Glorious OmissionsToday's Three-minute Bible Study
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Title: Glorious Omissions ---------------------------------- Date: 2/5/2003
Keyword: “forgiveness”
Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation.Passage: 1 Chronicles chapters 11-29*
Due to its length, the complete passage is not printed here. Please click the link to read the text in a separate window online.Questions
1. David was Israel's greatest King. What were some of David's greatest exploits?
2. Can you name a couple of David's greatest failures?
Practical help
The Bible is a fascinating book. It is fascinating for what it includes and for what it excludes.When reading through the books of 1st and 2nd Samuel, we encounter the stories of David's great achievements and of his monumental failures. Most prominent among his failures is the case of Bathsheba and Uriah. He committed adultery with Bathsheba and then murdered her husband, Uriah the Hittite, to cover up his shameful deed. That story is splashed across the pages of Scripture, and you can read about it in 2 Samuel 11.
1st and 2nd Chronicles is a second record of the history of the nation of Israel. In some ways it parallels the history given in Samuel and Kings. Without question, David is the prominent figure in 1 Chronicles. His story is the main theme of chapters 11-29. Yet glaring in its absence in this whole record is any mention of the Bathsheba and Uriah incident.
Why would the author of 1 Chronicles exclude this story of lust, greed, immorality and violence?
It is because the books of Samuel and Kings are designed to tell the story of Israel's history from the perspective of man, while Chronicles tells the story of the nation from the perspective of God.
When God reviewed the life of His servant David, He passed over his ugliest sin, didn't even deem it worth mentioning. The reason? Because it was forgiven.
When you are a child of God, forgiveness means forgiveness. God does not record our sins in a book with permanent marker. Instead, "He...casts all [our] sins into the depths of the sea" and then posts a sign that says, no fishing! (Micah 7:19).
As you walk with God this day, remember your forgiveness — and walk in the confidence that your sins are forgiven. You can start fresh. The slate has been wiped clean.
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*"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, © Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission."
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