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Introduction
This will be our last sermon about King David.
He was a mighty man, and truly a valiant leader.
He relied upon the Lord and was obedient to Him.
He wrote a good portion of the book of Psalms including Psalm 118, which is the longest Psalm and chapter in the Bible.
In this Psalm, he documents and compels the reader how they should get closer to the Lord, by spending time in His Word each day and meditating on it throughout the day.
David is called a man after God’s own heart (1 Sam 13:14).
He repeatedly led the Israelites into victorious battles against their enemies.
He was noble and honorable.
He is humble as he relies upon the Lord to conquer, like in the story of David facing the giant Goliath.
He was anointed by God.
He was a shepherd skilled in the protection and provision of a flock, which translated to his leadership style as well.
He was a talented musician and poet.
He was used by God to write most of the Psalms.
His son was the wisest man to ever live.
David was the greatest king that Israel ever had.
He was the epitome of the type of man we want our young men to look up to.
Being called a man after God’s own heart?
We should all strive for that title.
It means we are so obedient to the Lord that we take after God.
I want that for myself.
David is a good role model for us.
Today we’re going to be covering another important part of David’s life.
This first reading is from 2 Samuel 11:1-5.
David’s Big Sin
2 Samuel 11:1–5 (ESV)
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.
It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.
And David sent and inquired about the woman.
And one said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”
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.
And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, “I am pregnant.”
David was a rapist who used his power and authority as the king to require a married woman to have sex with him.
There are some scholars that claim Bathsheba was a seductress who went onto the roof with the intent to seduce David.
Folks, that is not what Scripture says.
It says David went looking.
She was in the privacy of her roof taking a bath when David looked, saw, and desired.
Even if she was a seductress, it’s still David’s fault for falling into adultery with her.
But no.
The circumstance is David pursued and got what he wanted.
In fact, it describes that Bathsheba, after being forced to sleep with her, washed herself of her uncleanness.
That’s not the action of someone who wanted this to happen.
There’s remorse.
She knows what happened was wrong, she never pursued it.
How could she say no to the king?
The king commands her to come to him.
She must obey.
He’s the king.
Her options are to obey the king and live, or disobey the king and possibly face consequences up to and including death to her and her husband.
Matthew Henry points out a few things that the occasion of David’s sin and what led to it:
1. Neglect of his business.
He tarried at Jerusalem.
When we are out of the way of our duty, we are in temptation.
What Matthew Henry is saying here is that this time is the time when kings lead their armies into battle.
Kings lead their armies.
Where is David this time?
He’s in the comfort and safety of his own home in the capital city.
2. Love of ease: idleness gives great advantage to the tempter.
David was sitting back and relaxing.
Proverbs 6:10-11 says, “A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.”
Essentially, don’t be lazy and push off your work, because it’s a slippery slope in which the lazy person finds themselves with nothing.
3. A wandering eye.
He had not, like Job, made a covenant with his eyes, or, at this time, he had forgotten it.
And observe the steps of the sin.
This goes for everyone, but especially men.
We need to guard our hearts and that includes guarding our eyes.
There’s a difference between seeing and looking.
Seeing happens innocently.
You can help, unless you walk around blind with your eyes closed, to maybe see something tempting.
It happens as a fact of having visual receptors located in the middle of our faces.
When we see, we don’t need to look.
Looking is where you pause and you take in that sight that tempts you.
The difference between looking and seeing could be a fraction of a second.
Maybe you see, pull your eyes away, but then you are drawn to look back again.
When you see, don’t look.
Try not to put yourself in a situation where you might see.
Seeing and not looking can still lead to sin in your heart.
If you see and your mind dwells on it and you start thinking about whatever it was that drew you in, then that is sin as well.
It’s my opinion that helping to mitigate temptation is something we can do for one another.
So not only should we seek to not be tempted, but also seek to not tempt others, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
See how the way of sin is downhill; when men begin to do evil, they cannot soon stop.
Matthew Henry and Thomas Scott, Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, 1997), 2 Sa 11:1.
David’s Coverup
Let’s pick up the story from 2 Samuel 11:14-17
2 Samuel 11:14–17 (ESV)
In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
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 Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew 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.
Again, Matthew Henry says it best when he says,
“Giving way to sin hardens the heart… Robbing a man of his reason is worse than robbing him of his money; and drawing him into sin, is worse than drawing him into any worldly trouble whatever.”
Matthew Henry and Thomas Scott, Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, 1997), 2 Sa 11:6.
2 Samuel 11:26-27 rounds out the story of David murdering Uriah and assault of Bathsheba
26 When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she lamented over her husband.
27 And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son.
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