Sep. 27, 2020

This Week’s Teaching:

 1)  You Only

 Psalm 51:1-5:  Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions.  Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.  For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.  Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are proved right when you speak and justified when you judge.  Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

DQ 1) Why did King David say he had sinned only against God 

           when he had wronged several other people?

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2)  Multitude of Sins

 2 Samuel 11:1:  In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king's men and the whole Israelite army.  They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem. 

2 Samuel 11:2-5:   One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace.  From the roof he saw a woman bathing.  The woman was very beautiful, and David sent someone to find out about her.  The man said, "Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"   Then David sent messengers to get her.  She came to him, and he slept with her.  (She had purified herself from her uncleanness.)  Then she went back home.  The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, "I am pregnant." 

2 Samuel 11:14-17:   In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.  In it he wrote, "Put Uriah in the front line where the fighting is fiercest.  Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die."  So while Joab had the city under siege, he put Uriah at a place where he knew the strongest defenders were.  When the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of the men in David's army fell; moreover, Uriah the Hittite died. 

DQ 2) Identify how many people David wronged in his

          indiscretion with Bathsheba.

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_______________________________________________________________________________________3)  Consequences of Sin

 2 Samuel 12:9-10:   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.  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.

2 Samuel 12:13-14:   Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD."  Nathan replied, "The LORD has taken away your sin.  You are not going to die.  But because by doing this you have made the enemies of the LORD show utter contempt, the son born to you will die." 

DQ 3) What were the long-term ramifications of David’s sins?

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 4)  A Broken and Contrite Heart

 Psalm 51:7-17:  Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.  Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.  Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity.  Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.  Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.  Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.  Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will turn back to you.  Save me from bloodguilt, O God, the God who saves me, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.  O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.  You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. 

DQ 4) What does Psalm 51 reveal about the nature of God’s

           forgiveness?

DQ 5) Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord?

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