God Will Not Be Managed Series

Fear crashed into David’s heart in these verses. One of the verses will show us that David was angry. I happen to think that verse shows us that David was angry with God. We also see in another verse that David was jealous of some blessings from God that were happening for another person. Fear and anger and jealously got in the way of David’s relationship with God. He needed a do-over and to renew a proper attitude with God. The awesome truth about God is that He absolutely allows do-overs.

READ PSALM 51:10 (ESV)

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

READ ISAIAH 40:30-31 (ESV)

Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; 31 but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

READ 2 CORINTHIANS 4:16 (ESV)

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day

Again, I want to impress on you that God allows do-overs and is all about renewal. Our God is the God of second chances. He is love and grace and mercy. Jesus Christ offers us grace by His death and there is no sin or mistake or error that cannot be covered by the blood of Jesus.

Responsibility

The last word that we will find that describes this passage today is the word ‘responsibility.’ This is a word that by-in-large our current culture knows nothing about. It feels like no one takes responsibility for anything anymore. Blame is rampant. Suing others is common. Defensiveness is a disease.

I know we haven’t read the passage yet, but we will not see King David carrying on or blaming or pointing fingers or suing a cart maker or sending out a social media post asking for sympathy. David accepts what happens and accepts his roll in it. As I mentioned, he is angry about what happens, but his anger makes way for repentance and accepting responsibility. He stops to repent, rearranges plans, and accepts responsibility for the disaster.

READ PROVERBS 28:13 (ESV)

Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

Again, David did not blame he did not become defensive he accepted responsibility for the disaster and sought out mercy from God.

TRANSITION

This passage from 2 Samuel 6 is all about:

Religion

Repent

Rearrange

Renew

Responsibility

Before we read the first half of 2 Samuel 6, I want to prep you on a few of the names because there are a lot of them:

* Baale-Judah in the ESV is the same as Baalah in Judah in the NIV.

* Abinadab’s two sons are Uzzah and Ahio… not Ohio like the state east of us, but “Ah-high-oh”

* And the threshing floor belongs to Nacon (Nakon, NIV), the older brother of Bacon who was famous for slicing pigs up into little strips in order to jazz up lettuce and tomato sandwiches.

Let’s read from 2 Samuel 6:1-15.

READ 2 SAMUEL 6:1-15 (ESV)

David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand. 2 And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Baale-Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name of the LORD of Hosts, Who sits enthroned on the cherubim. 3 And they carried the ark of God on a new cart and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. And Uzzah and Ahio the sons of Abinadab, were driving the new cart, 4 with the ark of God, and Ahio went before the ark. 5 And David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD, with songs[c] and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals. 6 And when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled. 7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and God struck him down there because of his error, and he died there beside the ark of God. 8 And David was angry because the LORD had broken out against Uzzah. And that place is called Perez-Uzzah to this day. 9 And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and he said, “How can the ark of the LORD come to me?” 10 So David was not willing to take the ark of the LORD into the city of David. But David took it aside to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. 11 And the ark of the LORD remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite three months, and the LORD blessed Obed-Edom and all his household. 12 And it was told King David, “The LORD has blessed the household of Obed-Edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the city of David with rejoicing. 13 And when those who bore the ark of the LORD had gone six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened animal. 14 And David danced before the LORD with all his might. And David was wearing a linen ephod. 15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting and with the sound of the horn.