Joy Before the Lord

 Rev. Bruce Brown

December 13, 2020

 II Samuel 6:12-23   

 I.   The Humility of David’s Joy  (verses 11-13) 

II.  The Hunger Behind David’s Joy  (verses 14-15,17-19 )

III. The Hostility Toward David’s Joy  (verses 16, 20-23)

“Even though there are occasions when the people of God have cause to be solemn and reflective, or to be crying out to the Lord in brokenness of heart, the predominant theme of our personal devotion and public worship ought to be a rising sense of the joy of salvation… As he (the Christian) worships the Lord and reflects on his grace to his people, [the Christian’s] heart is lifted above the earth-bound horizon of his problems and, from the high ground of communion with the Lord, he sees everything in the perspective of the finished work of Christ: sin forgiven, the future secure, the Lord with him as the way, the truth, and the life, and heaven opened as his everlasting inheritance in his beloved Savior!” ~ Gordon Keddie