Bad Leader (11:1)
Lust (11:2)
Adultery (11:5)
Deceit (11:6-13)
Murder (11:14-17)
Hypocrisy (12:5-6)
Against whom did David sin? God (12:9, Psalm 51:4)
What does justice demand? Death (12:5).
What was the punishment? Punishment of David's family including the death of the child conceived in the sin. But not death! (12:7-15)
How can God be a just God and not give justice so David? The text claims that God "put away" David's sin. If any modern judge did this for such a criminal he would be removed from the bench. The New Testament, however, gives us glorious understanding as to how God forgave this terrible sin.
"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus." Romans 3:23-26
Jesus Christ satisfied the wrath of God for this sin in David's life.
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