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Of you are able, please remain
standing, and will give our attention now
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to first chronicles, Chapter Fifteen.
First Chronicles fifteen versus twenty five through twenty
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nine. So David and the elders
of Israel, the commanders of thousands,
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went to bring up the Ark of
the Covenant of Jehovah from the House of
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Obed Edom with rejoicing and because God
helped the Levites who were carrying the Ark
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of the Covenant of Jehovah, they
sacrificed seven Bulls and seven rams. David
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was clothed with a robe of fine
linen, as also were all the Levites
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who were carrying the Ark, and
the singers and the Chennania, the Enchinania,
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the leader of the music of the
singers, and David wore a lane
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linen. Ephod so Israel, so
all Israel, brought up the Ark of
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the Covenant of Jehovah With Shouting,
to the sound of the Horn, trumpets
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and symbols and made loud music on
Harps and liars. And as the Ark
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of the Covenant of Jehovah came to
the City of David, Mikhaul, the
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daughter of Saul, looked out of
the window and saw King David dancing and
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rejoice, seeing and she despised him
in her heart. May God bless his
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word to us. Please be seated
well. For several chapters now we've been
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seeing the Kingdom of David, I'm, being established, God establishing the Kingdom
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of this particular servant of his,
this anointed one, and in that we
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are seeing these the kingship of Jesus, Our Lord and our Savior, being
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foreshadowed. We have the great privilege
of knowing the whole story already and having
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read it and heard it a number
of times, many of us anyway,
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and so when we hear a passages
like this, we get to make connections
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that maybe we didn't see the first
time around, connections that scripture itself makes
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and teaches us. And here we
continue to think about the relationship between King
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David and King Jesus, the way
that God's establishing of this particular king,
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at this particular their time, I'm, tells us and teaches us about our
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savior. What we see here is
round too, or trial number two,
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attempt number two of bringing the Ark
into Jerusalem. David has taken the throne.
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He in in several ways. He's
already received the loyalty of the people.
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But a central failure of the Kingdom
of Saul, the kingdom that had
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preceded David, the king that preceded
him, was a failure to seek God,
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to inquire after him, and this
is represented very much as we've considered,
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in the ARC. David is not
making the same mistake. He is
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going to rule as one who is
under God, and what that means for
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him in this particular time and place
is making sure that the ARC is brought
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back to Jerusalem and eventually brought into
the temple which David's son will build.
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You remember what happened the first time
around, though. They went, they
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got the ARC, they were bringing
it up, but they failed to follow
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the instructions of Jehovah. They failed
to listen to him, they failed to
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do as he had commanded. They
didn't treat him with respect and the reverence
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that he deserved. They disobeyed his
commands and instead of carrying the ARC,
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instead of the Levites carrying the arc
as they should have, they put it
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in a cart. A cart stumbled, the oxen stumbled, the cart fell.
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A man reached out and touched the
Ark of the Covenant and he died.
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The Lord broke out against his people
and it was a lesson for David
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and for the people that God will
be supreme, the God is the ruler
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over Israel, even over David,
his king. Well, David has learned
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that lesson. And they go now
to get the Ark of the Covenant and
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as they do so there is a
great scene. I want you to consider
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it really, try to imagine it
in your minds. Verse Twenty Six first
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speaks of the people that go David, King David and the elders of Israel
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and the commanders of thousands went to
bring up the Ark of the Covenant of
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Jehovah from the House of Obed Edom
with rejoicing. So you have this great
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entourage, right, this great commanding
group of people, literally commanding, figuratively
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commanding. This is the king,
the elders, the leaders, military leaders
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as well. This would have been
a great procession. The imagine in any
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country, our own or another,
if the leader of the country and the
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leader of the country and all the
chief elders and all the top military commanders
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went somewhere to do something, it
would be a top news event right.
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There would be constant in our day
and age there'd be constant coverage on every
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aspect of it, around the clock, in security and all kinds of provisions,
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and on and on it goes.
This would have been a scene.
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But something about what they were doing, I'm is described as rejoicing. They're
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not merely all kind of getting in
the bus and heading down and talking on
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the way there. Their trip is
described by this rejoicing. One addition to
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these leaders of Israel military government,
the king, we also have the Levites
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as well. The Levites go along
and and they bring with them seven bulls
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and seven rams, perhaps more,
it doesn't say, but at least of
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these fourteen animals, and when they
get the Ark to bring it back,
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they sacrifice these. Again, not
a quick thing to sacrifice this many animals.
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So they're time involved here. There's
ceremony involved, there is worship involved
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in this process. So we have
rejoicing, we have this demonstration of power,
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we have a professor, a procession, we have the sacrificing of these
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animals. And then there are their
clothes. The Levites are wearing their typical
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garb of of fine linen, a
an important cloth, and David, we
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read, is is wearing it too. There are also, in addition to
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all of this, enough people to
have these groups of singers, choirs even
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I'm so, there's singing and Ridge
along in with the rejoicing. There's even
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shouting. We read later on in
Verse Twenty Eight, when they're bringing the
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arc up, they bring it up
with shouting, and there's musicians to with
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the sound of Horn, trumpets,
symbols and made loud music on Harps and
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liars. This is a little bit
of speculation. Can't say exactly what this
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look like, but I imagine something
of a parade. You've got top leaders,
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military commanders, marching bands of some
sort, these priests and all of
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them, all of its centering around
this arc. David himself is described as
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dancing and rejoicing, and no doubt
there were others as well. All of
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this reminds us very much of other
kinds of ascensions to power, coronation ceremonies.
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These things are very grand and very
much just like this, with all
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of these people and sounds and smells, religious connections as well. When you
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see these, when if you've ever
seen or seen pictures of a coronation or
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some kind of ruler coming to power. They are very grand and many,
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many people participate. It's a thing
in which everyone gathers around and and centers
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around. But here something very different
is happening than happens in many other kinds
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of coronations or ascensions to power.
Here we see that it is God who
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is the center of attention and he, even though David is leading all of
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this and even though he's the king
and even though he's the one who's ascending
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to power, David takes a little
bit of a back seat. We see
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that in two ways. The first
way is the way I've already mentioned,
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the Ark of God. That's what
this is about. It's all about bringing
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the arc of the Covenant into Jerusalem. That is the point at which they
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failed before and that is the point
at which they are exceeding succeeding now.
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You also see it in the rejoicing, the way that David and these people
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are acting, especially David the he
is rejoicing that, he is dancing and
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celebrating. It's like he's just one
of the crowd. His attention, his
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worship is directed somewhere else other than
himself, even though he's the king,
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even though he's the one whose kingdom
is being established. Yet he bends the
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knee and is rejoicing and acts in
this way as one who is humbling himself
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before God, the king of Kings, the one who is annoyed to David,
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the one who has called him,
who is established not just David's kingdom
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but the Kingdom of God. The
last way you see this is in David's
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clothing. David, even though this
is his kingdom, as I say,
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that is being established, and a
human level, he doesn't wear the clothes
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of a king. In fact,
he's not distinguishable in any way from the
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priests. If you looked at least
a described here in this picture, if
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you looked out at the priests,
if you watched this happening, you wouldn't
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see ordinary citizens and animals and followers
along and then top military commanders and then
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priests and elders and then finally,
at the head of everything, the great
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king, the king with all of
his robes and crowns and things like that.
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The king is wearing what the priests
are wearing. He is distinguished in
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a way, but he's distinguished among
a group. It says that David was
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clothed with a robe of fine linen. This is verse Twenty Eight, as
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also were all the Levites who were
carrying the arc and the others who were
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singing as the as well as the
leader. there. David also wears a
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Lennon E fod. For some strange
reason it's sort of spread in the culture
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that David was naked when all of
this was happening. It doesn't say that.
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It says nothing about that. In
fact, it tells us what he
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was wearing, Lennon Efod, which
is not some kind of underwear thing,
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but as a dress that actually he
goes over the robe. Perhaps you've worn
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long underwear before and then a t
shirt over that. It's that kind of
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thing. He's wearing a long white
linen robe and then another piece of clothing
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over that, a Lennon Efod,
which was common among the priests. There's,
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I believe, one reason that some
people suspect, or we shouldn't say
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suspect, just improperly interpret this,
is me. Calls up being upset with
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him. I'm here. It says
that she looks out of her window and
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saw King David Dancing and rejoicing and
despised him in her heart. In Samuel
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there is an addition that she is
upset with the relationship between him and and
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the other women, that he's somehow
acting inappropriately. And from this people then
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assume, well, he must have
been naked or something like that, but
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he wasn't. The text is telling
us that he was wearing the clothing of
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the priests. So what is his
wife's problem? What's she up so a
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set upset about? And actually,
now that I say it that way,
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it's not really fair to say it
that way. It's true that she was
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his wife, but that's not how
she's characterized here. Here's she's characterized as
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the daughter of Saul, and she's
characterized that way for a very particular reason.
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Whenever the Bible gives us little genealogies
like that, it's for a particular
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reason. She's characterized as the daughter
of Saul, to remind us of this
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great contrast between the Kingdom of Saul
and the Kingdom of David. As one
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commentator who wittily put it, her
heart is not quite in tune with all
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the music and rejoicing and the things
that are going on. She is upset
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and despising David in her heart.
The reason she is despising him most likely
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is because of the way he's dressed, not because of his immodesty, but
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because of his modesty. You remember
that Saul was all about himself. Saul
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was all about his rise to power, his ruling in the way that he
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wanted and his ruling over even God, who had called him to rule.
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David is not doing that. David
is bending the knee, so to speak,
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and David is even humbling himself and
dressing himself as not just the king
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to whom all obedience is owed,
but even as one of the priests.
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This humbling himself in this way is
what the daughter of Saul despises it what
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she is not happy about. This
is, I said at the beginning,
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is a great prelude to the work
of Jesus. Jesus also would ascend to
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His throne the Heaven, in the
heavens, as a king, and he
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would do so like David, he
would first go through a period of suffering
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and trials and tribulation and struggles before
he would finally ascend to his throne.
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He would also do so not just
as a king but as a priest.
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Here David, who takes on both
of these roles, blending them together.
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Is exactly what Jesus does. When
Jesus goes to the cross, he goes
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not only as a king to rule
and to reign over sin, over death,
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over the devil, he does so
as a priest. And as Jesus
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does this, we see that he
is not just like David, but he
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is greater than Davids. The Bible
says David's greater son. His ascension is
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much higher than David's. But this
it is also true that his humiliation is
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much lower and that the hatred that
people have for him, the despise sing
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like the daughter of salt does,
is much stronger. Because when Jesus goes
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to the throne as a priest,
he doesn't do so merely wearing the garb
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of a priest. He doesn't just
take on the outward forms. He is
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the the he is a priest in
every sense and in the highest sense.
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He goes before God to intercede between
God and men and he goes bringing a
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sacrifice, not of bulls and Rams, not even a lot of bulls and
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rams, but he goes to sacrifice
himself. That is how deep Jesus is.
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Humiliation will go saul's daughter despises her
husband for wearing the wrong thing,
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for not showing himself as great as
he is. Don't people do the very
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same thing with Jesus? He comes
as the son of God, he is
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the son of God, he is
able to command on the hosts of Heaven
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to do his bidding and he does
many great and miraculous things, and yet
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people are so frustrated with him.
Why are you acting in the way that
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you're acting, Jesus? Why don't
you take out the Romans? Why don't
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you establish your kingdom? Why don't
you make yourself strong? Indeed, even
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Satan himself offers him this kind of
path in the wilderness. Satan says,
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I'll give you all the kingdoms of
this world if you will not submit to
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God. But, like David,
Jesus humbles himself. He humbles himself in
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particular as a priest, as a
priest who brings a sacrifice, a sacrifice
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that is himself, and he does
that for a very particular reason, because
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the Kingdom of God, Praise be
to God, is not established in power
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apart from grace. That's how the
Kingdom of God is first established here on
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Earth, through the Cross, through
the Gospel, and this gives us great
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courage. And, as much as
some people hate Jesus, it also inspires
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a loyalty to him that is stronger
than the loyalty David Ever received, because
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in the power and in the mode
of the Cross, kings, the king's
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servants today gladly go even to their
deaths, knowing that in faith in him,
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they have victory. Because Jesus went
to the cross, it means that
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we can be saved from our sins. If Jesus only came in glory and
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in power, all of us would
be defeated. We would be like the
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Philistines who are conquered by David.
But instead we rule and we reign in
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him, because he conquers us first
in our hearts. He brings us to
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a place of humility and and and
celebrate celebration. Through his victory on the
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cross, through his humiliation, we
have salvation. Through his humiliation and obedience,
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we have the forgiveness of our sins, and one day we know that
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this will be finally established and perfected
in every way. For the Christian,
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then, who worships and doesn't just
respect but worships Jesus, as king who
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knows him as our God and knows
him as our God and Savior. This
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should give us great courage, instead
of despising Jesus in his humility, instead
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of despising the suffering that we are
called to face in his name, the
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persecution that we must endure, the
humble means by which that kingdom advances into
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the world, through the preaching of
the Gospel, through the administration of the
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sacraments, through joining to gather with
one another and worship like this, instead
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of despising those things and saying where's
the glory, like me call from her
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window, we join Jesus, encouraged
by him, strengthened by him, knowing
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that everything that David has accomplished here, Jesus has done, and infinitely more
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so. Knowing this gives us bravery
and courage and loyalty, and he gives
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us rejoicing. It allows us to
be bold in our praise, to not
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be timid, wondering what others would
think, wondering what, what, that
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we are humbled in our acts of
worship. It gives us courage and boldness
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even in our suffering, knowing that
God is on our side, that he
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rules and he reigns and he does
so according to His grace. Let it
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be our prayer, then, that
is we consider David as a king,
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that we would remember Jesus, not
only that he rules and reigns, but
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that he does so in this humble
way, as our priest, as our
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sacrifice and all the victory that we
have in that. Let us pray
