“You are the man!”

“Then Nathan said to David, "You are the man!” (2 Sam.12:7a)

David committed sins against God.  He slept with Uriah’s wife Bathsheba(1 Sam.11:4).  And when he heard that she was pregnant(v.5) he sent the word “Send me Uriah the Hittite” to Joab(v.6) so that he might send him to his house(v.8) in order to cover up his sin.  He wanted to make Bathsheba’s pregnant baby as Uriah’s even though the baby was his.  “But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master’s servants and did not go down to his house”(v.9).  So David had another plan.  He invited Uriah and ate and drank with him.  David made him drunk(v.13) so that Uraih might go down to his house and slept with his wife Bathsheba.  Again David failed to cover up his sin of adultery.  Thus David had to use the final plan which was to kill Uriah.  So David wrote a letter to Joab saying “Put Uriah in the front line where the fighting is fiercest.  Then withdraw from his so he will be struck down and die”(v.15) and sent it with Uriah(v.14).  Can you imagine carrying that kind of letter to yourself?  Joab did as King David told him and Uriah died in a battle (v.21).  You see, in order to cover up his sin of adultery, David committed the greater sin that is murder – killing his own faithful soldier.  When Bathsheba heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him (v.26).  And guess what David did?  “David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son”(v.27).  And this is what the Scripture says: “But the thing David had done displeased the Lord” (v.27). David was the man who committed these sins against God (12:7).