2 Samuel 6:12-23

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July 23, 2023

2 Samuel 6:12-23

00:00: Well, good, we'll let our arsenal open us to the Lord.
00:02: A word of prayer.
00:03: Let's pray.
00:04: Dear Lord, we thank you that you've given us this day.
00:07: You've set it apart for us and us for it.
00:09: And we pray, Lord, that as we gather together around your word that you would strengthen us in our faith, you would grow our love one for another and our love for you.
00:18: For it's in Christ and we pray, amen.
00:19: Amen.
00:21: Second Samuel.
00:22: Yes, I need my tool.
00:23: I'm going to work.
00:26: Second Samuel, chapter 6.
00:38: And I'm just going to pick up in verse 12 and read to the end of the chapter.
00:45: Now, it was told King David, saying, the Lord has blessed the house of Obed-Edom and all the belongings to him on account of the ark of God.
00:53: And David went and he brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom into the city of David with gladness.
01:00: And so it was that when the bears of the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and fat one.
01:08: And David was dancing before the Lord with all of his might.
01:12: And David was wearing a linen ephod.
01:15: And so David and all the house of Israel were bringing up the ark of the Lord with shouting and the sound of the trumpet.
01:23: And it happened that as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, that Michal, the daughter of Saul, looked out the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord.
01:35: And she despised him and her heart.
01:37: So they brought in the ark of the Lord and set it in its place inside the tent which David had pitched for it.
01:44: And David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
01:47: And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts.
01:55: And further, he distributed to all the people and to all the multitude of Israel, both to men and women, a cake of bread, one of the dates and one of the raisins to each one.
02:07: That all the people, and then all the people departed each to his house.
02:11: But when David returned to bless his own household, Michal, the daughter of Saul, came out to meet David and said, how the king of Israel distinguished himself today.
02:23: He uncovered himself today in the eyes of his servants, maids, as one of the foolish ones shamelessly uncovers himself.
02:31: So David said to Michal, it was before the Lord who chose me, above your father and above all of his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the Lord and over Israel.
02:44: Therefore, I will celebrate before the Lord and I will be more lightly esteemed than this and will be humbled in my own eyes, but with the maids of whom you have spoken with them I will be distinguished.
02:58: Michal, the daughter of Saul, had no child to the day of her death.
03:04: All right, so what happened last week? Anybody remember? That guy died.
03:11: Uzzah died.
03:11: Uzzah died, why? Why did he touch the ark of the Lord? And we think it was a legitimate reason to grab the ark? From our perspective, legitimate reason? Hey man, this thing's holy, he doesn't want it to hit dirty dirt.
03:29: Little did Uzzah know that he was more defiled than the dirt.
03:34: You know, men disobey the Lord.
03:36: Does the dirt, does creation disobey God? Think about that.
03:41: I should have brought this up last week.
03:43: Does creation disobey God? It doesn't, man.
03:46: The times and the seasons, all those things continue to, the ground produces fruit, trees grow, it does what the Lord has put it to be.
03:54: But men disobey and Uzzah did disobey by reaching out to touch the ark and he was not supposed to.
04:00: Who was able to touch the ark? Specific, member, we made a distinction last week by my little tree that he was so impressed I did.
04:12: You get some of that? I can't remember.
04:16: Member, there's a distinction between the Levites and the priest.
04:21: The Levites are the actual tribe that was set apart, would not have any land, but they would take care of the things of God pertaining to the temple, the holy implements and all of the others, okay? Now, inside the Levites, you did have the Levitical priesthood, which would fall then under, if I can draw you another little chart, Aaron, then you had the Arianic priesthood.
04:48: Not every person that was a Levite actually went into the tabernacle, the actual, well, let me say the small box where the lamp stand and the showbread were.
05:06: Who went in there? The Kohathites, yeah, the Kohathites.
05:12: And who were the Kohathites? They were a descendant of Levi, but they were the ones specifically appointed to take care of the holy implements.
05:23: Then you had, if you did your little chart, it would have been the Kohathites in the middle, and then you'd have had Gershon on this side, and then Amir on there, and they took care of the implements around the outside.
05:33: Basically, groundskeepers.
05:34: I guess that would be a better way of saying it.
05:38: So, Uzzul was not supposed to touch it.
05:40: The Kohathites were supposed to carry it, and they weren't supposed to carry it holding the box.
05:45: They were actually supposed to carry it with poles, okay? I want you to, because I'm gonna just turn over real quick to, I think it's 1 Chronicles 15, yeah.
06:05: This is the Chronicler's account of what David did.
06:13: I'll pick it up at, actually, you know what? Let me back up a little bit, because it does talk about Uzzul and the Kohathites.
06:21: So let me, I'll just start at verse one.
06:26: Yeah, 1 Chronicles chapter 15.
06:30: Yes, ma'am.
06:32: And then I'm gonna read one through 15.
06:38: Now, David built houses for himself in the city of David, and he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it.
06:45: Then David said, no one is to carry the ark of God but the Levites.
06:49: Okay, David, this is recalling David's mistake, okay? No one's to carry the ark of God but the Levites, for the Lord chose them to carry the ark of God and to minister before him forever.
07:02: And David assembled all of Israel at Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the Lord to its place where he had prepared for it.
07:11: And David gathered together the sons of Aaron and the Levites.
07:16: See the distinction, Mike? He's making a distinction between Aaron and the Levites.
07:22: Of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and 120 of his relatives of the sons of Moriah.
07:30: See, now you have the Kohathites and the Moriah.
07:34: The relatives of the sons of Moriah.
07:36: And Asaiah the chief, and 120 of his relatives of the sons of Gershom.
07:43: Joel the chief of 130 of his relatives, the sons of Elizaphan.
07:50: And Shemiah the chief of 200 of his relatives, the sons of Hebron.
07:56: Eliel the chief and 80 of his relatives, the sons of Uzziah.
08:02: And Amenadab the chief and 112 of his relatives.
08:07: Bunch of crazy names.
08:09: Then David called for Zadok and Abiathar, the priests and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asiah, Joel, Shemiah, Eliel, and Amenadab, and said to them, you are the heads of the fathers of the households of the Levites.
08:30: Consecrate yourselves, both you and your relatives, that you may bring the Ark of the Lord God of Israel to the place which I have prepared.
08:39: Because you did not carry it at first.
08:43: See what he said? They didn't carry it.
08:46: What he's saying is somebody who was not supposed to carry it, carried it.
08:50: You didn't carry it the first time, but you're gonna carry it the second time.
08:55: The Lord our God made an outburst on us, for we did not seek him according to his ordinance.
09:01: What was David's failure? He didn't inquire of the Lord.
09:06: Remember we made that, remember when he, even before he went to battle, what did he do? As soon as he became king, what did he do? What would you have me to do? What would you have me to do? I'll even go, we can even go as far back as when he went to Ziklag before he was made king, did he not even treat the Lord of where he should go? Should I go attack these cats that just captured everybody? And the Lord said, yeah, and here's where you'll go.
09:27: And he, remember he found the Egyptian and he's telling that.
09:32: Verse 14.
09:33: So the priest and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord.
09:38: The sons of the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with poles thereon as Moses has commanded according to the word of the Lord.
09:50: So here it is.
09:51: David is now going to do what he was supposed to do right the first time.
09:59: So that gives us, gets us right back to chapter six of 1 Samuel verse 12.
10:05: Now it was told that King David, that the Lord had blessed the house of Obed-Edom and all that belongs to him on an account of the ark.
10:12: Well, it's obvious.
10:14: It says, why did he bless Obed-Edom? Because the presence of God was there.
10:19: You know, the ark, he was attending to it, taking care of it, protecting it.
10:23: And David went and he brought the ark from the house of Obed-Edom into the city with gladness.
10:28: Why would David have brought it with gladness? If God's blessing Obed-Edom, he's gonna bless him.
10:42: That's right.
10:42: See, so we had an outburst, the outburst of anger of God towards Uzzah.
10:48: So when David hears, oh wow, God's not had an outburst of anger towards Obed-Edom.
10:54: He's actually blessing him from a humanistic standpoint, okay, relatively thinking.
11:01: He goes, all right, God's no longer angry.
11:04: Was God angry when he struck, when he struck Uzzah? Yeah, he was.
11:09: It said to God's anger.
11:11: Yeah, he was angry.
11:12: He was anger for disobedience.
11:14: So now we're seeing that from David's standpoint, God's anger has subsided.
11:19: Okay, God's anger has subsided.
11:22: It's chilled in three months.
11:23: Let's go and bring back what I intended to do the first time.
11:28: And why did David want the ark back in the city? Not back, I'd say for the first time in the city, why? Remember, we're building.
11:40: You had God's man, God's chosen king, and God's chosen city.
11:46: And the presence of God.
11:46: And the presence of God, man, which is actually building up.
11:50: Let me get my marker.
11:53: Remember, Zion.
11:59: Zion.
12:01: Theological term.
12:03: Place of God, people of God, and the presence of God.
12:06: That's what Zion means.
12:08: I mean, that is Mount Zion is the hill of Jerusalem where the tabernacle temple one day, the temple one day will be built.
12:20: So when David sees that Obed-Edom was being blessed, David said, let's go get it.
12:25: So in verse 13, so it was that when the bears of the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fatling.
12:35: I can't help but think.
12:38: Yeah, I can't help but think.
12:40: Okay, here it is.
12:46: You know, you'd wait for somebody to drop.
12:48: So when he does those six paces, what does he do? Man, nobody's dead.
12:53: We're gonna thank the Lord.
12:55: We're gonna thank the Lord and we're gonna sacrifice something to the Lord.
12:59: So it says that David, they went six paces and then he sacrificed an ox and a fatling.
13:05: So what do you think changed in between why they put it on the cart to start off with and now do you think that David availed himself of instruction that had been given? I personally don't think David had.
13:31: David did not have Torah in his hand.
13:35: Let's just give David the benefit of the doubt.
13:37: But he did have the mechanism by which he could inquire.
13:41: And who was that? The priest.
13:43: The priest.
13:44: He had Abiathar and we just read that.
13:46: Secondly, we're gonna get into that.
13:47: He did have Abiathar with him because if you remember back with the Amalekites and all that stuff and even before that, who did he go talk to? He inquired of the Lord through who? Abiathar.
13:59: Now, did David have actual audible revelation from God at times? Yes, he did.
14:07: But that mechanism that he went and talked to Abiathar was on the ephod and what was that? The Urim and the Thurim.
14:15: Urim and the Thurim.
14:16: What is it? Urim and the Thurim.
14:17: You've seen it.
14:21: It's not Urim and the Thurim, it's Urim and the Thurim.
14:26: He had dice on his chest, okay, and whatever that was, whatever that mechanism was, that's how they inquired of the Lord.
14:33: David did have that and he didn't inquire of it.
14:36: Go ahead.
14:37: So, it's interesting, like, when you go to the first Chronicles passage, you're talking about he lists out, hey, this guy was doing this, this guy was doing that.
14:44: Yeah.
14:44: He kind of shows that.
14:45: Do you think that that was going on here as well? They got the right people to carry it and the right people to do this? Sure, and it says because they did it as the Lord commanded Moses.
14:56: So, he did at some, well, hang on.
14:59: It says that David called in verse, back at first Chronicles chapter 15, it says in verse 11, that David called for Zadok and Abiathar.
15:09: Now, Zadok and Abiathar are both priests, okay? Both of them are descendants of Eli.
15:19: At some point, the, it went from Eleazar, who was a descendant of Aaron.
15:29: Somehow, somewhere in time, it transferred from being Eleazar to the house of Emethar, who is, that's who the Abiathar falls under.
15:41: And then, under the condemnation of Solomon, it will be then transferred back to Zadok, which is the line of Eleazar, okay? Eleazar being, I think he mentioned, is Aaron's son.
15:56: Remember, he had sons, he had Eleazar, yet Aaron had Eleazar, Emethar, and then Nadab and Abiath, who, they're gone.
16:04: So, then you have those two lines that the priesthood would run under and they have children and all of that.
16:09: I think Moses gave a blessing to Eleazar's son, Phinehas, whenever he stopped that whole immorality thing.
16:14: He did, but Eleazar was the acting priest at the time.
16:18: He basically took over when Nadab and Abiath were incinerated.
16:23: But we don't know where in time that it transferred, that line went from Eleazar to Emethar, we don't know.
16:32: That Emethar is where Eli's family falls under.
16:35: I'll just draw it on there, but he's the line of Eli's and the line of Emethar, and at some point, we don't know how it got there.
16:42: We just don't know.
16:44: But he, what's cool, though, is you have actually, at this time in David, you had two acting high priests.
16:52: You had Zadok and Abiathar.
16:55: Now, anybody remember how Abiathar becomes the acting high priest, basically? Anybody remember? He's the only one surviving.
17:04: He's the only one left.
17:05: The whole town gets to know him.
17:06: Yeah, I mean, he's default.
17:08: He's the last man standing, and when he leaves Nadab or wherever he escapes, however he gets away from that, what does he leave and take with him? He takes the ephod, which has the urim and the thurmim, and however you say that.
17:21: Okay.
17:23: Yeah, he's got the mechanism on his chest that can do that.
17:27: Now, Zadok comes in, and he's asking both of them, hey, man, how do I do this? And they got clear instructions by the Levites and by the descendants of Aaron.
17:41: This is how it should be done.
17:43: That's the representative of Zadok and Abiathar is Aaron's line.
17:51: So, they do, I didn't answer your question.
17:54: Why do I, what was that first question? Now, what happened in between there, as far as David, here just six verses prior, they're moving it in the wrong way.
18:09: They're moving it not like the Philistines were moving it.
18:12: Correct, well, back up, that reminded me.
18:14: Okay, you say, what made them, if I understand you right, your question was why did they basically use a cart the first time? Well, yeah, well, that and then what made them, other than the fact that, obviously, that Uzzah didn't turn out well, with helping with the moving on the cart.
18:30: Now, all we have, at least it just jumps into it here.
18:33: Of course, we have the other account, but what made the gears shift there, other than the fact that the man died? Well, and this is an inference, an inference is drawing, yeah, an inference is when you draw, it's an exegetical conclusion based on internal evidence, not explicitly, not explicitly said.
19:00: Is that how you would explain it, an inference? Okay.
19:02: So, what are your thoughts then? Okay, if they, logically thinking, when they go to Benadab's house on the hill, okay, and they say, hey, we're gonna move the Ark.
19:16: Oh, well, check this out.
19:17: When it came to us the last time from the Philistine, it was on a cart, it was on a new cart, and it had oxen lowing when it came, but when it did get to Beshamesh, you know, the guys that wasn't supposed to touch it, they looked into it, it zapped 70 of them.
19:35: Now, there's a variant there, or yeah, I don't think it killed the whole city, but we'll just say 70, okay, killed 70 people.
19:43: Now, however they moved it from there to Benadab's house on the hill, have no idea.
19:48: It was a specific thing that those men did do.
19:51: They touched it in Beshamesh, they looked in it, so in order for them to look in it, what'd they have to do? Had to open it, and they weren't supposed to touch it.
19:59: Now, did they put it back on a cart and send it to Benadab's house on the hill? We don't have any evidence of how that happened, but we do know there was a logical conclusion.
20:09: Hey, the last time it came to us, it came on a cart.
20:11: That seemed like, humanly speaking, humanly speaking, that that would be the logical way of bringing it, but David, being a man of logic, hey, this is how it came, this is how we're gonna do it.
20:29: He should've inquired of the Lord, and he did not, and it cost a man his life.
20:33: And I think that's what he did, but I think when everything's settled down.
20:35: Zeal, Adam zeal for the Lord.
20:37: When everything's settled down, he says, come on, guys, what went wrong here? Yeah, I think his zeal for the Lord was legitimate zeal.
20:45: Man, he loved the Lord.
20:47: You can go through all of David's life, there would never be a time that you can't say that David did not love the Lord, okay? There was zeal at times for what he wanted to do, that hey, and we're gonna get into that next chapter, there was a zeal for him to do something that wound up being, I wanna say ungodly, not for him to do, okay? It was a desire for him to do, but just because it's a desire for you to do for the Lord doesn't mean you're the person to do it, okay? I can have a desire to leave music, I can tell you right now, I ain't a guy.
21:24: I'm not gifted to do that.
21:25: Well, he'll have his part in what he wants to do.
21:28: He will, but he did not know and we can get into all that, man, it's great that you have a man that actually gives him unwise counsel and all that.
21:35: That should've done better.
21:36: It should've done better.
21:38: So, answer the question.
21:41: It came by way of a cart based on the logical conclusion that 67 years ago, that's how it got to where it got, okay? Wrong, it should not have been on a cart.
21:55: If it was carrying the poles and the fences and the curtains, it could've been carried by oxen on a cart.
22:02: The ark was to be carried by hand by the Kohathites.
22:07: By the Kohathites.
22:09: Now, David, as they were bringing it in, verse 14, that David was dancing before the Lord with all of his might and David was wearing a linen ephod.
22:22: What are we seeing David wear here that we don't have him seeing wearing before? Priestly garment.
22:34: A priestly garment.
22:35: So now, we have David.
22:44: Picture of Christ.
22:45: Yes, sir, you have his king, okay? We all know that David's a king, right? Would we agree that David's a prophet? Yep.
22:57: Okay, we would agree.
22:58: Why would we say David's a prophet? New Testament tells us several times.
23:03: Yeah, and actually, in the Psalms, he actually proclaims and prophesies the coming of Messiah.
23:08: So, and you're right, New Testament, because he is a prophet, he is a prophet, and what's he gonna be here acting like? Priest.
23:23: I before he, except after she, resounding like as a neighbor away.
23:29: I'll never forget that.
23:30: Okay.
23:32: That's David.
23:36: That's David.
23:38: Now, what has David done to himself by taking off? No doubt, David would have had kingly garments on.
23:45: Would we agree? I'd say that.
23:49: He even either had kingly garments on or he'd have had his war attire on.
23:54: And what has David done? David has made himself, he has debased himself.
24:00: He has removed his mark of distinguishing.
24:03: And even you go back into 1 Samuel, you remember? There was the robes.
24:09: Remember? Robes.
24:11: The robe of Jonathan was given to who? David.
24:15: And you had the robe of Saul being torn, meaning that the robe was a sign of distinguishment, a sign of authority, and the robe was, so in this case, David's removed that robe from him, whatever his armor, whatever it was, whatever he was wearing that distinguished him to being king is gone, and he's made himself to wear basically his undergarments is what he's doing.
24:37: So David and all the house of Israel were bringing up the ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet.
24:45: Man, that's worship.
24:47: They were worshiping the Lord as this ark was coming into the city, and rightfully so.
24:53: Hey, imagine however many people that they sent.
24:56: They're seeing this procession come into the city, and what's coming into the city? The ark in remembrance that this is the covenant that God had made with the people at Mount Sinai.
25:12: I will be your God, you will be my people, and I will dwell in the midst of you.
25:17: And David's bringing that back.
25:19: He's bringing the covenant people back together within the presence of God.
25:25: So verse 16, then it happened that as the ark came into the city, David, with David, that Michal, the daughter of Saul, looked out the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.
25:42: Hey, if we just heard Michal, would we have not known that that was the daughter of Saul? Sure.
25:49: This is interesting.
25:50: Okay, they're gonna say this apostate man, not approved by God to be a king.
25:56: They're gonna bring his name up again.
26:00: Michal, Saul's daughter.
26:03: Looked out the window, saw David.
26:05: Does anybody's translation say twirling? Because in the Hebrew, the word actually means to spin and twirl.
26:13: Did yours say twirl? No, leaping and dancing.
26:16: Yeah, and it actually means to spin vehemently.
26:20: So I mean, I'm just thinking like, brr, you know, what's David? Brr, you know, like a, I don't know, like a ice skater or something.
26:28: Yeah, and I mean, if you've ever seen some pictures drawn, they are showing David twirling in pictures of that.
26:34: And that's what it means, is whirling.
26:39: Hey, there you go.
26:41: So he's whirling about.
26:45: Do you need to know where we're at? We're in.
26:49: I think I've got a New Testament.
26:51: We're in the Old Testament.
26:53: That's what I was thinking.
26:56: So here it is, David's whirling about.
27:00: And she was despised in her heart.
27:03: Why was she despised in her heart? Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna bring that up, yeah.
27:16: Did she think that David should have been doing this? How did she think David should have come in? As a king.
27:24: As a king in pomp and circumstance.
27:26: And if you ask me if David should have been doing this, David would have come in.
27:30: This is my opinion, okay? How would it have looked with a king in his kingly garments leading God into the city? Think about that.
27:43: You remember when Saul was condemned, said the kingdom's torn away from you by Samuel.
27:52: Do you remember what Samuel wanted him to do? Hey dude, just come back with me.
27:57: Make it look good for me.
27:59: Make it look good.
28:00: And he said no.
28:02: But then he actually acquiesced.
28:04: And what did he do? He followed behind Saul.
28:07: And he should not have.
28:08: He should have led Saul in and said, hey man, this kingdom's been torn from this man.
28:13: In this case, David's not gonna do anything to look as if he is the man in charge.
28:17: Who's in charge? David knows.
28:19: God is.
28:20: How many times have we already heard the Lord did what he did through David because the Lord was with him.
28:25: How many times have we heard the Lord preserved him? The Lord saved him.
28:30: The Lord helped him.
28:31: And David is being very aware of that by debasing himself in his boxer briefs as he's whirling about.
28:39: Verse 17, so they brought in the ark of the Lord and set it in its place inside the tent which David had pitched for it.
28:48: And David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
28:53: Okay, this will be the first time since Shiloh has been destroyed that there's actually been a tent.
29:01: What was the tent to basically to be remembered of? The tabernacle.
29:07: David has made something like the tabernacle to house the ark of the covenant.
29:12: The ark of the covenant is just gonna be sitting out in the open.
29:14: Okay, it's to be covered.
29:16: And my understanding is that when he spoke with Zadok and Abiathar is that he was saying, hey, what do I need to do to prepare this tent? I wanna make sure that what I'm doing is gonna be correct.
29:29: What we know about the tabernacle was probably completely destroyed with its gopher skins or however you wanna seal skins, whatever, all of that was probably destroyed when Shiloh was destroyed back in 1 Samuel.
29:44: So they had to make a new tent, a new housing place for it.
29:48: And when David, verse 18, I'm sorry, in 17, it says, and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
29:58: Once again, what's David acting like? Priest.
30:02: Priest.
30:06: He blessed the people.
30:09: I'm sorry, 18.
30:10: And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts.
30:18: When he blesses the people in the name of the Lord, what is he acting like now? He's acting like a prophet.
30:26: He's speaking to the people for God.
30:30: That's what he is acting.
30:31: He is proclaiming a blessing over the people from God.
30:36: And he says, furthermore, verse 19, he distributed to all the people, to all the multitude of Israel, both to men and women, a cake of bread, one of the dates, and one of the raisins to each one.
30:53: All right.
30:54: Does anybody, where it says raisins, I don't think he gave them one of your little itty-bitty raisins, okay? I don't, I thought, I see it.
31:03: Yeah.
31:05: So that's how we should, and it wasn't like he was out there, hey, flipping out little raisins, okay? So he gave it to each one, and all the people departed each one to their household.
31:15: So here it is, David doing what Saul did not do, David actually blesses the people.
31:23: David's actually bringing the people into the presence of God, showing them, look, I love you, God loves you, and I'm gonna lead you the way God has commanded me to do it.
31:33: And in doing so, they basically had a party.
31:37: In verse 20, I'm sorry, the people left.
31:42: Everybody to their own household.
31:43: Imagine how happy Israel would have been for the first time, being in the holy city, in the presence, with the presence of God there.
31:49: Hey, this is a new beginning for them.
31:51: And having a king that, you know, was leading them in the right way.
31:54: Yeah, and we're gonna really get into that in eight, when it says that David led them in justice and in righteousness.
32:02: And I know that just comes just a few chapters before he has his great failure, but David's desire has always been to be faithful and to be just.
32:12: I mean, look about the guys that came and said, hey, look what we did for you.
32:16: We killed this dude for you.
32:18: Here's his head.
32:20: And David said, hey man, what you did was wrong.
32:22: You had no business killing that man in his bed.
32:24: And what did David do? He struck him down.
32:26: What about the guy thought he was gonna be, hey, I found Saul out on the field and he was dying.
32:33: And, you know, I went ahead and executed him.
32:35: Here's his Rolex and here's his crown.
32:39: Remember, he gave his bracelet.
32:40: And what did David do? You fool, you touched the Lord's anointment and he struck him down, showing that David was gonna rule in righteousness.
32:49: David wasn't gonna put up with no riffraff.
32:53: So, verse 20.
32:56: But when David returned to bless his household, Michal, the daughter of Saul, okay, we already know that.
33:04: The daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, how the king of Israel distinguished himself today.
33:11: You imagine that came out a little snarky.
33:15: She couldn't wait for him to get in the house.
33:16: Oh, dude, she was peeking out the window, ears fuming.
33:21: He uncovered himself today in the eyes of the servants made as one who would foolishly, as a foolish one, shamelessly uncovers himself.
33:29: Now, there's a couple of ways you can take that.
33:32: Hey, what you did was just wrong.
33:34: But to be foolishly shameless himself, basically calling him a womanizer.
33:39: That's how I would understand it.
33:42: And is basically saying, hey man, you're acting like a womanizer out there by taking your clothes off, swirling in front of all of these maids, making yourself available.
33:52: Now, if that is the way that she's saying that, she does somewhat have warrant for doing that.
33:59: How many wives does David have? A bunch.
34:01: Yeah, at this time, eight, is that right? Eight? So, she does have warrant to saying that, although she knows that David is not a womanizer.
34:13: She's wanting David to remain looking as a king.
34:17: You think she's still angry with him in the fact that we know that she loved him, David, at least.
34:25: Dude, he ripped her away from Paltiel.
34:27: There, no doubt, no doubt.
34:30: That's got to be bitter.
34:32: That's got to be bitter.
34:33: Imagine that.
34:36: Hey, David's king now.
34:39: Pack your stuff up, you're going to Hebron.
34:41: And her husband loves him.
34:43: Oh yeah.
34:43: He's crying.
34:44: Yeah, Abner's, yeah, and then at some point, Abner says, all right, dude, check it out.
34:49: He just points, he just head back.
34:52: I mean, it says he was weeping.
34:54: There obviously was love there.
34:56: I mean, they'd been together at that point probably 20 years.
35:00: I mean, they had to develop a relationship of I don't see how she could not have cared for him.
35:06: We know that Paltiel did because he weeped when he went back home.
35:11: So there, yeah, bitter, no doubt.
35:13: No doubt.
35:14: She just became a wife of David.
35:18: Oh yeah, not the.
35:19: Yeah, she was the first.
35:20: Now she's no longer the prettiest and the best.
35:24: Yeah, she just becomes part of the harem, basically.
35:28: So yeah, there's probably some bitterness there, but I can't help but remember what Saul said when he gave him to her, gave her to him.
35:39: She'll be a snare.
35:41: She'll be a snare.
35:41: Yeah, she'll be a snare.
35:43: And this becomes a snare.
35:47: In verse 21, so David said to Michal, it was before the Lord who chose me above your father and above all his house.
35:57: Yikes.
35:58: All right, look here.
36:00: You don't open your mouth a little too much.
36:02: Let me just gonna put you in your place.
36:04: It wasn't God who chose your dad.
36:07: It was me.
36:09: Your God chose me to rule over these people.
36:11: God chose me to rule over Israel, not your dad.
36:15: Man, that had to hurt.
36:17: That had to be a plug.
36:20: So it was before the Lord who chose me above your father and above all of his house to appoint me ruler over the people of the Lord and over Israel.
36:30: Therefore, I will celebrate before the Lord.
36:33: I, he corrects her as saying, look, you have done this to put yourself out there to among the maidens.
36:41: He goes, no, no, no.
36:41: I was doing this as an act of worship to the, he corrects her.
36:44: What I was doing was not putting myself out there to be available, nor was I putting myself out to be shamed.
36:50: I was putting myself out there as in debasement as of worship to the Lord.
36:54: I will be more likely esteemed than this and will be humbled in my own eyes, but with the maids of whom you have spoken, with them I will be distinguished.
37:07: McCall, the daughter of Saul, had no children to the day of her death.
37:11: Now, two ways of looking at that.
37:15: Did God dry her womb up? Could be.
37:19: No idea.
37:21: Or did they just not, or did they just not have conjugal bliss? I think it could be both.
37:28: It's interesting, 20 years, though, 20 years, and she was with Paltiel, no child.
37:36: And I can't help but think, but we would imagine that if that would have been spoken of when they went and ripped her away from Paltiel, I don't know, maybe I had 100 kids.
37:47: And he was like, hey, I'm crying because I've got to graze all these kids now.
37:52: I mean, we have no idea.
37:54: But it does say, as far as, do we know from her and David, had no children.
38:02: It's also interesting, I don't know how, unlike before, David skates out the window and Michael, she lays the mannequin in the bed for better or worse.
38:14: Sure.
38:15: But I don't know how long that time period was either.
38:18: But we know this, it don't take long to get pregnant.
38:20: Right.
38:22: And we know there was conjugal, for an order for the marriage to be consummated, they have a period of time that week.
38:31: Man, Mattie the King, it could have been a month that he, they'd have ran off into the tent or whatever it was they did, okay? So we know this, and you're right, we don't know exactly how long.
38:41: I try to put those pieces together and just based on the chronology of events, and I would say maybe a year, two at the most.
38:50: But still, man, think of it.
38:51: Long enough.
38:52: It don't take long.
38:53: It don't take long.
38:57: So, McCall, once again, the daughter of Saul.
39:00: What do we know about McCall? The daughter of Saul.
39:03: Daughter of Saul.
39:04: So we have a girl that was an idolater from the beginning.
39:10: Remember, what was put in the bed, you said it was a mannequin, and I would agree with you, probably that size, but that means that idol was big enough to be the size of me, okay? To be in the bed for them to come in and go, oh look, David's sick.
39:27: Yeah, David's sick.
39:29: So she had idols.
39:31: She did not trust in the Lord.
39:33: And how do we know she didn't trust in the Lord? Because she had an idol as big as a man in her house.
39:38: And we don't hear anything else about her other than these things that pertain to her disdain towards David.
39:48: Did she love David in the beginning? No doubt.
39:50: Yeah, I mean, what girl wouldn't want a sharp, bright-eyed, ruddy man that just slayed a giant? And now was, because he became head of the army.
40:05: Yeah, who wouldn't? Yeah, I mean, he was supposed to get Merah and didn't.
40:11: Wound up getting McCall because she loved him and because Saul wanted him to be a snare.
40:16: All right, we got five minutes.
40:20: Any questions, disagreements, comments, riots, demonstrations, protests? Yes, sir.
40:28: I just, I have one deep into this, but I was just wondering, like, you know, Nadab and Abihu got killed for the whole strange fire thing.
40:39: And, you know, here David puts on a linen ephod, you know, that was supposed to be a garment of the priest.
40:44: You know, that you can, it has the Urim and the Thurman on it.
40:47: No, I wouldn't say this one did.
40:48: No, no.
40:49: I would say that would be with, that would have been with Abiathar.
40:52: The linen ephod was basically saying, hey man, I'm debasing myself.
40:59: I'm putting myself in the ephod.
41:01: Even the linen ephod was to show that those priests, their linen was to show that, hey man, these are not, they aren't garments of majesty.
41:14: So no, no, he was not wearing, he was not wearing the vest.
41:19: No, he was not wearing the vest.
41:20: He was wearing a linen underwear.
41:22: Yeah, don't go into the priesthood if you want to make a living, right? Yeah.
41:25: No, but what you're saying is what he was doing, were you trying to make a different, a connection? He's doing a worship type that has not been commanded by God.
41:34: I guess I should say in Old Testament worship, at least from what I've read, I don't see where it says, you know, that that was an approved worship type before the Lord.
41:43: But I could be wrong in that.
41:45: Well, I would even go as far as to say, this is not corporate worship.
41:50: So there was regulatory principles.
41:53: Well, you're right, we can look at that.
41:55: Was this the regular principles to be worshiped in the assembly when they were gathered together? Of course not.
42:01: They're not gathered together in the tent of meeting.
42:04: They were not gathered collectively on the Sabbath, okay? This is David bringing in procession that which they had long waited for for at least 67 years.
42:14: And as they're bringing in David's worshiping, do you, I'll say this, do y'all worship during the week? Are you obeying the regular principles in Scripture? They're regulated to corporate worship.
42:31: Corporate worship.
42:33: Look, if y'all decide we want to get together somewhere and do a bonfire and sing hymns and read the Psalms, we're not bound by the regular principles of worship that we're bound to in the assembly because we're not gathered together as the assembly on the Lord's day.
42:53: So there is a distinction that needs to be made.
42:57: In Nadab and Abihu, they were given specific commands on how to come to the presence of the Lord in the tabernacle, and what did they do? They came their own way.
43:10: They didn't get the fire.
43:11: They were supposed to, they brought their own fire, and then the fire of God consumed them.
43:15: So that would, once again, they're inside the tent of meeting.
43:18: They had specific instructions on how they were to worship God and how they were to approach God, which that is worshiping Him, how you're going to approach Him, and they failed to do so.
43:27: A good point, though.
43:28: Yeah, that's a good explanation.
43:29: But we're going to, when we get into, well, we won't get that far, but even when you get into temple worship, there is regulatory principles that come in.
43:39: Hey, man, you're not just going to approach God any old way when the temple's up.
43:43: You're just not going to come to Him any old way.
43:45: I mean, there was still barriers.
43:47: You know, you had the court of the Gentiles, the women, Gentiles, women, and the men, and then you had that inner circle that is only Levites only.
43:57: And I mean, it's circular.
43:59: I think we should draw a little bit of that one time before.
44:01: So, all right.
44:03: Yes, ma'am.
44:03: I just wanted to say something, and you may have already discussed this before I got here, but the way you have that up there, you know, the whole Bible points to Jesus, and David is His seed, and He's fulfilling all of these things.
44:18: Yes, ma'am.
44:18: And Jesus is all of that in more.
44:22: That's what, David starts as a king, then He is a prophet, and He is acting as a priest in this case.
44:30: He is offering sacrifice.
44:32: Remember, there was no prohibition at this point for offering sacrifices outside of the tabernacle complex, per se.
44:42: Remember, who offered sacrifices for the people, acting as, it would have been judge, but judge, prophet, and priest? His predecessor, Samuel.
44:53: Samuel did.
44:54: Remember, when we were in that classroom over there, made points of, well, how was it that Samuel could make sacrifices to God when only it was to be done by the priest inside the tabernacle or at the tent of meeting or whatever? Well, it's because inside the tent of meeting or the tabernacle, only Levites could do that.
45:17: Outside, you're gonna see David, he's gonna sacrifice again.
45:21: He's gonna sacrifice again.
45:22: Matter of fact, he's gonna intercede for the people when the plague comes, because of his foolishness at the end of this book, he has to intercede at the threshing floor of Orna so that he could, so God'll quick, I think God gives like 70,000 Israelites, and he says, hey, man, these are my people.
45:37: What do I got to do? And he says, you're gonna sacrifice to me, and I'll stop the plague.
45:40: So once again, David will act as prophet, priest, and king again.
45:45: So, you pray for us? Yes, sir.
45:48: Heavenly Father, we thank you for this time that we can, we just ask that you would bless us as we go into worship, and ask that you would bless whoever's doing the preaching of the word today, that we would be ready to be instructed and to learn and to study your word, that you would bless us in worship, that you would ask us, I would ask us to lift our voices up to you and to be accepted before your sight, in Jesus' name, amen.
46:14: Amen.