Outline:
Warning: this topic from Scripture might not be suitable for younger children.
- God tried to create a community with God as the ultimate head
- Did through leadership of Judges
- Fell apart with leadership of Samuel's children- early P.K.s
- Israel rejected God's rule, asked for kings instead
David's Rule:
- Most beloved King of Israel
- Wrote many of the Psalms
- Ancestor of Jesus
- Was a Warrior King
- Prime Example, fight with Goliath
- Eventually settles in and stops going out to war
- Part of what Samuel warns against (1 Sam. 8:10-18)
- David's lack of participation in battle is what leads to his great sin (2 Sam. 11)
- Sees Bathsheba bathing
- Wouldn't have if had been out to battle
- Bathsheba was on the roof top, no one else would have seen her
- Bathsheba is another's wife, David asks her to come to his palace
- What else was Bathsheba to do
- Bathsheba becomes pregnant
- David tries to trick Uriah, Bathsheba's husband, into think the child is his
- Uriah is a good soldier, won't be with his wife while his fellow soldiers fight
- David sends Uriah to the front where he is sure to die, then marries Bathsheba
- Prophet Nathan speaks out against David (2 Sam. 12)
- Tells story of injustice with two shepherds
- David declares the wrong in this story, says wrongdoer should be punished
- Nathan tells David he is this person
- David accepts sin and what follows
Consequences:
- David and Bathsheba's son dies
- David is never the same, allows Absalom to try and take over
- David and Bathsheba have another son: Solomon
- Solomon allows foreign gods into Israel, leads to the downfall of the nation
Take-aways:
- Our personal actions can have dire consequences to the community
- David snowballed from not going out to battle with his people
- Led to the events that brought the eventual fall of Israel
- Can't forget we live in a community, actions effect others too