The Truth You Know Shall Make You Free.

Let me give you some context for Nathan’s visit to King David. When you are the king, everyone works for you. King David had one of his great men named Uriah the Hittite. Uriah was a great man of valour; Uriah and the other soldiers were fighting a war. The verse states that there came a time when the kings went forth to battle, but David tarried there in Jerusalem. I am going to take the day off because I am the king. As a result, he held his people to a higher standard than he did himself. He permitted sloth; it does not appear to be a big concern; I am simply going to be a bit lazy today.

But he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and the King’s Palace was higher than all the other buildings in Jerusalem. People bathed on their roofs because their roofs were surrounded by walls.  People on the street cannot see you bathing, but the king’s palace is higher, and guess what? A woman is bathing on the roof. “Well, I declare, who is that woman?” David asked. He focused on her first before turning his attention to her. Satan understands the realm of the flesh, and he understands that where attention goes, intention follows.

David had someone bring the woman to him, and he committed adultery, not with a man’s wife, but with someone fighting for his nation. He committed adultery with the wife of one of his mighty men and subsequently discovered she was pregnant; they are still at war; she has not been with her husband; do you know what the law says? If you are caught in adultery, you are dragged outside the camp and stoned. Because marriage is a covenant, and a covenant is a love commitment sworn on your life. He did not have an affair with her; he committed adultery, thus David adds, “I have a plan,” because he now needs to invent another falsehood, another evil, to cover up his previous evil.

Because falsehoods are self-perpetuating paradoxes, that is what evil does, so he said, “I know what I am going to do.” I am going to send for Uriah and give him a leave of absence to return home. So, Uriah accepted the furlough. But he refused to sleep with his wife, saying, “I am not going to sleep with my wife while my comrades are fighting and dying on the battlefield.” This man was so full of character that he slept on his front porch. I would rather die in honour than live in shame. David pointed out that this man has been separated from his wife for a long time and is so dedicated to the cause that he will not even sleep with her.

Guess what David says: I know what I am going to do: I am going to ask him to a party at my palace and get him drunk. He will no longer be able to contain himself, so David gets him drunk and sends him home; believing he will sleep with his wife. But he still sleeps on the porch, and he has more character when he is drunk than David has when he is sober. “Well, I guess I only have one choice; I have to have him killed,” David said. By Uriah’s hand, David penned and delivered a letter to his commander. “This is what I want you to do: put Uriah on the front line, and when the battle heats up, I want everyone to retreat and leave him there by himself.” So, David effectively murdered this man because he stole his wife.

David lacked character because he was not where he was supposed to be, and he allowed his lust to take over before murdering the man. “Nathan, I want you to tell David that he messed up,” Yahweh said. “But he is the king,” Nathan objected. “I do not care if he is a king; go tell David I said he messed up.” “All right, I will do it,” Nathan said.  “We have a problem in your kingdom; there is this poor man who only had one little ewe lamb to his name.” And a rich man arrived in town, took the poor man’s lamb, killed it, cooked it, and fed the people who came to him,” he added. He then murdered the man.

“The man who hath done this thing shall surely be put to death, and he shall pay fourfold for the lamb he took,” David declared. Guess what Nathan said, “You are the man,” and David immediately recognised he could not hide it from Yahweh. When confronted with the truth, David did what everyone else advocating falsehoods and lies should do: he admitted, “I have sinned against You.” When David confessed his sin, Yahweh pardoned him, but he also made certain that the judgement that David pronounced on the man was the judgement that David got.

Not the death portion, but to pay four hundredfold as a result of David’s wrongdoing, see here is what people think, good old Yahweh will forgive me no matter what I do. Yahweh is merely an elderly man sitting in a rocking chair, and if I commit adultery, He will forgive me because I am a Believer.

I believe in Yeshua; He will forgive me so that I may go out, get drunk, commit immorality, and have gay relationships, and Yahweh will forgive me. Yahweh, he just loves me the way I am. According to the Bible, Yahweh pardoned David in eternity, but David had to pay for the repercussions of his wrongdoing. How did he pay? He took a woman who was not his, so his son Amnon raped his half-sister, Tamar, Absalom’s full brother. They shared the same mother and father, and she told her brother Absalom what Amnon had done. Absalom plotted to kill his brother because David had an affair with a woman he should not have had.

His son raped his daughter, and then one of his other sons murdered that son, so you now have rape and murder. You have the child that Bathsheba had died, so that is threefold, and fourfold is when Absalom rebelled against his father and attempted to take over his kingdom. David did not attempt to stop him because he knew it was his punishment. Absalom was riding his horse into the forest, and his long, beautiful hair became entangled in a branch of a tree. There he was hanging by his hair when David’s General Joab rushed up behind him and pierced him through with a sword, killing him.

David had to pay fourfold; do not make the mistake of believing that you can continue to sin, and Yahweh will simply ignore it and sweep it under the carpet. Because “the soul that sinneth shall die,” and “be not deceived, God is not mocked, whatsoever man soweth, shall he also reap.” As a result, you must recognise that sin has consequences and righteousness has blessings.

You must be willing to seek the truth and accept it when you discover it, no matter how difficult it is. And, by the way, if you have not decided that you are going to succumb to it when you discover it, you might as well not look for it at all; because it will just add to your guilt. “To whom much is given, much is required.” So, what is the dark side of truth? The truth will make you free, but first, it must make you free from your shackles. It has to be able to release you from some of the lies you believe. Is it not fascinating that in the Old Testament, while Yahweh tells His people what to do, He also tells them what not to do?

“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful,” says Yahweh. So, do not do those three things: “But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and he meditates on it day and night.” And he shall be like a tree planted by streams of water, bearing fruit in season; whose leaf shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.” In John 8:31-32, Yeshua said, “If you continue in my words, you are my disciples indeed.” “And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” Why do not I have the power to make myself free?

Do you understand why? Your flesh wants to eat everything in front of it since it has no desire to control itself. Your flesh wants to do nothing but sit around. What, I want to move but my body does not like it? Fitness without excellent nutrition is unproductive, and good nutrition without good fitness is risky; good nutrition without good fitness is dangerous. Because nutrition is the source of your body’s building blocks. What I mean is that the nature of truth is that it often hurts before it heals. Guess what we have to do to, find the truth and follow it wherever it leads us; and let Yahweh be true and every man a liar

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