Redemption:
Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
(Psalm 51:2, 7, 10)
Our motivation for pursuing the remission that comes from the LORD is that we have an extended stake in the matter. In the day in which I am living, there is a lot of talk about how some of the, so called, financial messes, as being blamed on various politicians, are damaging the future potential of the next generation; particularly, as this next generation is expressed in the structure of the family. Beyond concern for financial messes, we need to be doubly concerned about the spiritual messes that we create inside the financial messes that absorb our attention.
Also, we need to have spiritual concern especially for the next generations, as they are wrapped into the structure of the family. In our handling of these and other such high profile matters, we have an opportunity for either committing an affront to the next generation or delivering great benefit to it. The message from the LORD God is clear as to His will for such potentially god-spawning matters.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
(Exodus 20:4-6)
Even if you have repented, and seem to think that you can walk away from your sin; if you choose to invoke the David comparison, you must be ready to endure life with a dysfunctional family–again we say, think beyond the biological image of family. Below, we will think through a few of the highlights of that type of family dysfunction, in the life of David. (Speaking for those ones of us who have ever been in the corporate world, we know that what you are about to read can easily be applied to the ambitious portions–executive, managerial, and managed–of that particular, man-constructed family, too.)
First, here is the prophetic pronouncement. As you read this, and other portions of the rebuke for this matter, substitute the word, opportunity, in place of the word, wife; and, too, substitutive the word, opportunities, in the place of the word, wives. Additionally, you might find it useful to mentally insert the word, slander, where you see the expression, the sword.
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.
(2 Samuel 12:9-12)
The fulfillment of that prophecy gives us clear evidence of the dysfunction of king David’s family. The message of the dysfunction begins with an extra-family inoculation that introduced a virulent strain of duplicity into the body of Davids household; or did it
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