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This chapter - it starts out 2 Samuel 11.

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In my Bible, it's got 
a subheading entitled,

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"David's Great Sin."

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David's Great Sin.

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And the first three words: 
"Then it happened..."

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I come back to this chapter

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whenever I read this chapter,

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whenever I come upon this chapter

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I just... I just...

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recoil.

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I just read it and feel,

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David, my dear friend,

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I am so sorry for you.

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And you just think,

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O God,

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keep us.

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Keep us.

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Men, women, older men, older women,

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younger men, younger women,

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all of us.

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Well, I tell you, David - 
he conquered a Goliath.

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But that enemy there was nothing

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compared to the one that got him.

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These fleshly lusts are...

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they are a bigger giant than Goliath.

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And you look at David's life.

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And you can't believe it happened.

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You know, "then it happened."

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You can't believe it happened.

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As David, you know, is set before us,

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he was a standard.

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He was an example of 
godliness and righteousness.

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Always being set forth.

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He was a man after God's heart.

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He was a man who in such a rare way

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was a man who sought after God's heart

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and had intimacy with God.

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He was a man who was in love with God

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and had a passion for God,

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who thirsted for God

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like the deer pants for the water brooks.

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And yet, it happened.

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How can it be?

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How can it be?

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God is just so transparent.

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He put it in there.

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It's in the Bible.

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Written down for our instruction.

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Written for our learning.

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It's written for our admonition.

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It's written for our warning.

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It's written that we might take heed

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and not fall into the same miry clay

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and horrible pit.

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It's written for our benefit.

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It would take more than one hand to number

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the pastors and pastor's wives

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that I know of

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that have been destroyed -

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ruined, their work, their ministry,

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their reputation has been ruined

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by this sin right here.

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And it's just "an ox to the slaughter."

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It's that type of thing 
we're looking at here.

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Satan knows if he cannot 
get us with a sword,

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then he'll do it with a smile.

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That's the case of Baal of Peor

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and Balaam's counsel to Balak.

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He told him how he could get at him.

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You couldn't conquer him with a sword

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because God was with him

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like the horns of a wild ox.

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And so here's what you do...

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bring some women in.

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That led to their defeat, their downfall.

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We ought to be warned here

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to hate sin and to love righteousness.

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It didn't make any difference

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that David was about maybe in his 50's.

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I mean, it was not 
a case of youthful lust.

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It doesn't matter that the body

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is drying up a little bit.

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Still, the thing we're 
dealing with is in the mind.

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And that's where Satan's workshop is.

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And so, young? Old? 
It doesn't matter, does it?

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It's still something that 
we must fight Amalek

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to the very end.

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And we either kill it or it will kill us.

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There is no way that we can satisfy lust.

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There is nothing that will do it.

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It is just out to get you.

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It's out to devour you.

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It will take you right down.

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There is nothing that will satisfy it.

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It didn't matter whether he had 100 wives.

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Sin and lust cannot be satisfied.

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It refuses to be satisfied!

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There is only one thing 
that can be done with sin

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and that's kill it!

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And it didn't matter that he had had

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all these other victories.

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Victories over Goliath.

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It didn't matter that 
he was a great warrior,

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that he was outstanding,

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he was a man of repute.

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It didn't matter that he had slain -

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Saul his thousands,

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David his ten thousands.

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It didn't matter that he had 
attained that success in that area.

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In other words, the point here is

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that we are obliged before God

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and for our own soul to watch,

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watch, watch to the very end.

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To the end.

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He who endures to the end...

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And he walked around on the roof

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of the king's house,

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and from the roof he saw a woman.

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"He saw..."

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Man fell with a look.

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It says she saw that the 
fruit was good for food.

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Man fell with a look

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and he is saved by a look -

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looking to Jesus.

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And so here he saw a woman.

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Do we realize?

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I think we do -

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the power of the lust of the eyes.

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How great a forest was set aflame

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by such a little fire.

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Just a look.

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And a look led to an inquiry

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and an inquiry to an invitation

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and on and down in went

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resulting finally in much death.

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Here's where it began:

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A look.

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I mean, here's a man whose conscience

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was so sensitive.

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He was smitten in his heart

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when he just snipped Saul's robe.

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Here his conscience

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was already hardened and seared.

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And he tries to cover it up.

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And the Lord sent Nathan.

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God uses different means, doesn't He,

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to come after us, to recover us.

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In the case of Peter,

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it was a rooster's crow

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and a tender look.

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In the case of Job,

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it was a majestic revelation.

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In the case of Jonah,

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it was some kind of a plant.

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Here God sent a prophet -

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a man with a word for him.

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And Nathan, you can imagine,

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it was a bit of a challenge.

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A bit of a daunting thing for him

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to go and reprove this king.

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He finally tells him in v. 7,

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You are the man I'm talking about.

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And David was smitten and repented.

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V. 13, "I have sinned against the Lord."

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And Nathan said to David,

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"The Lord has also taken away your sin

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and you will not die."

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So, David was spared

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and you can understand the overflow

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in Psalm 32,

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"How blessed is the 
man whose sin is forgiven,

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whose iniquity was covered."

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David was spared, but 
there were consequences.

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There was much death

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resulting from his sin.

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Incredible.

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You remember that story about the man -

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the mountain climber -

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who was up there alone

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and a big rock fell on his 
arm and pinned him?

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And he waited for some days.

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Couldn't get free

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and finally took his knife

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and cut his own arm off.

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And so the Lord says it's better

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that you enter into life

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without a member of your body

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than to be thrown whole into hell.

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We will not be sorry

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for dealing radically with sin.

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We will not be sorry

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for dealing radically with sin.