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God Is Great

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Introduction
To some, it is a story of judgment and condemnation. Others see it as a story of grace, restoration, and hope. For those willing to admit their sin and accept God's judgment, grace, and restoration, it is both.
For those of us who have experienced moral failure, divorce, or other such life experience, it is a message of hope, healing, and restoration that reminds us that God's agenda is not to crush sinners under his feet, but to heal them and restore their relationship with Him.
For the sake of fast page loading, we've divided this study into four parts. In Part 1, The Sin, we will examine how David and Bathsheba got into this mess in the first place. Part 2, The Cover-up, looks at the frantic efforts of David to hide his …show more content…

As usual, sin had its consequences:
5 The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, "I am pregnant."
Oops.
David hadn't planned on that possibility.
Part 2: The Cover-up
David had sinned, and as usual, sin had its consequences:
5 The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, "I am pregnant."
David, demonstrating that he was just like the rest of us, went with his first instinct; he tried to cover up his sin and shift the responsibility to someone else:
6 Then David sent to Joab, saying, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent Uriah to David.
7 When Uriah came to him, David asked concerning the welfare of Joab and the people and the state of the war.
8 Then David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house, and wash your feet." And Uriah went out of the king's house, and a present from the king was sent out after him.
9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.
10 Now when they told David, saying, "Uriah did not go down to his house," David said to Uriah, "Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?"
11 Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? By your life and

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