Daily Devotional May 29, 2020

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hello Antioch family and Facebook
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friends Darrius here one of the pastures
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and Antioch Community Church Northeast
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Minneapolis here to share a word of
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encouragement with you today I mean I
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wanted to start off by saying my
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thoughts and my prayers I would everyone
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during this troubling time of injustice
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and riots I want to talk about a story
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from the book of second Samuel Chapter
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12 and second Samuel Chapter 12 we find
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a person named David now what’s
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interesting about David David was a
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shepherd but the Bible tells us that
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David had a good heart he was a man
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after God’s own heart so God had
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actually put David in a position of
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power and authority he made him the king
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of Israel now David in Chapter 12 makes
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a very foolish choice David uses this
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power and authority to rob a man named
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Uriah who was ethnically different from
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the people of Israel he was a Hittite
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the Bible tells us he robbed him of
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something precious and he even wrapped
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him up his very life now displeased and
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disappointed in the in this choice that
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David made God sends the prophet Nathan
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to confront David of his crime and his
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sin
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Nathan stands before David the King and
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he tells him a story of how a rich man
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robbed a poor man of something precious
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his precious lamb the only thing that he
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had that was very precious to him that
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he raised her like his own child it was
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his very life and out of anger of what
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this purse this choice that this person
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made David says he needs to be put to
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death
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and Nathan stands before this king which
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is was very brave of him because it
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could have cost him his very life and
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says David you are actually the person
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who I’m referring to in this story
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confronted with his sin David confesses
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his sin and he has to face the physical
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consequences of his sin which one was
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being he end up losing something very
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precious to him his son ended up passing
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away and God also punishes David by he
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has to he
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he had to face the visit by him facing
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those physical consequences and but God
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also gives David grace and because David
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repented and he promised to change his
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ways God gives him grace as well now I
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want to look at a couple of things we
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see and learn from this story one of the
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first things we see in this story we see
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that sin is exposed there is no secret
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sin when it comes to God we out of guilt
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shame and out of worry we we tend to
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hide our sins and our wrongdoings from
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other people and sometimes even try to
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trick it from ourselves but there is no
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sin that God does not sees everything is
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exposed to him we cannot hide it from
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him
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another thing that we see in this story
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is we see the tragic consequences of sin
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in this story sin gives occasion to
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three different things firstly sin gives
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the occasion for people to blaspheme God
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because David was a man after God’s
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heart he was a heart he was a believer
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of God because of this choice it gave
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opportunity for people to say blaspheme
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God’s name in the story David sin also
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gave occasion to public humiliation to
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people that was not involved in his sin
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if you keep reading on this story you’ll
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learn about the humiliation that his
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wives and his family had to face because
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of this poor choice that David made and
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the third thing that this choice in this
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sin that David made gave occasion to it
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gave occasion to violence in the story
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if we keep reading on to chapter 13 we
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see that one of the punishments for
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Davis choice was violence was never
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going to leave his house
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David had continued fighting Wars
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fighting family members through through
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violence and so that
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one of the consequences as a face threw
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violently taking this man’s life a third
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thing that we see in this story is we
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see what we can what we should do and
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what we can do with sin we see that the
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only thing that we can do with sin is to
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confess it if you read the story if you
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read the book of Psalms chapter xxxii
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David recounts this time in his life and
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he talks about how as he tried to mask
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his sin as he tried to cover up his
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saying it only got him deeper into a
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hole his conscience ate away at him so
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it just sin it tends to eat away at us
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and it tends to just drive us into a
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deeper hole it’s only only thing that’s
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right for us to do is to confess that
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sin before God and to confess it before
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men and fourthly we see in this story is
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we see God’s response in this story we
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see a response from God in this story we
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see God responds in judgment to David’s
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sin because after David and David also
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responds in judgment once you heard
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about this story he said the person
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needed to be put to death
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he condemned himself and also God
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condemned David for his actions and his
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and the choice that he made but also we
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see God respond in grace where he tell
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David that that dissing will not cost
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you your life sin though forgiven leaves
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a mark there is a certain mark that sin
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leaves upon the lives of those who
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commit it it leaves and even in the
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lives of those around the people that
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committed it remains as a disgrace and a
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scar on our conscience when we commit
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sins God is just and he will forgive
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those sins but they still affect our
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lives but we know that God is always
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saying I seek justice his response to
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sin and unrighteousness is I
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and I seek justice so what are some ways
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that we can apply this story to our
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lives there in three ways I think that
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we can apply this story of David
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committing this sin and God’s response
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to this sin in our lives the first way
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is to confess sin confession of sin is a
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sure first step into freedom from sin
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only when we have take ownership of our
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sins and our wrongdoings and we confess
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them before God and before the people
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that we have sinned against can’t we get
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freedom secondly we must understand that
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there is no sin too great or too small
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that God cannot forgive and on top of
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that there is no tragedy too great that
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God can turn into triumph if we even
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just look at the cross a major tragedy
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God sacrificed his own son that we may
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have eternal life through faith in Jesus
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it was a great tragedy but God turned
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that into triumph through Christ’s
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resurrection we have the opportunity to
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have eternal life free from pain
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suffering injustice God can turn tragedy
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into triumph and thirdly God calls us to
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stand for injustice no matter what no
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matter who and where and what it is the
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gospel is the Gospel message is one of
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salvation justice and Reconciliation
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isaiah 1 in 17 tells us learn to do good
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seek justice
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correct oppression bring justice to the
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fatherless plea the widow’s calls god
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bless you guys and i’m praying for y’all