The NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - ＂Who Is This King Of Glory？”

When the Ark of the Covenant begins to fall into the dirt, why would God kill a man whose intentions were good? And why would He do so to a man who was trying to protect the Ark from falling in the dirt?

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00:00:30.000 As they're traveling from Kirjath-Jerim to the city of Jerusalem,

00:00:34.680 the oxen stumble and the cart begins to sway and the ark begins to slide.

00:00:41.420 And it seems as though it's going to fall into the dirt.

00:00:45.120 The holy, holy, holy God, his indwelt presence in the ark of the covenant 0.98

00:00:50.860 is going to fall in the mud. 1.00

00:00:54.580 And so with good intentions, I have no doubt,

00:00:56.940 a man named Uzzah who is near the cart he reaches out his hand to still the ark so that it wouldn't

00:01:04.020 fall into the dirt and God strikes him dead for touching the ark now David second Samuel chapter

00:01:11.120 six David his first reaction is anger but immediately it turns to fear at first David

00:01:19.460 is angry because in his heart he's probably thinking what you and I might be tempted to

00:01:24.040 think. He's thinking, why would God kill a man whose intentions seemingly were good? He was

00:01:29.900 trying to protect the Ark of the Covenant from falling into the dirt. Now, the answer for why

00:01:36.080 God would do that, of course, is this, that although Uzzah's intentions may have been good, 0.64

00:01:41.680 he was presumptuous and arrogant because what he presupposed is this. He presupposed that it would 0.93

00:01:48.780 be an improvement for the presence of God to touch the hand of a man than the dirt.

00:01:58.160 See, brothers and sisters, dirt has never defied the living God. Dirt has never risen up to rebel

00:02:05.460 against Yahweh. Dirt has not sinned against God and fallen short of his glory. Dirt, ever since

00:02:13.540 it was made has only done what it was commanded by God to do. There's no piece of God's earthly

00:02:20.780 creation, but humanity that has ever had the gall, the audacity, the unbridled arrogance to rebel

00:02:29.060 against its creator. Dirt would have been a massive improvement from the hand of Uzzah. 1.00

00:02:36.120 he was foolish and david realizes this he realizes it's not just the anger of god that burns against 0.95

00:02:44.640 uzah that he is terrified of you know what terrifies david ultimately what we see that 0.98

00:02:51.080 strikes terror in his heart and in the hearts of the people of israel it's not just the wrath of

00:02:57.160 god the wrath of god is the result of the holiness of god there is nothing more terrifying for sinful

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The NXR Podcast - June 24, 2022

DAILY TRUTH - ＂Who Is This King Of Glory？”

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