2 Samuel 11 (Part 3) Bible Study | Pastor Daniel Batarseh

Do you have a copy of God's word in your hand?

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there in the presence to point to a prophecy that you're

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a copy of it. Meet me in the copy that you

have in 2nd Samuel 11 as we are now coming to the final

installment of this chapter together.

And put your finger there in verse 15.

Second Samuel, 11 verse 15. Who would have thought that

2 Samuel 11:15

David's neglect? Of being in the will of God and

the beginning of this chapter would evolve into David,

becoming a murderer by the end of the chapter.

I'm sure the study of this man's life.

Especially at this point has been nothing short of shocking.

For many of us, especially for someone who is as remarkable.

And as praised as King, David was but the idea that we have

here is that David Proves that sin is no respecter of persons.

Sins. Aim is the same for the lowliest

of the palace as it is for the ruler of the Kingdom.

Its goal is to survive long enough to wreak, havoc in you

through you around you, and before you and its primary

source of strength in our lives to create that ripple effect is

through our tolerance Ace of it. Through our justification of it

through our pleasure in it. And unfortunately what we're

seeing here is just that we are witnessing the downfall of a man

of God and what David is trying to do is bury his sin but what

he's not realizing is that he's also burying himself.

He is also leading himself into a deeper pit of pain and misery

that he will unfortunately have to sit in for quite some time.

And as we come to this point, we realize that the consequences of

his actions could have. Could have been put to a stop.

If he had just confessed his sin as early as possible, all he has

been doing is adding fuel to the fire through his concealment,

that concealment Is Like Oxygen to a fire and it is only growing

more and more and more and is becoming more and more severe.

And David, we see here learned that as we saw last week, could

not could not get Uriah to be with Bathsheba and a physical

sense so that he could, he could cover his sin through the

explanation of natural means. And because of this, instead of

taking it as a hint of Divine Providence, trying to put him in

his place, he instead now comes up with a Unthinkable

heart-wrenching scheme. The conclusion that David makes

at this point of his plan to try to save face is to kill an

innocent man, it's to murder Uriah He wakes up one morning

and he is quick to execute. He does not waste any time

because time is not in his favor, the longer, he waits the

longer he delays, the more suspicious, he looks And so he

does not hesitate to write the death warrant of this man to put

it in his hands and to have them walk with it to the very place

that he will be executed unjustly.

And you can almost read. David's thoughts.

When we learn that, he woke up that morning, what it must have

been like, for him, internally the night before, as he was

tossing and turning contemplating what to do,

because this meant Integrity is getting in the way of his

attempt to try to seem righteous and clean and innocent.

It's almost as though something along the lines of fine.

Fine. You don't want to be with your

wife so that it could seem like this baby is yours.

Then I will be the husband of your wife.

And if it means to get rid of you, then, so be it.

And that's essentially what he is doing.

He is now going to try to take you riah's place as the husband,

so that it can seem like this baby, that would come into the

world came through the confines of a righteous marriage.

When everything about this is totally, totally unrighteous And

so I'm going to read these verses as we conclude this

chapter and we're going to do what we usually do.

Open it up for you to make some observations and then we're

going to try to in a concise way, get to important matters of

this tax that the Holy Spirit has given to us.

So they were there in verse 15, I hope In the letter, he wrote

Set Uriah in the Forefront of the hardest fighting and then

draw back from him that he may be struck down and die.

And as Joy was besieging the city he assigned Uriah to the

place where he knew that there were Valiant men and the men of

the city came out and fought with joab and some of the

Servants of David among the People Fell.

Uriah, the hittite also died. Then job sent and told David all

the news about the fighting and he instructed the messenger,

when you have finished telling all the news about the fighting

to the king, then, if the Kings anger Rises.

And if he says to you, why did you go so near the city to

fight? Did you not know that they would

shoot from the wall who killed Abby Malik, the son of Gera

Boucher that djerba sheth the not a woman cast an upper Stone

on him from the wall so that he died at the Bez.

Why did you go so near the wall? Then you shall say your servant

Uriah the hittite is dead. Also.

So the messenger went and came and told David all that job had

sent him to tell the messenger said to David, the men gain an

advantage over us and came out against us in the field but we

drove them back to the entrance of the gate.

Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall.

Some of the king's servants are dead and your servant Uriah the

hittite is dead. Also, David said to the

messenger, thus you shall 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 you are, her husband was dead.

She lamented over her husband. And when the morning 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 powerful, anything jump out to you.

Anything significant important. Yes.

Yeah. Is that an interesting attitude?

That's okay though. It is just happens.

You just this just this is what war is about.

Yes that's it. That's a strange response to the

death of an innocent man. Yeah, he kind of Skips the part

of David, potentially getting angry and he just says, hey,

you're either had his dead just so avoid that awkward

confrontation. Sure.

That's an observation. Yes.

Yeah, you ride the hittite so we're seeing that the background

of this man repeated to us. Remind us that this is not an

Israelite and what a terrible witness to this man, what a

terrible treatment of a man who trusted not just the god of

Israel but the people who claim to be the people of God, sure.

Anything else. Very good.

Now, job is involved in this mess.

Now you have an accomplice. Now you have somebody joining in

in your effort to try to cover your mess.

Yeah. Absolutely job is now included

in all of this. Makes you wonder if job smelled

something fishy? This is really strange.

What's happening here? Yes.

Yeah. Yeah.

Now now they're just playing Secrets, right?

And and they're trying to now jobs in on this and he's trying

to conceal it through the messenger and they're they're

both not working together to try to make this seem like it was

some accident and David just wants to put it at rest and he

just says, let's just get over it.

Move on the job is done. They're speaking almost encode

to one another. Yes.

Yeah, this is starting to get really, really?

Disappointing in many ways because there's collateral

damage. Now, now you have other innocent

parties that are getting affected and we're going to

touch on that in a moment. Yes.

Very, very good. Observation job seems to be

acting upon very little information and it makes jobs

character, not shine as much as it should have well touch on

that as well. Yes.

Could it be that job is using this to one-up on David for

maybe his past mistakes? And so he's willing to allow it

to happen. Ah, now we're getting it to

politics, right? Yes.

Peter and then Laurie. Yeah.

Yes, right, that happened in. What book?

Who remembers what book that happened in judges?

That's right. Did you want to add to that law?

Yes. Hmm, interesting thought very,

very good observations. Yes, right. so, I'm thinking

potentially You could have. But the submission of Uriah.

Yeah, he was a mighty man. He was a valiant man, he was a

warrior. He was a strategist himself.

I mean he was he was promoted to be among the 30.

So maybe even Uriah himself saw that.

This isn't probably the best of advancements, but I'm going to

submit to my commander and it was, it was a death of him but

that's, that's humility. Yes, David.

Yeah. Makes you wonder if she knew.

I don't think she knew what David plotted.

It makes you wonder if she was even with scripture doesn't say

if she was slightly relieved, we do see that she lamented?

We can take that for what it is. That she was genuinely broken

that her husband had passed. Yes, really.

That's right. It is a long time to think you

got away with something. Yeah.

Yeah, that's right. Good.

Good, very good. And that's going to be an

important reminder. As we come to next week's, study

to see that some time had passed before David was exposed.

Yes, last one. Not so many people would have

died within. Yes, absolutely.

We're going to find out exactly why it is that people died in

this story. It could have been avoided,

could have been avoided. Are we ready?

Let's come together now, to verse 15.

It's clear that David here is attempted to make you riyas.

Death seem like an accident of War.

We talked about that last week, but it's worth bringing up again

that when you and I try to cover our sin and concealed Our

hypocrisy, it will always include the adoption of some

level of deception. And in David's, case to

deception is only increasing. And it is only extending and

touching more people's lives Even parties that were not

initially involved with the Scandal.

And so now he is, he's affecting other people, inviting other

people, and other people are being influenced.

All they want nothing to do with this matter.

And you have to you have to think it is an exhausting and

miserable way of life to try. To convince others that you are

righteous. It's just it's it will drain

you. Some people have more stamina

for it than others but regardless what we see here in a

very subtle way is that the fate of such people is the same and

it is this that in the pursuit of clever cunning lies at some

point at some point. You will be exposed at some

point. And we actually already see that

to some level here in this verse might be wondering, how David is

not being very clear. Is he with this charge?

He's not, he's not giving enough reason for such a drastic

decision to be made. And so when job receives this

letter, a very short short and straight to the point kind of

instruction, there's there's too much missing here that leaves

the The possibility for great doubt to arise even, enjoy,

even. Enjoy job was an intelligent,

man, as well. He was very, very, very

intelligent. He was a strategist, and he knew

David and he knew his men including Uriah, and it just

didn't line up for Uriah to be set up intentionally so that he

can be in a very vulnerable position to the enemy's attacks

and be left for dead. And so this this should have

raised Steve Jobs, eyebrow. We're not told his thoughts,

were not told exactly what he thought in this moment, but it

does make you wonder if this meant put the pieces together,

when he would hear down the road, that David married,

uriah's wife And if he investigated just a little bit

of you were to realize that the timing of this is just, it's

creating a scenario that you would hope is not true.

And then the timing of the birth of that child job wasn't inside

Circle. He was not an outsider.

He was not, he was not somebody distant, he was very much

involved with the Affairs of the King's life.

He would have known, he would have received the exact details.

And if this man was an intelligent, man, as we have,

every reason to believe he would have put it together.

Do you see what's happening here?

And David thinking that he's actually achieving success in

his deceit. He's actually getting sloppy,

he's getting sloppy. And the principle here is so

loud and so clear. And it is this that even the

most talented of deceivers, we'll end up at some point

exposing themselves unintentionally.

And David here is already doing that.

Never mind, trying to fool God and think that you and I can can

trick him. But sin is able in a creative

way to even tell on us to others.

Unsuspecting people, it is quite fascinating to see how sin has a

way of surfacing before some that we never thought it would

come too. And find its way around to the

people that it matters. There's so many examples of this

in the scriptures are from cover to cover.

So many things were crashing in my mind and one of the clearest

examples of this is with a man that you wouldn't think would

succumb to a life of deception and it is it's Abraham's son.

What's his name? Isaac?

And like, father like son, right there is a plague that hits a

famine that hits and he goes to pagans and he takes Refuge among

them. And he has a fear that his

father had. He also had a very beautiful

Wife and he was in a society that did not fear God.

And so this, this strategy arises, I will convince the

people who live under the reign of Abby Malik.

And I will tell him that that my wife is who she's my sister.

She's my sister so that that has nothing to do with me.

I'm not responsible for, I don't oversee her.

She's not, she doesn't belong to me.

So, I'm just going to throw her under the bus and whatever you

want to do. You can do, but just just keep

me out of it. And so he tells the people, she

is my sister and then I want you to see this actually turn to

Genesis 26. I want you to see the wording

that the Holy Spirit provides for us in Isaac's attempt to

like David conceal. Something that is that is true

to be something that is not true.

And the consequences of this varies depending on the nature

of the light itself. A look at 26 of Genesis verse 6.

So Isaac settled in guerard, when the men of the palace asked

him about his wife, he said she's my sister.

For he feared to say my wife thinking less, the men of the

place should kill me because of Rebecca because she was

attractive and appearance. Now, look at verse 8, this is

the point that I want to try to make when he had been there a

long time. Abby met, like King of the

Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac laughing

with Rebecca. His wife the King James says,

what my King James people sporting, and they weren't

playing foosball or anything. The where there is some kind of

an innuendo. It's there is caressing.

There is a flirting things that you don't do with your sister

essentially. But do you see the wording here?

We're told in verse 8 when it had been a long time when Isaac

had been there a long time. You know, it's possible.

To be living a lie for a long time.

It's possible to convince people of a lie for a long time.

The Bible is very honest about that.

But that like I can't last forever, that's that's the point

here. And many people take comfort and

thinking that something has been going on in the background for a

long time and nobody seems to have caught on but then what do

we see here that at a particular moment when they thought they

were in private, when they thought that they were

succeeding benefiting from this Kingdom, avoiding a plague and

Isaac being safe from any harm. IV, Malik.

Just happens to come to one of his windows out of the many

windows that he had and looks out.

And at that specific moment. He sees Isaac sporting with his

sister. What do we call that Divine

Providence? That's what we call that.

This is not coincidence. It's not happenstance.

This is not random. This was God in some way and

thus, with his invisible hand, without a miraculous

intervention, so to speak, allowing his precious child to

be exposed so that he can be closer to the place of

repentance and be in the will of God and that includes

transparency. And walking in the light.

Divine Providence is always at work.

My brother, my sister Divine Providence is always at it.

Ever is put on pause, never, it's always playing.

And here's the thing when we're walking in conscious obedience,

it's always in our favor, always God moves the pieces so that we

can move and graduate in godliness and in his will for

our lives. But when we are outside of his

will intentionally It works to discipline us.

And what you see here with Isaac is that he thought after a long

time he would get away with it. But here is a man who sees them

they don't see him and they're caught and the confronted and

they have to come to a place of confessing the truth or else you

would be in a different kind of trouble.

So, what's happening here? This is one of God's laws of the

universe at work and it never stops working just like the law

of gravity. You can, you can count on this

law being always in effect. As a law of gravity is

continually in effect that when we conceal it will eventually be

revealed. That's it that's a log that's

that's a lot of strong as any other scientific law.

This is a law that is continually in operation.

But it's more than just God's Divine Providence here.

There's also something to be said about the weakness that we

develop the foolishness that we inherit when we are living in

darkness listen, when you and I walking in righteousness, we

have enough blind spots of our own is that not true?

When we intentionally want to be true Disciples of Jesus Christ,

there are some things in our lives that we don't see that, we

need the church, the the corporate body to help us

identify how much more when you and I are living in darkness.

How much more do we miss? How much more is our judgment

clouded? And so we see here with Isaac,

just like, with David as consistent, as they thought they

were eventually, because you have God's Providence was is

enough and the sloppiness that we inherit because of our sin

things are going to happen. Things will be exposed.

Things will slip and sin is very slippery.

You think you can hold on to it? You think you can have a grip on

it but at one point it just you lose that grip.

It tends to make a mess. So we see here even in this

letter that he's creating some red flags and verse 16 of our

chapter. We read and his job was

besieging the city. He assigned, you a ride to the

place where he knew that there were Valiant men.

Now we see something on job side, we've already made mention

of it, the orders come from David.

And job complies like, there's no questions.

There's no hesitation, there's no.

Why is this being given? No, no request for any kind of

clarification. He just gives in right away and

some would excuse jobs pliability because they would

say he's just taking orders and he's under pressure, and he

doesn't want to question authority, but if you and I are

familiar with jobs history with David.

Then you will know something about Joy.

He did not find it difficult to stand up against David when he

did. Not agree with him is that not

true many many times when David asked for something job would

stand up and disagree. And so we know that job was a

man who had his own opinion. We know that job was a man who

knew what was right in knew what was wrong.

Can I prove that to you? You're in second, Samuel lemon,

go to 2nd Samuel 24 David at that point, once the senses to

be made for Well, he wants to know how many men he has in his

army. And he calls job as one of the

leaders of this project and job in verse 3, of second Samuel,

24, look what he says here. But job said to the king may the

Lord your God and to the people 100 times, as many as they are.

While the Eyes of My Lord, the King still see it.

But why does my Lord the king the light in this thing?

He's pushing back. He's questioning he's trying to

hold him back from committing this grave sin which included

pride. And when we get there, another

scene that people miss that has to do with the book of Exodus.

And so we see draw is willing to stand up against the king for

righteousness sake. So how do we explain this?

How is it that when this innocent man, you ride Joy of

knew, who Uriah was job knew, his Integrity job knew his

conviction. How is it that he's so willing

to give in to this order without pushing back without any

protest. Here's the thing we have to be

honest, the Bible doesn't tell us the Bible doesn't tell us

about Bible study helps. What do I mean by that?

When you survey the scope of joy, Jobs resume.

What you will notice is that job did not find it very difficult.

To kill people, right? He killed people.

He killed innocent people. And he was willing to do such a

thing, never mind, never mind war, never mind Justified,

reasons for killing. I'm talking about killing

innocent parties. Whenever you see job doing that

it is often motivated. By personal interest.

In other words, whenever job recognize that somebody in his

field was a Potential Threat to his position or his status, he

was more than willing to remove them from the scene.

We see that with Abner member Abner.

We're going to see that in a few chapters with another man named

a Mossad. Whenever there was somebody who

rose up that could potentially push job out of the way and

replace him, this man was so caught up in his status.

His identity was so wrapped up in his title that he was willing

to Slit. Somebody's throat if they even

considered taking his position. and we don't know why he was

willing to kill your eyes so quickly, but it makes you wonder

if he had no problem allowing a mighty man like Uriah be

slaughtered Could it be that? It's just one less person to

worry about yes bro. Absolutely, absolutely.

It's the same Spirit. It is the same reasoning that

saw was willing to chase down David and get rid of him because

he saw him as a potential rival to the throne.

But here's what's happening with joab.

Job is willing to reach so low because the severity of sin is

often placed in the shadows of self interest.

The severity of our sin, the severity of any sin is often

veiled and pushed into the Shadows.

While it is being eclipsed by self-interest murder, doesn't

seem like such a big problem if it means that you get to keep

what you really want. And job here seems to have no

value or conviction concerning those who are created in the

image of God. If he can hold onto the image

that has been granted to him by David as the commander of his

army. So he's willing to say, yes.

Now we come to verse 17 and the men of the city came out and

fought with job and some of the Servants of David among the

People Fell Uriah, the hittite also also died.

Something stands out here and it's worth mentioning because it

has a profound principle. In order for joy.

To blur the evidence of assassination.

Look how clever he is, he sends and sacrifices other innocent

servants. So that what is intended, for

one person would make it seem like it was a mission gone bad.

If he had just sent Uriah that would have, everybody would have

caught on there something off here, but if you send Uriah with

a platoon and they all die or most of them die, then it just

looks like a bad leadership call and that's it.

This is getting messy. This is getting very nasty.

Okay? We have a man who is willing to

kill one man, so he can, he can cover himself but it didn't stop

there. Now, you have to kill more men.

So your I was not the only one who died in this whole process.

Now, you have other people other wives who lost their husbands

other mothers who lost their sons, other siblings, who lost a

brother. Because of one man who did not

want to confess his sin and the point is so obvious.

Is it not? oftentimes the entertainment of

sin, Includes the pain of people that we did not intend to harm.

The reach-in, the extent of our sin goes beyond what we planned

and hoped for. And that is just the reality of

the nature of sin. And one of the ugly fruits of

selfish ambition when it lives, and when it thrives, is that it

does not consider announce the well-being of others.

A person who is dominated by self-interest is willing to

bulldoze through the, through the piles of people before them

without even thinking a second thought, there's no hesitation.

There is no sense of this could actually do something.

Now when somebody is absolutely consumed with satisfying, a

desire that only considers that person, they are prepared to

harm people along the way they are prepared to do so and that

is exactly Lee what is happening here with a man?

Like joab, who was completely consumed with self-interest and

now David and you put these two guys together and it's going to

get ugly. And it, is it, we're happy.

We're seeing it right here. But listen, one of the signs of

a healthy conscience. One of the fruits, one of the

evidences of a Spirit Led heart and mind.

Is that there is a constant consideration of others in the

pursuit of our decisions and our planning's in our thoughts.

That's how you know that the holy spirit is dominating your

heart. And one way there is a radar

that doesn't Just Have Your Existence bleeping on it.

As it scans through your heart. There are other people that you

have in mind when it comes to what it is that you want to do,

or what it is that you don't want to do.

And here's the thing, I mean, we see here in the context of War,

we see it here in the context of actual physical War, right?

People really losing their lives and you've heard me say this

many times before, but one of the most detrimental ingredients

to it. Local body moving forward in

advancing and winning the battle.

Battles of the spirit is selfish ambition, and it doesn't have to

be in leadership. It does not have to be in

leadership. I shared this verse a few weeks

ago in a message, but you heard me Satan announcements

repetition, is really good. I want to, I want to I want to

tell you that in your marriage and your household in the local

church that you're part of persistent.

Peace is possible. It is you can no constant and

not just constant maintenance, you can know a growth.

In love and fruitfulness and peace and reconciliation but it

requires one thing to be omitted.

One thing to be eliminated, constantly washed away, cleansed

targeted and shot down every single day.

And Paul tells it it's in Philippians 2 in Philippians 2.

He makes it so clear of the one poison.

That needs to be drained constantly, in order for a same

mind, Same Love, same goal to be realized with all of us who have

different backgrounds, different personalities, and different

issues in Philippians 2 to look what he says.

Complete my joy. Complete my Joy by being of the

same mind. Pause, it's possible to be of

the same mind. It's possible for all of us with

our different Ministries and different leadership skills, and

different ideas of how things should be done.

It's possible to be of the same mind, that's what he's saying.

But not just that, having the Same Love.

Having a mutual love and appreciation for others is

possible in the church. Being in full Accord, not part

Accord, not sub Accord full Accord.

Can you imagine that? Can you imagine that once the

excitement of a new ministry comes or a move of God, comes

and Things become routine and people settle in and we do life

with each other more and more because it's usually time that

reveals trouble when people get comfortable one another.

But can you imagine that as time goes on?

There's still constant full of chord among the Brethren.

It's Possible full Accord. And this is the, this is the

reason. This is the this is the way it's

possible. Verse 3, do nothing from selfish

ambition. Do nothing from selfish ambition

or conceit. That is how you achieve.

One Mind One Love full of court. But the moment selfish ambition

comes from any direction. Is a moment that that Foundation

of such a possibility begins to be weakened.

And even the most beautiful Ministry, the beautiful church

family that knew so much history of love and joy can be corrupted

and destroyed. Do nothing from selfish

ambition. Nothing.

Nothing nothing, nothing, nothing.

Nothing. Not one thing can be done in

selfish ambition or conceit but in humility count others, more

significant than yourselves. And you will know the joy that

Paul is speaking of this, remember that?

Remember that, and you and I will know, Heaven on Earth.

Even in Chicago, Illinois, believe it or not.

But when a heart is hardened by self like what we see here, what

an ugly picture murder happens and that's why James says you

guys are killing each other. You guys are actually killing

each other in James chapter 4. And he gives one of the reasons

James 4 · chapter mention

because you're eaten up by your passions.

So Civil Wars, erupt and casualties are cause and splits

happen, and people leave. And people that we love and that

we were going to do this thing together forever with, and up

disappearing from our life. Why?

Because somehow, some way selfish ambition, got in the

mix, got in the mix. That's what we're seeing here.

People are dying literally dying because of one man, who would

not let go of his sin who would not confess and it Come clean

before God. That's come back to verse 18.

then job sent and told David, all the news about the fighting

and he instructed a messenger and he tells them what to say,

And David here is unfortunately only going to provide more

evidence of just how dark his heart has become.

And it's shown here and how jaw prepares the message for the

messenger to approach him. And he tells them, these

Specific Instructions and job seems to be anticipating a very

negative response to the news of a botched Mission.

And so he's giving a heads up to this young messenger saying he

might, erupt so get ready for that.

And and the wording that he's giving implies that he knows

David so well that he can almost predict exactly what he's going

to say. That's how connected job was

with David. But job also developed a new

insight about David that revealed something he knew about

him. And it was this, if you want to

calm him down, all you have to say is Uriah is dead.

Just say that Uriah is dead and I know, I know David, he will be

at ease. He'll be calm and you will be

spared from any Wrath of bringing bad news.

This is how far David has come, that the news of the death of a

man like Uriah would actually put him at peace.

Think about that, he's become so warped by his iniquity that

something such as this. Would actually bring him to a

place of tranquility and rest is this the same guy?

Who is this person? Now here's what's fascinating.

When you go to chapter 12, you'll see David's reaction to a

different Injustice. That was given in the form of a

parable. So here's what's going to

happen, Nathan. The prophet is going to come.

He's going to call David. Hey, David, are you busy this

afternoon? I just need to make a visit.

He makes a visit and he gives David a parable and the

summation of that. Parable is a rich man who had so

much flock. If a guest comes over the rich,

man does not take one from his own, but he finds a poor man who

had one little ewe lamb, and that little ewe lamb was like a

daughter. It was fed in his arms.

It was, it was like family. Some of you have pets and that's

true for you. And this rich man, takes that

one little ewe lamb kills it, so that he can feed his guests and

Nathan gives that Parable to David.

And this is so strategic from the man of God, because David

was a shepherd Bird. Oh, this would have made David,

especially angry. And so, when David hears this,

remember he's still hiding his sin.

He thought he got away with his transgression.

Look at his reaction in chapter 12 here in verse 5. then David's

anger was greatly kindled against the man and he said to

Nathan as the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves

to die and he shall restore the lam for fold because he did this

thing and because he had no pity, I looked at that and I

thought to myself how interesting is it that David and

his attitude when it came to responding to this man was some

kind of expression of righteous Zeal but when it came to his own

iniquity he seems undisturbed unmoved unconcerned And this is

especially troubling, you know, why?

Because the sin that David committed was much more severe

What? This Parable was all about his

sin was much more severe. He stole much more than just a

beast. He stole the man's wife, he

stole life. He stole so much in order to

satisfy his lust, the lust that visited him.

And yet. he is so quick to be able to judge somebody else's

sin because, listen, a hardened heart is not only capable A

failing to see the severity of their own wrong for some reason,

it develops some strange boldness to be able to call out

other people's sin and to judge other people's wrong and there

are shortcomings and that kind of attitude provides a deceiving

sound sense of justification because in that moment you are

able to identify what is right and wrong.

Only in others though not in yourself.

And not only that listen, the hardened heart gets so gets so

crazy and out of whack that not only is a person who is in

willful sin. Not only is that person able to

get up and preach on sin. So powerful, and convicted lie,

for example, But is often harsher and more severe in the

way they cracked. The whip of supposed

righteousness and conviction on others.

So what happens is? Hypocrites, often become

legalistic Hippocrates often are accompanied with the

characteristic of being legalistic and they project that

legalism on others though they would never ever ever live.

According to that same standard. And if they do, it's a standard

that doesn't matter. According to the word of God and

it's all a smokescreen for a genuine sin at they're

committing. David in the response to this

Parable from Nathan, what is he? What's the verdict that he

makes? Let him die.

Let him die. Nowhere in the law.

Did God give the instruction for capital punishment for stealing

somebody's animal. The instruction was restoration,

but David takes it up to another level.

He says, kill him. Kill him, hang him.

That was unnecessary. But here's what happens when sin

comes in. It makes us cold.

It makes us harsh and makes us unfair when Christ comes in

dominates our hearts, it creates a compassion and mercy Justice.

Yes, But True. Justice.

Even for the one who is in sin, there is a careful examination

and a careful calculation. That's an operation.

With the person who is truly having Christ dominating their

lives by the spirit. But a person who attempts to

teach or project or discipline or rebuke, others Is hardened by

sin, will often replicate David's attitude and be more

harsh, more severe, more unforgiving and more quick.

To say things that not even God would say.

This is this is getting complex as a not, but this is the whole

point is to show us what happens.

So that we would be afraid to ever entertain the idea of a

duplicity life. It creates all these nasty

cancers that erodes so powerfully.

Yes, brother. Yes.

Yeah, yeah that's a good observation to why does God

allow these things to go on for so long?

And you have people who are victims of other people's sin or

a spouse's unfaithfulness or the hurt of a church leader,

whatever the case may be, and often the question that comes up

and I've heard this question, why did God wait for so long or

why didn't God removed me from the scene or when God stops?

So and so before they committed that and the case that I make is

based on this, this study God has been trying.

God has been through, providential means, God, has

been putting up obstacle after obstacle after obstacle to try

to get David's attention and at the same time we have we come to

the, we come to the simple understanding of how God gives

us autonomy to the extent of making our own decisions.

The word has already been given to David, he knows what his

right. He knows the Commandments of

God. He was a man who cherish the law

and yet still with the Revelation.

He was given he chooses to go. The opposite way.

God has done all that he can to get his attention and many, many

ways and eventually it will come with a strong word in chapter

12. So we don't know really all the

reasons why but I just give you a couple of reasons why and I

argue I make the case that God often does when a true child of

God pursues in Attention all sin and plans to send both from

scripture, I can prove this and even from personal experience

God, often gets that person's attention before they go.

There he provides ways of Escape as First Corinthians tells us

and what we do, we just shut those doors and we just had long

go forward until he makes it very clear what we done was

wrong. So now we come back.

What do we see here? This is troubling.

How draw was able to predict? What would calm David down?

But we come to verse 25. And we see his actual reaction.

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. Pause.

Think is this the first time that David has ever received a

report of someone that he knew dying?

Is it? Or has David been the recipient

of tragic news before? Saul, who else?

Abner, good Jonathan. Let's put Jonathan aside,

Jonathan makes sense, right? Saul Abner now, think about how

he responded to the news of their death, where they allies

to David, or they Predators, they are enemies.

They wanted him dead. And what makes me?

So startled by this verse is contrasting.

His reactions to those people when they departed and this man,

when he was put to death, The Brokenness, the fasting, the

Weeping, The Wailing, the pounding, the writing, the

recording, the songs. For unjust men.

For men who didn't deserve it in a natural and here is a man

upright filled with Integrity. So loyal to the cause of the

kingdom of God and the King that God has established and he's put

to death and David doesn't bat an eye.

David doesn't even bat an eye. Not one tear.

We shed not one. Verse was written, not one day

of fasting. Nothing.

Again, it just reinforces the truth that you and I have been

hearing throughout this study, the absolute hardness that

develops When sin is tolerated, even in the life of a child of

God, the indifference the insensitivity.

I sometimes I've seen it throughout the years, just

unmoved by things that should move you just rock hard.

And what it's going to take for somebody who becomes so

rock-hard is forgot to smash that rock.

Not to wound. But to awaken And so here's what

sin does the same way you and I, and we should preach Faithfully

that Jesus can transform you and make you into something that you

never thought you would be by his grace and by his blood and

by his word sin has the same power, but the opposite effect,

it can make you unrecognizable. Because that's what we see here

at David that we do not recognize his attitude is

different. His Outlook is different.

The way he registers events is different.

All for one reason. Because he chose to conceal

instead of confess. Who would have thought remember

thou this all started from one decision.

In the beginning of the chapter refusing to be in the will of

God. Now, this is what we're seeing

and what we just Trace, just follow the tracks.

You come back and it all started with David making the decision

to stay at home when he was supposed to be out on the

battlefield. So you do you see the

trajectory, do you see the potential of where a true

servant of God can go when they step outside of the will of God

long enough? When they refuse to uphold the

commands of God for their lives. When they do not see the

necessity of being with the Church of God, consistently,

when do not see the necessity of being disciplined and meeting

with the Lord spending time with the Lord, when they do not

intentionally be zealous for good works.

When we step outside of that path, that leads to very dark

places. Here's David now who for up to

this point showed such tenderness when even an enemy of

his was taken prematurely. And here's a man who deserved a

parade for his death. And David is able to go to bed.

So soundly that very night. It's heart-wrenching it's

heartbreaking. Why am I, why am I teaching?

I want you to hate sin. That's why I'm curious to know

how many times. The word sin was mentioned in

this Bible study, and there's a reason for that, you know,

Jesus, according to Hebrews 1 was anointed with the oil of

gladness. Do you know why?

For two reasons? We're told there that he loved

righteousness and what was the second thing?

He hated iniquity. We think our job as Christians

is just to love righteousness. Know, it's also to hate that

which God hates. And so if you want to know what

it means to grow in righteousness, it's loving what.

God loves and also parallel to that hating what he hates.

One of the signs of growth is just that not that you just

adore what he adores but you also abhor what he abhors.

And so I want you to be in that place where there's a righteous

rage for that which hurts God's reputation hurts God's people

and hurts other people as well. Verse 26, the wife of Uriah

heard that you write her husband was dead.

She lamented over a husband that season of sin.

Sweetness quickly became sour. Hebrews tells us that the season

of sin is but fleeting It is fleeting, it is not lasting that

one night, stand, turn into many nights of morning.

And it's a picture of what you and I can expect when we think

that we will be satisfied, it will always come back like a

scorpion sting to zap you and leave a greater Mark than

whatever pleasure you enjoy for a brief moment.

But look here, verse 27. and when the morning was over, David

sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife

and bore him a son, Like mission accomplished.

Mission accomplished. No questions, asked David, not

only saves himself from embarrassment, from the possible

confrontation of bathsheba's husband.

That's done away with he. Now acquires a very, very, very

beautiful woman as another wife and it's Haram So he had this

man, who now acquires a beautiful wife, who has a son

and two somewhere, undiscerning, you know, what happens?

He seems like a hero here is a man now who takes a widow into

his care. Oh, look how sweet David is.

Look how he's a look, how he takes care of his men when they

die in war. He takes their with their wife,

and he brings a man and he nurtures her.

And what a great man. I'm sure some people who heard

the news of this new marriage thought that But to the

Discerning maybe like job, like this is weird.

This is really, really weird. There's something off here,

we're not told that I can imagine.

It seems like all is well, seems like everything happened.

It seems like David's family is just growing.

Maybe he told himself I'll never do something like that again.

Thankfully nothing was exposed nothing exploded and then this

final haunting phrase, as you know, but the thing that David

had done displeased the Lord, God was silent.

As you mentioned, brother? God was citing this entire time.

Now, one thing was mentioned for the first time in this chapter,

the Lord is brought up and all that.

We are told about the Lord is that he was displeased with what

David had done. Here's the point to make When

God seems silent and he often is that there's not mean he's not

seeing, because he always is when God seems silent, which he

often is. It does not mean he is not

seeing because he always is I just try to picture that.

I just I just kind of stepped back and I try to Envision this

whole series of things playing out.

And God, I don't know how it looked but God just watching it

silently. And taking it all in and

throwing, providential nudges along the way.

It's a, finally, the commentaries given to us that

this displeased the Lord, you know, it's the same word that

David used in verse 25. Look at verse 25, Again, David

said to the messenger that she still stayed a job, do not let

this matter. Displease, you Don't let this

matter displease you it's the same word don't let it grieve.

You don't let it upset you. What a contrast, what David was

trying to console job with and even himself was in total odds

against what God thought about it.

Men, often approves what God disapproves men often Praises,

what God often condemns? Men often makes unclear what God

has made. Absolutely clear.

This is, this is one of the main problems between mankind.

And his creator. Don't let this displease you job

and perhaps he was trying to tell that to himself.

And yet we are told that God was displeased with it.

Something happens when you read your Bible and you continue, go

to 1st Kings and this is our last verse, but look at 1st

Kings 15. And look here in verse, look at

verse 4. Nevertheless for David's sake,

the Lord. His God gave him a lamp in

Jerusalem, setting up his son after him and establishing

Jerusalem. Because David did what was right

in the eyes of the Lord. And did not turn aside from

anything that he commanded him all the days of his life except

in the matter of Uriah, the hittite.

Except in the matter of Uriah the hittite.

What an insightful verse The reason that this is being

brought up is because average am one of the kings of Judah has

sinned against the Lord, and this is just one of the

beginnings of the cycles of the Kings of Israel and Judah and

we're being reminded by the Holy Spirit but God would not cut off

the Covenant that he made with David God would only God would

continue based on one thing and that was the promise he made to

David that we studied in second Samuel chapter 7.

2 Samuel 7 · chapter mention

But for some reason in the reminder of the Covenant that

God made with David and how that was going to be.

Perpetually held onto regardless of the unfaithfulness of his

successors. We're also being reminded of the

sin that he committed with and against Uriah What's the point

of that? You know, if you read that on

the surface level it can haunt you because what it can, it can

communicate and it would be the right thing.

Is that? God remembers their sin.

Especially the heinous ones, especially the very offensive

ones. Especially the ones that deal

with other people and their death or whatever the case may

be. God remembers, he'll never

forget and he'll bring it up from time to time.

That's not what we're being told here.

I believe, the reason why this is being brought up so that when

God was reminding us through the spirit in his word, that he

would continue to be faithful to the kingdom of Judah.

It was because he was faithful to David even despite David's

failure. Yes, it's a reminder of Davidson

but I believe another message is being communicated here.

Is that David did Sin? And God's covenant, with David

being protected, was not because David was perfect because you

get that impression. If there is a period after did

not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the

days of his life. You would think the reason why

God is faithful to David is because David out performed

everybody and David was so impressive to God.

That God says, you know, what you stand out from all the other

bumbling fools. So I'm going to keep my promise.

As with you, David your performance was so outstanding

that I'm actually going to keep my word even for generations to

come. And yet the Holy Spirit

interrupts that potential thought by reminding us.

Hey, he really messed up at one point.

He messed up at other points but he really royally, no pun

intended, messed up. So in the past three weeks in

these studies, you and I have been being hammered by the word

of God. Concerning the subject of sin,

hiding sin, concealing, sin. God, who is incredibly able to

reveal that sin? And we can be just washed with

overwhelming daunting, terrifying, truth.

And there's an element of that, which is healthy.

But I want to end on this note. God.

Is willing to hold on to his promise regardless of what

you've done. if you are in Christ, if you are in Christ,

That's, that's what I want to end on.

That no matter what stain you have in your past, just like

David. The same Holy Spirit.

Who kept the promise to this, man?

Forever. Is the same promise keeper.

Who sees in whom you hide. And will look past the sin.

And will keep his promise to you for Christ's sake, forever, and

ever and ever. Yeah, Davidson was brought up

again in the Bible but can I tell you one book in which your

son will never come up again? You know, it That precious Book

of Life. That is only reserved for those

who have been redeemed by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ

in that record. When Christ will I believe in

some way read our names to assure us that we have his

presence forever? I can guarantee beside your name

is not one mention of any sin. You have committed It will be

blank. Because it's been washed by the

blood of the Lamb. That's what you and I have.

And so, this is for our instruction.

But this is also a reminder for you, listen in, Jesus Christ, no

matter how grade that sin wise, even if that sin was murder, I

know that doesn't mean much for church, people. but if you

remember a few years ago, for those who are doing Ministry out

there, I forgot where I was riding me by Joliet.

Yes. imagine doing Bible study with a bunch of teenagers, who

have murdered And sitting across the table from kids, who learn

how to shoot a gun before, having any kind of idea of how

to drive a car. Knowing how to sell drugs before

knowing how to make a sandwich. That means a lot.

Yeah, you might have murdered and your might be blood on your

hands even if your hands have not been developed yet.

But there is someone who shed his blood for you, and he can

wash every single record of that wrong clean.

Simply because of your repentance and faith in him.

And so today, if you are a person who has a stain, there's

something you're ashamed of their, something that Even the

thought of it servicing to your mind, makes you want to bang

your head against the wall and maybe that very wrong has never

been materialized. It's only been imagined but it

is so perverse and so ugly and so despicable that that that

thing there alone can make death seem sweet so that you don't

have to replay it in your mind. Even if it's that The blood of

Jesus is so powerful that it can be washed under that tide and

God will never hold it against you.

When you come and you hide in him.

And so I want I want you to be comforted by that truth.

That God does not hold that against you.

If you come to his son and if you confess it and if you're

broken and if you're genuine you come to him.

You confess it and let him throw it in that.

See forgetfulness and move on. And enjoy his favor and his

Blessing over your life. We will continue in this subject

but I pray that that truth of Grace would give you some kind

of breath to breathe as you have perhaps in these past few weeks,

Ben Uptight with this tense subject.

God is good, he is so, so good. And he has given this to us to

remind us. Even if his goodness in the

midst of tragedy. We do love you.

Lord, we do love you. We love you.

We love you. We thank you for the blood.

We thank you for the forgiveness in Jesus, we thank you for

Calvary. We thank you for the cross.

We thank you. That there is not one sin that

you did not have in mind when you died.

You've considered all iniquity, all trespass, all lawlessness.

Saul Rebellion, when you died and Lord, we just thank you that

we have been made clean. And we thank you that there is

not one thing you choose to remember a hold against us.

And Lord we we Relish in that truth.

But we also want that truth to keep us anchored so that we

would never pervert the grace of God moving forward, help us

through the life of David and second Samuel 11 to remember.

That sins promises are all lies. And that Lord what you have for

us. In righteousness, is for our joy

as much as it is For Your Glory. Well, we just ask that as we

worship you on this Friday night, our hearts would be

refreshed refreshed, not just with that promise.

We heard at the end of the study, but even with the

warnings that we've been receiving throughout this night

and Lord, for the person here, who is not really in Jesus

Christ and because they are not in Christ, is due to a

hesitation of a sin in their lives.

That is convincing them of a false promise or perhaps of

guilt for something that was committed and is holding them

back like a iron ball of chain around their ankle, Lord, met

their eyes be open to see that you are willing to cleanse them

and receive them and restore them completely that you want to

like a physician heal them of that disease.

It's your eager desire, Lord, may that be a resounding truth

that rings in the ear of that Soul too.

Eight and what we worship you with this song as we are close

to sleep. Lord.

Tonight, we just want to, we want to finish this night off

with a song, on our lips. And with these truths in our

heart, we ask these things in the name of your living, son.

The resurrected Christ. The Returning King, amen.

And amen. But stand.

And sing to Jesus Christ. And sing to Jesus Christ.