Appreciating Our Gifts

I apologize if it seems I have been fixated on the life and adventures of David, but there is so much for us to learn in his life–things we can apply to our own lives. If you remember from my previous messages, Davis committed a grievous sins of Adultery and Murder. Finally Yehoveh is going to deal with David.

Re: Evil Inclinations

The last few days we looked at the horrendous story of David and Bathsheba and hopefully learned some interesting things. But how is David dealt with in all his sin? I mean he is the king so he won’t be executed (which is what the Torah demands be done. He was an adulterer and a murder. Both require death to settle the manner of justice). So men can’t convict him . . . but Yehoveh can and does.

Re: David and Bathsheba (pt 3 of 3)

Yesterday we looked at Psalm 32, and it’s important to remember that it was written by David during a spiritually dark period of his life.

But let’s climb into a beautiful balloon and float upward to get a panoramic view of the Scriptural landscape. Some argue that at this point in David’s life God had departed from him, where others say that it was the King who had pulled away from God. From my perspective, while David had certainly decided to harden his heart against Yehoveh’s ways, he had never renounced the Lord nor probably even doubted the Lord.

Re: David and Bathsheba (pt 2 of 3)

Yesterday I began talking about the sin of David and Bathsheba. Today I want to begin by quoting something written by a wonderful Jewish scholar, Rabbi Nosson Scherman. This directly relates to David being a shadow and type of Messiah. I think that while Judaism doesn’t recognize that the Messiah has come, and as such some of the mystery about Messiah that they still see as existing has actually been resolved, on the other hand Judaism does see certain elements of the link between David and Messiah that we Christians often overlook.

Re: David and Bathsheba (pt 1 of 3)

We’ve all heard the story of Bathsheba and David. So over the next few days I want to take a look their story and see what we can learn. In the 11^th chapter of II Samuel, David is behaving just like the typical gentile kings of the region. He had sent his armies out to fight a war and the first verse says that, “David stayed in Jerusalem.” What it says in Hebrew is that David yashav in Yerushalayim. A more literal translation of yashav isn’t “staying” but rather is “sat.” What that is telling us is that David had made a determined and conscious refusal to not go out with his soldiers to war. Who is David refusing? The Lord.