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When the Lord Broke Out

If you want to turn in your Bibles to 2 Samuel chapter 6, that's where we were last week, but we're going to dip back in there and maybe touch on some things that we mentioned but did not linger over, but are worth lingering over.

Do you tremble before God? Do you tremble before God when you think about who God is? Holy, majestic, high and lifted up, creator of heaven and earth and who you are, sinful, small. Less than a drop in the bucket is what Isaiah calls the nations, let alone an individual before God. Do you tremble before him?

Last week we looked at 2 Samuel 6 and we saw a focus on worship, the primacy of having God at the center of everything in your life. I quoted Harold Best who says that worship is a continuous outpouring of all that I am and all that I have towards the God or gods of my choosing or that have chosen me. And in the scriptures what we see is that people are always worshiping. We're either worshiping the true God, we're worshiping Yahweh in a way that honors him and directs our focus and our minds towards him, directs our hearts towards him, or we're worshiping other things, which the Bible calls idolatry, sin.

And in 2 Samuel 6, David is seeking to bring the Ark of the Covenant from where it's been sitting in Baal Judah or Kiriath Jerim and bring it the seven eight miles up to Jerusalem which he has just made his political capital, the center of the nation and he's seeking to make it not just the political center of the nation but the spiritual center as well and we see later on that Solomon will build the temple there and the Jerusalem becomes in God's sight, really, the center of the world. It's the political headquarters for his people Israel. It's the spiritual headquarters with the ark and the temple. And that's set up by David conquering Jerusalem and then bringing the ark up. That's what he's setting out to do in 2 Samuel 6.

As they move, the ark's been sitting in Baal Judah for 20 years, is what 1 Samuel 6 tells us. It sat there for 20 years, and as David seeks to bring it up, he gets together a huge crowd. We see there in verse 1, 2 Samuel 6, beginning of verse 1, says that David gathered all the chosen men of Israel, 30,000 people. And there's this massive crowd, and it is a huge spectacle. So they are singing, they are dancing, they are celebrating.

And you can imagine if you're there, they go to the house of Abinadab, and his son Eliezer has been in charge of taking care of the ark. And now as they set out to take it to Jerusalem, his other two sons, Uzzah and Ahio, they're the ones who are in charge of guiding this cart, this new cart just for carrying the ark of the covenant of the lord and they're going to carry it up to Jerusalem and people are dancing and they're using their musical instruments and it's this loud giant raucous praise and worship service.

I don't know if you've ever been to like one of those big festivals so like where closer to where i grew up there was creation well creation west creation festival was started out in Pennsylvania and then we have the west version in the gorge in at gorge at George the gorge it's a it's a natural amphitheater on the Columbia river and it's just like one of the most beautiful places you could ever go to watch a concert. Most people go there to watch concerts and get drunk out of their minds and not be able to enjoy the scenery anymore, I don't know why, but we went and they had this giant Christian festival there and you have all these bands and speakers come in but you would have you know if you start singing the doxology with 10 or 20 000 people in this natural amphitheater and it just like you can hear the sound reverberating down the river canyon like it's amazing and that's kind of the picture that we get here is these people are marching up towards Jerusalem as you have this mass