2nd Samuel chapter 6. We're looking at a message entitled doing the right thing the wrong way.

We're going to be in verses 1 through 15 there in 2nd Samuel 6. And as you turn there,

I want to ask you a question. Have you ever done the right thing the wrong way? Or you had the

right motive, but the wrong method? Hopefully you've never been the daughter who decided to bless her

dad by filling up his truck's gas tank. Only to realize that her dad's truck is a diesel after

putting in regular gas. Right thing wrong way. And then there's Robinhood who steals from the

rich to feed the poor. Right motive wrong method. Well tonight we're going to see King David do the

right thing the wrong way. We will see him have the right motive, but employ the wrong method.

As we come to 2nd Samuel 6, we find David finally raining as King over all Israel.

By this time he's around 30 years old, no longer the little shepherd boy,

Saul and his sons are now dead. So David begins to establish himself as King.

One of David's first acts as King, if you look there in the previous chapters, it's to come up

against the inhabitants of Jerusalem who were the Jebusites. He takes the land and establishes for

the first time his stronghold in which he refers to as the city of David. After this the Philistines

hear about David's new reign. They seek to come against him and David inquires of the Lord

as was his custom to do. God promises deliverance and so David drives back the Philistines there at

the end of 2nd Samuel chapter 5. In light of this, David will seek to move the arc of the covenant

to his newly found stronghold to officially make this the capital where all Israel would gather

together for worship and to seek the Lord. You can look at some of these initial moves like kind

of how a president would focus on those first 100 days in office. David is reforming things for

how they should have been but never were under King Saul. But like Paul speaks of his Jewish brothers

in Romans 10, David here shows a zeal for God that was not according to knowledge. And today,

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