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You know, we sing the Christmas
carols and things. It is fun. It brings back memories
as well. My mom liked to push us as kids,
kind of get us out of our comfort zone and do things that, you
know, moms kind of get their kids to do it. And our family,
and I'm talking about moms, family, sisters and things, we would
go carol and actually go knock on doors. And it's for funs that
we do at Christmas time. Load up, kids, and off we go.
And it was cold and snowy, and it brings back a lot of great
memories. But then also the carol singing service. We always love
it here at the church. It's going to be a very special
night. I sleep down, Purchase Rihanna, and carol's up on the
telly here, I think. We'll have to test that, see
how the sides of the font and things like that. I think it'll
work great. And look forward to the guy bringing some visitors
out. So be praying about him. He hasn't
got to where he worked that night. And I look forward to it. Alright,
2 Samuel chapter 12. 2 Samuel chapter 12. And we're
continuing our study of the life of David. And the story that
we've been in, it's a sad story. And praise God, we're finally
getting to kind of at least the happy part of the story as we
get to the end tonight. But it's a story of King David's
moral failure, his adultery, and the murder of Uriah at the
head time. Sadly, David didn't repent of
his sin and so he seeks to hide it. We were looking at that last
week. He tried to hide it by deception and having Uriah go
home to his house and spend time with his wife and the baby that's
coming would be assumed to be Uriah's, but Uriah was more honorable
than David thought and said, no, how can I go home and be
with my family when the ark of God and the soldiers are out
there fighting the battle and he stayed there at the palace?
David trying to get Uriah drunk. He did get Uriah drunk and tries
again. He didn't break his will by that
but it fails and after that David just sends a letter by Uriah
to Joab saying put Uriah to fire. And then after he finds
out that he's dead, he comforts Joy, the captain, the host, saying,
you know, the sword devours one as well as another. It's a pretty
sordid story, you know, that you have here in the Word of
God, and it's very sad because he's a great man of God that failed
morally, and so it's very sad to look at a story like this.
But at the end of chapter 11, verse 26, it said, when the wife
of Gariah heard that Gariah, her husband, was dead, she When
the warning was passed, David sent Vextra to his house, and
she became his wife and barren son. But the thing that David
had done displeased the Lord. And so a significant amount of
time has elapsed since the adultery was committed to the point of
this story that we're at here as we come into chapter 12. We
know that the adultery took place, that Jeba finds out that she's
pregnant. Then pretty quickly after that, that would take seven
weeks, then Uriah's call. and the death of Uriah takes
place, and then David marries Bathsheba, and the baby comes. So, they were at least nine months,
you know, probably a few months, maybe longer than that, that
since the sin, the original sin had taken place, and David's
not gotten right with God, and David is still hiding the sin,
harboring the sin, and God's been very merciful to this point. with that statement, but the
thing that David had done displeased the Lord. And so David was okay
with it, apparently Joab was okay with it, but that didn't
really matter because God was upset by it. And so we'll get
back in the story here, and God's gonna deal with it, and David's
light, and for David's good, and for the glory of God. God is pure and that all Scripture
is given by inspiration of God is profitable for doctrine, for
recruitment, for correction, for instruction, and righteousness.
And Father, we're thankful tonight that we have a place that we
get to gather together and that we get to open the book of all
books, the Bible, and consider eternal and timeless truth that
our world says, and I've seen old-fashioned, but Father, it
doesn't matter what somebody says about the Word of God, praise
you for writing a book that is as real, as relevant, and as
good today as it was in the day that the Spirit of God inspired
the human author to pen those words of Scripture open up the light of the truth
of the Word of God upon our own hearts, our own lives, and Father,
there's a prophet in the truth that we consider to benefit the
last two weeks as we've been on dysphoria and trust tonight
as well that the Spirit of God would speak to hearts and that
you'd both protect us, protect our purity, our marriages, and
our families, and God, give us grace in a very immoral, wicked
world to live righteously. and if I can't speak without
your enablement, I do ask that the Spirit of God give you liberty
to declare the truth of the Word of God and that you'd help us
in our walk with you tonight. In Christ's name we pray, amen.
Okay, so, but the thing that David had done verse 1, the Lord sent Nathan
unto David. And so God, as we talked about,
God's given David about a year to repent, to deal with it, David's
not done that, and so it's kind of surprising to think David's
a godly man, he walks with the Lord, and yet he's harbored and
hid this for so very long. The Bible says in Proverbs 28
verse 13, he that cometh to sin shall not confesseth and forsaketh
them, shalt have mercy." So, without exception, hidden sin
is not good. Anytime the devil could try to
talk us into taking a sin and covering it, that's not good
for the person that does sin. So, it's been a difficult year
for David. Psalm 32 and Psalm 51 are penitential psalms written
by David after he got right with God. He speaks about how he felt
as he was harboring that sin. Psalm 32 verse 3 says, When I
kept silent my bones waxed old from my roaring. All the day
long, for day and night, thy hand was heavy upon me. My boisters
turned weeks ago now and actually it
may not have been that long ago, two weeks ago or something like
that but as we had that we went with the boys who were sledging
and that we took some convincement on our part that it's going to
be okay to be able to get out and go sledging. So we get over
there and my family knows that I'm the health and safety guy
and so I almost I say that because I'm a health
and safety guy, but I also have personal experience with sledging.
When I was a little boy, about, I want to say maybe five, six
years of age, I had gone sledging at a large hill by our house.
In the United States, it's common to get on a truck lorry, in or
two, that they used to have there on trucks. And so, you blow it
up real big, you get on that, it's slick as can be, and you
pile people on it, and then you go down the hill. Well, there
was about four cars And I come up, and I'm like,
I'm hurt. And mom's like, oh, you're going
to be all right. Come on, be tough. And then she realizes,
oh, maybe something's wrong. And we go to the hospital, and
lo and behold, I've broken my collarbone. Now, I regret. I've
never broken a cool bone in my body. I never get a cast that
everybody gets fine or anything like that. I've got to wear these
straps that make me walk around like this. it as the bones which thou hast
broken may rejoice." That constant nagging, that sense of the guilt
and the burden of that was there. And so David's rightly suffering,
he's sinning against God, he's chosen to disobey God, dishonor
God, and he is bearing the burden of the guilt of his sin because
he's not coming to God, not sought God's forgiveness, and he's still
there. And so transgression warrants
God's judgment. David had an humblest heart.
And so God has to send Nathan to confront David after a year
of that. for the king. I can imagine the
responsibility that he's been entrusted with is he's got to
go before the king with this, and whether God directly gave
him the story that he's to tell, or as he thinks about it, he
thinks, well David, about David, he's got a clever way of presenting
this to David by way of a fable that one little ewe lamb which he
had brought and nourished up. Okay so he starts a story that
has great contracts. There is a wealthy man that has
everything and no doubt anything that his heart desired he had.
He didn't have to work hard to have himself provided for. He
had everything and an abundance of things. In fact he had flies money and somehow he earned that
lamb, a little female lamb that he had, and he nourished it and
cared for it. So there's quite a contrast in
the story. The heart of the story hinges on the affection of the
poor man for the lamb, that he really cares about that lamb.
And so verse 3, with poor man had nothing, saved one little
new lamb which he had brought and nourished up, and he grew
up together with him. And with his children, he had to eat of
his own meat, and drink of his own cup, and lay in his bosom,
and was unto him as a daughter." Nathan is a master storyteller,
as he's telling the story to the king, and really presenting
the picture to David that David would get. David was a shepherd
in his youth. the mother of the lamb had died,
you had died somehow, or maybe you had cast off the child and
so the shepherd would take it in and begin to nourish it, begin
to feed it, begin to care for it. Well, you know, if you start
to care for something, you kind of get an affection for it. I
mean, my sister, they to be fat and things and she
sent me videos and they're still caring for the cat and as far
as I know they're going to keep the cat and the dog but this cat
she's got videos of it outside in the courts because they're
teaching it to be an outdoor cat okay and it's hard because
they got pictures of it a little video of it on the we have screens
on our windows in the United States and you know the whole
thing is just clawed its way there it's like trying to get
back in well I mean that tugs at your heart why because you
start to for it. And so as he's sharing
the story, David's getting it. David's like, had experience
that knows what it's like to have a pet that you really care
about. So his emotion is really getting
involved in the story that Nathan is sharing with them. Now the
story, again the heart is there, of his own flock and of his own
herd to dress for the wig-bearing man that was coming to him, but
took the poor man's lamb and dressed it for the man that was
coming to him." Dressed it means he butchered it. And so a sudden
visitor to the rich man is demanding to be entertained. And a feast
is required because, of course, you know, somebody's traveling
those days comes in, they're going to meet
the needs that the stranger has and provide a meal for him. But rather than butchering the
livestock that he has, he's got all these flocks, all these herds,
he doesn't do that. No, he doesn't go to his own stores. Instead,
the poor man's pet is butchered on the rich man to satisfy the
stranger's desire. Now, we know the story represents
David in 1 Kings 9, and that's going to at that were reminded
that there are traveling passions that came upon David that desired
to be entertained. Rather than meet those in a God-given
way that was right on the side of God, he violated that and
committed the sin of adultery. David was looking outside of
his pastures instead of being content with what God had given
to him. And so, there's the stories presented. Now, Nathan was very effective
in what he did. As he presented the story to
David, it's very effective in telling said about it and his response
would be the same as any righteous man who heard of this great injustice. And so David is angry at the
fictitious man who had done this deed. And so verse 5 it says,
and David's anger was greatly kindled against the man. Okay.
My boys sometimes tell me kindle fires. We've got, if you've been
to But we're trying to get a fire
going. We try to do it the old-fashioned way. You know, the boys like,
not rubbing sticks together, but putting the kindling there,
and you get the paper, you build that teepee, and then you light
it and hope it goes. But if it doesn't, we don't mind
using a little accelerant, you know, getting some lighter fluid
that's put on there and helping that out. Now, if that doesn't
work, I've got another solution that we try, and that's we get
our relief blower. And so then we've got the little fire that's
going and struggling, but I mean, put that leaf blower on it and
it's just like, you know, and it goes. And I would say about
that, that's a fire that is what? Greatly kindled. The Bible says
here about David, David is not kind of a little bit angry. It's
not kind of starting to spark. The Bible says, You know what I'm saying? Have
you ever stopped and thanked God? God, thank you that you
don't get upset as quickly as I do, that you don't get angry
as quickly as I do. Many times I meet people, they
say, if there is a God, why does he send people to hell? They
wanna stand judgment against God, but the truth be told, if
they were God, and let me not say it like that, if they have
the authority of God, how would somebody that offended them be
treated? You know what I'm saying? I mean, we would just be like,
okay, forget you. You know, I'm thankful tonight that God is
not like this. You look at David right here.
David is enraged. I mean, he's ready to pass judgment,
not realizing that this point is coming, that is our next point
that we'll consider, that Nathan's gonna go, David, need to look
in a mirror here, because this man Nathan, as the Lord liveth, the
man that done this thing shall surely die, and he shall restore
the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he
hath no pity." Now, David as king, he's very right in his
judgment. He's, the judgment that he's
coming up with is a very excellent judgment against the man that
had supposedly done this deed. Okay, he did not value precious
life, he should die. And David's looking at it like,
you know, that and that took. He's guilty on
two counts, transgression, he committed this, and a complete
disregard for others. David didn't just notice that
he did the deed, but he noticed that, hey, his heart was so hard
about it as well. And again, before we stand like
David and judge him upon others, we need to remember tonight that
the Lamb And the Bible says about that
in the way that our heart was towards God before he got saved.
Isaiah 53, 3, he's despised and rejected of men. A man of sorrows
and acquainted with grief, and we hid, as it were, our faces
from him. He was despised and we esteemed
him not. Surely he had borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows, yet we did esteem him not. look at it. Our heart was so
hard against god. You know, and he was looking
at this man's heart and saying, this man is so wrong. Look what
he's done. Look at his heart and it's exactly right. It's
righteous judgment and it's exactly right about us as well and our
heart against god before we got saved. That's where we're at.
Uh when we've despised god and sin against god, it's our heart
again. It's grown hard against god. Amazingly, god didn't destroy
us but It's incredible when you take
this story apart, when you look at the mercy of God, grace of
God, versus the wrath of man, because David here is really
upset. He says, all right, here it is. This guy's guilty. Here's
why, and I pronounce judgment upon him. Now, Nathan now turns
the anger of David upon its rightful source. Now, Nathan's a prophet
of God. He's a close personal friend
of the king. that and so Nathan backs it up
a little bit and says, here's what God said about it and sets
it out before David. It's a great thing that you've
done and God's going to bless you and and he brought that wonderful
message to David. Now, we see him confronting the
king. Nathan's going to be seen later
counseling David and Bathsheba with regard to their son, King
Solomon. That's going to be the future king of Israel which is
amazing. in the king's sin. Nathan's loved
by them because he did what a faithful prophet and a good advisor would
do, and that's to not just say, hey, you're okay, but to actually
deal with the sin and confront, in obedience to God, confront
David about it. And so he obediently confronted
the king in his sin. And so he reveals that King David
is the man who had done this, verse seven. And Nathan said
to David, thou art Okay, so the king, remember the king had gotten
enraged. He was greatly kindled. Now,
I would picture David being greatly kindled sitting down, do you?
I think he rose up, you know, off that throne, and he said,
that man deserves thus and so, and he's still standing, and
Nathan looks at him and says, King, thou art the man. Now,
what I picture Like Peter, when they caught
Kareem, he was about to leave bitterly, you know, recognizing,
you know, he knows the guilt of his sin, he's been carrying
it for a year, and now he's confronted. You know, sadly, all of us know
what it's like to face the bitterness of failure. At some point in
your life, I mean, it might go back a ways, maybe in high school,
you can let somebody down or hit something, you know I should have done that
and then that sense of our demand comes it's like you know that
we know what it's like to taste of that we call it facing the
music we call it taking your medicine you know there's terms
for it because we all know it's like that that sense the bitterness
of failure God's power, all this authority,
all this blessing that is there, and it's real blessing from God
that is still there in the mercy of God, but now Nathan comes
and says, David, this is what you did against the holy God.
And Nathan shows that David is a rich man. So David begins to
take apart the story. David, again, had been a shepherd
boy, but God had promoted him incredibly. God had blessed David,
but David Thus saith the Lord God of Israel,
I anointed thee king over Israel, I delivered thee out of the hand
of Saul, I gave thee thy master's house and a master's wife unto
thy foes, and gave thee the house of Israel of Judah. And if that
had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee
such and such things. Now notice that Nathan had told
this story, but now notice what it says in verse seven. Thus
saith the Lord God of Israel. Nathan the story that, yeah,
but the Bible doesn't tell specifically that God said to Nathan, tell
him this story, but Nathan does. But here, the Bible's very clear
that the message that the prophet's bringing to David is a message
directed from God. Okay, here it is, this is what
the message directly is, and it starts out with the fact that
David had despised God's blessing. David, a shepherd boy, as a teenager,
was anointed as a teenager to be king in the future. David
had been delivered by God from waking King Saul. Remember that
story. He's fleeing from King Saul for all those years and
God delivered him. David lived where? In a palace.
David cared for the former king's household. I write the commentaries
on this. There's nothing in the scripture here that indicates
that having King Saul's wives was in a sense as a wife that
he had physical relations with, though he did multiply wives. God gave him a harem or something
like that, but that he cared for them. God had promoted David
over all his people. And so it goes on to say, over
all Israel, all Judah. And then God said, if that wasn't
enough, I would have what? And so David, to get to this
point, had to look at all the good things that God had given
him and go, God's done good to me and I've got to satisfy the
lust that's in my heart, contrary to God's way. And so sadly, very sadly, we
can despise the goodness of God entirely. Why would I do this against God?
God has blessed me so richly. The Bible says in Psalm 103 verse
2, bless the Lord O my soul and forget not all his benefits. Moses said to Israel, look, when
you come into the land, you got everything. He said, then beware
lest ye forget God. Okay, recognize that everything
that we've got is the blessing of God. We've got a saying in
our house, And it's what George Buehler
said to a young girl in the orphanage. As she looked at the orphanage,
he goes, wow, this is incredible. He said, everything you see here
is a testimony of God's love for you. David was surrounded
by them, and yet he despised God's goodness. David despised,
secondly, God's commandment. Verse nine, wherefore hast thou
despised the to do evil in his sight. Thou hast killed Uriah
the Hittite with a sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy
wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of
Ammon. Now, God did not congratulate
David and say, David, you found a way to kill somebody, that's
okay, right? You somehow got around that whole
thing in the scripture, thou shalt not kill. God didn't say
that, God said, you kill. Ammonite sword. You use the sword
of the enemy, but you use the sword to kill Uriah. God didn't accept until death
do us part in the case of Uriah. Okay, so normally it'd be until
death do us part and then that person get remarried, but God
said you didn't marry a widow, you committed adultery, you killed God says, David, here, let me
spell it out for you. You know, repentance takes place
when we confess our sin as God sees our sin. When we begin to
be honest in our heart before God and say, God, it's just like
you said about sin. You know, men say it was a little
theft. God calls it a big lie. Men can say a little lust. Jesus
calls it adultery in the heart. Men can say, you know, it's just
a little theft. as God sees it and confess it
for what it is. It's a great thing when we go
to God and say, God, I'm sorry, it's just like the word says,
I violated that. God, please forgive me, I wanna
be right with you. But David hadn't done that and
to this point, so now God says, David, let me spell it out for
you. You broke my commandment. Here's what it is. David despised
God's commandment. And then David despised God himself. Verse 10, it says, now therefore
the sword shall never depart from thine house because thou has taken the wife of Uriah the
Hittite to be thy wife." Now, as we've read the story and as
we've seen the story, the Bible does not speak about David taking
into consideration how the sin affects God. And thinking about
how is my heart towards God if I violate God's Word and commit
adultery? If I violate God's David's not
stepping back and saying, how does that affect God and myself? God says very clearly, David,
you despise me. You know, Joseph had the opportunity
to commit adultery with the wife of Potiphar. He's there in the
house, and if you read that story in the scripture, he's there.
Potiphar has taken him into his house as his servant. The wife
of Potiphar seeks to seduce him and tries to get him to violate
her marriage vows. And he responds this way. Genesis
39.9, he says, there's none greater in this house than I. Neither
hath he kept back anything from me, but me, because thou art
his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness? And do you
remember what it says next? Do this great wickedness and
sin against God. He looks at it and says, I will
not despise God to commit this sin. David should have responded
the same way, saying, how can I do this great wickedness and
sin against God? So it's good in a time of temptation
to step back and say, how does this reflect, if I go forward,
how does this reflect my heart towards God? And David didn't
do that. He despised God. And then he
pronounces God's judgment on David's sin. It says, Thus saith the Lord,
Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own
house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them
unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight
of the sun. For thou didst it secretly, but I will do this
thing before Israel and before the sun. Now, if you don't know
the story, there's going to come a time, there's going to be an
insurrection, And it's a sign that he's going
to commit adultery with the king's wife, making himself king by
usurping David's position with his wives. So sadly, it's going
to be fulfilled out of David's own household. So God would allow
this misfortune because David had despised him and David had
despised his favor. David sinned in secret, David
would reap a public scandal. You know, in scripture, a righteous reward. And so the
Bible does say in Galatians 6, 8, for he that soweth to his
flesh, chow of the flesh bring corruption, and he that soweth
to the spirit, chow of the spirit bring life everlasting. Okay, so David's going to reap
what he sowed. He sowed adultery, he's going
to reap Interestingly, other Bible narratives
also show men reaping the ungodliness of its own. Specifically, I think
about in the Old Testament, Jacob, the deceiver. Remember that?
And he steals his brother's birthright by pretending to be his older
brother. He puts the cloth on his arms
to make it scary. And his father's blind. He can't
see anything. He rubs, I think, some dirt.
Kind of makes that smell of the soil upon him. and yet there is some consequence
that you see in David's life. I've made him change his wages
several times, and Jacob is deceived by his sons. Remember, when Joseph
is sold into slavery, they come to him, lie to him, and say that
he was killed. Okay? And so, there is a principle
in the Word of God about sowing infrequency and David's life
seed and Jacob's life. It's good to step back and think
about that and say, what am I sowing? We've gotten to the point where
David's sin is exposed. It's no longer hidden. It's not
something that he can any longer deny. God's brought it out through
the prophet that's come, confronted David in his sin. And so now
at this point, David repents of his transgression. David, at this point, is ready
to get right with God and to confess his sin to God. You know, in other stories in
the Word of God, when a king is confronted in his sin, it's
not always this way. You don't read this very often. Oftentimes, prophets are imprisoned,
they're put to death, they're treated with contempt. I think
specifically in the stories of Jeremiah and being put in prison,
Elijah being chased, you've got John the Baptist that his status
cut off in the New Testament. So, David doesn't hate the messenger,
but he acknowledges that the message is from God and he's
ready to confess his sin and forsake his sin and get right
with God. Again, Psalm 32 and Psalm 51
are written after Nathan confronts David about his sin, and it says
in Psalm 51, he cries out to God, away from thy presence, take
not thy Holy Spirit from me, restore unto me the joy of thy
salvation, and uphold me with thy Holy Spirit." It's a relief
to get to this point. David's gone downhill, he's gone
downhill, finally he's confronted, praise God, we're going to watch
David by the grace of God be restored, be filled with that
God because he's when they were caught. It was a burden to break the
news to their family and to go through the heartache of the
break of trust that took place and begin the process of building
that back up and restoring that relationship, but they said,
I'm so thankful that I'm no longer hiding my sin. You know, as tough
as it is to deal with sin, it's hiding sin is worse. You know,
that's what David illustrates to us. That's great to just have
that transparency And Nathan said unto David, The
Lord hath also put away thy sin, thou shalt not die. And so God
forgave David. Now, I got a question for you
tonight. Because the truth is tonight,
there's not a single one of us that deserves any mercy from
God, any forgiveness from God, any grace from God. And so the
story does show the depth of God's mercy, the depth of God's
forgiveness. Same as in the New Testament,
you got the Apostle Paul pre-conversion, but the murder of Christians
that was saved by the grace of God. And so God in his mercy
begins to restore David. But God maintains the chastening verse 14. It says, how be it
because by this deed he has given great occasion to the enemies
of the Lord to blaspheme the child also that is born unto
thee shall surely die. So God sets forth a strong reason,
says David, apparently this story is known and even though you
haven't repented of it, it's brought a light upon the name
of God because of that David this child will die. to David and it was very sick. Now, again we read the story
in the scripture and this is the Old Testament that we're
dealing with here as we read this. Is God right to severely
judge David by allowing David and Bathsheba's son to die? Well
as soon as I say it's got right in your heart you got to say
yes, right? Because No. It can't be. And so here's
a question that goes along with that. Do any of us deserve the
air that we breathe or the health that we have? No. So anything that we have, it's
just because God is good. It's just because God is merciful.
If we got what we deserve, we would have been put in hell the
moment that we sinned against God. So David sinned greatly
against God, but he would not do so in this way again. 1 Kings
15 verse 5 says, because David did that which was right in the
eyes of the Lord, and turned not aside from anything that
he commanded in all the days of his life, and then says this,
saying only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. David was
a man that failed miserably, but he got back up and he honored
God. You know, the Bible does say that steps of a good man
are ordered by the Lord, keeping the life in his way. Though he
fall, he shall not be able to cast down, for the Lord holdeth
him with his hand. You know, I think all of us tonight
say praise God for the mercy of God and the restorative grace
of God, that God's ready to go, okay, this is where you're at,
let me help you. Not that God doesn't deal with
things, God will deal with things. You know, in praise God, understand
this, night, we can look at anybody,
and I've had unbelievers get upset about this. You mean a
murderer can be forgiven? You mean, you know, they want
to say that, listen, they don't want to think about the fact
that they are a great sinner in the eyes of God. They want
to look at somebody else and say, you're saying that that person can get
saved, you know, that person can get right, and they want
to stand in condemnation. That's where, again, I say, praise
God, we're not going to be judged by man, but we're going to be
judged by a holy God that's offered us a pardon through Christ. We ought not despise God because
God is good. We ought to look at God and say, God, I can't
understand your goodness. You allowed your son to face all
of that. Think of what our sin has done
against you. And yet, God, you're merciful.
And so as we conclude tonight, God will speak to us about our
sin. I praise God for that. God did
not let David go just, okay, I'm just gonna hide this, I'm
gonna get away with it. God says, Nathan, he hasn't dealt with
it. Time to deal with it. You know,
God is gracious to us. God has a way to speak to us.
I'll tell you right now, one of the quickest ways God speaks
to us is right here. And then he does it right here, through
the preaching of the Word of God. But you know, God can do
it through something, even an unbeliever says that convicts
us, it goes, you know? I mean, God can be in so many
ways, bring things to our mind, bring things to our heart to
deal with. with anything that's in our heart, in our life, that's
not praise God. Not praise God for that, because
I could preach a message to the pastor on tithing, and God could
speak to somebody about something completely different. Because
God has a way of taking His word and applying it to our heart.
I praise God for that. So God is able to make that known
to us and say, look, this is what's wrong in your life. And
then, We need to keep a short account of our sin. David, a
lesson we can take away is why did a godly man wait a year to
get right with God? Why did he hold on to it until
he couldn't possibly hold on to it because God was not going
to allow it? We ought to own our sin quickly and say, God,
forgive me. Maybe I've come to you about
this before. God, forgive me. This is not
right, and I don't want to get right with you. in our life, in our family, in
our church. We cannot so sin, hide sin, and think, oh, you
know, that's going to work out okay. It's not going to work
out. By the grace of God, we've been
born again and received Jesus Christ as our Savior. Truth be
told, as much as we don't want to ever fail God again in our
lives, there's going to come times where we say a thing or
do things that are contrary to God's will and we've got to go
down and say, God, I'm sorry. I'll be right with you. I'm going
to hide this. again, it's another sober topic
tonight because we can't just exit the story and say, you know,
we'd rather just look at, you know, David Goliath and David
victorious for King Saul and David wanting to build a temple.
We've gotta step back and look at the tough things in David's
life as well and and battle with the question, how could such
a good godly man fail so miserably in his walk with god? And yet,
father, In David, there's a reality that, except by the grace of
God, there's no lying. Father, we've got to be on guard. We've got to guard our hearts,
guard our minds, guard our marriages, guard our family, because sin
is there. And Father, I pray that you help
us not to despise your goodness. Help us not to despise your commandments. Help us not to despise crazy tonight for a church. I'm
grateful Lord for each one that stand by the grace of God. I
just want to be more for God. I want to please God with my
life. So, use the truth that we've considered tonight to help
us in our walk with you as we Christily pray. Amen.
Lesson 67, the Life of David
Series The Life of David
King David hid his sin, until God confronted him about his sin. In God's mercy David finally got right with God.
| Sermon ID | 12424222173788 |
| Duration | 43:17 |
| Date | |
| Category | Midweek Service |
| Bible Text | 1 Samuel 12 |
| Language | English |
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