There is No Limit to Where Sin Will Take You - Ryan Fullerton

Can I ask you this?

If you're hiding a sin,

have you ever had to sin more

to hide it?

And if you've hardened your
heart to sin and to hide it,

how do you know you'll be able to stop?

What if you keep hardening yourself?

Maybe you'll find yourself doing

things you never dreamed

that you were capable of.

Sin demands more,

and hidden sin demands
more sin to cover it,

and eventually David -

the man after God's own heart -

arranges a murder of Uriah.

You think David ever dreamed

he would become a murderer?

Verse 14,

"In the morning, David
wrote a letter to Joab -

(that's the general) -

and sent it by the hand of Uriah."

Uriah is holding in his hand

his own death warrant.

That's calloused.

In the letter, he wrote,

"'Set Uriah in the forefront
of the hardest fighting,

and then draw back from him

that he may be struck down and die.'

And as Joab was besieging the city,

he assigned Uriah to the place

where he knew there were valiant men

and the men of the city came out

and fought with Joab.

And some of the servants of David

among the people fell.

Uriah the Hittite also died.

Then Joab sent and told David

all the news about the fighting."

And David gets the news

that Uriah is dead.

The scramble is over.

The deed is covered.

David gives Bathsheba a minute to mourn,

and then he marries the poor widow.

Verse 26,

"When the wife of Uriah heard

that Uriah her husband was dead,

she lamented her husband.

And when the mourning was over,

David sent and brought her to his house

and she became his wife

and bore him a son."

The scramble worked.

We'll just tell people the baby
was born a little premature.

The conscience is still screaming,

but at least his sin is
not going to scream

into the city streets

when Bathsheba starts
wearing maternity clothes.

David can rest.

Except that David had forgotten,

or should I say suppressed

and swept under the rug of his mind

the fact that God knows

and God exposes.

Listen to this haunting last verse

in verse 27 -

last part of the verse.

"And she became his wife

and bore him a son -

(everything's covered) -

but the thing that David had done

displeased the Lord."

There is nothing more foolish in the world

than hiding sin.

You are hiding sin from the One

for whom there is no darkness.

Psalm 139, even the darkness

is as light to Him.

There's no place you can hide before God.

He knit you together in your mother's womb

and He knows the day of your death.

Before a word is on your mouth,

He knows it completely.

There's no hiding from God.

Isaiah 29:15,

"Woe to those who go to great depths

to hide their plans from the Lord,

who do their work in darkness

and think, 'who sees us? who will know?'"

Proverbs 5:21,

"Your ways are in full view of the Lord

and He examines all your paths."

Hebrews 4:13,

"Nothing in all creation is
hidden from God's sight.

Everything is uncovered and laid bare

before the eyes of Him to whom

we must give an account."

If you fear your wife's anger so much

that you could never tell
her what you've done,

then you have a super shallow view of God.

If you legitimize not telling your wife

about your infidelity

because you love her so much,

you have a terribly shallow view of God.

If you're more worried about
displeasing your parents

than your God,

then you have a very small

and unbiblical view of God.

If you think your boss's anger

or losing your job is worse

than God's discipline or God's wrath

then you need a greater vision of God.

David had forgotten God.

God had seen and God was displeased.

That is all that matters.

Immanuel, if we are not a people

who deal before the face of God,

then we are not God's people.

If we are not a people who understand

that all we do and have done and will do

happens before the face of God

and the most important thing in our lives

is to deal with that God

in integrity and truth and openness

then we are not the people of God.

We are simply one more
dead church on the corner.

Now what God does to David is amazing.

He does not strike him dead.

This excerpt was taken
from the full sermon:

"Secret Sins."