Watch as Pastor Allen takes us through the next sermon in the Samuel Series, "Our Sins Will Find Us Out".

Our Sin Will Find Us Out
2 Samuel 11

11 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 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, 3 and David sent someone to find out
about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of
Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
1. Sin will cost you more than you want to pay.
 4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he
slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly
uncleanness.) Then she went back home. 5 The woman conceived
and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”
6 So David sent this word to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.”
And Joab sent him to David. 7 When Uriah came to him, David
asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war
was going. 8 Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house
and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the
king was sent after him. 9 But Uriah slept at the entrance to the
palace with all his master’s servants and did not go down to his
house. 10 David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” So he asked
Uriah, “Haven’t you just come from a military campaign? Why
didn’t you go home?” 11 Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel
and Judah are staying in tents,[ a ] and my commander Joab and my
lord’s men are camped in the open country. How could I go to my
house to eat and drink and make love to my wife? As surely as you
live, I will not do such a thing!”

12 Then David said to him, “Stay here one more day, and
tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem
that day and the next. 13 At David’s invitation, he ate and drank
with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah
went out to sleep on his mat among his master’s servants; he did
not go home.
2. Sin will take you further than you want to go.
14 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with
Uriah. 15 In it he wrote, “Put Uriah out in front where the fighting
is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and
die.”
16 So while Joab had the city under siege, he put Uriah at a place
where he knew the strongest defenders were. 17 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.
18 Joab sent David a full account of the battle. 19 He instructed the
messenger: “When you have finished giving the king this account
of the battle, 20 the king’s anger may flare up, and he may ask you,
‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Didn’t you know
they would shoot arrows from the wall? 21 Who killed
Abimelek son of Jerub-Besheth[ b ]? Didn’t a woman drop an upper
millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why
did you get so close to the wall?’ If he asks you this, then say to
him, ‘Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.’”
22 The messenger set out, and when he arrived he told David
everything Joab had sent him to say. 23 The messenger said to
David, “The men overpowered us and came out against us in the
open, but we drove them back to the entrance of the city
gate. 24 Then the archers shot arrows at your servants from the

wall, and some of the king’s men died. Moreover, your servant
Uriah the Hittite is dead.”
25 David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Don’t let this
upset you; the sword devours one as well as another. Press the
attack against the city and destroy it.’ Say this to encourage Joab.”

3. Sin will keep you longer than you want to stay.
26 When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she
mourned for him. 27 After the time of mourning was over, David
had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore
him a son. But the thing David had done displeased the Lord.

Psalm 32:1 “Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven,
whose sins are covered.”