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Honest To God
I served a church where 2 families, who knew each other all their adult lives, would worship in the same building but would not speak to each other.
(I loved and still love those people to this day.)
I served a church where one couple hid tens of thousands of dollars from ALL of the other congregation in a shoebox under their bed.
They also received a very large inheritance on behalf of the church and chose the organ and had It delivered to the church without anyone knowing it.
All while having a very similar relationship as that other church where 2 families hated each other,.
Actually, it was just 2 members of the family.
The chair of the board and the lay leader.
(And I loved and still love those people to this day.)
I served 2 churches at the same time where no one did anything exciting.
(And I love those people to this day).
I served a church where my predecessor loaded the congregation with full on lies, without having ever met me, in order to preserve her belovedness in the congregation.
I made it one of my best congregations and had a great time with those folks anyway.
And I love those people to this day.
I served a church where there were just simple jealousies andpettiness in general among a few members.
It made life difficult at times, but we got on with it.
(I love those people to this day).
King David wants to be a king of justice, who honors God in his life as king.
In the book of Deuteronomy 17.14-20, God had instructed priests to give a copy of the law to the king so he could live righly and administer justice as Israels’ chief executive.
Jesus is the ideal of God’s just king.
His qualities were of concern for integrity, justice, devotion.
They are outlined for him in Isaiah 11.1-5
The same principal is to be outlined in the life of the believer in Christ, and particularly as leaders- as followers of Jesus Christ, our lives should conform to the standard that he has given us.
consider Titus 1.6-9
King David is motivated by God’s love and justice.
God’s love and justice is what motivates King David to want to do love and justice.
Enough to sing about it- think the Psalms.
Remember Micah 6.8
Remember Matt.
23.23
The way of God’s justice has influenced DAvid immensely.
See Psalm 119.1
David, in calling for God to come to him, is declaring his devotion to God and his dependence on God.
The king declares his commitment to walk in integrity in his house, in his reign.
David’s blameless life would not start in public, it would be lived out in the privacy of his own house.
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He will have nothing to do with anything or anyone who is vile, or of belial.
The godly king will shun any evil .
He will cultivate the mind, heart, and relationships that honor God and do not keep him from those objectives.
Unlike the 2nd verse, this speaks to his public life.
His own life would be lived in integrity, and would begin to extend to those around him.... who worked in his palace government and home.
This king will not only shun evil- he will deal harshly with it.
This king is not concerned with how far can you go without committing sin- he’s concerned with how little you can do and commit sin.
He’s concerned with the heart of his kingdom, the heart of his people.
False testimony injures others.
it injures their reputation and can affect a false verdict.
False witnesses were dealt with harshly.
Remember how the righteous are praised because of their truthful speech and their refusal to cast a slur on their fellow man, Psalm 15.2-3
it is telling that greed, pride, and slander go hand in hand, and self-denial, love for others, and fidelity in the godly person go hand in hand.
This king cannot stand or tolerate evil people and will remove them from the kingdom.
The king wants those who are faithful and blameless in the land.
The Lord invites the holy to approach him, and so the king surrounds himself with the best, most capable , right living people in his kingdom.
no one in the kings inner circle will lack integrity.
They will be upright, not deceptive or greedy.
remember Proverbs 29.12
In closing, just remember how the book of Psalms started.... Psalm 1.1
That is the ideal.
But remember, how could the king who sang this also be the king who did the following in 2 Samuel 11.2-5
Honesty About Who I Am Intensely Illuminates Who He Is
pride was shattered- Nathan confronted him.
David’s lie was revealed, his pride was broken.
He needed love- the one place to find it was in god’s love.
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