reetings, holy children of God, in the wonderful name of our lord and saviour Jesus, the Christ. The sermon subject for today is:

GOD SAID THESE WORDS BY THE MOUTH OF HOSEA4:6 MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE. THE SERMON SUBJECT FOR TODAY IS "DAVID, AND BATHSHEBA." 1KGS: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. THE APOSTLE PAUL RECORDED THESE WORDS ABOUT DAVID. ACTS:13:22 AND WHEN HE HAD REMOVED HIM( SAUL), HE RAISED UP UNTO THEM DAVID TO BE THEIR KING: TO WHOM ALSO HE GAVE TESTIMONY, AND SAID, I HAVE FOUND DAVID, THE SON OF JESSE, A MAN AFTER MINE OWN HEART, WHICH SHALL FULFIL ALL MY WILL. DAVID WAS ANOINTED OF GOD TO BE KING OVER ISRAEL. 1SM:16:1 AND THE LORD SAID UNTO SAMUEL, HOW LONG WILT THOU MOURN FOR SAUL, SEEING I HAVE REJECTED HIM FROM REIGNING OVER ISRAEL? FILL THINE HORN WITH OIL, AND GO, I WILL SEND THEE TO JESSE THE BETHLEHEMITE: FOR I HAVE PROVIDED ME A KING AMONG HIS SONS. WHEN DAVID WAS PHYSICALLY ANOINTED OF SAMUEL, THE SPIRITUAL ANOINTING, THE SPIRIT OF GOD CAME TO DWELL WITHIN DAVID. THERE IS THE PHYSICAL ANOINTING, WERE OIL IS POURED UPON THE ELECT OF GOD, AND THERE IS THE SPIRITUAL ANOINTING WHEN THE HOLY GHOST COMES TO DWELL WITHIN THE ELECT. 1SM16:12 AND HE SENT, AND BROUGHT HIM IN. NOW HE WAS RUDDY, (HAVING A HEALTHY RED COLOR)AND WITHAL ( NEVERTHELESS) OF A BEAUTIFUL COUNTENANCE, AND GOODLY TO LOOK TO. AND THE LORD SAID, ARISE, ANOINT HIM: FOR THIS IS HE. 13. THEN SAMUEL TOOK THE HORN OF OIL, AND ANOINTED HIM IN THE MIDST OF HIS BRETHREN: AND THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON DAVID FROM THAT DAY FORWARD. SO SAMUEL ROSE UP, AND WENT TO RAMAH. THE MOST WONDERFUL THING THAT WILL HAPPEN TO A PERSON IN THIS WORLD IS THE RECEIVING OF THE HOLY GHOST. THE HOLY GHOST IS ALSO KNOWN AS THE SPIRIT OF THE GOD, THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, THE COMFORTER, THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, THE SPIRIT OF ADOPTION, THE SPIRIT OF LIFE. DAVID IN THE PSALMS SANG THAT THE LORD RESTORED HIS SOUL. WHEN A PERSON RECEIVES THE HOLY GHOST THE INWARD MAN, THE SOUL, COMES TO LIFE. PS:23:1 THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD; I SHALL NOT WANT. 2. HE MAKETH ME TO LIE DOWN IN GREEN PASTURES; HE LEADETH ME BESIDE STILL WATERS. 3. HE RESTORETH MY SOUL. THE FOLLOWING VERSES OF SCRIPTURE ARE ACTS THAT HAS CAUSED MUCH PAIN, AND SUFFERING, UNTO THE HOUSE OF DAVID. THE JEWISH PEOPLE, UNTIL THIS VERY DAY. 2SM:11:2 AND IT CAME TO PASS IN AN EVENINGTIDE, THAT DAVID AROSE FROM OFF HIS BED, AND WALKED UPON THE ROOF OF THE KING’S HOUSE: AND FROM THE ROOF HE SAW A WOMAN WASHING HERSELF AND THE WOMAN WAS VERY BEAUTIFUL TO LOOK UPON. 3. AND DAVID SENT AND ENQUIRED AFTER THE WOMAN. AND ONE SAID, IS NOT THIS BATHSHEBA THE DAUGHTER OF ELIAM, THE WIFE OF URIAH THE HITTITE? 4. AND DAVID SENT MESSENGERS, AND TOOK HER: AND SHE CAME IN UNTO HIM, AND HE LAY WITH HER; FOR SHE WAS PURIFIED FROM HER UNCLEANNESS: AND SHE RETURNED UNTO HER HOUSE. 2SM:11:5 AND THE WOMAN CONCEIVED, AND SENT AND TOLD DAVID, AND SAID, I AM WITH CHILD. DAVID SENT FOR URIAH HOPING THAT HE WOULD GO TO HIS HOME, BUT URIAH WOULD NOT. THEREFORE DAVID WROTE A LETTER TO JOAB. 2SM:11:14 AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE MORNING, THAT DAVID WROTE A LETTER TO JOAB, AND SENT IT BY THE HAND OF URIAH. 15. AND HE WROTE IN THE LETTER, SAYING, SET YE URIAH IN THE FOREFRONT OF THE HOTTEST BATTLE, AND RETIRE YE FROM HIM, THAT HE MAY BE SMITTEN, AND DIE. 2SM:11:26 AND WHEN THE WIFE OF URIAH HEARD THAT HER HUSBAND WAS DEAD, SHE MOURNED FOR HER HUSBAND. 27. AND WHEN THE MOURNING WAS PAST, DAVID SENT AND FETCHED HER TO HIS HOUSE; AND SHE BECAME HIS WIFE. NO ACT OF MAN IS HIDE FROM GOD. GOD KNEW ABOUT DAVID’S SIN, AND HIS PLOT TO KILL URIAH. GOD SENT HIS PROPHET NATHAN TO TELL DAVID, OF HIS SIN CONCERNING URIAH, AND TO TELL DAVID THAT (THE SWORD WOULD NEVER DEPART FROM THE HOUSE OF DAVID.) 2SM:12:9 WHEREFORE HAST THOU DESPISED THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD, TO DO EVIL IN HIS SIGHT? THOU HAST KILLED URIAH THE HITTITE WITH THE SWORD, AND HAST TAKEN HIS WIFE TO BE THY WIFE, AND HAST SLAIN HIM WITH THE SWORD OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON. 10. NOW THEREFORE THE SWORD SHALL NEVER DEPART FROM THINE HOUSE: BECAUSE THOU HAST DESPISED ME, AND HAST TAKEN THE WIFE OF URIAH THE HITTITE TO BE THY WIFE. 2SM:12:13 AND DAVID SAID UNTO NATHAN, I HAVE SINNED AGAINST THE LORD. AND NATHAN SAID UNTO DAVID, THE LORD ALSO HATH PUT AWAY THY SIN; THOU SHALT NOT DIE. 14. HOWBEIT, BECAUSE BY THIS DEED THOU HAST GIVEN GREAT OCCASION TO THE ENEMIES OF THE LORD TO BLASPHEME, THE CHILD ALSO THAT IS BORN UNTO THEE SHALL SURELY DIE. 18. AND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE SEVENTH DAY, THAT THE CHILD DIED. AFTER DAVID’S TRANSGRESSION OF GOD’S COMMANDMENT, DAVID PRAYED THIS PRAYER OF CONFESSION ACKNOWLEDGING HIS TRANSGRESSION, AND PLEADS FOR GOD’S MERCY, AND FOR GOD TO CLEANSE HIM OF HIS INIQUITY, AND TO RESTORE THE JOY OF HIS SALVATION, AND FOR GOD NOT TO TAKE HIS HOLY SPIRIT FROM HIM. PS:51:1 HAVE MERCY UPON ME, O GOD, ACCORDING TO THY LOVINGKINDNESS: ACCORDING UNTO THE MULTITUDE OF THY TENDER MERCIES BLOT OUT MY TRANSGRESSIONS. 2. WASH ME THROUGHLY FROM MINE INIQUITY, AND CLEANSE ME FROM MY SIN. 3. FOR I ACKNOWLEDGE MY TRANSGRESSIONS: AND MY SIN IS EVER BEFORE ME. 4. AGAINST THEE, THEE ONLY, HAVE I SINNED, AND DONE THIS EVIL IN THY SIGHT: THAT THOU MIGHTEST BE JUSTIFIED WHEN THOU SPEAKEST, AND BE CLEAR WHEN THOU JUDGEST. 5. BEHOLD, I WAS SHAPEN IN INIQUITY; AND IN SIN DID MY MOTHER CONCEIVE ME. 6. BEHOLD, THOU DESIREST TRUTH IN THE INWARD PARTS: AND IN THE HIDDEN PART THOU SHALT MAKE ME TO KNOW WISDOM. 7. PURGE ME WITH HYSSOP, AND I SHALL BE CLEAN: WASH ME, AND I SHALL BE WHITER THAN SNOW. 8. MAKE ME TO HEAR JOY AND GLADNESS; THAT THE BONES WHICH THOU HAST BROKEN MAY REJOICE. 9. HIDE THY FACE FROM MY SINS, AND BLOT OUT ALL MINE INIQUITIES. 10. CREATE IN ME A CLEAN HEART, O GOD; AND RENEW A RIGHT SPIRIT WITHIN ME. 11. CAST ME NOT AWAY FROM THY PRESENCE; AND TAKE NOT THY HOLY SPIRIT FROM ME. A SECOND SON WAS BORN OF THE UNION BETWEEN DAVID, AND BATHSHEBA WHOSE NAME IS SOLOMON, THAT GOD ANOINTED TO BE KING OF ISRAEL. DAVID AND SOLOMON ARE BOTH LISTED IN THE GENEALOGY OF CHRIST JESUS. MT:1:6 AND JESSE BEGAT DAVID THE KING; AND DAVID THE KING BEGAT SOLOMON OF HER THAT HAD BEEN THE WIFE OF URIAS. SOLOMON, RECORDED THESE WORDS IN THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. I MENTION THIS LAW BECAUSE EVERY YOUNG MAN, AND EVERY YOUNG WOMAN, SHOULD KNOW THAT ADULTERY DESTROYS THE SOUL. THIS LAW WAS RECORDED BY SOLOMON, AFTER DAVID HAD COMMITTED THE SIN OF ADULTERY. I DO NOT KNOW OF ANY CRIMINAL LAW THAT IS RETROACTIVE. PRV:6:32 BUT WHOSO COMMITTETH ADULTERY WITH A WOMAN LACKETH UNDERSTANDING: HE THAT DOETH IT DESTROYETH HIS OWN SOUL. HERE ARE SOME VERY IMPORTANT FACTS CONCERNING MATTER OF URIAH. ALL OF GOD’S CHILDREN ARE PREDESTINATED, THEREFORE IT WAS NOT BY CHANCE THAT DAVID SAW BATHSHEBA WASHING HERSELF. ANOTHER FACT ELIAM, AND URIAH WERE VERY DANGEROUS WARRIORS. BOTH MEN ARE LISTED AMONG THE THIRTY SEVEN MOST VALIANT MEN IN THE ARMY OF ISRAEL WHICH NUMBERED 603,550 MEN, WHEN GOD BROUGHT THEM OUT OF EGYPT. ONE OF THE MEN LISTED AMONG THE THIRTY SEVEN KILLED EIGHT HUNDRED MEN WITH A SPEAR. 2SM:23:39 URIAH THE HITTITE: THIRTY AND SEVEN IN ALL. FACT2, URIAH THE HITTITE WAS UNDER A SENTENCE OF DEATH. DT:7:1 WHEN THE LORD THY GOD SHALL BRING THEE INTO THE LAND WHITHER THOU GOEST TO POSSESS IT, AND HATH CAST OUT MANY NATIONS BEFORE THEE, THE HITTITES, AND THE GIRGASHITES, AND THE AMORITES, AND THE CANAANITES, AND THE PERIZZITE, AND HIVITES, AND THE JEBUSITES, SEVEN NATIONS GREATER AND MIGHTIER THEN THOU. 2. AND WHEN THE LORD THY GOD SHALL DELIVER THEM BEFORE THEE; THOU SHALT SMITE THEM, AND UTTERLY DESTROY THEM: THOU SHALT MAKE NO COVENANT WITH THEM, NOR SHEW MERCY UNTO THEM; FACT3 (ALL ISRAEL WAS FORBIDDEN TO MARRY A HITTITE.) 3. NEITHER SHALT THOU MAKE MARRIAGE WITH THEM; THY DAUGHTER THOU SHALT NOT GIVE UNTO HIS SON, NOR HIS DAUGHTER SHALT THOU TAKE UNTO THY SON. WHEN GOD SPEAKS HIS WORDS BECOME LAW AND HIS COMMANDMENTS CANNOT BE ALTERED, OR CHANGED. THE LAWS OF THE MEEDS, AND PERSIANS COULD NOT BE ALTERED, IT WAS FOR THIS CAUSE THAT DANIEL WAS CAST INTO THE LIONS DEN, EVEN THOUGH THE KING WANTED TO SAVE DANIEL. (JN:10:34 JESUS ANSWERED THEM, IS IT NOT WRITTEN IN YOUR LAW, I SAID, YE ARE GODS? 35. IF HE CALLED THEM GODS UNTO WHOM THE WORD OF GOD CAME, AND THE SCRIPTURE CANNOT BE BROKEN;) SAINTS OF GOD MEDITATE ON THIS QUESTION. WHY DID GOD RECORD IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES THINGS CONCERNING DAVID, AND BATHSHEBA. I BELIEVE THAT GOD WANTED US TO KNOW THAT THE ANOINTING OF GOD MAKES A PERSON ROYALTY. WHEN WE, THE ELECT OF GOD, RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST WE RECEIVE THE SPIRIT OF ADOPTION THAT MAKES US A MEMBERS IN THE FAMILY OF GOD. EPH:1:4 ACCORDING AS HE HATH CHOSEN US IN HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, THAT WE SHOULD BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLAME BEFORE HIM IN LOVE: 5. HAVING PREDESTINATED US UNTO THE ADOPTION OF CHILDREN BY JESUS CHRIST TO HIMSELF, ACCORDING TO THE GOOD PLEASURE OF HIS WILL. THE ANOINTING THAT DAVID RECEIVED, WAS THE EARNEST OF HIS SALVATION. WE AS SAINTS OF GOD MUST ALSO RECEIVE THE WASHING OF REGENERATION AND THE RENEWING OF THE HOLY GHOST. ETERNAL LIFE IS IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. WHEN A PERSON IS BAPTIZED OUT OF THE WORLD, AND INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND RECEIVES THE WASHING OF REGENERATION. AND THE RENEWING OF THE HOLY GHOST THEY ARE IN A SAVED AND SANCTIFIED CONDITION. HOW DOES A PERSON RID THEMSELVES OF SIN UNDER THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE WHICH IS IN THE BODY OF CHRIST? WHEN GOD FIRST CALLS A PERSON TO REPENTANCE ALL MANNER OF SIN CAN BE WASHED AWAY BY THE WATER OF THEIR BAPTISM. IF A PERSON WILL REPENT, AND BE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE REMISSION OF SIN, THEY SHALL RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST. ACTS:2:38 THEN PETER SAID UNTO THEM, REPENT, AND BE BAPTIZED EVERY ONE OF YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS, AND YE SHALL RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST. IF A PERSON SINS IN IGNORANCE, THEY CAN CONFESS THEIR SIN AND BE FORGIVEN. 1JN:1:9 IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS, HE IS FAITHFUL AND JUST TO FORGIVE US OUR SINS, AND TO CLEANSE US FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. WHEN A PERSON IS SICK, IF THEY WILL CALL FOR THE ELDERS OF THE CHURCH, AND HAVE THEM PRAY OVER THEM ANOINTING THEM WITH OIL, THE LORD WILL RAISE THEM UP, AND IF THEY HAVE COMMITTED SIN THEY SHALL BE FORGIVEN. JMS:5:14 IS ANY SICK AMONG YOU? LET HIM CALL FOR THE ELDERS OF THE CHURCH; AND LET THEM PRAY OVER HIM, ANOINTING HIM WITH OIL IN THE NAME OF THE LORD: 15. AND THE PRAYER OF FAITH SHALL SAVE THE SICK, AND THE LORD SHALL RAISE HIM UP; AND IF HE HAVE COMMITTED SINS, THEY SHALL BE FORGIVEN HIM. A PERSON THAT HAS RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST HAS THE POWER TO REMIT SIN, AND TO RETAIN SIN. JN20:21 THEN SAID JESUS TO THEM AGAIN, PEACE BE UNTO YOU; AS MY FATHER HATH SENT ME, EVEN SO SEND I YOU. 22. AND WHEN HE HAD SAID THIS, HE BREATHED ON THEM, AND SAITH UNTO THEM, RECEIVE YE THE HOLY GHOST; 23. WHOSE SOEVER SINS YE REMIT, THEY ARE REMITTED UNTO THEM; AND WHOSE SOEVER SINS YE RETAIN, THEY ARE RETAINED. AFTER A PERSON HAS RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST, AND HAS COME INTO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH. THEY KNOW ABOUT REPENTANCE FROM DEAD WORKS, THEY KNOW A FAITH TOWARD GOD, THEY KNOW ABOUT BAPTISM, THEY KNOW ABOUT THE LAYING ON OF HANDS, THEY KNOW ABOUT THE ETERNAL JUDGMENT, THEY MUST BE VERY CAREFULL NOT TO COMMIT THE WILFULL SIN. UNDER THE LAW THAT GOD GAVE TO MOSES IF A MAN COMMITTED A SIN IN IGNORANCE; HE COULD BRING A SHE GOAT TO THE PRIEST, AND THE PRIEST COULD OFFER UP THE GOAT AS A SACRIFICE, AND THE SIN WOULD BE FORGIVEN. BUT IF A MAN SIN PRESUMPTUOUS, WILFULLY, NO SACRIFICE COULD BE OFFERED UP FOR THAT SIN, THE SIN WOULD REMAIN. NM:15:27 AND IF ANY SOUL SIN THROUGH IGNORANCE, THEN HE SHALL BRING A SHE GOAT OF THE FIRST YEAR FOR A SIN OFFERING. 28. AND THE PRIEST SHALL MAKE AN ATONEMENT FOR THE SOUL THAT SINNETH IGNORANTLY, WHEN HE SINNETH BY IGNORANCE BEFORE THE LORD, TO MAKE AN ATONEMENT FOR HIM; AND IT SHALL BE FORGIVEN HIM. 29. YE SHALL HAVE ONE LAW FOR HIM THAT SINNETH THROUGH IGNORANCE, BOTH FOR HIM THAT IS BORN AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND FOR THE STRANGER THAT SOJOURNETH AMONG THEM. 30. BUT THE SOUL THAT DOETH OUGHT PRESUMPTUOUSLY, WHETHER HE BE BORN IN THE LAND, OR A STRANGER, THE SAME REPROACHETH THE LORD; AND THAT SOUL SHALL BE CUT OFF FROM AMONG HIS PEOPLE. 31. BECAUSE HE HATH DESPISED THE WORD OF THE LORD, AND HATH BROKEN HIS COMMANDMENT, THAT SOUL SHALL UTTERLY BE CUT OFF, HIS INIQUITY SHALL BE UPON HIM. A SIMULAR LAW WAS BROUGHT OVER INTO THE NEW TESTAMENT. IF A MAN AFTER HE HAS RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST, AND HAS COME INTO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, THERE IS NO MORE SACRIFICE FOR SIN. WHY? THREE REASONS, HE TRODS UNDER FOOT THE SON OF GOD, HE COUNTS THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT WHEREWITH HE WAS SANCTIFIED AN UNHOLY THING, HE DOES DESPITE UNTO THE SPIRIT OF GRACE. HEB:10:26 FOR IF WE SIN WILFULLY AFTER THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, THERE REMAINETH NO MORE SACRIFICE FOR SINS, 27. BUT A CERTAIN FEARFUL LOOKING FOR OF JUDGMENT AND FIERY INDIGNATION, WHICH SHALL DEVOUR THE ADVERSARIES. 28. HE THAT DESPISED MOSES’ LAW DIED WITHOUT MERCY UNDER TWO OR THREE WITNESSES: 29. OF HOW MUCH SORER PUNISHMENT, SUPPOSE YE, SHALL HE BE THOUGHT WORTHY, WHO HATH TRODDEN UNDER FOOT THE SON OF GOD, AND HATH COUNTED THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT, WHEREWITH HE WAS SANCTIFIED, AN UNHOLY THINGS, AND HATH DONE DESPITE UNTO THE SPIRIT OF GRACE? 30. FOR WE KNOW HIM THAT HATH SAID, VENGEANCE BELONGETH UNTO ME, I WILL RECOMPENSE, SAITH THE LORD, AND AGAIN, THE LORD SHALL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE. 31. IT IS A FEARFUL THING TO FALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE LIVING GOD.