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Introduction:
2-Part Series within our Leadership Series
Nathan: Leaders Confront
David: Leaders Repent
Back story:
The story begins with King David reigning from the throne in Jerusalem.
At a time of the year when Kings go out to war, David decides to stay home in Jerusalem.
David takes a late night walk on the rooftop of his palace, and from his high angle is able to look down at what’s going on down below.
The Bible doesn’t say David was purposefully looking for something, but it makes you wonder: When all his men are off to war, why meander at midnight like this.
His eyes begin to meander too, and he sees a beautiful woman bathing in the dark.
The Bible makes mention that she was beautiful, the more uncommon word for beautiful referring to mere physical beauty.
The story begins with King David reigning from the throne in Jerusalem.
At a time of the year when Kings go out to war, David decides to stay home in Jerusalem.
David takes a late night walk on the rooftop of his palace, and from his high angle is able to look down at what’s going on down below.
The Bible doesn’t say David was purposefully looking for something, but it makes you wonder: When all his men are off to war, why meander at midnight like this.
His eyes begin to meander too, and he sees a beautiful woman bathing in the dark.
The Bible makes mention that she was beautiful, the more uncommon word for beautiful referring to mere physical beauty.
David’s urges get the better of himself and he summons his messengers to go fetch Bathsheba.
Of course, David knows Bathsheba.
There’s a reason why she lived so close to David.
See, Bathsheba is the wife of Uriah the Hittite.
Uriah is one of David’s Mighty Men.
David kept his strong men close to him to protect him.
And so while Uriah is out fighting David’s battle, David sleeps with his neighbour’s wife.
Shortly after this moral lapse, Bathsheba informs the King she’s pregnant.
At this moment, David has a choice to make.
He can make things right, or he can cover his tracks.
He chooses the latter, and fetches Uriah from the battlefield.
David understands what it’s like to be away in battle.
David’s thinking: Uriah hasn’t been around his wife for some time, and so hopefully I can get Uriah to spend a romantic evening Bathsheba.
No one would ever suspect I did anything then.
But Uriah does the unexpected.
Instead of going home to Bathsheba, Uriah sleeps in front of the doors of David’s palace.
Why?
Because Uriah still considers himself on duty.
The ark, his fellow soldiers, his generals, are still fighting for the kingdom.
He’s still in uniform.
He sleeps at the doors of the palace because Uriah’s loyalty to God’s Kingdom trumps his libido.
Ironically, this frustrates David, because if Uriah doesn’t sleep with his wife, or at least spend the night in his own house, then how did Bathsheba get pregnant?
So David then gets Uriah drunk the next night as a way to lure Uriah back to his beautiful Bathsheba.
But again, Uriah’s loyalty to God’s Kingdom trumps his drunk libito and still sleeps at the palace gates.
Little does Uriah know that David’s next plan was to kill him.
David gives Uriah a note to his right hand man Joab who is still in battle.
Uriah delivers the note with the command to kill him.
Joab obeys the king, Uriah dies in the next battle.
David is notified.
David swaggers over the Bathsheba, takes her as his wife, and continues to rule as if nothing has happened.
David broke the 6th Commandment- You shall not murder.
David broke the 6th Commandment- You shall not murder.
David broke the 7th Commandment- You shall not commit adultery.
David broke the 6th Commandment- You shall not murder.
David broke the 9th Commandment- You shall not give false testimony.
David broke the 10th Commandment- You shall not covet your neighbours wife.
David broke the 9th Commandment- You shall not give false testimony.
A late night stroll from his palace led to a downward spiral of desire, deceit, death.
A late night stroll from his palace led to a downward spiral of desire, deceit, death.
Last week we talked about how Nathan confronts him with all these sins.
He summarizes David’s sin in : Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight?
This is a guy labelled: a man after God’s heart.
Now David exposes his heart in a deeply personal, intimate, and passionate Psalm.
Now David exposes his heart in a deeply personal, intimate, and passionate Psalm.
Reveals Tremendous Gifts for the Church as to a process of repentance!
King David takes his Repentance Personal
v.2: Wash me; Cleanse me
v.3: I know my transgressions, my sin is ever before me
v.2: Wash me; Cleanse me
v.5: I was brought forth in iniquity
Cleanse me
v. 7: Purge (unsin) me with hyssop
v.10: Create in me a clean heart… renew a right spirit within me.
v. 14: Deliver me from bloodguiltiness
David knew the depth of his sin
Guilt is person
Sin is person
Repentance needs to be personal.
Guilt!
This feeling of guilt, of knowing who you are as a sinner before an Almighty God
Jonathon Edwards: Sinners at the Hand of an Angry God
Jonathon Edwards: Sinners at the Hand of an Angry God
Personal, Responsibility and Personal Repentance!
: All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God!
Take Ownership of Their Sin
I come to you each week as a sinner.
Leaders know they aren’t all that and a box of chocolates
Fully clean
C.S. Lewis: Screwtape Letters:
Nephew Wormwood
Heart change
When Leaders do mess up:
Spirit resuscitation.
1. Use the Gospel to Assuage the Conscience
The things David did would disqualify him from ministry today…
1. Use the Gospel to Assuage the Conscience
Use a cheap and watered-down version of the Bad News to assure the patient that he is forgiven and all is done.
Train him to think that the word “forgiven” means “immediately and fully transformed,” so that he actually believes he will not repeat his act.
(He most certainly will.)
When he does repeat his behavior, bring relief so sudden and so full that he moves on without a second thought.
Soon, he will be thinking of his forgiveness while committing his abuse.
See that this continues until he thinks nothing of either the forgiveness or the abuse again.
He will be peacefully enslaved to his own devices, deceived by a form of the Bad News that is emptied of its power.
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