The Effects (sexual sin)

You may think,  that once you have confessed to your spouse your sexual sin, that finally you can close the book on the issue.  David who was know as man after God's own heart.

2 Samuel 11:1 says: “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.”

Right away, there’s something wrong. The verse tells us that in spring, kings go to war. But David’s not going. In the previous chapter David had just led his army over the Jordan River and on to victory over the Arameans.
Why the spring? Because the winter was a rainy season and it was just too difficult to move horses and chariots through the mud and water. So they didn’t go to war in winter, but waited ‘til spring. It was customary for the King to lead his troops into battle. But King David must have decided that the army didn’t need him…he was taking it easy. Of course, in springtime, a young man’s fancy might be turned to other things besides war, if you know what I mean.

The story continues: “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. Then she went back home. The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant”.

Here’s what David did wrong:
1)Bathsheba was married.
2) David knows whose wife she is, but selfishly has his way anyway. Then he attempts to deceive everyone by trying to get Uriah to spend the night with her after he has got her pregnant. So it would seem like she’s pregnant by her husband!
(Uriah shames David because Uriah is too honorable to sleep at home while his army is out fighting! He sleeps at the door of the palace, with the servants.)
David arranges for Uriah’s death. A total abuse of power. He can’t face Uriah, after what he’s done, so he has him killed, rather than admit his sin.
See a problem here, one sin leads to another sin and etc...

David doesn’t get away with it as far as keeping his dirty little secret. He certainly can’t keep it a secret from God. And God won’t let David get away with it either. Even though David commits a callous and heartless act in stealing another man’s wife and then having that man murdered, he is still Israel’s king and after he confessed it, he is forgiven.  But wait there is a price for his sexual sin.   David and Bathsheba and  child dies,  it does not end there  David also had sexual sin in his family for generations, had a daughter raped and a son rebel against him.  You are a FOOL if you think that your children are not going to suffer the consequences all because you were more passionate about an orgasm than Christ.  If this can happen to  a man whom God called a man after his own heart do not be a fool and think that there will be no price for our sexual sin. Family can be destroyed, ministries destroyed and all the people that are connected to your ministry to your marriage or just you.  Sexual sin, is not some dirty little word that only Christians utter to scare the liberal world, but it is real and its effects on the person and their family and friends is real also.  It is best that we do what David did not do, which is to flee from sexual sin.