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Background
Welcome back to our series, Summer in the Psalms.
Our first week together we looked at one of the most common Psalms, , talking about how we see God’s goodness in the Lord as our Shepherd and as our Host.
Last week, we looked at a Psalm of passion and desire, .
We specifically focused on
SLIDE: Heads, Hearts, Hands
We looked at how the things of our life, specifically the areas of our thoughts, our emotions, and how these both effect our work, what we do with our hands.
I felt like the Lord was speaking to many of us that day, myself included.
If you missed any of these message, I would encourage you to catch them anywhere Podcast are available.
I believe you will be blessed by God’s Word and what we believe He is saying to us here at Emmanuel and beyond.
Today, I want us to continue to build on where we have been in this series.
We are going to look at a very different Psalm.
We mentioned that many of the Psalms express raw emotions, a good portion of them being laments.
As we look at Scripture today you are going to hear one that expresses extreme remorse, even guilt.
This Psalm helps me in understanding what the Lord will allow
ELABORATE: throughout the years, movies have been made, plays depicted, even books written to cover the racy story today’s Psalm was borne from.
STORY: You might remember the situation, even some of the details.
It goes a little like this.
() It was Spring time, the typical season for Kings to go into battle.
The rainy season in the Middle East has come to an end, assuring both passage along dry roads as well as food for folks and animals.
We read that Israel is wrecking havoc among the Ammonites.
I mean they are kicking butt and taking names.
“But David remained in Jerusalem.”
It was the middle of the day, afternoon the Bible tells us, and David is walking around on the rooftop.
When he looks down he sees a woman bathing herself, and she was hot! David sent servants to bring her to him.
They commit adultery, and she ends up pregnant.
Folks were reminding David who this was.
Uriah’s wife.
And I believe David knew Uriah by the way he interacted with him when he came back to Jerusalem.
Uriah was off fighting in the battle when David has him sent to the palace.
David pretends to care how things are going, then sends him to spend the night in his own bed before heading back to war.
David is hoping he can cleverly cover his tracks by deceiving Uriah.
Uriah will sleep with his wife tonight, then think the baby is his.
No one will be the wiser.
But Uriah refuses to indulge in pleasure while his fellow brothers are sleeping on dirt, fighting for their nation.
David tries to have him over the next day for some Super Bowl hors d’oeuvres and drinks.
Trying to get Uriah drunk so he will go back home this second night and sleep with his wife, but again Uriah posts up on the door step refusing personal comforts to stand in solidarity with his brothers in battle.
The 3rd day, David send Uriah back to his commander, Joab, with a letter in HIS HAND.
2 sam 11:14-
Are you catching how crooked this entire situation is right now
This is King David, in the lineage of Christ, a type of the Messiah.
The same individual who wrote “who may ascend the hill of the Lord? he who has a clean hand and a clean heart.”
“better is one day in your courts, better is one day in your house, than a thousand elsewhere.”
“one thing I ask, this is what I seek, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord.”
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This is King David, in the lineage of Christ, a type of the Messiah.
2. The same individual who wrote “who may ascend the hill of the Lord? he who has a clean hand and a clean heart.”
“better is one day in your courts, better is one day in your house, than a thousand elsewhere.”
“one thing I ask, this is what I seek, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord.”
This is the young boy who was anointed as a teen to be Israel’s King.
This is the young man who was so confident in his God that a 9’ Philistine taunting his God didn’t keep him from using his sling to slay a giant.
David had seen some stuff.
He had been some places.
But now we find him in some messed up places.
Is this really the same David that is recorded about?
This is the young boy who was anointed as a teen to be Israel’s King.
This is the young man who was so confident in his God that a 9’ Philistine taunting his God didn’t keep him from using his sling to slay a giant.
David had seen some stuff.
He had been some places.
But now we find him in some messed up places.
While sin and temptation can find us any place at any time, we specifically see that David was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
NO GOOD was going to come from that.
Something was already going on in his heart that had waxed and waned his devotion and commitment to the Lord.
David is VULNERABLE and when opportunity presents itself he doesn’t have the guardrails to keep his heart inbounds.
Jesus would say:
David, like many of us, is unravelling in the aftermath of his sin.
STORY: have you ever found yourself in a place you never thought you would be?
You said thing you never thought you would say?
You did things you never thought you would do?
But in a pinnacle of circumstances you have morally bottomed out.
How did you find your way back?
Or maybe you are still journeying through the emotional remnants of the aftermath.
You may have heard me mention it before, but last January I hit a new all-time low or so I thought.
I was emotionally spent.
Things with my parents in ministry/family transition were difficult and messy the year before.
I had internalized a lot of that instead of opening up to folks that could help and carry those burdens with me.
(DID YOU KNOW that God has designed us and the Body of Christ for these very reason?
Pride comes before a fall, but walking humbly with our God and discerning His Body is what brings us healthy and healing.)
After finding out how expensive a Christian therapists was I thought I could just handle it on my own.
But I couldn’t.
I finally schedule a visit in March of last year.
I went a few times, and it seemed to really help.
To hear myself verbalize what I was walking through.
To have someone, even by my own presence, hold me accountability to being the best version of myself.
A few months go by, and old habits have crept in to internalizing stress, unhealthy management, and literally another bottom was hit.
BUT this time, the fallout could have been way worse.
It could have cost me my life, my kids, their lives…it was a new low.
It was a wake up call for me.
(ARE YOU OK WITH ME BEING THIS HONEST?)
You need a pastor who will live with integrity, follow the recommendations for good leaders, but also can be transparent with their live in process.
For me, things had to change drastically.
And they did.
BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD, I am standing here before you today.
On multiple levels.
Have you experienced that kind of grace that has not only saved you but preserved you?
David finally appears to have covered his tracks.
His sin has been concealed, or so he thinks.
Report comes back from Joab about the “failed attempts” in advancing against the Ammonites.
Even Uriah has died.
The servant reporting includes everything he was told to, with a little extra detail, but conveys the bit of info that Joab knew David was wanting to hear.
It had to appear unsuspicious, fit in with what he was talking about.
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