An ambush is secret. There is another story about an ambush in Joshua 8. You can read it for yourselves. Accountability is the essential part of an ambush. Do you want to gain victory over an area of defeat in your life? You will not be successful without accountability.

I was singing a little chorus from my childhood, but I changed the words. “No never sin again? No! Never sin again. What? Never sin again? No! Never sin again.” What is sin? Disobedience to God. We sin against Him first, when we sin against others. 

Why did David linger in the temptation that was before him? First of all he was a king, and it was the season for kings to go out to battle. He stayed home. Scripture doesn’t say, but maybe he was bored. Whatever the reason, he went up to his roof.

There he saw a woman bathing. In-his-face temptation. He yielded to the temptation and continued to behold her. The snare had been set ~ the trap door closed. Entrapped through disobedience.