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March 9, 2010

Just a Private Affair

by Alistair Begg

2 Samuel 11:1–27
 (ID: 0148)

While the Israelite army was away doing its duty, King David stayed home and acted in sin. Alistair Begg offers a stark warning from this low point in David’s life. To sin blatantly as David did, we must have anesthetized our fear of God. We think, “If others won’t see, God won’t see. It’s just a private affair.” Such a belief is always false. God may sometimes seem silent, but He is never absent.

Copyright © 2025, Alistair Begg. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated in whole or in part into any other language.

Alistair Begg
Alistair Begg is Senior Pastor at Parkside Church in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Bible teacher on Truth For Life, which is heard on the radio and online around the world.