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Well, if you are able,
please remain standing and let's give our attention
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to first chronicles, chapter eleven.
First Chronicles Eleven, verses four through nine.
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This is God's word. Please give
your attention to the reading of it.
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And David and all Israel went to
Jerusalem, that is Jeebas, where
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the jebucides were, the inhabitants of
the land. The inhabitants of Jebas said
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to David, you will not come
in here. Nevertheless, David took the
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stronghold of Zion, that is the
city of David. David said, whoever
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strikes the jebucides first shall be chief
and commander. And JOAB, the son
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of Jeruiah, went up first.
So he became chief and David lived in
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the stronghold. Therefore it was called
the city of David and he built the
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city all around from the Melo in
complete circuit, and joab repaired the rest
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of the city and David became greater
and greater, for Jehovah of Hosts was
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with him. Ay God bless his
word to us. Please be seated when
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we consider the provision of the Lord, as we did in the hymn we
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just sung. It's very helpful to
remember the specific ways in which he has
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provided. Of course, reflecting on
your own life is a great place to
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start. You can consider the past
day, the past week, years so
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on from there. Another way to
consider the provision of the Lord is to
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look at the scriptures on the way
that he reveals himself there as a provider
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in these specific events in the history
of the world. We read of that
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kind of provision here in First Chronicles, Chapter Eleven, as God establishes his
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people in the land of Canaan,
this country which he had promised them,
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establishing them with King, King David, and now, in these verses,
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establishing them in a city in particular, and not just any city, but
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a very strong and powerful city,
a city that would become the capital of
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the people, the city of David, the place where David dwelled, a
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lived, a city, Jerusalem,
Zion, that would become and would receive
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an importance, not just politically in
this moment in time, but would carry
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forward and carry in it many,
many great things and promises of God.
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In all this and all of these
actions and seeing David established on the throne
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and seeing him take hold of this
city, we see God's provision. I'm
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God as the one in control.
Next time will begin to consider some of
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David's mighty men and the warrior aspect
of his kingship. There's a great transition
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between that next section coming up in
this one that we just read. David
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became greater and greater, for Jehovah
of Hosts, was with him. Jehovah
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has his mighty armies. Jehovah is
Powerful. Jehovah is the one who is
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establishing this man. David did not
take this city without God, without God
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on his side. And so here
I'm we are, I'm given this reminder
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that God is our king, even
as he is given David as a king
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to his people. You remember the
way in which the people who first heard
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this book are hearing this this history. They're people. These are not things
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to look forward to, but this
is a history of things that have happened
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in the past. The people that
hear and receive chronicles in the first place
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are people that have come out of
exile. Jerusalem and David in many ways
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were a long, long time ago. It's talking about the great establishments of
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the country, of the King of
the capital, but also recognizing, as
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they hear this, that the city
lay in ruins, that the great king
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and his sons are no more,
that the temple itself that Solomon would later
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establish there on in Jerusalem, I
lay in ruin desolation. How do you
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hear a story about the founding of
this great city as you look at it
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and see it in ruins? Well, in some ways it of course,
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it's very sorrowful. It highlights the
loss, it reminds them of their sin,
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but it also reminds this reminds them
of their God, of our God,
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that the way that they began it
was a good way, and the
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same God who began the way it
began things in this way have now brought
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them back. They didn't just wander
back, they didn't just happen upon this
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great city of old nowadays and ruins. No, God has brought them back
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here, and God is reminding them
of these beginnings of this history for this
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purpose of teaching them about their sin, but also about his provision as their
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king is ruling over them. So
what do we see here in this beginning
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story? Well, first we see
that David comes to a city that is
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already existing. David doesn't come and
look out and say, well, this
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is a really Nice Mountain, I
think we should build a fortress here.
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It's got great views, I think
it's very powerful, a good strategic position.
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Let's use this. And then they
built a city from there. Now
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they came to a city that was
already established, indeed, in a city
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that they had already attacked. I'm
back in judges chapter one, as Israel
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comes into the land and as continuing
their establishing there, the tribe of Judah
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goes and attacks this city. They
defeat the city, even they take Jerusalem,
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they burn it, judges one eight
says, but you read a little
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bit on in the chapter and Judges
One hundred and twenty one says that they
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allowed the inhabitants to remain there.
Well, you can kind of fill in
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the rest of the story by reading
this passage. They didn't remain in control
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of the city, did they?
Indeed, it was so strong that we
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read in a parallel passage as this
that when David went to the sake the
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city, that JEB asides were so
confident that David would not be able to
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do this that they said, you
know what, David, we're going to
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send our blind and our lame to
defeat. You is, of course,
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you know, a way of mocking
him, of threatening him, of showing
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their power. But they were very
confident. It was a very strong city,
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a city that had been taken once
but regained, and they were not
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a concerned about this David. But
nevertheless, David takes it from the jebusides.
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They say you will not come in
here and in almost a sort of
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wave of the hand, scripture says
nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion.
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Even it's named the City of David, the city of David. Jerusalem
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seems to have this particular place within
it, this stronghold called Zion, and
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it is renamed here in in just
a passing moment, almost as if it
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had always been that way. David
Takes The stronghold of Zion, that is
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the city of David. And then
David says whoever strikes the JEBYSIDE shall be
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first in chief, a commander,
and that man is Joe AB. They
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take it, they call the city
of David and then they begin to rebuild
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it. After they're taking of the
city, they begin to establish the city
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is a capital. What we have
here is the beginning of a very powerful
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city, the rule of a king
under which God, under which God,
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is ruling over them. And all
this, of course, is right in
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a line with what we considered last
time. God's Covenant Promises With David.
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God promised to David, you shall
be a shepherd of my people. This
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is verse two. You shall be
a shepherd of my people, Israel,
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and you shall be prince over my
people. You remember that Saul, this
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great failure, is that he was
not able to defeat the enemies in the
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land. But David, this one
who has been established by God, who
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is replacing Saul, goes forward.
He does so with confidence and in victory,
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as I mentioned. For those who
are hearing this, there is some
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sour sorrow in this as they consider
how far they have come Um but most
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importantly, there is this very hopeful
note that is struck. Though Israel and
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our kings had failed, had failed
to remain in the city, to protect
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it, to a rule over it
in righteousness, and as a result,
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God brought his wrath, coming down
from Babylon and destroyed the city. Though
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Israel and its kings had failed,
God had not, and God was bringing
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them back here and God was establishing
them here, and even as he did
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of old, he would again,
God would establish a king, a temple,
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a people out of the rubble.
And he does that. If you
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remember, on the city is rebuilt, there are work projects that are done,
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there are walls that are built up
and even one day the temple would
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be built again. And as wonderful
as that was and as exciting as that
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was to see those things happen,
the Bible tells us that these things were,
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even in themselves, yet a prelude
to a greater work. That greater
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work, of course, is the
work of Jesus Christ. You See,
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this city of Zion, this city
or this Mount Zion, city of Jerusalem,
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City of David, was pointing forward
to something that would be not just
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temporal but eternal, something that could
not be destroyed. Listen, for example,
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to the words of the Prophet Isaiah
and Isaiah Chapter two, versus two
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through four, Isaiah, to versus
two through four. Here, Oh heavens
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and give ear o Earth, for
Jehovah Has Spoken. I'm sorry, I
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was chapter one, verse two of
Chapter Two. It shall come to pass
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in the latter days that the mountain
of the House of Jehovah shall be established
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as the highest of the mountains that
shall be lifted up above the hills,
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and all the nations shall flow to
it, and many people shall come and
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say, come, let us go
up to the mountain of Jehovah, to
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the House of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways,
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that we may walk in his paths, for out of Zion shall go
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the law and the word of Jehovah, from Jerusalem. If you have ever
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taken a bucket, sort of spun
it and you see how the water sort
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of sticks to the sides as you
spin it around and around, the opposite
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is happening here. It's as if
the whole world is spinning inward, as
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if the center is Jerusalem, the
city of God. The Nation's pouring in,
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gravitating in, the word of the
Lord goes out and the people come
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in to live, to worship,
to be known and be under the rule
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of the king. These pictures,
these heightened pictures, never actually happen here,
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in this particular piece of land,
with these particular stones. Indeed,
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the temple would be destroyed again and
even today is is no longer remains.
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But when Jesus comes, he comes
to establish something greater in this life,
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in line with the story of David
and all that David is foreshadowing day Jesus
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comes and establishes something greater. You
remember what he says about his own body
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and about the temple. He says
this temple will be a destroyed, but
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in three days I will cause it
to be raised again. People were angry.
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The leaders were upset that he would
say such a thing, of as
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of that as the temple. But
consider what happened when Jesus died and rose
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again. He took with him to
the grave all of the the sins that
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Israel had committed in causing the temple
to fall apart in the first place,
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to break down in the kingship,
to flight fail. In light of all
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of our sin and the context of
all the ruin and destruction, God enters
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into the world and declares himself as
king and establishes something that cannot fail.
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Consider revelation twenty one. We consider
the glory of the Temple of old.
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Consider what Jesus does in raising up
a temple for himself. We read in
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revelation twenty one, verse nine.
Come I will show you the bride,
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the wife of the lamb see here, what you see here, what one
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of these seven angels comes and says
to John, says, I am going
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to show you the bride of Christ, the people of God. He is
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going to show John You, he's
going to describe you, he's going to
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show you who you are. Now
listen to the description of the bride,
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the wife of the lamb, in
verse ten. And he carried me away
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in the spirit to a great and
high mountain and showed me the holy city
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Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven
from God, having the glory of God,
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it's radiance like a most rare jewel, like Jasper, clear as crystel.
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Let me pause for a moment.
You remember, back in Psalm Forty
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Eight, which we can ordered earlier, there was this call to go and
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look at Zion, to consider the
city of our God and what he has
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done right, to go around Zion, consider its citadels, consider its fortress,
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it's power, consider the God who
has established this. Let's do that
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now again in revelation twenty one,
as the angel takes us to look at
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the bride of Christ, the city
of God. It had a great high
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wall with twelve gates, and the
gates of twelve angels, and on the
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gates the names of the twelve tribes
of the sons of Israel were inscribed.
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On the East three gates and the
North three gates, on the south three
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gates, and on the West three
gates, and the wall of city.
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The Wall of the city had twelve
foundations. On them were the twelve names
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of the twelve apostles of the lamb
I'm the one who spoke with me had
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a measuring rod of gold to measure
the city and its gates and its walls.
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The city lies four square, its
length the same as its width,
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and he measured the city with his
rod twelve thousand Stadia. Its length and
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width and height are equal. He
measured its wall hundred and forty four cubits
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by human measurement, which is also
an angels measurement. The wall was built
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of Jasper, while the city,
the was pure gold, clear as glass.
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The foundations of the wall of the
city were adorned with every kind of
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jewel. The first was Jasper,
the second Sapphire, the third agate,
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the Fourth Emerald, the fifth onyx, the sixth Carnelian, the seventh chrystallite,
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the eight barrel, the Ninth Topez, the ten Chrysoprice, the eleven
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Jacinth, the twelve Amethyst, and
the twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each
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of the gates made of a single
Pearl, and the street of the city
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was pure gold, transparent is glass. And I saw no temple in the
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city, for it's Temple is the
Lord, God, the Almighty and the
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lamb. And the city has no
need of a son or moon to shine
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on it, for the glory of
God gives its light and its lamp is
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the lamb. By its light the
nation's walk and the Kings of the earth
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will bring their glory into it,
and the gates will never be shut by
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day and there will be no night
there. They will bring into it the
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glory and the honor of the nations, but nothing unclean will ever enter it,
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nor will anyone who does what is
detestable or false, but only those
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who are written in the lamb's book
of life. Where do you start?
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Maybe we could start by comparing and
contrasting this with the Great City of David.
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This amazing story in first chronicles of
David taking this mighty stronghold all of
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a sudden begins to kind of be
sort of met when compared with this in
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revelation, twenty one David and is
mighty warriors taking the city, Joe Ab
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becoming this great commander, the Jedbusides, with all of their boasts and might
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having to flee, and the city
being rebuilt and one day the temple being
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built under Solomon, the glory of
God descending on the temple that his name
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might dwell there. As amazing and
wonderful as that is, it's still dirt,
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isn't it? It's still the stuff
of this world. And here we
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have a description of something that is
otherworldly, beyond description. The jewels and
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gold just piling up beyond imagination.
Almost the light bearing down on this city
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is the glory of God itself.
They don't have to shut up the gates
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at night, because what could ever
get in? God is protecting him the
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protecting this city in a way that
this city will never ever fall. But
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who is the city? It is
the bride, the lamb. There is
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this amazing complex of images and ideas
and truths coming together here. We are
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the temple, we are the bride, we are the city, we are
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Zion, God dwelling in us,
and all of this is secured through Jesus
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on the Cross, isn't it?
When Jesus raises up his body and establishes
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himself as the corner stone of a
new temple again, to use more biblical
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language, we are described as living
stones built on that foundation here, described
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further as the foundation of the twelve
apostles of the lamb, who went forth
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and spoke that word of Christ and
gave us the word of God. So
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this is where we are in the
story when we consider these this historical these
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historical events in first chronicles eleven,
this taking of the city, the establishing
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of Jerusalem, the fall calling of
Jerusalem, the rebuilding of Jerusalem, the
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falling again of Jerusalem. We stand
as the new Jerusalem, and in this
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way we don't need to look for
another earthly city to be built again.
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We don't need to keep our eyes
on the Holy Land, as Orthodox Jews
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and dispensationalist evangelicals are waiting for some
temple to be built. We don't need
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to wait, the scripture says,
we don't need to hope in an earthly
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temple, because that veil has been
ripped. You are the temple and God
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is establishing something among us that he's
eternal and cannot fall, because it's established
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by the death of the King and
his resurrection. This is where we stand
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and this is how we live our
lives in the world. The effect of
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it is manifold. How do you
respond to the fact that you are this
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city, you are this bribe described
in revelation twenty one? How do you
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respond to the fact that David's greater
son is our king and that have of
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hosts as watching over US and protecting
us? I hesitate to even give you
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answers that you might stop thinking of
them yourself. But you might consider our
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security, you might consider our joy
to be able to look around at the
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things of this world and seeth are
not the things of this world but the
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things that God is doing in this
world, and see them with eyes of
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faith, to see a cup of
water given in Jesus's name, to hear
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the word of God proclaimed, to
receive a hug from a Christian friend in
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a moment of empathy and sympathy,
and to see in that not just a
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hug or a cup of water or
sermon, but all of the beautiful jewels,
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the radiance and glory of God described
here, of his people should cause
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a sense of amazement in us at
even the humble things of this of our
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pilgrim lives and the spiritual manifestations of
his kingdom in this world. We can
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be secure, we can be joyful, we can be filled with praise that,
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even though we might worship and dark
work, dimly lit places, ultimately
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one day we will worship by the
glory of God, His light shining on
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us. We can know that we
can worship anywhere in this world, that
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he is the one who is binding
us together, and we can live in
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a way that desires that word to
continue to be sent out, that that
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temple would be continued to be built, that one day it might be a
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complete and revealed when Jesus comes again. Let us consider these things and look
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on this world and the things that
God is doing in this world with eyes
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of faith, knowing that Jesus,
this great king, has come earlier.
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Be Thou my vision was requested.
Consider the last words of that him,
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High King of Heaven, my victory
one may I reach Heaven's joys, Oh
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Bright Heaven Son, heart of my
own heart, whatever befall, still be
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my vision. A ruler of all. This is who we look to when
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we consider our king. Let us
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