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HANDOUTS for “Probation After Death”
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Section 1. Research for Ps 51:1,2
David cries out for mercy after sinning with Bathsheba.
DAVID’S CRY FOR PARDON. (Maclaren’s Expositions)
Psalm 51:1 - Psalm 51:2.
"A whole year had elapsed between David’s crime and David’s penitence. It had been a year of guilty satisfaction not worth the having; of sullen hardening of heart against God and all His appeals. The thirty-second Psalm tells us how happy David had been during that twelvemonth, of which he says, ‘My bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night Thy hand was heavy on me.’ Then came Nathan with his apologue, and with that dark threatening that ‘the sword should never depart from his house,’ the fulfilment of which became a well-head of sorrow to the king for the rest of his days, and gave a yet deeper poignancy of anguish to the crime of his spoiled favourite Absalom. The stern words had their effect. The frost that had bound his soul melted all away, and he confessed his sin, and was forgiven then and there. ‘I have sinned against the Lord’ is the confession as recorded in the historical books; and, says Nathan, ‘The Lord hath made to pass from thee the iniquity of thy sin.’ Immediately, as would appear from the narrative, that very same day, the child of Bathsheba and David was smitten with fatal disease, and died in a week. And it is afterall these events-the threatening, the penitence, the pardon, the punishment-that he comes to God, who had so freely forgiven, and likewise so sorely smitten him, and wails out these prayers: ‘Blot out my transgressions wash me from mine iniquity, cleanse me from my sin”
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Section 4: LAZARUS:
Research: Jesus raises Lazarus after four days in the tomb
Section 5:
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Hope these are helpful!
Much love,
Kathy
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