Becoming holy by humility and repentance

1. Becoming
Holy by
Humility
and
Repentance
A story about King
David from the book
of I Chronicles
Nischita

2. David’s Census causes Pestilence
Text: 1 Chronicles 21:1-19

3. The Story…
Vs 1
Satan provoked David to take a Census
What is a Census and why was it considered as a sin ?
• Official count of the population
Read Exodus 30:12
• Principle of this verse - God’s ownership of His people.
• A man only can count what belonged to him
• Israel belonged to God, not David

4. Verses 2 - 7
• David commands Joab to number the
Israelites
• Joab objects to the census but the King’s
word overruled
• David had wise men with him but ignored
their advice.
• Joab reports the numbers
( this indicates the counting itself was a
sin)
• God was displeased
Beersheba
Dan

5. Verses 8 - 12
• David came to his senses and admitted
his foolishness
• God gave 3 options to atone
3 years of
famine
3 months of
destruction
by enemies
3 days of
plague

6. Verses 13 - 19
• David chose 3 days of plague; he didn’t
want his people to suffer for long because
of his sin
• The plague killed 70,000 men; and God
also sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem.
• The calamity grieved the Lord & He
ordered the angel to stop.
• David saw the angel with a sword, ready to
strike Jerusalem.
• He immediately humbled himself and
repented.
• God ordered him to build an altar at
Araunah the Jebusite’s threshold.

7. Lessons Learnt
REALIZATION (v. 8)
➢David immediately realizes his sin.
➢No one tells him that he has wronged the Lord; he
himself realizes it.
ACCEPTANCE AND HUMILITY (v. 8)
➢David accepts the sin as his mistake; doesn’t blame
it on the devil’s work.
➢Begs God to remove his guilt
SERVICE BEFORE SELF
➢Given 3 punishments, he chose the one with the
least amount of time;
➢he didn’t want his people to suffer because of his
foolishness.

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