The story of David and Bathsheba is the stuff movies are made of\u2014lust, adultery, premarital pregnancy, murder, and cover-up. And it looked like David was home free, except for one important detail: \u2018The thing that David had done displeased the Lord.\u2019<\/i> (2\u00a0Samuel\u00a011:27\u00a0NKJV) In the Bible, God refers to David as \u2018a man after His own heart\u2019<\/i> (1\u00a0Samuel\u00a013:14\u00a0NLT), but the same Bible says, \u2018Be sure your sin will find you out.\u2019<\/i> (Numbers\u00a032:23\u00a0KJV) <\/p>\n
So God sent the prophet Nathan to tell David, \u2018I anointed you king\u2026 Why then have you despised the Word of the Lord?\u2019<\/i> (2\u00a0Samuel\u00a012:7\u20139\u00a0NLT) Then God passed sentence: \u2018I am going to bring calamity on you\u2026 before all Israel.\u2019<\/i> (2\u00a0Samuel\u00a012:11\u201312\u00a0NIV) <\/p>\n
From that day on, tragedy and turmoil plagued David\u2019s family. On many levels, \u2018the way of transgressors is hard\u2019<\/i> (Proverbs\u00a013:15\u00a0KJV), not the least of which is that sometimes God takes away your peace so that you will acknowledge your sin. It took an unplanned pregnancy, the murder of an innocent man, a child\u2019s death, a prophet\u2019s persuasion, and the conviction of the Holy Spirit before David\u2019s heart softened and he admitted, \u2018I have sinned against the Lord.\u2019<\/i> (2\u00a0Samuel\u00a012:13\u00a0NIV) <\/p>\n
And when he prayed those words, God treated David\u2019s sin the same way He treats ours: \u2018If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.\u2019<\/i> (1\u00a0John\u00a01:9\u00a0KJV) As long as you keep excusing, defending, and rationalising your sin, God can do nothing for you. But the minute you confess it to Him, He will forgive you. Isn\u2019t that wonderful?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The story of David and Bathsheba is the stuff movies are made of\u2014lust, adultery, premarital pregnancy, murder, and cover-up. And it looked like David was home free, except for one important detail: \u2018The thing that David had done displeased the Lord.\u2019 (2\u00a0Samuel\u00a011:27\u00a0NKJV) In the Bible, God refers to David as \u2018a man after His own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}