SERIES: Stanger Stories MESSAGE: Reverence for His Presence
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2 Samuel 6:1-7 1David again brought together all the able young men of Israel—thirty thousand. 2He and all his men went to Baalah a in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name, bthe name of the Lord Almighty, who is enthroned between the cherubim on the ark.
3They set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart 4with the ark of God on it,c and Ahio was walking in front of it. 5David and all Israel were celebrating with all their might before the Lord, with castanets, d harps, lyres, timbrels, sistrums and cymbals.
6When they came to the threshing floor of Nakon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen stumbled. 7The Lord’s anger burned against Uzzah because of his irreverent act; therefore God struck him down, and he died there beside the ark of God.
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1 Sam 6:7, 11 7 Now then, take & prepare a new cart & two milk cows on which there has never come a yoke
11 …they put the ark of the Lord on the cart & the box with the golden mice & the images of their tumors.
What the World was Doing > What God Wanted
REVERENCE is
2 Samuel 6:7 The Lord’s anger burned against Uzzah because of his irreverent act; therefore God struck him down, and he died there beside the ark of God.
2 Samuel 6:13-15, 17 13When those who were carrying the ark of the Lord had taken six steps, he sacrificed a bull and a fattened calf. 14Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before the Lord with all his might, 15while he and all Israel were bringing up the ark of the Lord with shouts and the sound of trumpets.
17They brought the ark of the Lord and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and David sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before the Lord.
WE are
God’s PRESENCE!
IF you won’t lay down your life for Jesus, you won’t lay down your Life for anybody