Does David danced naked?

This morning’s NOPE has triggered afresh all the “David danced naked and with all his might!”responses, a text that is abused and used to excuse all kinds of excessive nonsense in churches today. Stop it. 

"It is commonly taught that David danced naked before the Lord. Yet the Bible says, “David was girded with a linen ephod.” ~ 2 Sam. 6:14
The linen ephod was a priestly garment.
When David first attempted to bring the Ark of the Covenant back to Jerusalem, it was a disaster. David (as King) had chosen to bring the Ark of the Covenant home on a new cart. There was dancing and rejoicing while the Ark was in transport on the new cart.

Yet in this atmosphere, God’s judgement came, and Uzzah lost his life when he reached out to steady the Ark from falling off the cart (2 Sam. 6:6-7).
David became afraid of  the Lord that day (2 Sam. 6:9; 1 . 13:12) and the Ark was placed in the home of Obed-Edom the Gittite for 3 months, and the Lord blessed Obededom, and all his household (2 Sam. 6:11).
In due time, it was revealed to David that he had handled the Ark of the Covenant inappropriately, and that only the priests were sanctioned to transport the Ark (1 Chron.15:1-3).

After this, David danced before the Lord with all his might, wearing a line ephod – a priestly garment. He rejoiced in the presence of God, while wearing this priestly garment as the Levites carried the Ark of the Covenant to the tent David had prepared for it.
The lesson here is not that David danced naked in some out of control manner, thus giving us a proof-text for when things get out of control in church services.
The lesson is that God is a God of order. As 2 Sam. 6:5 reveals, there was great rejoicing while the Ark was on a new cart, but it was out of order, and judgement fell.
Later there was great rejoicing “after the due order” and blessings followed (1 Chron. 15:13).
When David danced before the Lord in his King's apparel with the Ark on a new cart, there was judgment. When he put on a priestly garment, and danced before the TRUE KING OF ISRAEL, after the due order, there was blessing.
When the Spirit of the Lord is moving, there is order and self-control (a fruit of the Spirit).
David did not dance naked before the Lord, and we should not use this as a proof text for not doing all things decently and in order as Paul instructs us in 1 Cor. 14:40." 

- Michael Battle

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The Reality of Your Eternal Portion by J.C. Ryle

   Resurrection and judgment await you. All is not over when the last breath is drawn and your body becomes a lump of cold clay. No: all is not over!

   The realities of existence then begin. The shadows will have passed away for ever. The trumpet shall one day sound, and call you forth from your narrow bed; the graves shall be rent asunder, and their tenants shall be summoned forth to meet God; the ears that would not obey the church going bell shall be obliged to obey that summons; the proud wills that would not submit to listen to sermons shall be compelled to listen to the judgment of God. The great white throne shall be set: the books shall be opened. Every man, woman and child, shall be arraigned at that great court appearance. Every one shall be judged according to his works. The sins of every one shall be answered for. And every one shall receive his eternal portion either in heaven or in hell!

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Eternal Salvation Quote

God seals His sheep of 1,44,000 on Earth in Revelation 7 and
we can find exactly the same number of sealed people standing before the throne in Revelation 14 worshipping Him who saved them.
It is evident that God shall lack none of His elect. John 10:28
It is impossible to transform a Sheep into Goat and vice versa. ~ AKR


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Jehovahjireh - God will foresee (provide)

Gen 22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide Himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

JESUS CHRIST is the lamb God-given to be slaughtered for us as a substitute for hell-deserving sinners. Now consider Abraham’s reply to His Son, God will provide Himself a Lamb. I want to convey two messages here.

God will provide: The God who gave His only begotten Son to save us shall provide for all our emergencies. His name is Jehovahjireh.

God will provide Himself a lamb for a (burnt) offering: I see this verse as a prophetic message of God. He’s going to provide Himself an offering. An offering to satisfy His just wrath on us. CHRIST tasted the wrath we should have tasted. The unbearable wrath that was on our heads was taken and put on His head. He tasted death inch by inch in place of us.

Propitiation:
“God saved you for Himself,
God saved you by Himself,
God saved you from Himself.” - Paul Washer.

God provided a lamb (resembling Christ) in place of Isaac (us). Don’t think of God as a sadist. Our God cares for us more than any blood relation could. Trust Him with all your heart like Abraham.

Moriah - means the Lord will provide. Calvary was one of the mountains in the land of Moriah where God foreordained CHRIST-the perfect lamb for us.

Clearly, this chapter is the foreshadowing of CHRIST.

Praise Jehovahjireh with me today.


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Genesis 24:8-11

C.H. Spurgeon comments on Gen 24:8-11 that it seems like "a wild-goose chase" cuz he has to go and find a wife for a young man left at home. What we have to notice here is he went to hear the counsel of God. He went to God and asked Him to guide him. Man might make wrong choices; but God doesn't.

Spurgeon's Exposition
»Ay, he did not know the promise, “while they were yet speaking I will hear”; but God keeps his promise before he makes them, and, therefore, I am sure he will keep them after he has made them.«

(Ref Isa 65:24, Pro 3:5-6)


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The Type Of Men Jesus Deserves To Preach His Gospel.

• One brother I have encountered—one did I say?—I have met ten, twenty, a hundred brethren, who have pleaded that they were quite sure that they were called to the ministry—because they had failed in everything else!
• This is a sort of model story:—“Sir, I was put into a lawyer’s office, but I never could bear the confinement, and I could not feel at home in studying law. Providence clearly stopped up my road, for I lost my situation.”
• “And what did you do then? “Why, sir, I was induced to open a grocer’s shop.” “And did you prosper?” “Well, I do not think, sir, I was ever meant for trade; and the Lord seemed quite to shut up my way there, for I failed, and was in great difficulties.”
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“Since then, I have done a little in a life-assurance agency, and tried to get up a school, beside selling tea; but my path is hedged up, and something within me makes me feel that I ought to be a minister.”
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My answer generally is, “Yes, I see; you have failed in everything else, and therefore you think the Lord has especially endowed you for His service; but I fear you have forgotten that the ministry needs the very best of men, and not those who cannot do anything else.”
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A man who would succeed as a preacher would probably do right well either as a grocer, or a lawyer, or anything else. A really valuable minister would have excelled in any occupation. There is scarcely anything impossible to a man who can keep a congregation together for years, and be the means of edifying them for hundreds of consecutive Sabbaths; he must be possessed of some abilities, and be by no means a fool or a ne’er-do-well.
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Jesus Christ deserves the best men to preach His gospel, and not the empty-headed and the shiftless
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— Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, 37-38
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Jere 31:1-2 « Genesis 27:41


1. What a mercy it is to have a family God, and to have our whole family in Christ! Brethren, you have a family Bible, and you have, I hope, a family altar; may your whole family belong to God! (Spurgeon's Exposition)

2. God rescued His elect, the remnant from the dreadful sword of their Enemies.
As I'm reading the first book of Torah [Genesis], what catches my eyes today is this, God turned the mind of Esau who decided to kill his brother Jacob [Chosen man] (Gen 27:41) just like He hardened Pharaoh's heart to express His excellencies. He made him escape from the sword of Esau.

What a great Omnipotent God we serve! We can completely rely on Him. He's faithful to protect us from the snares of our Enemy (i.e., the Devil).
 
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