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Job 6:21-30

Job 6:21-30

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Are you ready? I'll pray for you.
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Father God, thank You for this day.
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Thank You for this time we get to look at Your Word.
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I pray that You would guide our minds and our thoughts, that, Father, we would focus on You, and that, Father, we would look at this pivotal time in the life of David and in the life of the nation of Israel, and that, Father, how it points to Christ and how David is the king, that would point to the greater Son of David, that of Jesus Christ, in Jesus' name, amen.
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We may have to close that door a little bit.
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Alright, here, let's read chapter 5 and then we'll walk through the text.
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Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and he said, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
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And previously, when Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel out and in.
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And the Lord said, You will shepherd My people Israel, and you will be a ruler over Israel.
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So the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them before the Lord at Hebron.
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Yes, ma'am? And King David made a covenant with them before the Lord at Hebron.
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And they anointed David king over all of Israel.
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David was 30 years old when he became king, and he reigned 40 years.
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At Hebron, he reigned over Judah 7 years and 6 months.
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And at Jerusalem, he reigned 33 years over all of Israel and Judah.
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Now the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land.
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And they said to David, You shall not come in here, but the blind and the lame will turn you away, thinking David could not enter there.
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Nevertheless, David captured the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.
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And David said on that day, Whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him reach the lame and the blind, who are hated by David's soul, through the water tunnel.
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Therefore, they said, the blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
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So David lived in the stronghold and called it the city of David.
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And David built all around from the Milo and inward.
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And David became greater and greater, for the Lord God of hosts was with him.
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Then Hiram, king of Tyre, sent messengers to David with cedar trees and carpenters and stone masons, and they built for David a house.
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And David realized that the Lord had established him as king over Israel and that he had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.
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Meanwhile, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem.
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After he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to David.
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Now, these were the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem.
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Shemua, Shobob, Nathan, Solomon, Ibathar, Yeshua, Nephez, Japhiai, Elishema, Elida, and Eliphelet.
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When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to David and they sought to seek David to overthrow him.
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And when David heard it, he went down to the stronghold.
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Now the Philistines came and they spread themselves out over the valley of Rephaim.
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And David inquired of the Lord, and he was said, asking him, shall I go against the Philistines? And will you go with them? And will you give them into my hand? And the Lord said to David, go up, for I will certainly give the Philistines into your hands.
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So David came to Baal-perazim, and he defeated them there.
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And he said, the Lord has broken through my enemies before me like the breakthrough of waters.
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Therefore, he named that place there Baal-perazim.
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They abandoned their idols, so David and his men carried them away.
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Now the Philistines came up once again and they spread themselves out in the valley of Rephaim.
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And David inquired of the Lord.
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And he said, you shall not go directly up, but circle around behind them and come up behind them in front of the balsam trees.
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And it shall be that when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, that you shall act promptly, for the Lord will have gone out before you and will strike the army of the Philistines.
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And David did just as the Lord had commanded, and he struck down the Philistines from Geba as far as Gezer.
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All right, well, last week, we had saw that Ishmael was murdered.
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David then being a just and righteous king, he put to death those men that had murdered them.
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And in doing so, it showed that David was going to be a just king, that he was going to rule with righteousness and that he was gonna take those people that were evildoers and to dispense justice on them just as God had installed him to be.
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And at that time, if you remember, the kingdom had been divided.
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Ish-bosheth was basically running the top ten tribes, and David was still in Judah.
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Well, after the death of Ish-bosheth, now Israel is going to come to David in this chapter and to seek to make him their king.
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It says in verse 1 that all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, Behold, we are your flesh and your bone.
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And previously, when Saul was king over us, you were the one that led us out and led us in.
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That's actually how they saw David.
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If you go back, I think it's in...
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Maybe it's in chapter 18 of 2...
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I just thought of 1 Samuel 12, I think it is.
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In chapter 18, it says that they knew that David was the one, you were the one that brought us in and out.
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You were the one that would lead the people of God in and out.
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And it was because of that that the people desired and loved David.
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So the people knew that it was David the one that was like them.
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He was not putting himself over them in the sense of making himself look better.
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So he was basically one of the people.
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He didn't elevate himself as if he was a dignitary, although Saul had put him in a high position.
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So when they say this, hey, you were the one that led us in and out, who was leading them out of in and out of battle? Was it Saul or was it David? It was David.
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Yeah, we don't see Saul really going in and out of battle anymore.
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Once he saw that David was shrewd and that he was wiser than all of his other generals, he made him to be the one to go in and out.
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And that was to his benefit because it says in 1 Samuel that David did all that he did because the Lord was with him.
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And that statement comes up again in this chapter as well.
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And he goes on and he says in verse 2 as well, and the Lord said to you, you will shepherd my people Israel and you will be a ruler over them.
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So when we think about the word shepherd, this is going to be key into how they understood.
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This was never said about King Saul.
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He was never going to be the shepherd of the people.
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He was just going to be like the other kings of the world and he was going to rule over them.
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But when we think about a shepherd, it does two things.
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It, well, it does more than two, but it cares, a shepherd cares for the sheep.
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It protects and nurtures.
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That's part of caring as well.
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But this part actually comes when David starts making Psalms, I would say.
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So we don't see anywhere where Saul cared for the people.
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He cared for himself.
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As a matter of fact, he killed a whole city of people because he was worried about himself.
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And he did by and large, it said, remember at the beginning of his reign to the end, it kind of gave two bookends of Saul, that he did go out and made war, but did he make war because he was doing it for the glory of God or for the glory of Saul? It was more for the glory of Saul.
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And he did not nurture the people of God.
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But this is what David will do.
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And if you remember, this is what David was to the sheep.
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He cared for the sheep when he was a shepherd boy.
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He protected them.
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Do you remember a lion and a bear cub? And he nurtured them by keeping them eating in green pastures.
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And at times he does say that, you know, he speaks of God leading us into green pastures and places to eat for fullness.
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Well, that's how David treated his sheep, like real sheep.
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So here it says, hey, you're going to be the ruler and a shepherd to my people.
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The problem with the whole nation of Israel from the beginning to end is their shepherds were bad.
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They cared more about themselves.
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And I think it's in Ezekiel chapter 34.
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It's where the prophet, he speaks against the shepherds of Israel.
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And that whole chapter is basically talking about how the shepherds were foolish.
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Remember, this is 400 years after the death of David.
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I'll just read part of it.
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It says in verse 1, it says, And the word of the Lord came to me, meaning the prophet Ezekiel.
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And he says, Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel.
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Prophesy and say to those shepherds, Thus says the Lord, Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves.
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Well, what was a shepherd supposed to do? It's supposed to feed the sheep, supposed to take care of the sheep.
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It says, Woe to those who have been feeding themselves.
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Should not the shepherds feed the flock? You eat the fat and close yourself with wool.
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You slaughter the fat sheep without feeding the flock.
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Those who are sickly, you have not strengthened.
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And the diseased, you have not healed.
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The broken, you have not bound up.
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The scattered, you have not brought back.
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Nor have you sought for the lost.
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But for the force and the severity, you have dominated over them.
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So he's saying that the shepherds of Israel, even at this time, 400 years, were actually ruling with a domineering hand over the people of God and not treating them well.
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And if you look at the very things that he says about the false shepherds, they're the very same things that King Saul was doing to the people as the king needing to be a shepherd.
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And he says in verse 5 that they were scattered for lack of a shepherd.
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They became food to every beast of the field and were scattered.
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My flock wandered through all of the mountains and on every high hill.
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My flock was scattered over all of the surface of the earth.
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And there was no one to search for them or to seek after them.
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And then in verse 7 it says, Therefore you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord.
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As I live, declares the Lord, surely because my flock has become a prey, my flock has even become food for the beast of the field and for the lack of shepherds, and my shepherds did not search for my flock, but rather the shepherds feed themselves and they did not feed my flock.
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Therefore your shepherds, hear the word of the Lord.
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Hear the word of the Lord.
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Thus the Lord God, behold, I am against those shepherds.
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I will demand my sheep from them, and I will make them cease from feeding the sheep.
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And the shepherds will not feed themselves any more, nor will they deliver my flock, and I will deliver my flock from their mouth.
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And then he goes on as he talks about the restoration of Israel in verses 11 on, until he gets down to verse, and he speaks of David.
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He says, I will make, and here it is in verse 23, then I will set over them one shepherd.
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He says, my servant David.
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It's interesting that he says my servant David, so we know that this has to be someone else in the line of David.
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Wow, because David's been dead 400 years when this prophecy comes up.
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And he said, my servant David, I will give him, and he will feed them, and he will feed them himself, and he will be their shepherd, and I will be their Lord, and will be their God.
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And my servant David will be the prince among them, and I the Lord have spoken.
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This David was a good shepherd to the people of Israel.
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And he, although he failed, because he was imperfect, it's pointing greater in that prophecy.
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There would be someone who would come in the line of David, that would be the perfect shepherd, and that points no more to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And then we go into verse 3 of chapter 5 of 2 Samuel, and it says, so all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and king David made a covenant with them before the Lord at Hebron.
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So, all of this up here comes to David down, where are we at? Here.
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And they're going to come to him.
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Imagine that the entourage of the elders of the northern tribes coming down and laying before David, and it was said that Abner said, I'm going to have them make a covenant with you.
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But in this case, David makes a covenant with his people.
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And that is actually how it should be, because the king's the one that makes the terms and stipulations, not the people.
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So it says that they came to king David, and king David made a covenant with them before the Lord.
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Why did he do it before the Lord? Because it was going to be before the Lord he would take this oath to shepherd them, to care for them, to nurture them, to protect them, to do all of the things that the king was required to do.
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Even if you remember in 1 Samuel, Samuel gave them the book that the king was supposed to take care of the people.
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David's taking that very thing that Samuel had given to Saul that he was supposed to do, and now he is going to take care of those things that Saul did not do.
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And he's making a covenant before the Lord at Hebron to do so.
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And it says here that they anointed David king over Israel.
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So, when we started 2 Samuel, he was anointed king over Judah, his own tribe.
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And in this one now we'll just put all Israel comes at Hebron.
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Same place he was anointed king over Judah.
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It would be here that the kingdom is consolidated.
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So now the kingdom is no longer divided, it is under a monarch, which is how David understood that I'm going to make you king.
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Look, when he was a shepherd boy and he was told he was going to be king, he knew that it wasn't supposed to just be a king over his tribe.
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It was supposed to be the king over all of Israel.
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And in the unfolding of redemptive history, God used 7 years to do that, to bring David to the point to where he would be king over all of Israel.
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It says, and he reigned over Judah 7 years and 6 months.
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So he was here reigning over Judah, like I just said, 7 years and 6 months.
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And then now he becomes, he will reign 33 years over all Israel and Judah.
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That's just giving basically the book end of his time.
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So if we look at David, it says he became king over Judah when he was 30 years old.
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And now he had 7 1⁄2 years in Hebron and 33 years in Jerusalem.
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David lived a life where he was longer being a king than he was not being a king.
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And that's something to be said.
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That here it is, this man ruled and reigned over God's people longer than he had not been king, and knowing that he was going to be king probably at, I would say, 15, 16 years old.
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And then waiting that long for God to actually bring it to about.
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Now, in verse 6 it says, Now the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites.
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Alright, so, here it is, he's anointed.
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Now it says they're going to go against the Jebusites.
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And the Jebusites, this was at the time Jerusalem was called Jabez.
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And it was called Jabez because it had not been conquered and named Jerusalem by David.
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And if we look back in Joshua, I think it's chapter 1.
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No, I'm sorry, Judges chapter 1.
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They come into the land.
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Joshua has led the conquest.
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And I think it's in verse 21.
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Yes.
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And I'll back up to verse 19.
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Now the Lord was with Judah and they took possession of the hill country, but they could not drive out all the inhabitants of the valley because they had iron chariots.
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Then they gave Hebron to Caleb.
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Remember who Caleb was? He was one of the two that would only come into the land.
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There were ten bad spies and two good ones.
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It was him and Joshua.
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So Hebron was given to Caleb as Moses had promised.
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And he drove out from there the three sons of Anak.
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But the sons of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem.
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So the Jebusites have lived with the sons of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.
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So whoever the writer was of Judges, we don't know.
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You notice he says they live in Jerusalem.
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So Jerusalem had not been named Jerusalem until David comes in.
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So we know that whoever the writer of Judges was after David had conquered.
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It's still considered Jebus.
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So it was given to the land of Benjamin.
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That's why I put this line here last week.
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Because Benjamin was a small group, was a small tribe as far as their land.
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And they were given Jebus and they were supposed to drive out the Jebusites.
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They did not.
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So all this land at the time of Saul was basically under the rule, but this Jebus was still under the rule of pagans.
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And if you remember back in Genesis 12, 15, and I think again in 17, it talks about the promise to Abraham that you're going to have this land that gives a list of all the ites.
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All the Hivites, the Hittites, all these people.
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Well, the Jebusites were one that was supposed to be run out.
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And that was part of the Abrahamic promise.
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Hey, you're going to run these people out and you're going to take their land.
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Well, when Saul had the opportunity to run them out, he did not.
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And it's interesting, him being a Benjamite, Saul, they were in his land.
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These people were condemned.
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I mentioned this last week.
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These people were condemned by God to be run out, the Jebusites, and they did not.
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But if you remember what he did to the Gibeonites, wherever they were at, where did they go? Well, the Gibeonites were right here, which were under a covenant by God to be protected.
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You remember Saul slaughters them.
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So here it is.
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He's got the people that God has condemned and should be run out that he does not, but the ones that were protected by the covenant of God, those are the ones he wants to kill and persecute.
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So it says in verse 6 that the king and his men, they went to Jerusalem, and they went up against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, and they said to David, You shall not come in here, but the blind and the lame will turn you away, thinking that David could not enter.
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Now, this is basically them taunting David.
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David comes here.
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He has already been here.
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He's already thrown the head of Goliath over years prior, or stuck it up on a stick, however he did it, basically saying, We're coming to take our land.
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You people are in our land, and we're coming, and him being the general, this is what I'm going to do.
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I've conquered our last foe, and I will conquer you being the last in our land.
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I'm going to do the same.
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And it says that you shall not come in here, but the blind and the lame will turn you away.
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The people of Jabez are basically saying that our weak, decrepit, handicapped people can be able to repel you, David.
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Does yours say blinded? Well, yeah, but mine says repel as well.
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Okay, so basically they're saying, Look, we don't care how strong you are.
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We don't care how mighty of a force that you come.
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Our handicapped people will be able to resist you.
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And it's basically a taunt, and they're mocking David.
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It's interesting, man.
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This guy, it would have been known that David had killed his ten thousands and saw his thousands, and here it is.
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You're going to take a man who's made very great military conquests, and you're going to mock him in this way.
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And knowing that not only was he making his great military conquest, before, now, him being king, he has all the assets of the whole nation to his disposal, and all of the army of Israel at his disposal.
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It says David can't enter here.
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And in verse 7, Nevertheless, David captured the stronghold of Zion.
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That is the city of David.
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Now, this is the first time we see this word here come up.
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So the kingdom's been consolidated.
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It says that David goes up to Jabez, and then it says this word here, Zion.
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That's the first time we see the word Zion used in the Scripture.
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And we read through the Psalms.
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We hear about the greatness of Zion, how God rules and reigns from Zion.
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But what does Zion represent? It's the mountain of God.
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It means stronghold.
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It means fortress.
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But it has a theological understanding.
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Mount Zion is always considered and always used.
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And I want to say, I don't want to misquote.
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I'll wait because I think it was around 100 times it's used.
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And every time it's used, it's theological.
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I'll find out.
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I can't quite remember.
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But it's always to the theological.
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When we think about Jerusalem, we know that there are theological representations in the word Jerusalem.
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That was the dwelling place of God as we see it develop.
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But every time Zion is used, it is used in theological terms as being the dwelling place of God, the stronghold of God.
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So we'll even go, this is the development that begins.
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This will be the king home.
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Then we're going to see it develop to the people dwell with their king.
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So we're seeing Zion go, okay, now David's going to have his king, the home of the king.
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The people are going to dwell with their king.
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And then we're going to see shortly that this becomes the place where God dwells with His people.
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That's the significance of Zion.
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And it begins.
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All three of these are connected to this here.
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There will be no other time that Zion's used that it will be used not in those terms.
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Even when we think about the coming for the day of Zion.
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We think for the days of Zion will be when the true king comes and the people dwell with their true king and then God will dwell with His people.
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So it's always connected in those three ways.
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So here it is.
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It says that in verse 7, nevertheless David captured the stronghold of Zion and that is the city of David.
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Now, the city of David is often, when we think about the city of David, because of New Testament theology, born to you into the city of David, we think of what? Bethlehem? Yeah.
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But in this case, the city of David is what? It's Jerusalem.
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And why is it this way? Well, because this will be the actual, this is the one that David had his sights set on.
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This is what he wanted.
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That's where he wanted home base to be.
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And I believe it to be home base because this is almost dead center to where he would reign.
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And I do think it's a very kind thing that David did.
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Here it is.
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He's going to move from down here where he had been doing all of his great fighting in the time of his being a fugitive.
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Then he sets up his home here to be the king.
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But he then says, you know what? I'm not going to use it in the land of Judah.
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Him being, in my opinion, being very kind to the Benjamites.
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Do you see what he does? He says, you know what? I'm not going to put it in my own tribe.
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I'm going to put it right here where the Benjamites are.
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I just think that's a very kind thing for David to do.
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He's saying, hey, did he have the authority to do it here? Sure he did.
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He was the king.
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But where does he put it at? He puts it up here in the middle.
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And he puts it up there somewhat the way that our Washington, D.C.
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is from the north and the south, kind of in the middle, so that people could get there and that they could be together.
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So it said that David then on verse 8, that David said on that day, whoever will strike the Jebusites, let him reach the lame and the blind who are hated by David's soul and through the water tunnel.
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It says whoever will strike the Jebusites, let him reach the lame and the blind who are hated by David's soul.
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This is what David said to them.
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Did David hate the blind and the lame? No.
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But he is actually making a remark back to what the Jebusites said.
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Basically saying, hey, our despised, those who are hated within our community who can't even protect themselves, they're going to be able to repel David.
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He's saying, look, those who they say I hate, this is who we're going to go up and fight.
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And I'm going to treat them all as if they're despised because we're going to run over them like they are the lame and the blind.
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And then he says, those who are hated by David's soul and they'll go through the water tunnel.
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So he says here that there is a water tunnel and how David knows this has to be speculation.
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That's the only thing I can say.
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How does David know there's a water tunnel there? The only way that we know that is knowing that this is a land that David had intended to take before he became a fugitive.
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How do we know that? Because he went and took the head of Goliath there even while Saul liked him at that time.
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Had David already made plans to take the Jebusites, the city, back? And did he know that there is a water tunnel that will lead us in there to where we can either get under the wall, get under the gates, and if we go that way, then we don't have to worry about archers or whatever from the top.
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We'll go basically through a gutter that leads out of the city.
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And that's the way that they go.
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And David said, therefore, in the end of verse 8, therefore they say, the blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
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In other words, the despised shall not come into the house.
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So David lived in the stronghold of David, in the city of David, and David built all around the Milo and inward.
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David became greater and greater, for the Lord God was with him.
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So David, obviously, he goes in and he conquers them.
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And he also says in here that whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him reach it, and who are hated through that water tunnel, it says that the blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
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David lived in that stronghold and called it the city of David.
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That is where once it was conquered, that's when it was called the city of David.
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This is David's prized possession.
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And it would be.
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Actually, that would be the prized possession moving forward, looked at as Zion and as the prized possession of Israel moving forward because this would ultimately not only be the seat of the throne of David, it would ultimately be the place where God would dwell in the Ark of the Covenant.
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And we'll get into that in a couple of weeks, probably.
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In about a week and a half.
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Yeah, probably two weeks.
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Where David brings in the Ark in an attempt to, one, make this the dwelling place of God and to consolidate not only the kingdom, but a place where all the people could come and be in the midst of the covenant-keeping God.
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So it says that David built around from the Milo and inward.
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I have no idea what the Milo is.
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Did you say something different? Okay.
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And I tried to find out because there are some different ideas of what that is.
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Well, it could be the burning place.
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The burning place would have been a landfill.
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And it's interesting, though, as time develops, if he comes here and he takes it, it will be out here.
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Let's see.
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Northwest.
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Yeah.
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Southwest.
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Out here will be where the Valley of Ben-Hinnom is, which is where Jesus in His time will speak of Gehenna, which would be the place of burning, the landfill.
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So that may be what it's speaking of.
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Ultimately, I have no idea.
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But if it is from there inward, it would have been He started building the city basically outside the wall.
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The landfill would have been there or the place of burning and moved inward saying, hey, this is where basically the city limit would have began, which would have been at the Milo, the landfill or the place of burning.
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And it says in verse 10 that David became greater and greater for the Lord God of hosts was with him.
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It tells us exactly why David became greater and greater.
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It wasn't because David was a great man, although was he a great man? Sure he was.
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But why was he a great man? Why was he able to for 15 years run from Saul and go to these places that hated him, went to Gath, and God preserved him the first time by acting like a raven fool.
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And then he runs back over to the cave of Adullam and God protected him there.
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He was alone.
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Men came to him.
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Some 400 men came to him there to support him.
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Why did that happen? Not because David was a great man, because the Lord God was with him.
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And then even in there when he leaves Adullam, and remember, he comes down here to the stronghold at Engedi.
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If you remember, he crossed here, which seems unlikely, but come around this way, and he ended up over here in Moab where he left.
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Remember, he left his mother and his father here to be protected in 1 Samuel because he was worried about Saul killing them.
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Well, who protected David from here and doing all this? It was God that protected him.
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Not David's keen ideas and ingenuity.
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It was the Lord God because the Lord God was with him.
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And why has David now consolidated the kingdom? And why is David now in the city of David where he will set up his throne? It says here, because the Lord God of hosts was with him.
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And that's it.
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That is going to be David's reign.
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Why did he set up Zion? Because the Lord God was with him.
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Why did he set up a place where the king would have his home? And hey, all of this is typological.
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Every bit of this.
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This is typological.
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Typological, and one day we will be in the true Zion, which will be the new heavens and the new earth, and who will be our king there? It won't be David.
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It will be the greater son, David, Jesus.
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And the people will dwell with their king.
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Well, who are the people that will dwell with their king? It will be God's elect.
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And they will dwell with Jesus forever and ever.
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And why will we be with Jesus? And why will the elect be dwelling with him? Because God will be in the midst of his people in the new heavens and the new earth, which is always looked as to be Zion.
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The new heavens and the new earth are only the fulfillment of the Zion of the Old Testament.
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I mean, we have real places in real time, in real history that are typological.
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The city of Jerusalem is only a type, although it was real, was a type of what was to come.
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It was where the people of God would dwell with their king, and they would dwell in the place with God.
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That is what Jerusalem had always was planned and a type to be.
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Think about the priesthood.
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The priesthood was a real group of people wearing funny clothes, killing real animals, shedding real blood.
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But they all pointed to the true priest, which would be Christ, and the true sacrifice, which one day would come, which would be Christ as well, that would sacrifice himself on the cross fulfilling all of those types and shadows.
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And Hebrews even says that.
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These were all types and shadows.
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They could never really do anything, although they pointed to something greater.
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And that's what all of this will do.
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And we'll bring, as we go through the development of the city of David, Zion, through the rest of the book, we will certainly point to how these are all fulfilled in Christ.
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And we've got about a minute and a half, so any questions? Fifteen years is just a really long time to think of somebody chasing you.
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Yeah, and to go, okay, here it is.
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In his mind, I can't help but just think in his mind him going, okay, I'm trusting in what Samuel did.
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Samuel's dead.
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Remember Samuel eventually died.
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Samuel died.
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And he goes, okay, the man that I leaned on as being basically my mentor and the one who anointed me, he is dead.
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And he had promised that I was going to be king.
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But man, this isn't even looking like it.
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If you remember, right towards the end of 1 Samuel, even David says, he basically has a bout of depression.
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And he said, this is even after Saul said, you're going to be king.
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And he said, Saul's going to kill me.
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He sits down and just goes, this is going to be the end of it.
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And it's like, well, wait a minute.
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Man, in that great time of faith where he talked to Saul and he had the opportunity to kill him again and he didn't, and then Saul says, hey, you spared my life.
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And because you spared my life, it shows that you are more righteous than I and you will be the king.
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And then he immediately goes into a time of depression where he goes, no man, Saul's going to end up killing me.
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So you're right for 15 years.
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Yeah, 15 years he's on the run and going, man, I'm supposed to be king.
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Will I ever get there? And will I ever get there? Hey, even when, remember when he was going to battle, I wondered, just logically thinking, here it is, he's supposed to, when the battle that winds up killing Saul, remember, he's going with them.
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They're heading that way until the Philistine generals say, hold on now.
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David's an Israelite.
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We're going to fight the Israelites.
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Don't you think it's a bad idea for him to be behind us? Remember, he was following the Israelites so they basically would have sandwiched the Philistines in and they says, hey man, we're not going to fight with him with us.
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You've got to send him back.
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I do think, logically thinking, David goes, man, what am I going to do? I'm supposed to, they're wanting me to go out and kill my countrymen.
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I can't do that.
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How am I going to get out of this one? And what does God do? He uses his very enemies to deliver him by saying, hey man, you go back to Ziklag.
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Remember, he sends him back to Ziklag.
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And that's when he comes here.
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The fight ensues.
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Saul's killed.
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God gets David back at Ziklag so that it could never be said that David had anything to do with the death of Saul.
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I mean, David at that point has to be going, man, God's good.
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God's good.
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But yeah, 15 years.
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That's a long time.
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I'm supposed to be the man.
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I'm supposed to be the man one day.
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Alright, let's pray and we'll get ready to go here.
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Keith, preach to us.
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Father God, once again, thank You for this time we get to open Your Word.
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Thank You for King David who was a man of faith, a man who trusted You, a man who wanted to carry out Your commission to be a shepherd over Your people.
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And Father, even in his failures, it points to Your Son Jesus Christ who would be our Great Shepherd, the Good Shepherd, the One who would call His sheep and it would hear His voice and they would come to Him.
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And those who would come to Him, He would in no means and no wise turn away.
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And Father, for that we say thank You.
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I pray for Keith as he has prepared to preach to us this morning.
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I pray God that You would strengthen his voice and strengthen his spirit that he would preach to us in power and in glory.
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In Jesus' name, amen.