God rebuked King David through the Prophet Nathan for adultery, murder, deceit, etc. in relation to Bathsheba and Uriah the Hittite in 2 Samuel chapter 12.  David broke at this rebuke.  By receiving Nathan’s rebuke he abhorred his sin and he abhorred himself.  

God received David back into His grace and decreed that David’s life be spared (making him an exception to the decrees in the Law of Moses prescribing the death penalty for those who commit adultery as well as those who commit murder). This sparing was by God’s own decree through Nathan upon David’s repentance.  The Lord’s decision to spare David from death possibly had much to do with the great acts of righteous mercy which David had shown in great temptation previously in his life- especially in relation to not killing King Saul when he had easy opportunities to do as Saul was unrighteously seeking to take David’s life.  

In spite of this, the Book of 2 Samuel goes on to show how David was yet greatly chastised for his sins in relation to Uriah the Hittite and Bathsheba in numerous ways for the rest of his life.  David abhorred what he had done.  He took no pleasure in it anymore.  If otherwise, he would not have been faithful to the Lord for the rest of his life.  And if he had not been faithful for the rest of his life, he would be burning in hell now rather than with the Lord.

1 Kings 15:5: “Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.”

Matthew 24:13: “But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.”

Those who find comfort and security in their sins from the sins of the righteous people in the Bible are foolish- because they do not heed how those who died in righteousness abhorred and forsake the sins which they had previously committed- including the very sins which some foolishly cite to justify their own sins.  

Imagine the thief on the cross telling Jesus as both were dying “You know, I trust you’ll receive me into your kingdom because what I did reminds me of what David did; and I know he’s in paradise now.  So, I should be okay.”  No!  Jesus would not have comforted that man if that were his attitude.  That man would be burning in hell right now if that had been his attitude.  

If David had downplayed Nathan’s rebuke and said “Oh, come on.  Jacob was a liar too” then David would have never been received back by the Lord, he would not have died in victory, and he’d be burning in hell like King Saul is.  King Saul admitted that he had sinned when he was rebuked by Samuel for disobeying God- yet things like losing face before God and men, really dying to self, utterly revenging the evil he had done, and accepting God’s consequences for his sin on earth without complaining were not things which Saul was willing to do like David was.  

Consider what David himself wrote in places such as Psalms 1, 5, 15, 24, and 101 in relation to the mindset which a righteous person must have towards deceit and towards all sin.  The Bible never teaches that those without such a mindset are in God’s grace.  It teaches the very opposite.

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