In David's treatment of Mephibosheth, we see a picture of Christ's treatment of lost sinners.
We are all lame, weak, sinful, polluted, of no value to God - but He has mercy upon us and bestows upon us salvation and eternal happiness - because He loves us!
David sought out Mephibosheth to show him kindness. David had much work and all the diversions he could want, but he deliberately found Mephibosheth.
So too our Savior came to seek and to save that which was lost. He laid aside His riches and glory to seek us out.
The cost to David was negligible, but the cost to our Redeemer was incalculable! He suffered the humiliation of the incarnation, was mocked and spit upon and beaten and put to death by His own creatures! Indeed, the Gospel is more elaborate, and more valuable, and more costly to God than all the creation. It required that the Word be made flesh and be sacrificed in the place of sinners.
David's seeking of Mephibosheth was an afterthought, but God's seeking out the sinner was determined from eternity past, as was the costly sacrifice and the identity of His people.
David's kindness to Mephibosheth was all David's idea and none of Mephibosheth's. So too sinners never conceived of the glories of salvation, for those glories were the divine conception. Sinners never come to God on their own because they are alienated and full of rebellion and dead in their sins.
God's kindness to sinners is astounding, because it requires Him to punish our offenses in His own dear Son the Lord Jesus. No sinner dare propose such a thing, but God declared it so!
Sinners must be fetched to Christ; Hallelujah, the Father draws us to Him and we are saved!
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“ Enlightning Sermon! ” This is an excellent sermon that gives us another way to understand the Truth of Salvation. Using the mercy of David towards Mephibosheth we can see another picture of how God and Jesus Christ saved us while we were sinners and would not come the Lord and Savior on our own, but through the God's plan made in time eternity past we have salvation. An excellent sermon to get a blessing.
Mike Jeshurun (10/31/2010)
from India
“ A Must Hear Sermon ” A very touching sermon indeed by Pastor John Pittman Hey. All theologians agree that the kindness that David showed to Mephibosheth is a picture of the kindness and mercy which the Lord shows to His elect. But Pastor John goes a step further and points out the differences as to how the love and mercy of the Master far exceeds David’s kindness to Mephibosheth. He especially shows how that it actually cost David nothing to do good to this lame man whereas it cost our Lord Jesus EVERYTHING to purchase our redemption and freedom. The substance always far excels the type and shadow in Scripture, and Pastor John brings this out very beautifully. A must hear sermon for all of God’s children.
John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
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