November 30, 2025
Sermon Part 3B: The Story of David and Bathsheba: “Oh, the Trove of Treasure That Dwells Within the Truth!”
AND THE LORD SAYS, “DAVID THOU ART THE MAN!”
Numbers 32:23 declares, “Be sure your sin will find you out.” This means that any wrongdoing will eventually be revealed and have consequences in this life, or in the afterlife, and there are no exceptions. This serves as a warning that God sees and knows all things and that actions have repercussions, so hiding sin is simply futile!
King David decided for a season to hide his sins with Bathsheba, but later learned that reckoning with God is far better than trying to cover sin. For hidden within the Truth is a trove of treasure that both he, and every person, who finds themselves ensnared in iniquity can be made free and live in liberty.
Happy Sunday Saints of the Most-High God and Seasons Greetings!
As I have said throughout this Series, as we examine the story of David and Bathsheba we do so from God’s Perspective, through the Spirit of God, and not from human intellect and understanding.
Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock King David’s Sin Consciousness Would Not Stop!
Abraham Lincoln, the Sixteenth President of the United States of America once said: "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time." Lincoln was saying that while deception can be effective with some individuals or in certain situations, it cannot last indefinitely, as the Truth will eventually be revealed and understood by everyone. In King David’s case, for a season, he had been successful in hiding his sins of adultery with Bathsheba and murder of her husband Uriah from the people of his kingdom. David had despised the Commandments of the Law Moses, and had in selfishness chosen and decided to do what he wanted to do. But God is never mocked by a man’s actions; as all would come to light, and severe consequences would follow.
In II Samuel 11:27, regarding David and Bathsheba’s rushed union to hide her pregnancy, it states, “And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.” This Scripture caused me to pause and reflect on it, and two things jumped out at me.
First, I noticed from the time David and Bathsheba got married, until the child was born, God said nothing to David. God had not left David, He was just silent. Even though the “thing” David had done sorely displeased (angered) God, God took no action(s) against David until after the child was born. I believe God was allowing David “Time” to reflect on the seriousness of his sins, and to come on his own volition to a place of reckoning about his sins with God in Truthfulness. But, instead David chose and decided to continue in sin.
As Numbers 32:23 says, the sin a man commits will always find him, and then pay rewards of evil. Satan is the author of sin (evil) and when sin is committed that person enters Satan’s domain. Satan is the accuser of the brethren, and daily reminds God and the man and of his sin; accompanied with the relentless heavy weight of thoughts of blame, guilt, shame, and condemnation heaped upon the man. (Rev.12:10) Thereby, occupying a man’s thought-life (brain) with sin and shame. When a man’s thoughts are stuck on sin; as he thinks on sin, the more he will commit it. (Prov. 23:7)
Given that David was God’s Anointed servant and Covenant-Partner, Satan would continually assault David with guilt about the illicit affair and murder of Uriah, in which he would rehearse it over and over in his thought-life. While David would feel a sense of relief in knowing that his secret sins were unknown to the people of Israel, and he could move on with Bathsheba and a new baby (son); in his conscious and subconscious he was “haunted” with “blood-guiltiness!”
Saints, understand that a sinful conscience, or the awareness of one’s wrongdoing, can cause significant psychological and spiritual distress. Its effects can lead to a cycle of guilt, shame, and self-destructive behavior. But, on the other hand, it can also prompt repentance and positive change. A conscience’s influence can range from healthy remorse, to becoming hardened and desensitized over time.
David’s choice and decision to hide the sin would have the effect of David hardening his heart and drifting further and further away from True worship and communion with God. While during the period of God’s silence, David continued to rule as King of Israel, and likely continued ceremonious worship of God before the Ark of the Covenant and offering sacrifices, inwardly David’s heart was mired in sin, uncleanliness, and in need of cleansing.
Outwardly, before the people and perhaps even Bathsheba, David may have appeared to be happy and well-adjusted, but privately, and in the secret places of his heart he was a sinful- mess in the sight of the Only True God.
This would only sadden God the more, as David chose and decided not to reckon his sin with God. David had become “religious,” rather than enjoying True worship and a real relationship with the Only True God. Because of the sin hidden in his heart, he could no longer offer to God praise and dance with uninhibited joy and gratitude, as he had done when he led the procession of bringing the Ark of the Covenant into Jerusalem.
The Second thing I noticed in Verse 27, it says “…But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.” Pay close attention to this Saints. The Scripture says God was displeased with the “thing” David had done. It does not say God was displeased with David. God separated the sin action, the evil thing David had done, from the person David. In God’s eyes, David was still His servant, Anointed, Blessed, and His Covenant-Partner for eternity! Praise God, God is Faithful even when we are not! (II Tim. 2:13) God’s Plan of David ruling over the nation of Israel during the Millennial reign of Christ, when Jesus Christ establishes His Kingdom on earth had not changed.
From the Only True God’s Perspective, David was the person for whom He had chosen to be King of Israel. He had established the Davidic Covenant in which He Promised in part to cut off all of his enemies, make his name great throughout the earth and establish his kingdom forever. (II Samuel 7:8-13) Through the Law of Moses, which was kept along-side the Ark of the Covenant, God had made available to David (and every king who would rule over Israel) explicit instructions on how to conduct himself as king to ensure that his kingdom prospered and enjoyed longevity on the throne. Specifically, David was to live by Deuteronomy 17:16-20 all the days of his life:
16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
18 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:
19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:
20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
The Only True God had given David, as well as all of Israel, the choice, and freedom to decide, whether to choose life or death, blessing or cursing, as recorded at Deuteronomy 30:19-20:
9 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
20 That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
The Only True God had set up David to receive the same tenant blessings God reserved under the Abrahamic Covenant, recorded at Genesis 12:1-3:
Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
From the Only True God’s Perspective, the evil “thing” David had done was a waste of “Time,” and worthless toward fulfilling the divine Purposes of God for David and the people of Israel! The Holy Bible tells us that “Time” is a divinely ordained gift from God to be used wisely for His Purposes, which emphasizes an eternal perspective rather than a human, moment-by-moment experience. (Eccl. 3:1) God had established David as king to be an example to all nations of how serving the Only True God results in blessing and not cursing, life and not death. To love God wholly, to place no God beside Him, to obey his Voice and do all that He Commands would result in supernatural prosperity and longevity in the earth for David and his seed.
So while ensnared in inequity, David’s Time on earth was ticking away, and he had chosen to waste it in “foolishness.” He appeared willing to remain trapped in secret sin. God forbid! In David’s sin actions he had proven his “humanity,” for he gave witness that he was a “man” after God’s heart. Though in his heart He loved God, he possessed the same tendency of all human beings to play the role of hypocrite, as God had created Mankind from the days of Adam. In David’s heart, he truly loved God and intended to worship and obey Him in all things, but in his human flesh (carnal mind) he had the tendency to sin, and did so.
However, Praise God Saints, recall Deuteronomy 7:9, for even in our human frailties, the Only True God and Faithful God has an eternal well of “mercy” reserved for those who love him. Moses wrote:
Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
As God looked upon the heart of David, He could not leave His servant in a sin-stricken state. Follow me now Saints. As “a man after God’s own heart,” who had fallen deep into sin, God would have to make known to David’s heart the way to remove sin and its accompanying guilt and shame from himself. So that David could once again worship God in Spirit and in Truth. (John 4:24) Without exception, David’s heart would need to be full of Truth, and no lies, to enjoy true worship and fellowship with the Only True God.
More specifically, with God, David would have to discover and be taught lessons from “God’s own heart” on how to deal with sin and sin-consciousness through “confession” and “repentance of sin” motivated by a broken and contrite heart. Saint’s its vitally important to understand that before King David committed sins of adultery and murder, no person in the Old Testament had ever known confession and repentance of sin as a way to blot-out sin. Only through the shedding of the blood of animal sacrifices was there temporary forgiveness of sin, expressly carried out under the Law of Moses. However, David’s sin of adultery with Bathsheba, and murder of Uriah could not be absolved through animal sacrifice, as under the Law the penalty for adultery and murder was “death.” (Ex: 21:12,14, Lev.20:10, & Deut. 22:22)
Man’s days on earth are limited, and God did not want David to live out the rest of his years in the hands of evil, nor for his seed following after him to sit on the throne in unrighteousness. How could God continue to let the love between David the servant of God and Himself be sullied by sin? So after the child was born, God sent David a special Messenger with a clarion “Message.” From the days of Adam, when God’s man runs from Him, God’s Voice always inquires of his where abouts, and confronts him with Truth! (Gen. 3:9)
King David, Thou Art The Man!
When we are called of God into His Service we can try to run, but we cannot hide. Oh, what a blessing it is that the Spirit of God is always there to love, chasten, and reprove us of all wrongdoing. King David is credited with writing Psalm 139:7-11, which states:
7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
When the People of God find themselves ensnared in the secrecy of sin, God always has a person, or way, He uses to bless us with a Messenger of Truth. I call that person a “Truth Teller!” Truth Tellers come into our lives to help us see the error of our ways, to point us in the direction of godliness, and encourage us to get back up and walk upright before the Lord! This, was the case with David, as God used the Prophet Nathan to send David a Message of Truth.
A little background about Nathan, he served as a Prophet of God during both the reigns of King David and King Solomon. As Truth Tellers are, Nathan was a “blessing” to King David. He was a close and trusted friend of his. Nathan spoke Truth to David, even when that Truth was difficult to hear. He was loyal in his service to the King and faithful to God and His Word. These are all important traits to possess in any friendship. It says something that David and Bathsheba later named one of their sons “Nathan.” (I Chron. 3:5)
The first meeting between Nathan and David took place before the adulterous affair. In II Samuel Chapter 7 and also referenced in I Chronicles Chapter 17, David expressed a desire to build a Temple for the Lord. In Verses 2-3 of Chapter 7 of II Samuel, David shares with Nathan saying, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.” At first, Nathan encouraged David to move forward with whatever plans he had in his heart to build the Temple. But that night, the Lord spoke with Nathan the Promises under the Davidic Covenant, including this Message concerning the building of the Temple which he told to David:
“When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.”
He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. (II Sam. 7:12-13)
Later in the Chapter, we find after Nathan shared with David what God had told him, David put his plans for the Temple on hold and responded to God’s guidance with a prayer of gratitude. The second recorded meeting between David and Nathan was not so congenial. This meeting took place after the birth of David and Bathsheba’s first son.
In II Samuel 12, Nathan confronts David regarding his relationship with Bathsheba and the cover-up of their affair. The Lord had Commanded Nathan to share a story of a rich man who took and killed a poor man’s only lamb. David was justifiably “greatly” angered at the injustice and said to Nathan that the man responsible would “surely be put to death,” and would pay restitution four-fold because he had done this thing, and had no pity. (Verses 5–6).
Nathan then answered David saying, “Thou art the man!” (Verse 7). David had blood on his hands. He was guilty of killing Uriah and taking his wife Bathsheba as his own. Saints, I want you to listen to the Heart of God lament, through Nathan, the sheer blessedness God had bestowed on David’s life, and how displeased He had become with the “thing” David had done; recorded in Verses 7-9.
7 And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;
8 And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.
9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
God reminded David of how He had kept Covenant with Him by Anointing Him King over all of Israel, delivering him out of the hands of Saul, given him Saul’s house and by divine providence and justification for God’s rejection of Saul as king, had also given David his wives to protect and support. Then God said, “if that had been too little,” He would have given David much more!
But David’s failure to insulate his spiritual and natural house with the Law of God, enabled Satan to tempt him to commit adultery and plot and carryout the murder Uriah. Because the Law of God was not rehearsed in David’s heart, he chose and decided to lift himself above his own brethren, the very thing the Anointed king of Israel chosen of God was never to do. (Deut.17:20) By the consequences of David’s own actions, his days on earth could not be prolonged in his kingdom as God intended.
So God told David, “Thou Art the Man.” Meaning you have committed sin against God and the Truth is about to be revealed. Just hearing those words uttered prophetically from Nathan must have shaken David at his core. Social scientist note that when human beings are confronted with the Truth, a person might react with a range of emotions, including anger, embarrassment, defensiveness, or denial. A direct confrontation, such as this one between David and Nathan could trigger a defensive “fight or flight” response, where people lash out, try to discredit the Messenger, or offer false explanations to maintain their self-esteem or avoid shame.
In Nathan’s Message identifying David as the man, he was saying that God’s judgments were upon him. That everything David had been hiding in the recesses of his heart and mind were about to be revealed. Again Saints, this is a blessing for David that the Truth was being revealed. Nathan told all the evil David had done in the sight of the Lord, for He had killed Uriah by sword of Israel’s enemy the children of Ammon, and taken his wife to marry.
For this “thing,” God brought judgment upon David and his house, including the sickness and eventual death of the son borne to David and Bathsheba. Verses 10-15, contain the specific judgments God rendered against David and his house for the “thing” he did displeased God: murder and the taking of Uriah’s wife. Important to keep in mind Saints is God allowed David to “behold” (see and know in the Spirit/heart) the judgments, and David acknowledged and repented from his heart that he had sinned against God.
10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
11 Thus saith the Lord, (Behold,) I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
12 For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.
13 And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said unto David, The Lord also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
15 And Nathan departed unto his house. And the Lord struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.
In hearing the Truth about his sin, David had a choice and decision to make. He could have continued to lie about the sin and try to run away from God, or humble himself and acknowledge remorsefully the sin before God. In Verse 13, David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And, Nathan responded, “The Lord also hath put away thy sin: thou shalt not die.”
I believe David was so shaken by the revealing of the Truth about his sins that he actually “interrupted” Nathan’s pronouncement of judgment. As part of the judgment, Nathan was going to tell David that the Lord “also” had put away his sin, and that he was not going to die. This was a Prophetic Word; God knowing David’s heart would come to full contrition; that he would acknowledge his sins, repent, and ask forgiveness. In this part of the judgment God was making known to David that he had separated his sin actions from him, even before his oral confession of them. God knew David was in a complete state of condemnation over the sin, and allowed him to see in the Spirit his sins removed far from him/blotted-out, and that he would not die.
This is exactly what David did before the Lord. From a broken and contrite heart, David wrote Psalm 51 in response to the Prophet Nathan’s confrontation about his sins. Examine his personal profound expression of repentance; every word David wrote was a Prophetic utterance after God’s own heart regarding the removal of his sins, and the world’s sin, as a foreshadowing or prefigure of Christ’s atoning work on the cross for the sins of the world.
Again Saints, these are not David’s own self-directed thoughts and words petitioning God in repentance and asking forgiveness, but the Only True God’s Words Prophetically being proclaimed through David, for his sake, as well as every person who commits sin! Indeed, the Holy Ghost was upon David, as no other person in the history of the Old Testament had prayed such a prayer to God in regard to sin and asked mercy and forgiveness as this. In the confession of sin we see the supernatural blessing of God at work! David wrote:
51 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
When David acknowledged from his heart before Nathan that he had sinned against God, David reckoned Truthfully with God. Above in Psalm 51:6 and 17, God revealed to David the most important thing that He desired from him (and for that matter every one of us on earth) in order to come into “True” worship and fellowship with Him. This alone, “Truth.”
6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
God required of David to “behold” (see and know in his heart) that He desired Truth; acknowledgement and confession that “he was the man” who had sinned against God and His Word, and God alone was the only Person who could help him. Coupled with the Truth acknowledged in his heart, in Verse 17, God taught David a “Wisdom of God,” that the sacrifices of God that are well pleasing in his sight, are “a broken spirit and a broken contrite heart.”
Ummmm, as God examined David’s heart, He was teaching him that when a man sins against God, the state in which his heart must be, as David’s heart was: full of deep sorrow and remorse for wrongdoing, accompanied by humility and a sincere desire to repent and turn to do God’s Will. A broken and contrite heart signifies to God a readiness to yield one’s will to God, to recognize one’s own shortcomings, and to accept accountability and responsibility for sins. This profound internal state is considered a “significant sacrifice,” one that God will not reject, and leads to healing and spiritual transformation. Glory be to God!
It is in this place of Truth and heart-felt confession and repentance that God then reveals to David a “trove of hidden treasure” (Wisdom) found only in Truth. In Verse 6, God tells David to “behold” He has made known to him the “Wisdom of God.” The Wisdom of God is God’s perfect knowledge, infinite understanding, and divine ability to arrange and accomplish all things for the ultimate good, as seen in creation and unfolding in all of history. With a broken and contrite heart, David’s admission of sin and willingness to forsake them had opened his spiritual eyes wide-open to receive an abundance of God’s Wisdom; the trove of treasure hidden in Truth.
David discovered that merely making animal sacrifices would not and could not take away sin; he said, “or else I would give it.” (V.16) But he said, the Sacrifices of God that are pleasing in His sight are when a man’s heart is full of Truth (whether good or bad) and fully committed to obeying the Will of God. (Ps. 51:6) When David reached this point he was then able, in the Spirit, to see the “Wisdom of God” concerning how God had dealt with his sins, and David had been given a foretaste of how God through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ’s life on the cross would deal with the sins of Mankind past, present, and future.
So David, in the Spirit, throughout portions of Psalm 51 declares the Wisdom of God: What He sees God doing with his sins, and petitions God to perform these works accordingly within his heart and mind of the soul. David cried out to the Lord writing:
*Through multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
* Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin
* Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow
* Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities
* Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
* Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation
David then discovers and affirms in portions of the Psalm, the Wisdom of God concerning “restoration” of the heart of His servant to right-standing with God, and a desire to teach all people who are ensnared with iniquity the ways of the Only True God. David wrote:
*Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
* Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
*Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
*O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
Furthermore, in Psalm 32:1-11, God gives David Wisdom concerning the spiritual state of all those whose sins have been forgiven, and shares his personal testimony about how his sins were blotted out by the Only True God; and that he lived in unspeakable joy afterwards. He wrote:
Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
5 I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
6 For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
7 Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about.
11 Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
Though in no way do we celebrate the sins David committed, with great joy and praise we thank the Only True God that through the calamity of judgement of iniquity, God made away for David, and for us all, to escape eternal disunion with God. Through David’s shortcomings, God teaches that when we sin and fall short of the mark, we are to acknowledge and repent of our sins and iniquities and not hide them. We are to confess our transgressions unto the Lord, for through Jesus Christ and His finished works on the cross, He has already forgiven our sins, iniquities, and transgressions. (Rom. 5:8, 10:8-12, & I John 1:5-10)
In Verse 6 of Psalm 32, God speaking through David said “For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when though mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.”
In Verses 8-9, God speaking through David instructs that He teaches us the way that we should go in life; to obey the Truth, God’s Word. And, exhorts us to willingly submit to God’s guidance, rather than stubbornly resist like an animal (horse with a bit) that must be forcibly controlled. As human beings, and more importantly the children of God, we have been given the gift of human reasoning and understanding to choose and make decisions voluntarily rather than forcing God to use bits and bridles in the form of discipline or adversity. All the paths of the Wisdom of God are good and pleasant. (Prov. 3:17) His Commandments are not grievous. (I John 5:3)
Truly, it’s through God’s loving Kindness and Longsuffering that the world, and people therein, are not destroyed. The heart of God longs for all men to come and reckon with Him about their sins, as David did. So that He might meet them in Truth and show them that His Wisdom is full of power to bring salvation and restoration to their lives through faith in Jesus Christ. The Apostle Peter wrote at II Peter 3:9:
The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
The Truth is we all have sinned against God, and without Him we are nothing, lost, trapped in our sins and headed for eternal destruction and damnation. But God’s desire is through the sacrifice of Jesus’ blood on the cross, for all people to repent of their sins and be saved and not face eternal damnation. There is no greater pleasure we can give to God than to walk in Truth. Jesus Christ said at John 4:23-24 (NIV)
Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.
As we submit our lives to walking in Truth, and obeying God’s Word, we also walk free from sin and its severe consequences. We can then teach others as David did, saying at Psalm 103:12, “As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.” Moreover, as we choose and make the decision to walk in Truth, we sincerely worship Him in love and God reveals to us hidden Wisdom that brings forth supernatural blessings in every area of our lives. King Solomon, David’s son pinned Proverbs 4:7, Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. We lay hold on God’s Wisdom from beholding and living continually with Truth in our hearts.
Oh how we love the Only True God and Jesus Christ, who has through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross fulfilled the Davidic Covenant and established with us the New Covenant. Wherein God hath said at Hebrews 10:16-18:
16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
As born-again Christians, thank God for his great mercy and grace, that as we “behold” (see and know) our hearts, we can confidently acknowledge and confess with our mouths that there is no sin, iniquity, and transgression within us. The blood of Jesus Christ as washed us from all sin and we are kings and priests of God the Father. (Rev.1:5) Only God’s Word, the Truth abides in our hearts, and with great joy we shout that we are the redeemed of the Lord and live in everlasting victory. And, God has given to us the assignment to teach sinners the way of the Only True God so they may be converted unto Him. God’s Will is good, perfect and acceptable, as it always accomplishes its task no matter the devices of Satan.
While the sinful actions David chose and decided to carryout caused severe negative consequences in his life and house, which we will cover in detail next week, God used his imperfections to accomplish His divine Purpose; that all men would seek after and find Salvation through Truth in the heart reckoned with the Only True God and Jesus Christ the Lord. Isaiah 1:18 says:
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Amen, for the preaching of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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