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PLAYING MARBLES WITH DIAMONDS -- THE SIN OF UZZAH -- II Samuel 6:1-11
As I have said many times here, I am constantly concerned about our worship and our approach to worship. It must always be pleasing to God. If we are not careful, we will take the things of God, even our worship of Him for granted (and I am afraid many do). They sit in a Sunday morning worship service barely making a sound when they sing and with eyes glazed over during the message from the Bible, the inspired and inerrant Word of God. So many of them are like the lady I once pastored, that I have told about on several occasions, who said of whatever I was teaching at the time, “I don’t need an outline. I know all this stuff.” They remind me of those Jesus spoke to in Matthew 15:1-9: “Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, (2) Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. (3) But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? (4) For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. (5) But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; (6) And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. (7) Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, (8) This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. (9) But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.” They also remind me of Uzzah in II Samuel 6:1-11. All of us have probably at one time or another heard the account of Uzzah and the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark of the Covenant had spent many years at the house of his father, Abinadab. In I Samuel 4:3 as Israel was battling the Philistines the people said: “Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.” (They viewed the Ark as little more than a “holy good luck charm.”) In vv. 10-11 Israel was defeated, and the Ark of the Covenant was captured by the enemy: “And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen. (11) And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.” In I Samuel 6:1-12 after having the Ark 7 months, the Philistines sent it back to Israel. The Ark came to rest in Bethshemesh where God smote over 50,000 people because the men of that city looked into the Ark. (God is serious about His commands, and what we do affects others.) In 6:21-7:1 - The men of Kirjath-jearim came and got the Ark and took it to the house of Abinadab where it remained for at least 20 years. Now David is ready to move the Ark to Israel’s capital, the City of David, Jerusalem. And that brings us to our text.
[TEXT]
“Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
[I Chronicles 13:1: “And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.”]
(2) And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the Lord of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims. (3) And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart. (4) And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which was at Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark. (5) And David and all the house of Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals. (6) And when they came to Nachon’s threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it. (7) And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God. (8) And David was displeased, because the Lord had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perez-uzzah to this day. (9) And David was afraid of the Lord that day, and said, How shall the ark of the Lord come to me? (10) So David would not remove the ark of the Lord unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. (11) And the ark of the Lord continued in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months: and the Lord blessed Obed-edom, and all his household.” (II Samuel 6:1-11) There are many lessons we can learn from this account in God’s Word, but this morning I only have time to mention a couple. But today I want us to see: THERE IS A WRONG WAY TO DO A “RIGHT” THING.
I. THE OCCASION.
II. THE OFFENSE.
III. THE OUTCOME.
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By JWHAs I have said many times here, I am constantly concerned about our worship and our approach to worship. It must always be pleasing to God. If we are not careful, we will take the things of God, even our worship of Him for granted (and I am afraid many do). They sit in a Sunday morning worship service barely making a sound when they sing and with eyes glazed over during the message from the Bible, the inspired and inerrant Word of God. So many of them are like the lady I once pastored, that I have told about on several occasions, who said of whatever I was teaching at the time, “I don’t need an outline. I know all this stuff.” They remind me of those Jesus spoke to in Matthew 15:1-9: “Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, (2) Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. (3) But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? (4) For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. (5) But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; (6) And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. (7) Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, (8) This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. (9) But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.” They also remind me of Uzzah in II Samuel 6:1-11. All of us have probably at one time or another heard the account of Uzzah and the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark of the Covenant had spent many years at the house of his father, Abinadab. In I Samuel 4:3 as Israel was battling the Philistines the people said: “Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.” (They viewed the Ark as little more than a “holy good luck charm.”) In vv. 10-11 Israel was defeated, and the Ark of the Covenant was captured by the enemy: “And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen. (11) And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.” In I Samuel 6:1-12 after having the Ark 7 months, the Philistines sent it back to Israel. The Ark came to rest in Bethshemesh where God smote over 50,000 people because the men of that city looked into the Ark. (God is serious about His commands, and what we do affects others.) In 6:21-7:1 - The men of Kirjath-jearim came and got the Ark and took it to the house of Abinadab where it remained for at least 20 years. Now David is ready to move the Ark to Israel’s capital, the City of David, Jerusalem. And that brings us to our text.
[TEXT]
“Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
[I Chronicles 13:1: “And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.”]
(2) And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the Lord of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims. (3) And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart. (4) And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which was at Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark. (5) And David and all the house of Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals. (6) And when they came to Nachon’s threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it. (7) And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God. (8) And David was displeased, because the Lord had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perez-uzzah to this day. (9) And David was afraid of the Lord that day, and said, How shall the ark of the Lord come to me? (10) So David would not remove the ark of the Lord unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. (11) And the ark of the Lord continued in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months: and the Lord blessed Obed-edom, and all his household.” (II Samuel 6:1-11) There are many lessons we can learn from this account in God’s Word, but this morning I only have time to mention a couple. But today I want us to see: THERE IS A WRONG WAY TO DO A “RIGHT” THING.
I. THE OCCASION.
II. THE OFFENSE.
III. THE OUTCOME.