He had it all and... POOF!

 

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2 Samuel 12:5 David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, “As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this must die! 6 He must pay for that lamb four times over, because he did such a thing and had no pity.”

7 Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. 8 I gave your master’s house to you, and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you all Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more. 9 Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 10 Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’

 

 

 

He wasn’t doing what he was supposed to be doing: Honor your wife, go to work, work hard, spend time with your kids, go to church, get involved in ministry, read and pray and obey.

He looked too long.

He acted on his his mindset… his mindset was from what he looked at. What your focus is on is what your future is on. 

He did not repent but rather tried to cover his sins.

He covered his sin with more sin. 

He tried to make it right without repentance (he marry’s her)

 

But here is the point… we all have struggles, hard times, ups and downs… but in most mens lives there comes a time when everything aligns… LIFE IS GOOD! 

AT THAT VERY MOMENT YOU MUST RECOGNIZE YOUR PROPENSITY FOR SIN IS AT ITS GREATEST.

 

Have you stopped at all for a minute and wondered if the officer who had his knee on the neck of George Floyd has had the same thought at King David… If I had only… If I had only not done that.

Think of the dominoes that tipped on King Davids life… sheer chaos. Family strife, rape, murder, betrayal, for generations. 

AND THIS DECISION WAS MADE AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS CAREER AND LEGACY.

 

You must recognize Gods favor is many times recognized by satan as the red carpet the devil is waiting for to saunter up and offer you the most delicious sin available. To press the easy button on your temptation list… 

So you are the king, invincible and untouchable… full of victory and Gods favor…. Oh and you like naked wet women with huge breasts and her husband is not home and you have all the power to make it happen…. Here is the easy button. 

 

And it’s over - everything is gone, poof, like a fart in the wind! 

 

2 Cor. 10:3 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. 4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 6 And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.

 

Wuest: We order up our choices before we ever get tempted. 

 

I will be honest, I have a few friends that I have thought I would love to be in there footsteps. They pastor large churches that are growing, they have amazing worship, they get to preach and teach and lead a very young and on fire staff. They use state of the art equipment and technology and they get paid really really well. They have amazing marriages and to be honest their wives are easy on the eyes… and they walked off with their aerobic instructor and threw it all away.

Again being honest I have said “I would have never blown that lead”. But unless I am ordering up my choices and my steps… unless I understand that it starts in my mind when everything is going good… I am the first one to be fooled regarding my own life.