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April 10 - 2 Samuel 6 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's shown here. It's Wednesday.
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  It is the 10th of April. And thank you for joining me.
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  Thanks for inviting me into your day as we get to read another
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  chapter of this fascinating story captured in Second Samuel
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  for us. And today we are going to read a
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  chapter that includes the death of someone who, for all intents
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  and purposes, it just looks like he was trying to do the right
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  thing and God strikes him down anyway.
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  But the thing that's pretty important for us to kind of wrap
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  our heads around, that we kind of lose when we jump in and out
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  of the the biblical narrative is that God's people have come from
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  their journeying through the desert where God was this
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  incredibly holy God, and they had to go through all of these
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  processes so that they would not defile God's holiness as they
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  came closer to His presence. And now we reach the point
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  where, as King of Israel, David decides it's time to move the
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  Ark of the Covenant to the new centre of Israel from where he
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  is ruling. And from the outside this could
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  look like a very powerful king moving his little deity to where
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  he thinks it should be. But that is not the way this
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  story is. And so God is just reminding his
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  people that he is still an incredibly powerful and holy
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  God, and that no one and nothing dictates what God will and won't
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  do. But He is a power unto himself,
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  and it is in fact David who is subject to God's authority and
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  kingship and not the other way around.
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  So to our modern ears the sounds a little bit brutal, but this is
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  God continuing to assert His Lordship over his King and over
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  his Kingdom. So having said all that, should
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  we read it together? I reckon we should.
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  Let's read together Second Samuel, chapter 6.
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  Then David again gathered all the elite troops of Israel,
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  30,000 in all. He led them to Baylor of Judah
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  to bring back the Ark of God, which bears the name of the Lord
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  of Heaven's armies who is enthroned between the cherubim.
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  They placed the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from
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  Abinadab's house, which was on a hill.
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  Uzza and Ahio Abinadab sons were guiding the cart that carried
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  the ark of God. A hire walked in front of the
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  Ark. David and all the people of
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  Israel were celebrating before the Lord, singing songs and
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  playing all kinds of musical instruments, liars, harps,
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  tambourines, castanets and symbols.
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  But when they arrived at the threshing floor of Nakon, the
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  oxen stumbled and Uza reached out his hand and steadied the
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  ark of God. Then the Lord's anger was
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  aroused against Urza, and God struck him dead because of this.
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  So Uza died right there beside the Ark of God.
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  David was angry because the Lord's anger had burst out
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  against Urza. He named that place Perez Uza,
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  which means to burst out against USA as it is still cold today.
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  David was now afraid of the Lord, and he asked, how can I
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  ever bring the Ark of the Lord back into my care?
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  Sir David decided not to move the Ark of the Lord into the
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  city of David. Instead, he took it to the House
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  of Obed Edom of Gath. The Ark of the Lord remained
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  there in Obed Edom's house for three months, and the Lord
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  blessed Obed Edom and his entire household.
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  Then King David was told the Lord has blessed Obed Edom's
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  household and everything he has because of the Ark of God.
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  Sir David went there and brought the Ark of God from the House of
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  Obed Edom to the city of David with a great celebration.
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  After the men who were carrying the Ark of the Lord had gone 6
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  steps, David sacrificed a bull and a fattened calf, and David
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  danced before the Lord with all his might wearing a priestly
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  garment. So David and all the people of
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  Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouts of joy and
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  blowing of Rams horns. But as the ark of the Lord
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  entered the city of David, Michael, the daughter of Saul,
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  looked down from her window. When she saw King David leaping
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  and dancing before the Lord, she was filled with contempt for
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  him. They brought the ark of the Lord
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  and set it in its place inside the special tent David had
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  prepared for it. And David sacrificed burnt
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  offerings and peace offerings to the Lord.
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  When he had finished his sacrifices, David blessed the
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  people in the name of the Lord of Heaven's armies.
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  Then he gave to every Israelite man and woman in the crowd a
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  loaf of bread, a cake of dates and a cake of raisins.
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  Then all the people returned to their homes.
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  When David returned home to bless his own family, Michael,
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  the daughter of Saul, came out to meet him.
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  She said in disgust. How distinguished the King of
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  Israel looked today, shamelessly exposing himself to the servant
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  girls like any vulgar person might do, David retorted.
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  To Michael, I was dancing before the Lord, who chose me above
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  your father and all his family. He appointed me as the leader of
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  Israel, the people of the Lord. So I celebrate before the Lord,
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  Yes, and I am willing to look even more foolish than this,
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  even to be humiliated in my own eyes.
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  But those servant girls you mentioned will indeed think I'm
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  distinguished. O Michael, the daughter of Saul
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  remained childless throughout her entire life.
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  You are holy, Lord. You are the God of all creation.
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  You are the Most Holy One and let it never escape our
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  attention. It just the most incredible
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  privilege that we have coming before you.
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  You love us, and you invite us with open arms, and through
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  Jesus you make us acceptable before you, but you are no less
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  incredible. You are no less awesome, even
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  though we can come to you. It just boggles our human minds
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  and we're so grateful and like David, let us just put down all
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  our own egos and just defer to you.
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  And even if we have to look silly in front of others, ohhh.
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  We just want to love you and worship you above everything
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  else. Our incredible, our powerful,
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  our all knowing, all ruling holy God.
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  How we fall on our faces and we worship you and we can do all of
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  this only and the sanctifying name of Jesus.
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  Oh man.