{"id":7914,"date":"2023-05-30T11:26:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T15:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=7914"},"modified":"2023-05-30T11:28:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T15:28:49","slug":"disobedience-deception-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=7914","title":{"rendered":"DISOBEDIENCE, DECEPTION & DISCIPLINE\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Story of David<\/b><\/h1>\n

(Sermon series)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u00a0by Rev. Richard Jones<\/b><\/h2>\n

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DISOBEDIENCE, DECEPTION & DISCIPLINE\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

2 Samuel 11 – 12:10<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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EYES IN THE WRONG PLACE<\/u><\/strong>
\n2 Samuel 11:1-5 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n1\u00a0 In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.
\n2\u00a0 It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king\u2019s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. 3\u00a0 And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, \u201cIs not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?\u201d
\n4\u00a0 So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house.
\n5\u00a0 And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, \u201cI am pregnant.\u201d<\/p>\n

1 Corinthians 10:12 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n12\u00a0 Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.<\/p>\n

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PLAN IN THE WRONG DIRECTION<\/u>
\n<\/u>\u00a02 Samuel 11:6-13 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n6\u00a0 So David sent word to Joab, \u201cSend me Uriah the Hittite.\u201d And Joab sent Uriah to David. 7\u00a0 When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab was doing and how the people were doing and how the war was going. 8\u00a0 Then David said to Uriah, \u201cGo down to your house and wash your feet.\u201d And Uriah went out of the king\u2019s house, and there followed him a present from the king. 9\u00a0 But Uriah slept at the door of the king\u2019s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house. 10\u00a0 When they told David, \u201cUriah did not go down to his house,\u201d David said to Uriah, \u201cHave you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?\u201d 11\u00a0 Uriah said to David, \u201cThe ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.\u201d 12\u00a0 Then David said to Uriah, \u201cRemain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back.\u201d So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. 13\u00a0 And David invited him, and he ate in his presence and drank, so that he made him drunk. And in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.<\/p>\n

Proverbs 28:13 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n13\u00a0 Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.<\/p>\n

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STRATEGY IN THE WRONG CHARACTER
\n<\/u>2 Samuel 11:14-18 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n14\u00a0 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
\n15\u00a0 In the letter he wrote, \u201cSet Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die.\u201d 16\u00a0 And as Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant men.
\n17\u00a0 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.
\n18\u00a0 Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting.<\/p>\n

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WORDS IN THE WRONG ATTITUDE<\/u>
\n<\/u>2 Samuel 11:22-25 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n22\u00a0 So the messenger went and came and told David all that Joab had sent him to tell. 23\u00a0 The messenger said to David, \u201cThe men gained an advantage over us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate. 24\u00a0 Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall. Some of the king\u2019s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.\u201d 25\u00a0 David said to the messenger, \u201cThus shall you say to Joab, \u2018Do not let this matter displease you, for the sword devours now one and now another. Strengthen your attack against the city and overthrow it.\u2019 And encourage him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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ACTION IN THE WRONG WAY<\/u>
\n<\/u>2 Samuel 11:26-27 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n26\u00a0 When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she lamented over her husband.
\n27\u00a0 And when the mourning 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.<\/p>\n

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PARABLE OF SINFUL BEHAVIOR<\/u>
\n<\/u>2 Samuel 12:1-6 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n1\u00a0 And the LORD sent Nathan to David. He came to him and said to him, \u201cThere were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor.
\n2\u00a0 The rich man had very many flocks and herds,
\n3\u00a0 but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children. It used to eat of his morsel and drink from his cup and lie in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him. 4\u00a0 Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the guest who had come to him, but he took the poor man\u2019s lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.\u201d 5\u00a0 Then David\u2019s anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, \u201cAs the LORD lives, the man who has done this deserves to die, 6\u00a0 and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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PRONOUNCEMENT FOR SINFUL BEHAVIOR<\/u>
\n<\/u>2 Samuel 12:7-10 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n7\u00a0 Nathan said to David, \u201cYou are the man! Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, \u2018I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
\n8\u00a0 And I gave you your master\u2019s house and your master\u2019s wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more. 9\u00a0 Why have you despised the word of the LORD, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
\n10\u00a0 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.\u2019<\/p>\n

Psalm 51:1-10 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. 2\u00a0 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! 3\u00a0 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. 4\u00a0 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. 5\u00a0 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. 6\u00a0 Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart. 7\u00a0 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8\u00a0 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice. 9\u00a0 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. 10\u00a0 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.<\/p>\n

Psalm 51:16-17 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n16\u00a0 For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
\n17\u00a0 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.<\/p>\n

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