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OK, so we are finishing up our 
series on the life of David we 

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have today and we have two more 
left and next two sermons will 

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be dealing with actually end of 
his life. 

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Today is probably the last kind 
of event that that is well 

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known. 
Today's sermon is on David and 

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Bathsheba. 
It's about how he commits 

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adultery and murder. 
Let that sink in for a moment. 

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Adultery and murder. 
We've been just talking about 

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for weeks how wonderful David 
is. 

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Last week's sermon was how David
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has said of God to somebody who 
did not deserve it, how his 

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kindness directly points to the 
gospel. 

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And two chapters later we're 
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murder. 
This is, after all, the man 

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after God's own heart. 
This is the king that God chose.

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This is the man who trusted in 
God fighting a giant named 

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Goliath. 
And now adultery and murder. 

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And we see this kind of things 
all the time. 

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One of my heroes of the faith, 
Philip Yancey, who wrote What's 

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So Amazing about Grace? 
He just had a falling recently, 

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Ravi, Ravi Zacharias, who 
faithfully defended our faith 

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for decades. 
And several of really people who

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I consider to be role models in 
the faith, they went from 

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faithful men to destroying their
life with sin. 

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And that's the question we want 
to answer today. 

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How can a faithful person like 
David fall into destructive sin?

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Well, number one is because we 
think we can control sin and we 

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can manage it as we're not that 
bad. 

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Let's read Second Samuel Chapter
11 one through 4 for now. 

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Oh now it's OK, I'll just turn 
around Arena. 

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In the spring, when kings March 
out to war, David sent joy with 

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his officers and all Israel. 
They destroy the Ammonites and 

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besieged Rabbah, but David 
remained in Jerusalem. 

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One evening David got up from 
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the roof of the palace. 
From the roof he saw a woman 

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bathing, a very beautiful woman.
So David sent someone to inquire

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about her, and he said, isn't 
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Eliam and wife of Uriah, that 
he's like. 

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David sent messengers to get 
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him, he slept with her. 
Now, she had just been purifying

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herself from her uncleanliness. 
Afterward, she returned home. 

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Oh, yeah, It works. 
OK, It works. 

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I see it. 
Yeah. 

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Thank you. 
Thank you. 

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Although the king is not 
expected to be necessarily every

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part of battle. 
But it seems like, according to 

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verse one, it says when kings 
March out to war. 

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This is a time when I guess 
kings did March out to war. 

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And we know that this is what he
should have been doing because 

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it says here, but but David 
remained in Jerusalem. 

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He did not go to war instead, 
but David remained in Jerusalem.

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So why did David stay behind? 
Was he scared? 

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Of course not. 
He won many battles. 

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He defeated giants. 
There's no way he's scared. 

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He didn't go because he was 
actually winning every battle. 

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David is at the height of his 
power and everything is going 

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his way. 
Kind of like you start your own 

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business and it goes so well. 
After a while, you just hire 

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some managers, just kind of 
check in here and there. 

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And it seems like that's what 
he's doing. 

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He's checking in here and there 
and he's not actively involved. 

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And this where David is at, at 
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comfortable, settled in. 
This is actually a very 

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dangerous place to be being 
settled in, comfortable, kind of

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doing the cruise control of 
life. 

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That is a very dangerous place 
to be. 

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And we know this because 
immediately he's comfortable. 

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He's walking around his palace. 
In verse 21 evening, David got 

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up from his bed and stroll 
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and he saw a woman bathing, a 
very beautiful woman. 

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Now, let me just note that 
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purification ritual. 
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something religious. 
It wasn't a woman just kind of 

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flaunting herself in public. 
They I read that the bath, it 

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was often on the roof, but it 
was well covered. 

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Really the only person who could
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a really high place, which is 
the palace where David lived. 

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So she was certainly not trying 
to seduce anyone, but David 

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certainly is not the victim 
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David was walking around kind of
bored, and then a naked woman 

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caught his eye. 
See David's danger? 

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But it wasn't just that he he 
was lustful. 

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It was more so combination of 
success and an absence of trial.

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See, trials often awaken our 
dependence on God and comfort 

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can lowest low person to 
spiritual sleep. 

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He wasn't afraid of sin. 
He wasn't guarding his heart. 

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And oftentimes that is where 
spiritual danger is most 

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present. 
You know, you don't fall asleep 

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through middle of storm. 
You fall asleep in Hawaii in a 

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nice beach when your guard is 
down against sin. 

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Step by step you may be walking 
into destruction and you don't 

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even know it because you don't 
think you could fall. 

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Things are going too well, so 
you just go along with it. 

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There is a progression of sin 
and David doesn't even notice 

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it. 
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He first saw when you're walking
around and then you accidentally

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see a naked woman. 
That is actually not sin. 

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That is actually not his fault, 
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naked woman, but it doesn't say 
that he saw a woman bathing. 

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It's only bad when you keep 
looking. 

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So he saw and then verse three, 
he sent, OK, there's a 

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progression that's worse. 
And then and then he he sent 

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someone to inquire, right. 
And then he sent somebody to get

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her in The Hebrew is directly 
translated. 

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He took her and then of course, 
the worst part, he slept with 

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her. 
He saw, he sent, he took, and he

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slept with her. 
In the middle of this, he even 

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got a reminder who the husband 
was because remember he said 

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someone to inquire about her. 
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Bathsheba? 
Isn't that the wife of Uriah? 

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So Uriah is mentioned in other 
parts of the Bible. 

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So you actually Uriah is 
somebody David would have known 

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very well there. 
There was a time when he was 

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running away from Saul and some 
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David from from danger. 
And Uriah was one of the men 

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that was part of the rescue 
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So Uriah has been faithful 
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David even became king. 
The servant goes, wait a minute,

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isn't that woman Uriah's wife? 
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her to me. 
There is a progression of sin 

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and he just keeps going along. 
The vast majority of us are 

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sitting here thinking, well, you
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This will never happen to me. 
I can never get there. 

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If you are thinking to that to 
yourself, I'm sorry to say, but 

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you just put yourself in the 
front of the line of spiritual 

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danger. 
The person who says that will 

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never be me is the person in 
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and sin. 
See, because sin rarely happens 

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with just just sudden fall. 
Nobody goes from faithful 

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servant and boom, destructive 
Sinner. 

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There's steps to it, and when 
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your guard is down, you take 
those steps and you don't even 

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know you're going in that 
direction. 

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Because comfort, success, it 
makes us prideful and we ignore 

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the signs. 
There's a progression. 

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Look, scent, take slept. 
Why not fight it at look? 

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Why not? 
Why didn't he just fight the 

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scent at look, what we have to 
do is check even the little 

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smallest movements of our hearts
and we cannot leave our hearts 

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unchecked. 
The famous quote by John Owen, 

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be killing sin or it will be 
killing you. 

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He's saying we cannot just 
control sin, manages sin. 

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He says we have to fight it. 
We have to be alert. 

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We have to be intentional about 
it, but when things are, you 

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have a crazy season of life and 
things are settling down, a 

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little uncomfortable, we start 
fighting sin and things just 

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creep up. 
We forget that we have to be 

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constantly suspicious of our own
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When you're angry, when things 
are unsettled, we have to be 

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first be suspicious of our own 
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Is this something me? 
Before you start blaming others,

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you got to be suspicious of your
own heart first. 

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But we don't do that when we're 
comfortable and then we let them

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grow and our hearts unchecked. 
Our only hope is sneaking out 

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our sin and going to God in 
repentance. 

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Our only hope is that to ask the
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sensitive to the warning signs. 
Our only hip hope is to be alert

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against sin at all times. 
OK, so how can we go from 

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faithful to destructive sin? 
We think we can control sin, and

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we put our guards down #2 we 
think we can keep sin private. 

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We think we can keep sin 
private. 

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Let's go to the next passage, 
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So. 
All right, it's stuck, I'll just

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turn around. 
Oh Nope, the woman conceived and

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sent to word to inform David I 
am pregnant. 

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Let's stop there for real quick.
So after 4 verses, right, David 

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might have seemed like OK, it 
was a one and done, it was a one

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night stand and OK, nobody knows
about it. 

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I'm good all right. 
In fact, he might have even felt

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like he felt maybe good about 
himself because most kings right

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when they take a woman, it 
doesn't matter if she's married 

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or not, it's his woman. 
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that woman go back to her 
husband. 

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So maybe David's like, OK, well,
you know, maybe I'm I'm I'm 

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better than others. 
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to stop right there. 
But that cover up is no longer 

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possible. 
It's no longer A1 night stand. 

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It's no longer a closed chapter 
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to David, I am pregnant. 
Oh, oh, Plan B OK, so now he has

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to do more things to cover this 
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So David sent orders to Joab. 
He's the commander in in the in 

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the war. 
Send me Uriah the hicite, the 

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husband. 
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When Uriah came to him, David 
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are doing and how the war was 
going. 

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Then he said to Uriah, go down 
to your house and wash your 

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feet. 
So Uriah left the palace and a 

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gift from the king followed him.
OK next. 

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But Uriah slept at the door of 
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servants. 
He did not go down to his house.

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When it was reported to David, 
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David questioned Uriah, haven't 
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Why didn't you go home? 
Uri answered David, the Ark, the

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Israel. 
Israel and Judah are dwelling in

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tents and my master Joab and the
soldiers are camping in the open

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field. 
How can I enter my house to eat 

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and drink and sleep with my 
wife? 

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As surely as you live and by 
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So David has a clever plan. 
OK, let's bring home Uriah. 

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Have him sleep with his wife and
then it will be his. 

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People will think it's his baby.
OK, all the cover up will be 

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complete. 
A little problem. 

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This guy is too faithful. 
He's like my soldiers, my my 

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commander. 
Everyone is on the in in the in 

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the field, in a tent. 
How can I go home to my wife? 

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How can I be in comfort? 
And then we didn't read it but 

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the next few verses David tries 
again but this time he gets him 

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drunk. 
But same thing Uriah just 

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drinking he does do, but he 
sleeps still on the floor. 

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It still doesn't work. 
He just thinks if I keep this 

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thin hidden I will be OK. 
If nobody finds out I should be 

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good. 
So now he has to go to Plan C, 

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and now it won't be pretty. 
We're not going to read it, but 

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perhaps it's a story that many 
of us know. 

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He sends Uriah back to the 
battlefield with the letter, a 

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letter to the commander Joab in.
In it. 

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It instructs Joab to send Uriah 
to to the front of the word. 

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There is most fierce battle. 
Essentially, David is arranging 

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Uriah to die. 
Adultery now became murder, and 

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it's not possible to send one 
man in battle. 

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It's too obvious. 
It's too fishy for for a king to

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say send Uriah to conquer the 
city of I like. 

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You can't send one man, you have
to send a group of men. 

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All of them went to battle just 
so they could die, and so the 

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King's sins could be covered up.
If you find yourself hiding sin,

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if there's something going in 
your life and you're ashamed and

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you don't want anyone to know 
and nobody knows about it, that 

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is the most dangerous place to 
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Because we know from Scriptures 
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And when I mean darkness, I mean
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asking anyone for prayer, not 
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confessing it to anyone. 
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conceived, it gives birth to 
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And when sin is fully grown, it 
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Sin doesn't just stay there. 
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darkness is not letting anyone 
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Your sin grows in darkness. 
It's hidden. 

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It will grow out of control so 
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revealed. 
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There's a long list of celebrity
Christians who have fallen 

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because the sins have gotten out
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read about it or hear about it, 
it's just crazy. 

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If you find yourself hiding even
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secretly at home, you, you're 
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or a husband and nobody knows 
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issue and you let nobody in, 
They will only grow in darkness.

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Let other people in. 
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the light, right? 
Let other believers in. 

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Let them pray for you. 
Let them support you. 

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However, in this story, you 
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that's exactly what happened. 
Like, he like, OK, but what 

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happened to David? 
He planned to have Yorak killed.

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up. 
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will no longer live in peace. 
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reign as a king dealing dealing 
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really deep personal sorrow. 
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you know, rape and murder, and 
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and he's running away. 
Rest baby dies and rest of his 

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life is no longer peaceful. 
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it doesn't mean you succeeded. 
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I'm good now. 
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sin. 
Always consequence of sin. 

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The restless nights, the 
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You're irritable, impatient. 
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Let's go to the last two, verse 
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When Uriah's wife heard that her
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mourned for him. 
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David had her brought to his 
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She became his wife and born him
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However, this is the key. 
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had done to be evil. 
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God knows about it. 
Nothing could be hidden from God

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when you're in sin. 
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and it's growing. 
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God. 
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As I was reading the story and 
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really like a one of those 
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famous stories. 
Oh, this person got rich and 

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famous and successful. 
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The end. 
That's not all these stories 

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end. 
I saw that movie about Queen. 

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Oh, successful, so talented. 
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I didn't see Michael Jackson's 
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I'm assuming that's the same. 
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And then he started buying up 
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and then he died. 
Those those stories all end the 

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same. 
It's tragic. 

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David kills Goliath and becomes 
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He's a hero. 
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murder, and his life spirals 
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His child dies, murder in the 
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Absalom tries to kill him. 
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And really the next sermon, 
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because we've talked about it 
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Next week's sermon is toward his
like, end, End. 

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It's like Bathsheba and then 
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The sad thing is our life is no 
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deserve the same ending. 
Yeah, we're not adulterers and 

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murderers perhaps, But you know,
Jesus raises the bar for 

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adultery and murder in the New 
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He said if you have hatred in 
your heart, that is murder. 

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If you have lust in your heart, 
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So yes, we are in fact 
adulterers and murderers, and we

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do deserve the same tragic 
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We do deserve the consequence of
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But for God's people, it is 
actually not one of those 

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Hollywood movies that end 
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The Gospel offers a rescue, a 
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And Davis finds that rescue as 
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Yes, his life was in turmoil. 
Consequence of sin cannot be 

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avoided, but we know somewhere 
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renewed, he was restored. 
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This is, I know that most people
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passage. 
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written about this. 
But God created me a clean heart

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for me and renew a steadfast 
spirit within me. 

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Do not banish me from your 
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Spirit from me. 
Restore the joy of salvation to 

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me and sustain me by giving me a
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This is written after Bathsheba 
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repentant of his sins. 
David is his sin and he clings 

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on to God and begs God, Lord, 
I'm a Sinner. 

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I want a new heart. 
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And he says the last thing I 
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depart from me because God's 
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He's like, I don't want that. 
I want your presence. 

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And Lord, because of sin, I am 
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I am sad. 
There's tragedy in my family. 

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But he says I want you to 
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It doesn't matter what you've 
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It doesn't matter what sins 
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Right now, God offers a rescue 
plan. 

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God offers a rescue from sad 
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What He offers you is a clean 
heart. 

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What He offers you is that He 
will be. 

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He will have your His presence 
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And when you come to Him in 
repentance, the joy of salvation

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will be restored in your life. 
It's true that there is no 

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hiding from sin, but there is a 
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It's the cross of Christ. 
David eventually found mercy in 

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God's forgiveness. 
Our hope, our only hope, is that

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Jesus died for all our all our 
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And his mercy is available for 
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Main point Destructive sin grows
when we try to control or hide 

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it, but mercy is found when we 
bring it into the light before 

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God. 
Let's take time to pray.