00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:04 Lessons from the Church Leaders Conference

02:12 Today's Bible Reading: Second Samuel and First Chronicles

08:21 The Davidic Covenant Explained

11:48 David's Humility and Prayer

16:12 Closing Prayer and Final Thoughts

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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And hello.

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Hey, we were, out this week and Monday,

or not Monday, but Tuesday and Wednesday,

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we were not in office, but we were

down in Dallas at Watermark Church,

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at their church leaders conference,

DLC as they often call it CLC.

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Yeah.

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And here are some of the major

lessons that we've learned.

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I can't wait for us to share

with you those lessons.

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Pastor P, why don't you go first.

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Top three things that we learned there.

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We're not prophets yet you expect

that we will be at some point?

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At some point.

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At some point, yeah.

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No.

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The reason why we go, this is

our third year going to this

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now, is they're a church that's

very much different than we are.

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They're a large, very large church.

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I don't know how many they've

got going there, but upwards of

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multiple thousands of people there.

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Every single week they've.

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We're getting close.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We're not quite at that 60,000

of that church in Alabama.

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We're close.

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They preach a biblical

gospel for the most part.

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We would do things a little bit

differently there for sure, but there's

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a lot that we can learn and they're doing

things obviously in a way that is doing.

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Really well.

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And so we go it's not so much a

doctrine in theology conference,

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like maybe Shepherd's Conference

would be, or G three, right?

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But there's a lot of just really

practical helps for the church that we

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feel like they have done really well

and we can go and benefit from them.

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So there's breakout

sessions for leadership.

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There's breakout sessions

for administration.

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We're taking our whole team down there

breakout session for student ministry for.

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Kids' ministry, there's all kinds of

different ways that we can grow and

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learn, and it's just a good time for

us as a staff and a team to fellowship.

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So hopefully if you remember, this

is Wednesday now that we're recording

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this, and so this is day two.

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And maybe you can just be praying

for us that it would be a fruitful

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and profitable time for us that we

would learn a good amount and be

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able to bring it back and be better.

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Then we would've if we hadn't gone.

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That's right.

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We can use your prayers.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Church Leaders Conference, if you wanna

check it out they've got it on online.

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You can not the, I don't they can watch

it, not the sessions, but you can go

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find out what it's about on there.

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Yeah, we'd love for you to do that.

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They've got great worship.

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They're responsible for some of the

people they got Shane and Shane,

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I think they go to their church.

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Davey Flowers.

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Davey Fly.

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Yeah.

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You might not know who they are, but

if they, if you ever heard anything

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by Worship initiative a lot of their

people are included in those projects.

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So if you know that, then you'll know

some of the people that go to this church.

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Yeah.

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And sometimes they do their.

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They're recording there.

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Yeah, I think they do some

of the recording up in those

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towers that they've got there.

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So yeah, I don't know what they

have, but that's a cool place.

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Yeah.

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Should be a good time.

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Alright, let's get into

our reading for today.

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We've got a shorter amount of

reading, not as many chapters because

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we're not in the Psalms today.

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We'll be back tomorrow.

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So if you're missing the Psalms,

hey, they're coming back tomorrow.

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You won't miss 'em for too long.

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That's right.

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Second signal six, seven,

and first Chronicle 17.

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Now again, we are reading parallel

accounts here, so we're gonna run

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into some of the same information.

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Again, don't let that discourage you.

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Don't let that be like, oh, okay, I get a

free pass 'cause we've already read this.

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Keep going, keep reading.

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Pay attention.

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Look for what's different.

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In fact, I think rather than being a

reason why you wouldn't read more closely,

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I think this gives you a reason to read.

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Instead more closely so that

you can observe and notice

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what the differences are there.

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Because God's given us

both accounts for a reason.

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He hasn't just repeated

himself because he wanted to.

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He's given us the accounts of Second

Samuel and First Chronicles so that we

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can hold them together, overlap them,

and better understand what's going on

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in each of these texts and passages.

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So second Samuel, chapter six, we get the

attempts to bring the arc to Jerusalem.

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Again, you'll remember we've already

read about that in one Chronicles.

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So now we're reading about it in

two Samuel and there's two attempts.

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And remember the the problem was with the

first attempt that they put the arc on the

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cart and the oxen stumbled and ZA dies.

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We read about all of that in

Second Samuel chapter six as well.

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It's a little bit more condensed, a little

bit more compact in Second Samuel six than

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it is in the first Chronicles account.

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But but a lot of the same material where.

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The writer of Second Samuel does

expound a little bit more is in a

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couple of interesting points with

the second attempt to bring the arc.

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For example, it says in verse 13 that

when they went back to get the arc from

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Obed Edam, that the Tite's house, and they

were carrying it back, it says, when those

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who bore the ark of the Lord had gone six

steps, they sacrificed a fattened animal.

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I take this as this was

a one and done thing.

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Some people have said every six

steps, six steps they stopped.

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Sacrificed a, an animal through

the, for the whole journey back.

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But I take this more as this was a one

and done thing and some commentators

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said they took six steps and stopped

in reference to the Sabbath, that

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they were consecrating the whole

journey of the arc bring back, being

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brought back to Jerusalem to the Lord.

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There's just a greater level

of intentionality in worship.

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This is not just about, Hey,

let's celebrate because this is

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a great idea to bring the arc.

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Back the second time around, it's

let's do this because this is a good

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thing for us to do and this is an

act of worship before the Lord and

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David ends up praising and worshiping

God on the way back with the ark.

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Yeah.

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I always thought that it was every six

steps that's, that sounds like a lot.

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Sounds like a really generous.

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Gift on David's part, but I think after

what happened with Za the first time,

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he's we're not doing this wrong this time.

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We're gonna make sure that if we're

sinning, even unknowingly, we're

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gonna make sure that we're squaring

up with God, so that as we take

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this thing, we're not ac accruing

wrath or God's judgment upon us.

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So I think that's what he did.

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That's the way that I've read it.

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However, either way it does

show David's intentionality,

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which I think is appropriate.

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Sometimes we're so cavalier

with God, we just show up and

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if we wanna worship, we worship.

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And if we don't.

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I.

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There's just so many times that we're just

casual with God and I, if there's anything

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that I miss about the old Covenant, and

I've never been under it, thank God.

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But I do miss that sense of

reverence that's built into the

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system because of the sacrifice.

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You get a visceral understanding of

what your sin does between you and God.

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And we don't have anything like that,

at least not in a physical sense.

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We could, we have the bread and the wine.

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Or the grape juice in our case.

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But we don't have something that's oh

man, that's really violent and bloody,

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and I feel really bad for that animal.

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It takes extra effort on our part,

intentionality, as you said, to be.

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Aware of who God is as we approach him.

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Yeah, for sure.

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And I think there's that side of things.

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There's the weightiness of witnessing

the sacrifices and then there's

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also just the desire to feel the

austere and the reverence and the

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atmospheric elements, that are there.

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And it's hard to do that.

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We meet in a.

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In a school cafeteria.

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In a school gym, and the

lights are what they are.

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We, we can't really do much about that.

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It's these bright, tube lights

that I'm sure there's microplastics

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in them and other things.

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Microplastic tube lights.

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I'm just saying as it rains, it's

a fluorescent lighting on us.

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Exactly.

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Absorbing all of those

microplastics Exactly.

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From the air.

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It's hard because we have to be

careful 'cause you can do too much

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with the atmosphere, where you can

manufacture something that's not genuine.

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That's true.

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I think there's also a room in

place for it and right now we

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don't have the luxury to be able

to try to do that intentionally,

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at least with our current setup.

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But yeah, when we get our own

building, we're gonna do incense.

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We're gonna drop the lights way down.

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Low stain glass windows.

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Stain glass wind.

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Yeah.

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We're gonna put some, we'll put some

feathers in the air ducts so that when

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the AC turns on I see what you're, the

feathers just diamond crusted feathers.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Put some some sparkle,

some glitter in there.

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Yeah.

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You'll note here in second Samuel

chapter six that me call takes a little

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bit more of a front row position than

she does in the first Chronicles.

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Account, not in a good way.

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She's despising David saying, Hey,

David, you're humiliating yourself.

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Which really was about humiliating

her more than it was anything else.

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And David chastises her and

says, look I'll become even

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more undignified than this.

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And I'm not really worried

about your opinion.

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And it seems that Mical is shut

up for the rest of her life.

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Not verbally, although maybe

but metaphorically, and

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she dies childless, she.

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She is.

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I think what we're to understand

here is put away from David's court.

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I don't think she really is going

to be considered as one of his

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intimate companions anymore,

if we can put it that way.

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Because of these actions of her despising,

David's worship of the Lord, because

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he was not trying to draw attention

to himself or trying to be acting

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in un unbecoming way and worship.

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He was worshiping God.

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And she despised him for that.

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Yeah.

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And there's a, there's clear information

here that she is a daughter of Saul.

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There's a con comparison and

a contrasting with the prior

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leadership and God's leadership.

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God's leadership is unconcerned

with the disapproval of man or

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woman in this case when it's Right,

a right disposition toward God.

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And I think that's really helpful for us

to see that the preeminent king of Judah.

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Israel was a man who was unconcerned, what

people thought when he was worshiping,

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and I think that is probably more

helpful to us than to say hey guys.

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You're drawing too much

attention to yourselves.

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You're dancing in the

alleyways and you're yelling.

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In some churches that might be the case

where they need to hear a little bit more.

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Hey guys, just let's tone it down a bit.

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Think about your neighbors.

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Maybe.

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In churches like ours, the tendency is

probably more to be more toned down,

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more subdued, and maybe inappropriately.

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Little frozen chosen a little bit, yeah.

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Chapter seven is one of those

hallmark chapters of the Bible.

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There's ones that you'll remember and

you'll go, okay, there's this, there's

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second Samuel seven is one of those,

because in second Samuel chapter

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seven, we get the Davidic covenant.

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And so the chapter opens with

David saying to Nathan, Hey, I'm

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sitting in my palace, which is

great, but the arc sits in a tent.

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I wanna build a house for God.

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And Nathan originally says, go for it.

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But God.

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Sends Nathan back to David

and says, not so fast, David.

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I'm not gonna let you build me a house.

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I'm gonna build you a house.

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And this is a promise from God that

he is going to establish David's house

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and his name and his fame, but also

most importantly his line and that

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the Davidic throne would last forever.

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And.

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Ever.

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Verse 13, he shall build a house from my

name, speaking of the offspring of David.

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So here Solomon 13 A is Solomon.

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He shall build a house from my

name, that's King Solomon, but

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13 B, and I will establish the

throne of his kingdom forever.

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That's gonna be one of

the offspring of Solomon.

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That's gonna be one of

the offspring of David.

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That's gonna be way down the line.

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That's Jesus.

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So we are in the already not yet

of the fulfillment of the Davidic

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covenant in the, already in the

sense that Christ has come the first

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time and he is now you could say

ruling and reigning even in heaven.

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But the ultimate fulfillment of this

fifth kingdom from Daniel that the

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kingdom without end, the kingdom

that's in the future that is yet in

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the future, in that we believe will

be inaugurated the millennial kingdom.

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But then from that point forward

Jesus is king for the rest of time.

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And so he's king right now, but in

the fullest reality of that's yet.

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Future, and that will be the

fulfillment of two Samuel Chapter

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seven, this Promise of the Davidic King.

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No, in verse 14 again what I mentioned

yesterday or two days ago from Psalm

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two, that here again, God promises

of this king that I will be to him a

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father, and he shall be to me a son.

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And so again, you've got the

ancient Near Eastern background.

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Backdrop of the fact that the kings of

these foreign nations were considered

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to have been adopted by their gods.

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But here it's, God is saying, no,

my son is gonna be the ultimate

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fulfillment of the Davidic King.

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It's not gonna be somebody that

I'm gonna have to adopt because

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it's gonna be the begotten one.

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Jesus Christ is going to be the one that

is going to fulfill this ultimately.

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Yeah.

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Second Samuel, chapter

seven is really important.

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This is one you wanna remember because

it's gonna have strings or tentacles

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into other texts where we're gonna

refer back to this and say, remember

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when God promised to build David A.

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House?

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That's really important.

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So this is one you want to keep

in the back of your mind, one of

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those chapters that kind of hinges

a lot of other texts in the Bible.

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So second Samuel, chapter seven.

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Keep that one in your mind.

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Secondly, lemme just point out

to you this something important.

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Na Nathan tells David, yeah, dude,

whatever's on your heart, man, do that.

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God's clearly with you.

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Let's go do what you wanna do, man.

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God wants to do this, and Nathan,

the prophet, speaks presumptuously

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upon God such that God has to

say, hold on a second buddy.

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Let me correct you.

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You might have thought that

I wanted to do what you say,

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but that's not the case here.

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Let me redirect you.

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And so God says, I don't

want you to do this.

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I'm gonna make you a house

instead of you making me a house.

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Really important that you don't

presume upon God, even if you have

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a good, noble desire where it's I

wanna do something good for God.

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That doesn't mean God

wants you to do it for him.

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Does this also mean that

pastors sometimes make mistakes?

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No, I'm not saying that at all.

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Some pa Yeah, maybe some

pastors, some places.

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But just because something is

inherently a good thing doesn't

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mean that God's endorsing it.

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Here.

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Here's the takeaway.

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Please be prayerful.

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Don't presume upon the Lord.

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Make sure that you're seeking the Lord's

will, even on things that you might

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think there's nothing wrong with this.

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Certainly Nathan was commending David.

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David, this is a good thing.

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This is a great thing that you

wanna do something so noble for God.

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Sure, surely God's

gonna be okay with this.

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And he assumed as much, but he was wrong.

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Don't presume upon the Lord.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And in the, after this, David gets

the point and David is humbled

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to the, to a great degree here.

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In fact, he says in verse 18, who am I?

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And what is my house that you've brought

me this far, and what can I say to you?

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Verse 20.

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And yet he says in verse 19, and yet,

this was a small thing in your eyes.

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A Lord I love that because for David,

he's saying this is massive, and yet

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his view of God is so big that he says

of God, yet this is small for you.

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Like this is no bigs.

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This overwhelms me.

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And yet for you, this is a small.

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Small issue, a small matter.

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And and then like I said yesterday,

David goes on and ask God to do that.

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Verse 25.

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And now, oh Lord, confirm forever the word

you've spoken concerning your servant.

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And so he's calling on God

to do what God has done.

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And he's bold in this.

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It's a imperative in the Hebrew.

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There, he's commanding

God in a sense to be God.

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And you say how is that?

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Okay because God cannot do other than

that, God cannot do other than to be

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true to his word and to be who he is.

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And david is not creating a scenario where

he's saying, Hey, God, if you're unsure of

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what to do, this is what you need to do.

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And he's not taking a position of

authority over God, but he's telling

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God I'm calling on you to be who

you are, which we know God will be.

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And so there's no other op option, but

for God to remain faithful to his word.

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And so David is just calling on him

to be faithful here in this this part.

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Yeah.

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That's a really good way to pray.

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I know I made this connection already,

but it's good to remind yourselves

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when you're praying to the Lord.

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One way to pray is to pray the promises

that God has given you to pray about

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what you know to be true about God.

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Obviously you're not commanding God

to do anything than other anything

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other than what he wants to do, but

that's a great place to be, Lord.

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You've proven yourself to be righteous.

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You are righteous.

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The the foundations of your throne

are righteousness and justice.

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Therefore, God, I'm asking that

you will fill in the blank.

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It's taking God's word and taking

him at his word and saying, Lord, I

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want you to do what your word says.

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And I think that's a really interesting

and powerful way to pray and to, I'm

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not gonna say bargain with God, but

you're interceding on someone's behalf.

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Maybe be your behalf or the

behalf of your loved one to ask

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God to fulfill his promises.

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That's a good place to be.

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Yep.

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First Chronicles 17 then is gonna

give us a lot of the same information

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again as a parallel account.

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But one thing that jumped out to

me in one Chronicles 17, verse 11,

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when God says through Nathan, when

your days are fulfilled to walk.

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With your fathers this is something

that's come up a few times with us.

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What was the concept that

they had of the afterlife?

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And here it seems that there was

an understanding that, hey, I'm

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gonna go be with my forefathers.

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I'm gonna go be with the ones

that have gone before me.

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'cause Nathan says, when the

days are fulfilled for you to go

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walk with your fathers he doesn't

say for you to go to the grave.

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He could have said that when the

days are filled for you to go to

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shield, for you to go to the grave.

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Instead he says, no, for you to go to life

beyond this life to walk with your father.

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Whatever their concept was it as,

as robust and fulfilled as what

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ours is in the New Testament?

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Certainly not.

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But they did have an understanding of the

fact that there is a life after death.

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And what's even more cool in this is

that life after death is only gonna be

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possible because of the one that's being.

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Prophesied about here

in one Chronicles 17.

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That is the Davidic Messiah, Jesus,

who's gonna be the foundation of our

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righteous standing before the Lord.

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For both those in the Old Testament

and the New Testament we just have the

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advantage of looking back at him on the

backside of the cross rather than trying

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to anticipate what God was gonna do,

like the Old Testament saints had to do.

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Yeah.

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It's called progressive revelation as God

makes more and more clear things that are

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a bit obscure and fuzzy on the front end.

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Another thing that stood out to me,

pastor PJ, was, so as I was reading,

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I noticed in verse 16, king David

went in and sat before the Lord.

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That stood out to me because I, in

my mind, I don't know, I, I assume

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that he was standing, was a regal.

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He's a king.

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He stands before the Lord.

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Maybe he holds his hands out and says,

thank you, Lord, that you, I could just,

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in my mind, I'm imagining what that scene

looked like, but here he sits, and I think

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this is important because it conveys the

attitude and the posture of David's heart.

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It's humility.

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He sits before the Lord.

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A child would sit before his

parent, as a just to connect with

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the parent, to enjoy the parent.

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He's sitting I don't know if he's

crisscross applesauce, but he's sitting

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down and he's just praising the Lord.

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Yeah, and just I think he's

overwhelmed and overcome and

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what God has just said, who am I?

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Oh Lord, that you would do this.

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I just see such an interesting.

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And helpful and even attractive display of

David's faith and that's, this is why he's

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the preeminent king in the Old Testament.

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He's the one that is foreshadowing

the true king Jesus because

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of his humility, his posture.

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His love of the Lord.

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It is so pure, it is so sincere.

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And would that we would all grow

this kind of heart before the Lord.

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It would do us all such good to have

this kind of humility before the Lord.

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Because it would encourage us,

it would encourage the Lord.

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I think we can sincerely do that,

and it would be such a blessing

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to the people that are able to see

and witness our faith before God.

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Amen to that.

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Let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God give us that mindset, that

humility like we see here with David.

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We certainly want that.

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We don't wanna presume, we don't wanna

be arrogant or or those that, that

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assume that we've even got tomorrow.

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Even thinking about James, when James

says, when you say, Hey, today or

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tomorrow we're gonna go into this

town and do such and such a thing.

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You should say, if the Lord wills

God give us the humility to.

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To trust you, to trust your hand

of guidance, and not to to claim

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things that aren't ours to claim.

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And certainly the future

is not ours to claim.

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We don't know what tomorrow's gonna hold.

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And so help us to trust in you today,

for today and all we need today.

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And certainly the word is part of that.

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And help us to spend time in the

word today and to grow from it.

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We pray in Jesus name, amen.

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Amen.

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Keep in your Bibles tuning in

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said