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Well, as many, hopefully all
of you know, in the afternoons I
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I'm leading a little time called afternoon
prayer and we are currently going through first
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kings. I thought I would bring
to you God's word from a passage that
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we finished on this last week.
This is a little online meeting that meets
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from forty five to one. If
you're available to come, all or welcome.
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Feel free to invite your friends,
and this will give you a little
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bit of a taste of of what
we're doing right now, and I pray
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it's a blessing to you. So
let's turn to first kings. Chapter One,
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Verses Twenty eight through fifty eight.
Now, before I read this,
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it's helpful to know that the setting
for these events are in the very last
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days of King David. He is
old and his son ad a NYSA has
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sought to establish himself as the king. How are? He's not done this
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with David's permission. He's not done
this with God's permission. He has done
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this in his own way and in
his own strength. The other thing to
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know is that he's done this over
and against his brother Solomon, his half
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brother Solomon. The promised are the
one who is supposed to rule after David,
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but it's the plot was discovered and
it was revealed to David by Bathsheba,
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Solomon's mother, and also Nathan the
Prophet. So now we come to
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our reading for this evening. I'm
right. After the the conspiracy has been
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revealed and now we see what happens. What how David Responds. So let's
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hear God's word now. Then King
David answered. Call Bathsheba to me.
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So she came into the king's presence
and stood before the king, and the
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king swore saying as the Lord Lives, who has redeemed my soul out of
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every adversity, as I swore to
you by the Lord, the God of
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Israel, saying Solomon, your son, shall reign after me and he shall
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sit on my throne in my place. Even so, will I do this
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day? Then Bathsheba bowed with her
face to the ground and paid homage to
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the king and said, may my
Lord, King David, live forever.
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King David said, call to me, Zadok the priest, Nathan the Prophet,
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and Ben and I are the son
of Jehoiadah. So they came before
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the king and the king said to
them take with you the servants of you,
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of your Lord, and have Solomon, my son, ride on my
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own mule and bring him down to
Gihan and let Zadok the priest and Nathan
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the Prophet there annoint him king over
Israel. Then blow the trumpet and say,
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Long Live King Solomon. You shall
then come up after him and he
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shall come and sit on my throne, for he shall be king in my
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place, and I have appointed him
to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.
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And Ben and I, of the
son of Jehoidah, answered the king.
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Amen. May The Lord, the
God of my King. Maybe may
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the Lord, the God of my
Lord the King, say so, as
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the Lord has been with my Lord
the king. Even so, may he
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be with Solomon and make his throne
greater than the throne of my Lord,
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King David. So Zadok the priest, Nathan the Prophet, and Ben and
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I, the son of Jehoiadah,
and the karathites and the Pelathites went down
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and had Solomon ride on King David's
mule and brought him to Gihon. There
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Zadok the priest took the Horn of
oil from the tent and anointed Solomon.
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Then they blew the trumpet and all
the people said, Long live King Solomon,
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and all the people went up after
him, playing on pipes and rejoicing
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with great joy, so that the
earth was split by their noise. Adonijah
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and all the guests who are with
him heard it as they finished feasting,
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and when Joe AB heard the sound
of the trumpet, he said what is
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this uproar in the city mean?
While he was still speaking, behold Jonathan,
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the son of Abiathar, the priest, came and Adonijah said, come
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in, for you are a worthy
man and bring good news. Jonathan answered,
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Adonijah knew, for our Lord,
King David has made Solomon King,
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and the king has sent with him
Zadok the priest, Nathan the Prophet,
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and Ben and Iah, the son
of Jehoidah, and the karathites and the
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Palla fits. They had him ride
on the king's Mule. Zadok the priest
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and Nathan the Prophet have anointed him
King Agihon, and they have gone up
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from their rejoicing, so that the
city is in an uproar. This is
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the noise that you have heard.
Solomon sits on the royal throne. Moreover,
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the king's servants came to congratulate our
Lord, King David, saying may
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your God make the name of Solomon
more famous than yours and make his throne
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greater than your throne. And the
king bowed himself on the bed, and
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the king also said, blessed be
the Lord, the God of Israel,
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who has granted someone to sit on
my throne this day, my own eyes
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seeing it. Then all the guests
of Adonijah trembled and rose, and each
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win his own way. And ADONIJAH
feared Solomon. So he arose and went
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and took hold of the horns of
the altar. Then it was told Solomon,
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behold, Adonijah fears King Solomon.
For behold, he has laid hold
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of the hordes of the altar,
saying, let King Solomon Swear to me
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first that he will not put his
servant to death with the sword. And
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Solomon said, if he will show
himself a worthy man, not one of
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his hairs shall fall to the earth, but if wickedness is found in him,
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he shall surely die. So King
Solomon said, and they brought him
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down from the altar and he came
and paid homage to King Solomon and Solomon
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said to him, go to your
house, since the reading of God's word.
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So, as I mentioned, Solomon
is anointed King by David and according
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to the promises that had been made. And as Solomon is anointed king,
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another one, a pretend king,
his half brother, and Adonijah is put
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in him his place, and embarrassingly
so, even, we might say,
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fearfully so, because as the news
came to Adonijah and came to all his
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guests who are gathered there. I
didn't tell you before that when Adonijah had
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set himself as king, he called
a bunch of people to him, including
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Joe AB, who was a commander
of in David's Army, including Abyathar Aviathar,
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the priest. Adonijah was seeking very
much to establish himself with the Kings
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men, the king's people, and
he had felt like he had done it.
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They were they were partying and they
hear this noise in the city.
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What's that sound? And in a
man comes in. Who could it be?
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Oh Jonathan, good to see or
tell us what good news you have?
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Not Good News, bad news.
And he goes through the events and
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he tells what happened. Solomon has
written on this mule. Does that sound
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a little familiar right? This,
this kingly procession up to the throne.
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I'm Solomon, Anointed with all I
will, Solomon blest. What the words
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of God and the Covenant by the
Priest of God, the people rejoicing,
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may your God make the name of
Solomon more famous than yours. And David
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being pleased with all of this,
he blesses the Lord blest. Lesson God
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for being able to see this day, seeing the king so firmly established.
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We see in verse forty nine that
all the guests of adonize a trembled and
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rose and each went his own way. I imagine the people pushing their chairs
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back, slowly creeping out of the
room, hands in their pockets, trying
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to move out into the darkness.
Become a kind of Peter in a way,
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did it? We? Weren't you
that? No, I don't.
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I wasn't there. Solomon, one
way of King Salmon Right, power is
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changing and it's changing fast and it's
changing according to the these promises that had
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been made. This story, a
true story, these accounts of in the
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history here of King David and this
transfer of power to King Solomon are important
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for many reasons. I think the
most important one is that it reveals to
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us the nature of Christ's kingship.
It helps us understand, first of all,
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what kingly line Christ comes from,
what God has done in the past
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to bring these things that we have
now in the present. And they also
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help us to understand not only the
history of Christ's Kingship, the background of
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that, but they also help us
to understand the nature of his kingship through
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various comparisons and contrasts with what we
see here. So I want to ask
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three questions tonight as we consider these
things. The first one is this.
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In what ways is called Solomon's kingdom
being established? In what ways is Solomon's
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kingdom being established, especially when we
see it compared with the way at Anya's
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kingdom being established, very short lived
kingdom. Well, one of the things
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that we see is that that Solomon's
kingdom is being established with a view towards
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the covenant of the Lord. When
Adonijah, I didn't read it to you
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tonight, but when an Adonijah sets
up, sets himself up, notice Solomon
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is raised to that position. But
what ADONIJAH SETS HIMSELF UP AS KING?
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God has has nothing to do with
it really. Sure he's coopted a priest,
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but he he really is doing things
on his own. Compare that to,
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example, to David's response to Bathsheba. In Verse Twenty Nine. He
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responds to her in a covenantal context
when he says, as the Lord Lives,
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who has redeemed my soul out of
ever adversary, as I swore to
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you by the Lord, the God
of Israel, saying Solomon, your son
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shall reign after me, he shall
sit on my throne and in my place.
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Even so, I will do this
day. There's many things going on
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there and what David says. Some
of them, we might notice, are
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these. First of all, he
has vowed in the name of the Lord.
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He has taken a serious promise,
and he has done so according to
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God. He does so according to
the God who lives, the God who
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is not a false god, not
an idol, not King David himself,
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but God, but Yahwey, the
one who had revealed himself, the one
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who had chosen David to sit on
the throne, the one who had set
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David on the throne. Notice also
how he identifies God. He calls him
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the one who has redeemed my soul
out of every adversary or adversity. Imagine
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these events. Put Your from day
of its perspective, put yourself in his
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shoes. David's life is very dramatic
one. I actually have kind of a
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hard time really putting myself in issues, but trying for a moment. David
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had experienced similar things like this before. I'm absalom had tried to take over
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David's kingdom in his earlier days and
it tried to what absalom another one of
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David's sons and tried to replace him. David had lost other sons through this
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kind of conflict back and forth,
and now here it is. He's an
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old man, it's his last few
years, maybe his last few days,
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and they're still great turmoil and violence
in his house. His son not respecting
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his father, his son not respecting
his king, his son not respecting the
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Lord and setting up his own kingdom
in his own way. And remember,
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this is not just some kingdom,
this is the Kingdom of God, this
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is a holy kingdom and Adonijah treats
it as though it was just some other,
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some other kingdom, some other Inter
family political thing, and it's all
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his own son. Remember it was
to David's lineage that God had promised to
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establish an eternal kingdom. And the
sons are dying and falling all over the
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place and sinning in great ways.
And so what does David Do? Does
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he look to his own power and
strength? Does he look too deep down
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in himself and muster up his last
bit of Kingly Authority to declare the way
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things will be? No, he
places things where they probably should be,
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for King rules, the Kingdom of
God, he says, as the Lord
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Lives, who has redeemed my soul
out of every adversity, I swore to
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you. His speaking to Bathsheba is
a little bit of a prayer, I
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think almost. He speaks to her, but he speaks knowing that the Lord
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listens. He speaks to her and
he does. He makes his next move
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with an eye to the Lord who
watches, the Lord who's promised to the
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Lord who rescues, very different from
the way out of Nijah's kingdom was set
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up. And then he says he
makes to her of this promise. This
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is repeated. Then we see the
integrity of these words in pre repeated or
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similar themes, repeated verse thirty six. Ben and I, a kind of
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a joeab counterpart, a military man, the son of Jehoiadah, answers the
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king and says Amen, may the
Lord, the God of my Lord the
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King, say so, as the
Lord has been with my Lord the king.
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Even so, may he be with
Solomon and make his throne greater than
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the throne of my Lord, King
David. Was David going to be threatened
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by this? Wait, what are
you saying? What are you saying,
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Ben and I? Aren't I great? I? Am I not the greatest
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in the world? Am I not
the chosen of the Lord? No,
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he doesn't recur. Correct Ben and
I ah, no doubt he rejoices with
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Ben and I, because then he
speaks the words of the Covenant. Ben
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And I is framing these things according
to the promises that God has made.
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This is the way things will go, this is the way the Kingdom of
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God will be successful when it is
according to his word. And so we
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seek Solomon's authority already being established in
the right way, established on God's authority,
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on God's promises. We see him
anointed as the true King and we
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see a view towards the future fulfillment
of God's promises, the expansion of the
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kingdom, the greatness of the kingdom. This was always the hope that the
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Kingdom of God would not be this
isolated, tiny little place somewhere, but
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that it would draw in from all
over the world, as the prophets would
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begin would say later on, would
draw in through this through this kingdom,
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and expand everywhere. Through this kingdom, the promises to Abraham would be fulfilled,
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that all the families on the earth
would be blessed. And so as
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they look forward to Solomon and the
expansion of the Kingdom and the growth the
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better than David Kingdom, they are
doing things in a covenantal way, which
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is to say according to the word
of the Lord, very different the way
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Solomon's Kingdom is established. So the
second question then is are there ways in
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which we begin to see cracks in
that kingdom? So we've noticed some good
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things, some really great things that
we see in Pslomn in the rise of
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Solomon, but are there ways in
which we see the weaknesses of it here,
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even at the beginning, even in
the inauguration of his kingdom? And
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we do. One of the things
we see here at the beginning. Is
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the problem, the continuing problem,
we can say, of multiple wives.
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This tension and conflict between these half
brothers is in part, I'm due to
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that. The text also hints at
these kind of issues when we when we
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go back at the beginning of the
chapter, we are told that Abishag the
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SHUNAMITE is brought into this king,
this young woman, to be a part
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of his something harem wife collection.
It's not entirely clear, but something strange
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is going on, something awkward at
least. We read in Verse Fifteen that
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when Bathsheba goes into the king's chamber, there's a small little note that says
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now the king was very old and
Abishag the shunamite was attending to the king.
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It's an interesting little note. Makes
me ask why is it put there,
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and I think it does create some
tension. Here's Bathsheba walking in and
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the younger woman is there with King
David and now she has to advocate on
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behalf of her son and the whole
thing is just a big mess. It's
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complicated. These things ought to have
been warnings to Solomon ride at the beginning.
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Look at how things played out for
your father. Look at how things
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began to play out even at the
beginning of your kingship, the complicated nature
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of these things, the sins that
were committed. Sadly, as we will
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come to see, Solomon does not
pay attention to these things and instead does
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the exact opposite of what the scriptures
warn against, and he takes many,
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many, many, many, many
wives to himself, and ultimately it is
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the undoing of his throne and his
kingdom. This is a great weakness.
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It's the problem of multiple wives.
What we might put it more generally and
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say it's the problem of sin.
Solomon, as it turns out, is
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a fallen man. He's not a
perfectly righteous king, and so we can
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expect to see that this kingdom under
Solomon will not stand perfectly forever, as
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as it did not with David either. Another problem, and it's related to
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the sin, has to do with
the law, because of course the law
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is what exposes our sin, and
I think we can see that that crack
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in the foundation of this kingdom.
In Verse Fifty Two we see the mercy
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that is offered to add any Jah. Right Adonijah goes, he runs to
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the altar, he grabs hold of
the horns of the altar. He's like,
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I'm not let him go unless Solomon
Promises to save me. Right,
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this is a man who knows he
needs mercy. Right, may we likewise
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go to the cross and cling in
such a way that the Lord would forgive
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us and rescue us? Adonijah knows
he is done for unless he's granted mercy,
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and so he pleads, he asks, he demands for it. But
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notice what Solomon says. Solomon Does
Give Him mercy, Solomon does let him
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live. But what he say say? He says, if he will show
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himself a worthy man, not one
of his hair shall fall to the earth,
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but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die. So Solomon
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sets up a principle on which the
Lord had set up the principle for the
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whole kingdom, a principle of law. Do Well and you shall live,
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don't do well and you shall die. Well, this principle doesn't only apply
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to out an EYSA, applies to
Solomon too. And this problem of sin,
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this repliance, the reliance on the
law to stay in this place,
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to stay in this kingdom, will
be it's undoing. God promises, as
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at the beginning at the foundation of
the Kingdom and its constitutional document. He
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tells the people that if you commit
these evils, if you do these wrong
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things, I will eject you out
of the land, I will destroy you,
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just as I destroyed the people's before
you. If you prove yourselves to
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be worthless men, prove yourselves to
be worthy, prove yourselves to follow the
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law, love as you ought,
a care as you ought, honor the
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Lord as you ought, and you
will get to stay. This threat and
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promise that God or that Solomon gives
to a lie or Adonijah is very similar
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to the threat and the promise that
God had given to Solomon and to the
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whole kingdom. And, as we
know, no one can keep the law.
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This was, of course, a
could not. God was not surprised
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by this. Paul tells us in
glacians that this was exactly God's purpose.
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He gave the law at this time
and in this way to be a teacher,
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to be a tutor, one to
show us all how incapable we are
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of remaining in God's kingdom, how
incapable we are of being the worthy people
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to stand solidly on the Lord's Holy
Hill. Even the king, even a
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king who will be as wise and
as powerful and as wonderful as King Solomon
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will be in so many ways,
even he is not able to stay and
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maintain the rule that is necessary.
These are the cracks that we see in
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the beginning of the Kingdom of Solomon, and they remind us of the strengths
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and the permanence of Christ's kingdom as
he brings all of these things to completion.
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And that brings me to the last
question. How does Christ magnify these
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strengths and remove these weaknesses? Well, for one, he establish as a
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kingdom of men under God by being
the worthy man. Christ does what no
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one was ever able to do.
He is able not he didn't need the
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mercy of Adonijah, but we did. We all did. Dead and he
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comes and he stands in our place
and he, the Lord Finds Him,
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God finds him as a worthy man, perfectly righteous, and he's raised from
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the dead as vindication and proof of
that. He is the king that we
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all need and he gives to us
that righteousness so that we can be united
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to him. We also know that
Jesus is anointed, and the anointed as
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the true King. According to these
promises, how do we know. How
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do we know that Jesus is the
true king and he's not some Adonijah?
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There's a hundred ways we know,
maybe more. I think of the angels
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proclaiming is his birth. We think
of the the the Magi coming from the
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East be having likely read the Scriptures
of the Old Testament and knowing where to
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anticipate these things. We see Jesus
fulfilling prophecy after prophecy after prophecy. We
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see the miracle of the Virgin Birth. We see over and over again,
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the Lord's strength and his continual commitment
to the covenants that God has made,
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not only as God who made those
covenants, but also as man who now
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keeps those covenants and fulfills that law, all on our behalf. And so
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all this means that Jesus established is
a kingdom that we don't need to ever
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worry about falling apart as we go
through first kings. As we go through
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first kings, and as a point
of logistics that I forgot to mention earlier,
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there's information on our church's website.
If you happen to be listening to
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this afterwards online somewhere else, you
can find a link there on how to
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access afternoon prayer. But as we
go through first kings, what you will
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see is there as this constant struggle
of like, our things getting good?
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No, they're terrible. What things
are getting better? No, it's not.
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Well, this king is gonna know
it's not. There's this it never
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never comes into its own, because
no one was a king like Jesus until
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he came. But now that he's
come, we see that he fulfills these
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promises and he gives to US mercy
in a way that Solomon did not give
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a mercy to Addon Aysha. And
this is what I want to end with.
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When it comes to the Kingdom of
God, we essentially do the exact
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same thing as Adon Aisah did.
We set up our own kingdoms in our
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own way, against the Lord and
against his annointed one. This is what
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we do. This is the idolatry
in our hearts, and we do it
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in a thousand different ways. We
attack the Lord, we attack his kingdom,
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we rebel against him, and then
he invites us to come into his
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kingdom. And when he does,
he doesn't say, if you prove yourself
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to be worthy, I'm going to
let you stay. He doesn't say that
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because we all know what would happen
if he said that. We'd be out
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in a moment, condemned in a
moment. Any promise of Fute, a
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future judgment in which we will be
judged for all our things on the basis
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of our righteousness. It would end
an utter disaster for us, as it
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will for Adonijah. What does the
Lord say and said? He says,
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I will make you worthy. He
says. First of all, my justification
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for you is perfect and we're done
once and for all, my sacrifice,
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my blood atone for your sins,
and you are forgiven, forever justified,
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forever innocent, forever of all your
sin. Yeah, Amen. And then,
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on top of that, the Lord
sanctifies us and increasingly makes us holy,
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with the promise of one day glorifying
us where there is zero sin,
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zill nothing, perfectly holy. Who
will stand on my Holy Hill, the
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one who does the righteous things?
That one and that one and that one
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and that one and that one and
that one, all of them because I
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have chosen them, because I have
loved them, because I have saved them,
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and it's my will and it is
done. God keeps his Covenant Promises
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Better Than Even David did. Way
Better Than David did, and he keeps
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them year after year after year,
generation after generation, his steadfast love,
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his steadfast faithfulness. All this to
say you can trust your Lord and when
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you find yourself in a position of
Adonijah, feeling the weight of your sins,
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feeling that this is not going well, cling to the Lord and his
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forgiveness, cling to the cross,
cling to his promise, cling to his
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covenants, to his invitation to you, and he will not reject you.
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He will have mercy on you,
despite your unfaithfulness. He will even keep
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you safe and protect you forever.
This is our Lord and this is our
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God. This teaches us the history
of Jesus's kingship and it reminds us of
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his gracious and Protective Grace. Let's
pray
