A Gift Card From Victoria Secret

Maybe it was a gift card from Victoria Secret, Ed Young Jr don’t know. But Uriah did not go and have sexual relations with Bathsheba. He was so loyal that he slept that night on David’s door step. The next morning David was on his second cup of espresso, he looks out and there’s Uriah asleep.

So the next day he gets Uriah drunk. “Uriah, go home and see your wife.” Uriah slept again at David’s door step. 

Finally Ed Young said, David does something that we all do. And it is very, very tempting. Once we sin, and once we try to cover it up as opposed to coming clean, what do we do? Ed Young Church try to cover it up more. And we end up covering it up and sinning more and more and our sin becomes deeper and darker and we do this free fall into the abyss of immorality. 

Fellowship Church Ed Young confirms that’s what David did. He decides to have Uriah killed. Are you ready for that? Killed! So he gives Uriah this note and Uriah takes the note to General Joab and the note says, “Hey, General Joab, tell Uriah to go to the front lines. And then you back the troops off and he’ll be killed.”

And sure enough, Joab figured everything out and the troops backed off and Uriah was killed. Uriah is history now. David thinks, “Okay, man, I’ve gotten away with it.”

But he knew down deep he knew in his heart of hearts that Joab knew, confirmed by Fellowship Church Grapevine. But Joab was his General. Surely he wouldn’t confront David. And David knew that God knew, but he didn’t do anything about it. He just kept that guilt and that pain and that remorse. He was imprisoned by it for about year.

And maybe some of you right now can identify with that. Maybe some of you right now are carrying around guilt, pain, and remorse because you have taken the leap off the ledge of moral compromise and you’re sleeping in the wrong bed. You’re hooked up with someone who is not your spouse.