S2:177 2 Samuel 8-9

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Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Bible, Devotional

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🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Radical grace, covenant keeping-loyalty, and a connection that everyone can relate to are all read in 2 Samuel 8-9. In today’s podcast, Emma Dotter survey’s the how the grace that David gives to Mephibosheth, Johnathan’s son was in defiance of all expectations. We hear how as believers we too can give such radical grace.

Additional Scriptures from the podcast:
1 Peter 2:4-5,9- “You are a chosen race, royal priesthood…”
John 6:5, “I am the bread of life.”

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0:00.0	Reading our Bibles regularly can be a challenge, but we're all on this journey together.
0:06.0	We're praying that this podcast inspires you, helps you better understand God's word, and builds your faith.
0:12.0	This is Join the Journey with your host, Emma Daughter.
0:16.0	Thanks for joining. Today, we're reading 2nd Samuel 8 and 9, and if you read today's devotional on the Join the journey app or website, you know that it's getting at the sentiment. What does it mean to love differently? Or to say that in a different way, as a believer, do you look differently than the world? And when we really get to the bottom of this question, the clarifying point of
0:38.2	reflection might be, how much grace do you actually show others? Or do you ever show other people
0:45.1	grace? Our answers say a lot about how accurately we reflect Christ to the watching world.
0:51.3	In today's devotional, Watermark member Heather Timmons writes,
0:55.5	in 2 Samuel 8, King David experiences victory after victory, accumulating immense wealth,
1:01.6	power, land, and accolades. He attributes his victory to the Lord, consecrating the spoils of war
1:07.4	to God. We read that David administered justice and equity to all his people,
1:12.4	2 Samuel 815. King David is a humble, godly ruler. In this hour of profound success, David reflects
1:20.3	on God's covenant goodness that led him here, and he remembers an oath he made to a friend who sacrificed
1:25.6	for him. Enter Mephibiseth, crippled grandson of a former king, final vestige of a failed regimen.
1:33.6	Fearful, broken, alienated in every way.
1:38.1	Mephibisheth was an outcast in hiding.
1:40.9	Until David seeks him out and defying all expectations demonstrates the kindness of God.
1:48.2	Approaching the palace, Maphibisheth fears for his life. But instead, he hears the words,
1:54.3	do not be afraid, for I will show you kindness, 2 Samuel 9-7. My friend, Heather writes, I pray that as you journey from
2:03.4	Genesis to Jesus, as you're following along with this reading plan, this message reverberates
2:09.1	to you on every page, for these are also God's words to us. I love this. This is so good. She writes,
2:14.7	We are the helpless, the condemned ones, whom Christ sought out, 2nd Samuel 95,
2:20.2	and called by name, verse 6, to us.
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