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If you're able, please remain standing
and let's give our attention to God's word
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in First Chronicles, chapter eleven.
First Chronicles Eleven, verses one through three.
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For those of you who were here
last time I preached on his book,
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which I believe was last week.
This is a passage now that's following
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on the death of Saul, God
saying that Saul was put to death so
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that the check kingdom might be transferred
to David. Give your attention to God's
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word. Then all Israel gathered together
to David at Hebron and said, behold,
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we are your bone and flesh.
In Times past, even when Saul
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was king, it was you who
led out and brought in Israel and the
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and and Jehovah, your God said
to you you shall be shepherd of my
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people, Israel, and you shall
be prince over my people, Israel.
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So all the elders of Israel came
to the king at Hebron, and David
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made a covenant with them at Hebron
before Jehovah, and they annointed David King
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over Israel according to the word of
Jehovah. By Samuel, you may be
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seated. Whenever I preach about kings
and kingdoms. I often find myself wondering
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how much we as Americans, naturally
connect with this subject. Unlike many parts
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of the world and much of history, we obviously don't have a king.
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We don't live in a kingdom.
We have a strong executive branch, President
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with special powers, but not really
a king. Of course, this royal
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form of government isn't totally foreign either. As far as I can tell,
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it seems as natural for American dads
to play King and princess with their daughters
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as it is for dad's and other
countries, and so many of our stories
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and legends about times long ago and
far away also speak of kings and their
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kingdoms. Well, how are you
explain this oddity? For Christians, American
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or otherwise, King Kingdom, these
ideas, this idea, this kind of
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government, should be central to our
lives because, no matter what form of
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government we live under here on earth, Christians belong to a particular form of
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government according to our citizenship in heaven, and that form of government, which
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is our chief citizenship, our primary
citizenship, has a king at its head,
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our rule or our authority, the
one who directs our lives, who
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protects us who watches over us.
As Christians, we have to learn to
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think about our lives in this way, indeed, probably much more often than
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we do. We think we should
be thinking about our lives as those who
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belong to this king and to this
kingdom if we are to live according to
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the truth and honestly. The same
goes for those who are not Christians.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is as real
as any country here on earth. It
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is different, but it is real
and one day, when the kingdoms of
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the Earth pass away and only the
Kingdom of God remains, I want you
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to belong to the kingdom that remains, not what passes away. And so
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today, as we begin to consider
the Kingdom and kingship of David, a
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King on Earth who God used to
show us what the Kingdom of Heaven would
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be like, we want to think
carefully about this point, about this reality,
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about our own lives and how they
relate to our king, King Jesus.
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Today, and particular, we consider
one particular aspect of that the king
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and his people. The king and
his people. Let's begin by considering and
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remembering the divine context of David's inauguration
as king under God and over God's people.
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The Bible teaches that all kings and
kingdoms of the Earth are sovereignly assigned
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their places by God. This is
such an important thing to remember, and
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it comes up many times in scripture, both by example and by explicit teaching.
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God May use all kinds of secondary
means, but God supremacy over the
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rulers of the earth should never be
forgotten, particularly by those who rule.
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Proverbs to our twenty one one says
the king's heart is a stream of water
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in the hand of Jehovah, he
turns it wherever he will. I think
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about this whenever I'm my children are
taking a long time washing their hands,
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just playing with the water, watching
it move, just simply by directing their
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hands. This is what God says
about the Great and awesome kings of the
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earth, that turning their hearts is
just like turning a stream of water.
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He turns it wherever he will.
We read something similar in the book of
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Daniel, Daniel speaking, or Daniel
having received the interpretation of the dream of
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a king bless is the God of
Heaven and says blessed be the name of
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God forever and ever, to whom
all wisdom and to whom belong wisdom in
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might. He changes times and seasons, he removes kings and sets up kings.
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We see in these various ways,
in these various teachings and examples you
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might be thinking of from scripture,
God is abundantly clear that the strongest,
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most powerful people in the world are
under him and his control. Their hearts,
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their boundaries, their kingdoms are all
set by him. But the Kingdom
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of Israel, which is our particular
focus, the Kingdom of Israel and the
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kingdom under David. In this kingdom, God acts in a very special way
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here. He establishes a kingdom,
not in this he often does, but
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he establishes a kingdom above all other
kingdoms, a king above all other kings.
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We see that fact here in several
ways. We see God's special rule
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over David in the People's confession that
David was ruling even before he ruled.
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Did you hear what they said?
They said, behold, we are your
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bone and flesh. Then verse two
and Times Past, even when Saul was
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king, it was you who let
out and brought in Israel. There's this
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period of time and in a Saul's
kingship where there's this kind of overlap.
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Saul's kingdom head and kingship had been
taken away from him. Samuel, as
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is mentioned later, had annoyed to
David as the new king. And yet
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saul refused to let go and David
refused to take the reins as long as
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the Lord had his anointed one on
the throne. During this time, in
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many ways, David still acted as
a king. He defeated their enemies,
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he saved Israel in various ways,
and the people are recognizing that. They're
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seeing that David's rule was special and
appointed by God. This appointment is made
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clear it by this specific promise in
verse two. Not only do we see
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David's the supremacy of his kingship in
his actions, but also in the Lord's
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words. You shall be the God
says to David. You shall be shepherd
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of my people, Israel, and
you shall be prince over my people Israel.
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So we have this specific promise of
God. Then, on top of
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this and other places of scripture,
we read that this particular king in Israel
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was very special and was anointed not
only above Saul and to have a prominent
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place in the history of the Kings, but even in all the world.
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Listen to the words of Psalm to, for example, where we here have
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a kind of coronation of the king. Here we read, I will tell
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of the decree. Jehovah said to
me, you are my son. Today
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I have begotten you. Ask of
me and I will make the nation's your
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heritage and the ends of the Earth
your possession. You shall break them with
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a rod of iron and dash them
in pieces like a Potter's vessel. Now,
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therefore, O kings, be wise, be warned, or rulers of
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the Earth, serve Jehovah with fear
and rejoice with trembling. Kiss The sun,
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lest he be angry and you perish
in the way. Now, we
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often think of this psalm as speaking
of Jesus, and indeed it does.
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It is quoted this way and and
and, and tells us of Jesus's kingship.
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But it also speaks of David and
his kingship. And in the first
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place, as will come to see, all of David's kingdom in many ways
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for shadows the Kingdom of Jesus to
come. We see David and Solomon and
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others after them ruling in Israel over
other kings of the world, something beyond
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the normal operations of God are going
on here. God himself draws his attention
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to particular promises, particular commands concerning
David and his people, as well as
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his intention for a kingdom that rises
above all others. And so David's kingdom
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was truly unique, as was his
sons Solomon, who would follow. Despite
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its small size compared to other empires
in the world, its greatness would be
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evident in many ways in the things
that were made in the kingdom, in
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the riches that accrued, in the
victories of battle, in the wisdom and
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righteousness of the kings and Solomon's reign
in particular. We have this kind of
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UN kissing the sun going on,
as people from far, far away places
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come to Israel to hear of Solomon's
wisdom, to bow down and to respect
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him as their better and yet the
Bible also tells us that God was using
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David's kingdom to foreshadow and even greater
king, namely the Kingdom of Heaven,
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or the Kingdom of God, as
the New Testament calls it, whose king
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was no less than the eternal son
of God himself, Jesus, the Lord.
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This is very important point to consider. And thing to remember as we
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read first chronicles, as we hear
God's word here, because in first chronicles
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this idea of kingship is going to
come up again and again and again,
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and the Bible teaches us a very
particular way to read about this kingship.
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Bible's own Hermoneutic we might call it, or method of interpretation, and that's
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this fact that I've mentioned a few
times now, that David's King was foreshadowing
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Jesus is. David's kingdom was foreshadowing
Jesus Kingdom. God requires us to see
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this connection for several reasons. Tonight
I'll give you three. Three reasons to
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interpret the Bible in this way.
First and second Samuel Seven, God makes
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a covenant with David and which he
promises that David's kingship would be central to
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God's work of salvation. In particular, God promises that David's righteous son would
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build a house for God and that
God would grant him and eternal kingdom.
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David confesses this in Second Samuel Twenty
three five, when he says God has
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made with me an everlasting covenant.
Well, we all know that David Dies,
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Solomon dies, many kings after him
die. It's a curse. It's
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eternal character. David's kingship and this
kingdom's eternal character is only possible because of
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Jesus, the eternal son of God
and the biological son of David, from
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whom God fulfills this promise. It
really couldn't happen any other way. As
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we look back on it now,
God promises David this son who will reign
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forever and ever as this great and
eternal king. Jesus, as both God
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and man fulfills this role perfectly.
Second, as I just mentioned, Jesus
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is David Son. In some ways, Solomon fulfills this promise of God to
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David by building a physical temple for
God. But what happens to that temple?
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Well, eventually it's destroyed. Just
as Solomon dies, the temple will
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be taken apart. Jesus, however, we are told in the Bible,
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is building a temple out of people, living stones, as Peter Calls Us,
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in which the spirit of God dwells. As Paul says, a temple
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which can never be destroyed and will
last forever is beautiful and glorious. The
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book of revelation teaches us so Jesus
is this son of David, this one
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who is building the temple, one
who is reigning forever. And third,
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even the Old Testament hints at something
greater to come. Then the New Testament
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writers often point this Oul by looking
back at psalms like psalm to or Psalm
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one hundred and ten. The New
Testament teaches us that these things that speak
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of kingship in the Old Testament are
often being used by God to point forward
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to Jesus. So Salton one hundred
and ten, for example. Jesus himself
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asks this question to his hearers and
he says, how can David Call his
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own son his Lord? Son Isn't
Lord over his father? How can such
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a thing be? Well, the
answer to which is, of course,
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if David's son is David's God,
then David can call him Lord. There's
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many more things that can be said
prove and show this connection, and will
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consider them as we go throughout this
book, but for now let this begin
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to sit in your mind, that
when we read in the New Testament Jesus
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saying things like the Kingdom of God
is at hand, repent and believe,
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or when we read that sign over
the cross, that says King of the
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Jews, when we sing in our
hymns about the crown of the king,
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the throne of the king, the
kingdom that we belong to. All the
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time, in the background we have
the Old Testament filling out, coloring in,
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explaining to us would all this means. So, with that established,
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we consider a passage like first chronicles
eleven and notice a few things that happen
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here at the beginning of David's kingship. First, we read that there is
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a unity of that happens under the
king, under the king, under Jesus,
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our king, people are unified,
just as they were under David.
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This is a remarkable thing, that
it's the the book starts with all Israel
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gathered together under David. We don't
always see all Israel gathering together under one
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thing or one purpose or one king. Often we see Israel angry at each
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other, fighting, doing things to
harm one another. For a large portion
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of their history we see all Israel
divided between Judah and Israel, the northern
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kingdom and the southern kingdom. But
not here, here, where we have
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this this heightened kingship of David,
we have all Israel gathering together the same
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is true under Jesus. Under Jesus
we have this unity that happens, this
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gathering together throughout the New Testament.
We speak or we hear of Jesus is
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great gift in unifying people, rich
and poor, male and female, Jew
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and Greek, week slave and free. In addition to having unity under the
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king, together with one another,
we also have a unity with the king.
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Notice what they say. Behold,
we are your bone and flesh.
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Is that phrase ring a bell or
sound familiar? It's that same kind of
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language that we have in the beginning
of the Bible in Genesis, bone of
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my bone, flesh of my flesh, when Adam speaks of eve and it's
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a pro it's an appropriate way of
speaking, isn't it, given other things
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that we have in the Bible?
Refusians five talks about the relationship between us,
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the people of God, and Jesus, our King, is one of
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unity, of being joined together in
marriage. The two shall become one.
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Is The people here are stand under
David. They don't only stand under him,
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they stand with him, united with
him. Behold, they say to
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him, we are your bone and
flesh. We have a confession of faith
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of sorts here. Faith in their
king, and we express the same thing
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when we confess our faith in our
king, Jesus, when we confess our
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unity with him. Where he goes, we go, where he lives,
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we live. If he has put
to death our sin, then our sin
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is dead. If we have been
raised to new life in him, then
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we can consider ourselves raised. If
he has been exalted into the High and
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heavenly places, than the Bible says, we are there with him, our
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Lord, bone of bone, flesh
and flesh. It's why, when we
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think of the body of Christ,
and Paul uses this metaphor in various places,
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we think not only of ourselves as
members, but also Jesus, our
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head, directing us, guiding us, being our leader, our king.
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So kingship, to to acknowledge Jesus
as king, is to be unified with
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one another, it's being, it's
to be united with him, and it's
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also to live a new way of
life, and it's a new way of
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life that's really marked by submission to
the king under the guidance and authority of
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God. In verse three, we
read that all the elders of Israel came
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to the king at Hebron and David
made a covenant with them at Cap at
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Hebron, before Jehovah, and they
annointed David King over Israel according to the
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word of Jehovah by Samuel. Notice
what's going on here. In a sense,
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they in a very real sense,
they're not making him king. They
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haven't chosen to David as king and
they're anointing him as king. It's more
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like they're recognizing him as king right
because they already recognize one the leadership and
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authority he has. He's already done. They recognize God's God's sentence, isn't
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the right word? Proclamation, assignment
to David, you shall be my shepherd
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of my people, Israel. They
make a covenant with him, not as
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a deal or as an arrangement or
as some way to get something out of
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him, but as submission to the
Lord's will. That's exactly what it says.
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They're at the end of verse three
and they annointed David King over Israel
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according to the word of Jehovah by
Samuel. When the people of Israel recognized
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David as their king, their lives
began even here, in the recognition,
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this first recognition of him as king. Their lives begin to manifest that relationship
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and that difference. And the same
is true of King Jesus. When we
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turn away from our sin and we
bow our hearts and our lives down before
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Jesus, our king as our savior, not at Hebron but at the cross,
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we recognize and we submit to Jesus's
authority. We don't make him ouring
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in a sense we did. He
doesn't become our king. He's always been
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king, but we submit to him
as such. We make him our king,
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and the sense that we make our
hearts recognize him as king, to
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submit to him as king and bow
down to him. And this beginning of
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the relationship that we have with Jesus
is to extend all throughout our lives,
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and that's why this idea of King
and kingship is so important. When we
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live our lives, when you live
your life, do you consider yourself in
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this way? Do you think of
yourself as being subject to a king,
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as one who whom you owe honor
and obedience to, one whom you can
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pray to and seek protection and wisdom? Do you think about Jesus as one
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who rules with authority not only over
all the world but in your heart?
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This is one of the amazing things
about Jesus and one of the many ways
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in which Jesus is quite different from
David. David wasn't able to change the
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hearts of his subjects, not in
any kind of effectual way, but Jesus
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can and he does. Are One
of our catechism questions asks how Jesus exercises
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off his office as a king,
and part of the answers that he rules
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and subdues us to himself. This
is such an important truth and one that
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should bring us a lot of comfort, because when our hearts are warring against
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us and against our king, we
can go to that same king, not
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in fear but with hope and forgiveness, and seek his power and rule in
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our lives. So this fact that
Jesus is our king and does all of
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these things, uniting us to each
other, uniting us to himself, should
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bring us much comfort and direction and
even joy. But it's also a great
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warning to those who refuse to submit
their lives to him, because to not
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belong to the king and his kingdom
is to be outside of its walls.
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It's to belong as to know him
only as an enemy and, as will
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come to see David as a king, was a very mighty king. He
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had mighty men who were able to
execute his will and put to death his
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enemies. Jesus is the same again, only greater. He doesn't have a
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few mighty men at his side,
but hundreds of thousands of angels ready to
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do his bidding, ready to do
his will, and we see him exercising
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his authority throughout his street, over
the world today, and a promise that
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in the on the day that he
returns, all those who have been fighting
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against him, all those who have
refused to bow the knee, will bow.
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Not According to grace, though,
but in his wrath and hot displeasure.
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So as we consider that warning,
we are unreminded that there is this
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particular time that we have now Jesus
is exercising his kingship in this very particular
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way, a way of grace.
He offers himself to us, in a
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way that allows us to come to
him. He Ali offers himself to us
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in a way that's rescuing us from
unrighteousness. Colossians talks about God rescuing us
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and bringing us out of a dominion
of darkness into the Kingdom of his beloved
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son. These are the kinds of
things that will think about. These are
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the kinds of things that we consider
when we consider what it means to have
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Jesus as our king and for us
to be his people. Let us pray
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and as that God would help us
to consider these things all the more,
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to trust in our king and to
live in light of his power and His
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grace. Let us pray
