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2Samuel 12:7-12

“THOU ART THE MAN

 And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;

8 And I gave thee thy master’s house, and thy master’s wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.

9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

10 Now therefore the sword shall never* depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.

11 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

12 For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.

By the grace of God David recovered himself, and found mercy with God.  His conviction, by a message Nathan brought him from God, which was a parable that obliged him to condemn himself.

There was an application of the parable, in which Nathan charged him with the sin and pronounced a sentence upon him,

David gave evidence of true repentance.  The birth of Solomon, and God’s gracious message concerning him, in which God gave evidence of his reconciliation.

 It seems to have been a great while after David had been guilty of adultery with Bath-sheba before he was brought to repentance for it, because , when Nathan was sent to him, the child was born, because the child was about nine months.

David lay under the guilt of that sin,  nothing that showed that he repented until the prophet show up.

Can you imagine that his heart never smote him for it, or that he never lamented it in secret before God? I would willingly hope that he did, and that Nathan was sent to him, immediately upon the birth of the child, when the thing by that means came to be publicly known and talked of, to draw from him an open confession of the sin, to the glory of God,

During these nine months, we may well suppose his comforts and the exercises of his graces suspended, and his communion with God interrupted; during all that time, it is certain, he penned no psalms, his harp was out of tune, and his soul like a tree in winter, that has life in the root only.

After God uses Nathan to expose and rebuke him, he prays, Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and open thou my lips, Ps. 51:12, 15.

Lets pray now according to Psalm 51:10-12

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Amen

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