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Anybody got any special prayer
requests that they need to bring up today that we haven't talked
about in the past? Yes? Yes, sir? Phillip Park's doing about the
same. Anybody else? Good to see Ms. Joycey here today.
How are you feeling? How's your breath? the swelling? Yeah, swelling. That's not good. I don't like
pain. My wife and I were talking about
that this morning. She said, oh, that's nothing. It's a good
thing you don't have to have babies. I said, that's a good
thing. If guys had to have babies, there'd be far fewer people in
the world today for sure. All right, let's go ahead and
pray then. Oh, Jesus, we're thankful that
we can meet here again freely and not have to worry about reprisal. I don't know how much longer
that's gonna be, but we're thankful that we have it as we speak. And now we come and we're thankful
people. We're thankful for heaven, thankful for Jesus, thankful
for the Holy Spirit that lives within us. We're thankful for
the creation that you provided for, thankful for these bodies
that you've given us and how they work so well. we're thankful
that you've watched over us. Now we have a lot of needs that
we bring for you, a lot of the sick folks, Mrs. Sanders, and
Ernest Tristan is in rehab, and Phillip Parks with cancer, and
Jesse Salas, again, cancer, and chemo, and Emmanuel, and Matthew
as well, and then for Gladys and her arm and health, and then
Mrs. Moss. My brother Plumstead, my
brother Anderson, Mark Rackley, Mrs. Vaughn in her recovery,
Ms. Craighead in her recovery, Betty
Perry in the trouble she's been having. I asked that you'd undertake
for each of those. Ms. Hauser as well with pain. I asked that
you'd look out for these and watch out for them. And then
we asked for my son, Tim, as they get ready to move and ask
that you would bless their endeavors and bless them in Oklahoma City
where they're going. And then we think of the, of
our law enforcement officers and the trouble they've been
having lately, ask that you would Undertake for them as well as
our military and lower assets you deliver from this government
that we're under at the moment We're thankful for Jesus. We're
thankful for salvation. Thank for this time meet with
us now in Jesus name. Amen. All right All right second
Samuel We're moving right along. We're all the way over to 2 Samuel. And we've been in this series
called Eight is Enough. I guess before I get too far
along, I ought to mention that we've been praying for Timothy
and Roshan that my wife told me I should tell you this. And
she's good about that kind of stuff, knowing what to say. They
sold their house. It was only on the market for,
I think, less than a week. It wasn't on there very long.
And so they sold their house, they've already signed all the
papers and stuff, and they should be moving mid-October. So they're
going to Oklahoma City, and we'll transition over the next couple
years from being the assistant pastor to pastor up in Midwest
City. That's called the Open Door Baptist
Temple I believe. So they've got things in place. So you keep on praying for them. Then next week Lord Will and
I won't be here. Brother Smith will be teaching
in my stead. And then the week after that,
Brother Joplin, I'll be doing it. So that's what's going on
as far as the class and that kind of stuff. All right, so
we've been talking about eight is enough, the different covenants
in the Bible. We've talked about the Edenic
covenant, the Adamic covenant, the Noahic covenant, the Abrahamic
covenant, the land covenant, and we're already down to the
Davidic covenant. That's number six out of eight. So we're getting
along. The Davidic Covenant is another
unconditional covenant that God has given to Israel. And when
we consider the Land Covenant, Deuteronomy Chapter 30, if you
remember, was the kind of the chapter that kind of lays out
the Land Covenant. Well, the chapter that kind of
lays out the Davidic Covenant, at least most of it, is in 2
Samuel Chapter 7. And so, if you look at verse
16, 2 Samuel chapter 7, and verse 16, it says, And thine house,
now the house he's talking about is David's. And thine house and
thy kingdom shall be established, and then he uses this word, forever. So in thine house and thy kingdom
shall be established forever before thee. Thy throne shall
be established, and then he uses those words again, forever. So
God gives him an unconditional forever, everlasting covenant,
the Davidic covenant. Now, in laying a foundation of
sorts, some background and groundwork so that we can understand it,
I'd like to begin at the beginning of the chapter and we'll look
at David's desire, his aspiration, if you will, his ambition for
God. But even before that, I'd like to go back and review a
little bit of the Abrahamic covenant because remember the Abrahamic
covenant is kind of the... it's the foundation of the other
three eternal covenants. the other three unconditional
eternal covenants. When we look at the different
covenants, we looked at the Abrahamic covenant, then we looked at the
land covenant, we're looking at the Davidic, and we'll also
look at the new next, but those last three The land covenant,
the Davidic, and the new covenant, they kind of come out of the
Abrahamic covenant. When we were looking at the Abrahamic,
we mentioned that God told him He'd make of him a great land,
a great nation. He mentioned a great name. I
don't believe we're going to be able to get far enough today
to talk about David's name, but God gave Abraham a great name
and David was given a great name as well, then a great blessing,
a great response. And then the last thing we mentioned
in the Abrahamic covenant was a great legacy. his legacy. Under that great legacy, under
that heritage, that family line that would come forth from Abraham
would come a platform, a staging area, if you will, a starting
place. And the platform would be the
Abrahamic covenant. It's the platform. And then the
land covenant, which we all looked at, which comes out of that.
Remember, the very first thing the Abrahamic covenant looked
at was a great land. God will give him all this land,
so this great land. And then the Davidic covenant
points to David and his throne and the great name and the great
legacy that comes out of the Abrahamic covenant. And then
the new covenant will come next. But there's this platform from
the Abrahamic covenant that everything else comes out of. And when we're
talking about the Abrahamic covenant, I hope you remember Genesis 12,
everything changes. Now 1 through 11, God's just
looking at human history in general on up. But once He gets to Genesis
chapter 12 and Abraham comes along, everything changes. And
God starts the Israelites and all of human history goes in
a different direction and God deals with people a little bit
differently from that point on. They become His chosen people
and God looks at Israel as His folks and He kind of changes
a little bit the way He deals with humanity. And so it's a
little different, so it changes. And in that platform comes, we
talked about a living link. There's an unmistakable, unbreakable,
undeniable link between Abraham and his covenant and Jesus. It was all the way from Abraham
all the way over to Jesus. We looked at the lineages of
Jesus. Remember the two lineages, if
you remember, one's in Luke and one's in Matthew. Luke presents
Jesus as the Son of Man. Matthew presents Him as the King
of the Jews. Well, when Matthew begins his
lineage, he begins in a kind of an unusual way. We can contrast
that with Luke's Luke's Luke 3 23 says and Jesus Himself began
to be about 30 years of age being as was supposed the son of Joseph
and which was the son of Heli what he does he starts there
and then he goes backwards all the way down to Adam Luke 3 38
which was the son of Venus which was the son of Seth which was
the son of Adam which was the son of God So, I mean, he just
starts at Jesus and then starts recounting history and goes all
the way back to Adam. He doesn't miss a beat, just
shh, all the way down. He gives a lineage like you'd
expect a lineage to be given. But when we get to Matthew, it's
a little bit different. He puts a capstone, if you will,
an introduction, an opening remark in the lineage of Jesus and Matthew,
which is important to point out. Matthew 1.1 says the book of
the generation of Jesus Christ. And then it says this, the son
of David, the son of Abraham. And then he goes on, goes back
and gives the entire lineage. But he starts off with that introductory
remark, if you will, that capstone where he says, where he puts
the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of
Abraham. Notice those two persons that
were mentioned other than the Lord Jesus, Abraham, the first
Israelite, the first Hebrew, the first Jew, but also David,
the great king, the great leader, the great monarch. And so you
see he puts that capstone on there and introduces us, he introduces
Jesus in this lineage with David and Abraham both in there. Jesus
becomes the living link from Abraham but also from King David. And those two are mentioned.
It all stems back to the Abrahamic covenant because obviously David,
a Jew, comes out of Abraham. So, this capstone that ties Jesus
with Abraham and David, it'd be kind of like someone recounting
the presidents of the United States. They might say something
like, well, you know, there was George Washington, Abraham Lincoln,
and then FDR, and then go back and list all of them. You know,
but give an introduction of George Washington, who was the first
president, Abraham Lincoln, who was the great uniter when the
country needed it, and FDR, the one who held the presidency the
longest. a little over 12 years all told. But you give the highlights and
then go back and give each one individually. That's kind of
what he did in the gospel of Matthew when he lays out, put
the little capstone on top and ties Abraham and David with Jesus. And so David was in the line
of Jesus to show the rightful place, the power, the past to
be the king. So, you know, David's in there,
the great king, and Jesus comes out of that, so Jesus can be
the great king. But it starts with David as far
as this Davidic covenant goes in his kingdom and his life. So let's start looking at the
Davidic covenant. First off, we'll give you a definition.
And in its simplest form, here you go, this is real, real short,
real concise. It'll give you everything you
need to know about what the Davidic covenant is about. God promises
to David an eternal seed and eternal home. excuse me, eternal
throne. An eternal seed and an eternal
throne. Those are the things. He's always
going to have a family going, and He's always going to have
this throne. Now the land covenant promised land, framed by the
water borders, Nile River, the Mediterranean Sea, the Euphrates
River and Red Sea. That whole area was promised
to Israel. And there's a passage, there's
a few verses, there's a prophecy, if you will, that Mary, the land
covenant and the Davidic covenant kind of brings them together. See, the Abrahamic covenant comes
and then all those others come out and sometimes they kind of
get mixed up. The land covenant, the Davidic covenant, and the
new covenant kind of get intermixed sometimes. Well, we can see the
land covenant and the Davidic covenant intermixed. this idea
of an eternal seed and an eternal throne that David had been promised. We can see it married together
in Ezekiel. Look over at Ezekiel chapter
37. Ezekiel 37. If you don't recognize Ezekiel
37, that's the prophecy of the Valley of the Dry Bones. So Ezekiel 37 and verse 1 it
says, and that the hand of the Lord was upon me and carried
me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the midst
of the valley which was full of bones. and caused me to pass
by them round about. Behold, there were very many
in the open valley, and lo, they were very dry. So the valley
of dry bones. You might have heard of that
song. You know that song that they used to sing? The toe bone
connected to the foot bone, the foot bone connected to the heel
bone. You know, all them bones, them
bones, them bones. dry bones, them bones, them bones
going to walk around them bones, them bones, them dry bones. Now
hear the word of the Lord. Come out of this Ezekiel 37 and
everybody knows about the dry bones. At least most that have
been around preaching that all. You've heard somebody preach
about the dry bones but as you get down towards the end of the
chapter God is drawing some conclusions. He's making an application if
you will and even giving a revelation. Look down at verse 24. Ezekiel
37 24 it says in David my servant shall be king over them and they
all shall have one shepherd they shall also walk in my judgments
and observe my statutes and do them now he's talking about a
future Israel And he said, David, my servant, shall be king over
them. Verse 25, it says, and they shall
dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob, my servant,
wherein your fathers have dwelt. Remember the Abrahamic covenant
passed on to Isaac, passed on to Jacob. And they shall dwell
in the land that I have given unto Jacob, my servant, wherein
your fathers have dwelt, and they shall dwell therein, even
they and their children and their children's children forever,
and my servant David shall be their prince forever." So you
can see how it's tied together. The land covenant and the Davidic
covenant come together there. God promised him an eternal seed
and He promised him an eternal throne. And we can see that kind
of coming together in Ezekiel 37. So the Abrahamic covenant
begins and starts and initiates the process. The land covenant
and the Davidic covenant continue, further escalate the Abrahamic
covenant. I was trying to figure out how
to illustrate this and help people get it. I thought about this,
there's a book out, I don't remember the exact title of it, but there's
a book out that shows the path that the King James Bible came
from. and it talks about a seven full process if you will of how
we got our King James Bible. It starts with the Wycliffe Bible
and then it went to the Tyndale Bible and then the Coverdale
Bible, then the Matthew Bible, then the Great Bible, then the
Geneva Bible and finally the King James Bible. So, you've
got this building of sorts to, I think, what's the best English
version of the Bible, the King James. But there was a building
process that gave us the King James Bible, and there it is.
It started with the Wycliffe Bible and with the King James
Bible and built on each other. And so, each built and orchestrated
into the King James Bible. Or how about this? I thought
about numbers. Numbers you know children you teach little children.
Let's go ahead and count now here we go one two Three and
you go over this over and over and over again and talk to the
three-year-olds Start learning the numbers learn their alphabet
and learn their numbers, so you got to give them these numbers
now when it starts off It's very simple You start with numbers,
it's very simple, but all mathematics are built upon the foundation
of that one, two, three, four, all addition, all subtraction,
all multiplication, all division, all algebra, I hate algebra,
geometry, trigonometry, calculus, I mean all of it. All the, even
though it becomes very complicated in the end, at the beginning,
it's very simple. There's just these building blocks
that we use, and as we put these building blocks together, it
becomes more and more complicated and larger and bigger, and it
explodes into algebra. I don't know who thought algebra.
Whoever thought of algebra, we need to take them out and do
something with them. I didn't like it. Geometry, I
love geometry. Trigonometry was great. Algebra, not so much.
But it all starts with numbers. So it's the same thing. There's
the foundation of numbers, and then all this math comes out
of that. Well, the same thing with this Abrahamic covenant.
It starts, and then the land covenant, the Davidic covenant,
the new covenant, they kind of come out of that and expand it
and get bigger. So that's the definition, if
you will. It's David's promise, this eternal
seed and this eternal throne. So now let's look at some details.
First off, you can go back to 2 Samuel chapter 7. Some details,
first off we'll look at David's desire. David's desire. And we'll start in verse one,
2 Samuel 7, one, it says, and it came to pass when the king
sat in his house, now the king there is David, and the Lord
had given him rest round about from all his enemies, that the
king said unto Nathan the prophet, see now I dwell in a house of
cedar. So he says, you know, I live
in this great big house, this wonderful house of cedar. I mean,
they built me this great big house. So see now, I dwell in
a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains. He says, here I am living in
this big monster house, you know, this great house that was built
and God lives in this tent. Verse 3 says, And Nathan said
to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart, for the Lord
is with thee. Now David has experienced peace
all around Israel with all the people that live around them,
the blessing from God, the blessing from Jehovah, the blessing from
his Lord. And David was thinking about
this, he was thinking about the place that God dwelled. I'm here,
here he is living in his nice house, and he's thinking, and
God lives in this tent. Now I understand that God dwells
everywhere. I'm the present, I get that.
But the Shekinah glory, the presence of God dwelt in that tabernacle
unlike any other place on the earth. So the physical presence
of God was manifested in that tabernacle differently than any
other place on earth. So God kind of dwelled there.
So David's thinking, you know, I live in this nice house and
he lives in this tent. I mean, the God of the universe
living in a tent. So he's looking to this tent
structure, this portable thing, this mobile thing, this easily
movable thing. And David's thinking, I live
in this majestic house and God lives in this tent, this structure
of curtains. You ever been camping in tents? We used to, we lived in New Mexico
a long, long time ago and another lifetime ago it seems. And, you
know, they have a lot of camping in that area. You go up in the
mountains and you go camping. Somebody said this about camping
and I think they were right. They said camping out is like
paying top dollar to live like you're homeless. That's right.
That is it. I mean, why do you want to go
out and live like you ain't got nothing? I mean, you know, you go out
there and we're going to just live on the land. Really? I mean, I thought
that's why you had a job, so you wouldn't have to do that.
So, you know, camping out is like paying top dollar to live
like you were homeless. That's about right. But the point
is David's desire was he wanted better for God. Don't miss this. He wanted... I better forgot
in my little thing I put on Facebook yesterday about the class today.
I mentioned that David wanted to move God. Now isn't that something? David wanted
to move God. He wanted to move Him from that
tent-like structure into a house. He wanted at least God to have
a nice house like His own. I mean, it's God of the universe. That was His desire. God wanted,
or David wanted God to have a better place to dwell, a better place
to live. Now, we'll talk about God's funny response in a bit,
but the idea is this. David's desire was he wanted
better for God. Did you know God blesses people's
desires if they're right, if they're correct, if they're reasonable?
God will bless folks if you have the right or correct or reasonable
desires. God even blesses less than perfect
folks if they have right desires. The perfect example I can think
of in all the Bible, look back to Judges chapter 14. Look back at Judges chapter 14.
I think this is one of the best examples in all the Bible about
God blessing somebody that had less than perfect character. It's a classic example, classic
instance, if you will, classic case. Judges 14 and verse 2,
it says, and he, now that he's Samson, he came up and told his
father, now he didn't ask, he didn't, he didn't come and see
what the, you know, try to talk to mom and dad, see what they
think about this. He came up and told his father and mother
and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of
the Philistines, now therefore get her for me to wife. Now, doesn't that sound like
a good Christian man? He came up and told his father
and mother and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters
of the Philistines. Now, Philistines, that's the
enemy. And he's an Israelite. You know,
the Israelites are supposed to marry Israelites. Now in the New Testament age,
Christians are supposed to marry Christians, but in those days,
when the physical was the important thing that God was looking at,
Israel would marry Israel. So he says, now therefore go
get for me to wife. Verse 3, Then his father and
mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters
of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to
take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said
unto his father, Get her for me, for she pleaseth me well. So, now here's a person who has
not good character. They're not a good Christian
guy. And when you look at what they were supposed to be doing
in those days, they were supposed to marry within their tribe.
And he mentioned, can't you find somebody from your brethren,
from your tribe, or at least of the Israelites? He said, oh no, I want that Philistine
woman. She pleases me. I want you to notice what the
next verse says because it tells a lot. Verse 4, But his father
and his mother knew not that it was of the Lord, and he sought
an occasion against the Philistines, for at the time the Philistines
had dominion over Israel. Now he may have been going about
it the wrong way. Saffson was going about it the wrong way,
but he had the right desire. He wanted to lead Israel out
of captivity. So he had the right desire. He
went about it the wrong way, but he had the right desire.
He dishonored his parents. He was gonna marry outside of
Israel, but it is hard. He had the right desire. He wanted
to do the right thing, even though he was going about it wrong.
Then later, look over to chapter 16. We're talking about less than perfect
people that God blesses their desires. Later he actually commits more
infractions. Judges 16.1, Then went Samson
to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her. Really? We're talking about Samson, the
great judge. Samson, you know, when you go
through the book of Judges and see that God raises up these
deliverers, Samson is one of those. And yet here's a guy that
dishonors his parents, refuses to marry people that he should
have, and goes outside the boundaries of where God would want him to
go, and then here he goes into an harlot. Verse four further
says, and it came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the
valley of Sarik, whose name was Delilah. You remember her, right? Samson had some bad weaknesses,
particularly towards women and females. He particularly had
a big character flaw there. But underneath all that, he was
trying to deliver Israel. He had the right desire. He went
about it the wrong way, but he had some right desires. It's
interesting, Samson was strong enough to defeat everybody else.
I mean, all comers, all combatants, he could take care of everybody,
but he couldn't control his own self. He couldn't control himself. He couldn't control his own emotions.
He couldn't control his senses. But despite all that, Despite
all this, I mean, if you were to give a history of someone
that dishonored their parents, that married outside the boundaries
where they should have gotten married, visiting prostitutes,
and you'd think, God could never use a person like that. People have said this over and
over again, despite all this, it was said about him more than
anyone else. Judges 14, 6, and the Spirit
of the Lord came mightily upon him. And he rent him as he would
have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand, but he told not
his father and his mother what he had done about the land. But
the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him. The Spirit of the Lord
came upon him and said about him more than anybody else. Why? He had the right desire. Now,
he went about the wrong way, but he had the right desires.
What are your desires for God? What are your longs for God?
What are your yearnings for God? Because if they're right, if
they're correct, if they're sincere for God, God will bless you,
He'll enable you, He'll equip you, and He'll even energize
you to get it done. In reality, if God had to only
use honestly perfect people, He couldn't use anybody. You
know Romans 312, they're all gone out of the way. They're
all together become unprofitable. There's none that doeth good.
No, not one. We're all sinners. So if God
had to use somebody that was perfect, He couldn't use any
of us. But despite our imperfections, if we have the right yearnings
and the right longings, the right desire for God, God will use
us. So, David's desire, we get back
to David's desire. David's desire then was to move
God. He wanted to take him out of
that little tent-like structure, made a very small little tabernacle. He wanted to move him out of
that tent structure, put him in a house. Can I make another application
here? You know, he's wanting to move
God from that little tabernacle into what would become the temple.
you know, the Solomon's Temple. So, David wanted to move God
from that little tent-like structure into the magnificent temple. That was his desire. He wanted
to move God to the temple. You know what the temple of God
is now? 1 Corinthians 6 19 what no you
not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in
you which you have of God and you're not your own David desired
a better place He desired a better dwelling place. He desired a
better house for God Should not that be our desire? Provide a God a better place
to live a better place to dwell a better place to abide and I
was thinking of this, remember Jesus, he's in us. Christ in
us, the hope of glory. He's in us. So everywhere we
go, everything we do, he with us. If you're saved, you have
the Holy Spirit inside, you're saved, you have his spirit. If
he's in you, everywhere you go, everything you do, God is with
you, he accompanies you. Paul adds this warning a few
chapters before in chapter 3 of 16 and 1 Corinthians. And know
ye not that ye are the temple of God? And the Spirit of God
dwelleth in you. If any man defile the temple
of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy,
which temple ye are. So here's David's desire. He wanna move God from this little
tabernacle into the temple, give him a better place. That should
be our desire, give him a better place. Let me illustrate this. We said
that everywhere we go as a Christian, God goes with us. So let me give
you a few places that somebody might go and you tell me whether
that would be honoring to God or whether it would not be honoring
to God and whether God would be happy about it or God wouldn't
be happy. It's pretty simple. How about this church? You think
God would be honored you coming to church? All right, that'd
be a good place. You go and the Spirit of God
will be happy, giving him a good place to dwell. All right, let
me mention another one. How about a bar? Not so much, right? He'd be happy at church, but
not so much in the bar, because if you as a Christian go to a
bar, you're taking God with you. into the bar. Going to your job
so you can feed your family. You think he'd be happy about
that? Yes, he would. He'd be happy to be there. How
about this? Some kind of club where they serve alcohol and
stuff. Probably not so much, huh? Friend's
house? Maybe so. Crack house? Not so
much. I'm just trying to get you to
see David's desire was to give God a better place to stay. Well, how about we try to do
the same thing? We try to give God a better place to stay. is
not just about where we go, it's our behavior, it's our actions,
our thought processes. However we behave, however we
hold ourselves, however we carry ourselves, Jesus is right there
with us, accompanying us along for the ride. In short, we should
be concerned and focused and motivated to provide and offer
and afford God a more reasonable, a more appropriate, a better
dwelling place like David did. David wanted to give God a better
place. So David's desire. Then next is God's deliberation. I see how happy you were and
how excited you were about that one. How about this one? God's
deliberation. That's, we'll break it up in
two different sections. First off, the inquiry, God's
inquiry, verses four through seven. It came to pass that night
that the word of the Lord came unto Nathan, saying, Go and tell
my servant David, thus saith the Lord, shalt thou build me
in a house for me to dwell in? God was asking David, do you
think I need a house? You think you need to build me
a house? Whereas, I have not dwelt in
any house since the time that I brought up the children of
Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in
a tent and in a tabernacle in all the places wherein I have
walked with all the children of Israel, spake I a word with
any of the tribes of Israel, whom I have commanded to feed
my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me a house of cedar?
It's kind of comical. God says, did I ever ask you
to do that? I mean, since Israel was taken out of Egypt and I've
walked with you everywhere you went, I've been with you, been
in this little tent. Have I ever asked anybody to
build me a house? I mean, God, he's the God of
the universe. Why would he need a house? He said, I ever asked
you to build me a house? I've never asked anybody to build
me a house. I just thought it was kind of
funny. When did I ever ask for a house?
When did I ever ask for a haven? When ever did I ask for a home? Obviously, this is a rhetorical
question. Now, a rhetorical question is
a question that you ask without expecting an answer. In other
words, the answer is so obvious, to ask the question is to answer
it. God was not looking for an answer.
He was looking to make a point. He was trying to give David a
cause to ponder a bit, to use him to persuade his mind a little
bit. A rhetorical question. Let me illustrate
this. I was thinking about this. A husband and wife are in a car.
And the wife is fidgeting around with her purse and fidgeting
around with different things. And he's sitting there and they're
ready to drive off. And he's sitting there and he's got his
seatbelt on, but she still hasn't got hers on. He'd like to wait for her to
put her seat belt on, because after all, he'd like her to be safe.
So he's sitting there, and she's still fidgeting around, putting
stuff around. And finally, the husband looks over and says,
you're going to put your seat belt on sometime today? Now, he ain't looking for an answer.
And he doesn't want the answer that she's going to give him. He's not looking for an answer.
He's looking for action. He's looking for her to think about,
put her seat belt on. Of course, he's gonna get an action. He's
gonna get a reply. He's gonna get a response. And
hopefully, if he's lucky, he's just gonna get a look. But you got the idea that this
rhetorical question, this rhetorical question is, you know, well, God was doing the same
thing in making this inquiry. God was presenting or laying
out or putting forth this idea. Did I ask anybody to make me
a house? So the inquiries, verse four
through seven, but then actually the impression, God's impression
of what he was doing here. God's pretty impressed with David's
desire. He's pretty impressed with David's
initiative, with David's wish. And we're not gonna be able to
get into the whole thing. We won't have enough time, but
we'll start into it. Verse eight. Now therefore, so
shalt thou say unto my servant David, thus saith the Lord of
hosts, I took thee from the sheep coat, from following the sheep
to be ruler over my people, over Israel. And I was with thee,
whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies
out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name. We talked
about Abraham the covenant the great name. Well, here's David's
great name and made thee a great name like unto the name of the
great men that are in the earth So God begins in this section
and gives him a bit of a review, an assessment, if you will, an
evaluation of David's life, and he's looking at David's public
life in a snapshot, a little quick pick, if you will, and
he talks about from a sheep coat, where he watched sheep for his
father, all the way to the throne, ruler over all Israel, all Jews,
all Hebrews. When I was thinking about this,
I was thinking of Brother Hiles. or the house. He told the story,
I don't know how many times, I've heard it several times from
here. He used to tell about a little boy, a little poor barefoot introvert
boy. And at that point he was just
a little boy, but he became, at least in his time, probably
the greatest pastor of the entire world. I'll read his testimony
of sorts from his words. He said, I'll never forget the
day that I walked into the Fernwood Baptist Church as a five-year-old
lad. The beginner superintendent,
whose name was Mrs. Bethel, took me to the beginner
department. She put me on her knee. My little
bare feet were obvious. My knees were showing through
the holes and through the patches of my pants. I had a little white
T-shirt, and I noticed that all the other little boys and girls
had on shoes, and the boys had white shirts and ties. Mrs. Bethel put me on her knee. She
said, Boys and girls, we have a visitor this morning. His name
is Jackie Boy Hiles. Aren't we glad to have him? Nobody
said a word. Then Mrs. Bethel looked at me
and said, Jackie boy, Jesus loves you. I'll never forget how I
felt. Mama had told me that, but nobody
else had ever told me. I looked up and said the first
words that I had said that morning. And I asked Mrs. Bethel, does
Jesus love me as much as the little boys and girls that have
on shoes? A tear escaped her eye and faded
her brow as she said, Jackie boy, He probably loves you more
than He loves anybody here this morning. I don't know what your story
is, what your testimony is. That was his. But we all have a testimony.
We all have this idea of where we came from and now we're saved.
We're child of the king and all that kind of stuff. That's what
God was doing. God was kind of rehearsing this idea of where
David came from. He came from the sheepfold all
the way to the great king of all the nations. And David had
led Israel to victories over all their enemies and all their
adversaries and all their opponents. Verse 9 says, And I was with
thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies
out of thy sight, and made thee a great name, like unto the name
of the great men that are in the earth. He stated, David had
a great name, like unto the name of all the great men in the earth.
And we're gonna have to stop there. We're gonna look at the
word name, that word that's used, name there, it's an interesting
word. It's S-H-E-M. They tell me it's pronounced
shame. Remember Shem, Noah's son, that word Shem? Well, that's
the word that usually is translated name in the Bible. We'll look
at that and get something from there. But we're looking at the
Davidic covenant. And God promises David an eternal
seed and an eternal throne. And we'll find that mostly in
2 Samuel 7 as we continue the next time. Again, next week,
Brother Smith. The week after that, Brother
Joplin. And let's go ahead and pray. We'll be dismissed. Thank
you for coming. Father, I ask that you bless what's been said.
Help us to put these things into practice. Help us to keep our
vessels in check and provide you a better temple. The same
desire David had. Bless these folks. We love them.
In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
The Davidic Covenant part 1
Series The Davidic Covenant
| Sermon ID | 102161146534 |
| Duration | 43:41 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday School |
| Bible Text | 2 Samuel |
| Language | English |
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