Lessons from King David’s Fall into Sin

<p>Lessons from King David’s Fall into Sin</p>

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Michigan Conference Lay Advisory

Daniel Ferraz

Have MERCY On Me

Father in heaven, Lord, we have come to hear from you.

Dear God, we know that we don't belong on this earth.

So dear God in heaven, we pray as we open Your Word, and as we look at the life of David and the lessons that we can learn, oh Father, may You touch our hearts with the power of the conversion that He had.

Dear friends, I really pray that our gathering here this weekend would be a spiritual encounter with God.

You know, I've put a lot of prayer and the topics into them, and last night we looked at the papacy and the global economy.

The papacy and the global economy, underlining the word global.

This morning we are all on the same level.

We're all calling for God to have mercy on me.

And we each say that and mean it for ourselves.

And then this afternoon, tying in with our theme which is being ready for His return, the humanity of the Son of God is everything to us.

And we will be looking at these things, continuing from yesterday, within the context, the unique context of the great controversy theme.

You know, I have been praying that what I share with you this morning, I love a big pulpit, that What I will share with you this morning would be from my heart and it is my own personal testimony.

I mean, you wouldn't want it any other way for me to just come up and talk some words.

You want it to be real and from the heart.

So, I'll begin with telling you a little struggle I had last night.

I don't know if it's the bed, it's new, I don't know if it's because I'm by myself, but I woke up at 2.30 in the morning with pains in my chest.

And you might think, oh, Pastor Daniel, what was going on?

It's kind of nervousness, if you like, okay?

And for a while there, I tried to go back to sleep, but I couldn't.

Moving around, wriggling, changing position, Couldn't find comfort.

So I said, I'm going to switch on the light.

I'm going to see what the Lord has to share with me.

And so I opened my Bible with the pain in my chest, looking to God for comfort in that hour.

Wherewithal shall I come before the Lord and bow myself before the high God?

Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams or 10 thousands of rivers of oil?

Shall I give my firstborn for my transgressions, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

He has shown thee, O man, what is good, and what does the Lord require of thee but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.

And I just went to 1 of my favorite Psalms, Psalm 119.

This is my personal testimony this morning.

The Word of God has become alive again for me.

Within the theme of the great controversy, when the devil is trying to re-educate us or de-educate us from knowing and understanding God, I come to the point where I can say, praise God, He has helped me to understand the Bible again, but even more clearly than before.

You see, friends, God's Word is more powerful than TV or movies.

We waste, I have wasted, it's personal testing, I have wasted too much time with television, deactivating, desensitizing my brain, conditioning my brain to be in harmony with the carnal world.

That's what the television does when you just watch any old thing.

But I went to Psalm 119, and I reminded myself of these texts where the Bible says that God, the Lord, would wake up Jesus.

But I went to Psalm 119, and there I read verse 18.

There I read verse 18, open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

Here the law is referring to the Word of God.

But how can I behold wondrous things in the law of God except God would open my eyes?

You remember the disciples on the road to Emos.

They had been with Jesus, training sessions with Jesus for 3 and a half years.

And Jesus was walking amongst them and they could not see Him until Jesus opened their mind to understand the Scriptures.

Friends, we cannot understand the Bible unless God does that for you and for me.

But it will only happen if we do what I read earlier in Micah 6, verse 8.

In Micah 6 verse 8, what does the Lord require of thee?

To do justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with thy God.

So, I tasted and saw that God is good, but you need to taste for yourselves.

The Bible says, taste and see that the Lord is good, doesn't He?

And when you taste that the Lord is good, when you drink from the fountains of living water and you are refreshed, your soul is revived, Then you know that the Lord is good.

And we think it's just the title of a book.

But in fact, it is the foundational understanding of why there is sin in this world.

In fact, when we go to Revelation chapter 12, and when we read that there was war in heaven, we need to understand the kind of war that was being waged.

We might think of it as a galactic war, Star Wars, with weapons of man's devising.

I mean, you know, just a battle, fighting physically.

But when we read in Revelation 12, 7 to 9, the Bible says that there was this great struggle between good and evil, between truth and error, and it began in heaven.

And the great controversy theme helps us to understand the origin of sin, its effect upon us and how we can overcome that effect on us.

The Bible says, and there was war in heaven.

Michael, that is Jesus, and his angels fought against the dragon, that is the devil, and his angels.

This word war is translated from the Greek polemos.

Polemos, we derive our English word, polemic, which means, dictionary definition, of or involving dispute or controversy.

So the war in heaven, dear friends, was an argument.

The war in heaven was who is right and who is wrong.

And so there was polemic, there was politics, there was debate, there was innuendo, there was mixing of truth with error, there was debate and arguing, and the Bible tells us that 1 whole third of the angels in heaven were convinced by the arguments put forward by Lucifer.

That war, the great controversy began in heaven, that war is continuing here on this earth.

And we see it, we sense it, we feel it, we are witnesses of it every single day in the thought patterns that are around us all the time.

The arguments that are within us and around us that question and challenge God's authority that bring doubt into His Word just the same as the devil did in heaven.

It's quite amazing when you think about it.

How much light we have been given as Seventh-day Adventists to put everything on this easy-to-be-understood level, the great controversy theme.

And all it was was about freedom of choice.

Will the angels in heaven love and follow God because that was the most wonderful thing to do?

Have MERCY On Me

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