David Sought the Lord
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David Sought the Lord
02-7-2021
Last week we talked about repenting and how we are to be a cleansed vessel
Something I am sure that you and I have probably heard before in church, and I know that you have heard it here at Maranatha Baptist Fellowship
This sermon is once again something you have heard before
But I believe it is important enough to continue to say
Last week was a call to repent
Repent defined is a verb, meaning there is action to the word, the definition is - feel or express sincere regret or remorse about one's wrongdoing or sin.
You and I are to repent from our sin and run to Jesus
Last week we challenged you to pray to the Lord and as Him to search your heart
To show you the junk you need to get ride of
Then we talked about the action part
It’s one thing to pray and cry out to the Lord
It one thing to sit here on a Sunday morning and say I repent
Or walk down the aisle and kneel at the altar and say I repent
But
If there is no action
Last week we shared with you that your action was to be obedient to what He called you or what He showed you todo
But if there is no action there is no repentence
Since Repentence is a verb, and action word
1 Then the Lord sent Nathan to David. And he came to him and said, “There were two men in one city, the one rich and the other poor. 2 “The rich man had a great many flocks and herds. 3 “But the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb Which he bought and nourished; And it grew up together with him and his children. It would eat of his bread and drink of his cup and lie in his bosom, And was like a daughter to him. 4 “Now a traveler came to the rich man, And he was unwilling to take from his own flock or his own herd, To prepare for the wayfarer who had come to him; Rather he took the poor man’s ewe lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.” 5 Then David’s anger burned greatly against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As the Lord lives, surely the man who has done this deserves to die. 6 “He must make restitution for the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing and had no compassion.”
First things first
If you are called to go to someone, you had better Go
Notice it says God sent Nathan, don’t make God ask a second time
God sends Nathan to confront David the King of the sin in his life
1 Then it happened in the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel, and they destroyed the sons of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. 2 Now when evening came David arose from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king’s house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance. 3 So David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” 4 David sent messengers and took her, and when she came to him, he lay with her; and when she had purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned to her house. 5 The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, “I am pregnant.” 6 Then David sent to Joab, saying, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent Uriah to David.
14 Now in the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 15 He had written in the letter, saying, “Place Uriah in the front line of the fiercest battle and withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and die.”
27 When the time of mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house and she became his wife; then she bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the Lord.
This entire chapter details the sin of David
Aren’t you glad you don’t have your own chapter detailing your sin for everyone to read and re read and re read again
Not to dwell on David’s sin
David sinned against the Lord
And God has to do something about it
So He sends Nathan to comfort David of the sin in his life
5 Then David’s anger burned greatly against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As the Lord lives, surely the man who has done this deserves to die. 6 “He must make restitution for the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing and had no compassion.” 7 Nathan then said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘It is I who anointed you king over Israel and it is I who delivered you from the hand of Saul. 8 ‘I also gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your care, and I gave you the house of Israel and Judah; and if that had been too little, I would have added to you many more things like these! 9 ‘Why have you despised the word of the Lord by doing evil in His sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.
Nathan confronts David with the sin in his life
Just like last week we challenged you to pray to Go and cry out to the Lord and ask Him to search your heart to show you all the junk
God will answer that prayer
God will show you the junk you have in your life
But to have the junk in our lives be revealed to us is not the end of the story
Just like confronting David was not the end of the story
David needed to respond to God revealing to him the junk in his life
Just like you and I this morning we need to respond to God revealing the junk in our lives
Last week was the first step
Last week was about crying out to God to search our hearts and show us the junk in our lives
Now this week is about responding to what God is showing us about the junk about the sin in our lives
13 Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has taken away your sin; you shall not die.
David responds to Nathan confronting him with the sin in his life
Not by killing him, or banishing him
But David hears Nathan who is sent by God
And David confesses his sin to the Lord
This is the start of the action to repentance
David could have said nothing to Nathan when confronted by the sin in his life
You all could have sat in your seat last week and done nothing
Some of you may very well have, time will tell
Some of you could have only given lip service to the Lord last week
When called to repent, you could have said exactly what David said and confessed sin before the Lord
And then done absolutely nothing with it
But David just doesn’t leave it with the lip service
David sought the Lord
Church that is the action we are talking about when it comes to repentance
That is the turn from the sin in your life
You can turn from the sin in your life only to turn to more sin
5 I acknowledged my sin to You, And my iniquity I did not hide; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord”; And You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah. 6 Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found; Surely in a flood of great waters they will not reach him. 7 You are my hiding place; You preserve me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
David wrote this psalm during the time he was confronted with the sin in his life
This is his response to being confronted about the sin in his life
David did not just mearly give lip service to the Lord
But then David sought the Lord
David says that the Lord is his hiding place
Now we weren’t there and we don’t know for sure but it would seem that David the King who was confronted with the sin in his life
Repented and turned from it and ran to Jesus
It would seem from this passage that David sought the Lord instead of sin
That is what we are to do church
That is the action behind repenting
To turn from the sin and to turn to Jesus
David also wrote Psalms 51
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. 11 Do not cast me away from Your presence And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation And sustain me with a willing spirit. 13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners will be converted to You.
David cry’s out to God for forgiveness
But again church it is more than just lip service
I think we have for far to long given lip service to God about the sin in our life
IT is time that we repent
Cry out to God and repent from the sin in our lives
David did just that
Notice though as David is crying out to forgiveness that he says ones he is forgiving and put back into a right relationship with God
That he will then go out and preach and teach others about God
Once David was cleansed from the sin in his life, he was able to be used by God
You and I need to be a repenting people so that we can be used by God for the good work that God wants to do through us
So that we can go out and share the Good News that Jesus saves and it is only Jesus that saves
Now some of you may sit there and say but I still don’t know
This could all be lip service about David
22 “After He had removed him, He raised up David to be their king, concerning whom He also testified and said, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My heart, who will do all My will.’
If it were just lip service it would not have been recorded twice that David was a man after God’s heart
David wasn’t perfect but David responded to the sin in his life in the perfect way, by seeking the Lord
David repented
David confessed his sin
David turn from the sin
David sought the Lord
CLOSING
As the band comes up
Maybe you are here this morning and have never giving your life to Christ
We want to invite you to the front and speak with someone about beginning a new relationship with Christ
Or maybe you are here this morning and have given just lip service to the Lord
Would you seek the Lord this morning
The altar is open