The Wrath of the Weak

Rev. Bruce Brown

 II Samuel 4:1-12   

I.     Assumptions Reveal Our Sin (verses 1-8)

II.    Gratitude Remedies Our Idolatry (verse 9)

III.   Justice Reassures God’s Saints  (verses 9-12)

"It was a glorious thing for Israel to have in David a king who would enforce God’s bloody justice upon the wicked. But in Jesus Christ we have a higher sovereign and a better Savior. Christ is a king who not only inflicts justice on his enemies but who takes upon himself the penalty of his peoples’ sins, offering his own blood to save us from the severe judgment we have deserved. If in our waywardness we find God's mercy to seem severe, we nonetheless rejoice over every stroke, every loss, and every trial that leads us to the crowning mercy and the glory of knowing Jesus Christ.” ~ Richard Phillips