2 Samuel 5:17-25

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July 12, 2023

Biblical Home (pt3) Masters and Slaves

00:00: Father God, thank you for this day.
00:01: Thank you for this time we get to open your word once again.
00:04: I pray that you would help our minds to be focused on you, help us to understand your word, and pray that God you would take the truths of it and embed them down to our heart.
00:12: Father, we would love you more and serve you better.
00:15: In Christ's name, amen.
00:18: All right.
00:20: Good morning.
00:21: We're running a little late.
00:26: He's coming, he's finishing up.
00:31: Well, let's go to, oh, Mike's coming? He's coming.
00:35: He is, okay.
00:36: Yes, he just finished.
00:40: If I'd have known y'all needed some help or he needed some help out there, I'd have went back and helped him.
00:44: I didn't know he was here.
00:45: Yeah, he came with Caleb.
00:47: Okay, well, I guess I should have walked back here a little.
00:54: He would try and not get down.
00:56: Yeah.
00:57: Nowhere.
01:00: Well, I guess I'll just read chapter five and then I'll give him time to get in here and then we'll finish up chapter five if we're willing today.
01:08: Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
01:13: Previously, when Saul was king over us, you were the one who led us, led Israel out and in, and the Lord said that you will be the one to shepherd my people and you will be the one to rule over Israel.
01:25: So all the elders of Israel, they came to the king at Hebron and King David made a covenant with them before the Lord at Hebron and they anointed David king over all of Israel.
01:36: David was 30 years old when he became king and he reigned a total of 40 years.
01:41: At Hebron, he reigned over Judah seven years and six months.
01:44: In Jerusalem, he reigned 33 years over all of Israel and Judah.
01:49: Now the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites and 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 the city and nevertheless, David captured the stronghold of Zion.
02:06: That is the city of David and David said on that day, whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him reach the lame and the blind and whoever, I'm sorry, who are hated by David's soul through the water tunnel.
02:21: Therefore, they say, the blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
02:25: So David lived in the stronghold and called it the city of David and David built all around from the mill inward and he became greater and greater for the Lord of the hosts was with him.
02:38: And now Hiram, the king of Tyre, sent messengers to David with cedar trees and carpenters and stone basins and they built a house for David and David realized that the Lord had established him as a king over Israel and he had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.
02:57: And meanwhile, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem.
03:02: After he came from Hebron and more sons and daughters were born to David.
03:06: Now these are the names of those who were born to him, Shammuah, Shobob, Nathan, Solomon, Abahar, Elishahu, Nepheg, Jephiah, Elishamah, Eliada and Eliphelet.
03:22: Now the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel and all the Philistines went up to seek out David and when David heard of it, he went down to the stronghold and now the Philistines came and they spread themselves out of the valley of the Rephaim.
03:38: And David inquired of the Lord saying, shall I go against the Philistines and will you give them into my hand? And the Lord said, David, go up for I will certainly give the Philistines into your hand.
03:50: So David came to the place of Belpharazim and he defeated them there and he said, the Lord has broken through my enemies before me like the breakthrough of waters, therefore he named the place Belpharazim.
04:04: They abandoned their idols there, so David and his men carried them away.
04:09: Now the Philistines came up once again and spread themselves out in the valley of Rephaim and David inquired of the Lord and he said, shall not I go directly up? I'm sorry, and he said to David, you shall not go directly up, but circle around behind and come up behind them in front of the balsam trees and it shall be that when you hear the sound of the marching in the tops of the balsam trees that you shall act promptly for the Lord will have gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines and David did so just as the Lord commanded him and he struck down the Philistines from Geba as far as Gezer.
04:45: So last week we saw, well the week before, we saw that we have one king, that's David obviously, God's chosen man, and now we have the city which would be Zion.
05:11: Remember we said last week about Zion? It was a spiritual city.
05:18: It has a theological and spiritual connotation because as you read through it, it was 105 times, I went back and looked, it's 105 times it's used and every time it's used, it's used as a connotation as the dwelling place of God and I think I wrote this last week, didn't I? Dwelling place of God, where the people of God will dwell with him.
05:40: It is considered the covenant place of God.
05:45: Why would it be considered the covenant place of God? We're gonna get there probably next week.
05:48: But why would we see it as the covenant place? What will be housed? Good, yeah.
05:55: The Ark of the Covenant winds up being here.
05:58: Next week.
05:59: Hopefully.
06:00: Next week.
06:00: Yeah.
06:02: We get to the Ark of the Covenant's brought in.
06:05: So, we did see last week that when David went and he conquered Jerusalem, which is the city of Zion, city of David is Jerusalem.
06:18: Now, when he conquered the city, what did we see that David did in verse 13 last week? He did something that he was not supposed to do.
06:28: He took more heathen wives.
06:29: He took heathen wives and he multiplied wives, he multiplied concubines and doing that, it was common practice to do that, to multiply and spread your seed.
06:40: Bigger the family, the bigger power you had, the bigger you could manage your kingdom.
06:46: Although, under the Mosaic legislation, he was not supposed to have multiple wives.
06:52: That was the deal, per se, from God.
06:55: But hey, it's interesting that the only prohibition was to the king.
07:01: Look, I'm not saying polygamy's good.
07:03: It's always caused problems.
07:04: The only thing, we saw laws that provided for the second wife.
07:10: We saw concubinage laws in the Mosaic legislation, but only was it prohibited by the king.
07:18: And the reason why, what did it say in the Mosaic legislation, the reason why? Not because you have a heartache.
07:24: Not because you have two women fighting against one another, although that seems to be what happened, yeah.
07:31: Yeah, two mother-in-law families, yeah.
07:34: No, it was because it would drag their hearts away.
07:36: It would lead their hearts away, and we see that that's what happens with Solomon, is it leads his heart away.
07:42: We do see David setting the example, per se, for his son to do the exact same thing that he has done.
07:50: And we talked a little bit about Nathan and how he was in the line of Joseph last week.
07:58: Remember, both those genealogies are Joseph's genealogy.
08:02: I don't know if y'all went back and looked, but if you look at both of them, they're both Joseph's lineage, not Mary's.
08:07: So that brings us to verse 17.
08:11: It says, now the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel.
08:17: So let's just, we'll just lowball it, okay? When's the last time we saw David fighting with the Philistines? Or at all did we see the children of Israel fighting with the Philistines? When Saul died? When Saul died.
08:35: So let's lowball it, bare minimum, seven years.
08:39: Wouldn't we say that? Because it would have been from the time he was made king in Hebrew to the time that he goes to Jerusalem was seven and a half years.
08:47: So we'll just lowball it.
08:49: I think it's longer than that, but it's seven and a half years.
08:52: We haven't heard anything from the Philistines.
08:54: Why wouldn't you, just logically, why would we have not heard anything about them attacking them? Wouldn't be going on for seven years.
09:05: Civil war between the house of Saul, house of David.
09:10: Hey, if you got down here in Hebron and they were fighting with these dudes up here with Abner and all of his men, hey, why do they need to come across here and fight? If they want this land, man, eventually, maybe they'll all kill each other off and we can just march in and take whatever's left.
09:28: So we haven't heard anything from them.
09:30: But it is interesting that it says the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all of Israel.
09:39: Now they go, uh-oh.
09:41: We have a consolidated enemy.
09:42: Yeah, now we no longer have a civil war going on.
09:46: Something's taking place and David's now the man.
09:49: And we know what David did.
09:51: David killed his tens of thousands.
09:54: Hey, and they would have known when he was back over here, I often do wonder, what did Achish do when he heard that David now was king? I sent that guy back.
10:07: He would have been fighting with us.
10:09: I sent him back to Ziklag.
10:11: And now, years later, he's now the reigning monarch and we know he is a military man and he will make conquest.
10:20: So in an effort to try to, I don't think this is specifically Achish, but the lords of the Philistines, and in order to hit David off, this is a new administration, it's a new king, let's see if we can't knock his legs out from under him quickly.
10:36: Get him in the boat.
10:37: Yep, before it gets too big.
10:39: So it says, and all the Philistines, they went up to seek out David when they heard of it.
10:45: So, they heard that David had been anointed, they seek out David, and when they heard of it, David heard it, he went to the stronghold.
10:54: All those things were leading to them to try to attack David in what, my understanding would be Jerusalem.
11:01: Because if they had heard that's where he was at as they were making their way to that, David went to the stronghold.
11:08: I'm not sure where that stronghold would have been.
11:11: We know that one stronghold was down here, which I don't believe that's where David would have went, but we do remember he went to the Cave of Adullam.
11:19: Early on, when he left Achish, the first time after he deceived him, some people believe that maybe he went to here because that was closer to make his fight against the Philistines, but ultimately we don't know.
11:32: But he went to a stronghold.
11:34: It says in 18 that the Philistines, they came up and they spread themselves out in the Valley of Rephaim.
11:40: That is the Valley of Giants, and it goes back to the, Rephaim means giants.
11:45: Does any translation say that? I have a footnote, can you all say that? Rephaim.
11:50: It's the Valley of Giants, and it is in the book of Joshua where they are making their conquest, the Sontvanic and all of that.
11:58: That's where they're at.
11:59: So they come, they meet themselves, they spread out in battle array, and they're gonna fight him there.
12:04: And listen to what David does.
12:07: He doesn't go, all right, I've done this before.
12:09: I've been a military man.
12:11: I know how to maneuver my men.
12:12: What does he do? He inquires of the Lord.
12:15: He does exactly what Saul does not do.
12:18: The preceding king did not do that.
12:22: Saul basically ruled the kingdom like he wanted, didn't care what God said, didn't care.
12:26: There was a time when he was being harassed.
12:32: He said, bring the ephod to me and let me inquire of the Lord.
12:37: And even when it was brought to him, what did Saul say? Man, I've asked and God doesn't answer me.
12:43: It was all self-motivated.
12:44: Well, here, in a desire to please the Lord, David inquires of the Lord, shall I go up against the Philistines? To me, I'm going, well, of course you should.
12:57: They're coming, you're the shepherd.
13:00: Remember earlier in this chapter, God said you will be the shepherd of my people.
13:07: You're gonna be the one that will rule over my people.
13:10: When you see the wolves and the enemies coming, common sense says, yeah, man, you gotta fight.
13:16: Now, he says, yes, go up, fight against them, and I will give them into your hands.
13:23: Certainly, I will give the Philistines into your hand.
13:26: So David came to Baal-perazim and he defeated them there.
13:30: Now, Baal-perazim is not, wherever this place was at at the time, was not yet Baal-perazim until he does this breakthrough.
13:38: So it's just giving us some information.
13:41: So David came to Baal-perazim, he defeated them there, and he said, the Lord has broken through my enemies before me by the breakthrough of water.
13:50: Hey, this word here, we often think of it always in a bad way, because when we think of the Baals, we know that when we use capital B, it normally means the gods of whatever the, but that word actually, it just means master or lord, or lord, just basically that's all it is, master or lord.
14:28: So it's interesting that when he names this, he names it master, it's something that we normally would see in a pagan name, wouldn't it? It's like, man, why would he, I don't know about y'all, that's what I'm thinking when I'm reading through this, I go, man, why would he name it after a pagan? It's not, he's just saying the Lord, our master, has broken through our enemy.
14:48: Perazim, peraz means breakthrough.
14:53: Anybody remember the last time we heard this word? Who this, this actually, there was a person named this.
15:00: Anybody remember? Tamar, one of her sons, after she tricked Judah, that she was a prostitute, that was one of the children that was born, and it says, because he has broken through me, and that's actually, it's one of the descendants that's in Jesus' line, believe it or not.
15:20: Tamar was one, go ahead.
15:21: Is that gonna be the same word? Perazim? Well, in chapter six, verse eight, where he says, the Lord has made a breach upon.
15:30: A break, a breakthrough, yep, yes, sir.
15:33: Yep, breach, breakthrough, yep, same thing, same use.
15:37: It says, so, he named that place Baal-perazim, meaning the Lord has broken through, or has broken through the waters.
15:46: And then it says, they abandoned their idols, and David and his men carried them away.
15:53: So, we see that these fighting Philistines, why would they bring their idols before them into battle? What would be the reasoning? Why did the Israelites take the ark into battle? They figured it was the lucky rabbit's foot.
16:08: Yeah, it was a superstition, and there was no atheism, and that's a recent, when I say, in a couple hundred years, when I say, okay, atheism is recent idea.
16:23: And they all knew then that their gods were fighting for them, and whoever won, it meant that that god was superior than the other god.
16:31: So, I mean, just common sense, Philistines knew what happened the last time the ark was around.
16:40: They haven't seen this ark for 60 years, at least, 67.
16:45: We'll get to that next week, 67 years.
16:48: So, they're gonna go, all right, we'll bring out our gods, and we'll see what happens.
16:52: Well, I think it's in Chronicles, chapter 14, you can read what actually happens when they abandon, why do they abandon their idols? Because they're getting whipped, yeah.
17:03: They're getting whipped, they're getting a good lashing, and they go, you know what, it's better to save our lives and leave back these idols that we had to tone in, that can't hear, can't talk, can't do anything for us.
17:16: They basically leave them laying on the ground, and it says here that David and his army carried them away.
17:21: If you go to, I think it's chapter 14 of 1 Chronicles, they don't just carry them away.
17:26: They burn them, yeah, they burn them.
17:29: Is there a second? Yeah, it says in verse 21.
17:31: Yeah, and they burned them.
17:33: That's what it says, I think it's in Chronicles.
17:36: And as we're going through this, if you start reading in the Chronicles, in 1 Chronicles, you can start seeing some of these parallels.
17:43: Some of them are not all in order.
17:45: So, just, if you're reading that, you wanna look up some parallel stuff, you can get some little tidbits more of information of sometimes what takes place.
17:54: Verse 22, it says, now the Philistines came once again, and they spread out in the same valley of Rephaim.
18:03: Hey, it's almost like, hey man, y'all just gotta whip it.
18:08: How stupid, yeah, yeah.
18:11: How about trying, yeah, try something different.
18:13: Nope, what are they gonna do? They're gonna go down to the same place they just took Elisha, where their idols and their gods that they worshiped got hauled away.
18:24: Let's go back down to the same place.
18:26: They spread themselves out once again in the valley of the giants of the Rephaim.
18:32: And David, what did David do again? What does it say? He inquired of the Lord, and the Lord said, you shall not go directly up, but circle around them.
18:43: It's almost like, okay, once again, David inquired of the Lord, but me, I'm like, y'all, but I'm going common sense, says, hey man, I went straight way ahead of them last time and whipped them, I'll just do that again.
18:57: That's how I would have responded.
18:59: But what does David do? In a desire to please his Lord in a conquest of battle to protect God's people, he entreated of the Lord first.
19:10: Now, we're gonna see that David should have inquired of the Lord later on about things that he was gonna do, and he did not.
19:19: What he should have done when he was peeking out over the balcony looking and saw a woman bathing, then he should have inquired of the Lord.
19:26: Yeah, hey, should I go back in the house or what should I do? Yeah, but he did not.
19:32: So we see David early on as the united monarch with a desire to submit to the Lord, seek his leadership, not trusting in his own ingenuity.
19:43: Now, was there times that David, when he was on the run in a fugitive, tried to trust in his own ingenuity? Sure, he trusted in his own ingenuity when he overheard he went to gather and foamed at the mouth and scratched at the gate.
19:56: He trusted in his own way to try to deceive Achish.
20:01: But ultimately, who was it that preserved his life? It was the Lord, and he even says that, I think it's in Psalm 34, one of those in that area.
20:10: He even says when he went to Achish, it was the Lord that preserved his life.
20:14: He didn't say, hey man, look how deceptive and good I was.
20:17: He said, no, it was the Lord that preserved him at the time he was in the land of the Philistines.
20:23: So he says, he inquired of the Lord, and the Lord gives him specific instructions.
20:27: Don't go directly up, don't run head on in, but circle around behind them, and come at them in the front of the balsam trees.
20:39: So wherever they're at, they're here.
20:45: Here's the Israel.
20:49: The armies obviously are here.
20:54: He said, don't run straight up into them.
20:57: We want you to circle around.
20:59: How they get there, I have no idea.
21:01: And there's gonna be some trees, and come from behind, come from behind.
21:08: And then he gives him a specific thing to give here.
21:11: It says in verse 24, and it shall be when you hear the sound of wind in the top of the trees.
21:17: Is that what he said? There's this wind? It says the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry.
21:22: It actually says marching.
21:25: Actually says marching, and here's, it's interesting.
21:31: Mulberry trees is actually probably not the type of tree.
21:36: It's probably a balsam tree.
21:37: The mulberries didn't come around until later, but they're just trying to give the type of tree it was.
21:42: Reason why you would not have heard them rustle is balsam trees don't rustle in the wind.
21:49: I didn't know that.
21:51: Yeah, the type of leaf.
21:52: I had to look this up, okay? I'm not an arborist.
21:56: I had to look at, okay, well, some translations say a rustling.
22:00: I think a juror says that, Mike, a rustling? A going.
22:02: A going.
22:03: Okay, so I'll go, all right.
22:04: Why some say a rustling or going? Because when you hear wind go through oak trees or sycamore trees, you hear the leaves.
22:12: Well, is that what he was going to hear? And it's not what he was gonna hear.
22:16: It actually says you're going to hear the sound of an army of troops marching in the tops of the trees.
22:25: That's a distinct sound.
22:27: I mean, I don't know about y'all.
22:28: I've been out in the woods a lot.
22:29: I've never heard marching up in the tops of trees.
22:32: Huh? No, never.
22:34: So he says, you're gonna hear the sound of marching in the tops of the trees, and then you will act promptly.
22:42: And here's how we know what was in the top of the tree.
22:44: For the Lord will have gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.
22:50: Who would have been in the tops of them trees? The army of the Lord.
22:55: The army of the Lord.
22:56: The army of the Lord.
22:57: The army of the Lord.
22:57: Who struck down the Philistines? The army of the Lord.
23:00: It reminds me of, remember when Joshua, he says, you know, remember there was a man that was coming with a sword, and he's like.
23:08: Whose side are you on? Yeah, he's like, hold up, dude.
23:11: He said it the wrong way, though, because it was like, he said, you on my side, or? Oh, the enemy's.
23:17: Yeah.
23:17: And he said, you're actually on my side.
23:22: You're with me, and I'm gonna go out before you.
23:25: And then there was another time, I think it was in Kings, where the prophet says, hey, we've got nothing to worry about.
23:32: And he asked the Lord, Lord, open his eyes, let him see.
23:36: And he opened up his eyes, and across the whole plain was the armies of the Lord.
23:42: And he said, we've got nothing to worry about.
23:44: Yeah, the greater are those that are with us than that are against us.
23:50: Sure, then the ones that are, that were, it was basically, he opened his eyes to see the armies of the Lord that were gonna go out and fight against him.
23:58: I mean, we see time and time again in Scripture where God would send out the armies ahead of them.
24:04: I mean, think what caused, ultimately it was God, but it was the army of the host of the Lord that caused Jericho's walls to fall.
24:12: It was the army of host that went out when Hezekiah, when Sennacherib had surrounded Jerusalem in around 701, and 185,000 Assyrians dropped dead outside overnight.
24:31: I mean, they were, oh man, they were surrounded, and they knew it was over.
24:36: And you have the prayer of Hezekiah, oh Lord, if you please, so we repent, and dusted ashes, however he did it, and he said, okay, I'll take care of it.
24:43: And the next morning, they went out, and 185,000 of them dead, nothing but corpses, and sent Sennacherib back on his way.
24:51: And he actually died when he got back to Assyria.
24:56: So the sound of the marching on the tops of the trees was not wind, it was not a gust, it was not the turbulence in the air, it was the armies of the Lord.
25:08: And that the Lord had gone out before you and had struck the army of the Philistines, and then David did just as the Lord had said, and he struck down the Philistines from Geba as far as Giza.
25:22: So, so they pushed him back.
25:30: Look how far they had gotten.
25:33: They've gotten all the way in here again, and that'd be like, that would be almost like the Mexican army getting to Nebraska.
25:44: You know, they're like, man! And it pushes them all the way back to Giza, which is right here, which is, where did they send him back? Back home.
25:55: Now, this battle is significant.
25:59: You go, why, what's so big? This is a big deal.
26:04: Remember, this is the first battle, what's the word for battle? Consolidated.
26:09: What's that? Oh, consolidated.
26:11: Consolidated, yep, go ahead.
26:12: No, that's.
26:13: Yeah, consolidated king.
26:14: The north and the south, yeah, the kingdom is.
26:16: Yeah, so that is the first battle of the consolidated kingdom.
26:21: It is the first battle with Jerusalem being home base, basically.
26:28: And it is the first time that David inquired of the Lord before he ever went to battle.
26:35: Look, I mean, like I said, common sense says, hey, man, I got guys coming to hurt my people.
26:41: Common sense.
26:43: Don't lean on my own understanding.
26:45: That's what I'm reading this, I'm going, come on, man, why did he do that? Just go out and fight.
26:49: You know, God already told you he was gonna be, but what did he do? He specifically inquired of the Lord of what to do.
26:57: Perfect example of what we should do.
27:00: Look, we do know we should lead our families, be good husbands, good fathers, grandparents, and all of that.
27:06: But do we do it our own way? No, we entreat of the Lord.
27:11: He has given us clear instructions on how to do that.
27:14: Instead of trying to do it our own way, why don't we entreat of the Lord and do it the Lord's way, knowing that it will honor him when we do it his way.
27:22: If we do it our own strength.
27:23: Hey, did David, this is gonna be a loaded question.
27:27: Did David have it in his own strength to lead those men into battle? Sure he did.
27:35: Did he have clear instructions and promises from the Lord that he would deliver him from his enemies? Yeah, did he have clear instructions from God that I will use you to crush the Philistines? Yep, he did.
27:50: But that did not mean that David was not supposed to ask of the Lord on how to carry out those details.
27:55: Remember, he didn't have what we have.
27:59: He didn't have the blueprint of how to live his life.
28:02: He didn't have every detail of how to take this now united kingdom and try to push back its enemies.
28:08: Now, we're going to see the Philistines come up here and there again, but understand this is the last time that there actually was a full-on assault.
28:17: This is a turning point.
28:18: That's why I say it's huge.
28:20: It's huge, not only in the life of David, but in the life of the nation of Israel because their archenemy for at least 70 years now, or actually, yeah, it would have been the time of, back it up to the time of the judges, so we could say five, how long did the judges last? 400 years? So almost 500 years, their enemies now are basically vanquished.
28:49: Like I said, we have some skirmishes here and there.
28:51: We're going to, we'll see those as we come up, some skirmishes here and there.
28:53: But a full-on assault, never again, never again.
28:58: Now, full-on assaults come into the city from other places, other kingdoms that rise up, but David now has subdued his enemies and the Lord has put these enemies under his footstool.
29:11: Now, what can we learn from David in this chapter? What can we learn? You've already quoted the verse from Proverbs 3, trust in the Lord with all thy heart.
29:32: You may not understand it, he trusted in the Lord, but just because we say we trust in the Lord doesn't mean that we shouldn't inquire in the Lord like David did, so- Sure, there's a difference.
29:47: There's a difference than leaning on your own understanding, and I'm trying to say how to word this.
30:03: Use insight, they're different.
30:10: Look, God's given us common sense, okay? He's given us, hey man, rational thought, but are there times when, hey, this, the insight that we have in living life, man, sometimes it don't add up to that life of faith.
30:24: That's why we don't lean on our own understanding because, man, sometimes our insight says, hey man, this ain't going to work.
30:31: This ain't going to work, and then what happens? That's when the walk of faith comes in.
30:35: Now, could David have seen all of those armies and go, yeah, man, we're overwhelmed.
30:43: Well, now I've consolidated the kingdom, and I know that these men will fight for me, but man, I don't know if they're ready for this.
30:49: So what did he do? He didn't lean on his own understanding.
30:52: He had insight on how to fight, and what did he do? He entreated to the Lord so that he would say, okay, are my men ready for this? Do you remember back in 1 Samuel when he told his men we're going to go out and we're going to fight? His men says, wait a minute.
31:08: You want us to go out and fight the Philistines, but we're trying to fight Saul too.
31:14: And he, remember the Lord said, you're going to go out and fight against them.
31:16: I'm going to give them into your hand.
31:17: And his men says, hey man, we think you missed it.
31:20: So what did David do? Do you remember? He inquired of the Lord, and the Lord says, do it.
31:26: Tell them again, I'm going to give them into your hands.
31:29: Go out and do it.
31:30: So what did David do? He was not leaning on his own understanding, but looking and trusting his own insight, going, okay, God, you've told me this.
31:40: I'm trusting you, but my men have told me that they ain't ready for this.
31:45: So what did he do? Lord, can you just affirm it one more time so I can go back to my men, tell them I have sought the Lord in this, and this is what we're to do.
31:53: And what did he do? He went out and told them, hey man, God's going to give me, and they went out and they won the battle.
31:57: That was not leaning on his own understanding.
32:00: That was trusting God, not good.
32:02: And all that way is to acknowledge him, and he will direct your path.
32:06: It didn't say walk your own path, and then, hey, you had the Lord behind you, saying, hey man, should I take it right or should I take it left? No, no, no, we follow the Lord into those times of difficulty.
32:15: Follow the Lord in those times of battle.
32:18: And that is what David does.
32:21: And David's desire now is to not only have the kingdom consolidated, which he's done, his desire is to show that he is a great military leader, he's going to shepherd and protect God's people, and then next week, we're going to see him, not only is he going to do that, but he wants to make sure that they know home base is going to be where God's going to dwell with his people.
32:41: Hey, we're seeing back, this is not the Big Bang, okay, I'm just saying this is, this is Let There Be Light.
32:50: We're going to see something, and then, you all know why things weren't here.
32:59: We had the Garden of Eden.
33:03: We got time? Oh, yeah.
33:06: All right.
33:07: What did the Garden of Eden represent? Yeah, what did the Garden of Eden represent? It was a real place.
33:19: Remember, sometimes in Scripture, the real places, the real things, but there are typological.
33:24: What did Adam and Eve do in the Garden? A fellowship with God.
33:28: A fellowship with God.
33:29: This was the dwelling place of God.
33:37: This is it.
33:39: But when the fall happens, okay, sin enters, what happens to the dwelling place of God? They're removed from it.
33:51: And not only that, dwelling place is gone.
33:56: They can't go back into the garden.
34:00: So, paradise is lost.
34:04: Paradise is lost.
34:07: When do we see, in the development of redemptive history, when do we see the dwelling place of God come about again? Just think.
34:19: Tell me next week.
34:21: Well, the dwelling place of God comes along with a tabernacle, with Moses.
34:30: We'll put Moses here.
34:35: And then you have the tabernacle.
34:41: This becomes the dwelling place of God.
34:44: This was stationary.
34:46: What is this? It's a tent.
34:49: Movable.
34:50: Move.
34:51: But something develops because God is a covenant-keeping God, which all of that leads to having a look at the Davidic promise.
34:58: The dwelling place of God was here, but because they lost that because of their own willful desire to be like God's, God removed that.
35:07: But because he is a promise, he's gonna send a serpent crusher one day, over the development of time, God then says, okay, I've got my people.
35:16: I'm gonna bring them out.
35:17: I'm gonna dwell with my people.
35:19: And then he makes a little tabernacle.
35:21: But even in the tabernacle, that ends up being a little old square right here.
35:25: Then you got this here.
35:27: You got all this out here.
35:30: Could anybody come to the dwelling place of God? I mean, who could only come into this front area right here? Who could only come through here? What was, you remember what the outer court was? It was a congregation.
35:43: Any Jew could come in here.
35:46: That was the congregation.
35:47: But who could come through here? Priest.
35:49: Priest.
35:51: Then as they got closer to here, who can only come through right here? Annually, the high priest.
35:58: Well, the Kohathites technically were the ones who could come in there because remember Samuel, he was lighting the menorah and doing the trimming of the stuff and all that.
36:08: So you had a group of, there was only a certain group of people that could come here, narrowing down who could be in the dwelling place of God.
36:15: But you're right, you said, who's the only one that could come in there? The high priest.
36:21: And how often? Once a year.
36:22: Once a year.
36:23: And man, you do wonder, how long was he in there? Did he go in there? And did he look around? I mean, I do wonder.
36:31: I mean, I'm not trying to be sacrilegious, but you know, man, yeah, you're like, okay, man, this is, I get to go in here once a year.
36:38: So they filled it with the, remember, they filled it with the incense smoke because the Shekinah glory was, it was to make it glow.
36:45: So they, I mean, I can't imagine him going in there going like this and not wanting to look around, man.
36:51: I mean, once a year, one dude gets to go in there and see the Ark of the Covenant.
36:57: There's a caution for people who want to look into the Ark of the Covenant.
37:02: Sure, those were people that could not.
37:04: But there was one person that could look at the Shekinah glory of God once a year.
37:09: Now, how did he do that? Now, even if he looked around, I don't think that he did it in such a way that it was flippant.
37:15: I want you to understand, I do not believe that because they would have been having to snatch him out.
37:20: Yeah, they're having to snatch him out.
37:22: But there was a part where you go, man, this guy goes in there once a year and he goes in there and does his little thing and however quick they had to get in and get out, we don't know.
37:30: You know, sprinkle, shake this, touch this, sprinkle the blood and they were out.
37:34: You know, and we don't know.
37:36: But the dwelling place of God is developing again because it was lost in the time of the judges.
37:45: Lost, actually, remember who was the last judge? Who did we say the last major judge was? Samuel.
37:51: Samuel was the last major judge and he was the, he is a transitional person from prophet, yeah, to the judges, to the kings, and the prophethood and all of that.
38:02: And that's what we're gonna talk about next week is the development of the dwelling place of God and how David saw the dwelling place of God.
38:09: Because it is important.
38:10: When we get to the Davidic promise covenant, however, I'll explain the difference and how I see that.
38:17: This is, the bringing into the dwelling place of God is huge.
38:22: Because that's part of the promise.
38:24: That's part of the promise, not only to Abraham, but the promise to the Mosaic descendants under the, I mean, under the Abrahamic descendants under the Mosaic law, that God would, what did he say? I will be their God, they will be my people, and I will do what? I will dwell in the midst of them.
38:44: I will dwell in the midst of them.
38:46: Imagine having a God that was not dwelling in the midst.
38:50: Even when they're hauled off into captivity.
38:53: What was the promise? He was with them.
38:57: He was with them.
38:58: He was with them.
38:59: And that he was gonna bring them back into the land and he was going to make a new covenant with them.
39:04: What's Jeremiah 31 through 33? I'm gonna make a new covenant with them.
39:09: And then I'm gonna bring them back into the land.
39:11: I'm gonna make a new covenant, not a covenant like the one of their old one was, that was deficient.
39:16: Not that it was wrong, the covenant was deficient.
39:18: What could the covenant not do? The covenant could not make the people obey.
39:23: So God says, I'm gonna make a new covenant, but I'm gonna put my laws, not only in an ark, they're not gonna be in an ark, in a box, inside a crazy gopher covered tent, or in a box inside of a temple.
39:38: I'm gonna put those laws in your heart.
39:40: And it's gonna cause you to walk in my ways and obey my statutes.
39:45: Hey, this is the dwelling place of God, inside this little area right here could never cause obedience.
39:53: Matter of fact, when they come through here and they walked here, there was something right here that was a continual burning of a sacrifice, day and night.
40:06: And then all these tables, slaughtering bulls and goats and sheeps and all kinds of stuff, sheeps, sheep.
40:15: Right? Slaughtering them.
40:17: Why? A continual reminder that even though that ark was there, that the covenant was here, it had no way of making them obey because every day there was a constant reminder of death.
40:28: Look, this place right here was a place of execution.
40:34: Oh yeah, imagine that.
40:37: I mean, we think about, dude, I'm looking at barbecue joint.
40:40: Okay? I mean, don't get me wrong.
40:41: They were, there was animals being burned and all of that, but you understand, man, some of that was the whole thing would be burned.
40:49: You ever smell burning hair? Yeah.
40:52: I mean, burning hair don't smell good.
40:55: You know? So it was a continual reminder that they were disobedient people and that God was going to have to do something.
41:03: Just like God had to do something when they were kicked out of the garden, He brings them out of captivity.
41:08: God says, all right, I'm gonna make a place where you can see that I'm in the midst of you.
41:13: And before even the tabernacle came, what was the reminder that God was with them as they were coming across before the tabernacle was made? Cloud and a pillar.
41:25: Yep.
41:26: Pillar of life.
41:27: All right.
41:28: We got to get, Mike, pray for us.
41:31: Joe, we just pray that as we've studied today, that we would not lean on our own understanding.
41:38: We would look to you.
41:39: We would inquire of you.
41:41: Not trust on how things have just happened in the past, but that we would trust in you daily and know that you're a good God and that your glory is not in opposition to our good.
41:58: Pray that you'd be with Keith as he brings your word.
42:00: Pray that you'd be with us as we worship you in spirit and truth.
42:04: And pray that you'd be glorified in all that's said and done.
42:06: For it's in Christ that we pray.
42:08: Amen.
42:08: Amen.