#Nofilter - David
Have you ever stumbled trying to run after Jesus?
In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 11:1
Sometimes we stumble when we are not where God wants us to be.
So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Galatians 5:16
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,
2 Samuel 11:2
Our eyes must turn from alluring objects that come into sight.
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
Sin cost us more than we ever budgeted for.
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. David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” So he asked Uriah, “Haven’t you just come from a military campaign? Why didn’t you go home?” Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents, and my commander Joab and my lord’s men are camped in the open country. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and make love to my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing!”
2 Samuel 11: 6-11
Stumbling is a gradual process.
You have two options when you fall.
Option 1: Stay Down
Option 2: Get Back Up
Why?
Why should you get up?
It doesn’t matter what you have been through or what has happened. What matters now is what you do after you have fallen.
Hold on to the father’s hand as he picks you, dusts you off and restores you.
When God restores you, he doesn’t restore you to the way you were before you fell. God’s restoration process makes you better than before.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
2 Corinthians 5:17