A couple of weeks ago I preached a sermon on Psalm 51, sometimes called The Sinner’s Guide by pastors and Bible scholars. The ascription tells us that it is a Psalm of David that he composed after Nathan the Prophet came to him after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Meaning that this is the Psalm David wrote as he was recovering from the greatest moral and spiritual disaster of his life. In the course of the sermon I mentioned that David raped Bathsheba and murdered her husband – not many would quibble with the latter statement but a couple people questioned me with respect to the former.
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