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Isreal was out in Battle, but David Remained in Jerusalem
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.
He saw from the roof a woman bathing
and the woman was very beautiful!
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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?”
“Comfortable Company”
“And David sent and inquired about the woman”
He only inquired about the woman with people he was comfortable with!
Do you have comfortable company?
Are you a part of the company?
“And one said”
Is not this Bathsheba....
You know exactly who Bathsheba is.
The daughter of Eliam… David knew His Father
The wife of Uriah the Hittite…
The Lexham Bible Dictionary Uriah’s Background
Uriah as a Hittite—a person descended from one of the nations that the Israelites were supposed to destroy
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.
Bathsheba sent back word about a month later....
I’m Pregnant
David said call Joab (a military commander)
Send Uriah home now!
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.
But! Uriah slept at the door of the Kings House.
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?”
“When they” - The Comfortable Company
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.”
Churched Vs. Unchurched
It’s a dangerous place to be comfortable with the “ark”
The “ark” represented the presence of God!
Growing up churched.....
Becoming familiar with God
Vs. Unchurched
David was like..... Okay Plan B
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.
David said let me get him drunk!
In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
David put Uriah in the front line of the hottest battle…
Then draw the men back!
Word gets back to David… Uriah is dead…
Joab was afraid because he didn’t know how David was going to respond.
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.”
When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she lamented over her husband.
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 was a cold piece of work!
Stupid Seasons / Will cause you to make stupid decisions
God sent Nathan to David!
Thank God for a voice of reason in my stupid season!
Nathan told him:
There was a Rich Man with many flocks...
And a power man with a lamp that he treated like a child…
(Tell The Story)
David said this man deserves to die!
Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
And I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more.
Our lust is never satisfied!
David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die. Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord, the child who is born to you shall die.”
The child became ill
David therefore sought God on behalf of the child. And David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground.
7 Days later the child dies!
Our lowest moments can be the most transformative moments!
In’t in this moment David writes a song and gives it to the choirmaster and tells him to sing it!
Psalms 51
Then David comforted his wife, Bathsheba, and went in to her and lay with her, and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. And the Lord loved him
I’m Thankful For A Second Chance
I was reading
Hear, O sons, a father’s instruction,
and be attentive, that you may gain insight,
for I give you good precepts;
do not forsake my teaching.
When I was a son with my father,
tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,
he taught me and said to me,
“Let your heart hold fast my words;
keep my commandments, and live.
Wait!
Solomon’s Father was David!
But I’m thankful for transformation!
Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me.
to create v. — to bring into existence.
morally clean adj. — being free from moral impurity.
to renew v. — to reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new.
Spirit - Frame of mind
I’m thankful for a second chance
A chance to share with my son words of life!
Tell It!