The Lust, When It Has Conceived, Bears Sin

This passage deals with David, settled into complacency in his peaceful palace, seeing from the rooftop the beauty of Bathsheba as she bathed and conceiving desire. David, who had relied on God alone in times of hardship, grew spiritually lax once he gained ease, looking at the world through worldly eyes, and was finally captured by the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes.

The sermon warns that sin does not end with a single mistake but grows like a snowball into lies and murder. To cover his sin, David drives the upright warrior Uriah to his death, even ordering Joab to commit murder, and falls into a pit of evil. It emphasises that when the wisdom and judgment God has given are clouded by sin, a person commits great sin without even realising how abnormal they have become.

The sermon reminds believers to stay always within the fence of the Holy Spirit so that they do not fall into complacency and pride. It asks what we are looking at now and what standard we judge by, and whether the result is good, the kind that can receive God's grace.