When David brought God's Ark back to Jerusalem, he danced before the Ark in celebration. His wife Michal did not approve, but David defended his rejoicing in his God.
He took off his royal garments and wore a simple light garment. David was eager to surrender his glory as king that God's glory might be celebrated. Dancing and shouting and feasting were the order of the day when God's presence was brought back to David's city!
Michal did not share David's joy in the Lord. She berated him for humbling himself before God and the people. But nobody could stop King David from humbling himself before God. Oh that we had such rulers in our country, and even in our churches!
David pointed out to Michal that the common people rejoiced in the King's worship of their God.
This passage is a rebuke against criticizing other's joy in the Lord. We need more praise and adoration and rejoicing in God, not less!
All through the Scriptures we are exhorted to rejoice in our God's power and goodness, and to proclaim our happy trust in His power to save us!
Christ, like David, humbled Himself before the Father. He laid aside His Glory that He might suffer as the Servant to redeem His people at Calvary. There were and are many who object to Christ's humility, as Michal did to David's.
But Christ is also full of rejoicing before His Father! He rejoices in our Salvation! He rejoiced in His resurrection! He even longed for the joy set before Him as He endured the cross for us.
Like the common people who rejoiced in David's humbling and rejoicing in his God, the Lord's people ought to rejoice in their Lord Jesus' lowliness, obedience, and rejoicing.
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“ Good exegesis ” Thank you Pastor Hey for providing me with encouragement and joy...and some terrific lesson prep for the Sunday School lesson I'm teaching tomorrow on 2 Sam 6!
Neil Crabtree (11/11/2011)
from Holywell, Flintshire, North Wales. U.K.
“ A Great blessing ” Many thanks for this most God and Christ honouring sermon. It came as a justified reproof also for my oft (in my heart if not aloud) critisism of the rejoicing of folks which I thought was over much. A much needed lesson here from the Lord, through David and Michal.
Thanks once again. May the Lord prosper your ministry over there in Mississippi.
Neil Crabtree
John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
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