Bad Decisions
Wounded and Weary - Week #2
Bad Decisions
2 Samuel 24:18-25
Week #1
- Two types of scars: those we give ourselves and those we get from others.
- Healing begins in the House of God with the help of others.
Today
- A bad decision does not have to be the definition of your life.
- There are always consequences for sin
David said to Gad, “I am in deep distress. Let us fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercy is great; but do not let me fall into human hands.”2 Samuel 24:14
On that day Gad went to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”19 So David went up, as the Lord had commanded through Gad. 2 Samuel 24:18-19
- If you’re in Christ, God will not bring up your past
- In Jesus, you can step out of the prison of your past and into the potential of your future in Jesus
When Araunah looked and saw the king and his officials coming toward him, he went out and bowed down before the king with his face to the ground. 21 Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” “To buy your threshing floor,” David answered, “so I can build an altar to theLord, that the plague on the people may be stopped.”22 Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take whatever he wishes and offer it up. Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and here are threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.23 Your Majesty, Araunah gives all this to the king.” Araunah also said to him, “May the Lord your God accept you.” 2 Samuel 24:20-23
- The biggest temptation for a follower of Jesus is to do what is easy rather than what is right.
But the king replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to theLordmy God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels of silver for them. 2 Samuel 24:24
- The people that God uses the most are the ones who hang on to the least.
Then Solomon began to build the temple of theLordin Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of Araunahthe Jebusite, the place provided by David.2 He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign. 2 Chronicles 3:1-2