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The Early Rain Evangelistic Revival

Eric Walsh

Digital Rooftops

Science of a Side Piece

Confession of a Godly Sinner

Ambassadors of a Dying Legacy

Re-Education of Moses

Father God, we thank you for this opportunity to study your word once again.

Make me just a nail upon the wall, Lord, a rusty, sorry nail.

Upon thy nail eyes that you hang a portrait of Jesus Christ so that I am not seen tonight.

Instead, Father, let us hear a word from the throne room of grace.

This is our prayer in Jesus's precious and holy name.

So we've been following our A-con drama, right?

Our soap opera, as we say in the States, is a very interesting soap opera, actually.

And it is based on the story of David and Bathsheba.

So the story takes this interesting turn where David now has been living with Bathsheba as his wife for a while.

David thinks he's gotten away with murder.

He thinks he's gotten away with everything.

He thinks nobody knows, but of course people are murmuring around Jerusalem.

Somebody, their servants in the castle, or in the palace, they would have seen things, but they didn't know what's really going on.

So, in a scene, 1 of my favorite scenes in the entire Bible is this scene.

2 Samuel 12, and verse 1, it says, and the Lord sent Nathan unto David, came unto him and said unto him, there were 2 men in 1 city.

The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds.

But the poor man had nothing save 1 little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up.

And it grew up together with him and with his children, and it ate of his own meat, fed him out of his own food, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and his lamb was like a daughter to the man.

There came a tribe unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him, but took the poor man's lamb and dressed it for the man that was come to him.

So the parable is that there's a rich man, a poor man, and has blocks and herds and tons of stuff that he can kill and eat.

There's a poor man who just loves a lamb.

You know, I don't really get it, but he's trying to make a point.

So I guess you just got to figure it like that.

I don't really hang out with too many lambs in my life.

The Bible says in the parable that the lamb is like 1 of his daughters so the rich man has a visitor that comes to visit and in the parable that Nathan is telling to David there's a reason Nathan is using the parable.

The rich man goes to where the poor man is, takes his little ewe lamb, this fat lamb that he has, and kills it and feeds his traveler, even though the rich man has plenty that he could have killed to feed the traveler.

When David hears this, David is a fair man, that's 1 thing you gotta give him.

David's anger was greatly kindled against the man.

So David jumps up off of his throne, he's ready to fight.

And he says to Nathan, as the Lord lives, the man that has done this, verse 5, the man that has done this thing shall surely what?

Shall surely die, and he shall restore the lamb fourfold because he did this thing and because he had what?

So David comes off the throne, he's like what?

He's gonna die and before he dies, he's gotta pay him back 4 times what he took.

The next verse is 1 of the most killing verses in all of scripture.

It says this, 2 Samuel 12, 7 says, and Nathan said to David, thou art the man.

In other words, you are the man in the story, David.

You're the rich guy with all the stuff and the other guy is the guy you killed who you took his wife.

Now what you have to understand is that when, see what happens is when you think you've gotten away with sin, when you think you've gotten away with murder, in this case literally David thought he got away with murder, and you're confronted with it, a lot of the normal human response is to become offensive.

It's to make excuses, to defend yourself, to say you weren't there.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

It's not my fault that Uriah got murdered and killed in a battle.

Some live in a war, some die in a war, as we told the messenger.

But in this case, David's response is different.

David says, before David gets to speak anymore, in verse 7, the rest of the verse 7, Nathan says, thus said the Lord God of Israel, I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul, and I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah, and if that had been too little, I like this, what God says to David, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.

God says, it's not even just that you had so much.

God says, if it wasn't enough what you had, had you asked for more, I would have given you more.

God says, so the idea that you needed to take somebody else's life and kill him is absurd because we had the kind of relationship where if you said, listen, Lord, I want more than what I have.

Nathan the prophet says wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord to do evil in his sight.

Thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword and has taken his wife to be thy wife and has slain him with the sword of the children of Amnon.

3, you killed him with our unclean, even enemies, sword.

Then Nathan begins to give David all the top ones.

Now, therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house because you have despised me and has taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.

Thus saith the Lord, behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house.

This is what happens with his son Absalom later on.

And I will take thy wives before thine eyes and give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of the sun.

For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.

If I had time and I was doing the rest of the series, it would be very relevant when we get to David's children and the effect this has on them.

Number 1, 4 of David's own children would die or suffer, Right?

The baby that Bathsheba has, the first baby dies, Absalom dies, his daughter is raped by 1 of his sons, that son is killed.

Absalom leads a massive rebellion against him, the warden never leaves David's house, his wives are publicly violated by his own son Absalom, and everyone in Jerusalem would see David running like a coward from his own son.

The consequences of his sin are enormous.

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