Why did God love and forgive David so?

[Miss Hepburn]

I ask because I see talk of sin so much...believing, pleasing or not pleasing God so much..
and hell....
What was up with David?
I think someone said once because he was so sorry afterwards.
I don't have much to add..just asking.
Thank you in advance all..

 

[Helen]

I ask because I see talk of sin so much...believing, pleasing or not pleasing God so much..
and hell....
What was up with David?
I think someone said once because he was so sorry afterwards.
I don't have much to add..just asking.
Thank you in advance all..

Good question. :)

I agree..and yes too often the focus is upon sin and sinners...
When Jesus has already said in John 15 "Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the Vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in Me."
So..when we read 'Woe unto them who call evil good and good evil' do we not err when we still see or give sin any place ( " give no place to the Devil..")
When Father tells us Jesus took sin away...who are we to still proclaim it is alive, or ourselves still under it's power?

As for David, I once asked the Lord the same question...how on earth did David seemingly 'get away with so much' while others got struck dead...or their ives shortened.

(I use the term loosely because I do not believe that our "hearing" is always as perfect as we seem to believe!.)
Anyway I believe that the Lord showed me that His love for David was so strong ( "David, a man after My own heart..") because David was a Seer..we can see this in his Psalms..the prophetic eye. God showed me that David's feet were indeed in the Old Covenant...yet David's head and heart were established in the New Covenant. He could see it!
How on earth would David have dared to go in and take the holy shew bread that only the priests could eat...if he did not know and had seen God's heart?.
This was what set me off years ago crying an petitioning Father..." Show me your Father heart.." I knew David had seen something about God that I had not come close to knowing. I can't remember how long it was before God revealed His heart to me...
That is when I stepped over the line...and first declared ( which lost me many friends ).. God from the beginning always planned the salvation of ALL mankind..and God's own victory over the enemy, sin and death.

"As in Adam all died, so in Christ will all be made alive"

2 Cor 5:19 " To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation."

Bad things happen to good people and bad people...always have done always will. If we believe that 'now' matters we will be offended in God.
Yet the seeming end is not the end. God wins...always has and always will.
David had total confidence and trust in His Good Shepherd. David knew God love for His silly sheep. David was a lover, as is God...God loved David as He could see a reflection of Himself in David's heart.

That is what I believe...but I don't expect many to agree.

 

[Miss Hepburn]

Wow, that was excellent.

 

[bbyrd009]

As for David, I once asked the Lord the same question...how on earth did David seemingly 'get away with so much' while others got struck dead...or their ives shortened.

imo bc he was quick to repent, but i am guessing there, pretty much

What was up with David?
I think someone said once because he was so sorry afterwards.

why wasn't king david punished - Google Search

we can see that KD actually paid a heavy price for his sins.

 

[FHII]

imo bc he was quick to repent, but i am guessing there, pretty much

why wasn't king david punished - Google Search

we can see that KD actually paid a heavy price for his sins.

David did pay a heavy price. His affair with Bath-sheba didn't end well as that child died (Solomon was NOT the first child from David and Bath-sheba). Furthermore, for what he did to Uriah his family was torn apart. I don't remember all the details but one of is sons committed horrible sexual crimes.

He was also not allowed to build the temple though he wanted to because he was a man of war.

 

[Stranger]

Why did God love and forgive David?

Because David was one of His.

Stranger

 

[Josho]

I ask because I see talk of sin so much...believing, pleasing or not pleasing God so much..
and hell....
What was up with David?
I think someone said once because he was so sorry afterwards.
I don't have much to add..just asking.
Thank you in advance all..

Because David loved God so much, David was after God's heart, he was full of praise, and he was 1 of the mightiest prayer warriors throughout history, and the book of Psalms really shows that.

 

[mjrhealth]

I can only put it as it was given to me, many years ago when I was a young Christian.
One day when I went to church, one of the lady prophets walked up to me, and told me that, God wants you to learn about David, there is something He wants you to know.
SO i went and read the bible, all about David. Than a few weeks or so later, in church she asked me," well, did you learn anything"?, and I said know, nothing,. I dont know how much later, but it wasnt long when the Lord told me. " David Loved God but was not perfect", as @Josho said, a man after Gods own heart, so what do I have to worry about.

 

[bbyrd009]

Why did God love and forgive David?

Because David was one of His.

Stranger

God loves and forgives everyone, Stranger, just go ask Job how all that forgiveness is helping him any, maybe, i mean you can read it right there in the thread bro c'mon

 

[Miss Hepburn]

... the Lord told me. " David Loved God but was not perfect", as @Josho said, a man after Gods own heart, so what do I have to worry about.

This is what I have always heard...yes.
Enoch was one blessed guy, also!

 

[Miss Hepburn]

This is what I have always heard...yes.
Enoch was one blessed guy, also!

I see someone wrote David was one of his...that sounds kinda sweet and all...but,
if a father has 10 children...aren't they all one of his..in fact, isn't the mischievous one even more his responsibility, getting more attention and care?
I dunno...open to discussion or consideration.
I mean we all have our favorites..maybe that is all there is to it.
All of us His...but He is allowed faves. (?)

Thanks everyone so far...:]

 

[bbyrd009]

I mean we all have our favorites..maybe that is all there is to it.
All of us His...but He is allowed faves. (?)

The Emo God lol, the god of "why do bad things happen to poor old perfect Job."

which is of course in There if you want to read it bad enough lol
Job's confessions of sin though, you gotta go find those for yourself i guess
(the real Job i mean, gl finding the other one's)

 

[amadeus]

David did not always stand where he should have been standing, but when he messed up and was made aware of it he was always willing to pay the price. With Bathsheba the price for adultery was death. With Uriah, Bathsheba's husband, the price for murder was death. But God does not look just to the how well we followed the letter of the law, but rather into deepest part of our heart.

We see here the prophet's words as he informs David:

"Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon." II Sam 12:9

Yet, although guilty as charged and expecting the worse as he admits his sin...

"And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die." II Sam 12:13

Did not David answer the thread question in these words he spoke to his son, Solomon?

"And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever. " I Chron 28:9

As @"ByGrace" has already said, he was a man after God's heart. He was also the apple of God's eye. The worst of sinners, but the best of repenters as our friend @bbyrd009 indicated. David provides a good example what the worst of sinners can accomplish. The Repentance thing is I believe the key to it. No shifting the blame to others or trying to justify himself as did King Saul. David really was ready to die for his sins.

 

[Stranger]

God loves and forgives everyone, Stranger, just go ask Job how all that forgiveness is helping him any, maybe, i mean you can read it right there in the thread bro c'mon

Who says?

Stranger

 

[mjrhealth]

This is what I have always heard...yes.
Enoch was one blessed guy, also!

Amen

 

[mjrhealth]

God loves and forgives everyone

Amen, just that not many accept it.... think they can somehow earn it...

 

[Miss Hepburn]

God loves and forgives everyone,

@Amadeus...any chance you could come up with a few verses substantiating this?

 

[ScottA]

I ask because I see talk of sin so much...believing, pleasing or not pleasing God so much..
and hell....
What was up with David?
I think someone said once because he was so sorry afterwards.
I don't have much to add..just asking.
Thank you in advance all..

David was not a man after God's own heart because of anything that David did, but rather because God had chosen him.

Unlike any other nation of the world, Israel had God over them, and other nations had kings over them - men. Israel, not knowing or appreciating that they had it better than all the other nations, petitioned God to give them a king like other nations. So God gave them their desire - to be under a lesser leader, under a man. But then, God being God, and having chosen Israel to serve Him, rose up His choice of a king over them...which was David. Not a perfect man, but a man of God's choosing.

 

[bbyrd009]

David really was ready to die for his sins.

i would suggest that he even did, our model for "dying to live."

to us a king, killing is like "meh," but it is hard for us to see how monumentally hard confessing to murder etc muct have been. Imagine the spectacle that would make today, how diff the outcome would surely be. So here we got an OT king demonstrating grace, whereas we in the NT would surely witness the law in action in this situation, right

 

[bbyrd009]

Who says?

Stranger

i know, seems weird, but it is Scriptural. And i'm not a Uni, either. i make this claim based upon those vv, (nothing can separate from God's Love, etc), and "Who told you that you were naked?" So iow, briefly, one is loved and forgiven no matter what; but w/o confession, that will not save them. There might be a hole there somewhere, lemme know