God Promises David An Everlasting Throne (Walk Thru the Bible Week 15)

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Now let's join our host, Susan Michael.

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Welcome to Walk Through the Bible.

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This is week 15 and we are deep into the story of the highlight of Israel's history,

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which is the Davidic Kingdom.

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So today we're going to be covering our reading this week, which is found on pages 449 through

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475 of the Daily Bible or the dates of April 9 through 15 in the Daily Bible.

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I'm actually going to pick up on a little bit of what we read last week because I didn't

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cover it all then.

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Our highlight so far as we've been in 1 Samuel is David has established his throne.

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He has been named King first in Hebron where he was for seven years.

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And then last week we talked about his capture of Jerusalem.

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And so today we're going to pick up our story there.

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Now David is king over Israel and the first thing we notice is he begins to defeat the

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enemies.

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He defeats the Philistines.

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Of course this is a sign of God's blessings on his people when they are no longer overruled,

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harassed, even murdered by their enemies, but that they have subdued their enemies and

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living in peace.

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And so David begins to usher in that period for the people of Israel.

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He also recognizes the need to bring the Ark of the Covenant up to Jerusalem and to begin

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to establish some sort of centralized worship.

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Remember during the period of the judges, everybody did as they saw fit.

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There wasn't national leadership, there wasn't a national prophet, they were sort of scattered.

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And so I think David begins to recognize the need to now solidify leadership.

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And that's not only just militarily, but also spiritually.

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And so he brings the Ark of the Covenant up to Jerusalem and it says that he houses it

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in a tent.

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Now it doesn't say specifically that this tent is the Tabernacle, the Tabernacle that

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was built in the wilderness and traveled with the Israelites.

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We don't know the Tabernacle has been in Shiloh for over 300 years, but at this point it seems

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that David just erects a tent to house the Ark of the Covenant.

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And then we move into, now we're in 2 Samuel.

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And in chapter 7, and this is really a significant chapter where David begins to make plans to

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build a temple to house the Ark of the Covenant.

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And God says to him, are you going to build me a house?

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I don't think so, because I'm going to build you a house and I'm going to establish your

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kingdom forever.

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So I want to read to you from 2 Samuel chapter 7.

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And beginning at the beginning of the chapter, it says that the king has settled into his

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palace and the Lord has given him rest from all of his enemies all around him.

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And so he says to Nathan the prophet, he says, here I am, I'm in a house of cedar while the

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Ark of the Covenant remains in a tent.

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So I'm going to begin reading here at verse 3.

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So Nathan replies to the king, whatever you have in mind, go ahead and do it for the Lord

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is with you.

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But that night the word of the Lord came to Nathan saying, go and tell my servant David,

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this is what the Lord says, are you the one to build me a house to dwell in?

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I've not dwelt in a house from the day I brought the Israelites up out of Egypt to this day.

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I've been moving from place to place with the tent as my dwelling.

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Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their rulers whom

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I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, why have you not built me a house of cedar?

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Now then tell my servant David, this is what the Lord Almighty says, I took you from the

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pastor and from tending the flock and appointed you ruler over my people Israel.

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I have been with you wherever you have gone and I have cut off all your enemies from before

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you.

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Now I will make your name great like the names of the greatest men on earth and I will provide

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a place for my people Israel and will plant them so that they can have a home of their

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own and no longer be disturbed.

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Great people will not oppress them anymore as they did at the beginning and have done

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ever since the time I appointed leaders over my people Israel.

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I will give you rest from all your enemies.

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The Lord declares to you that the Lord himself will establish a house for you.

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When your days are over and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring

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to succeed you, your own flesh and blood I will establish his kingdom.

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He is the one who will build a house for my name and I will establish the throne of his

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kingdom forever.

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I will be his father and he will be my son.

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When he does wrong I will punish him with a rod wielded by men, with floggings inflicted

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by human hands, but my love will never be taken from him as I took it away from Saul

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whom I removed from before you.

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Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me.

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Your throne will be established forever.

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And Nathan reported to David all the words of this entire revelation.

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Now why is this so significant?

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So David says to the Lord, I'm going to build you a house, a palace, a temple to put the

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Ark of the Covenant which is the presence of God.

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I'm going to build a house for you to dwell in.

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And God says, you're going to build me a house?

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When did I ever say I wanted a house?

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He said instead I'm going to build you a house.

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I'm going to build you an everlasting dynasty and I'm going to have your offspring, your

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son will build the temple for me.

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And when he sins I'm going to punish him but I will not reject him like I rejected Saul

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before you.

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This is an amazing passage.

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And at this point we have like a whole third pivot in our biblical story.

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We read in the whole first quarter of our reading how God made three promises to Abram

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and he fulfilled the first two promises at least in the natural, at least in part.

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We're going to find out later when we get to the New Testament that there's actually

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a greater spiritual fulfillment of the Abrahamic Covenant but he has fulfilled it, he has

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given Abraham descendants, he's made him a great nation, he has given those people, those

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descendants of Abraham the land of Canaan that he had promised Abraham that he would

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do.

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And now we see the beginning of the fulfillment of the third promise which is that they would

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be a blessing to every family on earth and the way he's going to bring about this fulfillment

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is going to take a while longer but the first step is that one day he's going to bring a

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king to reign over the earth and through that king every family of the earth is going to

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be blessed.

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So let's back up now.

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Here he is establishing that it's going to be from the lineage of David, he's going

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to build David an everlasting house.

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Now something else he says in here which is really significant, he says, now I will make

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your name great, this is in verse 9, I will make your name great like the names of the

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greatest men on earth.

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Now that is quite a promise.

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Here's little David, I mean he grew up a shepherd, he's now been put as king over this little

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people on this little piece of land in the midst of a huge earth and in God's telling

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him you're going to become one of the greatest names on earth, how would he do that?

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But looking back, who doesn't know about King David, anybody that knows about the Bible,

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whether they are Christian, whether they are Jewish, whether they are even Muslim and these

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three religions take up the bulk of the earth, they know about King David, they know about

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David.

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His name has outshone those of the leaders of Assyria, can you name the leaders of Assyria?

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Can you name the leaders of Babylon or Apergea?

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If you're a good student of the Bible you might know a few names but how many in the

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earth can think of those names but they've heard of King David.

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So I want to tell you now, you know I'm always bringing up what the skeptics say and what

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the archeologists say and it's almost laughable because in the past these biblical skeptics

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said that King David didn't really exist.

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He was just a mythological figure in the pages of the Bible but there was no proof outside

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of the Bible that this man even existed.

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And then we had an amazing archeological find in 1993 up in the city of Dan, remember I've

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told you about Abraham's gate at the ancient city of Laish which was later became the city

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of Dan.

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In that city they uncovered an ancient stele and this stele is of the Syrian king bragging

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how that he had defeated the king of Israel, he had not defeated David, this was about

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80 years after David.

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He had defeated the king of Israel known as the house of David and so here is an extra

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biblical confirmation not just that David existed but that he had founded a dynasty or a dynasty

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that the Assyrian king had actually bragged about defeating.

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Now this made the skeptics go running so then they said okay well maybe he existed but he

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was like a Bedouin sheik or shek over a tent.

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He didn't, there was no evidence that there was infrastructure, that there was building

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during this reign of David, that it was a strong monarchy, there's no archeological evidence

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of any of that.

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And then they uncovered a specific city and they realized then it's called Kerbet Kaifah

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and in that city they saw well established, built up, it proved there was infrastructure,

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there was communication, there was a network of cities securing the kingdom and it put

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all of those skeptics really I would hope to silence but I doubt it.

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Anyway so let me tell you just a rundown of some things that archeology has proven to

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us now about David.

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First that David did exist as a king, the head of a 10th century BCE state so that means

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that 10 centuries, a thousand years before Christ there was a king David over a monarchy

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that he founded a dynasty well known to his neighbors and maybe even mentioned as far

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south as Egypt.

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He embellished his capital in Jerusalem known as the Citadel which they are excavating now

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the palace of David in the city of David and they know that Hiram may very well have built

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that palace because they have found this Phoenician head of a column right there where David's

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palace was.

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They have seen that his reign saw an expanding population which means a time of peace and

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prosperity and an increasing number of urban developments and a certain settlement pattern

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so it was to secure borders and to secure expanding borders of his kingdom.

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We also know that he was successful in his wars against the Philistines because archeology

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shows that the Philistine sites weakened and lessened during this time while the Jewish

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or Judaic sites of archeology were growing and were stronger so that means he was ruling

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over the Philistines and they were weakening.

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So we see all of this now just from archeology which is supporting our biblical narrative.

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So I just want to bring this up to say do not base your faith on archeology or even on

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science.

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There are big gaps that still need to be explained and all it takes is one new discovery and

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it may realign everything they've been telling you for decades and that's why I don't base

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my faith in them.

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I respect them, I appreciate science, I appreciate archeology but when they don't quite line up

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with the biblical texts I'm just going to wait because I believe one day they'll find

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that missing piece and they're going to go oops, it does agree.

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And so we'll just wait for that day.

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So now the story of David and this moment that I just read to you out of 2 Samuel 7,

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why is it so significant?

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Because God has made a promise here to David what we call the Davidic covenant.

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It is just as important as the Abrahamic covenant, the promises God made to Abraham,

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the Mosaic covenant, the promises he made to the people of Israel through this covenant

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that was cut in the Sinai through Moses and now we have a new covenant, the Davidic covenant

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and it says here that God is going to establish an everlasting covenant of dynasty through

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David and this is going to lead to what we call the Messianic kingdom because that is

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the everlasting kingdom.

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No kingdom on earth is truly everlasting and in fact when you look at the story it

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looks like the kingdom of David was demolished or cut down to the root and the prophet Isaiah

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speaks to this.

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We will touch on this when we get to the prophet Isaiah.

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He talks about the stump of Jesse, Jesse was David's father, the root of David that

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has been cut down to the ground and it looks like there is no hope, there is no future

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and then the prophet Isaiah says, but a shoot is going to come from the root.

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So from below the ground the root is still there and one day a shoot is going to come

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and it is going to continue on that Davidic dynasty and we see that of course in the birth

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and the life and the ministry of Jesus and in the coming kingdom where Jesus the Messiah

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is our king.

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So in Amos 9 another prophecy says that there would come a time when after the diaspora,

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after the Jews have been scattered that they're going to be returned and God is going to raise

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up the tabernacle of David and it's going to include what Amos called quote the Gentiles

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called after my name.

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That's you and me.

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So we are a part of this kingdom of David that's going to be resurrected and is being

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resurrected as we are witnessing a physical resurrection that is going to house that spiritual

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resurrection.

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Mary the mother of Jesus is told in Luke chapter 1 verses 26 through 33 that Jesus, this baby

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that she's going to give birth to, will be given the throne of David and will reign over

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his kingdom over the house of Israel forever and it says there will be no end to his kingdom.

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This is a direct fulfillment of God's promise here to David in 2 Samuel.

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In Jeremiah 33 verses 14 to 18 it says that as long as God's covenant with Noah is in

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place that this kingdom, this covenant is in place.

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So what does that mean?

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In Jeremiah 33 he refers to the fixed patterns of the heaven and the earth as long as the

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heaven and the earth remain and are in their patterns that God initiated there in his covenant

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with Noah says so will my people continue to be a people before me.

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So and the Davidic covenant will remain.

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So I'm just throwing out to you some references.

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You can look them up and read them for yourself.

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This is a pivotal moment in our scripture.

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Almost everything that we've read up to this point you could say this is the climax.

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This is when God says I put my king over my people and his house will never end.

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Now just another quick word about the kingdom of David.

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David is a strong military king.

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He actually is used by God but to defeat the enemies of the people of Israel and bring

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a period of peace.

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So he defends his kingdom and he expands it through war.

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And that's why later his son after him Solomon doesn't have to execute these kinds of wars.

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So David has in a way done it.

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He is the military king.

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Later David says that the Lord told him he was not the one to build the temple because

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he had blood on his hands.

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We don't actually have a record in the Bible of when God told David that.

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But David was a military leader and he did have much blood on his hands.

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And then we have of course our next story which is a story of outright blood on David's

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hands.

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And so a combination of these things mean that David was not to build the temple whereas

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Solomon was a king of peace and he was allowed to build the temple.

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So now in our reading this week though we do read about an immediate opposition to this

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amazing promise God has made to David.

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And I don't know if you've ever had this happen in your life or seen it where after

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an amazing spiritual high comes a huge blow and you could say the deepest spiritual low

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you've ever experienced.

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And this is because there is such a thing as the powers of spiritual darkness in the

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world and they like to come along and destroy, attempt to destroy what God is doing.

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Well they can't do it.

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They can never destroy what God is doing but they will hit you where it hurts.

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And then it's up to the strong and those that can rally their faith to get back up and to

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keep going.

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And if you will you will see the fulfillment of God's promises and his goodness in your

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life.

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And this is exactly what we see here in the story of David.

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On this absolute high of God has made these amazing promises to David and it says that

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after David hears all of this from the prophet Nathan he goes in before the Lord and he says

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God who am I?

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I mean and what is my family that you are making such amazing promises to little all

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me?

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Well sure enough then it all gets tested.

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And you could say it looks like David has failed the test.

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And this is he goes outside of his palace and he looks now the city of David as I've

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explained to you it is on a hill.

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It's a long narrow hill like a peninsula and it's a very narrow top to the hill.

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So whereas David's palace was probably built right up here on the very top of the hill

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the other houses and the other buildings in the city of David are kind of terraced.

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They kind of go down.

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They go down the peninsula and they go down on the sides of the peninsula to the walls.

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And so from the king's palace he can look down out over the entire little city of David

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the little city of Jerusalem.

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And so he's looking down and there on a rooftop below him he sees this beautiful woman

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named Bathsheba and it says that she is bathing.

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Now we don't know if this is actual bathing or if it was a ritual purification bath because

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later it does say that she was being purified from her monthly period.

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But he looks down and he sees this gorgeous woman as she is having this bath and he lost

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after her.

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And so he sends for her and they sin and then he finds out she's pregnant.

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So he's got to get rid of the husband and the husband is a Hittite.

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He's not even an Israelite but he's serving in David's army and he is as loyal as they

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come.

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And so you know the story.

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You read it how that David manipulates the war so that Uriah the Hittite is killed in

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battle and then he is able to take Bathsheba as his wife.

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Well this displeases the Lord greatly as you can imagine.

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So you can say at this point David has hit an all-time spiritual low.

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He has completely sinned before the Lord.

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He has committed adultery.

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He has committed murder.

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And now he has taken the woman in as his wife.

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And so the Lord tells him, I'm going to take the life of the baby.

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Now David I want to point out here.

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David falls on his face in repentance before God.

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And this is the big difference between King David and King Saul.

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Saul never really fell on his face prostrate before the Lord in repentance with a genuine

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heart.

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But David does and the Lord lets David fast and pray and to really pour out his heart

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and to hit rock bottom.

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And then he fulfills the execution of his judgment and the young son does die.

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It's a very, very sad story.

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And some of you may be saying how could God allow that?

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Why wouldn't God save the life of the son?

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Why wouldn't a loving, forgiving God save the life of the son?

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And all I can say is that he executed judgment exactly what he had promised his people and

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exactly what he had promised David would be the price for his sin.

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And so we like to see God's love and his forgiveness as meaning that he'll never execute judgment.

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But that's not real love.

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And he's a faithful God and he has set in place certain spiritual laws that when we

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sin there are consequences to our sin.

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And yes, we can run to him for forgiveness and we can be restored.

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But it doesn't mean that the consequences of our sin are always done away with.

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Sometimes we still have to suffer the consequences of the sin.

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Sometimes God miraculously will deliver us.

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But other times we do still suffer the consequences while we also enjoy complete restoration in

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our relationship to God and in the calling of God on our life and we can begin to move

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forward again.

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So then we have the second blow to this great promise that God has given David.

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And this blow is in the form of the rebellion of Absalom, his son, who tries to steal the

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kingdom from him.

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And Absalom, who seems to be an absolutely physically gorgeous man, must have had great

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charisma.

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I wonder if he wasn't a bit of a narcissist, the kind that walks into the room and gets

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everybody's attention and everybody's owing and owing over him, love being around him

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because of his charisma, and he draws the people to him.

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And David begins to see that it's over and Absalom sets himself up as a rival king.

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And we have this very, very interesting story.

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I don't want you to miss this story where David leaves Jerusalem in tears because I

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want you to get this in 2 Samuel 15 verses 30 through 37.

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We see David and it says he leaves his palace and it says he goes down the Kedron Valley

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and up the Mount of Olives and he turns and he's weeping because he's having to leave

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Jerusalem.

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He's weeping because he's being rejected as king over Jerusalem and he's having to

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abandon the people and the city and his kingdom and it all happens there on the Mount of Olives.

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Well what happens some 1000 years later as Jesus is going through the Kedron Valley,

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up the Mount of Olives, over to Bethany, then back to the Mount of Olives and during that

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last week of his life from the Mount of Olives he looks out over the city of Jerusalem and

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he weeps.

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He's being rejected from the very city, the very people that he is to be king over and

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he says to them, you won't see me again until you say, Baruch Aba, Beshem Adonai, blessed

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is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

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Now you might be saying, well what does that mean?

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What is he who comes in the name of the Lord is taken from Psalm 118.

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We're going to talk about this Psalm in a couple of weeks in much more detail.

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But Psalm 118 has a section of what the people of Israel would call out to their king and

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they would say, Hosanna, Hosanna, Baruch Aba, Beshem Adonai.

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What does it mean?

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Hosanna means Hoshianu, save us, save us because in this time in history the people look to

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their king to protect them, to save them from their enemies, to keep them safe and to keep

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them prosperous.

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They look to the king for their very life and so they're saying, save us, O king, Hosanna,

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Hoshiano, which we pronounce, Hosanna, Hosanna.

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And then they would say, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, meaning bless

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you, O king, for you are coming in the name of the Lord.

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You are the anointed one of our God to save us.

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This is all found in Psalm 118 and this is what Jesus pronounced over the city of David.

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And so our closing point here that I want to make is how that we in the 21st century,

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Roman Western Church, are very Greek and Roman in our thought and we're very linear.

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I am, I'm as linear as you can get, very, very logical, very step upon step, always

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moving forward in a certain direction that line upon line, precept upon precept, I'm

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getting it.

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And a linear approach to life leaves things behind in life.

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I'm very guilty of this.

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Our God is much more what we would call a Middle Eastern mindset.

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He's very cyclical or cyclical, however you want to pronounce it.

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He doesn't leave anybody behind.

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And so this is why in the scriptures we see these patterns repeating because God is cyclical.

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And so he doesn't just go on and leave something, he comes back and he redeems it.

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So he made a promise to David that you have an everlasting kingdom, but he also said that,

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you know, to his people that if you sin, you're going to be kicked out of the land, there's

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going to be judgment.

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And judgment made it look like David's kingdom was cut down to the ground.

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But God wasn't about to abandon those promises to David, just like he's not going to abandon

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his promises to Abraham or his promises to the Jewish people through Moses and the Sinai

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covenant or his promise to Noah.

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He doesn't abandon these things.

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He pulls them in as he's moving forward and then he comes back and he pulls them in as

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he's moving forward.

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And so God here is working in types and shadows.

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And 1,000 years before Jesus stood on the Mount of Olives and wept over Jerusalem, King David,

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his father, his great, great, great, great, I don't know how many greats, grandfather,

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who established the kingdom that he's going to sit on the throne of, did the same thing.

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Now my friends, you cannot make this stuff up.

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This is what makes the Bible so exciting.

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So I think that does it for this week.

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I want to, okay, one last point I want to make.

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God is also the most amazing teacher and he didn't just give us a book that lines out

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everything like I would in a very logical way, a chapter on this, a chapter on that,

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a chapter on this.

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No, no, no, no.

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He laid it out for us in real life.

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The people of Israel played out in real life, in real time, in real space, spiritual principles

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that are still at play today and that you and I live out in our lives spiritually.

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Is that not the most amazing thing?

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And this is why our study of the Bible, we have layers and layers of understanding, but

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we see God working through his people in a very physical way.

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What we're living out spiritually, but he's not through working it out physically.

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There we have a future to play out on earth and it will be played out both physically

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and spiritually.

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This is the God that we serve.

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He doesn't leave anybody behind and he hasn't left his people Israel behind.

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Instead, in our days, he's regathering them to the land and he is beginning to reestablish

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and set up the throne of David there in the ancient city of Jerusalem.

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We have so much that we could be talking about.

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We'll talk about a little bit more of this in the next couple of weeks as we continue

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our story of David.

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In the meantime, I want to remind you, we are offering a resource, if you go down into

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It's a beautiful DVD produced by our great friends at the Christian Broadcasting Network

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This little documentary is going to show you these various archaeological finds and how

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everything I talked about today, how they support the biblical story about David, his

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existence, what the Bible says he did.

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It's going to show you these finds.

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It's going to explain it in much more detail than I'm able to.

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