Thursday, April 25, 2013

Keep Your SUDs in the Bucket (Lesson one)



This is lesson one of a five part series about experiencing forgiveness and restoration.

Noah, Abraham, Moses, Solomon and Peter all have something in common.
They all made seemingly unimportant decisions or SUDs, which ended up allowing sin into their lives. 

If you have been a Christian for any length of time, you probably can go ahead and add your name to the list, because you have not kept your SUD’s in the bucket.

2 Samuel 11:1-2 NASB
(1)  Then it happened in the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel, and they destroyed the sons of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.
(2)  Now when evening came David arose from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king's house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance.

Being unaccountable can be dangerous.  Let’s look at David’s SUDs.  Yes, King David a man after God’s own heart had SUDS.  He made seeming unimportant decisions that allowed sin to come into his life.

He should have been out fighting with his men.  David was the warrior King why was he at home?  Maybe he thought “they could take care of this, I’m the king, I deserve a rest”.

He got out of his routine.  He slept all day and awoke in the evening.  He was by himself so no one knew what he was doing.

Just a few suds (seemingly unimportant decisions.)

Continued next week

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