The Idols That Make Us Idle

(1) Can the children of God sin? Yes!

(2) Can the children of God sin and get away with it? No!

Did you know the children of God are just as capable of sinning as they were before they were saved?

We have an excellent example of that in the life of King David.

WHO WAS KING DAVID?

If all the men living were in a long line of greatness King David would be on the top of the list.

• There is none more noble Him.

• He was a gifted musician.

• He was a humble man of God.

• He was a great administrator.

• He was a man that loved the Lord.

• He was a man of courage – taking on Goliath.

The Bible describes him as a man who was after God’s own heart.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN, HE WAS A MAN AFTER GOD’S OWN HEART?

The apostle Paul speaks of God’s feelings about King David in Acts 13:22: “After removing Saul, he made David their king. He testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do’”

The answer to why David was considered a man after God’s own heart is found in this verse: David did whatever God wanted him to do even if it meant fighting a giant almost ten feet tall.

Illus: When I think of the words that David was a man after God’s own heart I think of a young man who meets a very special girl in his life. He does everything he can do to win her heart.

This is exactly what the Bible tells us about David. The bible tells us He will do everything I want him to do’”

When we think of this great man of God we can not help but ask, “How could God still call David a man after His own heart when David committed such horrible sins as lust, adultery and murder?”

Every child of God is subject to falling into sin if we began to drift from the Lord.

You might say, “Preacher that could never happen to me.” …Yes it could!!!

Unless you think perhaps you are greater than the servant King David whom the Bible tells us was a man after God’s own heart.

BUT HOW CAN SUCH A MAN FALL INTO SIN?

It has happened to ministers, missionaries, deacons, choir members and Sunday school teachers.

This great man of God, that we all look up to, committed the sins of lust, adultery with a married woman, and murder.

You might be saying, “Preacher, I agree David was a great man of God that fell into sin!”

BUT WHY ARE YOU PREACHING THIS SERMON TO ME?”

Again, I am preaching this sermon to this congregation because the same thing that happened to David can happen to you.

People play around with sin but Satan is not playing.

Illus: Remember what happened to Samson; he played around with Delilah but Delilah was not playing.

Once sin gets a hold on people Satan will drag them into sin as far as he can drag them.

• I talk to people all the time who are living in sin and they tell me, “I one time was a preacher, deacon, Sunday school teacher, and/or sang in the choir.

• I talk to people who have told me, “I used to be married and had a nice family but now I have lost my family and respect.”

If a great man like David can fall into deep sin we need to know how it happened to him so that it won’t happen to us.

The Bible tells us exactly how it happened to David.

HOW DID IT HAPPEN TO KING DAVID?

I. HE COMMITTED THE SIN OF IDLENESS.

2 Samuel 11:1-3, “And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem. And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”

David was home when he should have been with his compatriots in war.

It sounds to me like he laid in bed all day and then in the evening he woke up and saw what the Bible tells us was a beautiful woman, bathing herself.