Sin leads to destruction and suffering.
2 Samuel 19:6-7
For you have made it clear today that commanders and servants are nothing to you, for today I know that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, then you would be pleased. Now therefore arise, go out and speak kindly to your servants, for I swear by the Lord, if you do not go, not a man will stay with you this night, and this will be worse for you than all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now.
Look at all the destruction sin caused in the last years of King David's life. Betrayal, death, upheaval. It started with 'the man after God's own heart' following his lustful desires leading him to be a murderer. It ballooned into a full scale rebellion and civil war
The casual observer would not have put the two together but when you follow the flow of events you see the Lords judgment of David in Absalom's rebellion.
David's heart and passion for the Lord gave us a glimpse beauty of a worshipful king. Sadly, David fell to sin like every other king.
God's people needed more than David. God's people needed God as their king. They needed a perfect, loving, and compassionate king. They needed Jesus.
Jesus would not fall to sin leading to judgment. Jesus took the judgment God's people deserved on himself. He is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. David was the glimpse. Jesus is the fulfillment.
Taken from reading 2 Samuel 16-20:
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