GOD'S LOVE SLAVE!        21/4/74          DO 537

         1. RECENTLY OUR EXPERIENCES AND EXPERIMENTATIONS IN THE FIELD OF SHOWING REAL LOVE TO OTHERS have again reminded us of what King David said when his first wife Michal, King Saul's daughter--a type of the cold formal system church--despised David in her heart when she saw him leaping and dancing with all his might before the Ark of the Lord in nothing but a little loose linen loin cloth as she watched him from her window.
         2. WHEN HE FINALLY CAME IN FROM THIS WILD ORGY of love for the Lord before the maidens of Israel, she greeted him with contempt, saying sneeringly, "How glorious was the King of Israel today who uncovered himself in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!" (2Sam.6:20)
         3. SHE WAS LITERALLY ACCUSING HIM OF INDECENT EXPOSURE AND OBSCENE SEXUAL EXHIBITIONISM in public in front of the lowliest servant girls in the city who had come out to watch his wild display of passion for the Lord! When thus accused of lewd behaviour by his own queen, David retorted with righteous indignation:
         4. "IT WAS BEFORE THE LORD which chose me before thy father and before all his house to appoint me ruler over the people of the Lord, over Israel:
         5. "THEREFORE WILL I PLAY BEFORE THE LORD AND I WILL YET BE MORE VILE than thus and will be base in mine own sight!--And of the maid-servants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour!" David was saying really: "I did it as unto the Lord Who chose me, the very least of these thy brethren, to make me the greatest even above thy father the king, and to make me king in his place!
         6. "THEREFORE I WILL PLAY AND HAVE FUN DANCING EVEN MORE INDECENTLY AND SCANDALOUSLY before the Lord until I am a disgrace in my own eyes, and even the lowest maid-servants which you despise will make love to me honourably!"..."Therefore was Michal the daughter of Saul rejected by David and smitten barren by the Lord so that she had no child unto the day of her death", one of the greatest curses a woman could suffer in those days! (For the whole story, see 2Samuel 6:12-23.)
         7. IN THIS POTENT TYPOLOGY God has powerfully and picturesquely foreshadowed His present-day rejection of the cold modern fruitless churches of today and His choice in their place of a wild fanatical radical, sexual, revolutionary, latter-day David and his humble despised followers.
         8. IN THESE PAST FEW DAYS WE HAVE HAD SOME EXPERIENCES ALONG THIS LINE WHICH HAVE BEEN A LITERAL FULFILMENT OF THIS VERY SAME INDISCRIMINATE LOVE OF GOD shown with total abandonment in His uttermost love for the lowliest, from the uttermost to the guttermost.
         9. This is undoubtedly the most shocking experience and most surprising revelation we have thus far had, and I'm sure it will break quite a few more of your old bottles before we're through!
         10. IT MAY SOUND AS BAD TO YOU AS SOME OF THE THINGS THAT JESUS DID appeared to the Systemites of His day, including the seeming breaking of all the rules and the apparent encouragement of cannibalism (John 6:51-56) and His appearance of promiscuity in His choice of some of the most undesirable characters in town, such as drunks, harlots, publicans and sinners as His closest associates! (Mat.9:10,11; Mat.11:19; Lk.8:1-3)
         11. BUT GOD'S WAYS ARE NOT OUR WAYS and His thoughts are not our thoughts (Isa.55:8), and He takes the weakest things to confound the mighty and the foolish things to bring to nought the wisdom of the wise (1Cor.1:27) and often works in a very mysterious way the wonders of His love to perform!
         12. "FOR NO GREATER LOVE HATH ANY MAN THAN THIS, than a man lay down his life (or even his wife?) for his friends!" (John 15:13) For Jesus called them NOT servants but FRIENDS! (John 15:15)

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