2 Samuel 11
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· 89 viewsNo amount of dodging and trying to justify your secret sin will ever make it right in God’s eyes
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Did you see our video on FB this week? Wed?
“Secret secrets are no fun secret secrets hurt some one”
What do you do when nobody is watching?
What do you do when you think you can get away with it?
What do you do that you think nobody knows about?
The fact is wether you want to admit it to yourself or not we all have secret sins
The secret of sin is that it dies when exposed, most sin dies when it is no longer secret.
Over these next two Sundays I want to look at a very famous passage in 2 Samuel, 2 Sam 11-12 dealing with David and Bathsheba.
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God our Father in Heaven…
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David shirks his duties.
David seizes that which is not his.
David silences his conscience.
David is a repeat of Adam and an illustration for us that we all need Christ!
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David shirks his duties.
David shirks his duties.
1 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.
Times of prosperity and inactivity are times of special temptation.
How have you decided to dodge your duty?
Glowing record during times of crisis
Israel wants king to go out with them
Time of kings to battle… But David… The time for battle is now!!
you are called and created for battle
8 Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
Like Adam before him David shirks his duties
Genesis 2:15–18 = Man - in Eden / eat anything but middle / alone…helper
Genesis 3:9-12 = God - “where are you?” / scared…naked / Did you eat?…the woman…
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.
would not have happened… if…
late in afternoon / arose from couch / saw woman bathing… privacy
David seizes that which is not his.
David seizes that which is not his.
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.
Even good men have evil tendencies, of whose strength they have no conception.
Historically or currently when have you sought to seize your secret sin?
Scripture does not use this word but it sure gives the appearance of RAPE to me
Adultery / Murder… Rape?
Women / King / conduct…
15 Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
Like Adam before him David seizes that which is not his.
Genesis 3:5–6 = Like God / good food…delight…desired wisdom… / he ate too
5 And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, “I am pregnant.” 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.
David impregnated her… cleansing /
The cover-up - Uriah = mighty men…?
Go wash your feet… Here’s a present…
David silences his conscience.
David silences his conscience.
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?”
Why not Uriah…?
How the mighty have fallen… Look @ David vs Uriah… 1 Sam David / Uriah
4 And the priest answered David, “I have no common bread on hand, but there is holy bread—if the young men have kept themselves from women.” 5 And David answered the priest, “Truly women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition. The vessels of the young men are holy even when it is an ordinary journey. How much more today will their vessels be holy?”
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.”
David tries another tack-tic
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.
Perhaps the inebriated Uriah would fail…
Now David will go so far as to use Uriah’s integrity against him...
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.
David in effect kills Uriah… Orders a hit on him
Joab = general / concerned with combat / wisdom in words
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.’ ”
King and his kingdom / man and his mischief
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.”
Bathsheba - mourned
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.
David - minimized
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.”
If sin is not resisted when in the heart it will sooner or later become manifest in the life.
Where are you most likely to silence the Spirit, or compromise your conscience?
Like Adam before him David silences his conscience.
Genesis 3:4 = you wont die…
Genesis 3:12 = The Woman / You Gave / Fruit Tree … I ate
James 1:15 = Sin brings death
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12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— 13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. 14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
15 But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. 16 And the free gift is not like the result of that one man’s sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification. 17 For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
18 Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. 19 For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous. 20 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, 21 so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
PRAYER
400 Prayers for Preachers Create in Us New Hearts
O Lord, create in us new hearts, so that with fervent minds we may bewail our manifold sins, and earnestly repent from our former wickedness and ungodly behavior toward you; and whereas we cannot of ourselves purchase your pardon, yet we humbly ask you, for Jesus Christ’s sake, to show your mercies upon us, and receive us again to your favor. Grant us, dear Father, these our requests, and all other things necessary for us and your whole Church, according to your promise in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
JOHN KNOX
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