2 Samuel 7:1-11

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August 1, 2023

2 Samuel 12:11-23

00:00: I pray that you would speak through him and use him in a way that would be pleasing to you and that you would be lifted up for it is in Christ whom we pray, amen.
00:12: This will probably be more of a theological introduction.
00:20: Covenant versus promise.
00:22: Yeah, well, yeah, that and how we understand it and how others have understood the Davidic promise.
00:35: So, let's read it and then I'll get us all confused.
00:41: Alright, 2 Samuel chapter 7.
00:47: Now, it came about when the king lived in the house and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all of his enemies that the king said to Nathan the prophet, See now that I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within tent curtains.
01:03: Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is within your mind, for the Lord is with you.
01:09: But in the same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying, Go and say to my servant David, Thus says the Lord, Are you the one who should build me a house to dwell in? For I have not dwelt in a house since the day I brought the sons of Israel from Egypt, even to this day.
01:27: But I have been moving about in a tent, even a tabernacle.
01:31: Wherever I have gone with all the sons of Israel, did I ever speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel, which I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar? Now therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, Thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be the ruler over my people Israel.
01:55: I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and I will make you a great name, like the names of the great men who are on the earth.
02:05: I will also appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may live in their own place, and not be disturbed again, nor will the wicked afflict them any more as formerly, even from the day which I commanded the judges to be over my people Israel, and I will give you rest from all your enemies.
02:28: The Lord also declares to you that the Lord will make a house for you, and when your days are completed, and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come forth from you, and I will establish his kingdom, and he shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever, and I will be a father to him, and he will be a son to me, and when he commits iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men, and the stroke to the sons of men, but my lovingkindness shall not depart from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you.
03:04: That is very significant about a statement about Saul.
03:08: Just let me stop here for a second.
03:09: You see what he says, that God removed his mercy.
03:13: His chesed, that's the word that's used.
03:15: So what does that say about Saul? That's another thing that says that Saul was an unconverted man.
03:24: Yeah, God removed his mercy from him.
03:29: Where was I at? Sixteen.
03:31: Sixteen.
03:32: Your house and your kingdom shall endure before me forever, and your throne shall establish forever.
03:38: In accordance with all these words and all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.
03:43: Then David the king went in, and he sat before the Lord, and he said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house that you have brought me this far? And yet this was insignificant in your eyes, O Lord God, for you have spoken also of the house of your servant concerning the distant future.
04:02: And this is the custom of men, O Lord God.
04:05: Again, what more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Lord God, for the sake of your word, and according to your own heart, you have done all the greatness to let your servant know.
04:20: For this reason you are great, O Lord God.
04:23: For there is none like you, there is no God beside you, according to all that we have heard with our ears, and what one nation on the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem for himself as a people and to make a name for himself and to do great things for you and awesome things for your land and to make a name before your people, whom you have redeemed for yourself from Egypt, from nations and their gods.
04:55: For you have established for yourself your people Israel as your own people forever, and you, O Lord, have become their God.
05:04: Now therefore, O Lord God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken that your name may be magnified forever by saying the Lord of hosts is God of Israel, and may the house of your servant David be established before you.
05:22: For you, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have made a revelation to your servant saying, I will build you a house.
05:29: Therefore your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you.
05:35: Now, O Lord God, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised these good things to your servant.
05:43: Now therefore, may it please you to bless the house of your servant, and it may continue forever before you.
05:50: For you, O Lord God, have spoken with your blessings.
05:55: May the house of your servant be blessed forever.
05:58: Hey, that's not a God-centered prayer at the end of that.
06:03: I mean, that should give us a model, and when we pray it ain't all about us.
06:06: Everything that he prayed was about God, and what God did, and I don't want to get off on it.
06:10: We'll get to that at some point.
06:11: But just how wonderful the prayer of exaltation from David.
06:16: All right, so they've got the ark into, will you fix to say something? They got the ark into the city of Jerusalem.
06:25: It's in a tent, or a new form of tabernacle.
06:30: So this is what David has longed for.
06:32: Now, to understand how people come to different conclusions, their interpretive rules or interpretive systems, every one of them is in some form of line.
07:00: You'll know this very quickly.
07:02: This will be the age of innocence.
07:04: Okay, we agree? This is dispensational understanding of how the stuff unfolds.
07:11: This would be the age of innocence.
07:13: When would this be? In the garden.
07:19: After that, the fall happens, then you have, this would be, actually we'll use it just to be, then you have, what would be the next dispensation? No? Human conscience.
07:36: The fall happens, no other law is given.
07:41: It is now in their conscience that what they are doing is right or wrong.
07:47: Then, the next one would be, it would be Noah, which winds up being a form of human government.
08:00: How do we come to that conclusion? Because he says, that's it.
08:07: First time we see you take another man's life, your life will be taken.
08:11: So, in the time of Noah, we see human government come on.
08:16: Then, as we move forward, what happens after that in time? What's the next major event that happens after Noah? God should expect Abraham.
08:28: Abraham would be the time of promise.
08:33: Then, oh look here, my crack.
08:37: Then, what's after the promise? What? Moses.
08:50: Then, once we get past the crack here, what's the next major event? David.
09:00: No.
09:01: Which next major event? Christ comes.
09:08: The cross is in the middle somewhere, right here.
09:12: And this would be grace.
09:18: Then, depending on how you see the end, this would, somewhere in here there would be seven year tribulation, then you would have the millennial reign.
09:28: Have I represented that pretty clear? Okay.
09:32: Just want to make sure.
09:34: You understand, as we see this, we don't see David anywhere on here.
09:40: I just want to make sure I'm representing it correctly.
09:43: Because you come from that school a long time ago, right? Okay.
09:47: Just want to make sure I'm representing that well.
09:49: David, he falls in this line, but it really doesn't deal with David.
09:55: It deals with how God had used his, dispensation means economy, of how his economy was used with his people.
10:05: The problem with all of this is this here didn't start here.
10:12: It started back here when the fall happened.
10:18: Everything God did from the, I would even argue that it happened even in the garden, but we know for sure that once Adam fell, it was God's grace from that point forward, correct? So it makes it hard to really understand how all the covenants and promises all fit in to this motif, at least for me.
10:45: If you all enjoy looking at it from that way, that's fine.
10:49: But understand that this is not explaining them the way the Bible explained it.
10:56: That would actually be called dispensational theology.
11:00: Then you have another that sets one up here is redemption, covenant of works.
11:31: Problem with this understanding is these are never mentioned in Scripture either.
11:39: So understanding of the covenant, this would be classic covenant theology would say, okay, the covenant of redemption would be what God had determined in eternity past that he was going to save someone, right? Or save a people.
11:50: And that would be what they would call the covenant of redemption.
11:53: Then they would say the covenant of works would be what God told Noah in the garden, if you eat of the tree, if you don't eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, I'm sorry, yeah, wait a minute.
12:11: If Adam did not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he would then be given, he would earn his way, and I want you to understand why I say that specifically, because covenant theology actually says that Adam would have earned his way to the tree of life.
12:29: Do you understand the problem with that? That makes God a debtor, okay? That's why I don't hold to covenant theology.
12:38: I hold to a form of covenantal theology.
12:41: But understand, none of this really explains how redemptive history falls out in a line, because that's how it is.
12:51: It's in time and history.
12:53: So once the covenant of works, based on them, was that Adam was supposed to obey God, he disobeyed, therefore he fell, then everything after that comes from the covenant of grace.
13:05: Everything is a covenant of grace at that point.
13:09: So it actually falls into three.
13:10: The problem is, when you get to this, what do you do about the covenant of circumcision? Is that not an actual work? He says, if you don't do this, what's going to happen to your descendants? I'm going to kill them.
13:29: That's what he says.
13:31: So does that sound like a covenant of grace? No, it's more of a...
13:35: And then you have all these disagreements of really how the Mosaic Law fits here, but it's still part of here.
13:42: Anyway, it becomes very inconsistent.
13:47: So, this, in my opinion, and because I'm teaching, is the easiest way to understand it.
14:05: Anybody remember what this is? It's not a big bang.
14:09: Here it is.
14:11: God said, let there be light.
14:14: And in the garden, he gave a prohibition to Adam.
14:21: What was it? Don't eat.
14:24: In that prohibition, what was given? The day that you eat, in dying you will die.
14:35: Is that not a promise? Okay? So, we have in the garden a promise.
14:47: A promise of death if they disobeyed.
14:51: Okay? Alright.
14:53: They did.
14:55: And the day that he ate, did he not spiritually die? He didn't.
15:00: You remember when Adam was in the garden, it says that God breathed into his nostrils life.
15:06: Do you remember what it says? That Adam became a living and breathing soul.
15:12: Okay? But, the day that he ate, I know most of our English translations say the day that you eat you will die, but the Hebrew construction is the day that you eat, in dying you will die, signifying that you're going to spiritually die, and then, because you spiritually died, your physical body will then catch up with that.
15:29: So, that was the promise.
15:31: The promise of you disobey, you will die.
15:33: But then, immediately after they disobey, what does God do right after that, when he gives basically his judgments on the serpent, the woman, and Adam? He promised the serpent crusher.
15:51: Promise.
15:53: So, once again, promise.
15:58: Another promise.
15:59: God says, I will send the serpent crusher.
16:04: He will bruise his heel, but I will crush his head.
16:06: Now, is there any covenant? Explicitly said, from the time of Adam to the time, I'll even say, up until Noah, was there any covenant given? Explicit.
16:28: We can say, hey, it sounds like he did.
16:32: It says God's made an agreement with them that, hey, I'm going to send.
16:36: But is that a covenant? What consists of a covenant in Scripture? Ma'am? A sign, and it has to be cut.
16:46: Cut meaning blood, okay? Now, we move forward.
16:52: God makes a promise to Noah to save him and his family.
16:55: Once again, he's going to promise to save Noah.
16:59: But once he saves Noah and they get off the ark, what do they do? Sin.
17:07: Actually, they do that, for sure.
17:09: I didn't go as far.
17:10: They send on the ark.
17:12: But they get off.
17:14: They make a sacrifice.
17:15: Did you remember when he says, I want you to take seven clean birds and all this? And as soon as they get off, what do they do? They make an altar and they sacrifice to God.
17:25: They make a sacrifice to God, okay? And what's in the sky? Bring it back.
17:32: And God says, I will make a covenant with you.
17:34: First time barret, the Hebrew words ever used, was with Noah.
17:39: First time.
17:41: So this year, now, we see how God's revealed himself.
17:44: Promise, promise.
17:47: He made a promise to Noah to save him and his family.
17:49: But then, when he comes out of the ark, he makes a covenant.
17:56: And covenant to not do with water.
18:08: That's what the promise was.
18:10: I mean, that was the covenant.
18:11: He said, hey, here it is.
18:13: It's in the sky.
18:14: I will not ever destroy the earth by water again.
18:19: And that's my covenant with you.
18:21: All right.
18:22: Move forward.
18:25: When's the next covenant? Okay? Yeah.
18:47: But something happens right here before the Abrahamic covenant.
18:52: What happens in chapter 12 of Genesis? The call of Abraham.
19:00: And what does he say? I will, I will, I will.
19:04: Remember? I will, I will, I will.
19:07: You go.
19:08: You pack your junk.
19:09: Take all your family and leave.
19:11: And I'll tell you where you're going.
19:12: And I'm going to give you the land.
19:13: And he goes, I will, I will, I will.
19:15: I'm going to give you this land, this land, this land.
19:17: That is a promise.
19:18: Okay? That is a promise.
19:20: God promised Abraham to give him a land and a people and a nation.
19:25: That happens right here.
19:31: But then, as we move forward in Abraham's life in 15 and 17, what happens? He actually makes a covenant.
19:42: So God promised Abraham this.
19:45: But when he gets to 15 and 17, he actually, remember, he cuts the animals in half.
19:51: Cut, cut the animal.
19:53: What does it say? He put Abraham asleep.
19:57: And who walked through the cut animals? God did.
20:02: What does it say? God made a covenant with Abraham.
20:04: So it's here that this promise is then laid on top of the Abrahamic covenant.
20:14: It is, I'm going to make you a people.
20:16: But now it's a covenant.
20:17: No longer a promise, God has made a covenant by cutting it with blood.
20:22: And what did it signify when he walked through those pieces? What was the reason why in a Caesarian treaty, per se, what was the reasoning for doing that? You'd have the vassal, the one that's supposed to be the obedient one.
20:37: You'd have the suzerain, which would be the leader of the Lord.
20:40: And if you cut them two pieces in two, as they both walk through there together, they're saying, hey, whichever one of us breaks this covenant, this is what I want done to me.
20:51: Understand? Basically, butcher me.
20:54: And that, well, Abraham goes to sleep.
20:57: God walks through it.
20:59: So who's responsible for the Abrahamic covenant? God.
21:02: Only God.
21:03: Only God.
21:05: Who's responsible for the Noahic covenant? God.
21:08: God.
21:09: It's only God.
21:11: So, then part of the Abrahamic covenant, then you would have, and it says it in Scripture because then the covenant of circumcision actually becomes a covenant because it's the cutting of the blood and the foreskin.
21:26: But it falls under the Abrahamic covenant.
21:28: Those are all laid on top of one another.
21:30: So you see how God's, this is biblically, this is how God revealed himself.
21:34: Promise, promise, promise.
21:36: Now he's made a covenant.
21:38: Promise, covenant, promise, covenant.
21:41: Now, what happens here? What's the next major event? Moses.
21:50: Yeah, you would have, you would have the Mosaic.
21:55: Well, you would have the Mosaic covenant.
22:04: Now, in the Mosaic covenant, were there, how was that cut? Do you remember when and where? It was, it was before they got the Ten Commandments.
22:18: He, they, or I should say the tablets.
22:20: They got the Ten Words and God said, hey, this is what I'm going to do.
22:26: You go tell the people.
22:27: And they said, whatever you want us to do, we do.
22:29: And what does it say that Moses did? It said he sprinkled them with blood and made a covenant.
22:35: And God says, all right, you come on up here.
22:38: I'm going to give you the rest.
22:39: They've already agreed to the foundational.
22:42: I want you to come up here and I'm going to give you the rest.
22:49: So, Mosaic law, is it unilateral or bilateral? Remember, these were unilateral.
22:57: God was going to do this.
22:58: What about this one? It's bilateral.
23:00: It is.
23:01: It's two people.
23:02: And it is a more so of a true covenant between one and another, where it is a vassal and a cesarean.
23:12: I mean, if you look at chapter 27 and 28 of Deuteronomy, you actually see the blessing and the cursing, where, okay, God said, if you do this, I'm going to do this.
23:20: I'm going to bless all this for you.
23:21: If you don't do this, then what does he say you're going to do? He's going to smash you.
23:27: Okay? So, this covenant was cut with blood.
23:31: It was a covenant between the Israelite people and God, and it is contingent.
23:43: Contingent on what? Their obedience.
23:48: That's it.
23:48: Man, that's horrible.
23:50: Because how obedient are we? We're not.
23:53: We're not.
23:54: Okay.
23:57: So, we move forward.
24:00: What's the next major event? Giving David a promise here.
24:09: A promise.
24:11: It's not a covenant.
24:12: Not a covenant.
24:13: It even says it's a promise.
24:15: And, hey, I'll just let you, I have had an argument with people over this very text because the text does not, they call it the Davidic covenant, but that's not even what David calls it.
24:29: Okay? Now, we can argue from how it unfolds when we get into chapter 23, okay, how David understood that, and I think Psalm 89 and 132 or 134.
24:40: We can talk about that, and we will when we actually get into that part.
24:45: But this here was the Davidic promise.
24:53: And what was the Davidic promise? That's all I, I mean.
25:01: Specifically, what is the promise? His seed would go on.
25:06: That he was going to build him a house.
25:08: He was going to build him a house.
25:13: David is going to have a house built, and we'll just say it this way, a dynasty.
25:21: Because if you look at, I don't know if you all noticed, as we were reading through that, David uses the word house in one way, but you see God used it another.
25:33: Yeah, you see it? God says, wait a minute.
25:35: You want to build me a house, but you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to build you a house, but the way that it's used is two different ways.
25:45: David's talking about, this would be called progressive covenantalism, how God unfolds and unfolds.
25:54: This is a type of progressive covenantalism, and this is how God unfolded it up to here, and that's as far as we're going to go because I'm running out of the board.
26:05: So, David wants to build a house for God.
26:11: Not a temple, a house.
26:13: We won't see a temple until it comes up.
26:19: How does David see a house? Cedar.
26:22: Okay.
26:27: Cedar or date.
26:33: That's how we're probably going to be fancy-schmancy.
26:37: They're going to wind up overlaying it with gold and all that.
26:39: Okay.
26:39: Now, this is how David sees it.
26:50: How does God see a house? Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain to build it.
26:57: But how does God explain the house from the text? The house is a people.
27:04: Except the Lord built the house, that's because it goes on to say, talking about children.
27:11: So, when God says He's going to build a house, He ain't talking about cedar.
27:15: He's talking about a dynasty.
27:22: Offspring.
27:30: And ultimately, that's what God's going to do.
27:37: That's just two different ways of how God, I would say, correct David's understanding of a house.
27:46: Was David's understanding, was David's wanting to build God a house wrong? No, but he comes right back to the same thing he keeps doing, at least he's done a couple times now.
28:01: He didn't inquire, and Nathan didn't inquire either.
28:05: No, we're going to get into that, because we as preachers and teachers, people make life-changing decisions based on the words that come out of our mouth.
28:18: That's weighty to me.
28:20: Every time I stand behind the pulpit, I know that, or even here, but here, y'all have the opportunity to say, hey Mike, I disagree.
28:29: Well, if I say something from up there, not often does somebody throw up a penalty flag and say, hey Mike, I want to talk, okay? So, when you're preaching, and if you're wrong, and you have misinterpreted the Scripture, misrepresented God, misrepresented the text, people make life-changing choices based on the words that come out of our mouth.
28:49: And that's weighty to me.
28:51: Maybe some people it's not, but that weights on me.
28:54: That's why I think it's steady shape.
28:59: Double judgment, double standard.
29:01: Yeah, not double standard in the sense that you're going to be...
29:05: Oh man, I'm sorry, that's just weighty to me.
29:10: He did.
29:12: But once again, we have even Nathan going, okay man, that's cool, but logically thinking, alright, that's an honorable thing.
29:23: Was it an honorable thing for David to want to bring the ark back and do all those things for God? Sure, it was great.
29:31: Who in here wouldn't have wanted to do the same thing back then? Yeah, sure.
29:36: And pretty much, God had told him he pretty much had the reign to run the country.
29:43: And what he thought he was doing was right.
29:45: So here, he goes to Nathan and says, man, this is it dude.
29:49: I'm going to build a house for God.
29:53: And now we'll just start walking through the text because we've got about ten minutes.
29:57: So we won't get far.
29:59: Have I confused you all enough yet? Almost.
30:04: Okay.
30:05: Do you understand that God revealed Himself not under dispensation.
30:10: He did not reveal Himself under three categories of covenants.
30:16: He revealed Himself all through redemptive history based on a promise and a covenant.
30:22: A promise and a covenant.
30:23: I mean, it's without fail all through Scripture.
30:26: If you were just to read the Bible through beginning to end, would you come up with innocence, human government, would you come to those conclusions? No, you would see, oh man, God promised He's going to send a serpent crusher.
30:40: And then that serpent crusher one day would be of the line of David.
30:44: And He promised that that person would then sit on the throne.
30:46: And all those promise and covenants build on one another.
30:50: The other way, you're taking a system and basically proof texting.
30:55: Well, just let the Bible unfold and reveal to itself.
31:00: And when we do that, then we have a better understanding of how God's plan of redemption unfolds versus trying to put it in this covenant or this covenant of works or covenant of grace or we're in this dispensation or that dispensation.
31:14: I'll tell you what, it's been all of God's grace from the Garden of Eden even when God created Adam.
31:23: Was that not an act of God's grace? Was it not? Did Adam deserve to be made? No! Now, does God's grace on a fallen creature look vastly different than an unfallen creature? Certainly! So, that's how God has always been promise and covenant.
31:46: Promise and covenant.
31:48: Alright, chapter 7, verse 1.
31:50: Now, it came about that the king lived in his house and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all of his enemies.
31:57: David had built him a house.
31:59: Remember who helped him do that? Tyre.
32:06: The king of Tyre.
32:07: Yeah, and I think he was making a strategic saying, hey man, I probably don't want David to come this way so let me see if I can help this guy out building him a palace.
32:17: David is living in it so we don't know how long this has taken place.
32:21: Obviously long enough for him to build his ornate house and it says that the Lord had given him rest on every side from all of his enemies.
32:29: Hey man, that is an absolute blessing from God.
32:32: David, he was not fighting any more wars.
32:35: He was not having to go out and straighten out the conflict between the house of Abner and Saul and himself.
32:43: Now David is at rest on every side.
32:46: There is something to be said here that David does not like to be idle because he's got rest on every side.
32:52: What does he say? Man, I've got to do something.
32:55: We're going to see in just a few more chapters him being idle up on the roof didn't do him any good either.
33:01: So here it is.
33:02: He says he was rest on every side and the king said to Nathan the prophet and understand that Nathan I mean that David thought he was inquiring of God by speaking to the man of God.
33:18: You understand that? He is talking to the prophet.
33:22: What was the prophet's role? To speak instead of God.
33:27: Look, whatever the prophet says, they spoke it of God.
33:31: So he speaks to Nathan the prophet and says, see I dwell in the house of Cedar and the ark of God dwells within tent curtains.
33:38: Okay.
33:39: Was there anything wrong with it dwelling in curtain tents? Certainly not because that's how God had established it at that point and he had not been given any other instructions to do it any other way.
33:49: And Nathan said to the king, well go do all that's within your mind for the Lord is with you.
33:54: Eh.
33:56: What should Nathan have done? He should have said, hey dude, check it out, I'll be right back.
34:02: And he should have inquired of the Lord.
34:05: So who's at fault for not inquiring of the Lord? I say both.
34:15: Both.
34:19: He could, but he never asked the prophet when he would want to get yeah, when he correct.
34:24: And we see David do that at times.
34:26: So they're both at fault.
34:28: They both are at fault.
34:30: David should have inquired of the Lord, is this what you would have? Should I go talk to the prophet Nathan about building you a house? And there was a high priest.
34:38: There was a high priest.
34:39: He could have went and rolled the dice or whatever.
34:41: Remember he could have done that too.
34:42: So, but because the motive seems the right and it does.
34:48: Look, I want you to understand.
34:49: I would have done exactly what David have done.
34:53: In both instances I would have, man we got to get the ark back.
34:57: We got to get this thing back in the city.
34:59: We got to get the people of God all joy for worshipping Yahweh again.
35:04: And then you know what man, it would be good if we had a place where we could house this thing that was a structure.
35:08: I mean logically thinking, but hey we should not lean on our own understanding.
35:14: We should not trust in our own understanding.
35:16: In all of our ways acknowledge God and He will direct our paths.
35:20: And that is what they were thinking they were doing but they were doing it on their own terms.
35:27: They were doing it on the terms which they wanted to do.
35:29: God did not instruct any of them to do that.
35:31: And God somewhat in a rebuke to Nathan says that.
35:34: But in that same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan saying, Go and say to my servant David, thus says the Lord, Are you the one to build me a house to dwell in? For I have not dwelt in that house since the day I brought up the sons of Israel from Egypt even to this day.
35:52: But I have been moving about and attend even in a tabernacle.
35:55: And that is true.
35:56: How did they move around for 40 years? They picked it up, put it through poles.
36:03: Hey you know nobody ever got struck dead when they moved it last time.
36:09: In that 40 years.
36:09: Remember? We don't hear anybody get struck dead.
36:12: We don't see anybody picking it up, carrying it the wrong way.
36:16: They did as they were instructed for 40 years of moving the ark.
36:21: And he says you know we moved around there and I have not dwelt in a house since then since I brought you out of the sun since the day I brought you up the sons of Israel from Egypt even to this day.
36:35: But I have been moving about in that tabernacle wherever I have gone with all the sons of Israel did I ever speak a word to the tribes of Israel which I commanded to shepherd my people Israel saying why have you not built me a house of cedar? Is that obviously it's God speaking is that a correct statement? Did God ever say hey make me a stationary place? He never did.
37:01: Always moved about.
37:06: Why did God not want a stationary place up until this point? It would be pretty dangerous looking at one construction building instead.
37:24: That and for 40 years had they entered the promised land.
37:30: For 40 years they had not.
37:32: So there was no for 40 years God wasn't going to build something to Sinai Palento when they were walking in circles, right? Why? Because that was not the promised land.
37:40: The promised land was in over here.
37:43: Not down here.
37:45: It was up here.
37:46: Well now that they're up here where they're supposed to be.
37:50: The time of the judges is gone.
37:51: We have a unified monarchy.
37:53: God still says I have not commanded anybody to make me a stationary place.
37:59: One, the stationary place at this point in redemptive history was unnecessary.
38:08: It was unnecessary.
38:11: Why was it unnecessary? Because God says it wasn't needed.
38:16: And David going hey in my opinion God it would be better if there was a stationary place to house your ark.
38:24: In his opinion.
38:26: God says no no no.
38:27: I didn't ask you.
38:28: Yeah.
38:29: That is the best way and in the same way he told Nathan hey watch your words.
38:36: Let me tell you what you should have told David.
38:38: And you're right.
38:39: That's exactly, I didn't ask you what your thoughts were.
38:44: And let's go just a couple more verses and then we'll stop.
38:47: Verse 8 says now therefore thus you shall say to my servant David thus the Lord of hosts I took you from the pasture from following the sheep to be the ruler of my people Israel.
38:58: God's recalling to David what he did for him.
39:01: He's like it sounds like the Mexican song ay ay ay ay ay I did I did I did I did I did I did And then when you see yeah God says I I I and when you get to David's prayer and response what does he say? You you you you.
39:17: Yeah.
39:17: God's preparing him to say it was me that did all this.
39:23: And it is true.
39:24: When David was out chasing the sheep's butts playing with sheep God came and anointed him and at the time that he was anointed it says the Spirit of God came on him when Samuel anointed him and it never left.
39:40: It never left.
39:42: And how did he know that the Spirit of God had had fallen on him? And had empowered him? It says because he had struck down a lion and a bear in the field preparing him to then go strike down the Goliath and he knew that God was with him and God's just recalling him hey it was me that did this for you.
40:03: You did this to yourself.
40:04: You went to some training camp trying to learn how to defeat lions and bears and giants.
40:10: It was me that did that.
40:12: And David realizes that and has always recognized that.
40:16: I've been with you wherever you have gone and I have cut off all your enemies from before you.
40:22: What did David say when they would win a battle? The Lord has given it to me.
40:28: And then you had that constant reframe and the end of 1 Samuel and twice already in this part of 2 Samuel the Lord was with David.
40:36: The Lord preserved David.
40:39: We're going to get to where he says it again that the Lord saved David from his enemies and that's exactly what God's saying.
40:46: Hey look I've done all these things for you.
40:48: I mean the chapter starts off that and the Lord had given him rest.
40:52: Sure.
40:52: Yeah it wasn't David.
40:53: Now was David the mechanism by which he subdued his enemies? Yeah but David knew it was the Lord that put him under his footstool.
41:00: It was the Lord that had given him the ability and the power to overthrow his surrounding enemies.
41:07: He says and I have cut off all your enemies from before you and I will make you a great name like the names of the great men who were on the earth.
41:18: Hey David out of all the kings out of all the kings David always stands at the height.
41:27: Hey we can talk about Josiah and how good he was and all the things that he did but dude he wasn't king David.
41:35: He was a descendant of David but he wasn't king David.
41:37: Hey man Josiah did some if you read in the kings and the chronicles man the things that Josiah did.
41:44: Josiah he went there and he cleaned out hey there was male temple prostitutes and Josiah cleans all that out from his dad before him who let all that kinds of crazy nonsense happen and he cleans all that out and he sets up all these reforms and he tries to put the people the covenant people of God on the right track but Josiah failed.
42:13: Isn't that interesting too that throughout the kings it's based upon if he followed David's ways or he didn't follow David's ways.
42:21: Yeah and when it doesn't follow David's ways it would say that he followed the ways of his father Manasseh or one of these other jerk legs that wind up that wind up doing male prostitution and burning babies and all kinds of stuff.
42:41: But he says here that it was I that will make you a great name like the great men upon the earth.
42:46: Like he said you're going to be David's going to be David's name is going to be known forever and we need to wrap it up right here.
42:53: And I will also appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them and that they will live in their own place and not be disturbed again nor will the wicked afflict them anymore as formerly.
43:07: Even from the day that I commanded the judges to be over my people Israel and I will give you rest from all of your enemies.
43:16: The Lord also declares to you that the Lord will make a house for you.
43:21: And we'll stop right there and we'll pick up in verse 12.
43:25: God doesn't say David says Bill.
43:34: What does God say? Make.
43:38: Make.
43:41: And we'll talk about that next week.
43:44: You'll pray for us.
43:45: Burt.
43:56: For by your name through the scriptures that you have given us now prepare our hearts as we go to separate this day to you for worship in Jesus name.
44:06: Amen.