Just because our sins are hidden doesn't mean they aren't real.

King David discovered this truth when his secret affair with Bashiba came crashing down on everyone he loved.

Though God forgave him, David watched in agony as his children reenacted his failures

in increasingly devastating ways.

Today on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall reveals a sobering truth.

Moral failure leaves scars that forgiveness doesn't erase.

In this study, we'll discover why the choices we make in secret today will echo through our family for years to come.

Chuck titled his message, Absalom, the Rebel Prince Charming.

There are two kinds of problems that a family can endure trouble from without and trouble from within.

And this is a case of the second.

David endures with his family trouble from within.

And I don't think there's any way to write in the sacred record, awful guilt that this man lived with,

as he looked back over the months that we're going to travel through tonight and trace the

steps of the downward trend of misery because he sinned during that 12-month period of time.

When David sowed to the flesh, he reaped what the flesh produced.

Moreover, he reaped the consequences of his actions, even though he had confessed his sin and been

forgiven for it. 2 Samuel chapter 12, the general prediction is the sword will never depart from your house

now verse 11 introduces us to the first of eight steps downward in David's misery

marital infidelity that is the first.

Verse 11, Behold, I will raise up evil against you from your own household.

I will even take your wives before your eyes and give them to your companion,

and he shall lie with your wives in broad daylight.

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