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Well, please remain standing, and
let's turn our attention to first chronicles eighteen,
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and here God's word from this chapter. First Chronicles, Chapter Eighteen.
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Let's give our attention to God's word
and here it in faith. After this,
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David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and he took gath and its
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villages out of the hands of the
Philistines, and he defeated Moab, and
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the Moabites became servants to David and
brought tribute. David also feeded Hotta desert
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king of Zobahamath as he went to
set up his monument at the River Euphrates,
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and David took from him a thousand
chariots, seven thousand horsemen and twenty
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thousand foot soldiers. And David Hamstrung
all the chariot horses but left enough for
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a hundred chariots. And when the
Syrians of Damascus came to help Hotta Desert
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King of Zoba, David Struck down
twenty twozero men of the Syrians. Then
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David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus, and the Syrians became servants to David
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and brought tribute, and the Lord
gave victory to David wherever he went.
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And David took the shields of gold
that were carried by the servants of Hotta
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desert and brought them to Jerusalem and
from Tib half and from and Kuhn cities
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of Hatta desert. David took a
large amount of bronze with it solemn and
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made the bronze sea and the pillars
and the vessels of bronze. When to
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King of Hamath heard that David had
defeated the whole army of Hotta desert,
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King of Zoba, he sent his
son Hadur am to King David to ask
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about his health and to bless him
because he had fought against Hatta Desert and
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defeated him, for Auda desert had
often been at war with two and he
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sent all sorts of articles of gold
and silver and of bronze. These also,
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King David dedicated to the Lord,
together with the silver and gold that
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he had carried off from all the
nations, from Edom Moab, the AMMONITES,
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the Philistines and Amelech and Abishai,
the son of Zeruiah, killed eighteen
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thousand Edomites in the Valley of salt. Then he put garrisons in Edom and
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all the en of the Edomites became
David Servants, and the Lord gave victory
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to David wherever he went. So
David reigned over all Israel and he administered
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justice and equity to all his people. And Joe AB, the son of
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Zeruiah, was over the army and
Jehosaphat the son of Ahilud, was recorder,
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and Zadok the son of Ahitub,
and Ahimelech the son of Abbiathar were
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priests, and Shavsha was secretary,
and Ben and Iya, the son of
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Jehoiadah, was over the cherithites and
the Pelaphites, and David's sons were the
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chief officials in the service of the
king. You may be seated. Well,
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these next three chapters and chapters eighteen, nineteen and twenty, we have
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this story for us, this account
of David's conquests. David is fighting battles,
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men are dying, blood is being
spilled. There are very graphic things
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going on here as well. For
example, maybe you don't know what it
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means to ham string a horse.
It basically means to cut the what would
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be the equivalent of the Achilles Tendon
on a horse so that the horse can't
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walk. David finds himself in this
situation where he's got all of these horses,
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doesn't have a need for them,
doesn't want them to go into the
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hands of his enemies, and so
he hamstrings them, leaving enough for a
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hundred chariots. We have these great
numbers of people being taken or killed.
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Twenty thous and property to a thousand
chariot, seven thousand horsemen, Twentyzero foot
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soldiers. These are huge numbers,
huge numbers of people David struck down.
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We read in Verse Twenty Two thousand
men of the Syrians under his leadership.
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In Verse Twelve, Abbey Shy,
the son of Zariah, killed eighteen thousand
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Edomites in the Valley of salt.
David is a man of war, David
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is going to battle, David is
winning. These conquests that David has here
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would not last forever, though.
David is not just a bloodthirsty man.
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He is doing the Lord's work in
establishing peace. That's the ultimate goal,
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is that David is going in,
as God has called him to do,
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to clear out the land and establish
a place where his people were God's people,
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can dwell in peace. It's ultimately
not war that God wants, it's
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peace. But to get there war
must happen, because these are the enemies
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of God and they have been for
a long time. I won't trace for
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you, and I can't in some
instances, the histories of all these people,
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but we know, I'm from Genesis
and you're early on, that there
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are these. There many people's made
by God, called by God, who
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refuse to serve God, refuse to
obey him. In many ways, the
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Israel it's would have been right among
these people, had not something happened that
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God went to Abraham, called him
out and said, I will establish for
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you a people, I will make
you a family and a nation grade and
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I will put you into a land. And this is the people that God
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has saved and is saving, and
he wants for them even as he wants
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for US peace, not war,
but peace. But in order for us
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to have peace, in order for
the it like it was for the Israelites,
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to have peace, certain enemies had
to be defeated. You don't have
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peace when, in your own heart, when there's sin fighting against you.
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You don't have peace when there's a
looming threat of debt. You don't have
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peace when Satan and his demons and
unclean spirits are attacking. God wants peace
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for his people and this is a
story about God's securing peace. Yes,
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these are David's conquests, but we
read several times that it was the Lord
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Jehovah who gave victory to David wherever
he went. What a wonderful phrase.
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The Lord gave victory to David wherever
he went. And you see that as
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you go through this passage you see
this great record, this great record of
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what God is doing, and I
want to think about that record with you
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this evening. I'm think about the
record and just what it says and what's
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going on, and then, second
see it as something that's more than a
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record, as more than just a
catalog of things that happened, but really
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a particular record of God's faithfulness,
and then finally, consider how these things
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tell us about the future. So
first thing we want to consider is this
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catalog or this record of conquest.
What we see here, to sort of
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give you the bottom line, is
that David does this sweep across the country
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north, southeast and West. His
enemies are defeated on every front everywhere he
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goes and whenever he is I'm confronted. Whenever he is attacked. He either
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defeats the people and brings them into
service. As we read in the first
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verse, David defeated the Philistines and
subdued them. He took gath and its
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villages out of the hand of the
Philistines and now they belonged to him,
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or he defeats them and they remain
in the land and they remain somewhat independent,
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but they're required to bring what is
called tribute. I'm perhaps that seems
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a little bit of an odd phrase, but it basically works like this.
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If a conquering king comes over and
takes your country away from you, perhaps
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various things can happen. One option
is he can evacuate the government, either
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by kicking you out, exiling you, killing you gone. The leadership entirely
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gone, and now the land,
the city's the people all belong to the
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conquering king. Their disadvantages to that. Sometimes, though, now you have
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to have a new government, you
have to install new things and various they're
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various political things going on. This
passage of scripture doesn't get into all of
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that, but behind that used to
have this word tribute, which means that,
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as a way to show of the
this the the conquered country, to
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show that it is truly in allegiance
and owes on or to the conquering king,
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tribute is brought. And so we
read in Verse Two that he defeated
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Moab and the Moabites became servants to
David and brought tribute. They would bring
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gifts, gold, slaves, chariots, horses, all kinds of different things
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might be brought as a way to
say you're the boss, you're in charge
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here, you go one way.
We see that there with the Moabites,
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and then we see it again later
in the chapter. David has this big
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battle with something of a small empire, and we read that of this Hata
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Desert in verse five. And when
the Syrians of Damascus came to help,
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had a desert king of Zoba.
David struck down twenty two thousand men of
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the Syrians. So there's this king
a hat a desert who comes up to
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fight David all the way up.
If you look at a map in the
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back of your Bible, you'll see
that the Euphrates river is quite a distance
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away from Israel and he goes up
there and they have this battle. And
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when this man, when this king, starts to lose, then this other
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region, this of from Syria,
they come to to help out, and
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then David defeats them too. And
then what happens? Well, someone who
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had been war at them, who's
this toe. It's very happy about all
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of this. Imagine having your enemy
always at your back, breathing down your
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neck, and now finally he's gone. But of course, who do you
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have to worry about now? Well, you have to worry about David.
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So what does this man do?
Toe King of Hamath. We read in
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Verse Nine that when Toe King of
Hamath heard that David had defeated the whole
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army of Hata, Desert King of
Zoba, he sent his son Hot Ram
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to King David to ask about his
health. Right, hi, it's me,
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the son of a king over there, and I really want to know
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how you're doing, and I in
fact, I'd also like to bless you,
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because you fought against this enemy of
ours. And, by the way,
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I've brought with me. This is
verse ten, all sorts of articles
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of gold and silver and bronze.
This is groveling right this is coming to
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a conquering king and saying, leave
us alone, we're not going to attack
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you, we're not going to bother
you. You've defeated our enemy and we
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are very happy. We will do
what you want. We are in service
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to you. Peace, right measure
of peace. This conquest is bringing really
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great things, for Israel, of
course in particular, but also to the
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friends of Israel, those that are
willing to see what a god is doing
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and bow down before him. So
this is the record of God's faithfulness.
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Just one other thing to include is
the last few verses in versus a,
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fourteen through seventeen. This catalog of
David's conquests here in chapter eighteen, ends
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with some details about his administration.
I don't have much to say here,
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except that now that we see this
conquest happening, we also see not only
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in an order at the borders,
but also order internally. David sons serving
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as chief officials, various important people
taking over control of the army, a
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recorder, a secretary, I'm these
important government positions are being carried out and
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being done. In other words,
we don't just have a king, but
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we have a government and orderliness and
function and this government so importantly, is
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characterized in verse fourteen by these words. David reigned over all Israel and he
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administered justice and equity to all his
people. How do you like to live
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in a kingdom like that, with
a King like that? This our good
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times in Israel. They're defeating their
enemies, a piece is being established in
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their land, their king is reigning
over them and he's doing it with justice
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and with equity. So this is
the first point. These as is the
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catalog, the record of David's conquests, but as I've hinted at already,
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this is also the record of God's
conquests, or we might put it this
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way. We not only have a
this record here, but we have a
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record of faithfulness. It's significant that
chapter eighteen follows chapter seventeen, and not
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just because that's how numbers work,
but they're put. It's put in this
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particular place for a particular reason.
What we have here are the promises of
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God being fulfilled. If this was
just a catalog of victories, it might
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actually be a fairly boring chapter.
Maybe it even struck you that way when
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I read it. There's this king
and that king and this number of things
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were defeated or people were defeated.
This number of things were taken and on
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and on, one until the end. But it has a life to it
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beyond just a record of conquests and
administrative policy and a government, because it's
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connected with chapter seventeen. It is
a record, but of God's faithfulness.
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Do you remember what he said to
David? For example, in verse nine
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of Chapter Seventeen, he promised David, I will appoint a place for my
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people Israel, and I will plant
them that they may dwell in their own
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place and be disturbed. No more
peace and violent men shall waste them no
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more. As formally, from the
time that I appointed the judges over my
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people, Israel, I will subdue
all your enemies. This is what God
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promised to David. God makes a
promise in Chapter Seventeen and God fulfills a
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promise in chapter eighteen. You see
what I mean, then, when I
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say this isn't just a record of
conquests, it's a record of faithfulness,
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of God's faithfulness. This easy.
These are God's answers to his promises,
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the fulfillment of those things. So
we have this record and we have a
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record of faithfulness. But we also
have something here that tells us about the
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future. There are other things that
God promised, are there not? In
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first chronicles seventeen, he didn't only
promise that he would plant Israel in the
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land, that he would subdue their
enemies, that they wouldn't be disturbed by
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violence anymore, but he also says
in verse seven or verse eleven of Chapter
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Seventeen, that when your days are
fulfilled, to walk with your father's,
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I will raise up your offspring after
you, one of your own sons,
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and I will establish his kingdom.
He shall build a house for me and
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I will establish his throne forever.
God promises to David a future not just
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with him having, you know,
a great run is king, but as
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establishing, through one of his sons, a kingdom that would last forever.
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When you think about the things that
are going on here, this is very,
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very significant. What we see,
then, is that God desires to
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establish a much more a kingdom that
is much greater than just up to the
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River Euphrates or down south or east
or west. Listen to this prophecy in
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Zachariah, chapter nine, versus nine
and ten. Rejoice greatly, O Daughter
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of Zion, shall allowed O,
daughter of Jerusalem. Behold, your king
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is coming to you, righteous and
having salvation. Is He humble and mounted
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on a donkey, on a cult, the full of a donkey? Now
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you recognize that phrase right. This
is refers is a prophecy that is fulfilled
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when Jesus enters into Jerusalem as king
before His crucifixion, humble, mounted on
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a donkey, on a cult,
the full of a donkey. Behold,
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your king is coming. What King? Well, the king they were expecting
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from first chronicle seventeen, the king
that God had promised to David, the
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son who would establish a throne forever. Now listen again to the next verse.
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I will cut off the chariot from
Ephraim and the war horse for Jerusalem
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and the battle boat shall be cut
off, and he shall speak peace to
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the nation's his rule shall be from
sea to see and from the river,
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which most likely refers to the Euphrates
River, and from the river to the
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ends of the Earth. See what
God has in mind for this kingdom that
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he's establishing through David. He's not
having in mind just a small piece of
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territory in the Middle East. God
wants to establish global rule cosmic rule.
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And so when Jesus says to his
disciples, all heaven, in all authority
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in Heaven and on Earth has been
given to me, we hear a king
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talking right and he says go to
the ends of the earth, teaching,
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making disciples, baptizing people in the
name of the father, the son and
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the Holy Spirit. So this is
why I say when we have when we
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hear these conquests of David and first
first chronicles eighteen, we don't have to
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have a record of conquests, we
don't even have just a record of God's
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faithfulness. But we also have this
foreshadowing, this promise of a future.
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God is already beginning to fulfill his
promises to David. And just as God
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Day get adjust, as God gave
David Victory, he would also give him
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a son whose own victories would surpass
even David's by establishing peace forever, even
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to the very ends of the earth. So think about Jesus's life, son
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of David, that Matthew testifies to
there in that genealogy. What kind of
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victories did Jesus have? Well,
this morning in our Sunday school class we
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considered Jesus and the Wilderness. Jesus
versus Satan, the Great Evil One himself
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who had deceived man in the garden
and had tried to bring God's plans for
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men to an end. and Jesus
wins that battle. Then there is Jesus
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a versus the demons. All throughout
the Gospels, as will read and as
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we continue to read on through Mattin
Matthew, demons are these unclean spirits that
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have extreme amounts of control over people
and things, and Jesus casts them out
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as though they were there were nothings
like lint in his pocket, just letting
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letting them go. Then there's a
Jesus versus the corrupt justice and politics of
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his day, Jesus against false trials. There's Jesus against deception and lying,
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even from among his own people.
There's Jesus against sin, there's Jesus against
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death, there's Jesus against you.
Our shorter catechism says that one of the
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things Jesus does as king is he
subdues our hearts. He comes to US
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enemies and he subdues us. Fortunately, he does it by saving us,
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by rescuing us, as Colossians one
three says he has delivered us from the
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domain of darkness and transferred us into
the Kingdom of his beloved son. When
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you think about these promises that are
anticipated and foreshadowed with David, when you
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think about your own life, as
you link a bit, think of it
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as a life being lived out in
Christ, in Jesus, who is come
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as king. There's so many applications, there's so many ways in which this
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should affect and influence our lives.
How about trusting the Lord? How about
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making sure you're on Jesus's side when
it's Jesus versus sin and death and demons
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and corruption and Satan, when he
offers peace to you, when he invites
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you and he says come, believe
in me, trust in you, he's
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offering us to save us from the
wrath of God. First, Thessalonians one
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hundred and ten says that Christians are
those who have been delivered from the wrath
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of God. Beyond Jesus's side,
there are any other output, other applications
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to with this kind of King.
Who Establishes this kind of kingdom? We
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have hope for justice, we have
hope for peace. This is a deep
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need. Some of US have given
our lives I think of Bruce, I
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think of other people who are involved
and have spent decades and decades trying to
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promote peace and justice and yet at
the same time seeing much futility in it.
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Things not going well, but Jesus
promises to make it all right,
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perfectly forever, not measures of Justice
and measure use of equity, but perfect
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in every way. I want you
to consider one more thing in light of
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first chronicles eighteen, which I hope
will be an encouragement to you. Will
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conclude with this. You notice that
these trophies that David takes for himself,
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he doesn't really take them for himself. We read that the bronze, for
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example, the gold and silver and
bronze that he's given as a tribute from
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toe, he dedicates these to Yahweh
he takes this from with all the silver
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and gold that he has carried off
from the nations, from Edom Moab,
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ammonites, the Philistines, I am
and like, and he dedicates it,
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he gives it to God. In
Verse Eighteen, we read that David took
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a large amount of bronze from Hota
Desert and with it, with that bronze,
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Solomon made the bronze sea and the
pillars and the vessels. I bring
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this up because when you think about
Jesus establishing a kingdom, when you think
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about God rescuing you from a kingdom
or a dominion of darkness and bringing you
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into the Kingdom of his beloved son, you might think of yourselves as some
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of this gold or bronze or silver
that David goes and takes from these dominions
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of darkness and brings them in to
the Kingdom of God. What does David
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do with them? He puts them
to service. He puts them to use
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in which they will be a a
part of the temple, a part of
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the glory of God in Israel.
This morning, in Romans Eight, we
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have considered ourselves as sons, but
we're also trophies, trophies of God's Victorious
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Grace, his plunder that he is
taken from the evil one. Our King
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is a mighty king and you,
if you believe in him, are the
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trophies of His grace and you,
indeed, as Peter says, are being
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put to service part of the temple
that Jesus is constructing. Once you belonged
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in the service of the enemy,
but now you belong to the House and
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to the household of God, and
so, in the same way that there
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is a record of God's faithfulness,
this kind of list here in first chronicles
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eighteen, a conquer a record of
David's conquest. You might consider yourselves,
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if we were to just take a
moment and list each of your names,
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as a similar kind of record,
a record in which God says, these
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are my trophies, these are the
records of my conquest. Theeus is the
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kind of place and people that I
have established. We might say, then,
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that the book of life that is
mentioned in revelation is not just a
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boring long list of names. It's
the glory of God and it has your
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name in it. It's a record
of his perfect and complete victory over sin,
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over death, over Satan. When
we hear of these victories, we
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do have peace, I think peace
knowing that we belong to God, we're
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taken care of by him, and
that is Paul says. The Lord will
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rescue me from every evil deed and
bring me safely into his kingdom. This
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is Paul's a great hope, and
he says this at the end of Second
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Timothy, where things are not a
going so well for him and when things
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are not going so well for you. I hope you will say the same
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thing when you remember David's greater son. The Lord will rescue me from every
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evil deed and bring me safely into
his heavenly kingdom. Let us pray
