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Uriah’s memorial
Text: 2 Samuel 11-12
Tomorrow is Memorial Day. We will honor the memory of a mighty soldier named Uriah.
This is the account of David and Bathsheba. It is the account of David’s adultery with another man’s wife. And it’s horrible to read. Watching him make wise decisions in following the LORD through tragedy, suffering, and victory, but here, David becomes the bad guy. However, David isn’t our focus this morning. Uriah is. Uriah the fallen warrior. Uriah pictures Jesus Christ placed in the middle of other people’s sin.
Uriah chooses the things of God over his own pleasure (vss 10-11)
- David tells Uriah to go home to be with his wife hoping that they’ll be intimate and David’s sin will be covered up.
- But Uriah chooses the things of God. He chooses to identify with the ark and Israel’s people rather than enjoy himself.
- Jesus Christ chose the cause of God, giving up his own convenience and even giving up blessings he was entitled to for the sake of godliness.
Uriah’s integrity makes sinners uncomfortable (vs 13)
- Uriah doesn’t go with David’s plan. This obviously makes David frustrated at Uriah’s commitment to the things of God. It makes David feel desperate now.
- Jesus Christ’s integrity makes sinners uncomfortable and desperate.
Uriah is betrayed by his friend (vss 14-15)
- Christ is betrayed by his friend.
Uriah would die to cover someone else’s sins (vs 17)
- Because of Uriah’s purity and integrity, it will make his death necessary.
- And now Uriah will die for David’s sin.
Uriah enters and exits the scriptures blameless
- There is never any blame placed on Uriah.
- You might say what about his drunkenness? According to the scriptures that was David’s doing in verse 13.
- So Uriah enters and exits the scriptures as a blameless man, just like the LORD Jesus Christ.
Uriah is the lamb (12:1-5)
- On top of these things, the icing on the cake is the LORD will liken Uriah to a sacrificial lamb.
- You sacrificed this lamb when sin came knocking at the door.
