The Spin Zone
"Nixon had his Watergate, Clinton had his Monica-gate and David had his Bathsheba-gate all because they entered "The Spin Zone". If you were to ask the average person, "What do you remember most about King David?" Children would quickly answer, "Goliath." Adults would quickly answer, "Bathsheba." These were the two greatest personalities in the life and rein of King David. Goliath reminds us of David's greatest victory; Bathsheba reminds us of David's greatest defeat.
3. No single sin outside of the sin that Adam and Eve committed in the Garden of Eden has received more press coverage than the sin of David with Bathsheba. Can you imagine the field day that newspapers and television shows would have had with this soap-opera? A king has a one night stand with another man's wife, gets her pregnant, then has the other man murdered to cover up his deed? This story had it all - sex, murder, intrigue, cover-up. You can see the headlines now in USA Today and the New York Times, "King's Spring Fling Uncovered." It would have been on The Drudge Report, Good Morning Jerusalem, and CSI Israel. Jay Leno and David Letterman would have been joking about it for months.
"The incredible thing is, in one sense, you would have never expected II Samuel 11 to be a chapter in David's life. Up until this time in his life, basically everything David had touched had turned to gold. As one man put it, "If you were a betting man, David seemed a sure thing to finish 'in the money'". When you read the first ten chapters of II Samuel, David batted a thousand. He is never defeated in battle. He is never wrong in his judgment. He is a compassionate, conservative in the truest sense and his approval rating is one-hundred percent. In every way imaginable - financially, economically, militarily and the country is at an all time high.
"So what happened? David is now about 50 years old, has been on the throne approximately 20 years, and has so many titles that he can't keep them all on one wall. He is the nations number one song writer, number one soldier, the undisputed leader of the God's people, a man after God's own heart, andthe most admired person in all of Israel. As we look at this part of David's life, understand that you are not looking at a sexual pervert or someone going through a mid-life crisis."
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