INTRODUCTION:
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Let’s ask God to
speak to us today…
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Segway: - David’s Sin 2 Samuel 11-12
Step to piano side:
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In 2nd
Samuel 11 we find King David guiding an attack against Rabbah from his palace
in Jerusalem. One hot spring evening he
rose from his bed and took a walk on the palace roof. As he strolled along a bathing woman caught
his eye. He sent for her, took what he
wanted, and that was that.
Walking back to the middle…Turn and
return as you say
Then came the
message, “I am with child.” It was time
for a cover up. Her husband, Uriah, was
a loyal officer involved in the attack on Rabbath. After David saw Uriah’s high integrity would make
a cover up impossible, David sent secret instructions to General Joab to launch
a skirmish in which Uriah was sure to die. After the respectable seven days of morning, David
took Bathsheba as a wife, she bore a son, and
that was that.
Walk back to the middle and pause…
“But…
the thing that David had done displeased
the Lord.” (11.27b)
Continue to far organ side
So the Lord sent
Nathan, prophet and counselor to King David, with a story about a case of hard-hearted
injustice. (12.1)
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A rich man had a
great number of flocks and herds
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A poor man with
one pet lamb bought, nourished, and kept as a family pet
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Rich man had a
visitor, was unwilling to use one of his lambs
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Took poor man’s
lamb
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He paused for
David’s response
Move toward the middle saying…
So the shepherd-king’s
anger boiled up. The heartless
selfishness was inexcusable and worthy of death! He commanded the hard-hearted rich man give a
four-fold restoration. (5-6)
Stop and looking into the camera
Nathan’s gaze on
the king sharpened. “Ah–ta ha–ish!!”
YOU are the man! (12.7)
Thus says the
Lord,
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I anointed you
king over Israel,
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I delivered you
from Saul,
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I gave you his
house,
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I gave you his
kingdom,
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I would have
given you more if that had been too little.
“Why have you despised the commandment of
the Lord to do this evil in His sight?”
(9)
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It is often
argued that if David had been on the job with his troops, he would have avoided
this whole sorted scene.
We could rehearse
the plethora of commands that he broke.
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Don’t murder.
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Don’t commit
adultery.
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Don’t steal.
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Don’t lie.
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Don’t covet. Etc…
We could discuss
the reasons his sin was particularly egregious.
We could talk
about the dynamics and principles of temptation.
But, we could do
all these things and still completely miss the core issues of David’s sin.
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The
core issues of David’s sin (and ours) are laid out for us in Romans 1:20.
18 For the wrath of
God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men,
who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19
because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to
them.
20 For since the
creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being
understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so
that they are without excuse, 21 because,
although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but
became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of
the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man--and birds and
four-footed animals and creeping things.
24 Therefore God also gave them up to
uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among
themselves,
25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie,
and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed
forever. Amen.
2
Samuel 12.
7 Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man!
Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I
delivered you from the hand of Saul.
8 ‘I gave you your master’s house and your
master’s wives into your keeping, and gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that had been too little, I also would
have given you much more!
9 ‘Why
have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in His sight? You
have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be
your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the people of Ammon.
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God had given David so much and he should have
been thankful and content. (7-8)
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David did not reverence God, but despised his
commandment.
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David went off blindly to fulfill his desires like
a thoughtless animal.
→BIG IDEA:
We need a heart realization of
our grievous offences against
our just and merciful Creator.
Read
Psalm 51
→1. The Mercy of
God
Psalm 51
1 To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David when
Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
Have
mercy upon me, O God,
According to Your lovingkindness;
According to the multitude of Your tender
mercies,
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The opening plea,
have mercy, is the language of one who has no claim to the favour he begs. (the
paradox of the prodigal’s words, ‘Father…I
am no more worthy to be called thy son.’)
Kidner--TOTC
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Luke 15 ---Parable of the Prodigal Son and
Loving Father
→2. Sin
The three words for sin in verses 1-2
that are repeated through the next verses teach us about the nature of sin.
A.
Broken Relationship with God
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“Transgression”: פֶּשַׁע pešaʿ: a breach of relationships
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The fundamental idea of the root is a breach of
relationships, civil or religious, between two parties. [1]
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“Conviction of sin is essentially an awareness
of a wrong relationship with God.” --JI Packer—E&SofG
B.
Our Sinfulness
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Iniquity
עָוֹן avon: to bend, twist, or distort
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From this primary notion it derives the sense
“to distort, to make crooked, to pervert”: “He has made my paths crooked
(Piel)” (Lam 3:9): “I have … perverted (Hiphil) what is right” (Job
33:27)[3]
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Conviction of sin always includes conviction of
sinfulness. Sinfulness is a sense of one’s complete
corruption and perversity in God’s sight,
and one’s need or what Ezekiel called a “new heart”, and in our Lord, a new
birth
C.
Specific sin-s
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Sin
חָטָא chata‘, chatta'ath : to miss a mark or a way
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The root occurs about 580 times in the Old
Testament and is thus its principle word for sin. The basic meaning of
the root is to miss a mark or a way.
[4]
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Conviction
of sin always includes conviction of sins.
→3. My Personal
Responsibility
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Look at the language of personal
responsibility.
v.1-- My transgressions
v.2-- My iniquity
MY sin
v.3-- I ACKNOWLEDGE MY
MY sin
v.4--I SINNED
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We must “own”
our sins and (regardless of what others may have done) our responsibility.
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We must not diminish the seriousness of them
before God.
“David called sin what it was—not
weakness but wickedness, not an accident but an atrocity.” --S. Lawson
→APPLICATION: “There is a difference between admitting sins
and confessing sins.” --W.
Wiersbe
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When you share the Gospel and there is no
indication that the Lord is not convicting
them of sin, the rest of the presentation is primarily educational.
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To “confess” means to “say the same thing” to
agree with God about your sin. Anything
less is to deny His justice and diminish Christ’s death and resurrection.
→4. Restoration
Read and review briefly pointing out…
1. that God is the agent. It is not self reliant reformation or just
trying harder .
2. the transformational
nature. We need a new heart, a new man.
A.
From Unclean to Joyful (vv. 7-8)
B.
From Condemned to Renewed (vv. 9-10)
C.
From Rejected to Restored (vv.11-12)
→5. Testimony
A. Speak His praise
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v.13 teach, sinners converted
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vv 14b, 15
tongue, lips, mouth
B. Keep and humble and contrite heart
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broken
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contrite
The verb appears only in laments and is consistently used of one who is
physically and emotionally crushed because of sin or the on slaught of an
enemy.[5]
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“God
resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble." James 4:6; 1 Peter 5:5 quote Proverbs 3:34
→BIG IDEA:
We need a heart realization
of our grievous offences against
our just and merciful Creator.
→APPLICATION: If we confess our sins He is faithful and
just to forgive.
The Gospel is for believers. We need a heart that is tender and repentant.
→The Gospel:
Quick review of the Gospel
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God: Have you submitted to your Creator and Lord
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Sin: Do you see your sin as God does?
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Christ: Christ was sacrificed and rose to open the way
to God.
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Response:
In repentant faith, call out to God.
[1]
G. Herbert Livingston, “1846 פָּשַׁע,” ed. R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer
Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke, Theological
Wordbook of the Old Testament (Chicago: Moody Press, 1999), 741.
[2]
G. Herbert Livingston, “1846 פָּשַׁע,” ed. R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer
Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke, Theological
Wordbook of the Old Testament (Chicago: Moody Press, 1999), 741.
[3]
Carl Schultz, “1577 עָוָה,” ed. R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer Jr., and
Bruce K. Waltke, Theological Wordbook of
the Old Testament (Chicago: Moody Press, 1999), 650.
[4]
G. Herbert Livingston, “638 חָטָא,” ed. R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer Jr.,
and Bruce K. Waltke, Theological Wordbook
of the Old Testament (Chicago: Moody Press, 1999), 277.
[5]
Herbert Wolf, “428 דָּכָה,” ed. R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer Jr., and
Bruce K. Waltke, Theological Wordbook of
the Old Testament (Chicago: Moody Press, 1999), 189.
