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Trouble at Home

This text explores the disastrous effects of David's sin, including marital infidelity, death of a child, rape and incest, murder, conspiracy, and rebellion. It emphasizes the law of harvest: we reap what we sow, and the wages of sin is death.

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Trouble at Home

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  1. Trouble at Home Life of David – Part 13 October 10, 2007 2 Samuel 12-16

  2. The cause of the family’s troubles…

  3. The cause of the family’s troubles… DAVID’S SIN “Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house… Behold, I will raise up adversity against you from your own house” 2 Samuel 12:10-11

  4. “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.” Galatians 6:7-8

  5. “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.” Galatians 6:7-8 Law of harvest = WE REAP WHAT WE SOW

  6. “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.” Galatians 6:7-8 Law of harvest = WE REAP WHAT WE SOW “The pain of harvest eclipses the pleasure of the planting”

  7. Why the consequences last for life? Didn’t God forgive David? What about 1 John 1:9? “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9

  8. Focus on forgiving sin or PREVENTING sin?

  9. Focus on forgiving sin or PREVENTING sin? “Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.” Romans 6:11-13

  10. Focus on forgiving sin or PREVENTING sin? “Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,” Hebrews 12:1

  11. Consequences of David’s Sin

  12. Consequences of David’s Sin • Marital infidelity– 2 Samuel 16:21-22

  13. Consequences of David’s Sin • Marital infidelity– 2 Samuel 16:21-22 • Death of a child – 2 Samuel 12:15-18

  14. Consequences of David’s Sin • Marital infidelity– 2 Samuel 16:21-22 • Death of a child – 2 Samuel 12:15-18 • Rape and incest – 2 Samuel 13

  15. Consequences of David’s Sin • Marital infidelity– 2 Samuel 16:21-22 • Death of a child – 2 Samuel 12:15-18 • Rape and incest – 2 Samuel 13 • Murder – 2 Samuel 13:23-30

  16. “Polygamy is just another word for ‘dunghill’. David trampled down the first and best law of nature in his palace in jerusalem and for his trouble he spent all his after-days in a hell upon earth. David’s palace was a perfect pandemonium of suspicion, and intrigue, and jealousy, and hatred – all breaking out, now into incest and now into murder. And it was in such a household, if such a cesspool could be called a household, that Absalom grew up and got his education…”

  17. Consequences of David’s Sin • Marital infidelity– 2 Samuel 16:21-22 • Death of a child – 2 Samuel 12:15-18 • Rape and incest – 2 Samuel 13 • Murder – 2 Samuel 13:23-30 • Conspiracy/rebellion – 2 Samuel 15:2-14

  18. Consequences of David’s Sin • Marital infidelity– 2 Samuel 16:21-22 • Death of a child – 2 Samuel 12:15-18 • Rape and incest – 2 Samuel 13 • Murder – 2 Samuel 13:23-30 • Conspiracy/rebellion – 2 Samuel 15:2-14 End result???

  19. Consequences of David’s Sin • Marital infidelity– 2 Samuel 16:21-22 • Death of a child – 2 Samuel 12:15-18 • Rape and incest – 2 Samuel 13 • Murder – 2 Samuel 13:23-30 • Conspiracy/rebellion – 2 Samuel 15:2-14 End result??? MISERY – 2 Samuel 18:32-33 Law of harvest = we reap what we sow

  20. “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.” Galatians 6:7-8

  21. “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.” Galatians 6:7-8 “For the wages of sin is death” Romans 6:23

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