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Let's hear God's word from first chronicles
chapter seventeen. First chronicles seventeen is divided
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into or one could divide it into
two parts, God's promise and then David's
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prayer or David's response to that promise. To night we cover the the first
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part of that God's promise to David. So let's hear God's word first chronicles
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seventeen. Now, when David lived
in his house, David said to Nathan
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the Prophet, behold, I dwell
in a house of Cedar, but the
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Ark of the Covenant, of Jehovah's
Under a tent. And Nathan said to
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David, do all that is in
your heart, for God is with you.
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But that same night the word of
Jehovah came to Nathan. Go and
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tell my servant David. Thus says
Jehovah, it is not you who will
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build, build me a house to
dwell in, for I have not lived
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in a house since the day I
brought up Israel to this day, but
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I have gone from tent to tent, from dwelling to dwelling in all places
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where I have moved with all Israel. Did I speak a word with any
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of the judges of Israel, whom
I command to shepherd my people, saying,
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why have you not built me a
house of Cedar? Now, therefore,
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thus set, thus shall you say
to my servant David? Thus says
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Jehovah of Hosts. I took you
from the pasture, from following the sheep,
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to be a print, to be
prince over my people Israel, and
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I have been with you wherever you
have gone and have cut off all your
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enemies from before me. And I
will make for you a name like the
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name of the great ones of the
Earth, and I will appoint a place
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for my people Israel and will plant
them that they may dwell in their own
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place and be disturbed no more,
and violent men shall waste them no more,
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as formerly, from the time that
I appointed judge as over my people
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Israel, and I will subdue all
your enemies. Moreover, I declare to
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you that Jehovah will build you a
house when your days are fulfilled, to
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walk with your father's. I will
raise up your offspring after you, one
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of your own sons, and I
will establish his kingdom and he shall build
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a house for me and I will
establish his throne forever. I will be
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to him a father and he shall
be to me a son. I will
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not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from him who
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was before you, but I will
confirm him in my house and in my
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kingdom forever, and His throne shall
be established forever, in accords with all
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these words and accordance with all this
vision. Nathan spoke to David, maybe
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seated. So David is king over
Israel. He is one of the Kings,
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one of the great kings, so
we might even say v King.
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I'm in the Old Testament. We
think about the prominence of David in the
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psalms, in the historical books,
even in the prophets, where him and
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his kingdom, in this promise that
God makes here, comes up over and
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over and over again. We think
we realize quickly how important David is in
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the whole of scripture. If you
go, I think, to random people
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and ask them what stories do you
know about the Bible off and they're going
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to be stories about David, one
about his kingship, either his rise to
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power or various things that went on
during his reign. God obviously uses David
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and his great plan of redemption,
but David is particularly unique, even among
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other kings that God uses, because
of what we have here in first chronicles
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seventeen. To No other king does
God make a promise like this one.
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This promise is a covenant. We
see it in the way that it's written,
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the structure that is laid out here. It's called a covenant and other
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portions of Scripture, and so that's
why sometimes we refer to this particular moment
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in history as the Davidic covenant.
We even have this particular name because of
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its great importance. But in order
to understand its importance we have to understand
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the context in which it comes.
So let's consider that this evening, consider
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the context in which this promise of
God has made, why God makes these
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promises and and why it's important for
us. Now does David's kingship matter to
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us in our lives? Well,
the ancient Near East it was common for
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kings to build temples to their gods. You can imagine why, just from
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a political standpoint, that would be
a good thing to do. In a
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sense, it would be an extension
of your kingly power. Right, you've
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you've built yourself this palace that,
when he says David lived in a house.
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You don't want to be thinking three
bedroom to bath yard. You know
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that kind of thing. This is
a house, this is a palace that
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David has built. The fact that
it's made out of Cedar, which is
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mentioned here, is is no small
thing. This is a house for a
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king. This is his his kingly
palace, and so David is established there
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in his house and he he decides
that he wants to build a house,
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a word that can also be used
not only to describe a palace but a
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temple, a place for God to
dwell, a palace for God. And
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this says I say it was a
sort of a common thing. You can
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imagine the king having his Great Palace
and then next to the palace was the
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throne room of his God's. It
was an extension of kingly power and glory
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and in a sense it would add
a lot of religious weight to what you
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did. In some other words,
as a King, you're not only now
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exercising political power, but you're saying
God is on my side. That's a
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pretty powerful thing. A lot of
things have been done in our country in
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the name of God and the belief
that God was on our side. This
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is true of places throughout history,
and it's true as well in the ancient
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times. Now David wants to do
this, but political motivations don't seem to
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be what's going on here. We
remember that David is not just another King
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and God is not just another idol. David is God's anointed King. He
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is anointed by the one true God, who is a dablished David's King kingship
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with his mighty arm. So when
David wants to give deference to God or
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give something to God, when David
Sits in his seedar palace and looks down
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on the Ark and says something doesn't
feel right about this. It seems to
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be an extension or an action that's
coming from from to true piety. If
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you put yourself in David Shoes,
you can see why you would feel that
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way. There you are in your
palace, you look out and you say,
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I've spent all of done all of
this work and all of these things
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because I believe that bringing the Ark
to Jerusalem is, in a sense,
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to establish God's authority here. Is
it right for God to be an a
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tent while I'm in this palace?
Well, so David goes to Nathan a
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prophet, a man of God,
a pious man, a good man,
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and he asks David, what do
you think I should do? and He
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makes this comment. Behold, I
dwell in a house of Cedar, but
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the Ark of the covenants of Jehovah
is under a tent. And Nathan,
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the Prophet, says do all that
is in your heart, for God is
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with you. David, Sir Nathan
sort of gives him the go ahead.
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He says, I see no reason
why this couldn't be. He doesn't exactly
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say that he should do it,
but he says the the Lord, has
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been with you, and it's makes
sense to me. But God has other
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plans. That's the context in which
this comes and this chapter is about God's
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other plans. I'll just pause there
and say this is a good reminder that,
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no matter how good an idea seems, it's not our piety or our
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good reasoning on which we should depend, but we depend on God, as
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we read in another place, unless
God builds the house, the builders build
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in vain. And so we may
have plans and intentions and desires to do
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things, but ultimately our trust must
be in the Lord. So back to
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God's promise. Why does God reject
David's plan? Why does? Why did
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he say no to David? He's
going to say yes to Solomon. Solomon's
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going to build him a temple.
He will eventually establish himself this way in
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in Jerusalem. So why does God
say no to David's presumably pious and Godly
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Desire? Well, there's four different
things. First of all, he wants
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to emphasize that he needs nothing from
David. God does not need to receive
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something from David, and he says
in this way. He says in Verse
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Five, for I have not lived
in a house since the day I brought
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up. Is Real. To this
day I've gone from ten to twenty,
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ten to tent dwelling to dwelling.
I've been just fine without a temple.
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This is such a contrary thing to
the way false gods and idols and idolatry
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usually worships or works idolatry, when
humans create gods of their own image,
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how does it usually work? Well, usually there's all kinds of superstitious places
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and thing and things that you say
in charms, that you do and this
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whole set of things that has to
happen in order for the God to work
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to do his good or to do
his bad. But God turns all that
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on its head and says, I've
lived intense and I've done everything that I
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have done from this place. I
do not need this. God is sufficient
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in himself. In particular, he
needs nothing from David this. It leads
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to a second point, that it
is God who is great and David is
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great because of God, not the
other way around. God has not become
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supreme in Israel because David has lifted
him up, because David has made him
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great. God reminds David and of
the and us of this when he says
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that I brought you from the pastures. You were a shepherd and I have
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made you into a prince. God
is great because he is great, not
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because David made him that way.
So he reminds David that of his greatness.
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In this way, he reminds David
that he doesn't need him or that
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he doesn't need a temple in order
to do what he wants to do.
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He also reminds him that he never
asked for one. God decides to worship
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how he God decides how we are
to worship. He chooses where he is
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to dwell and how, among his
people and he says, I've not commanded
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this. Among all the judges of
this Israel, have I ever commanded why
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have you not built a house of
Cedar for me? And then, finally,
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the final reason God rejects David's plan
is because God has a better plan.
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And this is often the way,
isn't it? We get frustrated,
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we don't understand why God does the
way, the things that he does.
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We say to him, I thought
through this, I acted wisely, I
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sought counsel, I acted according to
good and holy motivations. And yet know
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why? Because God has another plan. God's not in heaven flipping a coin
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deciding at random what he will do
and not do, or what will happen
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or not happen. Nothing is pushing
or motivating god outside of himself. God
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Rejects David's plan because he has another
plan. He has a promise. What
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is that plan? What is his
promise to David? It's a three things
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here. First of all, he
promises to make a great name for David.
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What a turn of events. God
doesn't simply say no and walk away
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or no, thank you nice for
thinking of it, but I'm fine.
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No, he says no I will
make a great name for you. You
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want to build me a house,
I'm going to build you a house.
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This really shows the greatness of God, particularly in His grace. But he
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is going to make a great name
for David, he says in Verse Eight,
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like the name of the great ones
of the earth. Let me just
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ask you. Has God done that? Well, yes, as I said
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at the beginning, David is one
of the great ones. He is the
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one of the ones that we know, the people who don't even read the
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Bible know about King David. He
is God has kept his promise to him.
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He has known throughout the Earth.
There's a second thing God promises to
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do. He not only promises to
establish him as a one of the great
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ones of the earth and make a
name for him, he says in Verse
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Nine, and I will appoint a
place for my people, Israel, and
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I will plant them that they may
dwell in their own place and be disturbed
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no more. These two things together, David's great name and the place and
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protection for God's people, are meant
to go together. As the king goes,
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so goes the people. That's the
rule that we see over and over
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and over again in our own lives
and in the pages of scripture. You
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see it in on your own lives. If you have bad father and mother,
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you typically have bad children, you
have a bad CEO, a bad
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board of directors. The company is
usually bad. The leadership often determines how
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the rest of the organization works,
and the same as true in a country.
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So God making David Great is not
just an individual promise for David,
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though it's that, but it's also
a promise for the people. As the
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king goes, so goes the people. And he promises him not just a
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palace of Cedar to dwell in,
but a place for his people, Israel.
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He will plant them that they may
dwell in their own place and be
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disturbed no more. David will be
able to defeat the enemies of the people
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because God is standing with him,
riding with him, fighting with him,
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and so there will be this blessing
for the people. Thirdly, there will
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be God promises a house. He
know of this term is used flexibly throughout
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this chapter. A house or a
kingdom through his son. So we read
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this in verses ten and eleven.
He says, moreover, I will declare
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to you that Jehovah will build you
a house? Well, David doesn't respond
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by saying, well, what do
you mean? I already have a house.
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God's talking about something different. Not
only is David going to have a
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palace to dwell in, but he's
going to have a family. This is
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similar to the promise he makes to
Abraham. He says in Verse Eleven,
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when the days are fulfilled, to
walk with your father's I will raise up
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your offspring after you, one of
your own sons, and I will establish
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his kingdom. So he's going to
do this through his son, and this
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son is going to be a very
special son. There's this adoption formula that
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God uses here. In verse thirteen. I will be to him a father
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and he shall be to me a
son, an adoption formula that's used here
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for God to say I will beasts, that he will have this special place
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in my house, he will belong
to me and I will take care of
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him. He promises even more than
this, though, amazing things, great
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things. This House that he will
establish will be forever. In Verse Twelve,
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he says that I will establish his
throne forever. He says that I
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will not take my steadfast love from
him. He says I will confirm him
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in my house and in my kingdom
forever, and His throne shall be established
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forever, forever, forever, forever, Amen and Amen. This is what
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God is going to do for David's
son. So all this language means that
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God's plan was God's promise, a
covenant that he is making with his servant,
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and that's why David takes such a
prominent place, because God is not
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just raising up a king and moving
him on. God is establishing, through
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David and through his son, a
kingdom that will last forever, a place
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and a people that will last forever, a dwelling place that God himself will
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dwell with them, because this son, he says, will build him a
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house, he will build him a
temple, and there he will be with
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his God, will be with his
king and with his king's people for all
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eternity. Now we don't read it
here, but in other places, even
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in First Chronicles, Chapter Twenty eight, verse seven, for example, we
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read one other element of this covenant
promise, though it's unconditional in a way.
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God says, I will do this, I will do this, I
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will do this. There is one
stipulation attached in first chronicles twenty eight seven,
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we read I will establish his kingdom
forever if he continues strong in keeping
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my commandments and my rules as he
is today. That references to Solomon,
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Pre Solomon in particular, and refers
to the promise to David's sons. Now,
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this promise certainly seems to find a
measure of fulfillment in Solomon. Solomon
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gains the spirit of the Lord.
Solomon Gains Great Wisdom and anointing. Solomon
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gains great power in his kingdom.
is a kingdom of peace, of prosperity,
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of goodness all around, of great
wealth and enjoyment. But Solomon does
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not follow the commandments of the Lord, particularly relating to this taking of many
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wives and his wives who worshiped other
gods. This leads into false worshiped and
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even falling. Immediately following Solomon's Kingship, we see this great kingdom that God
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has established and promised split into and
eventually both falling down. And by the
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time we get to Jesus's time,
it's been four hundred, five hundred years
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since a King of David's line has
been on the throne. A promise that
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in a measure seems to be fulfilled
in such a great way and yet falls
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apart. This thing that happened,
this falling apart of the dividic kingdom,
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does two things. One, it
wepts our appetite for the things that will
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come and to it reminds us that
of the of the king that will come
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and will establish those things. This
king is, of course, our king,
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King Jesus. We read in Luke
one hundred and thirty two that he
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is from David. The apostles a
point and numerous ways, using the psalms,
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like Psalm too and Psalm one hundred
ten, to remind us that he
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is the one who has been promised, he is from the Line of David,
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he do comes to do the father's
will, he is the anointed one,
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and indeed this is all the people's
hopes and expectations. When he rides
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into Jerusalem, into the place where
David's throne has been established, where Solomon's
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Temple has been built and rebuilt now
by this point, and here's they are,
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Jesus, the son of David Coming, and the people are channel yelling
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and chanting Hosanna, Hosanna, the
king has come. Here he is,
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and who would it better be then
this one? Who's doing miracles and teaching
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the things of God and teaching with
authority. He's going to come and he's
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going to establish this kingdom. But
then he's crucified and everyone says what,
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this was the king this who else
could it be? This is the promised
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one of David. But what do
we learn in the resurrection? What does
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Jesus tell us about that crucifixion,
about his death? He says it was
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one hundred percent necessary so that peace
could be established, not temporarily but forever,
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so that his throne could be established
forever, so that the things that
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most hurt us, Satan, our
sin, so that these things would be
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conquered. Jesus could have just kicked
the Romans out if he had wanted to,
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but he wanted to do something much
greater than that, and in order
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for that to happen, he needed
to also be a sacrifice, not just
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a king, but a lamb who
would go to the Cross and die for
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our sins so that we could have
rest from them, so that we could
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have peace with God, in fellowship
with him, so that God could dwell
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with us and not just kick us
out of the land again. God in
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Jesus Christ establishes the throne of David
Forever, forever, and this was the
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expectation. We read of this,
not only in first chronicle seventeen, but
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listen to two places in the prophets, two verses from Isaiah and two verses
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from Ezekiel. I'll read the Ezekiel
passage first, Ezekiel, twenty four and
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twenty five. My Servant, David
shall be King over them and they shall
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all have one shepherd. They shall
walk in my rules and be careful to
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obey my statutes. They shall dwell
in the land that I gave to my
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servant, Jacob, where your fathers
lived. They and their children and their
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children's triljan children shall dwell there forever, and Dave and my servant shall be
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their prince forever. I only said
I'll read two verses. I'll keep that
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promise. You can keep reading there
later. So these Egal thirty seven,
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Isaiah, chapter nine, versus six
and seven. For unto us a child
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is born, for unto us a
son is given, and the government shall
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be upon his shoulder and he shall
his name, shall be called wonderful counselor
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mighty God, everlasting father, Prince
of peace, of the increase of his
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government and of peace. There will
be no end on the throne of David
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and over his kingdom, to establish
it and to uphold it with justice and
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with righteousness. From this time forth
and Forevermore, the zeal of Jehovah of
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Hosts will do this. This is, of course, Jesus Right. This
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is what the prophets were speaking about. This is what everyone was anticipating,
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the son of David to come and
establish his throne forever, that there would
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be no end to peace, that
there would be no end to prosperity,
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no end to blessing, that you
couldn't even measure it. So what does
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this mean for us? Well,
this is everything. Des Covenant to David
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is our promises. Jesus is fulfillment
of this covenant. Jesus is being this
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son. Means that we have a
king that we can say God has fulfilled
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his promises in Jesus, and so
that means we read the Old Testament accordingly.
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All the ways that I have been
reading first chronicles and understanding these connections
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between David and Jesus are because of
this, because of this important covenant that
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God makes, this promise that God
makes, and certifies with his own blood
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on the cross. We read the
Old Testament and an entirely in not an
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entirely different way, but in the
way that God has set it up and
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the way that God has taught us. And so we come to see David's
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kingship and Solomon's kingship and the kings
that come after them that are recorded in
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the chronicles to teach us about Jesus, his kingship and our life in him.
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But it also has a deep effects, not only in the way we
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read God's word, but how we
apply it in our lives and how we
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think about things. Even now.
Jesus indeed did ascend to the throne,
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was glorified and, I'm took the
staying out of death. And yet at
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the same time, Hebrews to verse
eight, reminds us that there is that
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that we do not yes, verse
a, we do not yet see everything
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in subjection to him. Let me
read that a little slower. We do
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not yet see everything in subjection to
him. And this is true, isn't
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it? There is a way in
which, though he rules and reigns in
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this supreme way and has established his
throne forever and ever, there's still people
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fighting against him, the kings of
this world, rattling their sabers and making
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counsels together, saying how will we
destroy the Lord and his anointed one?
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This is hard to live under,
and I mention this because it's tempting to
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look away from the promises in first
chronicles, ift, seventeen, and Jesus
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is fulfillment of them, to other
things, for example, to look away
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from the promises here and look to
earthly politics or other kinds of things.
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US to put our trust and our
hope and getting things right here in this
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world, making sure that we get
all the our ducks in a row in
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our families, in our country.
That's, of course important, but it's
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not going to establish peace forever and
ever. It's not going to establish the
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throne of David and all eternity,
it's not going to increase the government of
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Jesus Christ for all time. The
only thing that will do that is God
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working through this promised one who has
come. So as we live our lives,
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we let's live them in light of
the promise. Let's live them in
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light of the king who rules and
reigns over us and even though we do
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not yet see all things in subjection
to him. We believe that all things
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are in subjection to him. The
proof of the resurrection, with the work
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of his miracles, with his very
words, with the spirit living and dwelling
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in us, how can we have
any doubt? So let us be patient,
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but let us also be confident,
for our king rules and reigns.
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God has fulfilled his promises and will
bring all things to his good and perfect
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ends. Let's pray
