- People get mad when I suggest that Bathsheba sinned as well, but she does commit adultery. David was not her husband. She was married to Uriah the Hittite.
- People get mad at the suggestion that Bathsheba had any fault. They say she had to do it. She was forced into it.
- They say that she could have been killed if she didn’t obey the king. What’s worse sin or death?
- Isn’t Jesus worth dying for? We have been so trained in just asking for forgiveness as if sin isn’t such a big deal, that we don’t see sin as bad enough to being willing to die to avoid it.
- Sin is death. We have to know that sin is
- Romans 6:23 says that the wages of sin is death. We are paid with death for our sins. Death is what we are owed for our sins.
- Jesus died to free us from sin, not only to cover our sins, but to free us from the grip of sin.
- Romans 8:1 does not say that we are not under condemnation if we are in Christ Jesus. No, it doesn’t. Go look it up. What does it say?
- It says that those who do NOT walk according to the flesh are no under condemnation if they walk according to the Spirit.
- Walking in sin is walking in condemnation. Condemned, as in death sentence, as in hell.
- We don’t get to walk according the lusts of the flesh.
- Ephesians 5 tells us that people such as fornicators, the unclean, and the covetous have no part in God’s inheritance and instead will receive God’s wrath. That’s death, destruction, hell.
- We don’t know what happened between David and Bathsheba, what Bathsheba’s response was.
- What we do know is that Bathsheba gets pregnant at a time of the month when she shouldn’t have gotten pregnant if this all happened without some time passing. God’s hand was in that.
- Nathan the prophet only confronts David. David is forgiven, but he and Bathsheba both suffer the loss of that child.
- Bathsheba also suffers the loss of her husband. David, however, suffers for the rest of his life because of it with troubles caused by his sons.
- Bathsheba, on the other hand, becomes a queen and has another son who becomes king. She is forgiven and God redeems the sin.
