Now, let us continue, verse 8 states, “Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.” Christians know David as a worshiper. Yes, he worshiped during times of success. When he won battles, he would worship. When he returned the Ark of Covenant, he would worship. However, David knew that worship was not only in the times of success, but it is also during the times of sadness. David explicitly said, “Let the bones You have crushed rejoice.” Namely, let my son, who will pass away soon, worship You. In other words, he desired to worship in a time of judgment. That is difficult. This semester, my grades are not going to be a 4.0 as I hoped it would. When I realized that I was not, it was hard to say, “Thank You God, I love you.” This year, I lost a friend in a random shooting in Lodi. It was hard to worship God in the midst of that chaos. Now imagine how hard it was for David to worship. He rejoiced in a time where he lost his son. Worship is, and should be, radical. To have this radicalness, you must uphold what David said before: you must be clean: to be clean is to have His blood wash you. Therefore, since you are focusing on God, not your circumstance. You see that God has forgiven you. The message of Zoe is one of radical worship.
To have radical worship, you must first encounter radical forgiveness. David explains the type of forgiveness necessary in verse 9: “Turn Your face away from my sins and blot out all my guilt.” When God does a task, He goes all the way. He is not like us: He does not hold resentment when He forgives. We, on the other hand, usually still hold some resentment. We say things like, “Forgive but never forget.” God, when He forgives, He forgets the sins that you have committed. He does...
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... guilt would tell him, “What are you doing? You just murdered your friend and married his husbandless wife. You cannot worship.” Sadly, today, we all face this present dilemma. During worship, guilt attempts to put us down. Therefore, we do not lift up our hands. They are as chains, holding us down. This true to any regard to Christianity: God calls you into the ministry, the chains of guilt are telling you that you cannot. It is weighing you down by saying, “did you not just yell to your parents last night? You cannot tell your friend about Jesus.” Therefore, David, a sinner, desired God to remove the chains, remove the guilt; thus, he would be able to praise God. The message of Zoe is a message of worship, guiltless worship. There are plenty of you who have guilt, but God, He can fully forgive you and remove that guilt. Today, you will be able to worship once again.
He lived a perfect life and was blessed with perfect parents. Everyday is a new adventure filled with fun. He loved his life and his family. After Abuse: a. David came to believe that there was no god because "No God would leave me like this" Pg.131. He had totally disconnected himself from all the physical pain.
...e wife all to himself. This isn’t what we call fairness in the leadership. And still God does not punish David for this wrongdoing like he (God) punishes others who offend him.
The New Testament portion of the Bible is widely accepted as the book of hope, grace, love and forgiveness. However, the Old Testament also provides evidence of God’s grace and love for his people. Richard Dawkins opposes this view of the Old Testament God .Richard Dawkins in his book, The God of Delusion states that the God of the Old Testament is a God who is unjust, unforgiving, and vindictive amongst many other negative human nature attributes. Richard Dawkins view of God in the Old Testament is far from a God of grace and love. The God of the Old Testament is a God who desires to have a relationship with his people .God created covenant relationships throughout the Old Testament, starting with Adam and Eve, then through Noah, Moses, Abraham and David. According to Eugene Merrill “a covenant is a written agreement or a promise usually under seal between two or more parties”. The Hebrew word for covenant appears in the Old Testament 285 times. The Israelites throughout the Old Testament would consistently fall short of the agreed covenant regulations with God, and God would continue to provide ways to reconcile with Israel. The examples of this are abundant and can be found in each book of the Old Testament. According to Richard Dawkins the God of the Old Testament is unforgiving, unjust, and vindictive. However the scripture can prove that through Gods covenant agreements, God was a God of grace, love and a God who has an unsurpassable capacity for forgiveness.
When confronted by the prophet Nathan, David was asked, “Why have you despised the word of the Lord by doing evil in His sight” (2 Samuel 12:9)? Oh, how those words must have cut deep into the man after God’s own heart. (1 Samuel 13:14) The revelation of his sin caused him to seek repentance; the deep-cleansing-healing-restoration kind. Aren’t you thankful for a merciful God? One Who is willing to bring the very same deep-cleansing-healing-restoration to anyone who has found themselves snagged by one
The theological themes that stood out in this narrative are God’s willingness to forgive after David’s repentance, and his need for punishment. If David had not repented, God would have no reason to forgive him, but he did repent, and God forgave him. If God had not forgiven David for his wrongdoings, David would have strayed from him. At the same time, if God had not punished David, David would have taken everything into his own hands and taken God for granted. The cycle of punishment, repentance and forgiveness is something seen very often in this section of the Bible, as well as in other parts. Without that cycle, God would not be same God we know today.
Over time there have been a number of flood myths identified from ancient sources around the world. Since the nineteenth century, the flood in The Epic of Gilgamesh has been an interest to Christians because of the relations to the flood in Genesis 6-9. Both flood stories, Noah’s Ark and The Epic of Gilgamesh, challenge their main character by a flood that destroys all humankind except those protected on the ark. Although the stories differ in regards to details, the plots are similar between the two flood stories. Because of the similarity between the stories, some believe that either Genesis was copied from an earlier Babylonian story, or the Gilgamesh myth was copied from an earlier Hebrew story, or both were copied from a common source that predates them both. (Robinson)
Around 1400 B.C. Exodus was written in Hebrew. The Exodus, which is one of the books in the Old Testament, are rules, similar to Hammurabi Code placed by God for the descendants of Abram. This literature gives insight into the structure of the Jewish community, which includes the hierarchy of their community as well as the roles important in this community. Scholars can further understand the Hebrew community by reading Genesis. Genesis consists of religious stories that talks about how farming, slavery, and the world came into being. But overall, scholars can see a society very much center on religion.
People have pumped Him up and used Him as the pin- up poster boy. Exploiting the very Glory of God. The Lord is using David in ways spiritual I’ve never witnessed. Yet after the song is over, no one pays David any attention.
...scue of David will result in praise by David. In verses 30 and 31 we see David’s vow of praise. David says that he will praise God for His deliverance in the midst of the all of his trials and enemies (Bible v. 30, 874). The basis for this praise is David’s experience of seeing God stand at his right hand to defend him. David knows that the accusers will finally be silenced when God reveals Himself as his helper and defender.
Throughout the Bible the theme of covenant is intertwined within all the books and stories that are read, from Genesis to Revelation. Covenants were at work behind the scenes throughout the history of the Bible and are still at work today. “The traditional Christian theology
“Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. The Lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.” Psalm 46: 10-11 NIV
The biblical narrative is one that is still going on to this day. The biblical narrative tells the story of God and how he reveals himself to us. Rhodes points out that “God comes to each through a historical event or series of events” (2). It is in this way that God reveals himself to us and this maintains the relevance of the biblical narrative in our lives. God reveals himself through formative stories in the bible such as Creation, Adam and Eve, the Fall of Man, The Flood, God’s Covenant with Noah, and the Tower of Babel. From the very beginning of the biblical narrative we see that God relates to us on a personal level. He created us, he formed us, he created the world in which we live, and he has been an active participant in the narrative since before it began.
The Concept of the Covenant in the Old Testament, maintains, establishes, and identifies the important ideas or the subject of the Israelites history in the Bible. According to The Encyclopedia of Judaism, covenant “refers to a general obligation concerning two parties. It was confirmed either by an oath, a solemn meal, a sacrifice, or by some dramatic act such as dividing an animal and passing of the parties.” God first established the cut covenant with Abraham before He established defining and yoking covenant at Sinai in Exodus. The term “Covenant” has been used for centuries to understand the content of the Bible and the flow of God’s purpose through age's. God use’s Abraham’s Culture to make him understand His covenant with him. God
The bible is obviously broken up into two covenants, The Old Testament and New Testament. In the Old Testament the Holy Spirit wasn’t poured out among the people like it is today. This was a covenant that God made with his people for their salvation or also known as the Covenant of Law. In the New Testament we believe Christ’s death is our salvation. When you read the Old Testament, their culture is so different from ours. It was Law to follow the word of God where today you have a choice and through the son of God you may enter heaven. Many people read the bible and they forget that the Historical Culture isn’t always straight forward like they would like. For example in John 6:1-14 Jesus is sitting among a group of people and begins to tell
The story of Noah and the ark is probably one of the most read stories of the bible. Perhaps it is because of the great tragedy it portrays, or because it is a story of salvation. Noah and his family along with the animals were saved from the flood, while the other people and animals perished as a result of it.