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Pastor Henecke's PM Sermon Outline

The Woodland Street Pulpit

First Church of the Nazarene

May 22nd, 2005 P.M.

Sown in Secret


II Samuel chapters 11-14

Galatians 6:7
Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow.


  1. The opening for Sin

    1. He had prospered for seventeen years

      1. 17 years without a defeat

      2. 17 years of unbroken prosperity

      3. 17 years of the adulation of his subjects

    2. More souls fall during prosperity than hard times

      1. Bill Clinton says, “Because I could…”

      2. In his prosperity he became careless

        1. It takes a steady hand to carry a full cup

        2. Indulgence softens the backbone

    3. God had withheld nothing from him

      1. Parents who lavish much on their children spoil them

      2. We could do the same to ourselves

      3. Strength comes from struggles – good times weaken

    4. Moses had warned:

Deuteronomy 31:20

When I have brought you into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to give to your fathers, and you have eaten and are full and grown fat, you will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant.

* And he spoke specifically about the king

Deuteronomy 17:15-17
You must set as king over you him whom the LORD your God will choose. You may choose a foreigner, but one from your brothers. He must not acquire numerous horses for himself, or send men to Egypt in order to obtain more horses, for the LORD has said, “You shall never return that way again.” He must not have many wives or great wealth for himself, lest his heart turn away.


  1. The Sin of his life

    1. David had 50 years of marital strife

      1. His first wife was his greatest stress

      2. She had mocked him and married another

1 Samuel 18:20
Now Saul's daughter Michal loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. Saul thought, “Let me give her to him, that she may be a snare for him.”

    1. A dozen wives had not filled the void

      1. David had married young and not so young

2 Samuel 5:13
David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem,

      1. All he wanted and all he sought was his

    1. The boy was changing

The lad whose song had calmed Saul

The boy who slew lion and bear

The boy who killed Goliath

    1. The son of Jesse – by Samuel anointed – was growing soft

God had blessed him beyond all others

He will die with a heart full of pain

His family will be a history of conflict

    1. He sinned one great sin - with many facets

      1. In the cool of the evening he walked on his patio

      2. The patio [roof] of the king overlooked all others

    2. In that day – he saw – he sought – he took the forbidden

Exodus 20:17
“You shall not set your heart (covet) on your neighbor's house. You shall not set your heart on your neighbor's spouse, or servant, man or woman, or ox, or donkey, or any of your neighbor's possessions.”

      1. I have heard the David’s across the years:

        1. “I couldn’t help it”

        2. “Just wanted a little fun”

        3. “You don’t understand”

      2. David met God’s enemy

    1. He [Lucifer] had met others

      1. He promised Eve she would be like God

        1. She partook to her great pain

        2. Her firstborn was a murderer

      2. He promised Saul a kingdom

        1. The man was to never have peaceful sleep

        2. He sought a witch to hear from God

      3. He promised Judas powerful friend and wealth

        1. Judas’ name is forever cursed

        2. He committed suicide


  1. The Secret seed

    1. It all came crashing home when he received her letter

2 Samuel 11:5
The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, "I am pregnant."

    1. Moses’ Law was clear:

      1. David had schemed in coveting

      2. He had indulged his lust in adultery

      3. He had plotted to cover his sin

        1. He had tried to deceive by using her husband

        2. He had killed good Uriah

    2. The whole court knew – and was quiet

      1. Silence is compliance

Ezekiel 3:17-20
‘Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman for the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from me, you shall warn them for me. If I pronounce death on the wicked, and you give him no warning, nor speak out to dissuade him from his wicked way to save his life, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but I will hold you responsible for his blood. But if you warn the wicked, and he persists in his wicked way, he shall die in his sin; but you will live. Again, if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, for I allowed a stumbling block in his path, he shall die because you have not warned him. He shall die for his sin, and his righteous deeds, which he has done, shall not be remembered; but his blood I will hold you responsible for your silence.

      1. Purity is never to be regained

        1. We can be restored

        2. We can be cleansed

        3. But

Psalm 51:3
I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.

    1. Society in propriety may cloak sin – God sees it

    2. All is silent – or is it?


  1. When all was Peace and security

    1. David moved on in life as if all was blessed

      1. He married his final wife

      2. He awaited the birth of his son

        1. All seemed to be well

        2. David said of these days:

Psalm 32:4
Day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my vitality was sapped as in the heat of summer.

    1. Nathan comes

      1. “You are the man!” – David seeks to escape

      2. The bay dies

    2. The prayers of David conflict with the Word of God

      1. The better the man the dearer the price he’ll pay

      2. Sorrow deepens with light

    3. Curse two: David’s daughter Tamar

    4. Curse three David’s son Amon

    5. Curse four David’s wives

    6. Curse five Absalom

      1. The depth of the hatred of a son for his father

2 Samuel 16:22
So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof. And Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

Deuteronomy 22:30
" A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's bed.”

      1. Israel was again a witness

    1. The mighty are fallen!


  1. The man after God’s own heart

    1. Even as David died Adonijah was rebelling

    2. He was restored and forgiven – but never saw peace again

      1. How often the words must have burned

2 Samuel 12:9-
Why have you despised the word of the LORD, to do what is evil in his sight? … Thus says the LORD, `Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house … You did it secretly; but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.'"

      1. Sown in secret – suffering is the open

      2. God is not mocked – what is sown will grow

    1. We harvest the secret seed

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