1. The Wages of Sin
2 Samuel 24

2. Introduction
What is the cost of sin?

3. 1. The Sin against God – vv1.9
1 Chronicles 21:1 Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel… 

4. 1. The Sin against God – vv1.9 Acts 2:23
23 This man was handed over to you by God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross.

5. 1. The Sin against God – vv1.9
“Pride is spiritual cancer. It eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment or even common sense.”
C.S Lewis

6. 2. The Wrath of God (& the Repentance of David) – vv.10-17
2 Samuel 24:1 Again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, "Go and take a census of Israel and Judah."
1 Chronicles 21:1 Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel… 

7. 2. The Wrath of God (& the Repentance of David) – vv.10-17

8. 3. The Atonement of Sin – vv.18-25
Leviticus 17:11
For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one’s life.

9. 3. The Atonement of Sin – vv.18-25
Genesis 22:2
God said [to Abraham], “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”

10. 3. The Atonement of Sin – vv.18-25
2 Chronicles 3:1
Then Solomon began to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, the place provided by David.

11. 3. The Atonement of Sin – vv.18-25
Romans 3:25
God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood —to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished

12. conclusion
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.