When kings think like mortal men, they believe the body they walk around in is who they are. Their whole existence revolves around things that they see, feel, taste and hear, things that are always changing, shifting and moving. This is a story about us, as seen in the life of David and Bathsheba. David said in Psalm 55:18, He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me. The battle that was against David was mortality and the illusion that came as a result of this thinking. All illusion is in the realm of duality. Our reality never changes, it is just the illusions that we perceive as we try to get a better or clearer picture.

2 Samuel 11:1, it was the time of spring when kings go out to battle, but David stayed at Jerusalem. Spring is the time of new life and new beginnings. In the evening tide (beginning of Gods day) David arose from off his bed (place of rest), and walked upon the roof of the kings' house (Christ consciousness). From the roof he saw a woman washing herself and the woman was very beautiful to look at. It is after leaving the rest of God and not functioning from the Christ consciousness that David thoughts and mind began to dwell on the lower realm and it is from this point on that the soul (natural mind, emotion and will) took over. James tells us that a double minded (dipsuchos) man is unstable in all his ways. A double minded man has two minds about himself and lives in constant duality about his true identity and existence.

David sent and inquired about the woman, and his servant said, it is Bathsheba the wife of Uriah the Hittite. David is a type of the sons of God, who saw Bathsheba a type of the soul and desired her greatly. Uriah a type of the physical man is married to the soul. It is through the soul that the physical man lives and moves and has his identity in this world. Our reality is in the spirit, our personality, feelings and talents are all physical characteristics and cannot define our true reality. The truth is kings think like mortal men when they truly don't know who they are, and so they conform to some standard in order to live and have an identity. A son/king who thinks like a mortal man has to have an image so he can say this is who I am. Until he discovers who he is, he will continue to work, labor and toil to achieve what is already resident inside of him.

After finding out about the woman, David sent and took her and lay with her and she returned to her house. And the woman conceived and sent and told David, and said I am with child. The scripture declare the carnal mind is enmity against God and further states, every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed, when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin, and sin, when it is finished (birth), bringeth forth death. As in David's case the child conceived is a mistake in identity. David knew he was a son and what birth out of his union with the soul would never be Christ like or enter into the kingdom of God.

David calls for Uriah and gets him drunk and sends him to his house, but Uriah stays with David's men. It was told to David that Uriah went not down to his house and David tries again all to no avail to get Uriah to go home to his wife. David's carnal mind begins to entertain thoughts of mischief, he thought by sending Uriah home to his wife in a drunken state would sleep with his wife and David can pass the fruit of his union of as Uriah's. What David did not know is that the soul and the body already has an identity of its own called the five senses. David came up with another plan and sends by the hand of his servant to Joab to put Uriah in the forefront of the battle that he dies. What a tangled web he weaves when at first he practiced to deceive.

So a messenger was sent to David that Uriah was dead. When the wife (soul) of Uriah (physical man) heard that her husband was dead she mourned for him. To understand this lesson we must go back to the beginning when the soul was separated from the spirit and being alone the soul joined with the body (physical man) to become one, from this point on she could no longer receive anything from the spirit. Leviticus 17:11 tells us, for the life (soul) of the flesh (physical man) is in the blood. When the physical man dies, the soul (Bathsheba) lost her identity and was alone again. Unable to function on her own the soul must unite again with the spirit to bring forth the Christ or the true identity. The soul mourns for her husband, alone again she has no identity in the physical realm. When her mourning was over David sent and brought her to his house (consciousness) and she became his wife, and bare him a child. But the thing that David did displeased the Lord.

So the Lord sent Nathan the prophet and confronts David. Verse 9 of Chapter 12 of 2 Samuel says, Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? Thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. The sword of the children of Ammon is the five senses. David slew the physical man with the five senses thinking his death will bring him peace. We must come to the reality that the physical man is not our true identity. The Church system is still doing the same today. David was a man who was always at war within himself. This war is a result of the conflicts of not knowing his true identity. He gave birth to an illusion and thought that was his reality. He killed the physical man to hide his mistake in identity. Paul did not say kill the old man but reckon him dead. When the mistake in identity was born, no name was given to it and in the process of time God allows him to die. The end result of this union is death.

David prayed in hope that the child would live but in the end he dies. This tells us nothing of the old man identity will enter the kingdom of God. Verse 20 say, When the child was dead David arose (stood up in place and time) from the earth (lower realm) and washed (by the word of the spirit) himself, and changed his apparel (nature/covering) and came into the house of the Lord, and worshipped. Then David comforted Bathsheba his wife and went in unto her and lay (unite) with her, and she bare a son, and called his name Solomon (meaning peaceful) and the Lord loved him. The end result of this union is life and peace. It is interesting that the first birth is called a child but the second which is Solomon is called a son. We are a son at the moment of conception. After the spirit and the soul unite, a beautiful son of their union is born, Solomon a type of our true identity, the perfect God/man. The perfect God/man is the son who has lost his sense of duality. It is only after he reckon the old man dead did David bring forth his true identity and reality. As a result of this change in consciousness of who we are, we are able to manifest our true reality in this physical realm. It is as James said a double minded man he forgets, but thank God we are waking up to our true reality and existence.

I trust that you are blessed by this word of life. May we allow the Christ in us to manifest through us as we minister to the Christ in others with love.

Namaste,

Winston & Sarah