The Importance of Having Reverence Towards God: 2 Samuel 6:1-19

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Episode 523: 
In this episode, Chris and Jeff jump into a biblical narrative involving King David and the Ark of the Covenant. They recount the story of David's desire to bring the Ark back to Jerusalem, emphasizing the importance of God's presence in his reign. They highlight David's emotional response to Uzzah's death, his anger towards God, and his decision to leave the Ark at Obed-Edom's house. The episode culminates in a celebration as David finally brings the Ark to Jerusalem, dancing and rejoicing before the Lord.

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You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in practical ways. Good morning, good morning. We talked the whole night through good moaning, good moaning. Do you assuming you're listening in the morning. Or afternoon or even yeah, sure it could be. All want any one of those things. But anyway, welcome to the Bible Guys. I'm Chris, this is Jeff, and we are here to give you a fantastic episode. Oh fantastic, because yesterday we said it was an excellent, great episode. Yes, well, well this is going to be fantastic were the other day? I recorded wratching it up every day? Taking another another. Level, I recorded a video last night with one of our worship leaders, Micah, to send you a church. At the very end of the video, I said it's going to be I said fantastically appreciated. And then he said that's great, and I said, well we have to record that. I said, I said fantastically appreciated, or so I said, fantastically awesome. That's what I said. I said, I can't say fantastically, can I? Well, yes, but not in that Yeah, yeah, fantastically is a word is it okay? Because it didn't sound right when I said anyway. So this is going to be a fantastically awesome episode. So the segment that Desray has us going forth with is called one One Must Go, One Must Go, and I love this. It's one one might the way away forever. And now we established the rules last time, which is that means that this isn't just in our world. This means for the human race. When something goes, it goes away forever for everybody. Right, that's that's the idea. Forever for everybody. I already know what you're going to say in the first one. So One must Go is either mashed potatoes or hash browns. Hash browns, Yes, of course I love hash browns. I love I love potatoes. Yes, I got some Irish in me, so I love potatoes, but yeah, I would. I have zero Irish in me, and potatoes are my favorite side. Really are potatoes like an Italian. Thing, only when they're made in Paris? Yeah, actually that's not that's not as polish pish. Yeah, but we had progi's all the time. So actually I'm getting confused here. My wife or my mom made parogi's all the time. But yeah, I almost viewed them as an Italian disc because they were pasta right, but but not really those. So but hey, we we have the corner on on potatoes, is all I'm saying. So, yeah, I don't think so. I'm a little upset with Desiree for making me get rid of any potato dish. Yes, quite honestly, So that's that's upsetting to me. I do not think that potatoes are dominantly in any Italian dish, honestly. Right. Number two hard scoop or soft serve ice cream? What's yours? Soft serve has to go? Me too, I say I like soft serve? I do too, but if I have to choose. I had soft served last night. My son came home and said, what do you want from. Theory just goes bragging I had soft served last night. Yeah, well he brought it home and I'm trying to eat well. But when my son says, hey, what'sever you want, we all were all like, oh, he's trying to be nice. You're the amazing shrinking man. Uh not really. Yeah, I'm working out losing weight, tough guide man. Yeah, I'm doing it the hard way. Okay. Number three mozz of Rella sticks or onion rings. Oh that's a no brainer. Oh really yeah, I love both of those a lot. Yeah, Mozzrelli sticks. Really yeah, Wow, you have that much of a yeah. I don't know how many times I've ever ordered mozzarellisticks in my life. I've had them a bunch of times. But because somebody else ordered. Them, well to their toy's favorite. So she orders them when they're on the apple tiers. If we're getting an appetizer, she'll she'll default to Monzarelli sticks all the time. So I've learned to very much appreciate Montrellistics because of her. Actually, so I'm going to say onion rings has to go. Wow. So I used to work with a guy in a church down in Texas, and we got the contract at the local softball area softball fields to run concessions, and so somebody donated a trailer, and then somebody donated a bunch of propane commercial equipment. We build this trailer out, turned it into the concession stand for this softball thing, and then he keep all the profits for his youth group. That's what he's doing. Because we were broke that our church didn't have any money down there is in Texas. And so his name is Monroe. Monroe was a great cook, and he just kept saying, I feel like I need a crunchy thing, right, And so at one one day our boss was gone and we spent the entire day making onion rings. Nice, I bet I bet you a sad one hundred onion rings that day. I'm not joking. Seven hundred bites of onion rings, for sure. It was unblue, batch after batch after batch, and finally he got it, and he got it perfect. And from that point on I would eat my weight in his onion rings, right and service in sid I'm always chasing that onion ring again. I've never never actually had. Yeah, but I love onion rings. That's great. I don't I don't like the hard ones. I like like the beer batter ones or the softer batter ones, not the crunchy ones. And by the way, I love onion rings, I just love cheese more. I think I understand that, all right. Number four, Uh, we have five of them total. But number four is, oh my goodness, tacos are burritos, one as the goes. That's all the same ingredients. It's definitely true. Definitely true. Tacos a britos. So it's just the conveyance to your mouth. Right, So I'm going to choose burritos only because. Burritos forever are gone. Yes, okay, Christy kilared it. Well, you put Chapotle out of business. The alternative is tacos forever are gone, right, And so tacos are more They're more of a connoisseur kind of a tree. They're more practical for sure. Yeah, people people love their You don't see burrito trucks. You don't see a lot of burrito photos either, but those perfect tacos with the sauce on the Yes. So I'm gonna go with you on this one. Yeah, you just can't. You can't do that to the world. Yes, that's correct. And then finally, what goes regular cake or ice cream cake? No brain cake in general, no brainer for me, that's regular cake. Well, well you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna go selfless here. If it was only in my world, regular cake would go away because I don't really even like regular cake all that much. I love ice cream cake. However, Well, we've already decided we're keeping hard scoop. So that's here forever. Oh do these worlds collide? Jeff, I'm thinking so all, so we've already kept so we're already keeping an ice cream forever. Okay, you've blown my mind. Right, We're we're removing five things from the world at the same time. It's Jeff and Chris's multi verse. I viewed these as five different worlds. Yeah, yeah, No, so we've just determined we're keeping an ice cream forever. Okay, I'm going to say that regular kick stays, ice cream Kick goes, but not because of me, because. I believe that's what you're a good person. I love the world you are for us. Thank you, I am And if Chris is for us, who could possibly be against this? That is out of context, that's being misused. No, okay, I don't think I want to claim that. Yeah, well, good, well we solved those that was that was seven minutes of incredibly important information there. Yes, actually like six because I sang for like. A minute, that's right, that's right. Do you mind if we pivot? That's transition? Well, Jeff, what's a good transition? Well, I think from one must go. There was a king named Saul, and he had to go and then David became the king. Yes, actually no, it's yes, you missed your Q. Yeah, it was Isbachef must go. So well, Ishbochef was just in the way. It was really solid was the problem. But yeah, So if you remember, Ishbachev was Saul's son and Abner had backed his play and for about seven years there's this struggle between them of who's actually going to lead Israel. David had Judah backing him and some of the other villages, and Ishbachev had the other tribes backing him. Finally, Abner and Ishbaschef are both murdered, and then David ascends to the throne. There's a big party three days long. People are eating and drinking and celebrating and having a big time. And then one hundred and twenty thousand fighters came to David's army. Yes, right, one hundred and twenty thousand. They're like, dude, we want to be with David. David's the coolest guy in the world. Right. So it's the exact size of the city of Ninevah. Yeah, so there you go, one hundred and twenty thousand people armed with every kind of weapon, and all these men came in battle array to Hebron with a single purpose of making David king overall Israel. Bible says, so then David captures Jerusalem and the Jbsites had it. He captures it, sets it into his kingdom or his capital city. Well, the problem is, if you remember, the Philistine has been harassing Solve for years and years and years and years and years, and at one point the Philistines took they took the Ark of the Covenant, and then there's all these problems in the Philistine world because of having it. So they send it out and they leave it at some guy's house, and so it's at some guy's house for a very long time. Obadita might think, or somebody no, no, no, no, he's going to drop it off at O Themsseuse. So anyways, here's what the Bible says. David decides, you know what we need. We need to bring the Ark of the Covenant, the presence of God back to into Israel, and we're going to bring it to my capital city. He wanted God's presence with him, right. This is a great passage too, And so it says in Second Samuel chapter six, verse one, it says, then David began again gathered all the elite troops in Israel, thirty thousand in all, so he has one hundred and twenty thousand fighters, thirty thousand elite troops. And it says he led them to Balah of Judah to bring back the Ark of God, which bears the name of the Lord of Heaven's Armies, who was enthroned between the Cherubim. They placed the Ark of God on a new cart and brought it from a Benedab's house which was on a hill. Yeah, it was a Benedab. I'm sorry. Uzah and Ohio, a Benedab's sons, were guiding the carts that left the house carrying the Ark of God. Ohio walked in front of the ark, and David and all the people of Israel were celebrating before the Lord, singing songs and playing all kinds of musical instruments leers and harps and tabourines and castanets and cymbals. But when they arrived at the threshing floor of Nakon, the oxen stumbled, and Uza reached out his hand and steadied the Ark of God. Then the Lord's anger was roused against Usah and God struck him dead because of this, so Uza died right there beside the Ark of God. David was angry because the Lord's anger had burst out against Uza. He named the place Perizuzah, which means to burst out against Uza, as it is still called today. David was now afraid of the Lord, and he asked, how can I ever bring the Ark of the Lord back into my care? So David decided not to move the Ark of the Lord into the city David stead. He took it to the house of obed Edom of Gath. The Ark of the Lord remained there in obed Edam's house for three months, and the Lord blessed obed Edam and his entire household. And then we're supposed to read through to verse seventeen. Is that right, Gla, Do you not know? Yes? So then King David was told the Lord is blessed obed Edam's household and everything he has because of the Ark of God. So David went there and brought the Ark of God from the house of obed Edam to the city of David with a great celebration. After the men who were carrying the arka of the Lord had gone six steps, David sacrificed a bull and a fat and calf, and David danced before the Lord with all his might, wearing a priestly garment. So David and all the people of Israel brought up the Ark of the Lord with shouts of joy and the blowing of ramshorns. But as the Ark of the Lord entered the city of David, Michael, the daughter of Saul, looked down from her window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she was filled with contempt for him. And they brought the Ark of the Lord and said it in its place inside the special tent David had prepared for it. And David's sacrifice burnt offerings and peace offerings to the Lord. And when he had finished sacrifices, David blessed the people in the name of the Lord of Heaven's armies. And then he gave to every Israelite man and woman in the crowd of loaf of bread, a cake of dates, and a cake of raisins, one for you and one for you. You're getting a kick and raisins. You're getting kick raisins so funny. David's favorite things. Right, right, Yeah, and so this verse was made famous in a famous movie. What was it. I don't know this. Exact passage that you just read when it says King David was leaping and dancing before the Lord. And then and then this actor said leaping and dancing before the Lord? What did it said? David? David dance before the Lord. It's our time. It's our time to dance. That should be the game. Oh, that's right. You've never seen this movie. I don't think I've seen it. It's a footloose. Oh okay, I've never seen it. You've already told me you've never seen this. I've never seen Footloose. Yeah, that's that's there's a lot of movies I've never seen. I think you've seen all the movies. No, and I've only seen some of the movies. Yeah, well you've seen hardly any of the movies. But but yeah, that's right. I remember we shot a Footloose video and you didn't. You said, I've never seen them seen it. That's crazy. Anyway, this was the verse that they brought up. Oh okay to defend their right to dance. Okay, isn't that funny? Well, he danced, he did, so I think it's interesting David desires for God's presence to be in Jerusalem, you know, surrounding his reign. And if we didn't know David, well, you'd almost kind of feel like maybe he was looking at the archa companies a good luck charm to protect him. But we know him well, we know what kind of character he has, we know what kind of man he has, and what he wants is he wants to be a good man. He wants to be a good leader. He wants the benefit of his people, and he wants to make sure that the Philistines and those people that that that that the ark of the Covenant of God, which was so incredibly important in the history of Israel, was not just in some warehouse, sit in some guy's barn. He wanted to bring it out where it should be and put it in a respectful holy place. So this is an active worship of David, not just looking for a little bit of good luck. But then, dude, it rattles around because the oxen stumble Usa reaches out and steadies that and God kills Usa. Yeah, and you say, or. A, I've said as how I've taught it, and this this have you ever heard a message on this. Have you ever heard like, why did God kill Uze for doing what is supposedly a good thing? That's good? Yeah, good question. Yeah, And and I've heard preachers speculate and and you know, based on the goodness of God here. But maybe perhaps his motive was he knew that touching the arc was bitten, right, he knew that, he knew that that, And so really it was the pride of his own heart using the excuse of it rattling for him to reach out and say, oh, now I have an excuse because he always wanted to touch it, right, So it's it's it's what's in his heart that actually he was judged for, not from the fact that he was actually trying to do a good thing. I don't know if that's true or not, but it does seem more likely that that's consistent with God's. Well, God said nobody could touch it except the priests, right, I mean that that's pretty clear, and already said there was a death penalty for it. Right. So here's what I do know. God doesn't need your help, right right, right, So so yeah, you can justify doing the wrong thing. And oh you know, I did the wrong thing. But I had a good intent, and God goes, that's not good enough. I said, don't touch it. You're not a priest, don't touch it. And so he touched the holy thing when it wasn't his to touch. But the fruit looked good and it was pleasing through the eyes. Exactly, yeah, exactly, And so yeah, I don't know what intent is. The Bible doesn't say that, and the Bible doesn't feel the need to justify what his intent was because he broke the very clear command of God. That's why it had. Remember had the ark of the coveny. If you remember back when we described that a while ago, there were rings, and then they were supposed to run the poles through the rings to pick it up. So other than the priests, they weren't really even supposed to be around it too much except when they're carrying it from place to place, and then they weren't supposed touch it. They were supposed to use these poles to touch it, to pick it up and carry it, all those kinds of things. And so I think that really God killed us because God had said I will kill you if you touch it. So there's that. So don't touch it so that you don't die. Don't open it, right, all that kind of stuff, and then he does, and it's a reminder that God doesn't need our. Help because if you do open it, your facial melt off. Yeah, we saw that in a movie. I mean it's funny slash hashtag not funny. Yeah, but it freaked David out. It was like, dude, I don't want this, and gets mad at God, right, and then takes it back to gaff Right. That's that's what the Bible says, is David got mad. Yeah, God, he was angry at God for being angry at Uza right, right. That's and the Bible doesn't even blink from that, doesn't. It doesn't say it's right or wrong, doesn't. It doesn't say nothing. David's like, fine, you're not coming to Jerusalem with me and left it at ob Edam's house in Gath, which is still a Philistine city. And then God blessed this man ob because he had in his house because who knows, maybe God is trying to prove to David that you can, you know, have prosperity with the arc, you know, but. I guarantee you Obadiedam didn't touch it. I guarantee that's true, right, and so going on and nobody touched it. So God God was demonstrating through Obadiedam. Hey, listen, when you do the right thing, blessing comes. Yeah. Right, David, your intent was right, you should bring the arc to Jerusalem. So I'm gonna bless obd just like you were hoping I would bless you. So I had also heard a message one time when I was very young, when in verse number thirteen, it says after the men who were carrying the ark of the Lord had gone six steps, David sacrificed the bull on a fat and calf. So think about the journey of walking all the way back to Jerusalem and how many steps go into that? How many are there? Tens of thousands of steps? Yeah? Right, And after six steps, David says, stop and we're going to kill the fat and calf. Do you know how long it takes to kill an animal and clean it and then cook it. I mean that's you know, hours and hours. And then David celebrating and having a dance. And I remember this one pastor a long long time ago said that means that every time he took six steps, they would set it down and have a feast. Then they would take six more steps, set it down, have a feast. And I said, no, no, that's not what they said. It just said after the first six steps, right, like was one feast. It didn't say that, But I just remember thinking that, like it always stuck out my mind how he'd said that. I thought that is absurd. Tens of thousands of steps. It would take them seventeen years to get back to Jerusalem. In that's the case, every six steps, yes, yeh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So so there's a couple of things we skipped in here that we didn't read. Remember, you know, as you read chronologically first and second Samuel first and second chronicles and first and second Kings carry a lot of the same stories, right right, And so one of the things that we miss is in this, you know, David is leaping and he's dancing before the Lord. And then we talked about how they had a big party at the tent. The tent is what we'd call the tabernacle, right that that's what he did. It's not like he just set up a new tent. He went back and recreated the tabernacle that Moses had that Joshua would have had that, the other judges would have had he remakes the tabernacle. He's taking it there and they're having a big party. There's this is a great time of worship. And so in First Chronicles, chapter sixteen, it says, you know, he passes out these the bread and the cakes of dates and raisins, and then he in verse four it says of First Crime sixteen, it says, David appointed the following levites to lead the people and worship before the ark of the Lord, to invoke his blessings, to give thanks, to praise the Lord, the God of Israel. Asaf Asaf. You'll see his name in most of the psalms. Right, he's the he's the choir leader. He's the music director for David. He's the leader of this group. Sounded the symbols, and second to him was Zechariah, followed by Jao Shimimrama. I don't know Jahel Mattithiah. These are some hard names. Gelieb Benaiah. I wonder if that's the same ben Ayah. Yeah, maybe Obadiedam, that's the same Obidiedam and jail and they played the harps and the leers and the priests ben Aiah and Jeheseo played the trumpets regularly before the ark of God's Covenant. So this is a parade if you think about it. He's got thirty thousand soldiers. Yep, he's got He's got trumpets and drummers and symbol players and guitar players leers. Right, he's got guitar play. He's got all the stuff. It's a big party and they're having a festival, and they're eating cakes and they're they're they're just having a wonderful time. And David is dancing furiously before the Lord. And Michael remember Michael was Saul's daughter, supposed to be David's wife. She sees David dancing before the Lord's celebrating, worshiping furiously and she's like right, And what we haven't read yet is David responds to her and he goes, oh, you don't like this. I'm going to be because she said you're being vulgar, and once she means vulgar, says me dirty, she's being common. You're a king and you're acting like this commoner. And he goes, oh, I'll be even more vulgar before the Lord. Right, I'm going to dance even wilder and crazier, and so we didn't read that. Yeah, no, no, it's so there's going to be a whole bunch more. David sings this big song of praise, He's got all this other stuff that comes on, and then. What's what's the phrase? Well, how's how's it actually phrased? I'll become even more undignified than this. Yes, that's really yeah, I remember that and uh yeah, which is a great, great phrase. So he wasn't worried about his dignity and his worship. He was just all in and he was inviting the people. What a great king in this moment. It could have been look what I did. I brought the the arc of the Covenant back to the people, and I rebuilt the tabernacle. Look what I did. And he didn't do that. It could have been super dignified. Instead, he was rejoicing and celebrating. He was out in front of everybody, leading everybody to be celebrating the fact that God's presence was back with the people. And then he appoints this really great band. The band's rocking out, everybody's having a big time, and somebody looks at him and goes, I don't approve of your worship, and he's like, I don't care what you think. I'm going to keep worshiping God. Well it's a great it's a great challenge for all of us. Right when we worship, we should, you know, just not worry about whatever anybody else is thinking. It's a we need to be reminded. It's corporate worship together, but it's also an individual expression of you and God, which means don't worry about what everybody thinks and how people are watching you. Just worship. Yeah, as you see fair first, these fourteen says what we should be concerned about is what do the lost people see? Right? So he's saying, so you don't make the worship only about you, right, it's about you celebrating God and then be able to where the fact that lost people are watching, So it should make sense they shouldn't go, hey, he just lost his mind here, right, right, So Paul talks about that part of it. But what we shouldn't do is, hey, you want to raise your hands, you want to sing loudly, you know, David says, just make a joyful noise. He doesn't say, do a good job. Later, on. He says, play skillfully with the loud noise, but make a joyful noise first, and celebrate and get into it. Don't just stand back. So many people miss out on the impact of a great worship moment because they choose to just sit back and watch rather than engage. And the King was not ashamed of being undignified in his worship, and so if he wasn't, then we shouldn't either. That's right, that's good. Well, that's a great place to end and hopefully we will see you next time on the Bible. Guys,