King David Finds the Heart of God 1

King David Finds the Heart of God 1 Samuel 13: 14 ". . . The Lord has sought out for Himself a man after His own heart. . . "

King David “Ascends” Shepher d Boy Irrelevant Punk Outlaw. Hero The Freedom of God’s Wisdom Desiring God A Real King Both Loving & Powerful Thinking Like God

David Finds the Heart of God • Disoriented By Success Kosmos Mindset Money, Feel-Good & Pride (1 Jn. 2: 15) Great Conques ts Great Authority Important Statesma n Temporary & Selfish Values (1 Jn. 2: 14) Totally Inescapable! (Jn. 17: 17) Kosmos Mindset

David Finds the Heart of God • Disoriented By Success The Dirty Kosmos It Crushes the Heart • 2 Samuel 8: 2 He defeated Moab, and measured them with the line, making them lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death and one full line to keep alive… • 2 Samuel 8: 5 …David killed 22, 000 Arameans. • Psalms 6: 6 -7 I am weary with my sighing; Every night I make my bed swim, I dissolve my couch with my tears. • My eye has wasted away with grief; It has become old because of all my adversaries.

David Finds the Heart of God • Disoriented By Success • Puts God ‘on Display’ 2 Samuel 6: 3 -5 6: 1 -2 They Then placed David again 2 Samuel the Ark of gathered all the elite troops and in Israel, God on a new cart…David all the 30, 000 all. Hewere led them to Baalah people ofin. Israel celebrating of Judah to bring back the Ark of God, before the Lord, singing songs and which bears the name of the Lord of playing all kinds of musical Heaven’s Armies, who is enthroned instruments… between the cherubim.

David Finds the Heart of God • Disoriented By Success • Puts God ‘on Display’ • God Kills the Party! 2 Samuel 6: 6 But when they arrived at the threshing floor of Nacon, the oxen stumbled, and Uzzah …God struck him dead reached out his hand steadied the Ark of God. because of this.

David Finds the Heart of God • • Disoriented By Success Puts God ‘on Display’ God Kills the Party! The King is Not Amused! 2 Samuel 6: 8 -10 David was angry because the Lord’s anger had burst David was now afraid of the Lord, and he asked, “How can I ever out against Uzzah. He named that place Perez-uzzah (which means bring the Ark of the Lord back into my care? ” “to burst out against Uzzah”), as it is still called today. So David decided not to move the Ark of the Lord into the City of David. Instead, he took it to the house of Obed-edom of Gath.

David Finds the Heart of God • • 2 Samuel 6: 12 Then King David was told, “The Lord has blessed Obed-edom’s household and everything he has because of the Ark of God. ” So David went there and brought the Ark of God to the City of David with a great celebration. Disoriented By Success Puts God ‘on Display’ God Kills the Party! The King is Not Amused! • But the Problem Was KING DAVID!

David Finds the Heart of God • • 1 Chronicles 15: 13 “Because you Levites did not carry the Ark the first time, the anger of the Lord our God burst out against us…” Disoriented By Success Puts God ‘on Display’ God Kills the Party! The King is Not Amused! handles • But the Problem Was KING DAVID!

David Finds the Heart of God David God Kills Wanted By. Wanted a Priest • Disoriented Success To Be • Puts. An. God ‘on Display’ Impressive Among His • God Kills the Party! Display People • The King is Not Amused! Not Like Imitated the Philistines (1 Sam. 1) • But the “the rulers of the Gentiles” Problem Was No Big Deal! (Priest was God’s man) “You Cannot CONFORM ME!” KING DAVID! handles Mark 10: 42 So Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers in Lev. 26: 12 I will walk among you; I will be your God, and you will be my this world lord it over their people, and officials flaunt their authority over those

David Finds the Heart of God (Episode 2) • Disoriented By Success 2 Samuel 7: 1 When King David was settled in his palace and the Lord had given him rest from all the surrounding enemies…

David Finds the Heart of God (Episode 2) • Disoriented By Success • Puts God ‘on Display’ • Institutionalizing / solidifying / codifying GOD • God-In-a-BOX! 2 Samuel the king summoned Nathan prophet. 2 Samuel 7: 37: 2 Nathan replied to the king, “Gothe ahead and do “Look, ” you David said, am living in Lord a beautiful whatever have in “Imind, for the is with cedar you. ” palace, but the Ark of God is out there in a tent!”

David Finds the Heart of God (Episode 2) • Disoriented By Success • Puts God ‘on Display’ • God Reacts Swiftly 2 Samuel 7: 4 -7 But that same night the Lord said to Nathan, “Go and tell my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord has declared: Are you the Yet no matter have withlived thein. Israelites, I have one to build a house where for me to. Ilive in? Igone have never a house, from the never once have never them, “Why day I brought the complained…I Israelites out of Egypt until this very asked day. I have always moved from you one place another with a tentcedar and a Tabernacle haven’t builttome a beautiful house? ”’as my dwelling.

David Finds the Heart of God (Episode 2) 2 Samuel 7: 8 “Now go and • • • say to my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord of Disoriented By Success Heaven’s Armies has Puts God ‘on Display’declared: I took you from tending sheep in the pasture God Reacts Swiftlyand selected you to be the leader of my people Israel. I • Even Rudely! have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have destroyed all your enemies before your eyes.

David Finds the Heart of God (Episode 2) • Disoriented By Success • Puts God ‘on Display’ • God Reacts Swiftly. Isaiah 66: 1 Thus says the • Even Rudely! (It is a Silly Idea) Lord, "Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. Where then is a house you could build for Me? And where is a place that I may rest?

David Finds the Heart of God • God Is At War With the Kosmos • Cannot be Institutionalized / Canonized / Conformed / Held Hostage James 4: 4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

David Finds the Heart of God • God Is At War With the Kosmos • Because ‘GOD IS LOVE’ and Values ‘the Heart’ The World God Renews the Heart Poisons the Heart 2 Chronicles 16: 9 "For the eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely

David Finds the Heart of God • God Is At War With the Kosmos • Because ‘GOD IS LOVE’ and Values ‘the Heart’ • You Cannot ‘Exalt’ God! 2 Samuel 7: 8 “Are you the one to build a house for me to live in? …I took you from tending sheep in the pasture!”

David Finds the Heart of God • God Is At War With the Kosmos • Because ‘GOD IS LOVE’ and Values ‘the Heart’ • You Cannot ‘Exalt’ God! He is You the one who will been build a house—a temple—for my But Can Let God Love You! 2 • When Samuel 7: 9 -17 “I have with you wherever you have your days are complete and you lie down with your name. And I will secure his royal throne forever. gone and have cut off all your enemies from you; will fathers, I will raise up your descendant afterbefore you, who Your house and your kingdom will continue before me for and I will make you a great name, like the names of the come forth from you, and I will establish his kingdom. all time, and your throne will be secure forever. ’” great men who are on the earth. . . ”

David Finds the Heart of God • God Is Building His Own “House” His Way • The Davidic Covenant “He is the one who will build a house—a temple—for my name. And I will secure his royal throne forever. Your house and your kingdom will continue before me for all time, and your throne will be secure forever. ” Fulfilled by Jesus Christ, “The Son of David”

David Finds the Heart of God • God Is Building His Own “House” His Way • The Davidic Covenant 2 Corinthians 6: 16 -18 of Or what agreement has the temple of God with • The “Body Christ” idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, "I WILL DWELL IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE…. And I will welcome you. "And I will be a father to you, And you shall be sons and daughters to Me, " Says the Lord Almighty. ” Fulfilled by You & I “The (Adopted) Children of David”

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