A Sovereign, Righteous and Merciful God (13 of 14)
Series: 2 Samuel
Robert Dawson
2 Samuel 24:1-25
As you watch your kids grow up, there are things you hope they will outgrow one day. Allergies. Whininess. Being so finicky about food. Messiness. Then, there are other things they will outgrow but that you'll miss once they're gone. Little chubby cheeks. Uninhibited laughter. Those laughs that go all the way to their toes. The way they say certain words. I keep a video of Jordan on my phone telling the story of a caterpillar because it was so doggone cute how she used to say caterpillar. (Every now and then, if you catch her just right, she still says it that way).
As I look at my own life, there are some things I wish I would outgrow like sinful attitudes and actions. Wouldn't it be nice, as we get older and walk with the Lord longer, if we developed an immunity to sin?
The sad reality is, the length of time we spend on this earth and in relationship with the Lord, does not guarantee wisdom or sinless perfection...just ask King David.
As we have walked with David over these last few months, we've seen his struggles, his failures, his unwise choices and sin at every stage of life. You'd think as he enters what most feel was the 4th quarter of his life, that part of his life where life's game clock was winding down, that we'd find David, Israel's great king, a perfect paragon of wise choices and sinless actions...but we don't.
As we look at 2 Samuel 24, the last chapter in this book, (though we are not through with it yet), we will see David and his people pay a price for sin and we will see a God who is sovereign, righteous and merciful.
2 Samuel 24.1-8 - Now again the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and it incited David against them to say, ''Go, number Israel and Judah.'' 2 The king said to Joab the commander of the army who was with him, ''Go about now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and register the peop ...
Series: 2 Samuel
Robert Dawson
2 Samuel 24:1-25
As you watch your kids grow up, there are things you hope they will outgrow one day. Allergies. Whininess. Being so finicky about food. Messiness. Then, there are other things they will outgrow but that you'll miss once they're gone. Little chubby cheeks. Uninhibited laughter. Those laughs that go all the way to their toes. The way they say certain words. I keep a video of Jordan on my phone telling the story of a caterpillar because it was so doggone cute how she used to say caterpillar. (Every now and then, if you catch her just right, she still says it that way).
As I look at my own life, there are some things I wish I would outgrow like sinful attitudes and actions. Wouldn't it be nice, as we get older and walk with the Lord longer, if we developed an immunity to sin?
The sad reality is, the length of time we spend on this earth and in relationship with the Lord, does not guarantee wisdom or sinless perfection...just ask King David.
As we have walked with David over these last few months, we've seen his struggles, his failures, his unwise choices and sin at every stage of life. You'd think as he enters what most feel was the 4th quarter of his life, that part of his life where life's game clock was winding down, that we'd find David, Israel's great king, a perfect paragon of wise choices and sinless actions...but we don't.
As we look at 2 Samuel 24, the last chapter in this book, (though we are not through with it yet), we will see David and his people pay a price for sin and we will see a God who is sovereign, righteous and merciful.
2 Samuel 24.1-8 - Now again the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and it incited David against them to say, ''Go, number Israel and Judah.'' 2 The king said to Joab the commander of the army who was with him, ''Go about now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and register the peop ...
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