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Well, I hope as we started, as I started reading those very first
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few verses, you were able to
picture in your mind what was going on
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here. You Remember, back in
twenty two perhaps, that David spoke in
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a private way concerning his son Solomon
and what would be required, what must
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be done, that the temple would
be placed in his hands for him to
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build. What was done privately there
is now done very publicly. Outward commitment
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is often just as important as an
inward one, and so the scene is
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set at the very beginning of this
chapter David Assembling everyone, not all Israel,
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as is done before, but the
officials of Israel, all the people
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of the palace and the temple,
the armies, the special guards, palace
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officials, all of the leaders are
there because they are about to witness a
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kind of coronation ceremony. Here are
the people that saw that will be most
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directly a reporting to Solomon, the
people that Solomon will most directly be in
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charge of the Nara is David,
King David and all of his wisdom,
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after all of his battles, after
all of the things he had done,
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looking at his son and saying this
you will do be st wrong and courageous
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and do it. He speaks to
Solomon in this way, but he's,
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of course, not just speaking to
Solomon. There is this host of people
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there that are paying attention to this, and that's for an important reason.
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How the king moves, well,
so goes the people. The king,
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in some ways is kind of like
a wind on a flame. He could
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blow hard on that flame and extinguish
his people, or you can blow another
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way and cause it to grow and
become stronger. The king really matters and
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the people know this. But in
all of this and this great coronation ceremony
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and all of these instructions is David
is handing over his reign to Solomon,
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one thought stands out above all the
rest, one idea, one thing that
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gets hammered again and again and again
in all kinds of different ways, and
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it's this God is king. It's
an interesting thought. Right in the middle
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of an coronation ceremony where the kingship
is being handed from one King, David,
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to his son Solomon, the chief
thought in the whole process is of
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another King, God the king,
and this really has characterized David's whole minister
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three administry kingship. David's work,
David's anointing, David's calling has been to
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point to God as king, to
seek after him, to follow him,
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to do as he commands. So
yes, we read in First Chronicles Twenty
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eight that Israel will have a king
after David, but this king will rule
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in the name of Jehovah, he
will rule in the name of God,
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the God of the universe, the
God of David, the God of Abraham
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and Isaac and Jacob. Solomon may
be great, he may be awesome,
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he may be glorious, but only
God is king, and David Sets that
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before Solomon and before these other leaders
and, in a sense, before all
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Israel and even before you tonight,
and this is important to hear as now
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as much as it was then.
It's true, we don't belong to the
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Kingdom of Israel anymore, but as
but in so far as the Kingdom of
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Israel was an expression of the Kingdom
of God, we do belong to that.
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And you know what still true about
the Kingdom of God? God is
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King, he is the king of
Kings, he is the Lord of Lords,
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he is one, and there is
only one God. God, since
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the time of David and Solomon,
did not step down or abdicate his rulers,
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his authority. He has not been
overruled, he has not died,
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but he remains a king as strong
as ever. And in fact, in
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Christ we have a new and final
human king over us, over God's people.
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And then when we consider him in
that kingdom, as we will,
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we come to see that God's authority, God ruling over us as his king,
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is not abated, but it's even
strengthened and become more clear. So
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tonight we consider the kingship of God
and David's farewell address and will consider it
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under both the old kingdom and the
new. Well, if you'll forgive me
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for being a little listy, we're
going to just tick through some things here
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on various aspects of the text to
see this point. All right, this
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is an important part. Whenever we
study the Bible we ask what does it
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say? How does it say it? Where do we see it before we
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begin thinking about its meaning or its
application? So how do we see this
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point that God is King? Well, comes to us in several ways.
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The first way is historical. Briefly, you see in verses two and three
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that David had a plan. He
says I had it in my heart to
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build the house. I wanted to
build the temple a for the Lord and
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he said No. We see God's
sovereignty over these things. There is this
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vus thing that has happened that David
says God was sovereign over. We have
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plans, we make them, but
God is ultimately the one who decides.
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This is the first thing David says
before he hands over this commission to Solomon
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and says this is your work,
my son. You need to do this
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work. He establishes the work as
having begun not by him but by God
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and in God's own timing. The
second we see, way we see God's
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authority and expression of his authority,
is in the temple itself and in the
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arc in particular. The notice that
the establishment of Solomon as king is really
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all about one thing, the temple, building the temple. There's that long
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section in the middle that's listing all
of these various temple objects and temple people,
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temple servants. The whole thing begins
by David saying I had it in
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my heart to build a temple,
but God said no, and so I'm
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giving that to you. All of
these things that Solomon is called to do.
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You might think of all of the
things that would be required of him
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as king there is one thing that
is going to mark Solomon's Kingship, one
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job in particular that he is going
to be called to do. And indeed,
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David says in Verse Twenty, He
will not leave you or forsake you
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until all the work of the service
of the House of the Lord is finished.
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This doesn't mean that as soon as
it's done, God leaves. In
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fact, as the opposite happens.
You remember, we thought about this this
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morning. The glory of the Lord
descends down upon the temple when it's finished.
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The word until there, I think, means a kind of even up
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to a kind of sense, but
nevertheless, the point is that God is
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going to be with him. He
has this job to do. And if
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Solomon is all about the temple,
well then what is the temple about?
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Is that about Solomon? No,
it's about God. It's not the Temple
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of Solomon, it's not the Temple
of Solomon's God, it's the Temple of
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God. What another way we see
that not only in the temple, is
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in the ARC in particular. Notice
that it's how it's described, for example
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in verse eighteen, for the Altar, I'm sorry, are also his plan
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for the Golden Chariot of the Cherubeam
that spread their wings and covered the arc
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of the covenant of the Lord.
It's described there as a chariot and earlier
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it's described as a footstool. This
is something I've been hinting at all along,
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as we've been talking about the arc
again and again, and here's one
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of the places it comes from.
This is one of the places that speaks
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in the Bible this explicitly about these
kinds of things. It might help to
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understand this if you think in the
context of Israel's neighbors. In the ancient
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Near East, it was very common
that you would build a temple, you
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would construct your idol and then at
the foot of that idol you would place
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important documents, charters, treaties,
these kinds of things. It was a
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way in which it was symbolized that
the god of the people ruled and had
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authority. He was sitting, he
was in charge and they're at his footstool.
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Were was the law. Well,
without getting into a which came first,
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the chicken or the egg, Israel
or her neighbors and all that.
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What we do see here is a
something very similar going on, a very
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similar kind of imagery that God is
establishing here. He calls the arc his
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footstool, except the difference is is
in this temple there's no idol, there's
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no god that you can go and
see. It is a room and in
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a way he god is described in
other portions of scripture as being up in
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the heavenly places, seated high above
even creation itself, with his feet kind
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of resting down here on Earth at
the ARC. And you remember what's in
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the ARC, most importantly the law
of God, those two tablets that God
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gave Moses on Mount Sinai in all
of this, on all of this imagery
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that God is establishing for his people, he is doing what he is saying.
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I am King, he's sang the
Solomon build my throne room. And
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also we see in this language of
footstool and throne and all of these other
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things, chariot, for example,
a kind of sitting action. Now that's
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important as well, because it shows
a kind of authority. Especially in the
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ancient world, a person who sits
down is one who sits down and takes
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rule. You see an example of
this and verse five, I believe.
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Let me see if I can find
it here. Right and of all my
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sons, for the Lord has given
me many sons, he has chosen solemn
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in my son to sit on the
throne of the Kingdom. You see what
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he's saying here. He's using this
language of sitting to demonstrate and to talk
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about authority and rule. Well,
that's exactly what God is doing. It's
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sort of what we confess when we
confess the creeds and we say that the
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Lord goes and sits down at the
father's right hand. It's not just sort
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of a throw in verb to say, well, he's doing something, it's
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a way we are expressing authority of
kingship and rule. So how is God,
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how is David, reminding Solomon and
to us and all these people in
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front of him that God is King? Well, it's not just in the
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change of plans, but it's also
in all of this imagery surrounding the temple
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and the ARC in particular. A
third way we see it is in God's
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sovereign election. First of David.
In verse four, we read that God
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chose David from all his father's house
to be king over Israel forever. And
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then he talks about the tribe.
He says for he chose Judah as leader
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and in the House of Judah,
my father's house and among my father's sons,
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he took pleasure in me to make
me king over all Israel. So
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he has the special choosing of David
Right this language to where it says that
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he was pleased to do these things, he took pleasure in me. Is
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a way that as a phrase that's
used in scripture, not when God looks
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at something and says, like you
might go into a gift shop and you
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see something you oh, this is
so wonderful, we have to buy this,
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I love this thing, it's so
pretty. It's not that kind of
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thing. It's the kind of it
was my pleasure to do it, and
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so I did it. kind of
sense. It's a way in which God
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says, I do what I choose
to do, I do what I please.
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In most cases where this phrase is
used, that's used in a way
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to describe people that are weak and
frail and helpless. That God chooses even
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these things, and that's what he
does with David. You remember the story,
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right, Samuel Goes and David's father
pervails before. I'm all these sons,
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and Sam's like, Oh, surely
must be this one or this one
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or this one. Finally, he
is like, wells none of these.
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Do you have any other sons?
Well, yeah, there's old David out
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the you know, back forty,
watching the watching the sheep. Okay,
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bring him in, and that was
him. How different that is from Saul
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ahead, taller than all the rest
of Israel. Impressive. Grand everyone's like,
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well, we know who's going to
be the king. Obviously no Godd
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was pleased to choose David. He
is King, God is King. He's
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the one who's doing the choosing,
the royal the right to reign is not
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because of good looks or power or
prominence or political intrigue. The right to
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rule is because God said they had
a right to rule, and that's true
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of David. So God's kingship.
You see in this sovereign electing love of
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David. I'm you also see it
in Solomon, right, and I've read
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this verse once or twice now,
but in all my sons, for God
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has given me many sons. He
has chosen Solomon and we don't have the
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description of how all that happened.
You'll have to go back to the other
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historical books and and read about that. But it's not the necessarily the obvious
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choice Solomon. We know Solomon is
being wise here. He's alluded to as
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being obedient and good, but this
is not but God has chosen Solomon,
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his electing love. The final way
we see saw it, God's sovereign kingly
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election not only David, not only
in Solomon, but is also in the
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temple plans, verse nineteen. David
says all this. He made clear to
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me and writing from the hand of
Jehovah. All the work to be done
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according to the plan, and David
has received a plan from God which must
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be executed. So we see God's
Kingship, his sovereignty, David's expression and
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reminders of these things in the history
of the events in the throne and the
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temple, in his sovereign election and
then finally in the obedience that is required.
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Think about what David could have said. David could have said Solomon Saul
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blew it, but I've done well. I've established a kingdom and here are
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the rules and the laws that I
want you to enforce. I have us
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made good treasuries and store houses of
things, and I want you to continue
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of expanding on these and growing them. For My name's sake. David could
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have called him to be obedient to
his rule, to his decisions, and
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in some ways he does in other
portions of scripture. But the obedience that
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David requires of his son is not
first and foremost to him, it is
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to God. Solomon is a king, but he is also a subject,
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as we all are. And so, for example, listen to some of
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these verbs and, as I give
these, I want you to take this
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not only as David's call to Solomon, but this is a lesson in how
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to obey. You want to know
how to obey the Lord, you want
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to know what it means to to
follow after him. Here's how. Verse
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Eight he says, observe and seek
out all the commandments of Jehovah, your
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God. Observe and seek. We
also have in verse seven what we have
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in other places, this command to
be strong in keeping my commandments, he
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says. In Verse Nine He says, Solomon, my son, know the
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god of your father and serve him. So be strong in keeping the commandments.
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Observe and seek. No, and
serve and you are to do this,
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Solomon. You are to do this
citizen of the Kingdom of God,
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with a whole heart and a whole
mind. Some of the opposites are given
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in verse twenty. Be Strong,
courageous, do it, but also don't
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fear, don't be dismayed. Thinking
about the opposites is helpful when we think
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about obedience. If God calls us
to observe and seek him, what are
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the opposite sit's ignorance, laziness,
not paying attention, not caring, just
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sort of sitting around not paying attention. If knowing and serving God with a
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whole heart and a whole mind,
what is required is what is is what
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is required. Well, what's the
opposite? How do we not serve God
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well, when we are double minded, when we win our hearts want two
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things? Or what about be strong, courageous and do it? Well,
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what's the opposite of that? Well, weakness, fear, lack of follow
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through. That's not obedience and that's
not what David Calls Solomon to do.
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We see God's expressing himself to us
as the King of Israel in the history,
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in the temple, in the throne, in his sovereign election and in
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his requirement for obedience, perfect obedience, wholehearted obedience, full throated confessions of
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love for the Lord. Know Me, serve Me, seek after me,
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observe these things. And in all
of the this, God establish him some
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said, God establishes himself as King, and in that he promises Israel a
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new history, a history tree of
rest. David calls it this, and
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verses two and three. This idea
of resting is found in the footstool.
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There is this idea that Solomon himself
is a man of rest, not David,
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a man of war. This is
the era that God is seeking to
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lead them into in his kingship.
This is the benefit. Protection from enemies
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plenty in the land, peace all
the way around. Well, how are
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we to think about these things?
If this is the old covenant, if
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this is the old kingdom or the
old expression of the Kingdom of God,
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how do we think about ourselves in
the New Kingdom? How do these things
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point us to and teach us about, Jesus as our King? Well,
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we can save a few brief things, and I think they'll be both obvious
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and smile inducing. The first is
that in both we see that God chooses
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his own king right his sovereign election. But in the new covenant, this
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Human King That's chosen is the son
of God himself, this one whom the
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father has set his love on from
all eternity, a mutual love, back
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and forth, perfection, unity,
forever and ever. And this one whom
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God has chosen, this one whom
the father has chosen, even his very
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own son, using language that David
Uses here and first chronicles twenty eight,
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you choose, is his son and
he requires of him obedience, just like
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he does of Solomon. But the
difference is is that Solomon, you remember,
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didn't quite obey. In many ways, he did, but not in
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every way. But Jesus it's different. Jesus, the king, does obey
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with a whole heart and he does
secure the requirement, he fulfills the requirement.
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Remember what David says here. He
says, listen, Solomon, if
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you obey me, if you are
sorry, if you obey the Lord,
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God will give you rest, but
if you forsake the Lord, he will
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reject you. What happens with Jesus? He obeys and he obeys perfectly and
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he does it in such a way
that perfectly fulfills this requirement for us,
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so that the rest that's promised to
Solomon will never be taken away from us.
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We stand like these officials stand when
we hear the gospels, when we
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hear about Jesus saying, like David, I've done your will, father.
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I've said up forth these things.
I've fulfilled the commands, except, of
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course, in a perfect way.
We stand in this court room and we
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hear God's electing love, as he
says to his son, like in Psalm
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too, this is my son,
I am establishing him on my throne.
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Or, as he says at the
baptism of Jesus, this is my son
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in whom I am well pleased.
We hear this and we are listening,
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like the people in the court room, to the coronation of our king,
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our king. Remember what Jesus says
about Solomon. He says that the lilies
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of the field are arrayed in more
glory than Solomon was in his temple.
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That's to make another point, but
the point is that Jesus himself recognizes a
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a great measure of glory and Power
and and Excellency And Majesty and Solomon's reign.
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But Jesus wasn't subservient to that.
He was above that, greater than
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Solomon, Greater Than David himself,
and in that he secures the kingdom perfectly.
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And that's another big difference. In
both the old kingdom and the New
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Kingdom, this rest is offered,
peace is offered, but in the New
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Kingdom it's permanent. You see,
we don't have to sit around and go,
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man, I really hope Jesus doesn't
take another wife. That might be
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really bad for us. We don't
have to sit around and go. I
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really hope he appoints some decent people
this time to rule over the treasuries.
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Do you think he knows what's going
on? I heard the other day about
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so and so. Do you think
he knows? Do you think somebody should
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tell him? We don't have to
think about Jesus and wonder if he's got
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his pulse on the people. Does
he really know what's going on among them?
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Does Jesus? Does he get aware
of his enemies? Boy, I'm
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sure they thought about that with Solomon
and David, just as they did with
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Saul and every other human king.
We look at our leaders and we're always
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going, I hope everything's okay.
Seems like it's okay or boy, things
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are not okay. However it goes, we always recognize that there are these
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fault lines in the hearts of our
leaders that might break open, that might
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cause us great harm. But with
Jesus we never have to worry about these
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things. We never have to wonder
if he's going to mess up or make
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a bad decision, if he's not
gonna Follow God anymore. He is God.
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He's not going to renegg on his
duties, because that would be to
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deny himself. God is one,
the father and son are one, and
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Jesus sitting at the father's right hand, should give us such assurance and peace
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and hope to know that he is
our leader and, as he says,
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even the gates of hell will not
prevail against him or his people. They
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can't, they won't. Sure people
will sit around and they'll they'll whisper with
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one another. How can we break
the bond between the Lord and his anointed
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one? What can we do to
destroy the relationship that the father has with
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the son or that the son has
with his people? But they can't do
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anything because that relationship is bound up
by God's covenant promises, the ones he
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made to David, the ones he's
made to us in Jesus, the ones
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he's made to us in Abraham.
And not only are they bound to us,
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but in his promises, but they
are bound. We are bound and
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tied to God by his own spirit, his anointing on us. He's his
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people. So how do you hear
this message? Well, if you accept
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the Lord and live and live in
light of the things that he has done
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through our savior and king, then
we are called to live as those who
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belong to a great king, a
great leader, a heavenly kingdom that will
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never pay, that will never pass
away. We're called to live as people
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who have entered into an eternal rest
and everlasting glory. Should we be worriors?
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Should we be anxious people wondering where
we're going to feed ourselves or clothe
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ourselves? I don't think so.
Should we worry about what our enemies might
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do to us? Should we worry
about persecutions that we might face? Should
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we worry about death? Now we
live as those who belong to a King,
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King, Jesus, David's greater son. Of course, those who reject
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God as king will come to know
his power and his strength and his glory
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in another way, in the way
of judgment and death, separation. But
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this need not be so. If
you receive Jesus, your king, by
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faith and trust that he's offered to
you and he says come, you are
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invited. Belong to me and I
will be your God and you will be
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my son's and daughters. Let us
pray
