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Chapter
7: The Faith of David
We will now take a look at the man after Gods own heart, David, and see what our reaction should be when we do fall into sin and are chastened by God for it. God sent the prophet Samuel to anoint David to be king over Israel. Samuel did not know David, who was the seventh and youngest son of Jesse. Samuel had been shown the first six sons and God had told him that none of these were the man He wanted to be king. 1 Samuel 16:7 NIV but the Lord said to Samuel, "do not consider 'his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart." 1 Samuel 16:11-13 NIV so he asked Jesse, "are these all the sons you have?" "there is still the youngest," Jesse answered, "but he is tending the sheep." Samuel said, "send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives." So he sent and had him brought in. He was ruddy, with a fine appearance and handsome features. Then the Lord said, "rise and anoint him; he is the one." So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the Lord came upon David in power. Samuel then went to Ramah. Acts 13:22 NIV after removing Saul, He made David their king. He testified concerning him: 'I have found David son of Jesse a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.' The Bible says of David that he was a man after Gods own heart. David was by no means perfect as you will soon see, he was an adulterer and a murderer. God had made him king and given him everything he desired. Where David was perfect is whenever God confronted David with a sin that he had become involved in, David was swift to repent and accept whatever punishment God decreed for him without whining about it. This account of the sin of David and how God dealt with him is a perfect example of how God deals with those who are the heirs of salvation. It shows how quick God is to forgive our sins, when we repent. Revelation 3:19 NIV those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent. The next few verses refer to God's dealings with the end times church, but they also show the way he gives time for repentance before he disciplines us as individuals. Revelation 2:21-23 NIV I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling. So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways. I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds. They also teach that if we do not quickly repent of our sins on our own, God will require us to endure some chastisement and earthly trouble for our sins. Notice too as we read the account of David's sin how closely these verses portray the punishment that bathsheba received. Keep the verses above in mind as you read the account of David's sin, repentance, and restoration to God. 2 Samuel 11:2-5 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, "isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (she had purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then She went back home. The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, "I am pregnant." David, when he found out that the woman was pregnant tried to cover up his sin by sending for her husband who was a soldier at war. 2 samuel 11:6-13 NIV so David sent this word to Joab: "send me Uriah the Hittite." And Joab sent him to David. When Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war was going. Then David said to Uriah, "go down to your house and wash your feet." So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him. But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master's servants and did not go down to his house. When David was told, "Uriah did not go home," he asked him, "haven't you just come from a distance? Why didn't you go home?" Uriah said to david, "the Ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents, and my master Joab and my Lord's men are camped in the open fields. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and lie with my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing!" Then David said to him, "stay here one more day, and tomorrow I will send you back." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. At David's invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master's servants; he did not go home. Uriah, the husband, by the design of God refused to sleep with his wife while he was home on leave. When David saw that this ploy had failed devised a plan to kill Uriah. 2 Samuel 11:14-27 NIV in the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. In it he wrote, "put Uriah in the front line where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die." So while Joab had the city under siege, he put Uriah at a place where he knew the strongest defenders were. When the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of the men in David's army fell; moreover, Uriah the hittite died. Joab sent David a full account of the battle. The messenger set out, and when he arrived he told David everything Joab had sent him to say. The messenger said to David, "the men overpowered us and came out against us in the open, but we drove them back to the entrance to the city gate. Then the archers shot arrows at your servants from the wall, and some of the king's men died. Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead." David told the messenger, "say this to Joab: 'don't let this upset you; the sword devours one as well as another. Press the attack against the city and destroy it.' say this to encourage Joab." When Uriah's wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him. After the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing David had done displeased the Lord. David killed Uriah and then took his wife and she became David's wife. The Lord was angry with David and sent Nathan the prophet to confront David with his sin. Notice how Nathan first tells David a parable concerning what David had done, and when David became irate over the parable, Nathan told him that he was the man who had done this thing. 2 Samuel 12:1-13 NIV The Lord sent Nathan to David. When he came to him, he said, "there were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other poor. The rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle, but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food, drank from his cup and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him. "now a traveler came to the rich man, but the rich man refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the ewe lamb that belonged to the poor man and prepared it for the one who had come to him." David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, "as surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die! He must pay for that lamb four times over, because he did such a thing and had no pity." Then Nathan said to David, "you are the man! This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. I gave your master's house to you, and your master's wives into your arms. I gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more. Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. Now therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.' "This is what the Lord says: 'out of your own household I am going to bring calamity upon you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight. You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.'" then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." Nathan replied, "The Lord has taken away your sin. You are not going to die. God did punish David with this that he told David he would do. David's son Absalom later rebelled against his father, tried to usurp the throne from David, and drove him out of the palace. Absalom then took some of David's wives on the roof of the palace and lay with them in broad daylight in front of all the people. David's son Absalom was then killed by David's army and David returned to the palace. God made the punishment fit the crime. God immediately forgave David of his sin when he acknowledged it, as far as salvation was concerned. But the earthly penalty for his crime still had to be paid. David would reap what he sowed. God also told David that the child he had conceived in sin would die. This was also part of Bathsheba's punishment. David already had many sons and daughters. She apparently had none, or if she did they are not mentioned in the Bible. 2 Samuel 12:14-18 NIV But because by doing this you have made the enemies of the Lord show utter contempt, the son born to you will die." After Nathan had gone home, the Lord struck the child that Uriah's wife had borne to David, and he became ill. David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and went into his house and spent the nights lying on the ground. The elders of his household stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he refused, and he would not eat any food with them. On the seventh day the child died. David's servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they thought, "while the child was still living, we spoke to David but he would not listen to us. How can we tell him the child is dead? He may do something desperate." David's servants were afraid that he might commit suicide, or go on a rampage when he found out the child had died. David looked at things differently than they did, he understood the ways of God. 2 Samuel 12:19-23 NIV David noticed that his servants were whispering among themselves and he realized the child was dead. "is the child dead?" He asked. "yes," they replied, "he is dead." Then David got up from the ground. After he had washed, put on lotions and changed his clothes, he went into the house of the Lord and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they served him food, and he ate. His servants asked him, "why are you acting this way? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but now that the child is dead, you get up and eat!" He answered, "while the child was still alive, I fasted and wept. I thought, 'who knows? The Lord may be gracious to me and let the child live.' but now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me." Notice that David said that he would go to the child someday. This indicates that those who die at an early age or are aborted will be saved. David looked on things as if he were viewing them from above, like God views them, when he was walking in the Spirit of God. How could David fall into sin then? The answer to this is that when a person is "born again," they now have two personalities, the old nature, and the new nature. Romans 7:18-25 & 8:1-2 NIV I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do, this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. So I find this law at work: when I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God--through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin. Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. These two natures war against each other in our bodies until we die. The new nature never sins, while the old nature desires nothing but sin. Sometimes one side is winning the war, and at other times it is reversed. We will not be totally free from the desire to sin until we receive our new bodies at the first resurrection. When we do sin, and allow the old nature to take over, God will send us chastening to get us back on the right track, just like he did for David. Even though we give in to the old nature at times, this does not mean we are saved and then lost moment by moment as we sin and repent and sin and repent again, over and over. God forgave us the eternal penalty for all of our sins, past, present and future, the moment we were "born again." When we fall into sin we are losing our rewards because we are doing evil rather than good, and we are making our stay on earth more miserable, because we will receive chastisement from God for it, if we continue in sin very long. 2 Samuel 12:24 NIV then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. She gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. The Lord loved him; Even after all the evil that David and Bathsheba had done, notice the forgiveness of God. He granted them another son, Solomon, who was to become the greatest king of Israel. Solomon did inherit his fathers trait for promiscuity though, and to a larger degree. Solomon when he became king took for himself 700 wives and 300 mistresses. Solomon will make it into the kingdom of God, but he is an example of one of those who though he was great on earth, will be one of the least in the kingdom of heaven. Mark 10:31 NIV but many who are first will be last, and the last first." Solomon, though he believed in God, did not lay up very much treasure in heaven. He spent most of his time and money for his own pleasure. Solomon, the great king of Israel, will probably be a doorman in the kingdom of God. 1 kings 11:1-4 NIV King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter--Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. They were from nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites, "you must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods." Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love. He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray. As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been. 1 kings 11:6 NIV so Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord; he did not follow the Lord completely, as David his father had done. 1 kings 11:11-13 NIV so the Lord said to Solomon, "Since this is your attitude and you have not kept my covenant and my decrees, which I commanded you, I will most certainly tear the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your subordinates. Nevertheless, for the sake of David your father, I will not do it during your lifetime. I will tear it out of the hand of your son. 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