Looking Contextually! King David, desiring the lovely Bathsheba, commits a terrible crime so that he might take another man’s wife as his own.
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Rooted and Grounded in Love
2 Samuel 11:1-15
One of our very own United Methodist Ministers made the news this week. He was accused of indecent exposure.
The Minister admitted that he was indeed guilty of the offense but thought that his position as a religious figure should allow him grace and that the law enforcement officials should have allowed him to move on without reporting the incident. However, the article reported there were others who were accused of committing the same offense, and the officers dealt with them according to the law.
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Looking Contextually! King David, desiring the lovely Bathsheba, commits a terrible crime so that he might take another man’s wife as his own. |
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Should King David be allowed to use his position and power in this manner? To murder and take a man’s wife without being brought up on charges? |
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While David is guilty of great sin, he was also Israel’s greatest King, and also deeply beloved of God. Due to his greatness and his endearment to God, shouldn’t the powers that be simply look the other way and allow the King room to do as he wishes? |
Rooted and Grounded in love!
Thanks to Almighty God. His amazing love will not allow His people to excuse ourselves as “I’m ok, you’re ok.” You see, “sin does not end our relationship with God.”
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David’s relationship with God and with God’s servant Nathan, God’s preacher, who was formidable enough to tell the King, “Thou art the man,” and David’s ability to admit, “I have sinned against the Lord.” But Nathan said to David, “The Lord hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.” |
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David’s basic spiritual greatness stands most clearly revealed in his ability at not attempting to evade personal responsibility. “Heinous as was his double crime, he but exercised dictatorial powers in behalf of self-advantage, a common procedure devoid of ethical sensibilities.” |
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The point of this biblical narrative is not the gravity of David’s sin, but his sincere acknowledgement of its gravity. Thus was reached a new high in concept of the individual responsibility of all men, regardless of position or prestige, to become obedient to the ethical requirements of a holy God. |
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For us there is a “King of Kings and Lord of Lords” and though earthly, “We must learn by reading God’s Holy Words (the Bible) to live by the laws of the Kingdom in which there are not and czars, but we all are subjects. |
Praise God’s holy name, Amen.
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