Hog Wild in a Mud Puddle of Sin

That sin is a slippery slope is a fact in my Bible. That sin comes right from the tempter is again a fact in my Bible. That one sin leads to another sin is also a fact in my Bible, friends.

It usually plays out this way, as seen in the life of King David. Turn in your Bibles, friends, to the book of 2 Samuel and chapter 11, which is the saddest chapter in that book because of King David's moral failure. And it proves once again just how corrupt the nature of a good man is and what a battle sin really is.

The text informs us what kind of season it was. When kings go forth to battle, verse 1 declares, little did David realize the battle which he missed out on the battlefield with Joab and his men was a cakewalk to the badly faced and the temptation of sin out on his porch that evening while he took a leisurely stroll atop his palace roof. The devil loves it when he finds a man indulging himself in leisure.

So here is King David in his leisure and in his flesh as he looks down and sees the form of a naked woman in her bath. And instead of looking away in embarrassment, he looks again. Oh, friend, if we only knew the danger of that second look.

Oh, the deadly danger of a second look. Oh, that we would look at sin differently. But his flesh begs a second look after all.

There's no harm in a little peek, right? And after he takes a second look, that's when the devil steps in alongside him to say, Sure, go ahead and look. After all, she is a thing of beauty. God created her.

It's okay to enjoy what God has made. Look how lovely she is. And the text says, And the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

So the devil says again, Look at that. Have you ever seen such a sexy thing? Doesn't she look desirable? And David lingers as he looks, and the more he looks, his looks turn to lust, and he begins to desire her. Then the devil has his fish, and he says to David, Go on, go on.

Isn't she worth having? After all, you are the king, and you already own everything in the kingdom. She's already yours. She's yours for the taking.

And the text says, And David sent and inquired after the woman. Then he goes from enjoying her beauty at a distance to a close encounter in the lap of sin. The text holds no punches as it states, And David sent messengers and took her, and she came in unto him, and he lay with her.

First he took a step into a mud puddle of sin, and like a bog of mire, lower he goes until he sinks deep in a hogwall of sin. It's slippery in that dirty hogwall, which is fit for a pig, but not a man. But when a man gets into a hogwall, he acts just like a pig, and a pig has no conscience, and neither does a man, and the pigs die of sin.

Once you hit that hogwall, my friend, you've gone hogwild in a mud puddle of sin. And that's what happened to King David. And that's the title of my message today, friends.

Hogwild in a Mud Puddle of Sin. And that's the introduction to my message, because sin will grieve the Holy Spirit away and take your reason away to where you are subject to your corrupt nature without a leash. For one, sin, indulged often, leads to a more grievous one.

And the text reads, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten and die. But the thing that died that day first was David's conscience, because he was hogwild in a mud puddle of sin. Splashing around, just like a fat hog, getting more and more filthy with every turn in that hogwall.

That's what sin will do to you, friend. It leaves a terrible stain that only can be washed clean in Christ's blood for forgiveness of sin. A look became a second look.

The lingering look became the look of lust. The look of lust became an act of adultery. The sin of adultery became the sin of murder.

And the text says, But the thing David had done displeased the Lord. That's where it ends up. Our sin ends up before God.

Our sin is exposed before His holiness. And God is a God who hates sin. God is a God who must punish sin.

And the text says, And the child died. And David's heart is broken because his sin broke God's heart. But David is God's child, and God did not leave a child of His there in that mud puddle of sin.

In His mercy, He sent a voice of conviction by His prophet Nathan. And if you are a child of His and you are away from Him because of sin, there is mercy here, friend, in the fact that God will somehow fetch you back to Himself and clean you up and grant you the grace of repentance to continue on with Him in a right relationship to Him. As a believer, our battles are with the flesh, the world, and the devil.

We may not win every battle, but if we continue on to fight again a new day, God will get us finally across the battleground of this world to the other side because at a place called Calvary, He won the war. Let us pray.