I will not offer a sacrifice that costs me nothing

(Audio: Spanish)

SUMMARY: The passage from 1 Chronicles 21:21-28 highlights the importance of uniting matter with spirit for God's processes to take place in the world. David wanted to build an altar to Jehovah on Ornan's threshing floor, but he insisted on paying for it at its full price to stop the slaughter in town. David recognized the importance of investing and sacrificing something that costs for spiritual results to occur. The passage also shows the consequences of David's sin of ordering a census of his people, which was deeply offensive to the Lord. God gave David three options, all equally terrible, and David chose three days of pestilence on the earth, which was manifested as a disease but was caused by an angel with an outstretched sword. The physical manifestation of disease and other issues in our world often have a spiritual aspect, and it's important for Christians to unite matter with spirit for God's processes to take place.

The speaker reflects on the spiritual and natural disasters happening in the world, suggesting that nature rebels against sin and that God may use natural disasters as punishment. He discusses the story of David and the angel of death, noting that a sacrifice was needed to appease God's wrath and stop the mortality. He emphasizes the importance of doing things with integrity and justice, and the need to give sacrificially to the Lord. The speaker sees parallels between the story and the holy significance of the land where the sanctuary is built.

The speaker believes that the land and building where they are currently located is a holy and spiritually charged place chosen by God for a specific purpose. They compare it to the site where King David built a sanctuary for worshiping God. The speaker believes that God wants to use them and their church to bring life and healing to the city, and they call on their congregation to offer significant sacrifices and offerings to the Lord. They end with a prayer for God's mercy and guidance in fulfilling His purpose for their church.

Let's go to the First Book of Chronicles. Verse 21 of chapter 21, 21:21 beginning, it says here: "And David coming to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and coming out of the threshing floor" the threshing floor is a plot of land, a place where wheat was threshed, where he separated the wheat from the chaff, as when Gideon was also threshing. It was also like a platform where the wheat was separated from the corn and the chaff was separated from the grain itself, that is a threshing floor.


And then, Ornán was there, David approaches him, Ornán sees him and leaves where he is working and prostrates himself on the ground before David, because David is obviously his king, his sovereign. "Then David said to Ornan: Give me this threshing floor to build an altar to Jehovah. Give it to me for its full price." Look how interesting, he says: "Give it to me for its full price" that is, for what it's worth, exactly for what it's worth, no more but no less. "Give it to me for its full price so that the mortality in the town ceases." Wow, I could actually just stop there and preach on that word of David, give it to me for its full price to stop the slaughter in town.