Episode Transcript
If you take God's precious word,
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and we're going to...
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Well, last week we covered the times of the judges.
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And this morning we're going to be in a different place this morning.
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Let me find my notes here.
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So we've been...
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Here we go.
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Huh?
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Yeah, I don't have my notes like that.
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Oh, yeah.
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Mm-hmm.
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So if I can count right...
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If you take your Bible's turn to 1 Samuel chapter 8.
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1 Samuel chapter 8.
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So last week...
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Let me get my pointer here.
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There it is.
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Last week, if you look up here at the chronological chart,
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we went over the period of the judges.
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And we learned that for a period of 400 years,
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God would use judges to judge Israel.
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He didn't want them to have judges.
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He never meant for them to have judges.
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He meant for them to use His word and to live by His word.
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And if they judged themselves by His word
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and just followed His commands,
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they would have prospered in the Promised Land
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and everything would have gone well.
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But they wouldn't.
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They got over there.
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They didn't drive out all their enemies like God said.
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They were worshiping some of the gods of the nations around them.
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And so God would let their enemies conquer them
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and begin to have victory over them.
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And then they'd cry out to God, "Lord, help us."
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Isn't that the way we do sometimes?
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"Lord, help us."
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And we'd get ourselves in trouble
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and then God would raise up a judge
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who would get them back on track again
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and then He would deliver them from their enemies.
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And everyone would be doing fine until that judge died.
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And they'd go right back to living the way they were again
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and then they would get right back in trouble again.
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This went on for 400 years.
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They never could get it right.
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And so finally, one of the last judges
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was a man named Samuel.
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And Samuel was a prophet.
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And he judged Israel and he was a fine man.
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And finally, the people of Israel, they had enough.
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They said, "You know what?
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We're tired of all these judges.
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We want to be like the nations around us.
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That's what we want to be.
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Why do we have to be so different from everybody?
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Let's be like everybody else."
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Isn't that the way kids are when they grow up?
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Parents say, "Well, no, you don't do this.
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Well, everybody else is doing it.
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And well, just because everyone's doing it doesn't make us right.
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Just because everyone's saying it doesn't make it true."
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But that's the way Israel was.
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We want to be like all the nations around us.
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If you'll take your Bibles, turn to 1 Samuel 8.
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1 Samuel 8.
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You remember one time to turn there at home?
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And we're going to look here in verse 1.
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1 Samuel 8 verse 1.
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"And it came to pass when Samuel was old
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that he made his sons judges over Israel.
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Now the name of his firstborn was Joel,
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and the name of his second Abiah,
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they were judges in Beersheba.
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And his sons walked not in his ways,
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but turned aside after Lucer."
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That means basically they were corrupt.
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They would take payoffs.
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"And took bribes and perverted judgment.
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Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together
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and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
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and said unto him, Behold," or look, Samuel,
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"Thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways.
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Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations."
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And that's the problem.
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God took them out of Egypt not to make them like everybody else.
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He took them out of Egypt to make them a special nation,
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a nation whose God was their king.
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I mean, what nation on earth had God as a king? Nobody.
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God was supposed to be their king.
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God was supposed to be their judge.
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God's word was supposed to be their commandments.
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And they said, "Oh, just make us a king like all the other nations.
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We want to be like everybody else."
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Verse 6, 1 Samuel 8, 6, "But the thing displeased Samuel
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when they said, 'Give us a king to judge us.'
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And Samuel prayed unto the Lord,
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and the Lord said unto Samuel,
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'Harken or listen unto the voice of the people
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and all that they say unto thee.'
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This is important for they have not rejected thee,
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but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them."
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That was the problem.
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Samuel, this isn't about you.
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This is about them rejecting me.
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They don't want me to be their king.
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Why is the world the way it is right now?
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How come they don't want prayer in school?
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How come they want this separation of church and state?
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Because they don't want God to rule over them.
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How come during the time of Easter at the White House
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in Washington, D.C., our president of the United States,
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how come they could have Easter bunnies,
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they could have Easter eggs during Easter time,
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but they could have nothing about Easter,
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nothing about the resurrection of Christ from the dead,
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which is what the holiday is about.
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Why? They don't want God to reign over them.
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They hate God. They hate their creator.
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And this has been the struggle between God and man
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since the very beginning when Adam disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden.
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So let's look and see what happens here,
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and I'll tell you if you'll stick with us this morning, those who are online,
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this will be one of the most incredible lessons you've ever set through in this course.
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There is some amazing truth we're going to cover today.
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So they reject God from being their king,
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but God says, "Well, listen to them, Samuel. Do whatever they ask."
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Look here if you would in verse 7 again,
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"The Lord said unto Samuel, 'Harken unto the voice of the people
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in all that they say unto thee.'"
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How come God didn't say, "Oh, don't listen to them, Samuel. You know they're wrong."
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God says, "Samuel, they're wrong. Now listen to them."
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You see that?
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Sometimes when people are bound and determined to do their thing,
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God says, "Okay, I'm going to tell you no,
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but if you want to really, really do what I'm telling you not to do,
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I'll help you. I'll give you a push.
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I'll shove you in that direction that you want to go away from me."
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Why?
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Because God's going to let them get a belly full of their own rebellion.
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He's going to let them find out the hard way what it's like
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when you go against God's word.
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And so God says, "Listen to them, Samuel. Do whatever they say."
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Look down in verse 8,
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"According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up
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out of Egypt, even unto this day, where would they have forsaken me
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and served other gods? So do they also unto thee.
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Now therefore hearken unto their voice, how be it,
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yet protest solemnly unto them, and show them the manner of the king
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that shall reign unto them."
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He says, "So do whatever they want, but tell them, 'Don't do it.'
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Warn them, 'You don't want this, but do whatever they ask you to do.'
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So we're going to give them fair warning."
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And God will do that for us. He'll give us fair warning.
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He'll say, "I'm telling you not to, but if you insist,
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I'll help you along. I'll help you along."
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And so Samuel protests, and Samuel says,
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"Hey, you don't want to do this.
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You don't want to have a king over you that's a man
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while you've got God as your king. So why in the world would you want to
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have a man as your king?"
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And so if you'll look here now, go down to verse 19 after Samuel warns them,
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1 Samuel 8, 19, "Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel,
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and they said, 'Nay, but we will have a king over us.'"
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In other words, they just, like a child, stamped their feet and said,
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"Nope, this is what we're going to do."
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Now look what they wanted, verse 20, "That we also may be like all the nations,
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and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles."
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Now I don't want a man to judge me and to lead me and fight my battles.
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I want God to judge me and lead me and fight my battles.
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But that's what they wanted.
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And so let's go ahead now, and basically what happened in all this,
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God gave them a king named Saul.
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So now we move from the 400 years of the judges,
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we move to the 400 years of the kings.
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There's a period historically of 400 years of God having kings over Israel.
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The first king was Saul. Saul was not a godly man.
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Saul acted like a godly man, but he wasn't. He was a hypocrite.
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He didn't care about God's will, he cared about doing his own.
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And God let them suffer with Saul for a while.
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And then God finally, after removing Saul, God said,
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"I'm going to give Israel a king that has my heart, someone that loves me,
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someone that wants to obey my word."
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And he's not a perfect man, but no man is because of sin.
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But I'm going to give them a special king,
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and that special king's name is David.
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He ruled about 1,000 years before the promised savior came.
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We're getting closer to the promised savior coming, aren't we?
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Only 1,000 years away now.
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1,000 BC means 1,000 years before Christ came.
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So he's going to give them a special king named David.
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And with this special king came incredible revelations of the coming savior.
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Absolutely incredible.
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Now, if you would, here's what happens.
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Now turn to 1 Samuel, chapter 16.
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1 Samuel, chapter 16.
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So just go forward a few chapters here.
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In what we're going to do, we're going to start in verse 4 here.
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So God tells Samuel, "I have someone I'm going to replace Saul with."
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He's a special king who wants to do my will.
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Samuel then goes to where God told him to, to find this king.
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Samuel doesn't know who it is.
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And let's look here in 1 Samuel 16.
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And Samuel did that which the Lord spake and came to Bethlehem.
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If you have your Bible open, if you have a paper Bible,
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and you're not looking on a tablet, or you might want to underscore Bethlehem.
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Where was this king found in Bethlehem?
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Isn't that amazing?
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Because this king that God's going to put on this throne
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is going to be a picture of the coming savior that's going to come a thousand years later.
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So guess where the king's found?
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In Bethlehem is where he goes to find him.
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And the elders, and look in verse 4,
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"And the elders of the town trembled at his coming and said, 'Come, us thou peaceably.'"
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In other words, Samuel we know you're a prophet.
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I hope you're not coming to pronounce doom upon us.
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Verse 5, "And he said peaceably, 'I am come to sacrifice unto the Lord,
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sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.'
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And he sanctified Jesse and his sons and called them to the sacrifice."
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There's this man named Jesse.
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And God has told Samuel that one of his sons is going to be the next king.
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And Samuel doesn't know which son it is yet.
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Verse 16, "And it came to pass when they were come that he looked on Eliyev,
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and said, 'Surely the Lord's anointed is before him.'"
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He sees Eliyev, one of Jesse's sons, Eliyev is a big fella.
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Maybe he looks like Hulk Hogan or something, you know.
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He's a big, strapping, strong-looking fella.
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He thought, "Ooh, surely this has to be the new king here."
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But look what God said in verse 7,
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"But the Lord said unto Samuel, 'Look not on his countenance,
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or on the height of his stature, because I have refused him.
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For the Lord seeth not as man seeth.
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For man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.'"
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Now, that's just like our God, isn't it? Isn't that wise?
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Yeah, yeah.
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There's a lot of big men on the outside that are little men on the inside, aren't they?
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Yeah. Yeah.
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They have no moral character. They have no courage.
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They're just not real men. And so God says, "No, Samuel."
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I don't look at people that way. I look at the inside on their heart.
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So let's look here now.
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Verse 8, "Then Jesse called him Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel.
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He said, 'Neither hath the Lord chosen this.'
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Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by, and he said, 'Neither hath the Lord chosen this.'"
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Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel, and Samuel said unto Jesse,
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'The Lord has not chosen these.'
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God told me it's going to be one of Jesse's sons, and I've looked at all these sons,
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and God's refused every one of them.
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Verse 11, "And Samuel said unto Jesse, 'Are here all thy children?'"
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I mean, is this all the kids you have?
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And he said, "There remains yet the youngest.
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And behold, he keeps the sheep."
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Oh, man, isn't this good?
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He goes to Bethlehem to find the king, and the king ends up being a shepherd
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that nobody expected to be king. Isn't that good?
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What does the Bible say in Psalm 23?
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"The Lord is my," what? "Shepherd." Isn't that good?
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So we see here that the coming king, the coming Savior, is going to be from Bethlehem.
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He'll be found in Bethlehem, and he will be a shepherd that nobody expected.
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That if you were to look at him, you'd think, "Oh, this isn't the promised Savior."
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Yeah, this isn't nothing. That's right.
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But God doesn't look on the outward. He looks on the heart.
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He's going to be someone unsuspected.
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All right?
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And so let's go ahead and look here now.
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Verse 12, "And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy."
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Now, "ruddy" means kind of like they have red cheeks.
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Yeah, he was ruddy. He looked like a kid.
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"And with all of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look on,
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and the Lord said, 'Arise, anoint him, for this is he.'
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A young boy has been out tending sheep."
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I mean, he had no idea all this was going on.
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His brothers were getting looked at to possibly be king.
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He's out tending sheep.
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And that next thing you know, he gets anointed to be king.
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Verse 13, "Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brethren.
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And the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward."
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So he takes oil, pours it upon David's head, and back then that's how they anointed someone king.
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God would use oil, a special type of oil most of the time,
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and that would sanctify, that means to set someone apart from everybody else to make them special.
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Then say, "This is the person."
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The oil was a picture of God's Spirit being poured on that person.
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So you notice here, when he poured the oil on David, it says, "The Spirit of the Lord came upon David."
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So can you put oil on someone? The Holy Spirit not be on that person? Yes.
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But when God anoints someone, he anoints them with his Spirit.
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And so back then they would pour oil, anoint them with oil as a symbol
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that this is the person God has anointed with his Spirit to rule over his people.
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Or to be a high priest or whatever the anointing was.
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So that's what happens now.
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David eventually, there's a struggle between David and Saul,
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but God eventually appoints David to be king.
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David rises up and David becomes the king.
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And so now what we want to do is look at something very special that God told David,
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if you'll take your Bible and turn to the book of Psalms.
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Psalm 132.
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Huh?
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It says I can find it.
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You can find it. We'll give everybody time.
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132.
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132.
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Oh, okay.
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Psalm 1.
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All right. Everybody there?
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Now if you'll look here, look what God told David in verse 11.
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Psalm 132 verse 11.
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This is good stuff, folks.
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"The Lord hath sworn in truth unto David."
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So God is swearing something to David. He's making a covenant with David.
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"The Lord hath sworn in truth unto David. He will not turn from it."
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In other words, he's never going to break this promise.
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What is this promise?
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He tells him, "Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne."
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"Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne."
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That's amazing.
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He's telling David,
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"David, the fruit of your body," what is that? It's his offspring.
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Okay.
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"The fruit of your body is offspring."
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Fruit. I'm going to put offspring.
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Oh, sorry.
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"The fruit of your body will I set upon thy throne."
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Now I'm going to...
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to...
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this word.
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So what's going to happen is God is going to set someone on his throne
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that's from the fruit of his own body.
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And the thing is, it's going to...
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His lineage, his throne is going to last forever. Okay?
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Forever. If you'll...
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Look back here now.
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Look in verse 17.
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I'm sorry, verse 13.
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"The Lord has chosen Zion," that's where David was ruling.
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He wants it for... I'm sorry, I'm in the wrong translation here. Let me go back to King James.
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Verse 13. "For the Lord hath chosen Zion, he hath desired it for his habitation."
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"The Lord has chosen Zion."
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Zion is where David was ruling as king at the time.
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God has chosen Zion. He's desired it for his habitation.
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Look what he says in verse 14.
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"This is my rest," or my resting place, for how long?
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Forever.
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"Here will I dwell, for I have desired it."
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So God is going to dwell in Zion and Jerusalem forever.
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And he's telling him this after saying he's going to set the fruit of David's body upon his throne.
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Look back in verse 11. "The Lord has sworn in truth in David, he will not turn from it."
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"But of the fruit of that body will I set upon thy throne."
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And then he says this in verse 14. I'm sorry, verse 13.
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"The Lord has chosen Zion, he has desired it for his habitation."
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"This is my rest forever. Here will I dwell."
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Who's going to set on David's throne? God will. God will.
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God is going to become a man. He's going to descend as the offspring of David.
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And becoming a man, God will sit on the throne of his father David.
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God made David. God was before David. But God is going to take on...
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There we go. God is going to take on human flesh.
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He's going to sit on the throne of David in rule for how long? Forever.
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There will be no end to his kingdom.
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This is an absolutely amazing passage of Scripture here.
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Verse 14, "This is my rest forever. Here will I dwell, for I have desired it."
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Look here in verse 16. "I will also clothe her priests with salvation,
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and her saints shall shout aloud for joy. There will I make the horn of David to bud.
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I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed. His enemies will I clothe with shame,
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but upon himself shall his crown flourish."
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This is what we call the Davidic covenant. The covenant that God made with David.
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Now, having understood what God promised David, look here if you would now in the Gospel of Luke.
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Luke chapter 1. Luke chapter 1.
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That's in the New Testament.
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Yeah, it's in the New Testament. Matthew, Mark, Luke.
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I'll help you.
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The clear coordinated is.
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Everything runs together.
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There you go.
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What chapter?
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Chapter 1.
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Now, let's go to verse 26. Luke 1.26.
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Now, we're fast forwarding a thousand years later.
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Okay?
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"And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee named Nazareth,
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to a virgin, a spouse to a man whose name was Joseph of the house of," what? David.
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Alright. "Joseph was a descendant of King David."
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That was Mary's wife.
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Mary was a virgin at this time. They were a spouse, but the marriage had not yet been consummated.
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Back then a spouse was like a legal engagement.
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So if you were a spouse, you were married, but it's sort of like an engagement on steroids.
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It wasn't like you just take your ring off and say, "I don't want to marry you."
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So he's a spouse. This is his wife.
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And he's a descendant of David.
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Verse 28. "And the angel came in unto her and said, 'Hail, thou that are highly favored,
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the Lord is with thee, bless art thou among women.' And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying,
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and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be."
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In other words, what is this all about?
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"And the angel said unto her, 'Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favor with God.
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Behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shall call his name Jesus.'"
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All right. Now remember, Jesus was the Greek form of Joshua in the Hebrew.
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It means God's save, Jehovah's save, Joshua.
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Verse 32. "Look what the angel says about this son she's going to give birth to.
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He shall be great, and shall be called the son of the highest."
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All right. So he'll be a son of David in the sense that he descended from David physically.
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He will be the son of God, the highest,
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because his mother was a virgin, and the Holy Spirit would allow her to conceive in her womb,
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and so God would be his father spiritually. David would be his father as far as DNA is concerned.
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God would become a man. He would take on human flesh, just like we read earlier.
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All right. Look here now. In verse 32, "He shall be great, and shall be called the son of the highest,
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and the Lord God shall give unto him." Look here now. "The throne of his father, David."
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So this is how God's going to fulfill this promise he made to David of the fruit of your body.
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"Well, I set upon your throne."
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And so now God is going to take on human flesh from the fruit of David's body,
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and God will set upon David's throne, and how long will he be king? Forever. He's still king.
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He's king now. The problem is, Israel as a nation hasn't accepted their king, but they will.
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But he's king. Verse 33, "And he shall reign over the house of Jacob," that's Israel,
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"forever enough his kingdom there shall be no end."
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Now, the beautiful thing is everybody that becomes a citizen of his kingdom,
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their citizenship shall never end because their king will never end.
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He will go out before them. He will lead them. He will fight their battles.
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And he will win the victory for them. That's the kind of king we need.
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You see, the problem is, though, we have to recognize the enemy before you can fight the battle and win, right?
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You have to recognize the enemy. And so let's think about this.
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What is the true enemy of man? Sin? Man? Man is the true enemy of man?
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Okay. What do you think? I would think man and sin, like together.
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Okay. Why would you say man is the enemy? Because they usually cause the issues.
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The conflict, the issues, the trouble, things like that. Right.
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And when they cause that trouble, is that sin? Yes.
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So could we say that sin is the true enemy of man? Right.
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I mean, because we don't want God to come back and destroy all people, right?
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Because they need to destroy us if we're the problem.
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But sin is the problem. Sin is what causes war. Sin is what causes death.
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That was the whole point of the reason Adam died and that we, his offspring, dies because of sin.
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And the day you eat thereof, you'll surely die. Sin causes everything that we struggle with.
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The greatest commandments, if you'll remember, is for us to love God with all of our heart and to love our neighbor as ourselves.
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If all the other nations in the earth loved us as they did themselves, would there ever be war? No.
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It's when they don't love us, it's when they don't follow God's command to love us that we have the problem with war.
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It's when we don't follow God's word that we have the problem with sickness and disease and death.
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And so we see here that God says, "He'll reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there shall be no end."
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He's going to be the one that is going to go out. Remember what Israel wanted.
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They give us a king like all the nations who will go out before us who will fight our battles.
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Well, God's going to come sit on David's throne and he's going to lead us and he's going to fight our battles.
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And the battles he's going to fight are going to be against the true enemies.
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He's not going to come and take over the Roman government when he comes because the Roman government's not the problem.
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Had Israel obeyed God when the Savior came, they wouldn't have been in bondage to the Roman government.
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They would have been still a free nation.
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But he's going to come tackle the root of the problem, which is sin, Satan, and death.
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As a king, he will destroy Satan, our enemy.
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He will destroy death and he will make final good riddance of sin forever.
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That's what he's going to do.
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We need that today. We need that right now. We do.
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Because the world is crazy.
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That the world is crazy. It is. It's chaotic.
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But all those who become a citizen of God's kingdom, the kingdom of God, will rule forever in victory.
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They'll live forever as citizens of God's kingdom and there'll be no sin, no Satan, no death forever and forever.
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It is beautiful. That is the gospel message. That is the good news.
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That's why when Jesus comes, they begin preaching and repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
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In other words, there's going to be a new kingdom come.
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And so right now we're in the process and have been for the last 2,000 years since this Savior in Bethlehem,
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this shepherd in Bethlehem came and sat on the throne of his father David, which he'll do when he comes again.
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Ever since that time, the gospel message has been inviting people to give up their old citizenship to this world that they were born into
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and to accept a new king and have a new citizenship.
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I tell you, there's sometimes I look at our nation and how corrupt and pitiful it is and I think, man,
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I wish there was another nation I could go to, I wish there was another place I could go to that did right, that wasn't corrupt,
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that didn't lie to its people, their citizens' best interest in mind and that wasn't filthy and had all this wickedness in it
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and there is no place to go to.
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And so the beauty is through the gospel message we can accept the fact that you know what, we are in a mess, we are sinners,
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and we need God to rule over us and not man.
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And so hearing the good news of what the Savior has done to overcome sin, Satan, and death through his resurrection over the dead,
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that's what he was doing as our king when he came, he died for our sins, what was he doing?
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He was fighting our battles, fighting the enemy of sin, he goes to the grave, he comes out of the grave, overcomes death, what was he doing?
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He was going out before us and fighting our battle and overcoming death for us.
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And then he raises again the right hand of God waiting to set on the throne when he comes again.
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In the meantime, I have accepted the truth of God and the record of God's Son fighting my battle and winning through his death,
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burial and resurrection. I've accepted him as my king and my Savior and I, like every other Christian in this world,
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we're waiting on our king's return. We're citizens of the United States or whatever country you're in, Zambia or whatever, we're citizens of that physically.
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But spiritually, we're citizens of the kingdom that's on its way. And I'm excited about that.
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And when our king comes, there won't be any vote, you don't have to worry about cheating on an election.
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God's determined who's going to be king here and you won't ever be able to overturn it. He'll never be taken off his throne,
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which means we'll never have an enemy again. Isn't that wonderful? With that, we'll go ahead and stop. And God willing, let me just tell you real quick, David ruled.
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And during this time, David decided, okay, God's tabernacle has been the holy place, the most holy place, it's been in a tent this whole time.
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And so I'm going to make it into a permanent structure. God said, well, you lay up the materials, but I'm going to let Solomon your son, when he becomes king,
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I'll let him actually build the temple. And so during David's reign, he laid up the materials for the temple.
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And during Solomon's reign, he built the temple of God. And the temple is simply the tabernacle being a tent made into a permanent structure, brick and mortar.
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Okay. If you think of it like that, with that, we'll go ahead and stop. And Lord willing, we'll go through the times of the kings again.
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And we're getting really, really close to the coming of the savior down here at the end. Yeah, it is exciting. All right.
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We'll go ahead and stop. Lord willing, we'll see you next door. Thank you for sticking with us and tuning in. Aren't you glad we have a kingdom that's on its way?
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