Through The Bible - English - 12 (2 Samuel) by Zac Poonen

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 2nd 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 King 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 points 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 verse 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 or what Christ stood for but there are many other types that we could study because study Joseph has a picture of Christ and there are many many ways in which he's 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 type of typology a little bit is 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 here 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 scriptures so let's keep that in mind and let's look at 2nd Samuel chapter 1 now in Chapter 1 we read of the death 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's sworn enemy more than once he tried to throw a 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 Saul was at his mercy sleep in a cave and this is the man whom David now here's is dead it's 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 camp of Saul and David said how do you know where's fine that Saul and Jonathan are dead and this man tells a lie now we know that Saul committed suicide that we already saw him once I know 31 but this man in order to get some favor from David tells him that I was the one who killed Saul he says I challenge verse 6 I happen to be in mount Galgo unsolved was leaning on a spear 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 and his bracelet and I brought it to you and he expected David to say wonderful but David took hold of his clothes his own clothes verse 11 and tore them you see that was the sign of weeping when a man was in great sorrow he would tear his clothes and that's what David did and they mourned and wept and fasted from morning till evening for Saul and then David called this Amalekite 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 killer and he killed him you see David's attitude there and he said to him your blood is on your head because with your own mouth you said that you kill 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 all covenant times Jesus said love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them that hurt human army pray for them that persecute you and David was one man who did it you see just like I said the other day you can be an Old Covenant Christian in this time and in all covenant times there were a few men like Moses and David who lived 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 even if he has lost the anointing he said I do not touch it once his heart convicted him deeply when he even cut off a bit of Saul's robe and David made a wrote a lament we read and he lamented verse 17 over Saul and Jonathan his son verse 17 and he says such wonderful words in praise sincerely from his heart about a man who was a backslidden person who had lost the anointing and who had been 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 how have the mighty fallen and he says Jonathan for Jonathan to praise him is understandable because Jonathan was a close friend of David's and he says you've been very pleasant to me but to pray solve and to call him a mighty man and to praise him for the victories he won and that they were swifter than Eagles and stronger than lions verse 23 to appreciate the good that he saw in soul and not to speak evil a tremendous example there are very few people like that today and that is why I say there are very few people who are men and women after God's own heart here is point number one that 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 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 looked at 1 Samuel 23 verse 2 and 4 we see that also in 1 Samuel 30 in verse 8 whenever he went was going to battle he 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 into battle he says Lord shall I go up - against the Philistines a few days later again he prays when another battle verse 5 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 changed the strategy for the warfare David was a man of war but he got his strategy from God and that's why he always won when there was a famine in the land 2nd samuel 21 1 he again fought the Lord there was one time when he didn't seek the Lord when he saw Bathsheba he didn't ask the Lord Lord what shall I do a warning for us one more time in the last chapter of 2nd Samuel 24 when he wanted to count the people to see how strong his army was he was depending on the strength of his army then on the Lord he did not seek the Lord Joab his commander-in-chief said don't do it but he didn't seek the Lord and that was another time that he sinned but whenever he sought the Lord he said Lord what shall I do and waited on him he always got an answer that protected him here's another point the man after God's own heart but his failures also encourage us because we say there was a man who failed 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 I'll have to take many sessions for that it'll encourage you to know that God doesn't pick up people who never fail we fail we blunder we do stupid things but God is merciful to us and if you can finish with those stupid things in your younger days at least if it becomes less that you don't know stupid things like some older people do then that's good if you can learn lessons in your younger days we ourselves 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 failed but yet God calls and even in the New Testament Acts chapter 13 a man after God's own heart that's how Paul referred him when you spoke about him 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 verse 4 over the house of Judah later on he was anointed king over Israel also we read in chapter 5 verse 4 and 5 he was thirty years old perhaps he was seventeen or eighteen 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 imagine 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 1 God is anointed you second the people are with you because you're the great leader who killed Goliath take it David said no I will not grab 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 grant Jacob was a grabber and as long as he was a grabber he could not become Israel you see a child comes into the world with its faces closed have you seen little children small babies you put your finger there they'll grab it this is man's nature always grabbing we spend our life grabbing grabbing grabbing grabbing position honor money Jesus opened his bombs on Calvary that's the example we are to follow to yield God will give us a ministry a position everything if we wait for his time 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 Isaac to get the birthright he could have waited don't want to given it to him just like David we are so it's a map it's a expression of unbelief when I grab supposing you are attracted to some young man or young girl whom you feel you should marry here is a time when you can think now if I don't get her quickly somebody else will get her or if I don't get him quickly somebody else will get it that is unbelievable if you trust God you won't grab it say Lord what you have reserved for me I will get nobody else will be able to get that person the ministry you have reserved for me in some part of the world I will get it 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 save his life like David had that's why he was a useless King Solomon never had that people who are born into comfort and born into ease without trials and pressure 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 battles 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 gonna be a good king that's what we learn about David between Saul and Solomon who were useless Kings stood David a man after God's own heart so he waited for God to make him King but he made his mistakes in more ways than one we read in chapter 3 in verse 2 sons were born to David at Hebron his first bond was through one wife and the second was through another wife and the third was through another way and the fourth verse 4 was through another wife chapter 3 verse 4 and the fifth was through another wife verse 4 in the sixth verse 5 was through another wife is a man after God's own heart he did think well he didn't inquire of the Lord shall I marry a second one shall I marry a third one shall I marry a fourth one we can't say it was like that in those days no Isaac had only one wife and that was long before David Moses had only one wife and 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 wife as far as we know Joshua had only one wife why should they would have so many because that's how the kings of the world work God overlooked it now don't think God will exit today we are living in more light 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 come and they did not have the Holy Spirit dwelling in him the Spirit of the Lord only rested upon David we have the Holy Spirit dwelling inside unlike Samson who added 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 you have not received the Holy Spirit you cannot equate yourself with David and Samson no I just mentioned that in passing that there is where David made his mistake and he suffered a lot because of these children that he had from so many wives and I want to turn to chapter 4 verse 8 we see of a time when ish chapter 4 verse 1 with Saul's son and somebody brought the head of his to David at Hebron and said behold the head of each portion here was another man who thought he could get favor with David by killing one of Saul's sons 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 verse 10 that Saul is dead and he thought he was bring me good news and I ceased him and killed him and how much more when we get men have killed a righteous man verse 12 David commanded the young men and they killed that man too and cut off his hands and feet and hung him up you see he said first there that 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 say don't worship me worship belongs to God now do you believe that's right do you believe that just like worship belongs to God vengeance also belongs to God when you try to take revenge you are it's the same as accepting worship no difference worship belongs to God vengeance belongs to God you have no right to take revenge on another person what ever harm that person has done to you leave it to God to deal with him 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 leave them to God they cannot destroy your ministry your ministry comes from heaven and all the people accuse Jesus and they accused Paul 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 then followed Jesus and God blessed it'll be like that so don't worry about people who try to harm you whether they're 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 1 Corinthians 6 of believers who take other believers to court what for to take revenge what else they are doing what God should be doing has done somebody done something wrong don't you think God sees that don't you think God can deal with that that's what David learned now we turn to chapter 5 and sorry chapter 6 David had a great desire to bring the Ark of God verse 2 up to Jerusalem but he did not do it in God's way in the early chapters of samuel 1 samuel 4 or i think it is we read that when the Philistines had captured the Ark and they'd 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 i heard it as a young man that the philistines sent the archon a bullock cart 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 they were poles they were to carry it on poles God was teaching them the sacredness of that of his name of his presence they were not to touch it that which was in the most holy place this was a law but David said well that was okay for short distances but we gotta go to long distance and I think the philistine method is better put it on a bullock cart and that's what caused all the problems then when he put it on the Bullock cart and as they've stumbled on the rough roads the art began to shake and moosa one of the sons of a Vanetta reached out his hand verse 6 to hold the art because the oxen nearly upset it the anger of the Lord burned against us and God struck him down therefore his reverence and he died there you 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 was something guarded forbidden whatever your reasons if God has forbidden it it's forbidden and that's what whose I had learned first of all he was not a Levite secondly even those near bites were not supposed to touch the arm 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 a shoulder and you and I faced 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's way the Holy Spirit's way or the multinational companies way of advertising is your dependence on money or on the Holy Spirit today a lot of people say oh we don't have money to do evangelism what you should say is 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 survive Pepsi coca-cola they don't 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 we'll go on but we can go on without the Holy Spirit the church has come to the level of these companies you read the Acts of the Apostles and you find hardly any emphasis on money at all occasionally send money for the poor people poor 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 difference 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 in 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 last rest of that chapter he brought the ark finally on the shoulders of the Levites and this time he was so full of happiness chapter 6 verse 14 he was dancing before the Lord with all his mind that was the way they expressed their worship and praise to God they clap they raised their hands they shouted they danced they used musical instruments and they praise God with all their heart David was a worshipper but it says here that as he was coming his wife verse 16 the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw David dancing like this and 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 there may be people worshiping God in a way that you don't like you don't have to imitate them but don't despise them the Bible never says the Bible never said that Michal also should start jumping and dancing no but she was not to despise another don't think that the way you do it is right you see this is the trouble with a lot of Christian groups the way we do it is right everybody must do it the way we do it 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 for these people he is still in the grave so I don't despise them if they want to do it that way that's them do it then there are other people who are the other extreme who I they say you shout and shout and shout in Jordan Jordan Jordan Jordan Jordan Jack and then the Holy Spirit comes only then the Holy Spirit come see the Holy Spirit doesn't come when you raise the volume on your amplifier I wish it were so easy but it's not so easy you gotta have a clear conscience whether the amplifier inside your it sound system inside or outside the Holy Spirit is not dependent on these things but I don't despise them I say brother if you want to do it that way to do it but leave me free to do it the way I want to do it I see if you want to raise your hands right I do it if you want a clap clap I do it but I'm not gonna force you to do it that's a lesson we learned from here don't despise the way another person worship and don't think the only way you the way you worship is the only right way your freedom God looks at the heart and so David went wanted to dance I say fine don't despise the person who does it and don't compel a person to do it the result was that when David it says in verse 20 look at this words David returned to bless his household what a beautiful words I wish servants of God after they have 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 homes that's how we should be a man who wants to come to bless his home and unfortunately he's got this nagging wife at home as soon as he enters the door she yells at him some sermons have got about wives 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 will celebrate before the Lord and I'm not going to listen to you dear wife verse 21 and the Lord judged me Carla verse 23 that never had any children in Chapter 7 we read about David's desire to build a temple for the Lord and I really see something wonderful there his heart nobody told him he's thought in his heart see verse 272 I dwell in a beautiful house but the Ark of God is intense oh I wish that there were many people like that Lord look at how what a comfortable house I have built for myself how much money I have spent 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's house is not a physical building but God's work requires money and God is looking for people who say Lord I've spent so much on myself through these years how do I spend 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 work overtime late through the night to please their companies and to make profit for their companies can't God's servants work overtime and they don't get any extra paper that can't God's servants work overtime without complaining 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 is 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 many years ago I said to the Lord I said Laura I have a house and you have a house give me grace to look after your house and you look after mine I made a little exchange with the Lord and I want to say God to be more faithful and looking after my house than I have been looking after gods but have a concern in your heart for God's house that's the thing I'd like you to seek but God said to him 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 of rest must bring build God's house that's a principle there a man of war cannot build God's house we have to go beyond the war to rest the war 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 and 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 say no no I want to build 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 for all his people the Living Bible says 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 descendant of Psalm a son of Jonathan called Mephibosheth there was a son of Jonathan called mephibosheth who was lame would being crippled and we see there David's kindness to him and saying that Mephibosheth will worst and will eat at my table right it's a picture of Grace Mephibosheth felt that now my grandfather is dead and he even said in verse eight Lord I mean what is your servant that you should regard a dead dog like me he felt he was like a dead dog and David said no you're not a dead dog you're gonna sit at my table and eat with me it's a picture of grace a picture of Christ lifting us up like we were like dead dogs lifting us up and saying you're gonna sit with me at my table now we come to chapter 11 where we find David's great sin there again we can learn some lessons to see how he felt that first verse in chapter 11 is very very important it happened in the spring means 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 in the spring at the time when Kings 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 battles that use that you start sinning 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 battlefield he was sleeping in the palace if he was in the battlefield this story would never have been there it's when you begin to relax because things have gone very well with you and now you say I send my juniors to do the Lord's work I sit at home like a Maharaja who is sending the juniors to do the Lord's work the hard work in the fields because those juniors will be all right this Maharaja sitting at home and don't have problems you see you're not like that today you're all juniors man most of you anyway and you're okay but waiting the day comes when you think you'll now become a little senior and you're going to appoint all the juniors to do the work I say God please save me from that day 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 right at the end of my life and I hope you also want to be there on the battlefield for the Lord there's no danger on the battlefield the danger is in the palace David was perfectly safe as long as he was on battlefield he was in danger in the palace the opposite of what people think people think the danger is in the battlefield physical danger yes but spiritual danger is more than the palace is when you have comfort think of the times some of you who are older when have you 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 became good and you have plenty of money and your business prospered and your work was okay and everything's going well nobody's sick at home that's the time you sin and that's the time we must be more alert David stayed at home staying at Jerusalem verse 11 verse 1 and not only stayed at Jerusalem at least if he was he stayed at Jerusalem and he was like Moses praying for John Moses prayed when Joshua was fighting if David had been praying for Joab who was fighting in the balance then at least he'd have been safe even then but he wasn't praying he was sleeping it says the evening David rose from his bed I don't know whether he slept of all day or just in the afternoon but he was just he was a big king now he relaxed and he was asleep 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's 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 in the bud stop it at an earlier stage you would never have got to the finals and even when he looked it's arrow that's dangerous and when he inquired and said who is that somebody said that's the wife of Uriah the Hittite that is truth should have been mercy should have been a warning symbol or somebody else's wife then I've got nothing to do god bless him but no he was powerful somebody else's wife so what I'm gonna last after her is it only David do you look and admire the beauty of somebody else's wife you may not be a king powerful enough to grab her but nobody can stop you from looking and lusting you can't be a servant of God that's that failure of David the whole world is known about it for 3,000 years you know it's very sad that 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 to go and stay at night in his home so that at least he got the blame for the child and he is such a godly man he doesn't go to his house the next morning he is sleeping at the Kings door and the King said hey why didn't he go to your house he said my colleagues are fighting in the battlefield and can I go and sleep with my wife that man was a better man than David at that time than junior worker that junior worker is sometimes a better and a more godly man than the mission director that's a sad thing very often we see that increase in them 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 sin and if he had honestly gone to your eye and say listen I've gotta apologize to you for something I commit adultery with your wife please forgive me instead of doing that these schemes and wants to protect his reputation sends him back to the battlefield and tells Joab put him right up in front where the battle is the hottest and let him die withdraw so that he's killed on an evil thing to do is this a man after God's own heart to do such a terrible thing committed down tree with a man's wife and then kill him I thank God that scripture is absolutely honest and as you and I look into the corruption of our own flesh we will discover we are no better than him I I wouldn't judge David I hope you don't we are all made of the same flesh capable of the same sins God has had mercy on us and thank God there was one brave prophet there Nathan you know it's very dangerous thing in 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 pulpit and point out the sin of the rich people sitting in their congregations it's very difficult to find such prophets today who couldn't care less for the face of the rich take an example from Nathan a fearless prophet 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 herds 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's land and killed him killed it to make a curry for this traveler that poor man lost the one little lamb be had and David's verse 5 anger burned greatly you know sometimes our anger burns greatly at the sins of other people till Nathan said you are the man you are the one who took that poor Uriah's diddle and he had only one you had so many waves and David suddenly realizes she but do you know what David said he said he was so angry he says them as the Lord lives worst fight that man deserves to die now the law did not say that a man should be killed for stealing another person's land but David was so strict we can become so strict the sins of other people and not realize grosser sins in our own life and he says in verse 6 he must make restitution four times for one lamb he took he must give four bank how many four do you know how many of David's sons died the baby born to Bathsheba Amnon Absalom at NIJ killed exactly like David said from his own mouth fourfold we say something with our mouth God says 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 judged exactly as it was said Nathan said you are the man i anointed you king over Israel why have you despised the word of the Lord verse 9 therefore verse 10 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 have sinned against the Lord and he wrote that wonderful Psalm Psalm 51 where he says Lord I've sinned against you mercy on me please don't take your Holy Spirit from me he doesn't try to cover up his sin like Saul Saul said please honor me don't let anybody know my sin he told Samuel but David never thought that he didn't tell me then don't tell anybody about it he wrote a psalm and told everybody about it see that's a wonderful thing we see about David he didn't pretend to be a spiritual person when he was not when he sinned he 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 want it here I want to listen any man who can come up to may be much younger than and come up to me and say and make me more christ-like thank God for all those who can correct us David took it in the right way but the Lord struck the child your eyes Widow and widows child and verse 15 and David fasted and prayed but the child had died see God deals with us in grace forgiving us but he also deals with us in government that means making us reap what we sow for example think of a man has filled his mind with pornographic filthy literature through many years and then he asked God to forgive him God forgiven but all through his life he will be plagued in his thoughts and his dreams with those images that he saw in those 50 magazines in his younger days why doesn't God take away those images is it because he is not forgiven he is forgiven totally but he doesn't take away those images to warn you don't do it again be careful and if you're faithful and fight and fight and fight and fight against those dirty thoughts one day those images will gradually disappear it is sink to the bottom like files more files come on top of the Word of God and this one sinks to the bottom and it doesn't trouble your dreams anymore 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 were 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 need to turn there's a 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 circles that somebody who steals the hearts of people away from the leader because he wants to be the leader it's happening today all said to the elders in Ephesus I know after my departure some of you will go out in cycles after yourself Absalom did it but it didn't go well with Absalom and David had to leave his throne and flee and God brought something good out of that you know what I don't have time to show you Psalm thirty nine psalm 41 Psalm 55 Psalm 61 and Psalm 63 all those Psalms 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 a ministry you read those sons those are wonderful Psalms let me just show you one verse in one of those Psalms 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 when absalon's hissed and he learned something from experience and 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 killed 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 hid though Phil was the counselor for Absalom I toefl was originally David's counselor you read about him in chapter 16 verse 21 and you know who Annie toefl was Annie toefl 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 counsel of Ahithophel 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 he thought Phil also hanged 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 5 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 verse 7 he 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 David's 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's 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 weeps oh Absalom my son my son I wish I had died in your place this is the Spirit of Christ those who rebelled against him he wished he had died for them he was a new covenant man with all his failings 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 and twenty is second Samuel 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 1 to 7 and he must rule in the fear of God there are many qualities he describes there of how a godly leader should be he did not work alone we read in 2nd Samuel 23 verse 8 to 39 he had mighty men he was a man who knew how to delegate responsibilities to good men who could lead Israel forward and we see finally in 2nd Samuel 24 his lasts in one day he decided to count the number of people either to see over how many people his king or to see how strong his army is and they and Joab said please don't do it verse 3 2014 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 seventy thousand people were killed in Israel in verse 15 God said you didn't trust me there it's a failure of faith and David finally repents and he makes another 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 Iran or the Jebusite just like God Poland - and aronia says Oh Lord my king you have come please take the bullocks for the sacrifice free please take the word free and David says no I will pay a price 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 costs me nothing worse that all of you should remember all through 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 3 verse 1 the temple was built the temple was built in a place where a man said I will never give to God that which cost me nothing Prison them is full of people who give to God that which costs them 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 built through you even today let's pray

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