Sin Causes Death - 2 Samuel 10-14

2 Samuel 11:14-21 (ESV)

In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. In the letter he wrote, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die.” And as Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant men. And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite also died. Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting. And he instructed the messenger, “When you have finished telling all the news about the fighting to the king, then, if the king’s anger rises, and if he says to you, ‘Why did you go so near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall? Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’”

Sin causes us to do bad things.  Things we would never really think of doing.  David purposely put Uriah in danger for his death, simply to cover up his own sin.  When we sin it takes our mindset into places it should not go.  Sin can cause many problems.   Think of these examples:

1. Sin caused Cain to kill Abel. 

2. Sin caused Moses to kill an Egyptians. 

3. Sin caused Lot to stay in Sodom. 

4. Sin caused Noah to sin after the flood. 

5. Sin caused Absalom to rape Tamar.

6.  Sin caused Ananias and Sapphira to lie about their offering. 

7.  Sin caused men stone Stephen. 

8. Sin caused religious leaders to crucify Jesus. 

9. Sin caused Peter to deny Jesus. 

10. Sin caused Demas to forsake his faith.  

Sin causes us to do wicked things.   James said it this way:

James 1:13-14 (ESV)

Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.