OUR SINFUL LUSTFUL HUMAN NATURE

PROCLAMATION

“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, ‘She is 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.  (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.)  Then she went back home.”  2 Samuel 11:2-4 (NIV)

EXPLANATION

It was time to go to war, but this time King David did not go with the Israelite army, he chose to remain in Jerusalem. (2 Samuel 11:1)  While walking around on the rooftop patio of the palace, David saw a beautiful woman bathing, probably on the roof of her home.  After he found out who she was, David sent for her and slept with her.  He let his lustful human nature take control and he sinned.  Actually, David compounded the first sin, lust, with another sin, adultery, and then yet another sin, murder.  David had her husband killed so that the sin which he had committed with Uriah’s wife, and her subsequent pregnancy, would not be discovered. (2 Samuel 11:14-17)  David’s actions displeased The Lord God and he would pay for his sins. (2 Samuel 11:27)

APPLICATION

David was a man after God’s own heart, (1 Samuel 13:14) but he was human, he was a man, and like all men he was a sinner. (Romans 3:23)  Here he let his lust for Bathsheba get the best of him.  David was not where he was supposed to be, he was idle, he had a wandering eye, he did not suppress his sinful thoughts, he acted on them.  We all have weakness for one sin or another, and a sin is a sin.  We are more likely to fall into temptation when we are not where we are supposed to be.  There is an old saying, “An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.”   Occasionally we have sinful thoughts (Proverbs 23:7 and Matthew 5:28) and at times we act on those thoughts thereby committing another sin.  That is why we need to pray and ask to be forgiven for our sinful thoughts, words, and actions.  We also need to ask The Lord God to create within us a clean heart and mind, (Psalm 51:10) and for Him to guide and direct us. (Proverbs 3:6)