Please turn with me to 2 Samuel chapter 24, verse 24. David said, I will not offer unto the Lord

that which cost me nothing. Now, I just want to remind you again the series of messages

not about money. The heart and the core of the series of messages

is not about money. The questions that we're going to see throughout the series is how much do I

love God? And if I love God, how do I show my love for God?

How is my love for God manifesting itself?

By giving him the leftover and the unwanted,

or by giving him the first fruit and the best.

Now, if you have Second Samuel already open in front of you,

I want you to follow with me,

because I'm going to give you a whole lot of history in succinct few sentences.

King David of Israel, a man of whom the Bible said that he is his heart after God's own heart,

something was never said of anybody else. A man who as a shepherd boy

experienced such intimacy with God like very few people have. David, as a young man,

closed with the power of God and the strength of God. He goes on and slay the giant who terrorized

the people of God day after day after day. David, the man who wrote these wonderful, magnificent,

comforting and encouraging Psalms, that David, the royal King David, messed up royally. I think most people, even non-church

people, know how David messed up royally with Bashiba in adultery and killing her husband

Uriah. But that's not the only time that he messed up royally. And every time he messes up, he goes back

in tears and cries to the Lord in brokenness and ask the Lord for forgiveness. This time,

the way David missed up is that he got up one day. His heart was full of pride.

A little shepherd boy, look how far he came.

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