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March 5, 2012
By John Barnett
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As we open to II Samuel 15, we have entered the consequence years of David’s life So even though David is beloved of the Lord, he still has to face the consequences, just like believers in the New Testament, who are also beloved of the Lord, have to face the consequences of our sins.
Every event from II Samuel 11 onward reflects in some way the results of those moments, when David was blinded by his sinful desires, acted rebelliously against God’s clear standards.
After David sinned in so many ways surrounding his adultery, he tried to hide his sin, and did quite well, for quite a while.
Then, confronted by words from God’s prophet, David repents (a change of mind that leads to a change of behavior); David confesses (saying the same things about his sin that God says); and David forsakes his sin (turning in contrition and disgust from what offends God), and then experiences full, complete, and endless forgiveness.
After David is fully restored in his relationship with God, we see for the next twenty or so years, how David has to learn about living by God’s grace, with the consequences of his sin.
The first wave was from his third-born son Absalom, who murders David’s first-born son Amnon, and then after 5 years commits treason against his father David’s throne.
In the process David is abused, slandered, and threatened David teaches us divine lessons in how to face and endure personal attacks and abuse.
Some of the most precious lessons David writes about in *Psalms 3 and 63.*
• *Psalm 3 A Psalm of David when he fled from Absalom his son*.
This is the first of the Psalms with a setting and the first with a Selah.
• *Psalm 63 A Psalm of David when he was in the wilderness of Judah*.
Because v. 11 calls David King this is most likely running from Absalom in II Samuel 15-19.
Now, as we look in II Samuel 15 watch as:
*God Gives Lessons on How to Face Consequences*
II Samuel 15 records that moment in the life of David when he begins facing the consequences we outlined last time, from the words of Nathan in II Samuel 12.
Always remember that there is a huge difference between chastisement for sin, which God does (I Corinthians 11, Hebrews 12).
It’s like spanking, and He spanks and spanks and spanks until we stop sinning.
That is what David goes through in Psalm 32, 38, and 51.
When his body dries up, when his bones’ marrow shrivels, when his whole system is aging, and he is unable to even go on, that is a divine punishment against sin.
That’s what chastisement is: until we repent, and then we have the sweet joy of forgiveness .
Just like the third law of Newton’s laws, saying for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, in the spiritual world, there is also a one hundred percent accurate law: it’s called the Consequence Engine.
David didn’t cause these things to happen.
He doesn’t cause Shimei to sin, Shimei’s sins on his own.
David didn’t cause Absalom to rebel, Absalom rebels on his own.
But all of those bad things were precipitated by the bad choices that David made.
They are the consequences of David’s wrong, bad, and terrible choices.
It’s not that David is persisting in his sin, or that David’s doing something wrong, God is judging him.
It’s just the inevitable result of certain decisions that were made.
What God is looking for is a correct response from David.
God finds a man after His own heart in:
*Humbled David*
One of the great characteristics of David as a man after God’s own heart is his humility.
That humility is never more clearly seen than in this moment recorded for us by God.
Please read with me 2 Samuel 15:13-37 (NKJV) and feel the depths of sorrow as David faces painful abuse.
Now a messenger came to David, saying, “The hearts of the men of Israel are with Absalom.
So David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise, and let us flee, or we shall not escape from Absalom.
Make haste to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly and bring disaster upon us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.
And the king’s servants said to the king, “We are your servants, ready to do whatever my lord the king commands.
Then the king went out with all his household after him.
But the king left ten women, concubines, to keep the house.
And the king went out with all the people after him, and stopped at the outskirts.
Then all his servants passed before him; and all the Cherethites, all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who had followed him from Gath, passed before the king.
Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why are you also going with us?
Return and remain with the king.
For you are a foreigner and also an exile from your own place.
In fact, you came only yesterday.
Should I make you wander up and down with us today, since I go I know not where?
Return, and take your brethren back.
Mercy and truth be with you.”
But Ittai answered the king and said, “As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in whatever place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also your servant will be.”
So David said to Ittai, “Go, and cross over.”
Then Ittai the Gittite and all his men and all the little ones who were with him crossed over.
And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people crossed over.
The king himself crossed over the Brook Kidron, and all the people crossed over toward the way of the wilderness.
There was Zadok also, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God.
And they set down the ark of God, and Abiathar went up until all the people had finished crossing over from the city.
Then the king said to Zadok, “Carry the ark of God back into the city.
If I find favor in the eyes of the Lord, He will bring me back and show me both it and His dwelling place.
But if He says thus: ‘I have no delight in you,’ here I am, let Him do to me as seems good to Him.”
The king also said to Zadok the priest, “Are you not a seer?
Return to the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
See, I will wait in the plains of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”
Therefore Zadok and Abiathar carried the ark of God back to Jerusalem.
And they remained there.
So David went up by the Ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered and went barefoot.
And all the people who were with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they went up.
Then someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.”
And David said, “O Lord, I pray, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”
Now it happened when David had come to the top of the mountain, where he worshiped God (Now it’s interesting, if you are a Bible marker, right there, there is actually an entire Psalm written in the book of Psalms that David wrote as he was fleeing from Absalom and paused in this period at the top of the mountain.
It’s Psalm 3, and we’ll see it in later days.
If you like to mark stuff, it’s right there.
He came to the top and he worshiped God) – there was Hushai the Archite coming to meet him with his robe torn and dust on his head.
David said to him, “If you go on with me, then you will become a burden to me.
But if you return to the city, and say to Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king; as I was your father’s servant previously, so I will now also be your servant,’ then you may defeat the counsel of Ahithophel for me.
And do you not have Zadok and Abiathar the priests with you there?
Therefore it will be that whatever you hear from the king’s house, you shall tell to Zadok and Abithar the priests.
Indeed they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son; and by them you shall send me everything you hear.”
So Hushai, David’s friend, went into the city.
And Absalom came into Jerusalem.
There is probably no more touching, poignant moment in all the incredible life of David than this scene in 2 Samuel 15:13-37.
David is facing the challenge of even going on:
*When Life Hurts*
In your mind, try to picture the country people and hear their loud wails as they view this somber procession, as a band of loyal commanders is walking in formation in full armor as they protectively surround the King of Israel—now deposed by a rebellious son, driven from his throne, banished from his city.
King David is walking head down, tears dropping silently to the ground.
His face is wet; his eyes are swollen and red; his head is covered as he trudges heavily down the slopes of Zion toward the brook called Kidron.
Stepping across the stones as the water swiftly runs across them, the steep upward incline of the path points David’s feet toward the Mount of Olives, now green with countless olive trees.
Nearby where David walked and wept is a garden called Gethsemane where the Son of David would one day also walk and weep—both of them because of the sins of others.
David, the one who had faced lions and bears and armies and giants, stumbled out of his beloved Jerusalem with eyes blurred by his own tears.
He is fleeing for his life.
He had left everything: behind him is the Ark of God; behind him is the Tent of God’s Presence; behind him is Zion, the City of His Great God; behind him are the trophies of all his battles—the treasures amounting to the largest personal fortune in gold and silver ever amassed by anyone.
So, as David walked, he wept and covered his head.
Can’t you just feel the depths of sorrow David was suffering?
David’s final twenty years from God’s perspective, begin with his fall into sin with Bathsheba.
It’s almost like God puts parentheses or brackets around the event with Bathsheba, covering this period of his life.
*When Bad Choices Turn Into Bitter Memories*
To face the hatred of pagan Philistines was one thing—but the hatred of your own son is quite another.
To have a murderous father-in-law is devastating, but to have a murderous child is beyond words.
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