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Gospel Baptist Tabernacle

781 Salem Road, Rossville, GA 30741

Where the Love of God

abounds, everyone is

welcome.

Children’s Church taught

by Paul and Marsha Davis

during preaching.

www.rossvillechurch.com

November 17. 2013

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In Samuel 24 we have found that the nation had

sinned and God was angry with the people.

2 Samuel 24 1 And again the anger of the LORD

was kindled against Israel, and He moved David

against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.

Hebrews 10 26-27 For if we sin wilfully after that

we have received the knowledge of the Truth, there

remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain

fearful looking for of judgment and fiery

indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

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70,000 dead in 3 days

David repented.

God stopped the angel just before he decimated

Jerusalem with the pestilence.

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2 Samuel 24:18 And Gad came that day to David, and

said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD

in the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. 19 And David, according to the saying of Gad, went

up as the LORD commanded.

According to well-founded tradition, this threshing

floor, a wide, smooth, ledge-like surface, was on

Mount Moriah, just outside the northern wall of

David’s Jerusalem. But David had no right to it

because it was owned by a citizen. The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures by Dallas Seminary Faculty.

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20 And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his

servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went

out, and bowed himself before the king on his face

upon the ground. 21 And Araunah said, Wherefore

is my lord the king come to his servant? And David

said, To buy the threshing floor of thee, to build an

altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed

from the people.

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22 And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the

king take and offer up what seemeth good unto

him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and

threshing instruments and other instruments of the

oxen for wood. 23 All these things did Araunah, as a

king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the

king, The LORD thy God accept thee.

A generous offer!

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Those know not what religion is, who chiefly care

to make it cheap and easy to themselves, and who

are best pleased with that which costs them least

pains or money. For what have we our substance,

but to honor God with it; and how can it be better

bestowed?

Matthew Henry Concise Bible Commentary.

Some go to church for what they can get,

rather than for what they can give and do.

Wrong mindset!

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Romans 12 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by

the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a

living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which

is your reasonable service.

1 John 5 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep

His Commandments: and His Commandments are

not grievous.

Jesus died, shedding His Blood to wash away our

sins, saving us from sin and from hell.

It is not unreasonable for Him to expect us

to live our lives according to His Word.

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24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will

surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer

burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which

doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshing

floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

We pay our tithes and give offerings out of all with

which God has blessed us through our labors.

If it costs us nothing, it is worth nothing.

Araunah offered to give the threshing floor and all

that David needed for the sacrifice.

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25 And David built there an altar unto the LORD,

and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So

the LORD was entreated for the land, and the

plague was stayed from Israel.

Simple obedience.

It was not the altar nor the offerings that

God blessed, but the obedience.

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1 Samuel 15 22 And Samuel said (to Saul), Hath

the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and

sacrifices, as in obeying the Voice of the LORD?

Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to

hearken than the fat of rams. 23 For rebellion is as

the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as

iniquity and idolatry. …

To stubbornly rebel against God’s Word

is to rebel against God.

To willingly obey is to

love God.

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Luke 6 38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good

measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and

running over, shall men give into your bosom. For

with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall

be measured to you again.

God says for us to give generously,

and He will bless generously.

Those who give or do for God – grudgingly –

Will not be blessed abundantly.

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Some folks think that the

tighter they squeeze their

money, the more they will

have to hold on to.

God says that the more

generous hearted we are, the

more that He will bless us.

But be careful to give wisely, not wastefully.

To give to an addict is to increase their addiction.

To give to the wasteful is to be wasteful.

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Ephesians 4 28 Let him that stole

steal no more: but rather let him

labor, working with his hands the

thing which is good, that he may

have to give to him that needeth.

Why work?

To have an abundance out of which to give.

Need is necessity.

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Need Luxury

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2 Corinthians 8 12 For if there be first a willing

mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath,

and not according to that he hath not.

Proverbs 3 9 Honor the LORD

with thy substance, and with the

firstfruits of all thine increase: 10 So shall thy barns be filled with

plenty, and thy presses shall burst

out with new wine.

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God does not want us to give away our

necessities to help someone else.

1 Timothy 5 8 But if any provide not for his own,

and specially for those of his own house, he hath

denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

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God never asks for anything which

He has not first given us.

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