{"id":33782,"date":"2024-12-16T22:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/2-samuel_11_1-13-copy\/"},"modified":"2024-12-03T18:03:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T01:03:20","slug":"2-samuel_11_14-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/2-samuel_11_14-27\/","title":{"rendered":"God Sees It All and He\u2019ll Use It All"},"content":{"rendered":"

2 Samuel\u00a0 11:14-27\u00a0 \u00a0(CLICK HERE FOR\u00a0BIBLE VERSES)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is 2 Samuel 11:14-27.\u00a0 As usual,\u00a0I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.\u00a0 See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit\u2019s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.\u00a0 Let’s go!<\/p>\n

2 Samuel 11:14-27 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n14\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.
\n15\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0In it he wrote, “Put Uriah in the front line where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die.”
\n16\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0So while Joab had the city under siege, he put Uriah at a place where he knew the strongest defenders were.
\n17\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0When the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of the men in David’s army fell; moreover, Uriah the Hittite died.
\n18\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Joab sent David a full account of the battle.
\n19\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He instructed the messenger: “When you have finished giving the king this account of the battle,
\n20\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0the king’s anger may flare up, and he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Didn’t you know they would shoot arrows from the wall?
\n21\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Who killed Abimelech son of Jerub-Besheth? Didn’t a woman throw an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If he asks you this, then say to him, ‘Also, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.'”
\n22\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The messenger set out, and when he arrived he told David everything Joab had sent him to say.
\n23\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The messenger said to David, “The men overpowered us and came out against us in the open, but we drove them back to the entrance to the city gate.
\n24\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then the archers shot arrows at your servants from the wall, and some of the king’s men died. Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.”
\n25\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Don’t let this upset you; the sword devours one as well as another. Press the attack against the city and destroy it.’ Say this to encourage Joab.”
\n26\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.
\n27\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0After the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing David had done displeased the\u00a0LORD.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses\u00a014-27: \u00a0David has been unable to get Uriah to sleep with his wife Bathsheba whom David had made pregnant.\u00a0 So David comes up with an even more sinister and coldblooded plan: murder Uriah.\u00a0 David writes a letter to his general Joab instructing Joab to place Uriah on the frontlines of battle and then withdraw from Uriah so that he will be easily killed (v15).\u00a0 And guess who David gets to send that letter to Joab?\u00a0 Uriah himself! (v14) \u00a0To think Uriah was nobly delivering a letter from his king, not knowing that the letter contained instructions for Uriah’s own murder.<\/p>\n

David’s plan to have Uriah killed is successful (v17).\u00a0 David acts as if everything is normal (v18-25) and marries the now widowed Bathsheba (v27).\u00a0 While Uriah did not suspect that his king David would commit such a heinous crime, David’s sin did not go unnoticed by God (v27).<\/p>\n

What can we learn from this?<\/p>\n

1. We may be able to hide our sin from some people, but we cannot hide our sin from God.\u00a0 In the end,\u00a0the one we must answer to for our sin is not just people, but God Himself<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

2. We look at Uriah\u2019s murder and think, \u201cWhat a senseless and unjust murder.\u201d And truly Uriah did not deserve to die that way.\u00a0 Like Jesus, Uriah was sent by a king to die, even though he was innocent.\u00a0 Although Uriah’s life was cut short, Uriah remains one of the greatest heroes in all the Bible.\u00a0 The fact that Jesus’ genealogy in Matthew 1 would mention Uriah shows how highly the Holy Spirit and the church esteemed Uriah.\u00a0 As Matthew 1:6 says:<\/p>\n

Matthew 1:6 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n6\u00a0<\/sup>and Jesse the father of King David. David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife…<\/em><\/p>\n

In God’s sovereignty, God would weave the life and death of Uriah into the birth of His Messiah.\u00a0 Without Uriah, Jesus would not have come into this world the way that He did.\u00a0 Uriah was fighting and giving his life for David, not realizing that God would use Uriah\u2019s life and death to usher the coming of someone even greater than David; it was Jesus the Son of David!\u00a0 By living life selflessly, humbly and for God\u2019s honour, Uriah became God’s instrument to bring Christ into this world.\u00a0 It goes to show that\u00a0when you live your life humbly and for God\u2019s honour, God notices and will use your life and even your death to make a much bigger difference than you ever thought possible<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Father God, thank You for using men like Uriah to pave the way for Jesus to come into this world.\u00a0 Thank You for noticing everything — both our worst sins as well as our most faith-filled deeds — and thank You for somehow using them all to write a greater story than we could ever write on our own.\u00a0 In Jesus’ name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n

opyright \u00a9 2022 Justin Lim. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is 2 Samuel 11:14-27.\u00a0 As usual,\u00a0I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.\u00a0 See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit\u2019s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.\u00a0 Let’s go!\u00a0<\/p>\n

2 Samuel 11:14-27 (NIV)
\n14\u00a0\u00a0In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.
\n15\u00a0\u00a0In it he wrote, “Put Uriah in the front line where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die.”
\n16\u00a0\u00a0So while Joab had the city under siege, he put Uriah at a place where he knew the strongest defenders were.<\/p>\n

On verses\u00a014-27: \u00a0David has been unable to get Uriah to sleep with his wife Bathsheba whom David had made pregnant.\u00a0 So David comes up with an even more sinister and coldblooded plan: murder Uriah.\u00a0 David writes a letter to his general Joab instructing Joab to place Uriah on the frontlines of battle and then withdraw from Uriah so that he will be easily killed (v15).\u00a0 And guess who David gets to send that letter to Joab?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33785,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33782\/revisions\/33785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}