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I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God that cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. So David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. Neither will I offer burnt-offerings unto Jehovah my God which cost me nothing.
So David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. So David got the grain-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. And David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. I will not offer to the Lord my God sacrifices that have cost me nothing.
So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. I've got to buy it from you for a good price; I'm not going to offer God, my God, sacrifices that are no sacrifice. I won't offer to the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.
I want to pay you for it. He paid 20 ounces of silver for them. So Dovid bought the goren and the bakar for fifty shekels of kesef. So David bought the floor, and the oxen, for fifty sicles of silver:. Neither will I offer burnt-offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing.
Therefore David bought the cornfloor for six hundred shekels of gold , and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. To whom the king answered, No, not as thou wilt, but I shall buy it from thee for a price; for I shall not offer to the Lord my God burnt sacrifices that cost nothing.
And then David bought the threshing floor for six hundred shekels of gold, and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. Chapter 24 David numbers the people. This example throws light upon God's government of the world, and furnishes a useful lesson.
The pride of David's heart, was his sin in numbering of the people. He thought thereby to appear the more formidable, trusting in an arm of flesh more than he should have done, and though he had written so much of trusting in God only.
God judges not of sin as we do. What appears to us harmless, or, at least, but a small offence, may be a great sin in the eye of God, who discerns the thoughts and intents of the heart. Even ungodly men can discern evil tempers and wrong conduct in believers, of which they themselves often remain unconscious.
But God seldom allows those whom he loves the pleasures they sinfully covet. Verses It is well, when a man has sinned, if he has a heart within to smite him for it.
If we confess our sins, we may pray in faith that God would forgive them, and take away, by pardoning mercy, that sin which we cast away by sincere repentance. What we make the matter of our pride, it is just in God to take from us, or make bitter to us, and make it our punishment. This must be such a punishment as the people have a large share in, for though it was David's sin that opened the sluice, the sins of the people all contributed to the flood.
In this difficulty, David chose a judgment which came immediately from God, whose mercies he knew to be very great, rather than from men, who would have triumphed in the miseries of Israel, and have been thereby hardened in their idolatry. He chose the pestilence; he and his family would be as much exposed to it as the poorest Israelite; and he would continue for a shorter time under the Divine rebuke, however severe it was.
The rapid destruction by the pestilence shows how easily God can bring down the proudest sinners, and how much we owe daily to the Divine patience. Verses Perhaps there was more wickedness, especially more pride, and that was the sin now chastised, in Jerusalem than elsewhere, therefore the hand of the destroyer is stretched out upon that city; but the Lord repented him of the evil, changed not his mind, but his way. In the very place where Abraham was stayed from slaying his son, this angel, by a like countermand, was stayed from destroying Jerusalem.
It is for the sake of the great Sacrifice, that our forfeited lives are preserved from the destroying angel. And in David is the spirit of a true shepherd of the people, offering himself as a sacrifice to God, for the salvation of his subjects. Verses God's encouraging us to offer to him spiritual sacrifices, is an evidence of his reconciling us to himself. David purchased the ground to build the altar.
God hates robbery for burnt-offering. 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. They lacked six hundred dollars paying the gas bill. And that man gave fifty dollars on the gas bill, and the pastor dialed the number to thank him for the generous gift, to learn that the telephone had been disconnected.
That is the man, seated right there. Here is a girl, sat right back of me in the choir. And everything was prepared, and everything was arranged, and they learned all their steps, but they lacked forty-five dollars. And this girl, this girl, a working girl who sat right there back of me, gave the forty-five dollars that those children might have opportunity to go to the big meeting, the convocation in Memphis.
I shall walk to work each day. I have forgone my lunch at noon each day, that I might give the forty-five dollars. You kind of wonder at yourself; you kind of doubt whether you are really born again or not!
That is just two out of a thousand instances. Oh, blessed, blessed people, we will never find peace of heart and peace of soul and peace of mind until we make this thing right with God. What shall I do before my Lord?
There was a man up there in that big city preaching in a revival meeting, and he noticed in the congregation the most miserable looking man he ever saw in his life. What is the matter with that man? It will be a good story. You ask him. You look to me to be the most miserable man I have ever seen in my life. Is there something wrong? Why are you so unhappy?
I grew up in this big city of Chicago. I slept in empty boxcars and in sheds, half-frozen most of the time and hungry all the time, and at the same time, I saw those yachts anchored out there on Michigan Bay, and I saw those rich people throwing overboard scraps that made me be hungrier!
I will buy me the biggest yacht anchored in the lake, and I will live like a king! I have done that, but I am so miserable and so wretched I can hardly live. Why do you not give yourself to God, and everything you have? And try it and see. The last night of the meeting that man came down and knelt, and that evangelist knelt by his side, and he prayed a simple prayer.
Lord, I give Thee myself. Forgive my sins, and give me peace in my heart, and I give Thee all that I have. I counted dollars while God counted crosses. I counted gains while He counted losses. I counted my wealth by the things gained in store. But He valued me by the scars that I bore. I counted the honors and sought for ease.
He wept while He counted the hours on my knees. And I never knew until one day by a grave,. How vain are those things we spend a lifetime to save. Lord, my hands, my soul, my life, all, Lord, I devote to thee. And God will answer by fire [2 Chronicles ]. While we sing our hymn of appeal, somebody give his heart in trust to Jesus [Ephesians ] , somebody to put his life in the fellowship of the church, somebody to give himself anew to Jesus, to come, to bow in prayer, while we sing this appeal, would you make it now?
Make it now, come, while we stand and while we sing. Seven years of famine. Enemies to occupy and waste the land for three months. Pestilence and plague on the people. David knew being placed into the hands of God, there would be mercy in the judgment. David entreats God to stop the judgment. God tells David to erect an altar on the threshing floor on Mt. Araunah offers to give David the land and the sacrifice. David refuses and tells Araunah that he will purchase the land for full price.
Examples from Scripture of giving to God. Expand Full Outline. Remember Me. Confirm Password. Username or Email. That Which Costs Me Nothing. For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.
And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?
Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer: Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtimhodshi; and they came to Danjaan, and about to Zidon, And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beersheba.
And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men. And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand.
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