a guy in trouble…it is the 2nd-999th]

David stepped up and put everything aside

2sam 11.

[Danger…Danger…Danger Will Robinson if you remember the show Lost in Space from the 60’s]

This sin, as most sin occurs, is a spontaneous thing.

I coveted it, translated I thought I needed it,

I planned a way to get it, translated in my planning I’ve already sinned,

I got it, translated I’m in trouble here

I’m going with it, translated, I know I’ve sinned, it FEELS good, I’m going to keep doing it

FINALLY…Either the law or God catches up with me and now I have to FACE A GIANT.

I hoped you noticed…there were many “I” statements.

“I have sinned and fell short of the Glory of God!”

Sometimes as I’m dealing with people it is helpful for them to allow them to “un-wind” there sin.

To recount it, to say where they went wrong to explain the place where they are.

For others it’s only necessary to know in more general terms.

It all depends.

The import note here is listening for regret, embarrassment, sometimes disgust for the sin, I also hear a huge weight that is resting upon their shoulders.

If I don’t hear or feel those things, we either need a “Nathan” moment, that we will talk about in a minute or they need blunt honesty.

The person that we have highlighted is David.

The representative of God on earth.

The one anointed by God through Samuel to lead and guide, the who God says

But this is all of us.

Men and women alike.

All have sinned and fell short.

One more thing before we get to the “Nathan” moment.

2Sam 11.27

The “Nathan” Moment

The “Nathan” Moment

David needed Nathan, God sent Nathan, David got VERY angry at Nathan (God), Nathan was very blunt to David

2Sam 12.

David’s sin, is our sin, is my sin, whether public, private, small or large is in essence as the verse says…despising the word of the Lord and doing evil in His eyes.

I’ve done that, You have done that, We have done that.

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Now what…you are condemned for your sin.

You can either live in condemnation, live under the penalty of sin, live a life that becomes wasted because you are always chasing sin and trying to atone for it, trying to make it right and yet you can’t…because the one that you REALLY need to deal with God.

If you keep running, you will never stop running.

Let me use a last example from this passage

Nathan, the prophet laid out David’s sin in front of him.

He cloaked it a bit to not be terribly direct.

That didn’t get through to David…or David still wouldn’t acknowledge.

Finally Nathan laid it out…directly as it was.

2Sam

WOW!!!

After all of that, after all that David, Nathan, Bathsheba, Uriah, many many others who are wound up in this web of sin and deceit.

David’s sin was “taken away” immediately after he confessed it

The BIGGER story here is REDEMPTION.

Coming back from sin to wholeness with God!

This is our BIG IDEA

Forgiveness returns us to wholeness with God.

Turn if you will to .

Psalms are found almost in the middle of your bible.

Just a little background

David was anointed king ahead of all of his brothers

This caused much friction in the family.

The King at the time, Saul went nuts about killing David and holding on to power.

Eventually Saul died and David ascended to throne in Jerusalem.

was written AFTER Nathan rebuked him for his sin.

This is one of the 18 or more Psalm’s that were written by David.

I believe this is the real story of .

Yes…Yes all of those things happened all of those trespasses occured.

What was God’s response?

What was God’s remedy for David?

What does any of this have to do with me?

First what was God’s remedy

Again from 2 Samuel

David penned this Psalm.

Pouring his heart out over his actions over several months.

What we get to peak in on is how God treated David with Grace and Mercy.

This is Grace and Mercy.

The Hebrew word used for “unfailing love” is hesed that’s the word last week that was used for “Loving kindness”

David prays for forgiveness...

For David sin is described in three aspects

Transgression, fleeing or rebellion from God

Iniquity - The perversion of right, the depravity of the sin

Sin - Missing the mark (hamartia) is the Greek word.

The removal of the guilt is also triply described.

“blot out” - remove the debt that I have incurred.

“wash me” - remove the stain of sin which only God can truly cleanse.

“Cleanse me” - Make me whole again, like I was before.

We have established that God chooses to “remember no more our sins”

All of those events that are currently on David’s mind have been washed away.

It’s like AMEN we are done here…we can start fresh again with God.

I think here David has corporate responsibilities.

Responsibilities to Israel as well as to himself as a leader.

His sin with God is gone..

2Sam 1

He and God are good.

Now it is time for David to draw in the tribe of Israel.

The people of Jerusalem to instruct them in dealing with their sin.

Their sin breaks fellowship, walks all over the covenant between God and Israel.

His sins have been known to God all along.