Mar 20 No one will find out.

Mar 20

No One Will Find Out

be sure your sin will find you out. 

Why is it men in high positions think they can get away with bad behavior?  In 2014 the head of France came to the United States but did not bring his wife. She had learned about his mistress. He attended a State dinner at the white house alone. The results of his sin was broadcast over international news. The whole world found out.

A president of the United States, who had a history of infidelity, was finally exposed (no pun intended) and the world learned he had sinned and repeatedly lied about it on live television. .

There are endless stories that could be told about people who tried to cover their sins and were still caught.

A joke about a butcher is based on getting caught. A lady asked for a nice chicken for a dinner she was having. The butcher only had one chicken left in the cooler. When he weighed it the lady said it was too small, did he have another one? The butcher returned to the cooler with the chicken, slipped a 2 pound weight inside the chicken and returned with it. It was better but the lady decided she should take both chickens!   Be sure your sins will find you out.

But there is nothing humorous about the story of a king in II Samuel who tried to hide his sin. Chapter 11 of II Samuel records David’s sin with Bathsheba. David should have been with his army in battle, not lounging around the royal residence.

2Sa 11:1 …But David tarried still at Jerusalem.

One night he got up and walked around on the rooftop. From there he could see a woman washing herself on her rooftop. He did not just glance and then turn his eyes away. He studied her as she washed. She was beautiful to look upon.

So David asked who she was and was told her name, and the name of her husband who was out fighting a war for David. So he sent for her and committed adultery with her. His sin progressed from an innocent walk on his roof to taking another man’s wife. David had sinned. He had gotten away with it. No one would know, but…

2Sa 11:5 And the woman conceived, and sent

and told David, and said, I am with child.

Now his attempt to avoid our verse for today.

be sure your sin will find you out.

If you are not familiar with the story read II Samuel chapter 11. David tried some things to cover his sin but when they didn’t work he decided murder was a good way to hide adultery. So he had the woman’s husband killed and then after a period of mourning he married her. We can see how foolish it was to commit a second sin to hide his first sin.  But when we allow sin into our lives we are not thinking about the future, just the present satisfaction we will get for ourselves. The lust of the eye and the lust of the flesh can make people think some crazy things.

In life everything has a cost and benefit. Too often we only see the benefit and do not count the cost. The cost benefit ratio is essential to help us make Godly decisions. Any benefit from pleasure that is against God’s will for us is too costly.  In David’s case the cost was very high.

2Sa 12:9 …thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword…

2Sa 12:10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house…

2Sa 12:11 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house…

2Sa 12:11 …and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour,

2Sa 12:12 For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel,

2Sa 12:18 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died.

Failure to glance away from a bathing woman cost David for the rest of his life. He paid a lifetime of regret and God’s punishment for a few minutes of sin. 

 How about us. Do we see people around us who are paying a lifetime of limited usefulness because they thought they could do wrong and no one would ever know?  Modern day civilization has figured out how to get away with sin and not get caught. Just change the definition of sin. Then if it isn’t sin there is nothing to have to hide. So according to the government and society in large, filthy speech is OK, premarital sex is now just a part of dating, telling lies is a normal procedure in politics and advertising, cheating is no big deal, sodomy is now protected by law, men can marry men, every perversion of pornography is just a mouse click away from most homes, and government is the solution to every human problem.

 Since none of the above are seen as wrong, sinful or ungodly that means we have nothing to hide and there is no price to pay. That is probably why this generation does not suffer from hunger, strife, violence, disobedient children, crimes in high places, wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes, floods, droughts, and economic disaster.

On second thought, maybe we aren’t getting away with it. If I remember correctly God punished the nation of Israel with many of these same difficulties. They never learned their lesson. May we not repeat their fatal mistake.

Ga 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked:

for whatsoever a man soweth,

that shall he also reap.