Sin's Defeat and Redemption
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Shame hides in the cracks of your life. Guilt is like a lion-tamer that threatens with the whip. Shame is a monster that eats you alive publicly.
David’s shame - Living with sin “always before you”
9 Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’ 11 Thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 12 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.’ ” 13 David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die. 14 Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord, the child who is born to you shall die.”
David - Shimei 2 Samuel 16:12
Concubines - fulfillment of God’s judgment
Absalom’s death - 2 Samuel 18:33
Reunification and arguments
Rebellion
Amasa’s delay
Joab’s solution
The wise woman
3 necessary truths you must see when shame is always before you
Evil’s ultimate defeat is not because of power but because of God’s sovereign love
Evil’s ultimate defeat is not because of power but because of God’s sovereign love
Why no size of Absalom or David’s army? Why no tactics? Why no “how they trusted God”?
Ways we try to use power to defeat evil
Politics, Laws, Knowledge, Education
Knowledge, Education, Self-control/ Discipline, Memorizing Scripture, Prayer
A man after God’s own heart
In Christ - “being chosen”
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
Are you more aware of what God has done/is doing or how you have failed?
Are you looking to see God’s sovereign hand in your life or always seeking your own power and control?
Sin’s guilt is removed by God’s grace
Sin’s guilt is removed by God’s grace
The ways guilt paralyzes us
We hide sin, It kills creativity, joy, and peace
3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
15 O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise. 16 For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering. 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Who knows? - the tension in the Old Testament
My dog and my cats
21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— 22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Do you see God’s pursuit of you in Jesus? Will you let your marveling at His grace overwhelm your guilt and cause you to seek Him?
God’s peace will come not by war nor by guilty grief but by the wisdom of God through the weak
God’s peace will come not by war nor by guilty grief but by the wisdom of God through the weak
Joab’s activity vs David’s passivity
When shame is staring us in the face, we want peace but can’t find it. We war: We escape, we seek comfort, we blame others. We grieve guiltily: we are depressed, isolated, beat ourselves up mentally.
Battle isn’t the only way to create peace
Guilty grief doesn’t solve the problem either
The peaceful and faithful woman
This is something some people (even me) really struggle to get = the wisdom in weakness
18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” 20 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. 22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26 For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29 so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. 30 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31 so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
Racism - Creek walk
8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; 6 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
God redeems the weak.
Will you rejoice when life isn’t perfect? Will you trust God and let Him work in the midst of your weakness? How can you do that this week?
3 necessary truths and 3 questions to help you put them into practice
Evil’s ultimate defeat is not because of power but because of God’s sovereign love
Evil’s ultimate defeat is not because of power but because of God’s sovereign love
Are you more aware of what God has done/is doing or how you have failed?
Are you looking to see God’s sovereign hand in your life or always seeking your own power and control?
Sin’s guilt is removed by God’s grace
Sin’s guilt is removed by God’s grace
Do you see God’s pursuit of you in Jesus? Will you let your marveling at His grace overwhelm your guilt and cause you to seek Him?
God’s peace will come not by war nor by guilty grief but by the wisdom of God through the weak
God’s peace will come not by war nor by guilty grief but by the wisdom of God through the weak
Will you rejoice when life isn’t perfect? Will you trust God and let Him work in the midst of your weakness? How can you do that this week?