{"id":34042,"date":"2025-01-03T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/2-samuel_19_1-15-copy\/"},"modified":"2024-12-25T01:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T08:00:12","slug":"2-samuel_19_16-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/2-samuel_19_16-30\/","title":{"rendered":"God’s All-Surpassing Mercy On You"},"content":{"rendered":"

2 Samuel 19:16-30\u00a0\u00a0 (CLICK HERE FOR\u00a0BIBLE VERSES)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is 2 Samuel 19:16-30.\u00a0 As usual,\u00a0I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.\u00a0 See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit\u2019s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.\u00a0 Let’s go!<\/p>\n

Here we see how David deals with two men who had hurt David badly while David was going through one of his most difficult seasons.\u00a0 So much so that these two men both deserved death, and yet David shows them mercy.\u00a0 Let’s learn how God’s mercy toward us exceeds even David’s mercy toward these two men.<\/p>\n

2 Samuel 19:16-23 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n16\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Shimei son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim, hurried down with the men of Judah to meet King David.
\n17\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0With him were a thousand Benjamites, along with Ziba, the steward of Saul’s household, and his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They rushed to the Jordan, where the king was.
\n18\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0They crossed at the ford to take the king’s household over and to do whatever he wished. When Shimei son of Gera crossed the Jordan, he fell prostrate before the king
\n19\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0and said to him, “May my lord not hold me guilty. Do not remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king put it out of his mind.
\n20\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0For I your servant know that I have sinned, but today I have come here as the first of the whole house of Joseph to come down and meet my lord the king.”
\n21\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this? He cursed the\u00a0LORD’s anointed.”
\n22\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0David replied, “What do you and I have in common, you sons of Zeruiah? This day you have become my adversaries! Should anyone be put to death in Israel today? Do I not know that today I am king over Israel?”
\n23\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0So the king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” And the king promised him on oath.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses\u00a016-23: \u00a0When David was leaving Israel because his son Absalom had usurped the throne, Shimei hurled stones at David, called him a murderer and a scoundrel and told him to get out.\u00a0 At that time, Abishai the brother of Joab offered to cut off Shimei’s head, but David told him not to (2\u00a0Samuel\u00a016:5-14).\u00a0 Now that David has returned to Israel and reclaimed his throne, Shimei begs David for mercy, and a similar scene takes place: Abishai suggests that Shimei should be put to death (v21), but David again has mercy on Shimei (v22-23). \u00a0(Keep in mind that David’s mercy on Shimei would be short-lived, because toward the end of David’s life David would tell his son and successor Solomon to put Shimei to death (1 Kings\u00a02).\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 That’s a lesson for another day when we look at 1 Kings\u00a02.)<\/p>\n

What can we learn from this? \u00a0Just as Shimei cursed King David, all of us are guilty of sinning against the greatest king of all, Jesus the Son of David, through our words, our actions and our attitudes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

So before you start complaining about why God hasn’t given you this or that, remember that\u00a0like Shimei, we deserved to die for our sins. \u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0We didn’t deserve anything from God except death.\u00a0 Yet God in His mercy not only spared us from death but He has already given us so many other undeserved blessings.<\/p>\n

The mercy God showed us was far greater than the mercy David showed Shimei. \u00a0<\/strong>That’s because Shimei died many years later for his sin after David was no longer in power, so the king’s wrath on Shimei was only delayed.\u00a0 We have it far better.\u00a0 We should have died for our sin, but Jesus died in our place so that God’s wrath toward our sin could not just be delayed but could be extinguished completely. \u00a0David’s mercy on Shimei lasted only David’s lifetime (1 Kings\u00a0<\/strong>2<\/strong>), but through Jesus Christ God’s mercy on us lasts forever. \u00a0<\/strong>That’s the all-surpassing mercy God has on you and me through Jesus Christ<\/p>\n

2 Samuel 19:24-30 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n24\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson, also went down to meet the king. He had not taken care of his feet or trimmed his mustache or washed his clothes from the day the king left until the day he returned safely.
\n25\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0When he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, the king asked him, “Why didn’t you go with me, Mephibosheth?”
\n26\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He said, “My lord the king, since I your servant am lame, I said, ‘I will have my donkey saddled and will ride on it, so I can go with the king.’ But Ziba my servant betrayed me.
\n27\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0And he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. My lord the king is like an angel of God; so do whatever pleases you.
\n28\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0All my grandfather’s descendants deserved nothing but death from my lord the king, but you gave your servant a place among those who sat at your table. So what right do I have to make any more appeals to the king?”
\n29\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The king said to him, “Why say more? I order you and Ziba to divide the fields.”
\n30\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Mephibosheth said to the king, “Let him take everything, now that my lord the king has arrived home safely.”<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 24-30: \u00a0A crippled and disheveled Mephibosheth arrives to welcome King David back to power.\u00a0 When David asks Mephibosheth why he did not go with David when David left the throne, Mephibosheth blames his servant Ziba, saying that Ziba kept him from going (v25-26).\u00a0 But Mephibosheth also acknowledges that David has already had mercy on him. He and the rest of Saul’s descendants deserved nothing but death from David, and yet David gave Mephibosheth a place at David’s table (v28).\u00a0 As such Mephibosheth says he cannot ask for anything more from David and lets David decide what to do with him (v28b).\u00a0 So David orders that the land that was originally Mephibosheth’s, but that was given to his accuser Ziba now be divided between Mephibosheth and Ziba (v29).<\/p>\n

What can we learn from this?\u00a0 Here we see another dimension to God’s mercy on us. \u00a0God’s mercy on us means that our inheritance is restored. \u00a0<\/strong>Earlier Mephibosheth’s accuser Ziba had taken possession of Mephibosheth’s inheritance (2\u00a0Samuel\u00a016:1-4).\u00a0 In his mercy David restored half of that inheritance back to Mephibosheth (v29).\u00a0 That is mercy, especially when it was questionable whether Mephibosheth was telling the whole truth.<\/p>\n

God did even more for us than David did for Mephibosheth: when our accuser Satan had stolen our inheritance, Jesus restored our entire inheritance back to us.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>When through our sin we had lost our inheritance \u2013 that is, our status as children of God, our place in God\u2019s kingdom, and the right to rule and reign with God \u2013 Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins so that we could get our inheritance back.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Father, thank You that when all I deserved was death, You had mercy on me and let me live, not just many years like Shimei, but forever with You.\u00a0 Thank You that when the accuser Satan had stolen my inheritance, You restored all of it back to me through what Jesus Christ would do.\u00a0 Thank You for all the all-surpassing mercy You had and continue to have on my life.\u00a0 In Jesus’ name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is 2 Samuel 19:16-30.\u00a0 As usual,\u00a0I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.\u00a0 See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit\u2019s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.\u00a0 Let’s go!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here we see how David deals with two men who had hurt David badly while David was going through one of his most difficult seasons.\u00a0 So much so that these two men both deserved death, and yet David shows them mercy.\u00a0 Let’s learn how God’s mercy toward us exceeds even David’s mercy toward these two men.<\/p>\n

2 Samuel 19:16-23 (NIV)
\n16\u00a0\u00a0Shimei son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim, hurried down with the men of Judah to meet King David.
\n17\u00a0\u00a0With him were a thousand Benjamites, along with Ziba, the steward of Saul’s household, and his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They rushed to the Jordan, where the king was.
\n18\u00a0\u00a0They crossed at the ford to take the king’s household over and to do whatever he wished. When Shimei son of Gera crossed the Jordan, he fell prostrate before the king<\/p>\n

On verses\u00a016-23: \u00a0When David was leaving Israel because his son Absalom had usurped the throne, Shimei hurled stones at David, called him a murderer and a scoundrel and told him to get out.\u00a0 At that time, Abishai the brother of Joab offered to cut off Shimei’s head, but David told him not to (2\u00a0Samuel\u00a016:5-14).\u00a0 Now that David has returned to Israel and reclaimed his throne, Shimei begs David for mercy, and a similar scene takes place: Abishai suggests that Shimei should be put to death (v21), but David again has mercy on Shimei (v22-23).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34045,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34042\/revisions\/34045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}