The Bible in 16 Verses: 8. King David

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May 28, 2024

The Bible is 16 Verses is a biblical theology course that will take us from Genesis to Revelation and show us what the unfolding plan of God is for His Kingdom, His people, and His entire creation. Join us as we go through the book chapter by chapter. Today's lesson is on King David.

00:00: So as you can see, we're on session number eight.
00:12: We're actually halfway through at this point. So we've been talking about the time is coming.
00:18: This is the Old Testament. We've gone through creation, human beings, the fall, redemption promise, Abraham, Judah the king, the
00:25: Passover lamb last week. This week is going to be King David. Then we'll go through the suffering servant in Isaiah, resurrection promise in Ezekiel, and new creation in Isaiah.
00:35: Then we'll get to the New Testament, which is the fulfillment of all the
00:41: Old Testament prophecies. We'll get to the cross, resurrection, justification, and glory.
00:49: So last week we talked about redemption and substitution, and I just wanted to revisit this real quickly.
00:57: So the idea of redemption and substitution is something that has been in the scriptures from the beginning.
01:02: This is not something new when Jesus comes on the scene. So we see in Genesis chapter three,
01:09: God kills animals to cover Adam and Eve's nakedness. That word cover means to atone, to atone for sins.
01:18: So the animal that God killed and used the skins to cover Adam and Eve was a blood sacrifice.
01:27: That was the substitute for Adam and Eve until Jesus comes. God calls Abraham to sacrifice his son, but then offers a ram.
01:35: The ram is a substitute. Joseph was left for dead, and his sacrifice was used to save the world, right?
01:42: Joseph is a foreshadowing of Jesus. The Passover lamb, like we learned last week, is sacrificed so the
01:48: Israelite firstborn are spared. So if the angel of death saw the blood on the lintel, he would pass over and not kill the firstborn.
01:59: And the Levitical sacrifices are offered repeatedly for the forgiveness of sins.
02:05: The idea of substitution was introduced from the very beginning and continues on through the
02:11: Christian narrative. The amazing, unexpected twist in the story is that the final substitute is the
02:18: Creator himself. We couldn't have invented this idea even if we tried. This is
02:25: God coming down and substituting himself in our place. So the story that we have so far is
02:31: God created a very good kingdom of which he is the King. He created human beings, his children, to represent him in that kingdom, and they were responsible to expand it.
02:40: Through their sin, Adam and Eve rejected God's commission and rebelled against their Father and Creator. Yet God proved his covenant love toward them despite their unfaithfulness.
02:50: Very good did not turn into very bad. It just proved the character of who was always very good.
02:56: There will be ongoing enmity between the offspring from now on, the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman, but God promised a
03:03: Redeemer who will crush the head of the enemy and secure God's victory. With this promise, very bad turned into very hopeful.
03:12: Next, God chose Abraham, an idolater, to bring the seed through whom the covenant blessings would come to all the families of the world.
03:18: Despite the sinful lineage of Abraham's family and specifically Judah's royal seed, God is still faithful to bring the covenant blessings to the world which would be ruled by a king.
03:28: Because all people were guilty and deserved death, the blood sacrifices of the Mosaic Law revealed more clearly the
03:35: Israelites and our guilt and ongoing need for a substitute. So that's where we are.
03:40: Today, we're going to talk about King David. Our Scripture verse will be 2 Samuel 7, verses 12 and 13.
03:47: When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you who shall come from your body and I will establish his kingdom.
03:58: He shall build a house for my name and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
04:04: So now here we see a new seed after Abraham's seed, right, that's going to bring, that's going to have a kingdom.
04:12: Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life, says Proverbs. Okay. So, it didn't take long for the prophet
04:21: Samuel to see that Israel's first king, Saul, was not the promised one the family of Abraham had been waiting so long for.
04:29: But this shouldn't have surprised anyone who was paying attention up until this point. Why not? I'll give you the answer.
04:36: After all, Saul was from the tribe of Jacob's son, Benjamin, not Judah, right? God promised that there would be one who comes from the tribe of Judah.
04:44: The extended families of the 12 sons of Jacob became the 12 tribes that made up the nation of Israel.
04:51: The promised seed of the woman had to be not just the seed of Abraham, but also of the seed of Judah.
04:57: Again, this is not possible outside of God's sovereignty. This wasn't God who just looked down the corridors of time and, ooh, this is the way it's going to go.
05:06: God is sovereignly orchestrating these things to happen. God sends
05:12: Samuel to Bethlehem and the house of Jesse of the tribe of Judah, promising to reveal the chosen son.
05:19: Samuel assumes God has chosen Eliab, Jesse's eldest son, because of the height of his stature.
05:25: So Jesse has seven sons. However, God rejected Eliab, 1
05:31: Samuel 16, just as He rejected Saul as the king of Israel. This captures the theme that will surface repeatedly in the ensuing narrative.
05:39: The Lord sees not as man sees. Man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.
05:46: So the Israelites at the time are looking and saying, oh, Eliab, he must be the guy. He's tall.
05:52: He's rugged. This is the guy we want to lead us. The same as Saul was. Saul had a great worldly appearance.
06:00: Inside, he was corrupt, as are we all. So it's God's choice that matters, not man's choice.
06:06: And what man looks at and sees and says, oh, I want that person to lead me, is generally not the person that God has in mind.
06:17: So again, I'm going to show you a picture of actually what happened. I got the same response, no laughter.
06:25: This is a joke just for me. So the big guy on the other side, he's Eliab. Now if I had my little sound effects, that would be the family feud.
06:35: He's not the guy. How about the next guy? No good. How about him? No good.
06:44: Oh, the little guy who's in the fields shepherding the sheep, ding, ding, ding, ding, he's going to be the king.
06:56: So if you were looking, obviously the firstborn is the one who gets the double inheritance.
07:02: He's always the prominent one as far as the biblical narrative goes. He's rejected. They're all rejected.
07:08: God picked David to be the king. So again,
07:13: God didn't choose the oldest, strongest, or most likely to succeed because he's looking at something different.
07:22: God chose David because he's going to work through him to bring the covenant blessings and the kingdom to Israel.
07:31: God's choice is very different than man's choice. And we also see something else happening here.
07:38: This is a picture of election. God elected David to become the king.
07:44: Could the other guy say, well, that's not fair? No. I mean, they could say it, but is it not fair?
07:51: No. God chooses whom he'll choose. So when people look at us, especially as Reformed believers, and say, well, you believe that God chooses people for salvation?
07:59: Yeah. God chooses people throughout the scriptures for various different things, and humanity can't say anything about it.
08:05: No one gets injustice. God not choosing you doesn't mean that he's unjust.
08:11: You're the unjust party. You're going to have to answer to him. He doesn't answer to you. So really what you have to get in your mind is he's the creator, we're his creatures.
08:20: If we're sinful, we're in rebellion to God. You need to repent and trust in what God has done for you.
08:28: So we see that David, that was the actual picture of the time. So that was actually the first time they came up with the game family feud, you know, because all the brothers were fighting.
08:37: Actually, it's a rerun because this happened with Cain and Abel. But anyway, that's a different story. After seven of Jesse's sons are rejected,
08:45: Jesse's youngest son, David, is called from the field where he's shepherding the flock. Immediately, God reveals to the aged prophet that this is the chosen one to shepherd
08:54: God's people. Samuel anoints David, and the spirit of the Lord falls mightily on him as it did the first king.
09:02: Now, notice, when God chose David, he didn't immediately leave the field and go sit on the throne.
09:09: From here on, the narrator will contrast the spirit -filled David with the fading king Saul. Now the spirit of the
09:17: Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord tormented him. Notice, David goes right back to shepherding the sheep.
09:25: He's in the sheep field, and then he gets called out of the sheep field to come in. Why? To play music for Saul.
09:33: Saul asks for music to soothe his troubled soul, and by a strange way of providence, this is God sovereignly working, by providence,
09:40: David is brought before Saul to play for him. The king's melee thus provides the occasion for his successor's entrance into the royal court.
09:48: So David's brought in because he's going to now play music for Saul. Now, we might have skipped over something real quick, but what is this?
09:57: An evil spirit from the Lord? What do you make of that? God sent an evil spirit to someone?
10:09: Anyone? Job? Something similar?
10:15: Okay. Is God in the business of sending evil spirits on people?
10:22: What's going on? All right, we better move on before we have some more technical difficulties.
10:29: This is a little bit smaller because there's a lot I want to say about this. As soon as we learned that the spirit had rushed on David in this new way, we also learned that the spirit departed decisively from Saul.
10:40: So this is the spirit departing from Saul and the Holy Spirit anointing
10:45: David. This underlines the fact that God has rejected Saul. The Lord himself abandoned
10:50: Saul because Saul had abandoned the Lord. He turned his back on God and he's free to pull his spirit at that point.
10:56: This is Old Covenant, remember. The spirit of the Lord departed from Saul as he had done from Samson and with equally tragic consequences.
11:06: Evil should be read in the sense of injurious. It was an injurious spirit. We also read in Kings, God sends them a lying spirit.
11:16: Here the statement remains problematic to the modern reader who finds it incompatible with the goodness of God. The writer of the book of Job made the point, shall we accept good from the
11:24: Lord but not trouble? While at the same time indicating in the remainder of his book how costly such acceptance can become.
11:31: On a national level, invasion and defeat by a ruthless enemy had also to be accepted from the
11:37: Lord whose sovereign direction of history involved the discipline of his people. I am the Lord, there is no other.
11:43: I form light and create darkness. That word darkness is ra, which is also the word for evil or calamity.
11:53: So I'm sorry, disaster. I bring prosperity and create disaster. That word disaster is ra, which means calamity.
12:00: I the Lord do all these things. As a philosophical problem, the origin of suffering continues to be baffling but the people of God are encouraged in scripture to take adversity of all kinds direct from the
12:11: Lord's hand and through such acceptance God is glorified. So God sends an evil spirit to Saul and he's going to use the actions of Saul for good.
12:24: The same way Joseph looks at his brothers and says, what you guys meant for evil, God actually meant that for good.
12:31: So yes, it's a lying spirit, an injurious spirit. It's not something meant to help the person come to God.
12:38: If he wanted that, he'd draw them to him. This is no more than what they deserve and God will use that to further his plan of salvation and bring a king to the throne.
12:50: Does that make sense? We see the sovereignty of God. He's sovereign over good and evil.
12:57: As the months passed, David began to resemble the king for whom many in Israel had been waiting. He famously defeated the giant
13:04: Goliath along with many more of God's enemies. He fought for the people of God, winning victory after victory.
13:10: Saul could see which way the wind was blowing and he eventually sought to kill David. But God preserved
13:16: David and kept giving him victories. When Saul and all his sons except one died on the battlefield,
13:21: David finally became king. And again, I'll repeat what some modern preachers say, you're not
13:29: David. Jesus is the one who slays the giant ultimately. Give him five chances, you'll miss every time.
13:35: And what are you going to do then? You're not the hero of this story. You're the guy in the back, in the weeds, saying, oh,
13:43: Goliath's going to kill us. What do we do? David is the one who comes in. He prefigures, foreshadows the
13:50: Christ, the king, who's going to come and ultimately defeat the enemy. Yes, Jerry? Yeah, the good things.
13:57: Not all the things. Right, because there's another commentator, his name is
14:05: Warren Wearsby, and I really love his commentaries. He calls them the killer bees, right?
14:11: Be like David. Be like Abraham. Be like this guy. Be like that guy. You don't want to be like any of those guys in the sense that they're sinners.
14:18: If we're going to be like one person, we want to be conformed to the image of Jesus. But yes, each one of them, the beauty part of each one of the
14:27: Old Testament saints who carry out God's plan, they're all flawed tremendously, which gives me hope, knowing that if God can use those guys in their flaws, he can use me.
14:46: Right, yes? Right, there's nothing in my power and in my strength and in my talents, gifts, or abilities.
14:55: It's all in God's power, his strength, and him using us. So I'm greatly encouraged when
15:00: I read the Old Testament saints, how Abraham lied about his wife, who was his sister, and all these flawed characters, how
15:09: God uses that to forward his plan. And he's not done using dummies like me, praise God, right?
15:15: I won't say dummies like you, but people like you. Even a donkey.
15:24: All right, no video, all right, let's go. David's contest with Goliath serves as a sort of overture for the rest of 1 and 2
15:31: Samuel. Not only are David's strengths as a warrior showcased in this encounter, but he is also cast as the one who delivers and who will deliver the people of God from the affliction of the
15:42: Philistines, whose might is represented by the intimidating icon of Goliath of Gath.
15:48: Day and night, Goliath taunts, dismay, and terrorizes the heart of Saul and all
15:53: Israel. Goliath of Gath, anybody know what city that ends up being?
16:00: Or what place that ends up being, Goliath of Gath? Golgotha, right, and that's where Jesus is crucified, right?
16:09: That's where God strikes the head of his enemy, right, on Golgotha, Goliath of Gath.
16:18: That was named after him. David's response to Goliath is starkly different from that of Saul's men.
16:26: Saul's men are fixed on the rewards that would come to Goliath's victorious challenger. The man who kills
16:32: Goliath, the king will enrich him with great riches and will give him the daughter and make his father's house free in Israel.
16:39: Is this not the health, wealth, and prosperity gospel before there was a health, wealth, and prosperity gospel, right?
16:46: David's gaze, in contrast, is directed to the honor of God and his people. What shall be done for the man who kills the
16:52: Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living
16:59: God, right? Like, we're here to defend the honor of our king, not to draw attention to ourselves.
17:07: God forbid, right? We want to give him glory. Now, what does that word glory mean? It's the
17:13: Hebrew word kabod. It means weight, significance. Like you hear guys in the 70s, ooh, that's heavy, man, right?
17:22: What they mean is that's significant. When you look at history, God gets the glory because everything
17:29: God does is significant because it's his story. There's significance and glory in what
17:36: God does, and he uses us to bring glory to who? Him. We should not be trying to get glory for ourselves.
17:47: Despite David's flaws, which will come to the forefront later on in the story, his passion for the Lord and for Israel will remain one of his greatest and most memorable virtues.
17:58: God is committed to accomplishing his purpose in his way, and neither sinful human ambition nor a misguided desire to help
18:06: God out can change that. Anytime one of the Old Testament saints tried to help
18:11: God further the plan, they always ruined it. Look at what happened with Abraham and Sarah. Oh, sleep with Hagar.
18:18: No good. We saw sinful ambition turn on its head when God thwarted the builders of the
18:23: Tower of Babel who were trying to make a name for themselves. Anybody remember what the word name means?
18:29: What the word name in Hebrew is? Shem. God blessed
18:36: Noah and said that through Shem is going to come the godly line. Now the people who are making the
18:43: Tower of Babel want to make a Shem for themselves. They want a line that's going to rule and reign.
18:51: And we will see his sovereignty turn David's godly ambition to build a house for God into an astonishing promise to build a house and make a name for David.
19:00: Most important of all, David rests his case on the power of God. The Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of the
19:10: Philistine. He always pointed away from himself, recognized that the strength and the power comes from God, not himself.
19:17: This daring trust in God is a hallmark of David. For him, it is the God of Israel who is the true king over Israel and her deliverer.
19:25: As he says to Goliath, the battle is the Lord's. We have to remember that when we go out into the streets proclaiming the gospel or with our family and friends or we're at work or whatever, the battle is the
19:36: Lord's. Our job is to recognize that he goes with us, be bold and courageous, preach the truth.
19:42: Let God do with it what God does. In Genesis 2 .23,
19:48: Adam describes his relationship with Eve saying, This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.
19:55: The elders of Israel used the same covenantal and nuptial language when they crowned
20:01: David their king. Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. What do you think that points to?
20:09: I'll tell you. The Davidic king is not merely a warlord or an administrator. He is a husband to his people, mirroring the spousal relationship of God to his people.
20:22: This image foreshadows Jesus Christ, the son of David, who will be the bridegroom of the church.
20:29: The church is Jesus' bride. So the king is going to be a husband to his people.
20:36: Our king comes, we know, when we read the New Testament. He is a husband to his people, the church.
20:42: We are his bride. During the first seven or so years of David's reign, he consolidated power and conquered
20:51: Jerusalem, making it its capital. As he established his seat of power in the city, he wanted to replace the tent that had been used for worship since the days of the
20:59: Exodus with a lasting temple to honor God and give the people a permanent place of worship.
21:05: He wanted to build a house for God. He had the Ark of the Covenant, the very place where God had promised to meet with his people, and he was ready to bring it into the new temple.
21:15: As we can see in the Psalms, David walked closely with God and understood what it meant to enjoy the blessings of God's presence.
21:22: There is fullness of joy in God's presence, is what I pray in the prayer of invocation. David is attributed with writing 75 of the
21:31: Psalms. That's half of them. So David's relationship with God was one of crying out to him for help, praising him.
21:39: You see a range of emotions with David throughout the Psalms, but they were written by him.
21:47: From everything we can tell, David's desire was a noble one. After all, what was the great covenant blessing that Adam and Eve lost in the garden, but God promised to restore?
21:56: You remember what God promised to restore to Adam and Eve? What he would do? Good. It was that God himself would live with his people, that his presence would be with them forever.
22:10: When I preached last week, I said, I will be with you. This is God speaking.
22:16: I will be with you. I will be with you. You are promised God's presence as you go out into this world and attempt to take dominion and advance
22:25: God's kingdom. And what better way to facilitate this than, according to David, what better way to facilitate this than by building a permanent house for God to dwell in so that his people could properly worship and sacrifice to him.
22:40: David even asked for the approval of the prophet Nathan. Nathan gave him the go -ahead, going so far as to say, the
22:46: Lord is with you. Right? We see the presence of God. But God had a different plan.
22:53: While David may have been thinking about building a house where people in Israel would go to worship, God was thinking of a house where all nations would worship him.
23:02: This was not just for Israel. This was for the entire world.
23:09: Very important we recognize that. That separates us, differentiates us from dispensationalists who think that the covenants are all about Israel and Israel is
23:19: God's timepiece. Israel is not God's timepiece. Jesus is God's timepiece, if there was one.
23:25: It's all about the Christ. While David may have been thinking about a place for God's presence to dwell in Jerusalem, God was thinking of a much larger house where he would dwell and where David's line would reign forever.
23:37: In other words, God came to David with a much bigger promise than he could ever have imagined. You want to memorize
23:43: Revelation 5 -9? Jesus came to purchase people out of every tribe, every tongue, every people, every language.
23:51: He didn't come for one specific nationality. He came for people from every nationality.
24:02: God told Nathan that he needed to go set the king straight. David would not be the one to build the temple.
24:08: In the fourth century since he had given the law, David had not demanded that the people build him a house and David would not be the one to do it either.
24:15: That project would be reserved for his son. But while David was not going to build a house for God, God would build a house for David.
24:23: In other words, he's going to establish his family in Israel and his line. With the ark of the covenant firmly dwelling in the capital city,
24:34: Jerusalem, the Lord gave David rest from all his enemies around him, and David proposes to begin construction of a permanent sanctuary for the
24:42: Lord. Noble though his desire was, God himself prevents David from building him a house.
24:49: Instead, he promises to build David a house, that is, a dynasty that will endure forever.
24:54: So we have the kingly line of David that's going to bring forth the one who is going to be the king of Israel.
25:03: And who would eventually be that king? This is the easy one. Jesus, thank you.
25:09: Oh boy. Jesus would be the king and he comes from the line of David.
25:17: Judah, and now David. Last week was Judah, now it narrows it down to David. So again, this can only happen by God's sovereignty.
25:26: This is not something that was just a roll of the dice. Through the prophet Nathan, the Lord makes a covenant with David in these words.
25:32: The Lord declares to you that the Lord will make you a house. When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers,
25:38: I will raise up your offspring after you. Who shall come forth from your body and I will establish his kingdom.
25:45: He shall build a house for my name and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
25:50: Jesus is sitting on the throne right now, ruling and reigning until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet.
25:56: So we will see the fulfillment of this come the new covenant. God goes on to say,
26:02: I will be his father and he shall be my son. When he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men, but I will not take my steadfast love from him as I took it from Saul, whom
26:12: I put away from before you. And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me.
26:17: Your throne shall be established forever. This is an unending kingdom.
26:23: Once Jesus sits down on that throne, that's it. It never ends. There's not going to be another king. He's it.
26:29: And we want him to be the king. We don't want any human being to be the king. Yes. OK, so if Jesus committed iniquity, which he couldn't,
26:38: God would chasten him. But there are other kings that God sets up before Jesus, like Solomon.
26:45: He's David's son. He sits on the throne. He makes a lot of errors and God chastens him.
26:51: Ultimately, there will be one sinless king who God doesn't have to chasten. But I thought about that, too, as I was going through it.
27:00: OK, so God told David that after he died, his royal line would continue. God would establish the kingdom of David's son forever.
27:06: But there was more to the promise than that. Not only would God establish the kingdom of David's son, but this son would also fulfill
27:14: David's ambition by building a house for God. As he built this temple, the king, David's son, would be the one who would bring the blessing of God's presence to his people in a lasting way.
27:25: As we put together some of the pieces of the story that we have already seen, we can't miss this theme.
27:32: As we saw earlier, the very presence of God was a big part of the promised blessing of Abraham. So do you see the connection?
27:38: Wherever God's presence is, there is fullness of joy. God promised he was going to dwell with his people.
27:45: David wanted to build a temple, a house for God, in the midst of the people. Even in the
27:50: Exodus, when they came out, the tent in the wilderness, and wherever that went, that's where the presence of God was, and God's people followed it.
28:00: They surrounded the tabernacle. So God wanted to dwell in the midst of his people.
28:06: Those were all foreshadows of what is eventually going to come when New Jerusalem comes down out of heaven, as it is now.
28:13: The royal offspring would bring the blessing promised to Abraham. The line of David would bring the presence of God to the nations.
28:21: One's physical, one's the presence of God. It shouldn't surprise us that when
28:26: Solomon, David's son, finally finished building the temple, he called it the place where all the peoples of the earth may know that the
28:33: Lord is God. There is no other. The temple was the place where the blessing of God's presence would go to all the families of the earth, and where the royal seat of Judah would fulfill his commission to receive tribute from the nations.
28:47: I actually referred to this before, Revelation 5, 9, and 10, and they sang a new song. Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain by your blood.
28:59: You ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, and you have made them a kingdom of priests to our
29:08: God, and they shall reign on the earth. Is that speaking about physical
29:13: Israel, or is that speaking about the church? The church. Who's going to reign on the earth?
29:21: The church, right? So many people get it wrong, and they think it's Israel. This is about the nation of Israel, and there's a bloodline nation of Israel that God's not done dealing with yet, but that's not who he's talking about here.
29:36: The church is going to be worldwide, right? And we're going to experience the worldwide presence of God when the final consummation of all things happens, right?
29:49: God's going to be with us forever. Yes, yes. He calls them the so -called circumcision, the synagogue of Satan.
30:02: They're circumcised in the flesh. They're not circumcised in the spirit. And this is kind of like a foreshadowing of the world.
30:09: You have people who are circumcised in the flesh, but not in the spirit. We need to be born of God's spirit, and that's what the
30:16: Holy Spirit does. He circumcises our heart. So yes, God's people, how do you recognize
30:22: God's people? God's people believe in God's Son. If you reject God's Son, you're not one of God's people.
30:29: Not yet anyway. While you have breath in your lungs, bend the knee, repent, and trust in Christ, and acknowledge
30:37: God's Son. Pastor's going to get to it in 1 John. He who denies the Son does not have the
30:42: Father. You have to acknowledge the Son, and the Son is not just a title of God.
30:49: It's not God is Father, Son, and Spirit, and it's one person. That's a oneness
30:56: Pentecostal view of things. It's a heresy, modalism. There's Father, Son, and Spirit, three separate persons, distinct persons,
31:04: I should say. You have to acknowledge the Son. If you do not acknowledge the Son, you do not have the
31:09: Father who sent Him. So what do bloodline Jews right now, like Ben Shapiro, say?
31:15: Jesus is not the Messiah. That's not His Son. That puts
31:20: Him outside the pale of orthodoxy. Continue to pray for Him. Continue to pray for anybody who doesn't know the
31:25: Son. Again, what we've received, we've received by grace. You and I don't deserve salvation.
31:32: You and I don't deserve to know the Lord, but He did it by grace. Maybe it was the answer to one of our relatives' prayers.
31:38: I know my grandmother was praying for me. I know it. So continue to pray for people.
31:44: God uses prayer. Prayer is our most powerful weapon. Pray for our relatives. Pray for your lost neighbors, friends.
31:52: I was witnessing to my cousin yesterday, whose daughter went to UCLA College, Southern California, left -wing liberal college.
32:04: She came to know the Lord. I was shocked. He keeps asking me, why do you feel it's so necessary that you tell me this?
32:14: You sound like my daughter. And I'm like, wow.
32:20: His daughter is telling him the same thing I'm telling him, which means... And then she's working at a
32:25: Christian cafe, serving people that are part of Jews for Jesus. So I said, please have her call me.
32:32: I want to talk to her and find out what's going on in her life. So don't miss the power of prayer.
32:39: So now I'm more focused on my cousin now than I've ever been. I'm just going to continue to pray for him.
32:46: But if you don't know the son, you don't have the father. That's that's the bottom line. So was
32:51: Solomon the seat of the woman, the seat of Abraham and the royal seat of Judah? You might think so from reading the last part of the promise.
32:58: I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. Maybe David or other careful readers of the law of Moses thought that Solomon could be the one to reverse the curse of sin and death and actually reign forever.
33:09: In fact, God told David, I will be to him a father and he shall be to me a son. This is intimate language, the same kind God uses for others.
33:17: However, if we keep reading in this verse, we see that this covenant that God was making with David had certain conditions.
33:25: He told David if his royal son was unfaithful, then God would discipline him with the rod of men.
33:33: Unfortunately, that is exactly what happened to Solomon. As he grew in wealth and power, his heart drifted away from God.
33:39: And so the promise discipline came. Neither David nor Solomon was the promised descendant of Judah.
33:45: In fact, because of Solomon's disobedience, his son Rehoboam reigned only over the tribes of Judah and Benjamin.
33:52: The other tribes broke away and formed a kingdom in the north. OK, so this Solomon would not be the one that God was talking about, but through Solomon and Solomon's children would come the line of David and ultimately
34:05: Jesus. Things just went south from there. The same problem kept king after king from finally and fully doing what a king ought to do.
34:17: Because of idolatry, foolishness, and pride, none of the kings of Judah or Israel in the north could keep the terms of God's covenant with David.
34:25: They were all unfaithful, and just as God had promised David, they all faced discipline of men.
34:31: Now, you might look and say, oh God, what's wrong with these guys? What's wrong with those guys is the same thing that's wrong with us.
34:41: Pride, foolishness, idolatry, we're surrounded by it. Thank goodness that God saves sinners.
34:49: Sinners, right? You have to acknowledge that you're a sinner. I'm a sinner. God saves sinners.
34:55: So when the devil comes to you and says, oh, you're a filthy sinner, say, good, God saves sinners.
35:01: He doesn't save righteous people. As the years rolled by and the kings got worse, they led the people of God further and further away from the blessing of God.
35:11: The people needed a faithful king who could keep the law of God perfectly. So it seemed that until the problem of sin was finally fully resolved, the promises to David and, for that matter, the promises to Adam, Abraham, and Judah could not be fulfilled.
35:26: The people of God still needed a substitute who would solve the problem of sin once and for all.
35:33: With the Davidic covenant, God's covenant family is expanded from a nation with Moses to a kingdom with David.
35:40: This is the last major covenant in the Old Testament and extends the fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham.
35:46: So we see we've gone from Adam all the way up to David and Solomon. That's the last of the covenants.
35:52: With the Davidic kingdom, God's promises to Abraham that he would be the father of kings is fulfilled.
35:58: That promise will find its ultimate fulfillment in the new and everlasting covenant when
36:04: Jesus, the son of David and the son of God, is seated at the right hand of the
36:09: Father in majesty. He's seated at the right hand of God the Father right now, ruling and reigning. So what we learned with regards to this particular session, we learned kingdom and covenant.
36:23: God's going to extend his kingdom through the covenant with David, one from his loin will always sit on the throne, and that would be the offspring, the seed of David.
36:34: So we have the seed of Abraham, through which all the nations of the world will be blessed, and now through the seed of David, one who is going to sit on the throne forever and ever.
36:45: The one we want to sit on the throne forever and ever, because no one king is ever going to rule you properly, except for the king of kings and the
36:54: Lord of Lords. So what's our summary up until this point? Very similar to last week.
37:01: God created a very good kingdom of which he is the king. He created human beings, his children, to represent him in that kingdom, and they were responsible to expand it.
37:09: Through their sin, Adam and Eve rejected God's commission and rebelled against their father and creator. Yet God proved his covenant love toward them despite their unfaithfulness.
37:18: Very good did not turn into very bad, it just proved the character of who was always very good.
37:23: There will be ongoing enmity between the offspring from now on, but God promised a redeemer who will crush the head of the enemy and secure
37:31: God's victory. With this promise, very bad turned into very hopeful. Next, God chose
37:37: Abraham, an idolater, to bring the seed through whom the covenant blessings would come to all the families of the world.
37:44: Despite the sinful lineage of Abraham's family and specifically Judah's royal seed through David, God is still faithful to bring the covenant blessings to the world, which would be ruled by a faithful king.
37:56: Because all people were guilty and deserved death, the blood sacrifices of the Mosaic covenant revealed more clearly their guilt and ongoing need for a substitute.
38:06: As you can see, who is front and center in this story? God. The perfect, majestic, sovereign
38:16: God and the ugly, filthy sinners that he uses to bring forth his promises. I know
38:23: I went through that quick. I was expecting a little bit more technical difficulty. So any questions?
38:29: Yes, Jerry. Yeah, please. I'm responsible for the household, right?
38:37: So each one of us as men who are married and have children, we are responsible for our families, right?
38:43: We're going to be held responsible for how we sow into our wives and how we sow into our children and their upbringing.
38:50: In the same way, Jesus is master Lord over his house, over his children, which is us.
38:59: Now, everything that Jesus does is perfect, so I don't expect that he's going to fail in any shape, way, or form.
39:05: Thank goodness for Jesus. Yeah, and again, it just gives me great hope when
39:10: I see the characters throughout the Old Testament who God uses to further his kingdom and how sinful they were, yet God used them to bring forth this plan.
39:22: And then living on this side of the New Covenant where David said, do not take your
39:27: Holy Spirit from me. As born -again believers in the New Covenant, the Spirit cannot leave us. It indwells us permanently.
39:34: It's a seal pointing to our inheritance, which we cannot lose. We are born of imperishable seed.
39:42: So on this side of the cross, we have tremendously more blessings than they did in the
39:47: Old Covenant. They were looking forward to the coming of Christ. We get to not see physically, but see through the
39:55: Scriptures and history how he was the Christ and how he now impacts our lives. He is the perfect king.
40:02: He is the perfect seed. He is the perfect every one of those, the perfectly fulfilled prophecies.
40:08: He fulfills them all perfectly. So now we get to live in the light of the
40:13: Christ who now tells us again the same thing that was told to all the Old Testament saints. Go.
40:19: I will be with you. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid. Do not be dismayed.
40:25: I will be with you. We got to get that into our heads. We got to get that into our hearts because fear is contagious, right?
40:34: You turn on the news, you turn on something, fear is contagious. You got to go back to your word. You need to marinate in the word of God, getting that in you and getting the world out of you.
40:44: You start reading the word, it pushes the world out. Now I'm bold. Now I'm in God's spirit.
40:51: Through God's word, I say, okay, I'm going to go into the kingdom. Like yesterday,
40:57: I'm talking with my cousin. Not that I was afraid to, but I started talking to him about spiritual things and he started giving me pushback.
41:04: I'm like, I'm not going to take no for an answer here. I'm moving forward. And I just witnessed to him.
41:10: Now he gives lip service. Oh, religion is good. I would never stop somebody from practicing religion.
41:19: But then he asked me, well, why do you feel so necessary to tell me about this? And I told him about the eternal nature of the soul and he agreed that he had a soul.
41:29: I said, well, what happens to you when you die? He goes, nothing. I said, how do you know that?
41:35: He says, well, that's my experience. I said, you haven't died yet. How could that be your experience if you haven't died?
41:44: He says, well, what's your answer? I said, well, the soul is immaterial. It lives on and Jesus told us so.
41:51: He was the one who rose from the dead. Oh, we don't have proof of that. And then I went into a whole other line. He's not there yet.
41:57: But guess what? With God's spirit and a persistent cousin, who knows? I'm not going to stop.
42:03: None of us can stop. If we have breath in our lungs and the ability to speak to somebody with regards to spiritual matters, do it.
42:13: Don't wait. Figure out a way. If they're hard -hearted, pray for them. Pray that God would soften their heart.
42:20: Look for that opportunity and preach the gospel. It's imperative. Right, right.
42:26: And he's got his daughter working on him from a different angle. So who knows? Maybe God's hemming him in. All right, well, thank you.