David’s progressive desensitization, relaxation, fixation, and rationalization set him up for one of the greatest falls in history — and his degeneration. “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’” (vv. 4, 5). David was unaware he had stepped off the precipice and was falling, and that reality would soon arrive — the bottom was coming up fast. We are all familiar with David’s despicable behavior as he became a calculating liar and murderer in arranging Uriah’s death to cover his sin with Bathsheba. Suffice it to say that at this time in the king’s life, Uriah was a better man drunk than David was sober (v. 13)! The mind controlled by lust has an infinite capacity for rationalization.
Men, we must understand that David would never have given more than a fleeting glance to Bathsheba if he could have seen the shattering results. I believe with all my heart that few, if any, would ever stray from God’s Word if they could see what would follow.
A year later David would repent under the withering accusation of the prophet Nathan. But the miserable consequences could not be undone. The record of the tragic fall of King David is God-given and should be taken seriously by the Church in this “Corinthian age” as a warning regarding the pathology of the human factors that lead to a moral fall:
- The desensitization which happens through the conventional sensualities of
culture.
- The deadly syndrome which comes through moral relaxation of discipline.
- The blinding effects of sensual fixation.
- And the rationalization of those in the grip of lust.
In David’s case the cycle included adultery, lying, murder, familial degeneration, and national decline. The pathology is clear, and so are the horrible effects of sensuality. Both are meant not only to instruct us, but to frighten us — to scare the sensuality right out of us!
ALMIGHTY GOD HELP US IN EVERY WAY, SELAH!
Evangelist Eric Musa:
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