Sound House Church

This sermon concludes the series on King David by examining the consequences of his census, where his pride led to a devastating plague on Israel. Faced with the choice of three divine punishments, David humbly throws himself on the great mercy of God, resulting in a three-day pestilence that is miraculously halted by the Angel of the Lord at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. The sermon culminates by highlighting David’s final act of obedience: building an altar and offering a costly sacrifice on that very spot to avert the plague. This location—the future site of the Temple and Mount Moriah—serves as a powerful typological foreshadowing of Christ, teaching that judgment is ultimately transformed into perpetual and eternal mercy through a substitutionary sacrifice, reminding us that while David chose himself, Jesus chose us to be saved, not by our works, but by His mercy.