It seemg a bit weird writing that. It’s usually Good Monday Morning To You!! I am still not feeling the greatest, but at least I can function. Have you ever felt bad but could not specify why? Sometime you just feel yucky and you cannot explain it. If you asked me where I felt bad, I couldn’t be specific; sometime you just feel horrible. Oh well, listen at me going on. How are you? I hope each of you is doing well and feeling fine..
I was going to tell you why I lately am being called the duck man. No, I do not waddle nor quack. It’s a good story, but I’d rather write it this coming Monday so that I can do the story justice. Instead, I’ll post the notes for last Sunday’s message and leave it at that.
The sermon is also now on youtube, or you can access it easier from my facebook page. Either way, I hope you’ll watch it. Perhaps you can print out the notes and follow along. To view the message on YouTube go to www.youtube.com. From their home page type in Friendship Harmony Baptist Church and hit enter. Then simply scroll to the video you would like to see. As I said, you can also view it from facebook, but I do not know how to tell you to do it. I’ll find out and let you know next time we meet here in the blog.
David, What Were You Thinking?
2 Samuel 11-12 :various
By: Vic Cooper
After all David had experienced with the LORD, the closeness, the blessings, what was he thinking when Bathsheba first came into his sights?
David would say:
I. “I thought she was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen“.
11:2
A. 1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
B. Lust tempted him. James 1:14-15 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. [15] Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
1. Lust can only tempt you if you allow it.
II. “I was the King. I could have anything, or anybody I wanted.”
11:3,4
A. In sending for Bathsheba, David was following a tradition
of his time.
1. People of that day would get up at sunrise, then
usually take an afternoon nap, and get back up in the
cool of the evening.
B. Bathsheba wanted to be wanted.
1. She knew David’s routine, bathed in a spot where she
knew he would see, and wrote a real life script for
As The World Turns.
2. “… the pride of life…” 1 John 2:16
III. “I knew for both our sakes this had to be swept under the
rug: at any cost” 11: 8-17
A. His reputation was at stake.
B. They would be killed. Adultery was punished by
death.
1. Executing the King would be difficult if not impossible,
but he would have been known as “a son of death”
which would have rendered him ineffective, especially
when he ruled in capital cases.
IV. “I thought everything was done” v26,27
Nathan approached him a year later.
A. Numbers 32:23 “…be sure your sin will find you out.”
B. What made “the man after God’s own heart” do it?
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
1. ACC Who can know it?—It even hides itself from itself; so that its owner does not know it. A corrupt heart is the worst enemy the fallen creature can have; it is full of evil devices,—of deceit, of folly, and abomination, and its owner knows not what is in him till it boils over, and is often past remedy before the evil is perceived.
V. “Finally, I came to my senses.” 2 Samuel 12:13,14
A. David acknowleged his sin.
B. God commutes the death sentence on David, but exacts
it on his son.
VI. “I repented” Ps 51
A. David uses four words in the first four verses to confess
what he had done.
1. transgressions = rebellion
2. iniquity = perverseness
3. sin = offence
4. evil = wickedness
VII. David, what were you thinking after your rededication to the
LORD?
A. Psalm 32:1-2 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. [2] Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
B. He would again turn his heart to God and say, “Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.” Psalm 119:37
Hopefully we will get back on track and have the blog posted next week when it is supposed to be. Have a good rest of your week and I’ll see you next Monday Morning With Pastor Vic!!!
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