"Numbering Israel - David (Part 12)" - Pastor Doug Batchelor

morning hard to believe coming to the end of 12 presentations on David and it's been a journey began last January but we've learned also about Jesus along the way because the Bible tells us that David was a man after God's own heart and so as we are studying the character of David were really finding out a lot about Jesus he was worse an ancestor of Jesus the name of David is mentioned more in the Bible than any other single name great deal in Jewish history the Apostles frequently referred to David as an individual that we could learn from and he's a character that almost everybody could relate to you know they say different people can relate to different characters and soldiers can relate to soldiers and the rich relate better to the religion in the poor to the poor but you know David went through almost all of these experiences in his life he was poor you can relate to David he was rich at the end of gonna talk about today fabulous wealth he was a stranger David was forsaken by friends he was attacked by family he he had to flee to a foreign land he was a refugee he was a soldier he was an administrator he was a creative person he was an architect I mean yeah David was just he did a little bit of everything and so just about everybody can find something of themselves in the life of David and David and to find a way to relate well we're gonna pick up today and our mission today really is to get from second samuel chapter 20 now you find the life of david not only in 1st and 2nd samuel you also find it in first chronicles they cover a lot of the same territory we've been using Samuel and it will go to first Kings chapter 2 verse 10 this is what the period of time we're looking at represents the last ten years of his reign which is why we've titled today's message the sunset years of David's life and we remember in our last study he survived this terrible rebellion where his son beautiful son who he loves so much Absalom rebelled against him wanted to even take his father's own life and yet his father was willing to forgive we've learned from that experience I mean the father's willing to forgive us even though we by our sins took the life of his son but he loves us that much well they invited him back to Jerusalem to lead out in the people of Judah but there was a brief rebellion that took place and you read about this in 2nd Samuel chapter 20 a man by the name of Sheba he blew a trumpet and said who do we worry we don't need to follow David he was from the tribe of Benjamin you remember Saul was from Benjamin the Benjamites were feeling like their tribe who had been slighted when Saul was slain that they really deserved the monarchy and so this rebellion went on maybe for a few months Joab took things in his own hands he should probably know the general who led under Absalom for the people to attack David was named Amasa David trying to bring the kingdom back together again and since Joab had disobeyed a direct order and killed Absalom job said God said I should say David said to Joab you can't be the general any more a mass is going to be the general well Joab said boy David you're making bad decisions you not only were willing to let Absalom live who could be a constant threat now you want the general that tried to kill you to be your general and so after Sheba rebelled Joab killed Sheba and then he killed a massa not in that order Joab kind of did his own thing sometimes so that was taken care of and then you get to second Samuel chapter 21 and this is a story a lot of people wonder about it says now there was a famine in the days of David for three years year after year and the famine after three years has not resolved for another six months you'll see so it ends up being a family for three and a half years now does that sound familiar how long was a famine in the days of Elijah how long did Jesus teach three and a half years you'll often find this three and a half years even in the prophecies of Revelation so there's a famine for three years and David wants to know what the problem is and the Lord speaks to David and he says it's because of Saul well Saul's been dead for years and his bloodthirsty house meaning his sons because they killed the Gibeonites what's that all about if you read your Bible you'll find in Joshua chapter 9 that the Gibeonites tricked the Israelites into making a covenant that they would spare them and let them live in the land and not a victim like they did the other nations they said will be your servants but let us stay Joshua made a covenant and even after the people realized they'd been tricked they said let's just kill him Joshua said we've sworn in the name of the Lord they are servants we're gonna let them live in the land we will protect them that went on for hundreds of years but Saul decided and his sons probably persuaded him the Gibeonites tricked us let's get even with him and they began to attack and destroy the Gibeonites well because they broke because Saul and his sons broke the covenant of God here you've got a famine happening years later now does God forget his promises when somebody does something right or wrong does the blessing or does the curse always come immediately God told David you're gonna be king but didn't it take a few years before it happened and sometimes someone will misbehave like King Manasseh but later when Nebuchadnezzar came and destroyed the city Manasseh had been dead for years he said it's because of the blood that Manasseh shed God keeps in the accurate record of things and sometimes the judgment comes later sometimes he's so patient three or four generations go by then the judgment comes well now years after Saul was dead but his sons these are the sons of his concubines his Saul not only had his wife and he had three sons four sons with his wife but he ended up having other sons through the concubines and David said what shall we do to end the famine because they broke the covenant that we made with the Gibeonites he said that those seven sons must be executed that were they conspired they were accomplices encouraging their father to attack the Gibeonites and so finally David reluctantly does that and then it says that they prayed for the land and after the harvest came which is the other six months the rains came and so if you've ever wondered about that story that's why someone said well why would you punish the sons for what Saul did well these were adult sons who had encouraged their father to attack the Gibeonites now you read on now you go to the same chapter verse 15 and here you've got the record of this final war with the sons of Goliath David is still mopping up the last of his enemies you know it's really interesting after David killed Goliath for a while he lived in Gath wouldn't that have been strange and David is carrying the sword of Goliath around while he lives in gasps but Goliath had sons that never quite forgot what David had done says the Philistines were at war I'm in 2nd Samuel 21 15 if you wanted to look the Philistines were at war again with Israel and David and the servants went down and fought against the Philistines and David grew faint then it should be nob a Sheba knob who is one of the sons of the giant the weight of whose bronze spear was three hundred shekels who is burying a new sword thought he could kill David and so David's getting old you know when David was young you just couldn't stop them I just saw I haven't touched his thing for a while but I think it's good yeah now do you read about the sword of Goliath and the Bible says the sword of Goliath do you know I could never get away with this in a public school they'd be carrying me out right now but you can do it in the church isn't that right but these old swords were heavy and here David's like 55 60 years old and you started fighting these guys and he got into a battle with one of the sons of Goliath now you'll notice it talks about the size of his spear head it's only half the size of Goliath spear head but it's still enormous average soldier couldn't pick it up so David's trying to fight this guy and he's going faint and the soldiers realized he's losing for the first time in his life and so along comes a Bosch I I'd like good old average died he was always at David's side remember he's always won so let me kill him he wants to kill Shaye me I wanted to kill Saul but he was The Bodyguard of David a knavish I saved his life killed the Giants son and they told David from that point on they said you shall they swore by the Lord his soldiers said you will not go out to battle with us anymore up until this point in he's like 55 60 David is going into the battle on the front lines with his soldier fighting side-by-side with them but finally is getting weak and they said otherwise you will quench the lamp of Israel you are our prophet you are our King you are our judge we can't afford to lose you and then you notice that they not only kill this son they kill these other four sons of the Giant and from this point on you can check on me in the Bible you will not find the word giant mentioned again David and his soldiers it talks about David's mighty men and it gives that interesting chronicle of the might even by the way I just talked about had an idea who killed this giant it or ambush I rather who killed the Giant he killed 300 at one time you'll find that in chronicles and he was guarding the past somewhere and as the enemy came he killed 300 of them one at a time and you can read about where avichai led his soldiers and they killed 18,000 and he was a tremendous he was almost like Samson and he has he's thirty mighty man that had incredible exploits they were all just outstanding soldiers it tells about them they dispatched the rest of the Giants Giants who not mentioned again in the Bible and David in his mighty men represent Jesus in his servants and that's you and me we are to be the servants that fight alongside of Christ now at this point when you get to Psalm 20 a second Samuel 22 it's all dedicated to a psalm of victory over the enemies and you'll find that's exactly the same as Psalm 18 so when you read second Samuel 22 this song of deliverance and praise it's telling when David wrote Psalm 18 you'll find that repeated in your Bible then a strange story comes along a lot I've got to cover a lot so I'm moving pretty quick this is often talked about as the other big sin of David we all know about the terrible debacle with Bathsheba and Uriah it says when he numbered Israel it's listed as a sin and you read in 1st chronicles 21 it's also in 2nd Samuel and Satan stood up against Israel and provoked David to number Israel now this is interesting that for no other reason because you only find Satan mentioned a handful of times in the Old Testament you find the reference in Zechariah you find the reference in job and you find this reference here in the story of David it's the word has translated the adversary and that's what the word Satan means he stood up any tempted David to number Israel and you realize something is going on here that is wrong because so what's wrong with taking a census you want to figure out and even our government does a census Moses once did a census to count how many soldiers were in the army so why was this such a bad thing doesn't a good shepherd count as sheep I mean how else does that shepherd know he had a hundred sheep only 99 show up at the fold he's got to go look for one that's missing got a count your sheep but depends on why you're counting him now David was doing something that he had never done before every other time in David's life when he went into battle did David trust how big the army was or did he trust the Lord when he went against Goliath what did he say do you come against me with a sword a spear at a shield but I come against you with the Lord and Jonathan said there's no restraint for the Lord to deliver by few or by many and Moses had promised one of you will chase a thousand and several times in the story of David you can read where David fought back to back with one of his soldiers to remember his name his father Eliezer that's it Eliezer the son of dodo I always remember dodo but that wasn't his name that was his father's name and you know you can understand why you remember guy in the Bible named dodo was his name he fought with David and they fought off a Philistine army the two of them back to back I mean so David's always trusted the Lord the numbers didn't matter but now he wants to know how big is my army and it's a question of pride and he tells job let's see how big our army is I bet we're bigger than any other army and Joab hasn't known David this is not the right spirit I mean even Joab councils him against them listen to what he says Joab verse 3 this is 1st chronicles 21 verse 3 he said may the Lord add to his people a hundred times as many as they are are you they not all my lord the Kings all of them by servants why then should my Lord require this why should this be a cause of gilfer Israel now if David was counting because he was afraid some sheep were missing that be different but now he's counting for a different reason good pastors need to count the Sheep if someone's missing you need to know we try to visit you try to stay on top of it that's why we need elders and each of you to help but when pastors get together with other pastors and they said how many church members do you have well this is how many Oh God that's that's not the Spirit of God that's the spirit of the devil that's pride and this is what was happening worth day but it's like Jeremiah 17 verse 5 cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength and day the road put not your trust in Princes Psalm 146 or in the son of man and who there is no help his breath goes forth in that very day his thoughts perish and but David now was thinking how big is my armies so reluctantly Joab goes out begins to number Israel and he doesn't even do some of the fringes because he the whole thing was kind of disgusting to Joab that they were doing it because it wasn't for the right reasons the nation had been prospering but the bible does give the number david's army was 1 million five hundred and seventy thousand now if you don't think that's big there are 300 million people in the United States and we have a standing army right now in the US of 1 million four hundred and twenty nine thousand David's army was bigger than the United States standing army that's not counting our reserves but it's talking about the standing army so that's a lot of soldiers the Lord had really blessed him but after David did it he was convicted by the Holy Spirit ease up man why him oh I was so proud what came over me and a curse and the people became proud a plague was going to go through the land of Israel a matter of fact David was given a rough task prophet came to him and says I'm gonna give you three choices and he said do you want to be pursued by your enemy and I forget they're all three choice but one was or do you want pestilence to come through the land and David said I don't want to fall into the hand of man but God is merciful let me fall into your hand so God sent three days of terrible pestilence went through the land and 70,000 people died through this plague that went through the land now that's not uncommon sometimes they used to have bubonic plague or different plagues that would sweep very was a pandemic of some sort that went through the land and 70,000 people died he still had an army of 1.5 million people if it was only soldiers that died and I'm sure it wasn't and so as this angel of destruction you ever heard these stories and fables about the Death Angel or the Angel of Death comes from a couple of stories in the Bible Passover angel of death went through Egypt in the days of Hezekiah the Assyrians were about to attack Jerusalem he prayed and the Angel of Death went through the Syrian camp and killed a hundred and eighty five thousand in one day and now this Angel of Death is coming through the land David actually sees the angel he sees the angel after he's gone through northern Israel and there's been this terrible plague and he's gotten word of all these people that are dying over this short period he sees this angel with a sword drawn in his hand over Jerusalem and David prays and said Lord Lord please spare your people it was me why are they suffering from my sin well the answer to that question is the people of Israel had now twice rebelled against David once under Sheba and once under Absalom and so there's a plague that's also coming on them but David is pleading he's interceding as Jesus is our King and our judge and our intercessor he says take it out on me this is what David says said it's it's Meissen take it out on me one of these sheep done he's still thinking like a shepherd and God says all right you need to make an offering says go to the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite now the Jebusite still even though David conquered Jerusalem some of them still lived in Jerusalem one of them was a very noble gentleman he's threshing wheat on this big flat area David can see this angel with a sword drawn an amazing thing it says or nen looked up and saw the angel with the sword drawn and he kept threshing wheat his sons went and hid here's a man he's just not afraid of very much he figured well God wants to take me he'll take me but I've got to finish with this wheat if I'm gonna live I'm gonna live and so heaps working and David goes up to him and he says the Lord's told me I need to make an offering to him and he wants me to do it here would sell me your threshing for threshing for is a big flat area where they used to take the wheat it was up on a hill and they'd shovel the wheat after they beated the chaff would blow away the good wheat would fall down you needed a big flat area where it would with a smooth smooth pave surface and there was this big corner area of jerusalem and he owned this he was a very wealthy man david said let me buy it i need to offer to the Lord here because this is the spot where Abraham offered Isaac the same mountain and this is the place where Melchizedek brought out bread and wine to Abraham no kiss adecco type of Christ Abraham offering his son a type of Christ and now David interceding for the people same place type of Christ and ordinance says I'll give it to the king not only will I give it I will give the instruments I will give the oxen for sacrifice and it says that Oren n dealt like a king with David and David said no and this is a statement you don't want to quickly forget David said I will not give an offering to the Lord of something that doesn't cost me anything is that a sacrifice if I pick your pocket and put it in the offering plate is that a sacrifice that's how the government does things okay no really the government is very generous with your money and I kind of resent I don't want to get too political but I do kind of resent that because the government has now taken it upon themselves to care for the poor and everything it's like they believe that it's the right thing to do but the people cannot be good enough they're not trusted to be good enough to do it and so what the churches in America used to do the government says we will take the money and we will do it and what it's done is taken it away the love and the giving has been taken away from the people and it's become politicized when King Saul got into trouble you know what happened he conquered the Amalekites he took the Amalekites and he offered it to the Lord and he was supposed to destroy it it's really easy for me to steal from you and make an offering is that really a sacrifice and so David said I'm not gonna give something to the Lord that which doesn't cost me if it doesn't cost you it's not really a sacrifice is it and he insisted he said I will buy it and so he sold it to the king I think probably had a good price and the King then made an offering there and as a result of his offering the the angel of judgment the plague was stopped and you can read in 1st chronicles 21 verse 26 and David built an altar to the Lord and he offered burnt offerings and peace offerings and called on the Lord and he answered him from heaven by fire on the altar of burnt-offering now some of you were at our dedication I quoted this verse because it's a very significant passage most of the time when people made an offering the priest would build a fire a few times in the Bible they put the sacrifice on the altar and in a miraculous singular way fire came from heaven when he lied to prayed on Mount Carmel fire came down from God when Moses dedicated the old Tabernacle in the wilderness fire came down from God out of heaven when Solomon later dedicates the temple built on this location fire comes down from God out of heaven so this was a great and a powerful demonstration of God's approval when Abel offered a sacrifice fire came down nothing came for Cain and so this was a sign that God had approved and accepted the plague was stopped but furthermore this was the place now that God was saying he wanted the people to bring their offerings up to this point they had all been waiting when they entered the promised land God said I will tell you where but I am going to choose a place where I want you to it to be the ultimate city of refuge now around the land of Israel they have these places strategically there are roads that were different cities where if a person got in trouble and they wanted to get judgment if they killed someone accidentally rather than have the Avenger of blood kill them they could flee to a City of Refuge and they'd be safe there and there were six cities of refuge around the Land of Israel but there was none near Jerusalem Muslim ended up becoming a City of Refuge if you want more about that I I can give you some examples where it was used that way but it also became the place where they would later come to celebrate their feasts it became the holy city really at this point so when David prayed and fire came down in Jerusalem this was the real christening event of that City being chosen by God because up to that point you realize the tabernacle wasn't always in Jerusalem it was at Shiloh and it was in the house of obed-edom and that the tent of Moses was still moving around this is where God said this is the place that I've chosen and but you remember David said Lord I want to build you a temple and David said you can't build the temple for me because you've been a bloody man not only a man of war and you shed a lot of blood but you also are guilty of innocent blood and what happened with Uriah I can't have you build my temple but this is where I want it built and so that was the place from then on where they sacrificed and you can read here where at this point it tells us David is aging and you go to first Kings chapter 1 you've gotten to the end of Chronicle by the way so who pays for the threshing floor of Ornan David does who pays for the temple of the Lord Jesus pays for you being a temple so you got a couple temples here remember one Jesus one time said in the Gospel of John destroyed this temple made with hands and in three days I will make one without hands but he spoke of his body and who is the cornerstone in the spiritual body no other foundation can any man lay except that which is laid which is Jesus Christ Jesus is the cornerstone Jesus laid down his life he paid the cost to build the house of the Lord for the foundation and the whole building so David a type of Christ he pays for the foundation for where the temple is going to be and you'll see later he pays for the whole thing so d-david again is a type of Christ now first Kings I told you chapter 1 begins by telling us David is getting old now King David was old and advanced in years and although they covered him with clothes he could not get warm now sometimes you get a fever temporarily and you'll shake and they put covers on you you sweat it out then you're okay but this was something different David just couldn't get warm I called dr. DeRose II of the day and I said you know I got a couple theories but your doctor and Sonia was in the car they're both medical people I said what could possibly have caused this well one thing could have been hypothyroidism and can leave you cold all the time as you get older and you lose muscle mass you sometimes could get a little cold or if you've got low blood pressure I'm cold all the time I've got very little blood pressure actually and the doctor I go in last time I was in he said are you a vegan doctor actually asked me that so why do you ask you said your blood pressure's really low which is a good thing I'm cold but I'm healthy so don't worry I'm not gonna ask for an Abishag you know whatever you haven't gotten to that yet they couldn't get him warm I thought that dr. DeRose was going to say the reason David was cold is because it became a government health care that's why he was old in advanced in years and although they covered him with clothes he could not get warm and so they sought for a beautiful young woman now in our home in the wintertime Karen and I have an electric blanket matter fact that's still plugged in we're not using it now because it's warmed up but we got an electric blanket it's kind of nice you know when the house is cold you call in to a warm don't look at me like that how many of you have electric blankets okay I know I'm not the only one yes even in Sacramento we do have a few cold days and so but back then they didn't have electricity you all knew that and he was cold and so you know the Bible says two lying together are better than one because you can stay warm you know it says that in Proverbs and so they said well let there be a search let's find a beautiful young woman because you know they're young you got the great circulation through all the territory of Israel and they found Abishag the Shunammite now some of you remember Elijah stayed with a great woman of Shuna mitts up in the north and they were of people they were not regular Israelites but they had adopted the God of Israel and they were a very bright and a very beautiful people if you later read in the Bible Solomon in the Song of Solomon he talks about the Shunammite and there's some who theorized that Abishag was a very young woman she never knew David her job was basically to get into bed with him to cuddle him and try to get him to stop shaking because he was cold all the time and she took care of him you know and she really became an attendant to David but it you know was very personal in that she would hug him and try and get him warm and they brought her to the king the young woman was very beautiful and she was of service of the King and it tended to him but the King knew her not she was a virgin now he might be interested to know that the word Abishag in Hebrew means pretty little hot-water bottle isn't that amazing I bet you would never have known that you don't believe me no but you know I do think there's a very there's a very interesting spiritual point here here you've got who does David represent in our analogies and he has a virgin that becomes his bride that remains a virgin and you sort of see those parallels through history so that's interesting in itself now you know I was reading the book patriarchs and prophets why was what's happening with David because he's not 70 years old yet and here's his Giant Killer and he goes faint in battle he can't get warm and you read there it says many cares and Wars had sapped the fountain of life another commentator wrote but David's strength was impaired and his natural force abated by his many wars fatigue by night and day in campaigns and the many sorrows and afflictions he met from his family and his friends as well as his enemies that exhausted him aging him prematurely so David look at what he went through he spent years running for his life he was the you know he was living in caves he was you know had problems at home he fought constant battles with all the enemies he was victorious but it drains you after a while and the constant stress is having his children rebel he had another child that died and all these things it had just worn him out and that's supported by the commentators by the spirit of prophecy and so it kind of prematurely aged him David is one who wrote that typically our days are threescore in 10 and yet if by strength we happen to live for score sometimes there's aches and pains I'm I'm a paraphrasing that now as David's weak and he's in bed and he can barely get up and get around one of his sons out of Niger the younger brother of Absalom he thinks that this is the moment says no one's been chosen his King rumor is that Solomon is David's favorite Nathan the prophets training Solomon to be King he was sort of the tutor and out of Niger this other handsome son of David the younger brother of Absalom probably also very handsome he's next in line to reign as far as age and he thinks to take it upon himself he said look David's getting kind of old how to take care of this myself so he gets together with Joab and he said you want that young bookworm Solomon he's a poet he's right in Proverbs you wanted him to be king he said and the other kids they're not prepared he's on the one should be king and then he goes to a buyer of the priests he says I should be the King and and he talks them into it I said David - getting old you know look at him he's shaking all the time and somehow Adam nyjah through his cunning and through his persuasion he gets Joab and he gets a by authority priest to support him he prepares 50 horses to run before him does that sound familiar it's exactly what Absalom did he's starting to make himself out to be the next in line to be the king he's got this entourage running around finally he picks a day and he says I'm gonna send out invitations invite everybody I'm gonna sort of have my own coronation invites all these people to the kingdom and all they're all starting to sing long live King out of Naija now David is still alive he's in Jerusalem this is on the outskirts of town they go to I think it's a given and they're all celebrating at an idea and pretty soon word reaches Bathsheba everyone's excited invited all the king's sons are invited except Solomon that's not a good sign and Nathan the profits not invited because he's been training Solomon to be King Bathsheba's not invited Abiathar as a doc the priest is not invited they're kind of two priests back then and they go into David Bathsheba goes into David and she said my lord he said what do you want and she's there in his bed and it says Abishag is ministering to him I don't know if she's serving them food or what's happening and Bathsheba what an interesting picture that is Bathsheba who used to be the pretty young thing is now a wife who could be the potentially the next king and she's watching Abishag this beautiful girl take care of data it's just very I don't know maybe I'm the only one thinks that's a very interesting picture anyone else get that that's kind of odd little paradoxical and she says my lord the King did you say that Adonai just should reign didn't she say my son Solomon should reign David said absolutely and she said but Dad and I just had a party there all seen long live King out of Naija and when you die if you don't settle this he says we're done for we've not been invited that's not a good sign and then Nathan the Prophet comes in he says the same thing to the king and David all of a sudden he sits himself up in bed and you remember when Absalom tried to be king he ran for David now knows that God has said Solomon shall be king he doesn't have to run for it he becomes very lucid it is that here's what you need to do says I'm swearing to you that your son is gonna be king God's told me so I know it's gonna happen just like God promised Abraham and he abraham believed and it gave him confidence David knows he doesn't have to worry about this he says I'm gonna do it right now I'm still king I'm still alive he said I want you to put Solomon on my mule and it was a very unique white beautifully decorated mule everyone knew David's mule I want you to go down to G huh blow the trumpets get Ben and I am the leader of the army he had sort of taken over for Joab I when she gets Zee knock priest I want you to pour the anointing oil no one's anointed at an idea I want you to anoint Solomon put the law in his hand and then announce that he's King and everyone's gonna see that I'll sit up and I'll raise my hands and I'll praise God and I will endorse Solomon so they do that and pretty soon word spreads through loose Jerusalem that Solomon has been chosen by David and everybody's singing and the priest is there and they put the oil on his head and that was that was the important thing and it says the city was rent with the sound of illa everybody's celebrating well the party Pavillion were out of night just celebrating they said we hear noise what's the noise and a messenger comes in and out and I just saw you brought good news is it no I haven't the city's in an uproar because David has chosen Solomon to be a king and everybody is celebrating and saying long live King Solomon and may the reign of Solomon be even greater than the reign of David and everybody who had come to Adonai his party you just say the party was over they realized they are going to be seen as rebels by this new king and they all very quietly left out an idea then he goes to the temple where the tent was he gets a hold of the horns the altar and he's staying there and they said Adonai G your brother you go to Solomon seen a denied your brother's cleaning little clinging to the horns of the altar and he said please don't slay me and Solomon said if he proves himself to be a worthy man not a hair of his head he'll fall to the ground he probably had thick hair like Absalom that's why I said that and Solomon dealt with a de Nigel later because he's conspired one more time and he was executed but and that ends up with the four sons that David loses that was foretold so David gets to see Solomon sitting on the throne and David lifts his hand he prays his lawyer says praise God who's allowed me to live and see your promise fulfilled because God had promised David you will not fail to have a man sitting on the throne until the Messiah comes and he sees the next in succession and he's encouraged by that now Soloman we're not sure he may have been 25 to 30 years of age at this time so he's still comparatively young you remember when he begins to rain he says I'm just a child I don't know how to go out or to come in so I'm out of nyjah's rebellion is put down but David's not done yet he still had a few good days where he'd get up and move around maybe in the summertime it was a little warmer and you read at first chronicles 29 he gets all the elders together and he says this is the most important thing on my heart is the building up of God's kingdom he says now for the house of my god I have prepared with all of my might gold for the things of gold to be made of gold silver for the things of silver bronze for the things of bronze iron for the things of iron wood for the things of word onyx stone stones to be stead set glistening stones of various colors all kinds of precious stones and marble slabs and abundance no wise he got all this equipment he is getting all the materials together to build a house for God a beautiful house he looks out the window and he sees the Ark of God is in a tent and he wants to build up a beautiful house for God I have given to the house of my god over above that I prepared for the house the holy house of my own special treasure of gold and silver and he so inspires them and when you start adding it up he literally gave I'm not exaggerating tons of gold and silver and gems to be put into the temple of God I've always wondered why when they talk about the ancient wonders of the world they don't list the Temple of Solomon because the temple that Solomon built had so much precious metal and gold in it it was phenomenal I mean it does comment when Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Solomon's Temple that they couldn't even tally all the bronze that had been put into it so after David does this he says look I've taken everything I have amassed over the years by conquering these nations whenever he'd conquer them you'd talk about the treasure and the revenue and the taxes that came in and there was just warehouses full of riches David said I want this to go to build up the house of God all these other pagan nations have their God that aren't gods we're gonna have a house dedicated to the service of God that's gonna be unlike anything else that was his passion what's a passion of Jesus didn't it didn't Jesus what was Jesus job carpenter what did he build a temple you are that temple we are living stones in the temple of God isn't that what the Bible says Christ is a foundation stone he said we're part of the body of Christ Jesus came to build a house you and I are the house that Jesus built and so the passion of David was to build up the house a passion of Jesus was to build up the house to give glory to God that's why he's working in our lives every day so we might become like him and give him glory amen and then after it he gives it says in 1st chronicles 29 verse 6 the leaders of the father's houses and the leaders of the tribes of Israel and the captains of thousands and hundreds with the officers offered willingly they're so inspired by David sacrifice that they also gave and so there's this just warehouses full of treasure to build up the house of God first chronicles 29 David then prays now therefore our God we thank you and we praise your glorious name but Who am I and what are my people that we should be able to offer so willingly as this for all things come from you and of your own we have given you O Lord our God all this abundance that we have prepared to build you a house for your holy name is from your hand and it is all your own now I'd be amiss if I didn't use this opportunity to remind you that's something we're involved in now it's trying to build up the house of God to get the message in all the world amen and when we give to God are we giving him our stuff are we just returning what's already his isn't that what David said now we get to the last words of David you can find this in both Chronicles in second Samuel 23 verse 1 these are the last words of David thus says David the son of Jesse thus says the man raised up on high the anointed of the God of Jacob and the sweet psalmist of Israel he's talking about himself but knew that God spoke form through him he says the Spirit of the Lord spoke by me and His Word was on my tongue the God of Israel said the rock of Israel spoke to me he and here's what he says he who rules over men must be just ruling in the fear of God and he will be like the light of the morning when the Sun rises a morning without clouds like the tender grass springing from the earth like the clear shining after the rain so some of his final words he gives us a charge to Solomon he tells Solomon and what was a private meeting probably that was later recorded there's some things you need to mop up after I'm gone there's some people who are still guilty out there that are gonna be a threat to you you need to take care of and David tells Solomon how to deal with those things and you can read about it and Solomon does and he ends up with 40 years of a peaceful Kingdom and then it goes on and says in first Kings to David rested with his father's and was buried in the City of David and the period that David reigned over Israel was 40 years Jesus said this generation will not pass away till all these things be fulfilled Jesus talks about a 40-year period of time and it goes on to say he was thirty-three years in Jerusalem seven years in Hebron how old was Jesus when he died 33 and a half and Solomon sat on the throne of his father David and the kingdom was firmly established you know in conclusion of our series on David the thing that I think we should remember is the Bible tells us that David was a man after God's own heart I'm actually quoting Paul in the New Testament after removing Saul he made David their King he testified concerning him I have found David the son of Jesse in him a man after my own heart and he will do everything I want him to do now I thought that was strange you would say that how could David be a man after God's own heart didn't he blow it a few times but you know the Bible record is he says David kept my Commandments look at first Kings 1480 you've not been like my servant David who kept my Commandments and followed me with all of his heart doing only that which was right in my eyes what's the great commandment that God gives us thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all its in the Old Testament Jesus repeats it in the new David loved the Lord with all of his heart you know it's good to know David's life is not being judged by that serious defect in numbering Israel or with Bathsheba that God's looking at the panorama of his life and did he end with the love for the Lord you know I wondered why does it say that David was a man after God's own heart and I started to itemize some of the characteristics of David David was forgiving Jesus was forgiving I mean Saul tried to kill him several times and David kept forgiving he was willing to forgive his own son he was forgiving you all agree David was obedient psalm 119 give me an understanding and I will keep your law and obey it with all my heart David was humble he let Jimmy I curse him Psalm 62 lowborn lowborn men or but a breath and highborn are just a lie David understood that power can corrupt he was a generous man donates most of his vast wealth to build the house of God he says in Psalm 54 I will freely sacrifice to you and then I started looking at the characteristics of David and it made me go to Galatians you know a Galatians says the fruit of the Spirit is love joy peace patience kindness goodness faith self-control gentleness was David loving David said I love you Lord my strength be sure you love Jonathan he loved his son did David have joy he danced before the Lord he knew about joy read some of the Psalms did David have peace have you read Psalm 23 he makes me to lie down in green pastures he leads me beside the still waters did David have patience he waited for years for God to fulfill his promise that he would be king he did not take it ahead of time he waited he could have killed Saul he said no it's not God's timing did David have kindness remember he thought about mephibosheth this this of an of an enemy King that he brings into his house and he shows him mercy did David have goodness again Psalm 23 surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life did he have faithfulness when he made a covenant did he keep his promise he did did he have gentleness Psalm 18 35 your gentleness has made me great what does it say about Jesus I am meek and lowly Jesus was gentle did David have self-control when they brought him water and he was thirsty because they risked their lives he poured it on the ground he was a man that had these gifts of the Spirit David was respectful he was reverent he was trusting and when he did sin he quickly repented whenever he was shown that he was wrong he repented he was a man after God's own heart and so you know in the Bible we see the in the life of David we see Jesus but we also see somebody that was very human that we can all relate to that God took from a very low place and brought him to a very high place you know we start out poor like David and God is calling us to the palace which is of course the story of the Bible God takes us from poverty and he gives us riches and we go from this low station in life David wasn't even invited to the supper when he ends up being the one that's anointed they didn't even think to invite him oh he's out there following the Sheep and God takes him and he makes him King and he ends his life in glory and God is calling us to those lives it's like the 23rd psalm you know how it ends I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever and that's what God's plan is for each one of us and you know what made the difference is because we love the Lord David loved the Lord with all his heart that's why he was a man after zone heart and do you love him and do you want to love him like that why don't we saying 321 there's four short verses in this song but I thought we could sing it together my Jesus I love you we want to ask God to change our hearts and give us that kind of heart amen shall we stand together as we sing 321 [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] my [Music] [Music] Oh is [Music] what a rich experiences has been to explore the life of this great hero of Scripture and to learn so many things not only that are interesting but we're learning things about you we're learning about your love and your patience with us we're learning how though we may fall like David we can repent and find fine healing and restoration and live a life that will end in triumph I pray Lord that you will bless each of us in our lives I pray that we can remember that Jesus has promised that he'll never leave us in forsake us and like David he has never lost the battle help us to trust in him please be with this church Lord we pray that it will be built up so that it can be a place that will bring glory to you and bring many into your kingdom thank you again for your blessings and be with us through this Sabbath day we pray in Jesus name Amen god bless you may be seated [Music]

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Published: Fri Sep 14 2018