(Through The Bible) 2 Samuel by Zac Poonen

[Music] let's turn today to second Samuel second Samuel chapter one we saw in our last study how God picked up David when he was a young man and in second samuel we read about the reign of David the whole book deals with that from the time of the death of Saul and David is made pink and then how he wins the number of victories his fall into sin and then the problems he has in his family right on to the end of his life and ministry as king so we'll try and look at the important point in this chapter and the spiritual lessons that we can learn you remember in the first session I said that all Scripture has been given by inspiration of God for correction for training in righteousness that the man of God may be complete thoroughly equipped for every good work for our life and for our ministry if we keep that worse before us as we study all these books we will receive something that will equip us see there are many ways in which we can look at the Old Testament we can look at all the types of Christ in the Old Testament and the clever brain can discover many many things there but we don't find the New Testament emphasizing so much of typology a little bit we saw a little bit in when we studied the tabernacle of what Christ was born but there are many other types as we could study we could study joseph has a picture of Christ and there are many many ways in which is a type of Christ we could study Boaz and Ruth which we looked at yesterday as a picture of Christ redeeming us and making us his bride now all that is interesting but I have not placed too much emphasis on it because the New Testament doesn't get too much emphasis to that bag of typology a little bit as all right ultimately God's Word is given for our life and not for intellectual stimulation it's very important to remember that that we can study the Bible like we study a book of chemistry and that's not the way God wants us to study it he wants us to study in a way that it applies to our life that it equips us for better living and for more effective ministry that's what we must always keep in mind and we must set aside the temptation to be intellectually stimulated because if we go into that line gradually what will happen is our ministry to people also will be just intellectual stimulation and we find people remain carnal defeated by sin even though they are getting a lot of intellectual stimulation from Scripture so let's keep that in mind and let's look at second Samuel Chapter 1 now in Chapter 1 we read of the depth of Saul and i want you to see something about David's attitude when he hears about the death of salt now remember Saul was David sworn enemy more than once he tried to throw javelin at him to kill him he chased him all over the caves and villages of Israel to try and find him to kill him more than once David spared his life when callers at his mercy meet in a cave and this is the man whom david now here's is dead is something like you're hearing that the man who was trying to kill you is finally dead the man who once had an anointing but lost that anointing and it says here a man came to from the camp of Saul verse 2 and he told David I have escaped verse 3 from the campus all in David said how do you know where's find that Saul and Jonathan are dead and this man tells the life now we know thats all committed suicide that we already saw him one time in 31 but this man in order to get some favor from David tells him that I was the one who kills all he says I by chance for six I happen to be monkey I'll go and saw was leaning on his fear and he asked me to kill him verse 9 he said please stand beside me and kill me verse 10 so i stood beside him and killed him and i took the crown in his bracelet and I brought it to you and he expected David to say were wonderful but David took hold of his clothes his own clothes verse 11 and toilet he act was the sign of week when a man was in great sorrow he would tear his clothes that's what David did and they mourned and wept and fasted from morning till evening for Saul and then David called this Amalekites and said to him verse 14 how is it that you were not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy the Lord's anointed and David called one of the young men and said chillin and acute UC Davis attitude there and he said to him your blood is on your head because with your own mouth you said that you killed the Lord's anointed this is one of the things that made David a man after God's own heart he was a new covenant man in Old Covenant time jesus said love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them that curcumin harmy pray for them that persecute you and David was one man who did it he just like I said the other day you can be an Old Covenant Christian in this time and in most government times there were a few men like Moses and David who live by New Covenant principles and here was one of them he did not hate his enemies and particularly even if once upon a time that man was anointed in if he's lost the anointing he said I do not touch it once his heart condition is deeply when he even cut off a bit of Saul's robe and David made of rotor lament we read and he lamented were 17 / Saul and Jonathan his son were 17 and he says such wonderful word in crave sincerely from his heart about a man was a backslidden person who had lost the anointing and would be chasing him all through his life here is a lesson for us to learn how a man of God should behave towards those who are evil towards him and david says verse 19 your beauty o Israel is slain on your high places and a number of times he says how are the mighty fallen verse 27 verse 25 how have the mighty fallen I'll have the mighty fallen and he says Jonathan course Jonathan depression is understandable because Jonathan was a close friend of David's and he says you've been very pleasant to me but to praise Saul and to call him a mighty man and to praise him for the victory t1 and that they were sister than Eagles and stronger than lions verse 23 you appreciate the good that he saw in Seoul and not to speak evil a tremendous example that are very few people like that today and that is why I say there are a few people who are men and women after God's own heart here is point number one then we can keep in mind and it is such a man that God picked up and placed upon the throne of his kingdom Israel now I want you to notice here in this chapter 2 verse 1 it came about afterwards that David inquired of the Lord saying shall I go up to one of the cities of Judah this was a habit with David we saw that earlier when we look at once angle 23 verse 2 and 4 we see that also in 1 Samuel 30 verse 8 whenever he went was going the balance said Lord should i do this should i do it you see it here you see it in chapter 5 verse 19 when he goes in the battle he says Lord shall I go up to against the first time a few days later again he praised when another battle verse 25 23 shall I go and this time the Lord says don't go you shall not go directly go behind them see each time the Lord change the strategy for the warfare David was a man of war but he got a strategy from God and that's why he always won when there was a famine in the land second sample 21 one again sought the lord there was one time when he didn't seek the Lord Lord when he saw Bathsheba he did not the Lord Lord watch later a warning for us one more time in the last chat for a second I was 24 when he wanted to come for people to see how strong his army was Neils depending on the strength of his army then on the Lord he did not seek the Lord Joab commander in chief said don't do it but he didn't seek the Lord and that was another time that he's famous but whenever he sought the lord lord what shall I do and waited on him he always got an answer that protected a here's another point a man after God's own heart but his seniors also encourage us because we say there was a man who fail and you and I have failed if I tell you the failures I have had in my life I'm not going to list all of them on how to take many sessions for that it'll encourage you to know that God doesn't think of people who never say and we fail we blunder we just should've things but God is merciful to us and if you can finish with those stupid things in your younger days and he stood it becomes less that you don't those two things like some older people do in that suit if you can learn lessons in your younger days your cell it's in our youthful days and we do things in a very unwise way we speak in a very unwise way but God is merciful and it's a great encouragement to know that even people like David fales but yes God calls an enum in the new testament's acts chapter 13 a man after God's own heart that's how all refer tremendous both of us so we see here that David inquired of the Lord and each time the Lord told him where he should go and this time the Lord told him to go to heaven and the men of Judah came there and anointed David King worse for over the house of Judah later on he was anointed king over Israel also we read in chapter 5 verse four and five he was 30 years old perhaps he was 17 or 18 when he was anointed but he took him 12 more years to be anointed king to actually become king and another seven and a half years because before he ruled over all Israel only the tribe of Judah accepted him initially so we see here that David was willing to wait patiently magic from the age of 17 to the age of 37 20 years before he became king over all Israel and he recognized as it says in chapter 5 and verse 12 David realized that the Lord had established him as king over Israel there were many times when David's colleagues had told him here is Saul at your mercy kill him and take over the kingdom one God is a night of you second that people are with you because you're the great leader who killed the light take it David said no I will not grant for myself I will wait for God to give me in his own time here's another lesson if you want to be a man after God's own heart or a woman after god's own heart learn not to grin jacob was a grabber as long as mother grabber he could not become israel you see a child comes into the world with his fists closed have you seen little children Maldini to put your finger there they'll grab it this is man's nature always grabbing we spend our life grabbing and grabbing grabbing grabbing grabbing position honor money Jesus opened his farms on Calvary that's example we are to follow to yield God will give us a Ministry of position everything if we wait for design and it's far better to get it from God than having grabbed it ourselves Jacob did not have to tell a lie and deceive his father idea to get the bus right he could have waited gone to the human just my David we are so it'll make its own expression of unbelief when I ground supposing you are attracted to some young man or young girl whom you pee you should marry here is the time when you can think now I don't get her quickly somebody else will get hurt or if i don't get him quickly somebody else will get hurt that is unbelie-- if you trust god you won't grab it say lord what you have result for me i will get nobody else will be able to get that person the ministry you have reserved for me some part of the world i will get learn to trust god and don't complain about people and if God makes you wait 20 years wait you'll become a much better leader at the end of that I told you yesterday how Saul never got this training of trial and running around trying to save your life David like like David had that's why he was a useless King Solomon never had that people who are born into comfort and born into elings without trials and pressures I feel sorry for you if your life is like that if your parents have made life so easy for you that you've never faced any trials and pressures you've not had spiritual battle you have not faced rejection from people you're not fit to be a leader you'll be pretty useless is the one who is being through rejection whom God has given a ministry he's going to be a good king that's what we learn about David between Seoul and Solomon who are useless King stood David a man after God's own heart so he waited for dr. make him King but he made his mistakes in more ways than one we read in chapter 3 and verse two sons were born to David at Hebron his firstborn was through one wife and the second was through another way and the third was through another way and the fourth verse or was through another way chapter 3 verse 4 and the fifth was through another one verse 4 in the sixth verse 5 plus through another one he's a man after God's own heart he did think what he didn't inquire of the Lord shall I marry a second one shall I marry a third one said I marry a fourth one we can't say it was like that in those days no Isaac had only one way that was long before David Moses had only one way that was long before David we can't say it was like that in those days there were people who lived before David who had only one life as far as we know Joshua only one liar why should David and so many because that's how the kings of the world work God overlooked it now don't think God will equip today we are living in more life today we are living under the New Covenant there are people who fall into adultery and say well David also fell but that was all comments they did not have the Holy Spirit dwelling in the spirit allowed only rested upon David we have the Holy Spirit dwelling inside unlike Samson who hadn't upon him so they could only have the Holy Spirit for ministry but we have the Holy Spirit dwelling inside like Jesus for character so you cannot equate yourself unless your mother she goes with you cannot equate yourself with David and sansom no I just mentioned that in passing that there is where David made his mistake and he suffered a lot because of his children that he had in so many wives and I want to turn to chapter 4 verse 8 we see of a time when ish chapter 4 verse 1 was all Sun and somebody brought the head of ish bushes to David at Hebron and said Behold the head of ish for said he was another man who thought he could get favor with David by killing one assault son and said to him thus the Lord has given my lord the King vengeance this day and David said somebody once brought news to me were saying that's all is that he thought his bring me good news and I seized him and killed him and how much more when wicked men have killed a righteous man verse 12 David commanded a young men and they killed that man to and cut off his hands and feet and hung him up you see he steadfast there there he believed that vengeance belongs to God and that's a very important principle that you and I must remember revenge does not belong to us Romans chapter 12 is very clear vengeance belongs to me says the Lord now what would you do if somebody fell down at your feet to worship you you would do what Peter did lift him up and they don't worship me worship belongs to God now do you believe that's right you believe that just like worship belongs to God vengeance also belongs to God when you try to take revenge you are with the same as accepting worship no different worship belongs to God vengeance belongs to God you have no right to take revenge on another person whatever harm that person has done to you leave it to God the deal with it in his own time never never even desire evil towards that person it's a very important requirement as you serve the Lord in different places in different ways you will find many many temptations to take revenge on people even on other believers who try to destroy your ministry or speak evil of you you know I've discovered one thing you cannot serve the Lord in any effective way without having lots and lots of people speaking evil of you speaking false stories about you accusing you of teaching false doctrine and so many things and if you try to take revenge on them you'll go astray ye them to god they cannot destroy your ministry your ministry comes from heaven and all the people accuse Jesus and they accuse fall of being false teachers and being passing out demons of the Prince of the devil's and all that Jesus never wasted his time answering them those who want where to be led astray let went astray but those who did not listen to all that followed Jesus and God bless it'll be like that don't worry about people who try to harm you whether believers or unbelievers or anyone leave it to God to take vengeance on them it's very very important most Christians don't follow that we read even 14 districts of believers to take other believers report what for to take revenge what else they are doing what God should be doing has done somebody done something wrong don't even God please man don't you think God can be with that that's what David learned how he turn to chapter five and sorry chapter six David had a great desire to bring the ark of god wheres tune up to Jerusalem but he did not do it in God's Way in the early chapters of Samuel 1 Samuel for I think it is we read that when the Philistines that captured the art can be gotten a lot of problems because of that they put it on a bullock cart and sent it back and that news had spread around and David and heard it as a young man so the Philistine sent the ark on a bullet on so he knew that the law of Moses said the art must be carried by the Levites the sons of Levi and not only that there was a law in numbers 4 verse 15 which said that even the sons of Levi were not supposed to touch the ark the ark was to be covered and never told they were to carry it on hold God was teaching them the sacredness of that of his name of his presence they were not to touch it that this wasn't the most holy place this was a loss but Davis said well that was okay to short distances but we gotta go to long distance and I think the first time method is better put it on a bullet car and that's what caused all the problems then when he put it on the bullet garden as they stumbled on the rock road the art began to shake and Musa one of the sons of avenida reached out his hand verse 6 to hold the arc because the oxen nearly offset it the anger of the Lord burned against us and God struck him down there for his pill reverence and he died there see he did it with a good motive you can do things with a good model but if it's a violation of God's laws you still suffer motive is not enough motive is very important but it's wrong to do a good thing with a bad motive and it's wrong to do a good to do a bad thing with a good motive that's also wrong and here is something god forbid it whatever your reason if God is forbidden it is forbidden and that's what who's I had learned first of all he was not an evite secondly even those knee rights were not supposed to touch bre but who was the cause of all this David because he followed this worldly method of a bullock cart instead of God's method of carrying it on the shoulder and you and I face that problem today in churches when we decide to spread the gospel the question is how you're going to do it God's Way or man quick the whole East first wave of the multinational companies way of advertising is your dependent on money or on the Holy Spirit today a lot of people say well we don't have money to do evangelism what you should say we don't have the Holy Spirit's power if you have the Holy Spirit's power whether you have money or not God's work will be done companies in the world cannot survive without money they can't survive without the Holy Spirit every company in the world can provide taxi both of Allah they all survive without the Holy Spirit they can't survive without money when the church comes to the place where we say if we have money will go on but we can go on without the Holy Spirit the church has come to the level of these companies you read be actually a possible and you find hardly any emphasis on money at all of his men they would send money for the poor people for believers that's about all they were not worried and praying to God for money money money money money all the time like so many people do today they were praying for the Holy Spirit all the time and that's the distance the methods of the world the Bullock cart has replaced God's method and that's why that's dead that's why there was death there and there's death and a lot of churches today and we need to listen to that we need to understand what God is trying to say to us through this and that was a lesson that later on we read that David did it the proper way in the less rest of that chapter he brought the art finally on the shoulders of the Levites and this time he was so full of happiness chapter six verse 14 he was dancing before the Lord with all his life that was the way they expressed their worship and praise to god they clap they raised their hands they shouted they dance they used musical instruments and they praise God with all their heart David was a worshiper but it says here that as he was coming his wife were 16 the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw David dancing leg listen was very upset and she despised him in her heart despised an anointed servant of God who was worshiping in a way that she did not like then many people worshiping God in a way that you don't like you don't have to imitate them but don't define the Bible never says the man who never said that Michael also should start jumping and dancing no but she was not to despise another don't think that the way you do it is running this is the trouble with a lot of Christian bruise the way we do it is right everybody must do it the way you have some groups when they have sunday worship meeting everybody sits quiet like in a funeral service and they worship the Lord okay I don't want to do it that way to me Jesus has risen from the dead of these people he's still in the grave so I don't decide if they want to do it that way that's them do it then there are other people who are the other extreme who they say you shouting shouting shouting shouting out John John yogurt and then always recover only then the Holy Spirit on the Holy Spirit doesn't come when you raise the volume on your amplifier I wish it were so easy but its not believe you gotta have a clear conscience whether the amplifier inside your sound system inside or outside the Holy Spirit's not dependent on me but I don't despise them i said earlier if you want to do it that's why do it but we blueprint to do it the way I want to do it I see if you want to raise your hands very hard i do it if you want to clap clap i do it but i'm not going to force you to do it that's the lesson we learn from here don't despise the way another person wishes and don't think the only way you the way you worship is the only right way your freedom godless of the heart and so David when wanted to downsize defying don't despite your personal desert and don't compel a person to do it the result was that when and David it says in verse 20 over this worse David return to bless his household what are the beautiful words I wish servants of God after they've gone out to ministry they're tired particularly if you have danced a lot on the streets for many miles you're pretty tired would come back to bless their home that's how we should be a man who wants to come to bless his home and unfortunately he's got his nagging wife at home as soon as he enters the door she yells at him some terms of thought it unwise like that what to do but he still comes to bless her and she treats him like that and he said that's okay the Lord appointed me as ruler and I would celebrate before the Lord and I'm not going to listen to your wife verse 21 and the Lord judged me call verse 23 that she never had any children in Chapter seven we read about Davis desire to build a temple for the Lord nice really see something wonderful there his heart nobody told him he taught in his heart see verse 27 to I dwell in a beautiful house but the Ark of God is intent oh I wish that there were many people like that Lord look at how what a comfortable outside of this for myself how much money I have been on my house my clothes my food and how little i have given for your work how little I'm concerned about your work today we know that God house is not a physical building but God's work required month and God is looking for people who say Lord I've spent so much on myself Fuli here's can't i expend a little bit for you I've lived so many years doing things in the world and I spend my life doing things for you in the world they worked overtime late through the night to feed their companies and to make profit for their company can't dodge servants work overtime and they don't get any extra pay for that con God servants work overtime without complaint David was a man after God's own heart he was concerned about God's house this is Lord look at my house and where's your house I want to say to you my brothers and sisters have that heart always to the end of your life but you think about God's house more than your house God will take care of your house when years ago I said to the Lord I said lord I have a house and you have a give me grave to look after your house and you look on the line I'm a little exchange with the Lord now once they've got three more people looking after my husband I have been looking after done but have a concern in your heart for God's house that's the thing I'd like you to see the god saccharin no you can't build this house the reason he tells in 1 chronicles 28 verse 3 that you have been a man of war and only a man is correct must bring those God's house that's a principle there a man of war cannot build on top we have to go beyond the war directed the water is necessary David did his job by defeating the enemies clearing the ground for Solomon producing all the gold and silver required for the temple and giving it Solomon built it can you do that can you do all the hard work and let somebody else get the honor for doing the work or do you want the honor yourself David did not stay no no I want to deliver it here is a man after God's own heart was willing to do all the work in the background to help it and make it easier for another man to build the church build a house and get honor there's a little verse in chapter 8 verse 15 which I want you to notice it says here in David administered justice and righteousness rowlett people the Living Bible said he was fair to all the people to everyone a leader must be fair to everyone that's just impossible in Chapter 9 we see of his kindness to another son of descendants of song a son of jonathan called mephibosheth there was a son of jonathan coletivo chef who was lame being crippled and we see their Davids kindness to him and saying that messy will worse then we'll eat at my table regular it's a picture of grace messy felt that now my grandfather is dead and even said in verse 8 Lord I mean what is your servant that you should regard attack dog like me he felt he was like a dead dog and David said no you're not a dead dog you want to sit at my table and eat with me the picture of great picture of Christ lifting us up like we were like dead dog lifting us up and saying you're gonna sit with me at my table now we come to chapter 11 when we find David spritzen there again we can learn some lesson to see how he felt that first verse in chapter 11 is very very important it happened in the spring he you know the Kings did not go to battle in the winter when it was cold and raining they went to battle in the springtime and it in the spring at the time when things go out to battle every time when there was a battle David led the armies of Israel Kings used to lead the armies of Israel in those days they used to go right out in front not like today but this time David decided to relax you know it's when you stop fighting the battle that is the destruction it's when you are not in the place where God wants you to be that you fall into sin David's place was on the battlefield instead of being in the balance evening of sneaking in the power he was in the battle theme this story would never have been bad it's when you begin to relax because things have gone very well with you and now you say i send my junior to do the Lord's work I did at home like America was sending the juniors to do the Lord's work the hard work in the king so those juniors will be alright with Maharaja sitting at home problem you see you're not like that today you're all juniors from and most of you anyway and you're okay but waiting the day comes when you think you'll not become a little senior and you're going to find all the juniors to do the work I think God please save me from that thing I always want to be a junior to the end of my life I want to be out in the fields working for the Lord when I'm 85 years old sure I want to be in the battlefield for the Lord rivalry end of my life and I hope you also want to be there on the battlefield for the Lord there's no danger of the battlefield the danger is in the palace David was perfectly safe as long as he was on battlefield he was endangering the balance the opposite of what people think keeping the danger is Nevada to physical danger yet the spiritual danger is more in the palace it's Lenny of comfort think of the time some of you who are older who readily fallen into sin was it in the days of trial and pressure and sickness in your home and problems and financial difficulties no it's when things begin good and your study of money and your business prospered and your work was okay and everything's going well nobody staying at home that's the time you said and that's the time he must be more alert David stayed at home state of Jerusalem verse 11 verse 1 and not only stated Jerusalem a PCT was he stated Jerusalem and he was like Moses praying for John Moses prayed when Joshua was fighting it David had been praying for Joab who was fighting in the balance then at least he Devine safe even then but he wasn't praying he was sleeping it says in the evening David rose from his bed I don't know whether he's class of all day or just in the afternoon but he was just he was a big king now he will act and he was just me and he got up from his bed and he had no time to pray now got up from his bed and walked on the roof of the king house and he saw this pretty woman and he was tempted you see all the stages that led to that temptation and if you like they say nip it the button stop it at an earlier stage you would never have got to the final stage and even when he looked pizza dough that's dangerous and when he inquired and said who is that somebody said that's the wife of Uriah the Hittites that it should have been mercifully should have been a warning Oh somebody else's wife then I've got nothing to do god bless him but no he was powerful somebody else's right so what I'm going to lust after her is it only name it he looking at admire the beauty of somebody else's wife he may not be a king powerful enough to grab her but nobody can stop me from looking and lessons you can't be a servant of god that's that failure of David the whole world is known about it for three thousand years you know it's very sad there was such an incident in his life but it need not have happened and then after he sinned with her and she became pregnant he didn't know what to do he had to cover it up now and to cover it up he calls back her husband from the battlefield and tells him the goal and stay at night in his home so that at least he had the blame for the child and he is such a godly man he doesn't go to his house the next morning he sleeping of the Kings door and they think said hey Wang people in your house he said my colleagues are fighting in the battlefield can I go and be with my wife that man was a better man than David at that time than junior workers that junior worker is sometimes a better in a more godly man than the mission director that's a sad thing very often we see that in her sir unfortunately and David didn't know what to do so his mind schemes you know when you when you sin you have to do so many other things to cover up that's it and if he had honestly gone to your eye and say listen I've got apologize to you for something I commit adultery with your wife please forgive me instead of doing that he schemes and once a protected recognition sends him back to the battle screen and tells Joab put him right up in front where the battle is the hottest and let him die withdrawn whether he's killed on an evil thing to do is a man after God's own heart to do such a terrible thing commit adultery with a man's wife and then kill him I thank God that scripture is absolutely honored and as you and I look into the corruption of our own place we will discover we are no better than him I I wouldn't judge Davis I hope you don't we are all made of the same flesh capable of the same since God is had mercy on us and thank God there was one brave profit there Nathan notes very dangerous thing those days to confront a king and tell him about his sin think even today how many preachers are there who would get up in their pocket and point out the sting of the rich people sitting in their congregation it's very difficult to find Christ profits today who couldn't care less for the face of the richest take an example from Nathan of fearless profit second Samuel 12 he came to David and he told him a story he said there were two men in the city one rich and poor the rich man had great flocks and hurt the poor man had only one little lamb and when a visitor came to the rich man's house the rich man wanted to make a lamb curry for him and he did not take from the multitudes of his own flock he went and took that one poor man laughs and children killed it to make a curry for this problem that poor man lost one little lambie ad and david's worst fight anger burned greatly you know sometimes our anger burns greatly of the sins of other people till Nathan said you are the man you are the one who took that poor Uriah little and he had only one you had so many ways and David suddenly realizes the truth but you know what David said he said he was so angry he says well as the Lord lives worse five that man deserves to die now the law did not favor a man should be killed for stealing another person glad but David was so strict we can become so strict the things of other people and not realized grossest things in our own life and he says in verse 6 he must make restitution for x 41 lampeter he must give for bag how many or do you know how many of David's sons died the baby born to Bathsheba Amnon epsilon at the Niger killed exactly like David said to miss Alma porthole we say something with our mouths thought that your judgment will be according to what you have said the way you have judged other people you will be judged yourself remember that be careful not to judge other people you will be just exactly as it was said Nathan said you are the man i anointed you king over Israel why have you despite the word of the Lord worst night therefore worse then the sword will never depart from your house I will raise up evil from your own household verse 11 and David here you see the man after God's own heart coming into his own again he says to Nathan I've sinned against the Lord and he wrote that wonderful Psalm Psalm 51 where he says Lord I've sinned against you have mercy on me please don't take your Holy Spirit from me he doesn't try to cover up his sim like Saul Saul said please honor me don't let anybody know my same he told Samuel but David never thought that he didn't tell me it and don't tell anybody about it he wrote a song and told everybody about it he has a wonderful thing we see about David he didn't pretend to be a spiritual person when he was not when he Cindy admitted it now I want to say to you my brothers and sisters however great you may be before the Lord one day when somebody points out to use something wrong in your life admit it don't become so big that nobody can correct you don't become so great that nobody can come up to you and say you're wrong or you need to change in this area I say Lord till the end of my life I wanted here I wanted this any man who can come up to maybe much younger than you come up to me and say and make me more christ-like thank God for all those who can correct David took it in the right way but the lord struct the child your eyes widow and widows child in verse 15 and David fasted and prayed but the child died see God deals with us in grace forgiving us but he also deals with us in government that means making a bleep what we sold for example think of a man has filled his mind with pornographic 50 literature too many years and then he asked God to forgive and God the forgiving but also his life he will be played in his thoughts and his with those images that is saw in those 15 magazine in his younger days why does not take away those images is it because he is not forgive he is forgiving Coheed but he doesn't take away those images to warn you don't do it again be gentle and if you're faithful and fight and fight and fight and fight against those dirty thoughts one day those images of grant me for this theory we sink to the bottom like five more fighters come on top of the word of God and this one seems to the bottom and it doesn't cover your bosoms and more like it did in your younger days okay we read in chapter 13 about one of it David's sons raping his sister stepsister and Absalom killing that son because that girl was Absalom sister in chapter 15 we read about David's son Absalom starting a conspiracy against David Absalom wanted to be the king and he won the hearts of people he stood in the gate chapter 15 verse 2 and told people who are coming with some problems yeah your case is right he said your claims are good and right chapter 15 verse 3 but the nobody listens to you the king is not appointed anybody he turned is the verse here which says in this way verse 6 epsilon stole the hearts of the men of Israel towards him you see that sometimes in Christian circle that somebody who steals the hearts of people away from the leader because he wants to be the leader is happening today all set to the elders in Ephesus I know after my departure some of you will draw the cycles of yourself Absalom did it but it didn't go well with Absalom and David had to leave this throne and flee and God brought something good out of that you know what I don't have time to show you some 39 found 41 Tom 55,000 61 and some 63 all those sounds we would never have had in the Bible if Absalom had not chased David out the trials that God takes us through other means by which God gives us the Ministry you read those some those are wonderful song let me just show you one verse in one of those sums in some 55 it says in verse 22 cost you a burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you that's what he did an excellent it and he learned something from experience that he wrote that song and I want to encourage you not to be afraid of trial God uses it to bring out a ministry from you and finally Absalom was guilt and David came back to the throne god knows how long we should let you go through a trial he will not allow you to be tested beyond your ability I his fulfilled was the counselor for Absalom I sofa was originally David's counselor you read about him in chapter 16 verse 21 and you know who a neat offal was a nice oakville was Bathsheba's grandfather and he said this is the opportunity to get a little revenge on David for the way he treated my granddaughter Bathsheba and so he schemes with Absalom to destroy David but God brought the Council of anecdotal to confusion he was like a Judas Iscariot of the Old Testament who betrayed David and just like Judas Iscariot we read in chapter 17 verse 23 and his hope will also hang himself but I want to show you one thing in here in David when he was running away there was a man called shimmy I chapter 16 verse spike who came out cursing David he was a relative of Saul and he was waiting for a chance to get at David and he couldn't do anything when David was on the throne now David was running away he came out cursing verse 6 he threw stones at David where Sammy said get out you worthless fellow you good-for-nothing the Lord has returned to you all the bloodshed you said on the house of Saul verse 8 and one of David's soldiers said let me go and chop off that man's head and David said no verse 11 if the Lord has told in verse 10 if the Lord has told him to curse me why should I fight against the Lord look at god Davis understanding of the sovereignty of God nobody can curse me without God's permission now the sad thing I want to tell you is that at the end of David life he forgot to be merciful I'll come to that later but in another session but here we see that when epsilon died 1833 we find that David weeks Oh Absalom my son my son I wish I had died in your place this is a spirit of crime those who rebelled against him he wished he had died for them he was a new covenant man with all his feelings there was some glorious things in his character he did not have hatred even for his son who tried to kill him I want to turn now to the last chapter there are few things in between we you see a song of David in 20 is taking sandal 22 which is repeated in Psalm 18 read it sometime it's a beautiful picture of salvation you see that he was a great leader he describes how a good leader should be in second samuel 23 verses 127 and he must rule in the fear of God there are many qualities he describes their of how a doggy leader should be he did not work alone we read in second samuel 23 verse 8 239 he had my team and he was a man who knew how to delegate responsibility the good men who could lead Israel forward and we see finally in second samuel 24 his last thing one day he decided to count the number of people either to see over how many people he is king or to see how strong his army is and they enjoy access please don't do it verse 34 43 let the Lord add as many people as he likes but don't do it but he went ahead and did it and God punished him that 70 thousand people were killed in Israel and verse 15 God said you didn't trust me there the failure of faith and David finally repents and he makes an altar to the Lord in verse 18 onwards that last part of that book chapter 24 18 to 25 is very beautiful he goes to offer a sacrifice at the threshold of our honor the Jebusite just like God Poland to and around us says o Lord my king you have done please take the bullet for the sacrifice free please take the word free and david says no I was pair Christ I will buy it from you verse 24 because this is the worst i want you to notice i will not offer to the Lord that which cost me nothing worse that all of you should remember all for your life I will not offer to the Lord that which costs me nothing and on that site the same place you read in second chronicles three words one the temple was built the temple was business in a place where a man said I will never get to God that has taught me nothing Kristen them is full of people who give to God that was cost than nothing what does it cost you to serve the Lord what has it cost you to live for God don't ever offer to God that which costs you nothing if you are like that the house of God will be filtered through you even today that's great

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Published: Thu Apr 06 2017