2 Samuel 12 (Part 2) Bible Study | Pastor Daniel Batarseh

Second Samuel chapter 12, here's we're going to do.

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We just, we just prayed. I want us to pray again, and

just submit every faculty to this moment and ask the Lord to

really help you allow this word to reach your heart, and ask the

Lord to help me bring it from my heart to you.

Lord, we do. Thank you.

We believe that you are here, that your spirit has been given

to the church for many reasons. And one of those reasons is that

there would be boldness and courage and clarity.

Your word says that we each have the anointing residing within us

to know what it is that you have to say to us me that anointing

come into action as we come to the Sacred Scriptures.

May there be power. May there be even a sense of

precision in our own lives and its application.

It may Lord you be glorified in the faithfulness of the

Declaration and The Obedience of the application.

This is our desire and Jesus name, amen?

Who was here last week? Who's your not last week?

Okay, if you were here last week, I'm just going to do this

for the sake of remembrance and to remind ourselves that Nathan

has been sent by God to approach David.

He came to David with a parable with a story and we dissected

that story to try to understand the method and the message

behind it. And I trust that if you were

here, if you listen from abroad, you benefited greatly from just

the first few verses of this chapter.

But now tonight we are transitioning from this story.

This allegory to plain speech, Nathan is going to go from

veiling, his message to unveiling the message, and it's

going to be sharp. It's going to be strong, it's

going to be confrontational. It's going to be clear and

trusting that from last week to this week.

We will believe that what we've gained from, then we will gain

even more. Now, as we come To this text, we

will not complete this chapter which is okay, but we will take

our time to look at Nathan second.

Message to David. That is tied into the very

reason why he came to him in the first place.

Now, before you and I read these verses before, we actually look

at this text you and I have to also be reminded of the package,

in which it was delivered him. Look back at verse 1.

With me quickly, I want you to be reminded who was that sent

Nathan, and the Lord sent Nathan to David, the Lord.

The Lord sent Nathan. Nathan was not just Israel's

profit, at least one of them. Nathan was a personal friend to

David, And the fact that the Lord chose this instrument to

approach David teaches us, something not just about Nathan

but about God, God sends a friend.

To David a close companion. And we know that David had

Nathan and high esteem, because with one of the sun's that

Nathan rather David will have with Bathsheba.

He names him, Nathan. He's going to name one of his

sons. After this Prophet, even up to

the end of David's life, when he is on his deathbed, their Nathan

is watching over him and assuring that things will be put

into place before he departs into Glory.

Why? So Nathan is a close friend to

David and the Lord hand-picked Nathan to deliver the message.

Why? Because the Lord wanted to

approach David as a friend. The Lord is going to expose this

men sin and a very scathing way, but the Lord did not come to

David his servant as an enemy. He came as a trusted friend.

And I think that is filled with instruction for us when

especially for those who are passionate about the honor of

Jesus Christ. Especially for those who are

passionate about God's people, walking straight and walking,

according to the will of God and and have no issue approaching

somebody in correcting them or rebuking them.

Are you going not just with the love for the truth?

But for the love, for the person who's going to receive that

truth. That makes all the difference

because God, here shows that he comes to restore, didn't come to

bring down, it doesn't come to eradicate, all hope it doesn't

come to prove a point and to win an argument.

He comes to win the Hart, he comes to win the person and if

we would be instrument in the hands of God and restoring

brothers and sisters back to the truth, then realized that the

Lord looks for those who love people, not just Doctrine, not

just the all G, not, not just being right and being pure in

your beliefs, or in your conduct for that matter, but to love the

person that you're giving the truth, too.

There's much more that we can say in that, but we will

continue because we don't have much time, but as we come to

these verses, remember, the package in which it is going to

be delivered in, remember the instrument that God chose to

bring it through? And we are going to organize our

thoughts in these next verses in three different categories.

The first category is going to be the error before the sin, the

error before the sin Nathan is going.

To reveal an error that led to the downfall of David.

That's the first category. The second category is going to

be the ruling of the sin. God is going to pronounce

judgment on David, and he is going to determine the verdict.

And the reason for this judgment Lastly, the last category are

the consequences after the sin. So we have the error before the

sin, the ruling of the sin. And then we're going to look at

the consequences that follow this sin.

And so we look at the first category in verse 7.

And what do we see, Nathan said to David?

You are the man I don't know, there's a lot of instances in

the scripture where I would like to be to see and witness.

I don't think this is one of them, you can just imagine what

happened to the atmosphere. In that moment when he comes

with this nice little Sunday, school story of a sheep of a

lamb of a rich man of a poor man and it stirs David and David is

in the place of the judge as he is hearing this and then all for

a sudden the tables turn The tables turn on David from being

positioned as the arbitrator to now the perpetrator.

And now he's removed from the judgement seat and now he stands

before the Judgment seat. And he stands before a holy God,

it all changed with these words. You are the man in the Hebrews.

Only two words. But here we see, you are the man

and Nathan doesn't take a break. He continues by saying 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 Masters house and your Masters

wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of

Judah. And if this were to little, I

would add to you as much more. Those two verses are under the

category of the air before this in, if you were here in second

Samuel, 11. Where this all started when

David was on the rooftop, you will remember that we dissected

and examine the failures before the ultimate downward spiral

there were things before that contributed to David's ultimate

crash. One of those things was the

failure to deal with passions early on in his life.

This is not just something that appeared out of nowhere.

It was something that was fed and nurtured over time.

The failure to conquer idleness, the failure to take heed to

God's warnings. All these different failures

were cracks in the foundation of David's faith, and an ultimately

crumbled when the temperature was just right.

But when you, and I come to the words of Nathan here, we

realized that there is yet another flaw that he surfaces

something that we didn't see before, but now comes to our

attention, it's another serious problem, prior to the undoing of

this man. Now, as you look at those two

verses and you just look at the summary of what is being said,

what is the indicator, what can we pinpoint and seeing what was

a problem in David's life before ultimately a manifest into the

series of sin? And the idea What's the error

that the Lord highlights? He had forgotten.

God, yes. But more specifically Look What

the Lord is saying to him. He could have said you have

forgotten me. I gave you.

Your Masters house I gave you your Masters wives.

I made you King over Israel. I made you and I presided your

over my people. You know what, I see here.

David not only lost sight of God.

David lost sight of the Lord's personal dealings in his life.

What God had given him. What God had protected him from

what God had provided him in essence.

David had become over time unmindful and he'd become.

Yes forgetful. But more importantly,

ungrateful. for what the Lord had done in his life and this

led to a character issue who would have ever thought, this is

so important who would have ever thought that ingratitude would

have led to adultery who would have ever imagined that this

deficiency in so many people's spirituality that we don't see

the danger of who would have ever thought that ingratitude

would have led to infidelity And that is not an exaggeration.

That is not a subjective interpretation of this.

That is a scriptural. Testimony from cover to cover

that there is serious spiritual trouble headed for the person

who refuses or is negligent in the practice of giving God

continual. Thanks. when you read that ugly

description of humanity in Romans chapter 1, all the

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Warped, perversion all the Craziness and people's behavior

and their sexuality, all these different perversions, all these

different things, they all stem from Romans 1:21 people forget

Romans 1:21

that, that, that a people forgot or refuse rather to give honor

to God glory to God. And what else?

Thanks to him. They refused to give, thanks to

God and that was the Gateway for all these other things to come

crashing in all these plagues all this idolatry and all this

covetousness were allowed to come in.

We're permitted to come in due to one failure among different

failures but one key foundational issue.

A refusal to acknowledge God. And so, what Thanksgiving does,

you know what it does? It acknowledges God as The

Sovereign provider, protector, positioner, Of everything in our

lives. That's what it does and it

causes us to joyfully admit and accept that everything you and I

have has been granted by a good father who knows exactly what we

need for our joy and ultimately his glory.

That is what gratitude does, it's more than just shooting

off, empty words just because it's the polite thing to do it.

Gratitude is much more significant than making our

children seem appreciative of things outside of themselves.

No, it will keep you in line. It will keep God in the place,

his rightful place in our affections and in our worship

and in our understanding of the events that take place in our

lives. And that is exactly what David

is missing here. He did not keep before him, the

goodness of God. Personally, not not even just

objectively what he's done. Universally that's important.

God was specific. And I believe, the reason that

God was specific here is also to imply that we must be specific

with our Thanksgiving, like, detailed with what it is, that

we are so thankful for or else. It won't have the full effect

that it desires to have. But something else happens here

in verse and it's in the last part of what the Lord says

before he continues, look at the last phrase and if this were to

little, I would add to you as much more.

As much more. So more than just saying, David,

you were capable of doing this because you forgot how good I've

been to you. You do not remember what it,

what it is that I've done for you more than that.

He says, here that you've also failed to realize that

everything you need is in me. See, the thing that led Davidson

was not just the ingratitude that ingratitude was step one.

Step two was, I can find good outside of God.

I can add value to my life, though.

The value that is promised to me is contrary to the contract that

I have with God. And it's as though, the Lord is

saying David. If you if you really felt like

you were lacking if you really felt like you were missing

something, why didn't you come to me?

Why didn't you come to me? Because here's the promise of

God that when you do honestly come to him.

Even with that sense of irritation and frustration and

emptiness and loneliness. Whatever the case may be the

Lord based on this and many other promises, the Lord assures

us that he will provide exactly what we need to experience

wholeness again. Exactly what we need.

If that is not true of our God, then we're all doomed.

I assure you that we will all have our heads stuck in empty,

broken dirty, cisterns for the rest of our lives.

If this is not truth, if satisfied.

Us faction in. God is a theory and not an

experience. Then go eat and drink and be

merry, we're just we're playing pretend here.

But God's not playing pretend. He looks at his servant through

Nathan's eyes. And he says, why didn't you just

come to me? Why didn't you just come to me?

See, David for a moment believed that if I'm with Bathsheba

something good will happen? I will know something that God

could not offer, and that's precisely what James is

referring to. In James 116.

You don't have to turn there. Do not be deceived.

My beloved Brothers for every good and perfect gift comes from

above. Again, that's not only to teach

that we are to give God all the glory for every good and perfect

thing. That's also to convey that

everything that you think is good and perfect will only come

from above. You're not going to find it

anywhere else, it's going to be sourced in God.

It's going to be coming from God, it's going to be delivered

by God and it's different. The the gifts are different, but

the giver is the same. If you go to anybody else,

especially for those who are against God, contrary to his

will then you're just inviting trouble into your life.

Now, it's worth mentioning as a side, note that some people have

trouble with what the Lord had said to David.

What is troubling in that verse in verse a what sticks out to

you something like really Lord, you are the one behind that any

idea. Yes, did you hear it?

Lord, you gave David. The plurality of wives that he

had. In fact, Muslims will use this

against Christians to try to prove that our God accepts and

even condones and even provides a multiplicity of romantic

relationships. And this, this this would be

harder to defend if the Lord isolated that statement and

removed everything else, right? If he had said, why did you do

this? I gave you multiple wives, then

it's very difficult to see different interpretation other

than you could have been satisfied with the roster of

women you had in your Palace. Why did you go find somebody

else's? And that's how even some

Christians interpret this and they just appeal to mystery.

I just I guess God, allow polygamy for a season and now he

doesn't not True. Add to that, there's no sense of

immediate judgment upon David or anybody else in this time for

that matter, for their different relationships.

And so now you're in some kind of a dilemma right?

Not so read it carefully. I gave you your Masters house

and your Masters wives. Here's how people read it and I

gave you your Masters house and your wives.

Did he say, why? Good, your Masters wives.

Who was David's master? Saul Saul?

See again, if you leave that part in isolation, you might

have a case. But the fact that that statement

is preceded and followed by other elements that focus in on

what saw had and the transfer of Sol's possessions over to David

on now, it makes sense. What the Lord is saying, is all

that, Saul had his kingdom, his authority, his possessions

everything. I gave it to you without your

effort without out your dabbling without your intervention.

I'm the one who gave you the authority that you're enjoying.

The Graces the gifts, all these things, I'm giving it over to

you. And so the relationship with

these Masters wives is something that was common in that culture

that when there is a succeeding king or a kingdom, you would

even have the previous owner so to speak and who ever lived with

him to be given over to the new king.

And so these women were just accommodations to the Palace.

There is no indication that David had any sexual relations

or married any of Saul's woman, they were just there.

They were just there occupying, something and David had

responsibility over them. There is no such thing as David

being given multiple wives, by a holy God, who had instituted,

what marriage was from the beginning.

That makes sense. Keep that.

In mind when somebody tries to convince you of polygamy, for

whatever strange reason. They are behind the sin.

If you want to know ultimate protection, if you want to have

a flood gate against Temptation and covetousness and all these

ugly things be thankful always even when it's hard to be.

I can assure you, if you are living in America, you can have

a list of 100 things to be thankful for every single day.

Does it matter how difficult things are?

Give God that do and watch. I will happen to your heart

failed to do that. And I'm going to tell you from

this point on, it will get very very interesting in terms of

what you will be attracted to In this life, they are behind this.

And let's go to the second credit category, the ruling of

the sin. Verse 9.

Why have you despise the word of the Lord to do?

What is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah.

The hittite with the sword. And I've taken his wife to be

your wife and have killed him with the sword of the ammonites.

In these verses you and I will see how the Lord judges sin, how

he judges. And we know, he judges sin but

how does he judge sin? How did he determine someone's

verdict? What does he look for?

What kind of evidence is he constantly bringing before us?

And that's important to know because man's Judgment of sin

man's condemnation of wrong. And what he often Praises his

skewed and Compares it to what God prizes.

And what he, what he Does not approve of.

And the the Lord being the judge of all the Earth.

Calls us to understand what it is, exactly.

He is judging And what using I see here in the first question

is important, why have you despise the word of the Lord?

Why have you despise the word of the Lord?

The first thing that the Lord brings up in the ruling of this

man's sin, is his attitude towards the word of God.

Now, it is true. That David prove to despise the

word of the Lord by breaking the law.

That's obvious But can we not say that David already had this

defiant attitude towards the word of God before?

Even he committed the sin. It was premeditated.

It's obvious that in his contemplation, he cancelled out,

totally God's opinion on the matter.

And so what led to this in was a Defiance of the word of God.

It wasn't just proven after everything happened.

The seed of it was there, it's the very thing that encouraged

him to break God's law. And that's important for us to

realize because the Lord did not criticize David and say you did

not know the word of the Lord. He already proved earlier by

referring to Exodus 22:1 that he knew the word of the Lord.

Exodus 22:1

If you stole the Sheep you got to give back for that's in the

law. So he knew the word of the Lord,

the issue here is the attitude. And that means for us, that the

estimation of the written word of God will ultimately determine

our submission to what it calls for our convictions around.

This things will determine our conduct, it will not the

knowledge of it, your conviction behind what you acquire, as

knowledge that is what will be the driver's seat of where we go

in our growth and godliness, or in the other direction.

And one way to have a high view of the word of God, if you

really want to see the word of God, for what it is and allowed

the Brilliance of it to have an effect on your soul, then you

got to see what it says of itself and then believe it, can

I show you how in this case, David failed to see the word of

God for How Great and Mighty. It was look at verse 10 again.

Now, therefore the sword shall never depart from your house.

Now look what he says, because you have despised me.

Verse 9. He says why have you despised

the word of the Lord? The Lord is still speaking of

verse 10. And then he goes on to say the

sword will never depart from your house because you despised

me. Here's the conclusion, you put

those two statements together and this is what you have to

despise. God's word is to despise God

himself. To despise God's word is to

despise himself. People have this strange idea

that those two things are mutually exclusive that I can

have my personal relationship with God, and God is pleased

with me. And he's happy with me and all

these different things. And yet, they have zero regard

for the divine revelation that has been made available to all

of us. With Nathan reveals shears that

you've despised. Not just the law, but the law

Giver because you cannot separate those two things.

When a person says that they desire to know.

God, do you know how you measure that?

What do they do with the word of God?

You read it, you study it, you examine it.

You cherish you memorize it, you talk about it.

Is that not right? Sure, in the beginning was the

word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.

Yes. You can't separate those two

realities. You can't even separate the word

in the spirit. Jesus says, my words are spirit

and life. So these people say, I'm not a,

I'm not a word person. I'm a holy spirit person.

What are you talking about? But you see here among many

other things, we have another testimony that the the very

object in your hands right now. Is directly correlated to the

person who gave it to us. So when a person says I want to

know the will of God well okay if you want to know the will of

God then you'll take the time to discover what his will is it's

not just some mystery thing that you just kind of skip through

life with and interpret matters in your own hands.

No no what a person says or claims that they are faithful to

God. Then they will equally have a

view of the ultimate authority of the word of God.

Show me a person's response and A ship to the word and I have

the substantial evidence to know their walk with God.

The simple as that you can't separate those things, doesn't

matter how beautiful they sing. Does it.

Matter how emotional they are about spiritual realities.

The word, it's the word. You've not just despise the word

of the Lord. You've despised the Lord.

David It's not draw you closer to the scriptures.

I hope it does because this is the means by which we come to

know our God and the Lords, indictment of David sins here.

Perhaps we've noticed that there was a particular summary because

when we read second Samuel 11, it was an extensive play,

Playbook of his craftiness and his scheme to sin, but when the

Lord brings it to him, he summarizes it and just a verse

or two. Because he sees pass through it

pass through what the goal of David's ambition is second,

Samuel 11 is really obvious. He wanted to distance himself as

much as possible, from being A suspicious candidate for

bathsheba's pregnancy and for the death of Uriah.

He wanted to cover the tracks and he want to remove himself as

much as possible. So he gets job involved.

He gives them instructions to put you right in the front

lines. He has the ammonites kill him,

make it look like an accident instead of an assassination and

so with all of that the Lord comes now and directly says you

have killed him. You did it?

Was in the ammonites. It wasn't a thing of War wasn't

joab. It wasn't anything other than

the fact that you did it And that's important if we want to

realize how the judge of the earth judges and how he will

judge the world and know this, that so many people attempt to

justify their wrong or lighten, the burden on their conscience

by doing what by manipulating circumstances.

So that they are not the direct agents of the evil. so they

hire, they trick, they lie and they send, and they pay, and

they do all these things, because there's something

deceitful about our hearts that says, if I am not the, the

player holding the ball, if I'm just calling the shots from the

sidelines, then surely, I am not as guilty as an accomplice From

an accomplice, another main actor.

Surely my guilt is not as severe and the Lord sees passed through

all that trickery, all the exploitation, And he puts the

pieces together. The all-knowing one and knows

exactly the source, who knows exactly who is guilty he sees

past the, the facade and everything else that we try to

deceive people with and he says, you are the man.

You're the man. Now, another thing that I see

here is that David's Grievous sin, according to the heart of

God, that is grieved. Look what he says here.

At the end of verse 9 and have killed them with the sword of

the ammonites. He brings that up.

What grieved God's heart? Was that David cooperated with

the Enemy? with the enemies of Israel with

the enemies of the god of Israel to kill who one of God's people

to harm one of God's Own and not just anybody a faithful man like

Uriah And so the Lord sees it as a terrible thing, pay attention

to this, when the people of God partner with the world to do

damage to the people of God. How is that possible today?

I don't have a sword. We don't go to war, we don't

have ammonites. Oh, there's so many indications.

An example of it. But you remember, I brought this

up, not too long ago, when Paul was overwhelmed almost by the

idea that a Believer was going out to those who have no

standing in the church to determine Over another believer.

Is that any different than David hiring?

The sort of the ammonites to kill one of the Israelites?

How is it that you are going to those who are not righteous to

determine the fate of the righteous better to take a loss?

Do you not trust in the wisdom of my word to determine and

settle disputes? Do you not have any fear of God?

To realize that there is a watching world that wants to see

where I were different. And what we have to offer is

different and that is just one example of many how it is

possible to hire the sword of those outside of the camp of God

to the damage to those who reside in our own camp.

So we see here that there are many examples and possibilities

of how we can grieve God. And one of the ways that we

grieve God is that when we get the world involved, with the

Affairs of the church with the people of God, it's serious.

And he takes it into account, and he will discipline those who

have no fear in this regard. We looked at the error behind

the sin. We looked at part, the ruling of

the sin and now we look at the consequences that followed the

sin and that's in the next few verses here.

In verse 11, thus says the Lord Behold, I will raise up evil

against you out of your own house.

And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them

to your neighbor and he shall lie with your wives in the sight

of his son of this son for you did it secretly, but I will do

this thing before all Israel and before the sun.

We're going to look at David's response in a moment, but let's

break this down. We see here that the punishment

of the Kings evil is threefold depending on how you break it

down, and the division is very obvious.

When you look at verse 10, the first thing is this, therefore,

the sword shall never depart from your house, and we've

touched on that that from this chapter, moving forward to the

rest of this book. Even into First Kings chapter

one, there will be internal strife to the point of death

until David himself dies. And even after that, and we saw

that with four of his own Sons, right?

Who were the sons again? As a quiz.

Absalom is one? Yes.

I'm known as the one. Yes.

I didn't, I just a third and who's the last, the unnamed

baby? That's going to be inflicted

with a disease in the next few verses.

So the Lord even took David's measurement of judgment when he

said that sheep should be given over with fourfold.

Restitution, you want to you for fold, then, here's four foot.

I'm going to kill four of your Lambs.

And four of the sons would receive Bloodshed and experience

Bloodshed you so Bloodshed you reap bloodshed.

The second thing here that we see is that there would be evil

against you out of your own house.

Now isn't that the same thing, not necessarily?

When do you believe that was fulfilled?

Because it is fulfilled and found in the scriptures.

When do we see evil arising within David's house to come

against David himself? Good Absalom, the Revolt of his

son who stole the hearts of the nation of Israel and himself to

usurp the authority of the throne to capture the throne and

to push his father out of the boundary.

Is of Israel and in declares civil war against him.

So, David himself with know, the pain of betrayal, David himself

with taste, his own medicine of betrayal, not just Bloodshed,

but betrayal. And lastly, we see something

else mentioned here. It says that he, the neighbor

shall lie with your own wives and the sight of this son.

You did it privately. I'm going to make this a public

matter. When was that fulfilled?

Good Absalom. Now I want you to see with your

own eyes to see how precise the judgments of God are.

Look at 2nd Samuel here and verse 21 of chapter 16.

Fast forward a few chapters. Look at 2nd Samuel 1621 I

thoughtful said to Absalom. He said to Absalom.

Go into your father's concubines, whom he has left to

keep the house and all Israel will hear what you have made

yourself a stench that you have made yourself a stench to your

father and the hands of all who are with, you will be

strengthened. No, hesitation absalom's part.

Look at verse 22. So they pitched a tent for

Absalom on the roof. And Absalom went into his

father's. Concubines in the sight of all

Israel, very despicable public demonstration of one's depravity

and disrespect, but it was a fulfillment of Prophecy was just

an eerily coincidental thing. God in his Providence, use the

means of absalom's rebellion to chastise his servant David and

it was so precise. Reread verse 22, what do we

read? So, they pitched a tent for

Absalom wear. Isn't that where all started?

It all started on a roof. And here God is chastising even

on a roof. And it's even more, more

specific than that. You guys, if you're a few

Maranatha school, will remember this, who was at the I felt

full, is he a random counselor to David good?

He's not. Can I show you who he is?

If you don't know for those who know, don't say, it don't ruin.

The surprise. For those who don't know, if you

want to know who a he fell for Liz and you have to go to 2nd

Samuel. 23:2 second Samuel 23 briefly.

In this chapter, you have a list of the Mighty Men of David.

Second Samuel 23. Look here down verse 34 and you

will see exactly who this man is thoughtful is We read in verse

34 at La Follette, the son of Akash by of Makkah.

And I am the son of a heath offal.

So this mantle ayam is ranked among the Mighty Men of David.

This Alliance sound familiar Our names important in the Bible.

Oh yes there's a holy spirit, waste any word in the

scriptures. Absolutely not.

Well, I am the son of a heath. Offal was one of the Mighty Men

of David second Samuel 11 again where it all started.

Second Samuel, 11, Look at verse 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

and David sent and inquired about the woman.

And one said, is this not Bathsheba the daughter of lion.

The wife of Uriah, the hittite. A lion was one of the Mighty Men

of David al-ayam was also the father of Bathsheba a lion was

the son of A heath offal a heath olfa was bathsheba's Grandpa.

Is it? No wonder why he partnered with

Absalom to kill David. You touched my granddaughter and

you killed her husband? I will make sure to crush you

into fine powder. so I thought for knew about it and you're

going to discover very important lessons about bitterness we all

will when we come to a heath offal in the coming weeks So we

see here, how precise God's chastisement is.

Now we come back and we look at the list of things that David

would have to endure. And part of us, part of us,

looks at that. And we kind of, we kind of say,

yes, David deserves. He deserves to be disciplined,

but this seems kind of intense. I mean he's going to endure for

the rest of his life, one thing. After the next it's not going to

be easy for David from this time on And we might wonder is this

too much. And I'll tell you the answer by

the end of the Bible study, but I also want to make mention of

this. We can debate all we want about

what's going on here, but one thing is for certain from cover

to cover. There is this law at work and

it's still at work today. That sins have different

consequences, some are more lasting, some are not as

permanent. And though, we might be able to

predict some of the ramifications of our trespasses,

ultimately it is unpredictable to determine the full sequence

of what our sin can produce in our lives, the outcome of it and

I think, yeah, again, you can, you can determine some level of

it, the position of the person, the ministry of the person, the

role of that, all these different things, but really,

you can't figure it out. And I think that puts a whole

Holy fear in us, that should put a fear in us because we want to

try to plan our sin and how we can limit the pain.

We know that it's going to hurt things, we know it's going to

hurt us, we know that and we try to isn't that in a part of are

scheming to try to try to restrict as much of the

collateral damage as possible. And God gives us so many

examples of how that is not controllable on our part.

And I want to show it to you. One example, I mean there's so

many examples, but let me give you one example.

The thing that came to mind was the ten plagues of Egypt saying,

huh, ten plagues of Egypt, why? So many lessons about the 10

plagues? And one of the lessons that I

took from it personally, was that the effects of each plagues

were different. Not always describe, but in some

cases different from one another.

So the plagues were not just different, but even the result

of the Plagues on Egypt were different and I believe that's a

picture because those plagues were the acts of Judgment of God

Force. Pharaohs Rebellion.

It's a picture of what happens with arson at times.

Can I show it to you? Here's the plague, the eighth

plagued with the locusts. It's an exodus 10.

And when you see this, you're going to realize that's that's

quite interesting. In Exodus, 10.

Farrell wants the Locust to leave.

I don't blame him and he says, in verse 17, it says here.

Now, therefore, forgive my sin. Please only this once and plead

with the Lord. Your God, only to remove this

death from me. So, here's a man, who's saying,

I want this out of here. I want to be removed from all of

this chaos and all of this destruction.

So, Verse 18, he went out from pharaoh and pleaded with the

Lord and the Lord turned the wind into a very strong West

Wind. Now, what happens, which lifted

the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea.

Not a single Locus was left in all the country of Egypt.

That's the grace of God. The moment this man repents the

strong Supernatural. Wind picks up all these ugly

bugs. And catapults them into the

ocean in a moment. And we're told specifically not

one, hideous Locust was found in anybody shoe or covered nothing,

they're all dispelled. Did that happen with every

plague? Go to the second plague in

Exodus 8. We're not dealing with locusts.

You're now, we're dealing with frogs.

Equally questionable as a pet Maybe.

In verse 13. What do you read of Exodus 8?

Pharaoh wants to see these things go?

I don't blame him. And in verse 13, we read and the

Lord did according to the word of Moses, the frogs died out in

the houses, the courtyards and the fields, and they gather them

together and heaps and the land stank.

No, strong West Wind, no Supernatural.

Force to clean up the courtyards, and the front yards

and the driveways God allowed the frogs to die and for them to

scoop it up themselves and it actually produced an odor,

across the land, some sins will stink more than others.

Some sins will leave deeper scars and others.

Some sins will leave a deeper and a more potent odor than

others. Others.

Well, how do I determine you can't?

You can't just avoid all sin. That's a good idea.

Isn't it? Just avoid all playing so we

don't want any of it. And so we see here that we

cannot forecast what this thing will lead us to.

So just avoid it altogether and in David's case.

So, there are different adulterous of his time.

Different adulterous throughout scripture in his case, and God's

perfect. Wisdom allowed things to stink.

A little bit longer. Than one would wish.

For remember that you can never determine what sin will produce.

You don't know how long it will pollute, you don't know how long

it is to deal with the damage that it causes.

Sometimes it's years, sometimes overnight, it's as though

nothing had happened, the day before, And there is no

instruction given to us. And I thank God for it because

we are tricky with our flesh, to show us how we can avoid the

least amount of problems because of our sin and David hears, all

of this, he sees all of this, he registers all of this.

And after this blistering words, that come from the mouth of this

prophet, he is ready to respond. And the way that David responds

and this is how we're going to end is a wonderful glorious

instructional Elation of what true repentance looks like.

What true repentance looks like and look at it with me here in

verse 13 of chapter 12. David said to Nathan, I've

sinned against the Lord. That moved me when I read it

today, that moved my heart to the core.

David said to Nathan. I've sinned against the Lord.

You want to see the fleshed-out version of that?

You know what, song to turn to right, you know, have to turn

there were not going to turn there tonight.

Psalm 1 Psalm 51. Psalm 51 is the journal entry of

verse 13. It's after David's, at back, and

really thought and meditate, and let that truth of the

chastisement of the Lord sitting upon his soul and he, he just

writes out Psalm 51. Don't let the brevity of this

confession fool. You don't let it cause you to

judge this man's sincerity. In fact, the brevity of it makes

it so beautiful, you know, sometimes we look at how people

respond to sin or their failure and we look for external

evidence, right? We look for things that they do

or things that they don't do and things that they say, and the

level of tears that they can gather up in a cup, whatever the

case may be, when you and I have no idea what's going on in their

hearts. See before the prophet, you know

what he does. He says one thing I have sinned

against the Lord, you know, what was happening in his heart?

Psalm 51. Psalm 51.

So you and I have to understand that the Lord the same way he

sees the motives of somebody send the reason for their sin.

He sees the repentance of that sin, just as clearly And I think

what you see here is an encouragement.

Listen, if you are in sin tonight, what's not going to

impress, God's pardon in your life, is your poetic expression

of how wrong you've been. It's not going to be the

duration of your dejection. It's not going to be anything

other than the sincerity of the Contrition of your heart.

That is all that moves, the heart of the Lord.

That's it. And it's as plain as simple as

that. And I praise God for that.

And David here shows us that you can be in one breath broken and

when God's favor again, because God tells him, he assures him,

you are pardoned. You are forgiven after one

statement, after one simple statement like that, And that

might offend people more than the actual discipline that God

gives to this, man. The fact that the Lord is

willing to be so quick to forgive him.

Now, I'm going to get to in a moment.

What do you see in David's confession, it's one sentence,

but what do you see in it? That's so significant.

Yes. Sure.

So you minted it to a person. Sure.

Yes. Against the Lord, I have sinned

against Uriah know. I've sinned against Bathsheba

know, I've sinned against the government know, I've sinned

against the Lord. The primary offender.

And the effendi here, rather is the Lord himself.

So before, even not that he denied the fact that he sent

against other people. But here's the realization I

violated and harmed and wounded, The God Who made the Covenant of

marriage, I hurt. And I broke the law of the one

who gave life to her Uriah, who takes the life of man, and I

took that upon myself, I'm the one who stepped out of bounds

with the one who gave me everything that I have.

True repentance primarily recognizes God being offended.

David here is not spilling his heart open because of what's

going to come to him now. David here is not even as

disturbed about the fact that Uriah is gone in bathsheba's,

not really his legitimate wife, that's not what burdens him,

build that is part of it. What consumes this man is I

fractured my fellowship with almighty God and this broke him

because he realized who God was and the grand scheme of

everything. And so here we see that true

repentance prioritises, the realization of what your sin is

done with the vertical relationship that you and I

cherish and love and enjoy. I've seen Christians that have

repented and had nothing to do with God being offended.

I've seen it in their confession in their testimonies is not

about God. It's about what they did to

their mom and how they disappointed, a dad growing up

and how they heard this person and how they hurt their church.

That's fine and dandy, Where's God?

Where's God? And I'm telling you of God is

not in the confession. That might be an insight to

prove that you didn't have God in mind when you sinned or

before you even considered sinning.

What do I mean by that? That this this is more than just

law keeping and having a nice reputation among the church.

This is about my walk with almighty God.

And David realized that that's the first thing that comes to

his mind. That's the first thing that

comes out of his mouth but there's a second point that I

want to draw to your attention, the brevity of it showcases The

exclusion of excuses. I've sinned against the Lord

compare that with Saul's repentance or supposed

repentance, remember that Samuel comes on the scene?

I've obeyed the Lord then he justifies his partial obedience

then he says it again and have sacrificed this for the Lord,

this is set apart for Lord and he just keeps going until

finally says. Okay, fine.

I've sinned against the Lord and his word for I feared the people

now saying, oh can you come with me?

So we go to the house of God and it makes it look like they, you

know, you're actually in good terms with me and I'm in.

Good terms with God, it just Just the word vomit is so

obvious and it's actually, it's actually a revelation of how his

heart was not really broken. He could say so much, because

his heart was still so light. And David just has one

statement. And he says, I have no excuses.

You know what some people do? Well yeah.

I've sinned against the Lord but wife's in But True Confession.

Never has the word butt in it. Never True Confession.

Never has the word butt in it. Yeah, okay, yeah, you're right.

Nathan. But you know, she should have

been baiting like that. She knows that I go up on the

roof. She knows that I can see all

things from that point. She shouldn't have done, that's

kind of her fault. Yeah.

Okay. I did it.

Yeah. But, you know, I was hoping that

the ammonites really wouldn't have killed the maybe wounded.

I don't know. Like, he didn't say anything of

that. These, what about job?

You know, job kind of, was, was in the night, like, he didn't

know the full thing, but he should have at least stood up to

me. We should we get Joe.

I've been to this conference about nothing.

I've sinned against the Lord and that's what our human nature

wants to do. Right.

It's ever since the beginning, we want to point the finger, we

want to bounce the problems off of us and the full

accountability and at least share it with somebody else.

Here's the thing. When you have God in the

equation, realize that it's your sin, regardless of the sin, that

instigated you to sin it. Never justifies your sin and it

primarily your sin. Affects your vertical

relationship with the Lord. So let the Good deal with other

people's wrongs. Let the Lord deal with other

people's wrongs, even if their wrongs was mixed into.

Why you did that? And why you said that just just

cancel all of that and just realize.

Okay, I sinned and it affected my relationship with the Lord.

Therefore I have sinned against the Lord.

Isn't that refreshing to hear? And there is a beauty in the

Simplicity of this. There is just this this holy

moment in the quietness of David.

Now I told you, I wouldn't have want to been there when he says

you are the man, but I would like to peek my head.

When David said, I have sinned against the Lord, I would have

loved to just look through those Royal curtains.

And see how he looked? Did he have his head down with

her tears? That he whispered that he

shouted. Here's Nathan and David and

David says, I have sinned against the Lord. and what so

moves me not just how he does not include one other excuse,

But how Nathan responds and Nathan said to David in the same

verse, the Lord has also put away your sin, you shall not

die. How quick is that?

Are you offended by that? What are you offended by more?

The list of judgments that were going to be on David's life

until he went into Glory or how quick?

How swift forgiveness came to him, the moment he confessed.

Some would be offended by that. It's just, that's all it takes.

I've sinned against the Lord. Yeah, if it's just lip service,

but if there's a Psalm 51 roaring in your soul, that's a

different story. I've sinned against the Lord,

and right there, this Prophet who has these special antennas

to hear from Heaven, gets a word.

You're forgiven. You're forgiven Dina, why?

Because the same psalmist, who send penned in Psalm 86 5.

Unfortunately, you won't see this in the ESV.

You'll see it in the King, James, new King, James and ASB.

We're told in Psalm 86 five that the Lord is ready to forgive.

The ESV says good and forgiving that's nice.

But you look at the Hebrew ready to forgive You know what?

That tells me? He's waiting to forgive.

He's right there. Ready to swing the door open.

Well, what is he waiting for the knock of repentance on our end.

That's what he's waiting for. So the Readiness to forgive is

triggered by our Readiness to repent.

Genuinely void of excuse void, of pointing the fingers void of

the butts. And just saying it's obvious.

It's clear. I've sinned against God and he

says, in Psalm 51 against the in the only have I sinned And the

Lord is willing to forgive when a man comes broken like this

man, does no scene no pounding against the wall.

No probation time on God's part, by the way, I have sinned

against the lord. Well, okay, good.

That's nice and Danny go into that penalty box for 7 days and

come back, and let's see if your heart is just a smashed as it is

now. And then I'll determine if you

can have fellowship with me again.

That's not God. That's man, huh?

We're just all a bunch of Jonah's, right?

Wanting to look at the city of Chicago and say, are all going

to hell and you deserve it, and the Lord wants to save them and

were like, Lord, you sure. Look at all the Bloodshed.

Look at all the abortion. Look at all the gangs

slaughtering each other. And the whole point of the Book

of John, I said there's many times and I can't stop saying it

because it moves me such a short prophetic book, but it has such

powerful implications. Though.

The point of the Book of Jonah is men, even the greatest men,

even the greatest prophets are less merciful than our God is.

They're less quick to forgive than our God.

They are less tender and soft and inviting, and welcoming than

our God. And God is so tender, even in

the Book of Jonah itself. God, even mentions the death of

the cattle. He even thinks about the life of

the animals. Now, I'm not advocating, animal

rights here and sheep are on the same level as humans.

And if a dog drowns in your neighbor's, Johnny, maybe you

can argue which one has more worth than that's crazy stuff,

but God does have value in appreciation for life.

All life. And we see here that this man is

receiving that forgiveness, because God was ready to

forgive. But look what happens here in

verse 14. Nevertheless, Nathan says,

because by this deed, you have utterly scorned the Lord, the

child who is born to you shall die. the Nathan went to his

house, he talked about concluding his sermon, Talk

about closing Friday, night bible study with that.

You're forgiven your sins. Put aside your son.

He's going to die. No apologies.

No, lengthy explanation, no theological presentation of why

God allows us though. We do have the rest of the Bible

to determine why this is the case.

Let me end on this thought and I will end here because we're not

going to touch any other verse. The Lord's, pardon for our sin

is not his only goal in our sanctification.

God eagerly desires to also deal with the presence of sin in our

lives and it's power in our lives simultaneously.

So when God wants to wipe away our sin, that is his chief and

because that will bring us back to him and reconcile us to him.

But as a good father he also wants to ensure and do what he

needs to do so that we would not repeat the offense and continue

to harm us and others. And more importantly Our walk

with him. And so the Lord will take extra

measures to bring about preventive things in our lives

and very real ways. So that it becomes much more

difficult to repeat that very offense that got us in the mess

to begin with. And the means by which God does

this, this might shock you, but it's true.

The means by which God does, this is something called

discipline. Chastisement.

In other words, God permitting and even authoring painful

experiences in our lives, in connection to our sin.

So that what we thought was sweet is actually sour, And just

like when you discipline a child, after they do something

wrong, we make the connection with that wrong and realize,

this is what it's going to actually produce in my life and

it makes it less attractive than what we thought it was before it

all happened. And so God as a father knows

exactly what to prescribe, he knows the right measure of pain

to implement in order for us to be repulsed by and if not

repulse totally, at least fearful of the thing that we did

to fracture our fellowship with him.

And in David's case, you know what it was.

Have to kill your son. How do we feel about that?

Here's the thing that you and I can be comforted with and

comforted by the discipline of God is Not subject to potential

error. Father's even Godly fathers are

capable of going too far when correcting their son.

When correcting their daughter and they are equally capable of

having too low of a standard when it comes to the growth in

the maturation of their children.

But the reason why you, and I can look at that and actually be

comfortable with the decision of the Lord.

Ultimately, he's God, who can question his ways, but we can be

comforted to know that he's perfect in all of his ways, not

just in his love, not just in his grace, not just in his gifts

also in his discipline, even in his discipline.

Again, let me say it. He knows the right prescription

to give to create a procedure in your heart that will uproot.

Those roots that have Simulated you all these years.

You remember, David did not do this out of nowhere.

This was a deep-seated issue. He had no problem taking wives,

and taking more woman unto himself and it manifested this

way in adultery and murder. But what was the root cause of

it? What was?

I can we learn early passions early on that.

He did not deal with. And God says, at this point, now

we're going to deal with it. And the way we're going to deal

with it is going to be painful but the pain is necessary to

uproot that which keeps bringing you back to this cycle.

A new believer. When you ask them how it is that

you believe that Jesus loves you and they'll say, John, 3:16 for

God. So loved the world that He Sent

His only begotten son. Right, mature.

Christian who walks with the Lord will not necessarily quote.

John 3:16 they will also, quote places like Revelation 3, where

John 3:16

we are told whom I love. I discipline Who am I love?

I discipline. So as a father who loves the

expression of his love is not merely taking you deeper in the

depths of the truths of the Gospel, but it's also to

implement punishment to produce righteousness and Holiness in

US. And that's exactly what David

would require. There's an interesting proverb.

And I love to see a proverb and then see biblical example for

it. Here's one, it's in Proverbs 20

Proverbs 20:30

verse 30. I'm going to quote the second

part Strokes make clean the innermost Parts.

The first part says blows that wound cleanse away, evil

Strokes, may clean. That innermost Parts in other

words, often times painful means do the deepest work of cleansing

and people. And Not only would the

discipline of the Lord caused The Sinner, to be repulsed by

their sin will actually discourage observers from that

very same sin. So that's Proverbs.

Twenty Thirty listen to this in Proverbs 21, 11, when a scoffer

is punished, the simple become wise When they scoffers somebody

over there, who's a scoffer is punished whether by the law or

by God himself the simple, the unlearned the ones who are

swayed, left and right. Those people when they observe

that go home, an that's mishap. That's what happens when you do

that. No, thank you.

I don't want it. And so there's a multi-faceted

purpose with God's discipline and even one person's life.

And David would be. Accepting of that punishment.

There is no protest. Here, there's no fist to the

skies. Just a broken willingness to

embrace what's about to take place in his life.

Here's how. And did I say that already?

We have men's meeting in the morning.

Should we just stay up until then?

There's a prophetic picture here.

Isn't it, isn't it? An awesome thing to see prophecy

or some Shadow depicted and obscure texts like this, I love

it. Your son is going to die.

Is the sun innocent. Yeah, he is in us and in God's

wisdom. Who's the author?

of life and the Removal the author to remove life, he can do

what he pleases and we have the joy of the same chapter to

realize that this baby is going to be in heaven.

The death of your son, David is going to pay for your sins.

And there is coming at this point.

Another son of David. That would arrive several

hundred years later. Who would do the same?

not just for David, but for all of us, there is an innocent boy

that will come from the seed of David who will in his death

cover, the sin of all mankind, So even in this dark picture

this heartbreaking scenario, we see a sliver of gospel truth.

There is a son of David Who will come and his death will cover

past present and future sin. Because that is the preciousness

of his blood. Let's pray.

Lord, we look to you tonight with all these truths.

That have been presented before us.

And we ask that it would cause us to worship you and Lord.

As we heard to despise your word is to despise you.

But to love your word is to love you and we want to express our

love to you. Every Friday night as we come to

your word. And we pray that as we sing.

As we sing Lord, we would not sing.

Divorce from the truth that we heard, but it would stimulate us

to give you the praise and honor that is due to you.

Because you are the one who breathed this book into our

hands. We love you Lord we ask that you

would indeed sanctifies as you see fit in Jesus name.

Amen. Let's stand as we close and I'll

let you go. Some of you look heavy, I'd But

give it what you have for the Lord Jesus before you head onto

your bed. And bless them in the night with

an evening sacrifice.