I saw scenes I shouldn't have seen.

David saw a scene he shouldn't have seen.

He witnessed a woman bathing, and she appeared to him as very beautiful

(2 Sam. 11:2).

David was led by the lust of his eyes (v. 2).

"The eyes of man are never satisfied" (Prov. 27:20).

We must guard our eyes and make a covenant with them.

"I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?"

(Job 31:1).

David sent someone to find out who the woman was,

and it is clear that he knew she was Uriah's wife Bathsheba.

In other words, David was well aware that Bathsheba was a married woman.

Nevertheless, despite this knowledge,

he brought her to himself and committed adultery with her

(2 Sam. 11:3-4).

David was led by the lust of the flesh (1 Jn. 2:16).

He not only violated the seventh commandment of the Ten Commandments,

"You shall not commit adultery" (Exod. 20:14),

but also transgressed the tenth commandment,

"You shall not covet your neighbor's house ...

nor anything that is your neighbor's" (v. 17).

We have already crucified the lust of the flesh and covetousness on the cross.

"And those who belong to Christ Jesus

have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires"

(Gal. 5:24).