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The Cost
Title: King David’s Complicated Life Sermon: The Cost King David is told to go and build an altar after a significant error in judgment that led to the death of many. Once again we find him on his face pleading for the mercy of God. And once again the Lord meets him at that place of brokenness. have you been there? 1 Chronicles 21:24 But King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will buy them for the full price. I will not take for the Lord what is yours, nor offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”
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In What Areas of life does following Jesus cost you?
a. Satan has limited power. He only does what the Lord allows. Job 1
b. Boths accounts are true just told from different perspectives
c. To achieve His purposes, sometimes God sovereignly permits Satan to act.
d. God can use Satan in various ways, sometimes, the result is the refining, and purification of believers:
i. Luke 22:31 "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat
ii. 2 Corinthians 12:7 So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.
b. Boths accounts are true just told from different perspectives
c. To achieve His purposes, sometimes God sovereignly permits Satan to act.
d. God can use Satan in various ways, sometimes, the result is the refining, and purification of believers:
i. Luke 22:31 "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat
ii. 2 Corinthians 12:7 So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.
1. Perhaps David was falling into the temptation of trusting in the size of his military, rather than the God of his military!!
2. What happens if we are wrong is as least as important as what happens if we are right!!
Why?
1. Where they in especially sinful patterns that we are not aware of?
2. Perhaps it was a lesson to the people (and to us as well) that the people suffer when their leaders go astray.
3. The reality is that God didn’t justify His actions with a reason, nor does He have to.
1. Where they in especially sinful patterns that we are not aware of?
2. Perhaps it was a lesson to the people (and to us as well) that the people suffer when their leaders go astray.
3. The reality is that God didn’t justify His actions with a reason, nor does He have to.
3. Araunah was willing to give his best for the work of the Lord.
a. He did not know that David was going to counter and buy it.
b. He ended up getting over and above.
i. 50 shekels was about 1 ½ pounds of silver. (For the ox and the threshing floor)
ii. 600 sheckels 15 lbs of gold, mentioned in 1 Chronicles 21:25 was for the lot of land surrounding the threshing floor.
c. Not to mention the blessing of offering up the land that would day be the Temple Mount.
i. You never know how the Lord will use the things we willingly offer to Him
ii. You never lose when you give sacrificially to the Lord
a. He did not know that David was going to counter and buy it.
b. He ended up getting over and above.
i. 50 shekels was about 1 ½ pounds of silver. (For the ox and the threshing floor)
ii. 600 sheckels 15 lbs of gold, mentioned in 1 Chronicles 21:25 was for the lot of land surrounding the threshing floor.
c. Not to mention the blessing of offering up the land that would day be the Temple Mount.
i. You never know how the Lord will use the things we willingly offer to Him
ii. You never lose when you give sacrificially to the Lord
4. What if the true measure of our offerings was not in the amount but in how much it cost us?
a. “He who has a religion that costs him nothing, has a religion that is worth nothing: nor will any man esteem the ordinances of God, if those ordinances cost him nothing.” (Clarke)
a. “He who has a religion that costs him nothing, has a religion that is worth nothing: nor will any man esteem the ordinances of God, if those ordinances cost him nothing.” (Clarke)
King David would not offer burnt offerings that cost him nothing
According to a well-founded tradition, this threshing floor was on Mount Moriah.
a. This is the same place where Abraham was willing to offer up Issac as an offering!
b. The place where Soloman would build the Temple (a place of sacrifice)
(Soloman was Bathsheba’s son)
How amazing the mercy of God to take David’s 2 biggest sins and build a temple out of them!
a. This is the same place where Abraham was willing to offer up Issac as an offering!
b. The place where Soloman would build the Temple (a place of sacrifice)
(Soloman was Bathsheba’s son)
How amazing the mercy of God to take David’s 2 biggest sins and build a temple out of them!
On the top of Moriah, this same ridge, thousands of years later Jesus will be offered up as a final sin offering for mankind!
This chapter ends with the grace of God!
Your Mission: This season of Thanksgiving; Practice Radical Generosity!
This chapter ends with the grace of God!
Your Mission: This season of Thanksgiving; Practice Radical Generosity!