Lesson 4: Warring Against the Flesh
Question 3
It was a hard life for me (and everyone around me) on the losing side, but God didn’t leave me there. He taught me how to fight, and I’m happy to share the lessons I have learned with you.
Called to War
We can’t study the Bible for long without realizing that we are called Christian soldiers, given armor to wear and told to go on the offensive against our own sinful desires.
We’re in a war, soldier, and it’s time you learned how to fight!
In any battle, the side that wins is the side most prepared. They have plans and contingency plans and strategies galore, and they are armed to the teeth. This is reasonable. In war, it’s life or death, and we must take this spiritual battle more seriously than anything else in our lives.
In this course, I’m going to be sharing with you very specific things I’ve done and still do to win against enemies more powerful and craftier than me. And, also, want to learn from you, things you’re going to do to fight the good fight so that we will learn from each other.
Do you remember when we started this course by talking about King David who committed adultery? We saw how he was walking around on his roof, being a “peeping David” on his neighbor below, but do you know how it all started? Look at this with me:
In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king's men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem. One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.) Then she went back home.
2 Samuel 11:1-4 (NIV)
Question 3. What time was it when David had this fall to sexual immorality?
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