Hey, welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. What's happening, folks? It's Tuesday the 13th. Tuesday the 13th. Dun. Yeah. There's not, it's not a big deal. Not a bad day. Yeah. No, not on Tuesdays at least. Hey, you went to a concert recently? I did. How did that go? I expect it went fantastic. Went to go see Forrest Frank with my two oldest and my wife. Wow. So we saw that the tickets were selling. They're resale Tickets. Tickets

we're going for thousands. They, some of them were, yeah. What's up with Forres? Why does everybody love Forrest Frank?

I think talk about that. His music is just easy to listen to. It's super catchy. It's not super complicated. It's, his songs are short, so it is not a big investment. Should we do them for worship? I don't

know,

was

down, but now

oh or no, ls? Yeah. No, I just, he's churning out a song like every other day. Like it's, and they're

good too. They are. They're good. He's catching on sec in a secular environment. He is. Yeah. It's not just the Christian, which is what I find so fascinating. Whenever there's a crossover artist, you have to say what is capturing people's attention. Yeah. I think part of it is he's so optimistic. They're upbeat songs with upbeat messages that are in a world where everything is doom and gloom and. You know this is going wrong and there's microplastics and everything. It's nice to be like, man, I'm about to have a good day.

That's that. I just was thinking about that. 'cause he did reels where he sat on a park bench with a sign that said, if you're having a bad day, sit down. Yeah. And random people would sit down and put the headphones on and he did play on that song. Yeah. And they would start listening and start smiling and okay.

Yeah, he's a, he's striking gold with a wide ver so not just Gen Z or Gen Alpha, but he's hitting a lot of different demographics, which is so fascinating when you have an artist like that. It's special. Now my question is he's gonna be around for five, 10 years or is he gonna be like a Johnny come lately. So he's already in his thirties, which I didn't realize. He's old

man. Yeah, dude. And time to pass a baton. He went on his first tour, I guess last year and we didn't go to that one. And I remember Josh being a little bit upset 'cause he was like, man for said, he doesn't know how long he's gonna tour because he's got a family. Like he's got a wife and his kid and so he just doesn't know that he really wants to do this very long. And I was like, I bet you it, at least he'll do. And so he's coming back around. So we're going as we're recording this, we're going tonight on Saturday, but it's Tuesday now. So I'm, I hopefully the concert was fantastic.

Yeah. Yeah.

If your voice is totally shot, I'll know you had a good time. There we go. I I, yeah don't grade it on that. If Josh's voice is totally shot, then I don't know, man. It was a good time.

I think you'll be screaming at the top of your lungs

for Yeah. Man, it's over in Fort Worth,

though.

It's, that's a hike. It's the Dickies Arena over there. That is a

hike. Now we drove to Fort Worth recently. Yeah. To go see one of Adam's concerts. So Adam plays trumpets for those of you who don't know, and he's part of the regional band. And so the Salina team drove or not drove they performed at a competition in Fort Worth. And I'm like, man, that took me a solid hour to get, oh yeah, maybe it was closer to 45. I can't recall. But it was definitely no. I take it back. It was an hour, I remember it was an hour there and an hour back. Yeah. And that was taking the toll roads.

Yeah.

Whew.

Yeah.

So if the sermon was, if I was dreary or a little tired on Sunday, that, that's why, 'cause we, 'cause you got home at 4:00 AM Yeah. You guys were partying hard. Almost. Almost, yeah. Because you gotta get food after a concert. You know that right? Do you, you do because you're hungry after putting in all that effort. And you don't wanna buy food at the venue. No. 'cause that's gonna be ridiculous. So you, you go to the drive through, you get some fast food, Mexican, and then because you ate that, the night goes poorly. Because you know what? You just ate not gonna, it's not gonna do well. And so then you have a terrible night of sleep and then you go to church and preach. So God bless you. We're getting dinner before the concert, so hopefully that'll work. You're gonna need some after too. For sure.

Hey it is the 13th and why that matters to you, it may not too much except that a month from today we're gonna be at the Rangers game. And so June 13th, we're going as the church family to watch them play the White Sox, and it should be a great time. We're gonna tailgate ahead of time, so your ticket is gonna include the ticket. For entrance into the game as well as the dinner that we'll have there together beforehand. And we've got a t-shirt that we'll be having for the the event too. So a month out, make sure that you are signing up for the Rangers game. Should be a great time as a church family. Alright, let's jump into our text. We've been forecasting that things are about to go bad for David, and you probably already know this and we were just talking about this. This is a familiar passage in the life of David. You think about different things with David and Goliath. David and Bathsheba is probably the number two thing that comes to mind when you think of David. And so this is familiar ground in Second Samuel, chapter 11 and 12 here. And yet it's good for us to read it again and it's good for us to come back to it again. And the Apostle Paul, I think I said the writer of Hebrews the other day, and I was off on that, but the Apostle Paul is the one in Corinthians who says, Hey, God wrote these things down for us for our instruction. And he's referring to the Old Testament here. So there are things here for us as New Testament believers. To be able to look at and learn from and understand. And one like this, some of the lessons are just low hanging fruit. The lessons of purity, the lessons of battling temptation and fighting sin, the lessons of covering up sin. Hopefully not the lesson of do not Murder, I hope. Let's pray that everybody on our team got that one down. Never know. But there's things for us to note here and observe and say, okay, this is a good reminder for me. Even just the idea that we, we are, but a sliver of a hair breath width away from falling ourselves. That if we look at this and go, this would never be me, then that's where we have to be the most careful. Let him who stands take heed lust, he fall. And so we need to be careful. You often tell the students that they're one dumb decision away from ruining their entire life. I do. And that's not just true for them. That's true. All I it of us. I to, yeah. Yeah.

I look in the mirror, I tell myself all the time, rod, you're just one dumb decision away from ruining your life. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't

do it. Yeah. This is gonna be familiar. The story of David Bathsheba is one that even the secular world knows pretty well. And then the story of Nathan and the confrontation of David afterwards in two Samuel ch chapter 12 is one that is familiar and yet it's good for us to look at that. And then what always strikes me is just the way that David is broken in just a moment's notice. He falls. By going up and lingering on the rooftop. But then when Nathan comes back to him and he's listening to Nathan's story and he's en raptured with Nathan's story, and then the, you get to the culmination when David goes, the man deserves to die. And Nathan says, you are that man. And then immediately David is broken. It's like the spirit of God just wrecks him in that moment. And that's something that is painful. And that was miserable. And that is just it's crushing. In fact, he describes that in some of the Psalms we're gonna look at, I think, in tomorrow. And yet it's also such a grace of God that he does this. And it's such a good thing when the Spirit brings conviction in our life and we need to respond to that conviction like David does. We need to not try to shove that conviction away or ignore the conviction or. Try to justify our sin. We need to be able to be with David and just be broken in the face of our sin. The way that David is here, David responds well. Now this is gonna set and chain set in motion a chain of events for the rest of David's life that are not gonna go well. But there is something that is, is good for us to observe in the way that David is broken and does confess and does acknowledge his sin when Nathan confronts him.

Absolutely. And let's be clear here this passage. I don't know, I wince when I read it. I don't like it for obvious reasons. There's so many different areas here that just cause me to grimace as I'm like, ah, I know how this goes. I don't wanna see this again. But it's so good for you. Number one, let's understand here that David's sin. DA Davidson is grievous, but David's repentance is what gives us confidence that he is a true believer. To your point, what you just said, when he's confronted by Nathan, he's willing to confess and say, yeah, that's it. It's almost like it's superficial. Hi. His covering of sin was like, I'm covering it, but barely. All Nathan had to do is just. Point to the sin and say, there it is. And he's yeah, you got me. I'm red handed. When you sin, one of the temptations is that you're gonna hide just like David. You're not gonna wanna tell people, you're just gonna keep it to yourself and hope that no one finds out. But the Lord knows. And the Lord, if he loves you, will want to uncover your sin so that you can repent of it. The Lord will never let you get away with sin. Christian, be sure of that. Your sin is grievous to the Lord, and because he loves you, he won't let you keep it hidden. Better for you just to acknowledge it on the front end. Don't make him discipline you by sending someone like Nathan to offer you more conviction. He'll do it if he has to. Better for you to open your mouth your mouth and confess to the Lord, confess your sins to one another that you may be healed. So that's the first thing you should be aware of. Number two, a lot of people will look at David and say David committed adultery. He did these grievous things. He's a murderer. So maybe I can sin in some grievous ways and it's not as bad as David. Therefore I can I'm okay. A couple thoughts about that. Number one, David did not have the New Testament spirit dwelling within him. He had the spirit the anointing of the spirit to do his job, but he does not have the spirit of God like you and I do. So something like this even under the old covenant, was still grievous and egregious under the new covenant. It's especially so because we have the spirit of grace operating within us. It's not to say Christians won't make mistakes. They will, we will, we do all the time, but. The severity of the mistakes that we make are, I think, are gonna be far away from what David was able to do, even as a believer, because again, he did not have the spirit of God within him. Secondly I think it's Thomas Brooks who wrote the book precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices. Can you check that name? Is it Thomas Brooks? Precious Remedies. Precious Remedies Against Satan's devices. He says something to this effect. You might be able to sin with David, but can you re. Repent with David. You can sin like he does, but can you repent like he does? Thomas Brooks. Thomas Brooks. Good. That's worth reading by the way. If you have not yet read that Puritan paper bag, that is well worth your time just because that's it, that's the one. Just because you can sin similarly does not necessarily mean that you can repent the same way. Repentance is a gift. Never presume upon the Lord to do something grievous and assume that I'll just repent when I'm done with this. I'll persist in this season of sin and when I'm done. I'll confess that's not the way this works. Beware lest you harden your heart against the Lord. Take David's story and be warned, just like you were saying, PPJ one Corinthians 10 13. Beware and keep a close watch on yourself. I'm conflating verses now, but you get the idea. Yep.

What happens there in two Samuel 12 that leads us into one Chronicles 20 is at the end. After this and after this horrific result, which is the death of the child that Bathsheba bore, which is just a whole nother thing that we probably don't have the bandwidth to get into in the podcast here. But our belief in God's grace towards the the innocent, if we can put it that way, that the children would allow us to say we believe that God took this child to be with him that this child was not a victim. That was. Killed by God and then sent to hell. Now it's still difficult because God does afflict the child. And so the our belief in God's sovereignty is again, challenged here for us to say, okay, God, you know what is good? You know what is right. You know what is just and even when it doesn't appear that way, it's, we're gonna trust you in that. All that to say David. Mourns, the child dies, he goes to eat, and then Joab does something interesting. Joab goes out and wins a battle, and Joab then calls to David and says, David, you need to come take the crown from this king. It's yours. You need to come be the king for the people. Again, this is a downfall. This is horrific, everything that's gone on. But David, it's time for you to step back into the role and lead the people Now even kinda like we talked about last Sunday with Peter, it's okay, Peter, you deny Jesus. But Jesus has now offered you his mercy. His grace is forgiveness, and now it's time for you to go and lead the church. It's time for you to go do what you need to do. And so Joe Abbott is doing that a little bit here, I think in two Samuel chapter 12, the end, and then also first Chronicles chapter 20 with this battle that he wins and then calling David to come and seal the deal, so to speak.

Absolutely. And don't forget in verse 24 what happens. This is one of the darkest times in David's life. For obvious reasons. It getting dark, it's gonna get darker. There's gonna be things ahead of him. But notice this, David comforted his wife, Bathsheba went into her, lay with her, and she bore son and called his name Solomon. And here's something cool. The Lord loved him. In fact, his name does mean Beloved. His name is beloved of God, and he's gonna be the one that's gonna be. That, that will take over the Davidic reign after David's finished. And so you have a glimmer of hope, and this is what God does. Even amidst a very dark season of life, God still sends rays of his grace and sunshine to say, look, I've got this under control. Jed, by the way, that's what it means, the beloved of God. So Solomon's nickname is Jed, and that means beloved the Lord. So you see some bright rays of hope despite the fact that there's some very dark clouds of sin in day's life at this point.

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Let's pray and then we will wrap up another episode of the Daily Bible Podcast. God, we are thankful for your grace, your mercy in our lives and how you work in our lives to to restore us and to use us for your glory and your good. And God I pray that we would not be careless or reckless when it comes to our sin, that we would not rush headlong into sin thinking that it's no big deal or even as pastor was saying, presuming upon your grace to allow us to repent or even desire. To repent afterwards. And God, I pray that you'd keep us faithful to you and in sharp in your hand to be an instrument for your good and for your glory. And God we pray that we need the spirit towards that end, and we need to be sensitive towards the spirit. So help us to do just that, we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Keep bring your bibles. Tune it again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. We'll see you. Bye. Thanks for listening to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. This is a ministry of Compass Bible Church in north Texas. You can find out more information about ourChurch@compassntx.org. We would love for you to leave a review to rate to share this podcast on whatever platform you happen to be listening on, and we will catch you against tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Yeah. I would agree with everything that you said