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• The Bible tells the whole truth, even when it's negative.
• David, despite his sin, was known as a man after God's own heart.

• Everything was going well in David's life.
• David fueled his sexual passion through his harem, which was sinful though legal.
• People are particularly vulnerable when they've got time on their hands.
• Walking closely with God doesn't make one impervious to temptation.
• Lust makes God vanish.
• We must flee lust and temptation, and avoid justifying it.

• We seldom think of consequences when in the midst of sin.
• One sin led to another and still more in David's life, as it does in ours.

• David murdered not just one godly, loyal man, but several in his own army.
• The guilt of David's sin weighed him down.
• Death, rape, rebellion, and murder came within David's own family.
• Our lives and families suffer the consequences of sexual sin as well.
• Forgiveness is available through repentance.

• The Enemy never tells us upfront of the consequences of illicit sensuality.
  - Illustration: Hughes tells about the consequences for a young woman who becomes pregnant out of wedlock.
• No one is above falling to temptation.
• God is never so far away as when we are in the grip of lust.
• We need to flee lust and let God's Word have its way in our lives.