Welcome to the Daily Disciple Podcast, where we seek daily to be with and to become like Jesus, our teacher. Welcome to the Daily Disciple Podcast. This is Travis, and we're gonna spend a little time talking about a really powerful idea that is throughout the pages of Scripture and maybe quintessentially found in 2nd Samuel, chapter 6. Great story about David King David.
And the title of the podcast today is Audience of One. And perhaps you heard that phrase and maybe you think, well, is if there's something that comes after a phrase like audience of one, plain audience of one, then yes, there is, and we'll get there. But let's just start with audience of one playing for audience of one. That one is God playing to an audience of one.
And that's exactly what David does in the story. And it changes, I think, the history of worship. It foreshadows everyone being on equal footing before God. And there are some elements in the story that are very real and very raw.
And this is the case whenever we choose to play to an audience of one. And so that's our title, Audience of One. And before we get to David, let's start with us. What would you do specifically in this season, in that relationship, in your life, if you were playing to just an audience of one?
Just go, what would you do that's different, different than you've done and different than how it's being done? Right? What would you do that's bold, Bold to you, bold to others that are looking on? What would you do that maybe challenges the system, the relationship, the way it's functioning, what's happening, like challenging it with the potential of changing it?
You know, what would you do today, in this season, in your life, right now, in this context, if you were just playing to an audience of one? That's a great question. And one of the most difficult things to do in all world is to just play to an audience of one. And the rest of the phrase, because it's so powerful, when we play to an audience of one, we're now free from playing to an audience of everyone.
It's so easy to be in bondage to playing to an audience of everyone, in this case, David and all of Israel, certainly the elders of Israel, and we're going to see his wife Michal. It's so easy to play to an audience of everyone, but when we play to an audience of one, it actually sets us free. It releases us from the chains of playing to an audience of everyone. Now, the reason why it's so difficult to play an audience of one is because when we do this, whatever it is that we would do if we played with an audience of one, people will judge.
People don't always like different. Sometimes people are threatened by different. People don't always like bold. Sometimes people are threatened by bold.
People don't always like when the system is challenged. People don't always accept change right away. People will judge you as they judge David. People will be confused and angry and frustrated, maybe fight back.
Whenever we play to an audience of one, that is exactly what happens. But it's so powerful to live a life of freedom like David's going to model here. Playing to an audience of one and being set free from playing to the audience of everyone else. What would that look like for you?
What would be different? Bold, challenging, beautiful, risky. Playing to just an audience of one. So we're in Second Samuel, chapter six.
This is where the Ark of the Covenant, the center of the worship of Israel, is being brought to Jerusalem. And David decides to have this, like, festival with singing and trumpets and giving away bread and all kinds of stuff. And so the ark is being carried through the street. And then in 2 Samuel 6:14, only wearing a linen effort, kind of not underwear, but an undergarment, David started dancing before the Lord with all his might.
I don't know exactly what all his might means, but I'll just say this. This is not what a king should do. It's kind of vulgar for a king to do this. But David danced before the Lord with all his might while the ark was being brought up to Jerusalem with loud shouts and the sounds of the trumpet.
Now, this was so different. It was so bold. It challenged what the king was supposed to do. And I think this changed worship forever.
I think this foreshadowed the New Testament reality of everyone being on equal flame before the Lord. See, the king was supposed to be distinguished and not disrobe. But David took off his royal robes. We're all on equal footing before the Lord.
The Lord is great. He's worthy to be praised. And David danced with all his might before the Lord. It's a beautiful story, playing to an audience of one and being set free from playing to an audience of everyone.
David had chosen playing to an audience of everyone. He would stay there in his seat, you know, or in the procession, wherever he was. And he would have distinguished himself as the king among the people and not modeled this deep heart of worship and extravagance and boldness and change to all of Israel. Now, I mentioned earlier that whenever we play to Romanians of one we will be judged, we will be critiqued.
And so what we find out is that David's wife Michal, was watching from a window. And verse 20, when David comes home, David returns home to bless his household. Mikal, daughter of Saul, David's wife, came out to meet him and said and listened to the disdain and the judgment in her voice. How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, going around half naked in full view of the slave girls, as any vulgar fellow would do.
And she's just half naked. Not because he took off his clothes. That would have not been the move that David would have taken. Dancing naked, actually naked before the Lord would have been vulgar, and David would never have done that.
She's using a bit of hyperbole because he took off his royal robes, he became like his servants in the presence of God. And she called that vulgar. Now, when we play to an audience of one, we will be labeled certain things. Jesus was labeled certain things.
David was labeled certain things. Maybe think for just a moment if you did what you would do if you played to an audience of one, a different thing, a bold thing, a challenging thing, that thing could change everything. What would you be calling? What would you be labeled?
What people say about you? Well, how would they observe that? Because possibly that's keeping us from playing to an audience of one. Possibly that's keeping us chained to continue to play to an audience of everyone.
And David's story is a beautiful story of what it looks like to play to an audience of one. And maybe for you right now, it's worship, just like David, and expressing yourself in a way you never have. Maybe it's doing something or challenging some system or saying something that needs to be said, or gathering a group that needs to be gathered, or whatever it might be. What would it look like to play to an audience of one?
And I love. In verse 22, David says to his wife, I will celebrate before the Lord. I will do that. I'll become even more undignified than this, and I'm happy to be humiliated.
My own eyes. David saying, what I did was before the eyes of the Lord, not before your eyes. So you can think that this is embarrassing, vulgar. You can judge and label all you want, but I celebrate it before the Lord.
It's about his eyes. That's the audience I'm playing to. And that's so powerful, that changes the world. And so the question presses.
I mean, we have David's story, but what we get invited to when we read scriptures to enter into the story, how do we enter into the story. How are we being stirred, called, moved, challenged to play to an audience of one. It can and will change the world and it will will indeed be misunderstood. But when we play to our audience of one, we're set free from playing to an audience of everyone.
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