1. “The Life of David – 15” 2 Samuel 6:12-23 06\07\2009 Dr. Dane Boyles

2. “The Life of David – 15” Introduction
The Second Attempt to Bring the Ark Up (6:12-23)
The Procession of the Ark Upwards Towards Jerusalem (6:12b-17).

3. 2 Samuel 6:12
12 Now King David was told, “The LORD has blessed the household of Obed-Edom and everything he has, because of the ark of God.” So David went down and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David with rejoicing.

4. 2 Samuel 6:13-14
13 When those who were carrying the ark of the LORD had taken six steps, he sacrificed a bull and a fattened calf.
14 David, wearing a linen ephod, danced before the LORD with all his might,

5. 2 Samuel 6:15
15 while he and the entire house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouts and the sound of trumpets.

6. 2 Samuel 6:16
16 As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, she despised him in her heart.

7. 2 Samuel 6:17
17 They 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.

8. “The Life of David – 15” David Blesses All Israel (6:18-19).
18 After he had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD Almighty. (2 Samuel 6:18)

9. 2 Samuel 6:19
19 Then he gave a loaf of bread, a cake of dates and a cake of raisins to each person in the whole crowd of Israelites, both men and women. And all the people went to their homes.

10. “The Life of David – 15”
The oxcart was a high-tech, careless form of transportation.
Having gone through the dramatic Uzzah sequence, David makes a subtle but significant change in his role in the procession.

11. “The Life of David – 15”
Instead of inviting God as a guest to bless his royal party, the king takes the role of a priest to serve at God’s party.
This shift of roles changes everything.
The lesson is clear: When God breaks in on our lives with salvation, there is always more than enough joy to go around.

12. “The Life of David – 15”
Michal Despises David, and is Barren Until Her Death (6:20-23).
20 When David returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, disrobing in the sight of the slave girls of his servants as any vulgar fellow would!” (2 Samuel 6:20)

13. 2 Samuel 6:21
21 David said to Michal, “It was before the LORD, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed me ruler over the LORD’s people Israel—I will celebrate before the LORD.

14. 2 Samuel 6:22-23
22 I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor.”
23 And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.

15. “The Life of David – 15”
The first procession of joy came to an abrupt halt with the death of Uzzah.
The second procession skids to a halt in David’s own home.
The text portrays the image of Michal viewing the procession through “the window.”

16. “The Life of David – 15”
This blinded her to the significance of that day.
Michal publicly mocks David, insinuating that his religious surrender before God was sexually motivated.

17. “The Life of David – 15”
His dance was not before an audience of women, but before the Lord.
She had left the Lord completely out of the picture.

18. “The Life of David – 15” Reflections on the Nature of True Worship.
On Uzzah, Keeping God in a Box.

19. “The Life of David – 15”
Uzzah represents that deadly tendency in all of us to manage God, by keeping him in his place.
Uzzah’s death teaches us: We do not take care of God; he takes care of us.

20. “The Life of David – 15” On Michal, Past Pain Blinding the Present.
While Uzzah is struck dead for his efforts to manage God, Michal’s slow death comes as a result of distancing herself from God and everyone else.

21. “The Life of David – 15”
She views life from her window of pain that colors everything she sees.
Looking out her window she cannot see God taking his throne on earth.

22. “The Life of David – 15”
How much of life do you view through a lens that is colored by your past pain?
On David, Living Recklessly Before God.
All three major characters, Uzzah, David and Michal, experience God when He is angry.

23. “The Life of David – 15”
But of the three, David is the only one who gets angry at God in return and lives!
He refuses to hide behind a polite facade.

24. “The Life of David – 15”
When you give God your anger, it means he has access to you.
Then, your anger is transformed into fear, and fear is transformed into insight.

25. “The Life of David – 15” Conclusion
When God acts in salvation, there are only two choices open to us: we either dance or die.

26. “The Life of David – 15” 2 Samuel 6:12-23 06\07\2009 Dr. Dane Boyles