2 Samuel 24 | Mercy at the Altar

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You're listening to the Dope Daily Audio Bible, and I'm your guy, pastor Charlie Mitchell, and today we're looking at Second Samuel chapter 24. Let's roll. The Lord's anger burned against Israel again, and he stirred up David against them to say, go count the people of Israel and Judah. So the king said to Joab, the commander of his army, go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan de Beersheba and register the troops so I can know their number. Joab replied to the king, May the Lord your God multiply the troops a hundred times more than they are while my Lord the king looks on. but why does my Lord the king want to do this? Get the king's order prevailed over Joab and the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army left the king's presence to register the troops of Israel. They crossed the Jordan and camped in Aurora, south of the town in the middle of the valley, and they proceeded toward Gad and Jazzer. they went to Gilead into the land of the Hit Heights and continued on to Dan Jan and around the side on, they went to the fortress of Tire and all the cities of the Hi Heights and Canaanites. Afterwards, they went to the negative of Judah at Beersheba when they had gone through the whole land. They returned to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and 20 days. Joab gave the king the total of the registration of the troops. There were 800,000 valiant armed men from Israel and 500,000 men from Judah. David's conscience troubled him after he had taken the census of the troops. He said to the Lord, I have sinned greatly in what I've done now Lord,'cause I've been very foolish. Please take away your servant's guilt. When David got up in the morning, The word of the Lord had come to the prophet Gad David Seer, go and say to David, this is what the Lord says. I'm offering you three choices. Choose one of them and I will do it to you. So God went to David, told him the choices and asked him. Do you want three years of famine to come on your land, to flee from your foes three months while they pursue you, or to have a plague on your land? Three days? now. Consider carefully what answer I should take back to the one who sent. David answered Gad, I have great anxiety. Please let us fall into the Lord's hands because his mercies are great. But don't let me fall into human hands. So the Lord sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and from Dan to be Sheva. 70,000 men died. Then the angel extended his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, but the Lord relented concerning the destruction and said to the angel who was destroying the people enough, withdraw your hand. Now, the angel of the Lord was then at the threshing floor of Orana, The Jebusite. When David saw the angels striking the people, he said to the Lord, look, I'm the one who has sinned. I'm the one who has done wrong, but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me and my father's family. Gad came to David that day and said to him, go up and set up an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Arana. The Jebusite David went up in obedience to God's command, just as the Lord had commanded. Orana looked down and saw the king and his servants coming toward him. So we went out and paid homage to the king with his face to the ground. Iran said, why has my Lord the king come to his servant? David replied to buy the threshing floor from you in order to build an altar to the Lord. So the plague on the people may be halted. Iran said to David, my Lord, the king may take whatever he wants and offering it. here, the oxen for a Burt offering and the threshing sledges and ox yolks for the wood. your majesty. Orana gives everything here to the king. Then he said to the king, may the Lord your God accept you. The king answered Orana, no, I insist on buying it from you for a price for our will not offer to the Lord my God. Burnt offerings that cost me nothing. David brought the threshing floor in the oxen for 20 ounces of silver. He built an altar to the Lord there and offered Burt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then the Lord was receptive to the prayer for the land and the plague on Israel ended. Let's pray. Dear Jesus, I pray that we will remember that you were holy and just, but you were also full of mercy. David learns a stern lesson when we start taking pride in what we have and trusting in numbers and the strength that we've been given. Lord, that's when we can be led astray. And if we're honest, many of us do this very same thing, counting on the bank accounts, counting on the assets, counting on the relationships we currently have. We've counted what we've built, leaned on what we can control and forgotten that you've given us. Everything that we have. Lord, I pray that you would forgive us for the pride that creeps in, for the ways we trust ourselves more than we trust you. Bring us back to a place of humility where we depend on you more and more, knowing that every good and perfect gift comes from the father of light. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.