Raiders of the Pesky Ark

Kongsvinger Lutheran Church

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All right, let's pray Lord Jesus again as we open up your words and your spirit open our hearts and our minds so that we may not be

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Hostile to it, but may rightly understand what is revealed here so that we may give glory to Jesus Christ For saving us and redeeming us and recognize that all of this is written for him about him and for our salvation

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We ask in Jesus name. Amen All right, any questions regarding the sermon before we get into the

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Sunday school lesson? But the sermon hymn, the third verse was talking about the

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Father, Son, and Holy Spirit But didn't preface it with a triangle, why didn't it preface it with a triangle? Because that's in our blue hymnal

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Oh, okay I'll just stand up, I wouldn't be long If you feel like standing up, you just go all

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Pentecostal on us, that's fine All right Seeing that there are no other questions regarding the sermon, let's get into our text today

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And we've established and we're at this point really starting to fill out

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What the Bible reveals regarding the kingdom of God And as we read the story of David, he was the anointed but not yet coronated king of Israel When he was anointed, he was coronated the king of Judah, but not of all

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Israel And a little bit of a note here, I want you to think back with me if you would

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To your Bible history After the death of Solomon, what happens to the nation of Israel?

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Split in half, right? So what ends up happening to the one group?

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Have you all heard of the ten tribes of Israel? Where did they go? Where are they?

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They got scattered, right? They got scattered in what has become known as the

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Diaspora And it's very rare today with people who are genetically

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Hebrew For them to say, I am of the tribe of Ephraim Or I am of the tribe of Manasseh I am of the tribe of Simeon Because those tribes, because of the rebellion and their idolatry

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God literally scraped them out of the land Just dug them right out and dispersed them into the nations

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So that's kind of an interesting thing So you'll note then that David, when he becomes king

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He first becomes king of Judah But his kingdom eventually expands to include all of Israel Now are we

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Christians? Are we part of Israel? Yes, we are. We've been grafted in And so you'll note then that as David's reign expands

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It expands to include all of Israel And I like to think in type and shadow That that including now of the other tribes of Israel In type and shadow reflects how

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Christ is now king over all of Israel And that includes people from every nation, tribe, and language

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That's kind of the idea I recently was speaking with my father And he had been on Ancestry .com

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And paid to do one of those genetic swabs To figure out exactly what makes up DNA And so he calls me up and says

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Well, Chris, you're not going to believe this And it's like all the things we expected were there Except for one thing

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He said, you know what's really weird is Is that we have this small portion of Hebrew blood in us

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A very small portion You sit there and go, how did that happen? Hmm, interesting

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It's maybe part of the diaspora But these genetic ways of being able to identify the different regions

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I mean, it's absolutely fascinating So somewhere a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away

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One of my ancestors married somebody who was Hebrew So it doesn't surprise me

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But it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of us have that as well Now, interesting thing, a little bit of a note here

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In the Middle Ages, Jews lived where? If they were in Europe, where did they live?

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They lived in ghettos They were kind of separated out They weren't allowed to hold government positions

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They all kind of kept to themselves And you think of the segregation that occurred in the

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South After the Civil War up to the Civil Rights Movement Jews and Gentiles in Europe Had that same type of segregation going on during the

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Middle Ages That's a little known fact But that's something to keep in mind But that's not the topic that we're going to talk about today

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Okay, so David is now king of Judah, king of Israel He's king of everybody, right?

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And you'll note that he's now conquered all of his enemies There's like nobody to fight him anymore

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It's like, what's a king to do, right? And you think of Jesus when he returns in glory Establishes his visible reign here on the earth

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New Jerusalem comes out of heaven Heaven's new earth, we're all resurrected No more sin, no more pain

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No more suffering, no more tears World without end, it's going to be great, right? No enemies, right? Well, worship is an important piece then of this as well

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And what's going to happen here is kind of fascinating But David wants, and you're going to see this

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He's going to want the tabernacle And the

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Ark of the Covenant in Jerusalem His city, the city of David, which is going to make sense

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But he's also going to want to build a temple A permanent residence for God's presence

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And what happens when he wants to do that is fascinating Because it will result not only in David kindly by God saying no

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But what's going to happen in the prophecy is so rich As to what it is that God's going to do for David instead

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We'll take a look at that as well Alright, so we're in 2 Samuel 6 David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel 30 ,000,

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David arose Went with all the people who were with him from Baal, Judah To bring up from there the

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Ark of God Now a little bit of a note, in type and shadow The Ark of God I think prefigures

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Jesus Christ What are the main component structures, ingredients for the

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Ark of the Covenant? Huh? Well, think of it itself

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Remember the braiders of the lost Ark, Indiana Jones? With the golden box with the cherubim on it, right?

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That's where the mercy seat was But what was that thing made out of? Gold, yes, that's part of it

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The Ten Commandments were in it, yes There was also an omer of manna inside of it Huh?

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Aaron's staff that budded was inside of it But the box itself, was it solid gold?

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Nope, it was wood Okay Do you have gophers on the brain here?

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I'm just, you know, because of last night's hockey Gopher wood, right No, it's made of wood It's made of wood

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The Ark of the Covenant Yeah, yeah, you're thinking Noah's Ark Yeah, yeah, yeah And the reason they called it gopher wood

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Because as Noah was building it, he'd say to his son Would you go for some wood and get some Yeah, never mind I write my own jokes

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Just hey, hey, hey And I do my own sound effects So the

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Ark of the Covenant itself is actually made out of wood And it's overlaid with gold And I think a good way to think about the

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Ark of the Covenant Is that it's kind of an earthly, symbolic, typological picture of Christ himself

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Who is God and man He's the God -man in human flesh So it has all of these earthly components

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But also these celestial pieces to it So think of the Ark of that way as really kind of Prefiguring the incarnation of Christ itself

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The mercy seat is on it This is where the blood of the sacrifices goes Especially the sacrifice on Yom Kippur Which is for everybody's sins

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So David wants this thing now in his capital city

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And where has the Ark been up to this point? When the

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Ark is at home prior to this What's home? The tabernacle

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The tabernacle is basically this big, ugly tent And it stays out in the wilderness

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Remember the opening of 1 Samuel The tabernacle was in a town called Shiloh If you go on a tour of the

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Holy Land today And you visit Shiloh They will take you to the exact spot Where the tabernacle was

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Because there's just no mistaking it They had moved the rocks out of the way And the rocks stay

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And you just make out It was right there I know this from other people's vacation photos I'm just saying

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I've traveled the world this way It's amazing Cheap, very inexpensive Thank you for the internet, God And Google Maps Jinx All right

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So It's been traveling around Shiloh has been in several different places

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All right So he wants this in Jerusalem So Bring from there the

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Ark of God Which is called by the name of Yahweh of hosts Just a little bit of a note

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This section of scripture And several sections of scriptures Really emphasize this name for God Yahweh Savaoth Sava is the

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Hebrew word for armies So The Lord of armies The Lord of hosts You have to think of hosts

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Not of You know, like just Angelic beings or whatever But you have to kind of think of like A host of armies, right?

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Who sits enthroned on the cherubim And they carried the Ark of God On a new cart

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And brought it out To the house of Abinadab Which was on the hill

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Real quick question Knowing your Mosaic covenant How is the

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Ark to be transported? Carried It's supposed to be carried

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All right, we know this Let's take a look at our cross -reference A cross -reference is going to be in Numbers chapter 7

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I'll start at verse 6 Here's what it says So Moses took the wagons, the oxen Gave them to the

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Levites Two wagons Four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon According to their service

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Four wagons, eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari According to their service

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Under the direction of Ithamar The son of Aaron the priest But the sons of Kohath he gave none

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The sons of Kohath were the ones Who got to carry the consecrated pieces For the tabernacle

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Including the Ark of the Covenant And it says he gave none Because they were charged with the service Of the holy things

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That had to be carried on the shoulder And the chiefs offered offerings For the dedication of the altar

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On the day it was anointed And the chiefs offered their offering Before the altar So from Numbers chapter 7

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We learn that the Ark When it is transported Is not to be transported via ox cart

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Now the Philistines put it on an ox cart When they sent it back After they had captured it

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But that's not the normal way This thing is to be traveling So we've got a little bit of a problem here

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In our text And this problem comes to the fact That at this point Despite David's zeal

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Despite his love for the Lord He's a man after God's own heart Despite his godly desire

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For the Ark to be in Jerusalem He still doesn't know his

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Bible well enough And as a result of this He's doing something wrong

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Now remember the buck always stops at the top So ultimately what's going to happen here

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Is going to be David's fault He's at fault And we'll show you the cross reference on this too Which is also very helpful

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Alright So they carried the Ark of God on a new cart At least they thought

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Well at least we'll put it on a brand new one Never been used before And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab Which was on the hill

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And Uzzah and Ahio And the sons of Abinadab Were driving the new cart with the

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Ark of God And Ahio went before the Ark David and all the house of Israel Were celebrating before Yahweh With songs and lyres and harps

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And tambourines and castanets And cymbals And when they had came to the threshing floor of Nacon Uzzah put out his hand to the

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Ark of God And took hold of it for the oxen stumbled And the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzzah And God struck him down there because of his error

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And he died there beside the Ark of God Now a little bit of a note

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Uzzah Did Uzzah have a good motive? He had a great motive

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But this is where we have to understand God's ways are not our ways God's thoughts are not our thoughts

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And the Ark of the Covenant is a holy item Truly, truly holy

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Set apart And when sinful human beings come in contact with the holy

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Without a sacrifice Without being atoned for What happens to the human being

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Goodbye Yeah Yeah So you remember Superman has kryptonite, right?

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Sinful human beings, our kryptonite is the holy And it'll kill us dead really fast

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And this is why we need a savior So Uzzah, in reaching out his hand

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He doesn't want the Ark to hit the ground But he wrongly, just intuitively assumes

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That his hand is more holy than the dirt And it's not

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And he dies Dies for his error And all of this was happening while the praise band was still going

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Right? So this is the middle of a big worship set Keep that in mind

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I would say that there are a lot of people in a lot of churches today Who have great motivation to doing all kinds of things

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That literally God's word, if you rightly understand it Would be quite opposed to Right?

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Motivation, you know, whether it's Even if it's good God's word is not grounds for doing something that God Has clearly, in his word, taught

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Which is not pleasing to him We must not assume that just because our motives are right

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That that makes the result to be good So we have to have some wise, godly counsel from God's word

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What do they say? The road to hell is paved with good intentions Right? One of the church fathers

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He said that the road to hell was paved with the skulls of priests And the bishop says the skulls were like the mile markers

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But that's a different story altogether But, you know, you kind of get the idea The road to hell is paved with good intentions, right?

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Now let me show you a cross -reference on this that will help us a little bit also And it's found in 1

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Chronicles chapter 15 And you'll note that 1 and 2

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Chronicles And the stories that we're reading here in 2 Samuel There's a lot of cross -references

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So one has a little bit more of a political skew to it It gives us some, same story, slightly different details

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It's like in the New Testament where we have four gospels 1 and 2 Chronicles gives us more information

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Than the stories that we're looking at right here So 1 Chronicles 15 is very helpful In helping us get the gist of what just happened

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David built houses for himself 1 Chronicles 15 In the city of David he prepared a place for the

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Ark of God And pitched a tent for it So you can see he really put a lot of time

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So he wants a permanent spot for it He's got the property figured out

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He knows where this is all going to go David said that no one but the Levites may carry the

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Ark of God For Yahweh had chosen them to carry the Ark of God And to minister to him forever

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And David assembled all of Israel at Jerusalem To bring up the Ark of Yahweh to its place

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Which he had prepared for it David gathered together the sons of Aaron, the Levites Of the sons of Kohath, Uriel The chief with 120 of his brothers

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And the sons of Merari, Esaiah The chief and 220 of his brothers

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And the sons of Gershom, Joel The chief with 130 of his brothers Of the sons of Elizaphan and Shemaiah The chief with 200 of his brothers

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The sons of Hebron, Eliel The chief with 80 of his brothers Of the sons of Uziel, Abinadab The chief with 112 of his brothers

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Then David summoned the priests Zadok and Abiathar And the Levites, Uriel, Esaiah, Joel Shemaiah, Eliel, Abinadab And said to them

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You are the heads of the fathers Houses of the Levites Consecrate yourselves, you and your brothers

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So that you may bring up the Ark of Yahweh The God of Israel To the place I have prepared for it

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Because you did not carry it the first time The Lord our God broke out against us

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Because we did not seek him according to the rule So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves

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To bring up the Ark of Yahweh The God of Israel And the Levites carried the Ark of God On their shoulders with the poles

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As Moses had commanded according to the word of the Lord So you can see from the cross reference here

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We're getting like the fuller story So they recognized Ah, the reason why

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Ezra died Is because we hadn't really inquired about how to do this So this was a sin of omission

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So remember when we confess our sins Lord, I confess that I am by nature sinful and unclean

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I have sinned against you in thought, word, deed By what I have done, by what

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I have left undone Right? In this particular case They sinned against God By a sin of omission

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They hadn't done what was necessary to know According to the scriptures

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How to properly handle the Ark of God And that sin cost a fellow his life

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Now David Now we've read in 1 Chronicles That there's going to be a second attempt here Attempt number two

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They're going to carry it properly But David at this point with Uzzah dead

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Is going to put the brakes on And he's going to freak out a little bit He's going to freak out a little bit

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Because it's like Whoa Whoa, whoa, whoa

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I mean God could like strike us all down If he wanted to So he's going to take pause

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And try to sort this all out In doing so he's going to continue to have

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A very healthy fear of God in this And God is going to graciously allay those fears

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So David was angry because Yahweh had broken out against Uzzah And the place is called

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Perez -Uzzah To this day Breakout against Uzzah What a great name for a place

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What's that place? Breakout against Uzzah That's the name of it, right? So David was afraid of Yahweh that day

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And he said How can the Ark of Yahweh come to me? So David's a little bit unhinged at this point

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He has a healthy fear of God But he's literally like shaking He's like whoa, whoa And think back to the stories earlier in 1

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Samuel When the Ark of the Lord is captured by the Philistines And they take it to their different cities

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What happens to all of those cities With the Ark there? Plagues, people breaking out with boils

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They had rats It was a mess, right? So David clearly is afraid of the

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Lord Thinking whoa, can I really bring this thing Into the city of David? So David was not willing to take the

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Ark of Yahweh Into the city of David But David took it aside to the house of Obed -Edom the

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Gittite And the Ark of Yahweh remained In the house of Obed -Edom the

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Gittite Three months And watch what the Lord does And Yahweh blessed Obed -Edom and all of his household

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And so by God blessing Obed -Edom He literally is saying to David No, no, no

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I love you Don't fear me in this way And you think about Obed -Edom

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Will probably end up happening It doesn't say But you kind of get the picture It's like somebody would knock on his door

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Is this the house of Obed -Edom? Yeah, you just won the celebrity sweepstakes You know, 20 million dollars What?

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Yeah, I didn't even apply for it We don't care You won anyway Right? You know It's just strange things like that So God's overtly blessing

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Obed -Edom And all of his household And that grace, that mercy

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Says to David, okay It's going to be alright

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Let's finish what we started So it was told to King David Yahweh has blessed the household of Obed -Edom

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And all that belongs to him Because of the ark of God So David went up and brought the ark of God From the house of Obed -Edom

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To the city of David With rejoicing And we know from 1 Chronicles 15

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That now they've figured out This thing has to be carried on poles They're doing it right We even know the names of the fellows

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Who were doing it All historical fact And it's at this point We have to put a little bit of an asterisk here

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And that is that There are people in Christianity today

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Who say or believe That David danced before the ark of the Lord Naked I understand you're sitting there going

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What? Okay Talk to many people Will David dance before the

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Lord naked? No, he did not He did not dance before the

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Lord naked We're going to see this And I'm pointing it out Because this is one of those things

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That kind of gets passed off Like word of mouth Without people actually checking the text

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And so as a result of it People seem to think that David Well, maybe he wasn't naked

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But he got into his tighty -whities And was dancing around No, that was not going on either

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Okay, he did not have tighty -whities I'm just saying Sometimes I derail myself

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Okay We're going to see from the details That that's not what happened

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And it was Michal, his wife Who accused him of this So we'll keep that in mind So it was told to David The Lord has blessed the house of Oda So David went, brought up the

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Ark of God With rejoicing, verse 13 When those who bore the Ark of Yahweh Had gone six steps

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He sacrificed an ox And a fattened animal And David danced before the

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Lord With all of his might And David was wearing, what? A linen ephod

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It looks a lot like that thing I wear When I'm preaching Alright In fact, the albs are kind of Based on that motif

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Okay It's a big, white coverall Alright And this was the uniform that the

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Levites wore Which is kind of fascinating In this particular sense Because David, by wearing the linen ephod

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Which is what only the priests wore You begin to see a little bit of that Type and shadow of Christ Who is prophet, priest, and king

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So here we have King David Wearing a priestly vestment

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And dancing before the Lord So you're starting to be Kind of in type and shadow See some of the fuller offices of Christ In David, at least in this regard

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So you'll notice he becomes Like the worship leader for all of Israel Which is not the king's normal duty

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And in so doing, he's got full vestments on No, no

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In this particular case

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We have no one saying David did something wrong And see, this is

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Think back to that story Where David is on the run from Saul Jonathan had just informed, remember

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With the arrows and the kid And all that kind of stuff That yeah, my father is trying to kill you

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So David, he's on the run First stop is the tabernacle And Ahimelech, the priest

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And he's talking with Ahimelech And Ahimelech says, why are you here? What's going on?

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David lies to him And says we're on a secret mission Kind of thing But I need bread

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And do you have a sword? So what does the priest give him? The priest gives him

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The consecrated bread The bread of the presence Which according to the Mosaic covenant Can only be given to the priests

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And yet, that bread is given to David And to all of his men So when it comes to David There's some things going on here

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That are quite fascinating Where God is not He's not breaking the rules But he's almost suspending them

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For David Because in this You've got to remember David is this big figure

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That prefigures Christ In a very similar way That Joseph did And we talked about Like big type and shadow people

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In the Old Testament Joseph, premier Then King David You know, next big one

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So we're seeing in David We're seeing the king Wearing an ephod Which is only what priests should wear

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Yet Jesus is our prophet He's our priest and our king Keep that in mind So David and all of the house of Israel Brought up the ark of Yahweh Shouting And with the sound of the horn

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And the ark of Yahweh Came into the city of David Now the story gets interesting Michal, the daughter of Saul Looked out of the window

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And saw King David leaping And dancing before Yahweh And she despised him in her heart

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Okay Talk about what's going on there in a second And so they brought in the ark of Yahweh Set it in its place

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Inside the tent That David had pitched for it David offered burnt offerings

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Peace offerings before Yahweh And when David had finished offering The burnt offerings

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And the peace offerings He blessed the people In the name of Yahweh Sabaoth And he distributed among all the people

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The whole multitude of Israel Both men and women A cake of bread A portion of meat

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A cake of raisins To each one And then to all the people And all the people departed

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Each to his own house Now before we go any farther How do you think

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David feels About how this day went Best day ever

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Okay He is on an emotional And spiritual high

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And you know The ark is now in the city That means the presence of God The mercy seat is in the city of Jerusalem With the king

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This is a big deal All of the people He fed them out of his own His own treasury

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Provided for their needs And you talk Tens of thousands of people The singing

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The rejoicing The worship It was all amazing So you can just see him at this point

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Puts his street clothes back on Heads to home And he's probably still humming a tune You know from one of the songs

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That they were singing right He's got it stuck in his head Walks in the door And literally

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Dun, dun, dun Right That's the collision

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That we're looking at here I mean I don't know if this has ever happened to you

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But like when I used to work In the corporate world You know I go to work And some days are good Some days are bad

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Some days are dramatic Some days are just monotonous Right But every now and then You get that day

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Where it just Everything goes right The report was well received By the boss The numbers are up Everyone's gonna get a

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Christmas bonus this year And you're thinking Yeah we're hitting on all cylinders Right So you drive home

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And you walk in the door And the kids are all screaming Their hair is all tangled

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There's fighting going on And my wife looks like She's about ready to club me With a baseball bat And she says these words

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Those kids of yours Right What Right You know

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That's kind of the idea here It's like you know David's is on a high And there's gonna be this collision

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But this one's not caused over kids This is caused over something

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Quite different And you're gonna see What's motivating The call in a minute So David returned

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To bless his household So he's come home He's blessed the people

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The ark has come to bless His whole household And then you get these words But Michal The daughter of Saul Came out to meet

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David And said How the king of Israel Honored himself today

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Uncovering himself today Before the eyes of his servants Female servants As one of the vulgar fellows

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Shamelessly uncovers himself Is that what he did?

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She's lying Oh yeah She's totally lying What's motivating this? In order to kind of help this out

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Okay We don't have any royals here In the United States So we have like adopted royals

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Have you ever noticed that like Even on our own television programs And news shows That we get news on what's going on With the royal family in Great Britain Right The house of Windsor Right Could you imagine

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Queen Elizabeth Doing what David did How about Prince Harry?

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Prince William So Prince William Does this What would happen in Great Britain If one of the royals did this?

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Literally the news would go crazy And accuse him of behavior Unbecoming of a royal

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Royals are dignified Royals are above us Royals are at all times

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To maintain their composure Royals are at all times To dress sharply They cannot be seen in public

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Sweating or stinking Or anything like that Right You get the idea

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Okay So Has David behaved Like a royal today?

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No He hasn't So McCall She grows up A princess

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Right Her father Was the king of Israel She grows up As a princess

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And we like to do this with our daughters Do we not? Like we get them all done Like Cinderella And Snow White When I was living in Orange County California It was always so cute

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To see these little Four and five year old girls Wearing their bell dresses And singing all the

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Disney songs And they would have little princess Get togethers And things like that And they grow out of it

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Right Okay But in the case of McCall When she put on a princess dress

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And a tiara Did she ever take them off? So McCall Is incensed

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That David has acted in a way That is vulgar And she considers

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Beneath him He's a royal He should not be behaving this way

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She grew up a princess And there are certain ways That royals are to behave And he hasn't done that So he's got his mind set

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And this is where a good contrast today Comes from the sermon She has her eyes set On the things of the flesh

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He has his eyes set On the things of the spirit She is concerned with looks

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And appearances And how people will think about her She's embarrassed

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She feels that she's suffering embarrassment By his actions David isn't thinking about himself

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And in his worship David literally Loses himself In that, does that make sense?

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And she's just having none of this So this is a collision Between The sinful flesh

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And its passions and its desires And its arrogance and its haughtiness As opposed to the one

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Who considers himself nothing In the presence of God And is really

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Focused in on the things of the spirit That's where the collision is Yes, sir

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It's a Norwegian thing Well, okay

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That is one of the Issues with a Strain in the visible church

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Known as pietism And this is where you have to make A real careful distinction

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Is that scripture never Condemns true Christian piety

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And true Christian piety You would see Parents raising their children

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And not feeding their vanity You know, if you In fact, this was a very common

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Cultural thing all the way up until Very recently If you've ever seen Newsreels or Movies from The World War II generation

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The kids, what colors Were their clothes? Muted grays and browns

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They weren't vibrant colors And things like that You don't see that until the 50s And in the 50s there's a big reaction

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Against that, and what is the big reaction? You get the poofy poodle skirts And you see

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All the vibrant colors That come out of it And that morphs into the 60s I don't know what happened there

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I think they did drugs And whatever they saw

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While they were having their LSD trips They'd turn it into a shirt But you know It was a decade of decadence

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It really was But if you look to the World War II generation

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All the kids are wearing muted colors And you They overtly talk about They were raising their kids

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Christians They did not want their kids To draw attention to themselves Alright So Now that's piety

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Pietism though Pietism is a Stranger mix Because it takes piety to a completely

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Different level And if it doesn't border on Then it definitely crosses into A form of self -righteousness

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Where you have these man -made rules That say if you keep These rules then

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You are truly a Christian And if you don't then you're backslidden And it's not the

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Ten Commandments Now it's a completely different list And the list Often times has to do with Blue laws and social mores

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And things like that As opposed to clear commandments And so Dancing was one of them

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And remember the movie Footloose Alright John Lithgow's character

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In Footloose He was the pastor And man I hate to say this But in the 80's it's like That guy was my pastor

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For real And I cannot begin to tell you How many sermons

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I heard Railing against rock and roll Railing against dancing

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Railing against J .R. Ewing And the soap operas

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And stuff like that And so What that does is it creates

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This man -made thing And what's really interesting About the Footloose movie Is that the people who put it together

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I don't even think they're Christians But they found in scripture David danced before the

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Lord And you have this Rebel character Kind of like a James Dean type

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But it was Kevin Bacon And this James Dean type fellow Stands up and talks about Worshipping the

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Lord with a dance And stuff like that And he was right He was right

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And so Footloose Encapsulates if you would The logical and Weirdly biblical

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Counter reaction To pietism Alright So here's how we have to Kind of cover these things

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Where scripture gives a command We know that if you

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Break that command there is a sin Straight up So murdering somebody

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In cold blood, sin Adultery, sin Sexual immorality, lying

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Slandering somebody, coveting Sin, sin, sin, sin, sin, right? How about having a glass of Merlot with a steak

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Sin Or not And be careful how you answer this question

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In and of itself, no, it's not a sin We are to love our neighbors

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And so if our neighbor Is going to be Scandalized by what we

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Eat or what we drink Then for the sake of their conscience We do not scandalize them

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And so Having alcohol can be a sin If it's going to scandalize your neighbor

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And if your neighbor is not going to be scandalized It's freedom You can either do it or not do it

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You're not blessed or cursed if you do or don't Straight up You want to have Merlot with a steak

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It depends on what cut The real sin might be If you have it with Chuck Roast Or something, like yeah, no,

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Merlot Doesn't pair well with that So, you know, we talk about Zinfandels And things, but anyway, you kind of get the idea

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Right? Okay, so the idea then Is that where there is no law

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Scripture explicitly states this Where there is no law, there is no sin We have freedom

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And we need to Use our freedom Well in love for neighbor But what ends up happening is

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Is that in pietism They make all these shortcuts And end up creating these blue laws

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So if you're truly a Christian You don't play cards I mean

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I hate to say this, I grew up in that culture too Okay, seriously Like, you know

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I tell the story, it's like When I was in high school, it's like We didn't, you know, the rebels at the school

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I went to We didn't rebel by going out And buying cocaine or something like that We'd show up at a friend's house

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And he'd go, look, pull out a bag And it was cards in it Oh, you got cards?

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You know It's like, what are we playing? Let's play fish Oh yeah, let's play fish

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And the whole time you're playing fish You're thinking, oh man, we are like Totally sticking it to the man

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You know Right So Is there a prohibition in Scripture Against card games?

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No, not one Do you have freedom to play card games, yes or no? Absolutely Alright, now if somebody's

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Scandalized by your card playing You're thinking, oh my goodness You know, and they can't associate

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Card games with anything other than like Las Vegas and things like that Don't invite them

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You know That's the best way I can put it, just don't invite them Invite the other group and enjoy

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Your time, but you know, you don't pull out the cards And scandalize that person Because they're weak in their faith And you have to let the word of God work in them

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So the idea then is that When it comes to Pietism and its laws

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It oftentimes borders On the self -righteous If not crosses the line And creates the definition of a

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Christian Not by a positive confession Of who Christ is and what he's done for us But defines

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Christians By what they don't do Alright, now it's true That when the world wants to engage

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In debauchery and all these Clearly sins, they will marvel At the fact that we don't want to participate

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With them, you know, maybe Really be upset with us in that sense But where there's freedom, we don't create a law

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You don't want to bind people's Consciences where there is no law Okay So you say you have freedom to do or not do

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Use your freedom though To love your neighbor, not yourself That's the idea Okay, keep going then

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Alright So we've got The dun -dun -duh moment McCall is really upset

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And she lays into David And you're gonna note, he came to bless his Household and she is literally

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Speaking a curse Right How the king of Israel honored himself

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Today, uncovering himself Before the eyes of his servants Female servants, as one of the vulgar

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Fellows shamelessly uncovers himself And David said to McCall It was before Yahweh who chose me

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Above your father and above all His house to appoint me as Prince over Israel The people of Yahweh And I will celebrate before Yahweh I will make myself

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Yet more contemptible Than this I will be abased In your eyes

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But by the female servants of whom You have spoken By them

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I shall be held in honor And so notice He's aligning himself

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With the lowliest of the low The slave girls And say I'll have honor among them

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But with her, he says I'm gonna be even more abased in your eyes

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And then the text says And McCall the daughter of Saul Saul had no children to the day of her death

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Think of it this way David put her in a convent Where she spent the rest of her days

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He wasn't gonna be unequally yoked With an unbeliever Which is really what she was

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Oh yeah, he was Oh yeah Remember he paid the The price was a hundred

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Philistine foreskins And he paid two So, strange currency So, yeah

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So Tragic, right?

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She's got Her sinful flesh, her pride Her princessness

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As top priority David's top priority is The Lord in his

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Presence, yeah But it does seem that she accused him of getting naked And he doesn't deny it

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Well, so here's the thing, okay So, you gotta wear something Under your ephod

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And David, while he was Dancing around, I'm sure his skirt Lifted up a little bit, alright

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And people could see his legs Which, in that culture If a man was doing that And you could see his legs, that's kind of not a good thing

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You'd only gird up your loins for battle So And by the way, you know how the girding up the loins works?

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Men, okay Men often times wore One piece things, just like You know, it's not a dress, but it's like You know, a one piece work

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Garment, and it would come down to here They'd put a belt on around it You know, a big fat manly belt type of thing

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And if they had to go into battle This is a terrible thing to Do sword fighting with You girls can try it with a dress sometime

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Let me know how it works out for you But the way the girding of the loins actually worked Is they would grab from the back side

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They'd pull it up the front Up to here, and then hike it up Under the belt, and it would like create shorts

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You know, with the material And so when you hear gird up your loins That's how you would do it

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So there was some website Like some manly man website That had illustrations

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Because I'm a manly man, I read stuff like that You know Alright, next chapter

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As I read this Remember our game Our Sesame Street game from this morning

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One of these things Is not like the other Something is going to seem really out of place

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In this next portion of it And I'll point it out as we go But see if you can identify

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Because I want you to be looking for it as I read Now, when the king lived in his house Yahweh had given him rest

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From all of his surrounding enemies Hmm, what does that sound like? That's coming by the way

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When Jesus sits on the throne of David And all of his enemies Are made a footstool

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They're no longer there anymore New heavens, new earth There will be no enemies It's kind of a picture of what's coming

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The king said to Nathan the prophet See now I dwell in a house of cedar But the ark of God dwells in a tent

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And Nathan said to the king Go do all that is in your heart For Yahweh is with you Now Nathan here spoke presumptuously

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And God's about to have a conversation with Nathan So that same night The word of Yahweh came to Nathan Go tell my servant

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David Thus says Yahweh Would you build me a house to dwell in? I have not lived in a house

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Since the day I brought up the people of Israel From Egypt to this day But I have been moving about in a tent

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For my dwelling Now real quick here Fun cross reference John chapter 1

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Okay, John chapter 1 What's the name Of the tent

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Where the ark was? Tabernacle Watch this

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John 1 In the beginning was the word The word was with God And the word was

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God He was in the beginning with God All things were made through him

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And without him Was not anything made that was made In him was life

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And the life was the light of men The light shines in the darkness The darkness is not overcoming

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There was a man sent from God Whose name was John He was a witness to bear witness about the light

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That all might believe through him He was not the light but he came to bear witness About the light

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And the true light which gives light To everyone was coming into the world He was in the world

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And the world was made through him yet the world did not know him He came to his own and his own people Did not receive him but to all who did receive him

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Who believed in his name he gave the right to become children of God Who were born Not of blood

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Nor the will of the flesh Nor the will of man but of God Verse 14 And the word

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Became flesh And Dwelt Among us

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We have seen his glory As of the only Son from the

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Father full of grace Let me do something here Some translations

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Take this greek word And translate it As tabernacled

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The greek word Schenao Oh okay

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I didn't know Yeah to live to settle To take up residence To you know it's

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Watch what this says Hang on a second Okay Excuse me

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Alright let's see The airplane too Can you see it yet Okay Let's try this

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Alright hang on a second here Let me try this now Does that work still

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Ah very good Okay I did not realize that Okay so the greek word I'll show you it in the text real quick Real quick And the word became flesh

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And dwelt among us The greek word Here I've pulled it up In my greek lexicon

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Which is Right here the greek word Listen to this word schenao

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Alright to live Settle take up residence Alright and here

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And And Haman Among us an expression

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It's actually an expression of continuity With God's tenting In Israel So the way this

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Some translations literally translate Schenao here as He has tabernacled

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Among us That's the gist of what this word is Alright so coming back then

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To our old testament text We're in 2 Samuel So here

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God is saying watch this That same night the word of Yahweh Came to Nathan go tell my servant

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David Thus says Yahweh would you build me a house To dwell in I have not lived in a house Since the day

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I have brought up the people of Israel From Egypt to this day But I have been moving about in a tent for my dwelling

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John 1 14 The word became flesh and tabernacled Among us that's the gist of it

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Alright so you see kind of the The thematic crossover In all the places I have moved

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With all the people of Israel did I speak a word With any of the judges of Israel Whom I commanded to shepherd my people

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Israel Saying why have you not built me a house Of cedar now therefore thus You shall say to my servant

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David thus Says Yahweh Sabaoth I Took you from the pasture

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From following the sheep that you Should be prince over my people Israel And I have been with you

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Wherever you went And I have cut off All your enemies from before you

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And I will make For you a great name Like the name of the great ones of the earth

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And I will appoint a place For my people Israel And I will plant them

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So that they may dwell in their own place And be disturbed No more

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Now is that talking about The middle east Or the new earth

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Are the people of Israel Disturbed in the middle east Today greatly

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Yeah greatly right Violent men shall afflict them no more As formerly from the time

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That I appointed judges Over my people Israel And I will give you rest from all of your enemies

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Moreover Yahweh declares To you that Yahweh Will make you a house

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When your days Are fulfilled and you lie down With your fathers I will raise up your offspring after you

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Who shall come from your body And I will establish His singular

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Kingdom Now what is this a prophecy about Jesus And watch

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What is prophesied He shall build a house For my name

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And I will establish the throne of His kingdom forever I will be to him

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A father he shall be to me A son when he commits Iniquity I will

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Discipline him with the rod of men With the stripes of the sons of Men but my steadfast love

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Will not depart from him as I took it from Saul whom I put Away from before you

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Now this is as far as We're going to be able to get today but I want you to consider This for a second does that Not sound odd When did

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Jesus Commit iniquity Uh -huh Took on our sin what is 2nd

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Corinthians 5 say God Made him Jesus To be sin

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Who knew no sin so that We might become the righteousness of God So notice here you can see

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The substitutionary Work the imputed Sinfulness of man man's

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Sin imputed to Christ And then watch the prophecy All right When he commits iniquity

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See God is going to See Jesus as the Sinner and He is punished

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As if he's the one who Committed the iniquity so Just roll back

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Through your life a little bit We have highlights if you Want to say low lights in regard to our

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Sin and our depravity and things That we've done that we are so ashamed of And then we have the everyday sins that We somehow become so used to we don't even

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Barely feel any guilt for it right All of that has been

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Put on Christ and That being put on Christ God sees him as the one who has committed

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That iniquity Wow And then watch the rest

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I will discipline him with The rod of men with the Stripes of the sons of men

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Was Jesus beaten with a rod Yes Was he flogged

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Yes So you're going to note here That in this prophecy

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That God's going to build a house for David There is an explicit Prophecy regarding Christ And his

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Redemptive atoning Sacrifice for our sins Even Giving us two of the details

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Him being beaten with a rod and being Scourged Regarding his suffering

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And so God says I will discipline him With the rod of men with the stripes of the sons Of men but my steadfast

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Love will not depart from him As I took it from Saul whom I Put away from before you

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And your house and your kingdom Shall be made sure forever before Me your throne shall be

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Established forever in Accordance with all these words in Accordance with all of this vision

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Nathan Spoke to David What a great Prophecy David wants to build a house for God God says no listen

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I'm going to build a house For you and let me tell you about The one who is coming who

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Is your descendant he will sit on Your throne forever And an explicit prophecy

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Of Christ's death for Our sins beautiful Right we'll see

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David's reaction Next week yes ma 'am In my bible Different places in the bible

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From four to seventeen Is all underlined is there

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A reason why In your bible it came pre Printed underlined

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What is there a note at the bottom That says that gives it any Reason huh

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Maybe someone's saying to you Pay attention this is important stuff Yeah Yeah okay so it may

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Be that that particular bible and Maybe check in the front part of it that they have Pre they pre underlined things

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For you to really pay attention to Christ Because that is an explicit Prophecy regarding Jesus Yeah yeah it may be

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Yeah that's not in my bible But I don't have that exact type so All right we'll see