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The past 6 weeks we have been studying Faith that Works. Specifically, Faith that Works in the Face of …
- Failure
- Unanswered Prayer
- Love
- Abuse
- Divorce
- Fear
Last week was scheduled to be our last mid-week lesson in the Faith that Works series however, due to requests from many of you and others who have been listening to our services or teaching from the notes, we are going to continue for at least one more lesson before moving on to our next series.
This evening we are going to ask and answer the two important questions:
- What does God want me to believe?
- What does God want me to do?
… in the Face of Sin! – Faith in the Face of Sin
2 Samuel 11
1 ¶ It happened in the spring of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.
2 Then it happened one evening that David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to behold.
3 So David sent and inquired about the woman. And someone said, “Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”
4 Then David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her, for she was cleansed from her impurity; and she returned to her house.
14 ¶ In the morning it happened that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck down and die.”
16 So it was, while Joab besieged the city, that he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew there were valiant men.
17 Then the men of the city came out and fought with Joab. And some of the people of the servants of David fell; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
26 When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
27 And when her 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.
- In the Spring – Some seasons make us yearn for new things …
- David stayed home when other Kings went to war …
- The Ark was at the battlefield (2 Samuel 11:11)
- Bored, alone and estranged from the presence of the Lord
- David saw something new and exciting … Bathsheba bathing
- It was evidently Springtime for Bathsheba as well … Rooftop bathing?
- David and Bathsheba committed adultery – and then …
- David and Bathsheba conspired to murder her husband
- And then they married as if nothing unholy had happened
- But, God was displeased … You can read the rest of the story in
- 2 Samuel 12
- Nathan the Prophet with his story of the poor man’s lamb
- David’s heart smote him and he repented
- The death of their son - Sin cost - The death of God’s son
- A New Day for David and Bathsheba
- Psalms 51 – David’s Testimony of Faith in the Face of Sin
Psalms 51 NKJV
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, Blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I acknowledge my transgressions, And my sin is always before me.
4 Against You, You only, have I sinned, And done this evil in Your sight — That You may be found just when You speak, And blameless when You judge.
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.
6 Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts, And in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom.
7 ¶ Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me hear joy and gladness, That the bones You have broken may rejoice.
9 Hide Your face from my sins, And blot out all my iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, And uphold me by Your generous Spirit.
13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners shall be converted to You.
14 ¶ Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, The God of my salvation, And my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.
15 O Lord, open my lips, And my mouth shall show forth Your praise.
16 For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart — These, O God, You will not despise.
18 Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion; Build the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then You shall be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, With burnt offering and whole burnt offering; Then they shall offer bulls on Your altar.
- What does God want me to believe in the face of sin?
- He still loves me, even when He corrects me …
- What does God want me to do in the face of sin?
- Pray and Praise the Lord – even when He corrects me …
- Repent
- Teach and Turn Sinners to the love and forgiveness of God
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