1 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:07,720 This might be the most to use quote in our SPMC sermons 2 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:11,440 history. It's from CS Lewis, Chronicles 3 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:17,200 of Narnia, and it's easy, safe, safe, said Mr. Beaver. 4 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:22,400 Who said anything about safe? Of course he isn't safe, but he 5 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:28,280 is good. He's not safe, but he is good. 6 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:34,200 Of course Mr. Beaver is referring to Auslan who who who 7 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:39,080 who was portrayed as God slash Christ figure in the books. 8 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:44,360 He isn't safe, but he is good. That's who God is. 9 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:47,480 And God never presents himself as safe. 10 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:52,920 From the very beginning of scriptures, Adam and Eve, after 11 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:58,360 they sin, they are cast out. Lot's wife turns around he will 12 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:01,120 she wasn't supposed to and turns into a pillar of salt. 13 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:06,440 Isaiah meets God and says woe to me for I have, you know, unclean 14 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:09,640 lips. Peter meets Jesus on the boat, 15 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:14,480 on his boat and says depart from me for I am a Sinner. 16 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:19,640 God says to Moses, no one can see me and live. 17 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:26,440 God is not safe, but he is good. In today's passage, David 18 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:30,360 realizes both. He sees how unsafe God could be, 19 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:32,360 and he also sees the goodness of God. 20 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:36,960 And we're going to figure out how both of them could be true 21 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:39,080 at the same time. So we're going to answer the 22 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:45,320 question, how can sinful people experience the presence of God? 23 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:57,360 How can sinful people experience the presence of God #1 recognize 24 00:01:57,360 --> 00:01:59,640 we often approach Him the wrong way. 25 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:06,160 We must recognize how we approach Him the wrong way. 26 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:11,039 If you have your Bibles, please turn to Second Samuel chapter 6. 27 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:13,880 Otherwise it will be posted behind me as well. 28 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:26,680 I'll be reading one through 7 for now, from the last sermon 29 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,920 till today's sermon, and it's only one week for us. 30 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:35,360 But in the story, about 10 to 15 years have passed. 31 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:41,200 David is no longer running from Saul, but he has become king. 32 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:44,640 In chapter 5 he becomes king and this is chapter 6. 33 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:50,200 So he just becomes king of all over Israel and and this is the 34 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:55,760 first thing he does. OK chapter 6 verse one, David 35 00:02:55,760 --> 00:03:00,440 again assembled all the fit young men in Israel. 30,000 He 36 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:03,880 and all his troops set out to bring the ark of God from Baal 37 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,680 Judah. The ark bears the name, the name 38 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:09,720 of the Lord of armies who is enthroned between the cherubim. 39 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:15,000 They set the Ark of God on a new cart and transported from 40 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,840 Abinadab's house, which was on the hill. 41 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:23,320 Uzza and Ahil, sons of Abinadab, were guiding the cart and 42 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:26,000 brought it with the Ark of God from Abinadab's house on the 43 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,960 hill. Ahil walked in front of the ark. 44 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:33,120 David and the whole House of Israel were dancing before the 45 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:37,040 Lord with all kinds of four wood instruments, liars, harps, 46 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:42,200 tambourine systems and symbols. When they came out to Nakon's 47 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:46,480 threshing floor, Uzza reached out to the Ark of God and took 48 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:49,960 hold of it. Because the oxen has stumbled. 49 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:54,920 Then the Lord's anger burned against Uzza, and God struck him 50 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:59,120 dead on the spot for his irreverence, and he died there 51 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:05,960 next to the ark of God. I know right away your mind 52 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:10,840 might be wondering, OK, why did he have to die before we get 53 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:12,520 there? We got, let's start from the 54 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:16,360 beginning. If you go to this, go to the 55 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:22,440 verses before this, the ark represents God's presence. 56 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,520 This is the same ark if you watch the movie Indiana Jones, 57 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:29,840 that's the one that he's looking for. 58 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:35,680 The ark is basically a big box and it has 10 commandments in 59 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:41,080 there along with Aaron's rod. It has a part of manna from 60 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:45,960 Moses time. Ark was not actually just a 61 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:49,960 symbol of God's presence. God's presence was actually 62 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:53,920 there. His presence is manifested in a 63 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,600 concentrated form. So there's a greater Prince of 64 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:59,320 God on the ark than anywhere else. 65 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:04,200 God is everywhere, but sometimes he chooses a specific spot for 66 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:09,080 his more intense presence, and the ark was that place. 67 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:15,000 Chapter 5. David becomes king and the first 68 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:19,000 thing he does, the first act of being him being a king, is to 69 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:24,240 bring the Ark back to Jerusalem. For the past 40-50 years, the 70 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:29,440 Ark was kind of near the Philistine Israel border. 71 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:35,920 Saw this entire time he was king, he just left it there even 72 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:39,520 before Saw Eli's sons actually because of them, it kind of 73 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:44,400 ended up there. Kind of shows that Saul really 74 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:46,520 didn't care about God's presence or worship or anything like 75 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:49,960 that. And David here does the right 76 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:51,840 thing. He's absolutely right in this. 77 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:56,760 He says we need the presence of God and he brings the ark back 78 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,360 to Jerusalem. This was his first order of 79 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:04,200 action, and it should also be our first order of action in our 80 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:07,880 lives that we have the presence of God. 81 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:12,480 We don't need any more. We don't need just information 82 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:14,880 about God. We need God's presence. 83 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:18,440 Without it, we are constantly trying to build our own 84 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:23,000 identity, carry our own burdens and and really secure our own 85 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:28,040 lives without God's presence. We're we're anxious, we're 86 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,320 exhausted. We're never sure if we're 87 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:32,760 enough. And the Bible says, you know, 88 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:34,560 really, you don't need anything else. 89 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:38,320 What we actually need is God himself. 90 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:44,160 What I found is that what I just explained, we need the praise of 91 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:46,720 God. I really need to convince 92 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:48,160 people. I think most people will say, 93 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:50,240 especially if you're Christian and you're coming here like, 94 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:52,280 yeah, well, obviously that's why I'm here. 95 00:06:52,280 --> 00:06:57,000 That's why I came to worship. The problem is really the desire 96 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:01,080 that's kind of innate in us as Christians. 97 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:08,520 But it's the approach. It's the approach in in how to 98 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:12,680 be in Prince of God. Let's examine Ouza. 99 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:18,000 OK, It's this is one of the passages where people get turned 100 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,560 off about our faith. They read stuff like this and 101 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,120 they're like, see, This is why I'm not a Christian. 102 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:24,840 This is why I don't read the Bible. 103 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:28,360 There's one thing wrong and boom, God zaps him and then he's 104 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:31,560 dead. And and these are parts of the 105 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:34,720 Bible that if you're not believing, friends came up to 106 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:38,080 you and like explain this and you're like, oh, do I have to it 107 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:41,000 it? It's a difficult thing to 108 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:45,520 explain, but let's try. Let's try to figure out why God 109 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:50,040 might do such a thing. They are bring carrying the ark 110 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:54,200 back to church women and it is a celebration and verse one it 111 00:07:54,200 --> 00:08:01,560 says David is bringing 30,000 men, which means they're not 112 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:03,880 going to war. They're not afraid that they're 113 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:05,560 going to get attacked or anything like that. 114 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:10,160 They wanted like a like a professional, a parade. 115 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:16,520 Just imagine 30,000 men, soldiers and other people too 116 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:20,800 right People play instruments and and carrying the ark of God 117 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:24,240 back to Jerusalem. It's supposed to be a 118 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:29,400 celebration. Apparently it was at this guy 119 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:33,200 named Ooza's house or his binnadab, his dad's house for 120 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:38,000 somewhat years. And, and so so they've been 121 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:41,000 taking care of it and, and they are in charge of of kind of 122 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:45,680 bringing the art back to Israel. Along the way, the oxen stumble 123 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:52,200 and Ooza reaches out only to prevent it from falling to the 124 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:55,040 ground. Then maybe it's a bumpy Rd. 125 00:08:55,040 --> 00:09:03,400 It's shaking and Ooza grabs the ark and boom God strikes him 126 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:09,560 dead. I know that sounds harsh and 127 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:14,480 even unnecessary but try to understand this. 128 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:18,440 This is the issue with Oozes approach. 129 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:25,640 He has a casual view of God. The problem is not that he 130 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:29,400 touched the ark and it was just arbitrary rule that God made. 131 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:33,280 When I was in elementary, when the bell rang, you have to 132 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:38,320 freeze. My son Micah and Maddie, they 133 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:40,000 went to the same elementary as me. 134 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:43,920 And my God, when he got a detention and I said what 135 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:47,440 happened, he said he moved for two seconds after the bell. 136 00:09:48,680 --> 00:09:50,720 I did not get mad at him at all. You know why? 137 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,680 Because I got detention for the same thing 30 years ago. 138 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:56,040 It's not a stupid rule like that. 139 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:59,520 It's a random rule God says. You know what? 140 00:09:59,680 --> 00:10:01,080 I don't want anyone touching this. 141 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:03,920 Someone touches it, bam, you're dead. 142 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:11,520 The problem with this is Luza, even though he had to arc for 20 143 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:16,760 years, he really has no idea how holy God is and how sinful he 144 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:20,280 is. He has a low view of sin and a 145 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:23,280 high view of self, Low view of God. 146 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:29,920 You know, the, the, the, the laws that God gave about 147 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:31,360 handling the ark. We're very clear. 148 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:36,320 OK, you actually, they weren't even supposed to put in another 149 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:37,760 cart. That wasn't allowed. 150 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:39,520 So they weren't, they weren't supposed to do that. 151 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:43,680 Only Levites, a tribe or it's a priestly tribe. 152 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:45,960 Only they could handle it because they're trained in it. 153 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:48,480 And certainly nobody could touch it. 154 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:52,520 Luzza doesn't follow any of that and he touches the ark. 155 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:56,640 See, from the beginning of time, God has been trying to teach his 156 00:10:56,640 --> 00:11:04,560 people about this reality. He's saying any other God, all 157 00:11:04,560 --> 00:11:06,640 the other gods that were worshipped at this time, they 158 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:11,840 were the same. You were to impress God, have a 159 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,840 perhaps a 30,000 soldier processional for God. 160 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:21,240 Do crazy sacrifices for God. Impress them enough where God 161 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:24,640 says, OK, I accept you, you've shown enough. 162 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:33,400 But the true God is saying that's not how I operate. 163 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:37,200 It's not about impressing me, it's not about performing front 164 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:44,080 of me. It's about my presence, the 165 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:48,920 presence of God and man. The only thing that comes 166 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:54,400 between US and God is sin. That's why from day one God was 167 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:58,200 always serious about sin because that is the only thing keeping 168 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:03,720 us away from God. So he gave clear instructions 169 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:07,080 how to deal with it. The one obstacle for us to get 170 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:09,680 through God. God gives us clear instructions. 171 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:14,000 Once a year the high priest goes in to the Holy of Holies, 172 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:19,960 sprinkles blood into the ark and and man sins are. 173 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:23,840 It wasn't technically forgiven, it was delayed. 174 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:27,720 The punishment was delayed all the way until Christ dies for 175 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:33,440 us. Jesus pays for our sins every 176 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:36,480 year. God teaches a way for people to 177 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:39,800 deal with their sins so they could have the presence of God. 178 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:47,680 Luza didn't just break a rule, he was rejecting the core of the 179 00:12:47,680 --> 00:12:51,440 gospel. When he touched the arc, there 180 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:57,560 was assumption on his part. His assumption was my hand is 181 00:12:57,560 --> 00:13:06,520 cleaner than the dirt. Imagine there is some dog poop 182 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:09,720 on your hands. I say this because it recently 183 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:14,160 happened. I was with actually, you know, 184 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:17,240 Mike Albert practice baseball. It was at like their friend's 185 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:19,520 backyard. They have a batting cage and and 186 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:22,680 there's poop every worse, they have a dog back there too. 187 00:13:22,680 --> 00:13:25,080 And you know, with the bag, we clean up and then we and then we 188 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:27,520 practice and there was a little bit of poop in my hands. 189 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:28,760 So I have to wash it and all that. 190 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:33,080 But imagine the poop was in my hand and I was, I don't know, I 191 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:35,560 was hanging out, right? I don't normally do that. 192 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:39,000 But let's just say I have poop in my hands and Micah has his 193 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:40,800 water bottle and then he's about to drop it. 194 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:43,600 Would I go Micah let me save her water bottle. 195 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:48,960 Here you go. No, I let it drop because my 196 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:55,600 hand is dirtier than the grass. There's assumption that Ooza 197 00:13:56,240 --> 00:14:01,920 makes that I am. My hands are not that dirty. 198 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:07,880 My sin is not that bad. There's assumption that Ooza 199 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:16,360 makes that God is not that holy. I could touch the ark, at least 200 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:20,560 the dirt, it's not sinful. At least Jesus didn't have to 201 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:24,280 die for the dirt. Dirt you could wipe off. 202 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,040 But God is very serious about our sin. 203 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:33,240 He's saying that sin problem we cannot figure out on our own. 204 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:44,560 Even if I explained this to many of us that will still not 205 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:48,040 understand. I don't know Pastor Tim, but 206 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:49,600 Uzza had good intentions. Why? 207 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:51,760 Why did God have to be so severe? 208 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:57,200 Unfortunately, good intentions don't override God's holiness. 209 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:00,520 God is so holy he cannot intermingle with sinful people. 210 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:02,760 He just can't. It's not his nature. 211 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:09,280 It seems harsh, but God has always been harsh when it comes 212 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:13,600 to sin. God is harsh to the point where 213 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:16,720 if you do not accept the gospel, you don't go to heaven. 214 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:21,000 That's harsh. When sin came to to the Garden 215 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,440 of Eden, they were kicked out. That's harsh. 216 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:29,560 God's been harsh with sin because that's that important. 217 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:33,680 Ultimately, he sent his Son to die for our sins. 218 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:35,920 That's why he didn't want us to take it lightly. 219 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:41,600 He didn't want us to have good intentions and go to God saying, 220 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:44,840 God, I did all these great things for you, now accept me. 221 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:49,240 You have great intentions, but God is saying that is not 222 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:53,640 enough. Lord, I've done so much for you, 223 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:58,200 You must accept me. That's good intentions, but it 224 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:04,880 is not enough. And David, he sees all of this 225 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:09,880 happening before him. He sees Ooza die. 226 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:14,840 And then in verse 9, do we have verse 92 slides down. 227 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:23,640 David feared the Lord that day. There was fear in David and he 228 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:27,880 says, how can the ark of the Lord ever come to me? 229 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:34,520 Now he's saying I'm sinful. How can God's presence come to 230 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:36,560 me? He's fearful. 231 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:40,280 But God doesn't leave David there. 232 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:45,520 He provides a way which leads us to point #2 Remember, it is not 233 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:53,720 just that God is unsafe, He is good .2 We can only experience 234 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:57,880 God's presence through His provision of grace. 235 00:17:05,609 --> 00:17:13,130 Let's read verses 11:50. So he was not willing to bring 236 00:17:13,130 --> 00:17:15,290 the ark of the Lord to the city of David. 237 00:17:15,490 --> 00:17:20,800 Instead, he diverted to the House of Obed Adam or Edom of 238 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:25,240 Gath. The ark of the Lord remained in 239 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:28,920 his house for three months, and the Lord blessed Obed Edom and 240 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:32,120 his whole family. It was reported to King David. 241 00:17:32,120 --> 00:17:35,480 The Lord has blessed Obed Edom's family and all that belongs to 242 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:39,600 him because of the ark of God. So David went and had the ark of 243 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:44,640 God brought up from Obed Edom's house to the city of David with 244 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:51,280 rejoicing. OK, I don't know if this is 245 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:55,320 messed up, but David's like, Oh no, the ark kill somebody, let's 246 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,560 drop it off of somebody else's house and that it remains in the 247 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:04,440 house for three months. Same presence of God, same ark. 248 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:11,600 It kills Ooza. The same ark blesses Obed Edom 249 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:14,480 and his family. How is that possible? 250 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:17,560 It's God dangerous or is He good? 251 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:21,720 You know Mr. Beaver already gave us the correct answer. 252 00:18:22,360 --> 00:18:26,880 He is both. He's not safe and He is good. 253 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:34,680 He is dangerous in His Holiness, yet life giving in His grace. 254 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:42,120 Let me put it this way, God is not safe to sinners who approach 255 00:18:42,120 --> 00:18:50,000 Him on their own terms, but God is safe to sinners who are 256 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:55,840 covered by His grace. Oba Edom's name is listed in 257 00:18:56,240 --> 00:19:01,280 First Chronicles and it turns out he was a Levite, which means 258 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:04,120 he was trained in how to deal with the ark. 259 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:09,840 It means he he had a proper respect for it and he followed 260 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:13,240 all the rules. He knew how to handle the ark in 261 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:19,400 God's way. And what is the result of that? 262 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:27,800 It says with rejoicing. David sees this and he says 263 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:31,520 something clicks. Ah, it's not that God is just 264 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:37,920 unsafe, but he's also good. He also brings blessings and he 265 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:41,360 brings it back with rejoicing. And we see more of that next 266 00:19:41,360 --> 00:19:45,800 verses. Let's go to the next one, 13 to 267 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,760 16. When those carrying the ark of 268 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:54,600 the Lord advanced just six steps, He sacrificed. 269 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:56,160 That's key. We'll come back to it. 270 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:58,680 He sacrificed an ox and fan calf. 271 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:04,720 David was dancing with all his might before the Lord, wearing a 272 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,880 linen effing. He and the whole House of Israel 273 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:10,000 were bringing up the ark of the Lord with shouts. 274 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:13,400 And the sound of the ram's horns. 275 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:15,040 There's a lot of celebration going on. 276 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:18,360 As the ark of the Lord was entering the city of David, 277 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:23,280 Saul's daughter Mikhail looked down from the window and saw 278 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:25,640 David leaping and dancing before the Lord. 279 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,720 And she despised him in her heart. 280 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:31,720 So we see two groups of people a little contrasting here. 281 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:37,240 OK, so David says, OK, God is good, now let's bring it back. 282 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:42,680 And the ark is this time carried properly and within 6 steps 283 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:49,400 sacrifices are made. To me, that is proof that David 284 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:52,520 saw this correctly. Let me explain. 285 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:56,880 Why does God require sacrifice? It's not. 286 00:20:57,080 --> 00:20:59,560 Again, the other gods require sacrifice. 287 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:02,320 Because it's like, pay me, I'm going to protect you. 288 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:04,840 It's like the mafia, I'll protect you, but you got to pay 289 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:08,640 up. But when it comes to our God, it 290 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:17,200 is not a payment sacrifice, it is it it points to Jesus. 291 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:20,800 Sacrifice is not saying let me pay you back. 292 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:26,080 Sacrifice signals the right approach to worship, right 293 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:31,520 approach to his presence. Sacrifice is saying I deserve 294 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:35,760 judgement, but another takes my place. 295 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:39,440 That's the only way into God's presence. 296 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:44,240 Not by effort, not by just sincere heart, not by emotion, 297 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:50,440 but by substitution. That's the whole point of the 298 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:51,920 story of David and Goliath, right? 299 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:56,320 That is not that be brave like David. 300 00:21:56,360 --> 00:21:59,240 No, it means we couldn't defeat Goliath. 301 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:02,800 So somebody else had to step in to defeat Goliath. 302 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:08,760 We needed a substitute. David worshipped God and made a 303 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:13,800 sacrifice, saying we deserve this, I deserve the punishment. 304 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:18,120 But this punishment now goes to the sacrifice. 305 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:24,440 We need a substitute. We need a substitute in Jesus 306 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:30,360 Christ to defeat sin for us. And David figures this out and 307 00:22:30,360 --> 00:22:35,640 the result is always great joy. When you realize what the grace 308 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:39,880 of the gospel is, what a gift of salvation is, the result is 309 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:49,760 always great joy. And look at this. 310 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:56,280 This is the king of Israel. It says here he was dancing with 311 00:22:56,320 --> 00:23:00,440 all his might. He's dancing so hard that it 312 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:04,240 says in later, we didn't read it, but later verses that some 313 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:09,640 of his skin was showing, which is a great no no to somebody in 314 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:16,320 somebody in the royal family and his wife sees him and says she 315 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:19,760 says she despised him in her heart. 316 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:25,000 Now why do we see two different responses? 317 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:30,480 Before this moment, David is afraid of God, but after this 318 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:34,000 moment, when he realizes the grace of God, he is dancing 319 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,760 before the Lord. He is free, he is humble, he 320 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,120 doesn't care about reputation, dignity, image. 321 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:45,920 This is true worship coming out. But his wife, she doesn't have 322 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:49,400 joyful worship. She's embarrassed of her husband 323 00:23:51,120 --> 00:23:54,880 and later tells tells her husband, you have embarrassed 324 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,280 yourself. You have embarrassed me. 325 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:06,000 This is David's response in 21 and 22 and David reply to Macau. 326 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:11,520 It was before the Lord who chose me over your father and his 327 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:13,880 whole family to appoint me a ruler over the Lord's people, 328 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:20,200 Israel. I will dance before the Lord, 329 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:25,800 and I will dishonor myself and humble myself even more. 330 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:32,080 Perhaps the NIV version is more memorable to to us. 331 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:38,320 It says I will be even more undignified than this. 332 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:42,520 I will dance before the Lord. I will even be even more 333 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:46,720 undignified than this. Of course, David Crowder and his 334 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:55,080 band made a lot of money singing about that true worship, true 335 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:59,720 experience of God, experiencing the presence of God. 336 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:04,280 It makes you think less about yourself. 337 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:11,320 You you care more about what God has done for us. 338 00:25:12,120 --> 00:25:15,840 You see what Jesus did and what he has accomplished to the to 339 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:20,400 the cross. For people who have not 340 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:28,080 experienced grace, who have not experienced the gospel, you care 341 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:33,120 more about yourself, yourself image, your reputation. 342 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:38,080 So for me, Cal, it's like, well, I'm royal family, I'm the queen. 343 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,920 I got to be dignified. I have a reputation. 344 00:25:43,120 --> 00:25:46,480 And here's my husband showing his belly button because he's 345 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:52,920 dancing like a commoner. But David, he says I will 346 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:54,960 dishonor myself and humble myself. 347 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:56,960 You know why? He says humble myself. 348 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:04,680 People who receive grace, they naturally become humble because 349 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,120 they knew they didn't deserve it. 350 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,480 There's a Korean player in the Dodgers, and I root for him. 351 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:17,360 And he was part of the championship team last year, but 352 00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:22,720 he did nothing. Not one hit, not nothing. 353 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:24,880 He was a pinch runner a couple times. 354 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:26,560 And even that he almost made him. 355 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:30,560 He made a mistake, almost got out, but he still gets a ring. 356 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:35,800 I don't know him personally, but I bet you he's not going around 357 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:42,320 like, hey, I'm a champion. I think he's like, I'm glad to 358 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,600 be a champion. Even though I was just on the 359 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,560 roster and did almost nothing, Man, I'm glad I'm a champion. 360 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:52,560 He knows he had no part in winning that trophy or that 361 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:58,520 ring. If you know that it was because 362 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,920 of somebody else that you received something, it makes you 363 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:09,160 humble. And what humility does is it 364 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:15,000 allowed David to worship God with all his might to the poor 365 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,240 people like you, worshiping God like a commoner, like a servant. 366 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,760 Mikel doesn't know what joyful worship is. 367 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,800 She's worrying about her reputation, her status, her 368 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:33,400 performance. You embarrassed me, husband. 369 00:27:40,490 --> 00:27:43,730 This is probably something you could do at home or in your 370 00:27:43,730 --> 00:27:48,090 community groups sharing. But if you care a lot about what 371 00:27:48,090 --> 00:27:52,920 people think about you, that means your attention is on 372 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:56,440 yourself. That means the grace of the 373 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:59,600 gospel has not impacted you in a deep way yet. 374 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:02,880 Or it has in the past, but you have forgotten it a little bit. 375 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:09,840 As grace changes you, the attention of the focus goes away 376 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:15,960 towards others, towards helping others, towards God, towards 377 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:22,360 missions, and you start getting excited and energized to see 378 00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:25,680 what God is doing in your, in the world and in your heart. 379 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:32,560 Something to think about. We all need the presence of God, 380 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:38,240 but thankfully we don't need the ark anymore. 381 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:43,000 When Jesus died on the cross, the separation between man and 382 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,880 God was removed. Literally the curtain that 383 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:49,600 divided the Holy of Holies where the ark is and everyone else, 384 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:56,600 that curtain it really ripped. Now God's presence lives in us. 385 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,720 You are the ark, the Holy Spirit lives in you. 386 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:09,920 And if you are a Christian, if you have salvation, if you have 387 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:14,440 said Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior, then God is safe. 388 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:21,120 He is your mighty fortress. He is safe to those who know 389 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,880 that they are sinners and that they need a Savior in Jesus 390 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:29,120 Christ. Main point, we can only 391 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:32,720 experience God's presence through His provision of grace 392 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,400 rather than our own performance. Let's pray.