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Second Samuel, chapter 11, verse 27. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord

a statement this sentence that summarizes David's sin against Bathsheba and

Eurya and I won't recount all the details of Second Samuel chapter 11,

but this verse summarizes the offense of sin against God.

So sin is an offense in so many ways.

It's an offense against ourselves.

Like we are choosing evil over good, which leads to our destruction.

So it's offense against ourselves.

It's offense against others.

And we'll pray in 2nd Samuel chapter 13 about the effects of our sin on others,

and surely that's the case here in 2nd Samuel chapter 11. At the core, though, sin is an offense

against God. When you read Psalm 51, which David writes after this, he writes against you,

you only have I sin. And he's not saying that his sin has only been against God, but he is saying

that is the primary weight of sin, that it is displeasing to God. And I just want to

encourage us when we are convicted of sin in our lives, that we see it first and foremost as displeasing to the Lord, and that we feel the

weight in that sense of sin against God in ways that will lead us as we confess our sin to feel

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