WEBVTT 00:00:01.520 --> 00:13:18.529 Okay, then. We have been looking at length for 00:13:18.529 --> 00:13:22.169 I've lost count of how many weeks at the time 00:13:22.169 --> 00:13:25.490 when David was ousted from Jerusalem. David was 00:13:25.490 --> 00:13:29.129 the king of all Israel and his son Absalom tried 00:13:29.129 --> 00:13:32.710 to become king and he gained a lot of favor amongst 00:13:32.710 --> 00:13:34.830 the military and amongst people who are coming 00:13:34.830 --> 00:13:38.690 to make petitions or who had problems in Jerusalem. 00:13:39.009 --> 00:13:42.110 And then David basically had to flee and leave 00:13:42.110 --> 00:13:48.750 his kingship and Absalom became king. Cain. In 00:13:48.750 --> 00:13:51.750 that period of time, we have looked at a lot 00:13:51.750 --> 00:13:55.590 of people. And today, we begin to look at... 00:13:55.590 --> 00:13:58.169 Anybody want to take a wild stab at who it is? 00:13:58.190 --> 00:13:59.190 If you've seen your worksheet, you should be 00:13:59.190 --> 00:14:02.590 able to guess. Go ahead. David. That's right. 00:14:02.750 --> 00:14:06.190 And so, because, as you can imagine, the story 00:14:06.190 --> 00:14:10.110 of David is so long and there is so much in it, 00:14:10.230 --> 00:14:13.960 I'm going to rely on... Two things. One, I'm 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:15.740 going to rely on your overall Bible knowledge. 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:18.220 So us as a group in this whole room, hopefully 00:14:18.220 --> 00:14:20.240 we'll have some Bible knowledge and we can pull 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:21.919 some things out so we won't have to go and look 00:14:21.919 --> 00:14:23.659 up all of the things that are on the sheet. And 00:14:23.659 --> 00:14:25.460 so I've given you kind of like I give you the 00:14:25.460 --> 00:14:28.080 chapter and then you're going to kind of help 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:30.580 me fill in the blanks. Obviously, I do have the 00:14:30.580 --> 00:14:32.360 answers, so I'll get us through if it comes to 00:14:32.360 --> 00:14:35.259 that. But we're going to fill in the blanks. 00:14:35.259 --> 00:14:37.100 And then the other thing we're going to rely 00:14:37.100 --> 00:14:40.220 on is what we've studied over the last six to 00:14:40.220 --> 00:14:44.799 eight weeks. David's story has intersected with 00:14:44.799 --> 00:14:46.960 all these characters that we've been studying. 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:48.340 And you've heard, like last week especially, 00:14:48.659 --> 00:14:50.279 we heard about his death. And we're not going 00:14:50.279 --> 00:14:51.820 to look at his death today. We're going to go 00:14:51.820 --> 00:14:54.159 back in time, look at the time leading up to 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:58.159 Absalom's revolt. But we also saw how he interacted 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:00.539 with a lot of people up until the time that Absalom 00:15:00.539 --> 00:15:06.580 revolted. And so hopefully we can do this. And 00:15:06.580 --> 00:15:10.179 I do have the answers here. fill in gaps if we 00:15:10.179 --> 00:15:11.940 don't know it, but I think we'll be okay. So 00:15:11.940 --> 00:15:14.000 we're starting the upper left -hand part of the 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:18.899 page, and you have a reference there. And it's 00:15:18.899 --> 00:15:21.200 kind of like there's an anchor in the middle 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:26.840 of it. It's 1 Samuel 16. And 1 Samuel 16 is the 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:32.080 very first time, really, that we see David in 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:36.000 the story. And the high priest Samuel goes and 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:39.179 they're looking for somebody to, he's being led 00:15:39.179 --> 00:15:41.340 by God basically to find somebody to be king, 00:15:41.500 --> 00:15:45.799 to replace Saul. And he goes to David's household 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:47.519 and he looks at all of his older siblings and 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:50.620 so on. So you remember this story at all? Hopefully 00:15:50.620 --> 00:15:53.679 it's not too completely unknown to you. All right. 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:56.320 And so if you look under 1 Samuel 16 there, you 00:15:56.320 --> 00:16:02.330 see it says David is what? Finish it. This is 00:16:02.330 --> 00:16:05.070 easy. Come on. What? Young. That's right. David 00:16:05.070 --> 00:16:08.590 is young. But even though David is young, David 00:16:08.590 --> 00:16:15.889 is anointed. That's correct. So to anoint someone 00:16:15.889 --> 00:16:19.009 is to pour oil on them, generally speaking. You 00:16:19.009 --> 00:16:22.529 can anoint with holy water, too, or blessed water, 00:16:22.649 --> 00:16:25.990 pure water, olive oil, that kind of thing. But 00:16:25.990 --> 00:16:28.809 basically, they would use holy oil. And they 00:16:28.809 --> 00:16:30.830 poured on him and they basically were anointing 00:16:30.830 --> 00:16:33.929 him with king. Now, what's the symbolism? When 00:16:33.929 --> 00:16:35.870 somebody's being anointed with oil, what is being 00:16:35.870 --> 00:16:41.210 symbolized? Yeah, it's not really the blood, 00:16:41.250 --> 00:16:45.269 but the Lord, right? The Lord's presence coming 00:16:45.269 --> 00:16:48.070 on that individual, the Holy Spirit or God's 00:16:48.070 --> 00:16:50.029 presence coming on that individual. All right. 00:16:50.309 --> 00:16:53.169 And so I guess you could stretch it to be blood. 00:16:53.330 --> 00:16:56.799 I think you could do that. I think I would just 00:16:56.799 --> 00:16:59.039 say they didn't have that yet. So I think they 00:16:59.039 --> 00:17:01.759 were thinking of God's presence. Okay? Yeah. 00:17:01.940 --> 00:17:05.400 Now maybe. Yeah. All right. So now you're going 00:17:05.400 --> 00:17:07.579 to go to the right first. Go to the right first. 00:17:08.460 --> 00:17:12.160 It says 1 Samuel 17. And then we see the next 00:17:12.160 --> 00:17:14.839 big story of David's life. And it's the one that, 00:17:14.900 --> 00:17:16.980 like, everybody knows, even people who aren't 00:17:16.980 --> 00:17:18.500 Christians, don't go to church, don't know the 00:17:18.500 --> 00:17:24.099 Bible, pretty much. Say it again. It is David 00:17:24.099 --> 00:17:27.599 versus Goliath. That's correct. All right, is 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:32.160 Alicia in here now? Did we lose Alicia? We lost 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:33.819 her temporarily at least. Okay, that's going 00:17:33.819 --> 00:17:36.559 to be a problem. All right, so those of you who 00:17:36.559 --> 00:17:39.359 like music, I'm going to rely on you for this 00:17:39.359 --> 00:17:47.680 next line. Okay, so David versus Goliath, and 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:50.660 the theme of the story of David versus Goliath 00:17:50.660 --> 00:17:53.720 is a song that we sing. Josh will know this one. 00:17:53.799 --> 00:17:57.759 It's a song that we sing and it is called, it's 00:17:57.759 --> 00:18:01.140 a classic drum song. We almost got to have the 00:18:01.140 --> 00:18:07.160 drums. Nope. The battle belongs to the Lord. 00:18:07.259 --> 00:18:09.700 The theme of the story between David and Goliath 00:18:09.700 --> 00:18:11.440 is the battle belongs to the Lord. And we sing 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:16.299 that song as a worship song now. And we have 00:18:16.299 --> 00:18:18.559 other songs that we have that mention the story 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:21.099 of David and Goliath, right? And it is a classic 00:18:21.099 --> 00:18:25.140 story in scripture and huge. And it really made 00:18:25.140 --> 00:18:28.660 David famous. Okay. So we'll talk briefly about 00:18:28.660 --> 00:18:31.480 Goliath. See that next session. I did this kind 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:35.960 of in a fun way. All right. So the Goliath, if 00:18:35.960 --> 00:18:38.720 I say nine feet, what is the significance of 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:41.039 that in the story of Goliath? What was nine feet? 00:18:42.420 --> 00:18:46.789 Yep. His height. So on the blank you put tall 00:18:46.789 --> 00:18:51.529 or height. So he was nine feet tall. Here's a 00:18:51.529 --> 00:18:54.549 little bit harder one. If I say 150 pounds, what 00:18:54.549 --> 00:18:56.269 two words go on it? I'm giving you the first 00:18:56.269 --> 00:19:01.890 two letters. 150 pounds. So he's a big warrior. 00:19:02.130 --> 00:19:05.930 Say it again. It's weight. It's not average. 00:19:06.930 --> 00:19:08.730 There was really nothing average about that man. 00:19:09.869 --> 00:19:12.049 Nope. Oh, he weighed a heck of a lot more than 00:19:12.049 --> 00:19:17.089 150 pounds. Nope. It's his armor weight. His 00:19:17.089 --> 00:19:19.990 armor weighed 150 pounds. So there's the armor 00:19:19.990 --> 00:19:22.670 that that guy was weighing in the story. You 00:19:22.670 --> 00:19:24.309 can go and read it. It details it out. The armor 00:19:24.309 --> 00:19:27.509 that that guy was wearing weighed more than most 00:19:27.509 --> 00:19:32.049 people in that day. Right? Okay. So he was wearing 00:19:32.049 --> 00:19:34.549 armor that weighed 150 pounds. Okay. How about 00:19:34.549 --> 00:19:37.390 this one? 20 pounds. You want to take a stab 00:19:37.390 --> 00:19:43.460 at that? Go ahead. It is the weight of, not his 00:19:43.460 --> 00:19:48.180 shield. No. Now, interestingly, he did have a 00:19:48.180 --> 00:19:50.099 shield and he did have a sword, but the weight 00:19:50.099 --> 00:19:51.960 of neither one of those things is actually in 00:19:51.960 --> 00:19:57.680 the story. It was his spear head. Spear head. 00:19:57.839 --> 00:20:03.960 The head of his spear weighed 20 pounds. That's 00:20:03.960 --> 00:20:08.579 crazy. Okay. Now, this one's kind of funny. Seven 00:20:08.579 --> 00:20:11.279 and a half. To seven and three quarters feet. 00:20:13.740 --> 00:20:15.700 Okay, it's his height. It's height. Height of 00:20:15.700 --> 00:20:21.819 what? Or finish it. Height? Nope. It is an A. 00:20:24.400 --> 00:20:27.519 Nope. He was nine feet when he fought David. 00:20:27.700 --> 00:20:29.480 I know where you're going with that, though. 00:20:29.579 --> 00:20:36.440 Height at death. He was seven and a half to seven 00:20:36.440 --> 00:20:37.859 and three quarters feet. Height at death. Why? 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:41.640 Why was he so short? Because he lost his head. 00:20:41.700 --> 00:20:43.819 That's right. You're making the chop off head 00:20:43.819 --> 00:20:46.799 motion. Yeah. David took out his head. Did you 00:20:46.799 --> 00:20:48.960 know, by the way, that the average person, the 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:51.759 height of your head is one -seventh to one -eighth 00:20:51.759 --> 00:20:54.519 of your total body height? Just an interesting 00:20:54.519 --> 00:20:56.880 fact. And he was nine feet tall, so that meant, 00:20:57.000 --> 00:20:58.539 it doesn't say that he was seven and a half to 00:20:58.539 --> 00:20:59.940 seven and three -quarters feet tall in the story, 00:21:00.059 --> 00:21:04.660 but if his head height was anywhere in the ranges, 00:21:04.859 --> 00:21:09.180 he dropped about a foot and a half. Okay? Alright? 00:21:09.589 --> 00:21:13.109 The next one is his attitude. His attitude when 00:21:13.109 --> 00:21:15.869 he faced David. L and C. You want to take a stab 00:21:15.869 --> 00:21:21.210 at it? No, although I know where you're going 00:21:21.210 --> 00:21:29.630 with that. He was loud. So the L is loud and... 00:21:29.630 --> 00:21:38.869 Guarantee I would not use that word. I couldn't 00:21:38.869 --> 00:21:40.490 even spell that word without looking it up. Nope. 00:21:41.430 --> 00:21:44.410 You could say clear, but he was loud and confident. 00:21:45.509 --> 00:21:48.890 So you could go so far as to say arrogant. Because 00:21:48.890 --> 00:21:51.309 remember, he had a shield man. And why did he 00:21:51.309 --> 00:21:53.970 go down? He took a stone to the forehead. So 00:21:53.970 --> 00:21:55.569 if he hadn't told his shield man to go away, 00:21:55.750 --> 00:21:58.730 he wouldn't have got hit. Most likely, right? 00:21:58.970 --> 00:22:01.250 So he was loud and confident. He was calling 00:22:01.250 --> 00:22:03.190 out to the battle lines and asking them to come 00:22:03.190 --> 00:22:07.259 and fight and so on. Okay. The next one. Says 00:22:07.259 --> 00:22:12.759 sword. Go ahead. David used to kill. That's right. 00:22:14.539 --> 00:22:16.279 Interestingly enough, we won't study it today. 00:22:17.140 --> 00:22:19.740 But later when David does not have a sword, he 00:22:19.740 --> 00:22:21.940 goes to the priest and gets, goes to a priest 00:22:21.940 --> 00:22:23.940 and that priest gives him Goliath's sword. And 00:22:23.940 --> 00:22:26.480 so we believe that David carried Goliath's sword 00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:29.220 for quite a while later on in his life. And he 00:22:29.220 --> 00:22:31.279 said, that's a good sword. David said that about 00:22:31.279 --> 00:22:32.859 Goliath's sword. That's a good sword. I'll take 00:22:32.859 --> 00:22:38.279 it. Okay. Before we go any further, you'll see 00:22:38.279 --> 00:22:40.900 it says the next line starts with David, but 00:22:40.900 --> 00:22:44.500 before you go there, go past the sling, past 00:22:44.500 --> 00:22:46.980 the anchor with the little clock on it, and you 00:22:46.980 --> 00:22:50.619 see a puzzle. It's just words. Letters, I should 00:22:50.619 --> 00:22:54.880 say. There is a single word in there that describes 00:22:54.880 --> 00:22:59.099 David. Don't color them all in. You just want 00:22:59.099 --> 00:23:03.200 to color in the letters. It's scrambled. It has 00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:09.160 six letters. Anybody have puzzle masters in the 00:23:09.160 --> 00:23:12.880 room? There's a single scrambled word of six 00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:15.519 letters in that mess. Can anybody pick it out? 00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:26.119 The clue is David was this. Six letters. Going 00:23:26.119 --> 00:23:33.680 once. Going twice. Correct. That is correct. 00:23:33.859 --> 00:23:36.740 At the last second. Chosen is correct. There's 00:23:36.740 --> 00:23:38.380 blanks on the left -hand side. You can write 00:23:38.380 --> 00:23:41.759 it on the blanks. Chosen. C is in the middle. 00:23:42.059 --> 00:23:45.779 Then up is H. Back down to the right is O. Over 00:23:45.779 --> 00:23:48.160 to the left is S. Up in the top row is E. In 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:52.480 the bottom right corner is N. Chosen. Chosen 00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:56.259 is correct. Okay, so now we have David is chosen. 00:23:56.359 --> 00:23:57.779 Now this is interesting. Before we go any further, 00:23:57.920 --> 00:23:59.920 I want you to understand. David was chosen by 00:23:59.920 --> 00:24:02.339 God to be the king of his people. And because 00:24:02.339 --> 00:24:04.559 God knows the future and is kind of already there, 00:24:05.079 --> 00:24:06.839 He knows how this story is going to turn out. 00:24:06.920 --> 00:24:08.500 So that means he knows what David is going to 00:24:08.500 --> 00:24:10.619 do with Bathsheba. He knows what's going to happen 00:24:10.619 --> 00:24:12.279 with Absalom. He knows all the things that we've 00:24:12.279 --> 00:24:14.240 been studying and all the lives of all the people. 00:24:14.480 --> 00:24:16.920 That doesn't mean they weren't free to act however 00:24:16.920 --> 00:24:20.079 they wanted, but he knew based on how they would 00:24:20.079 --> 00:24:22.700 act what they were going to do. Now he's chosen. 00:24:23.279 --> 00:24:27.920 So when David defeats Goliath, he defeated Goliath 00:24:27.920 --> 00:24:31.140 because he was chosen. Now, David was allowed 00:24:31.140 --> 00:24:33.319 to go out and face Goliath. He argued with Saul 00:24:33.319 --> 00:24:35.039 and said, please, I'll go out and face him, right? 00:24:35.119 --> 00:24:37.119 And he offered him his sword, offered him his 00:24:37.119 --> 00:24:38.559 armor. He's like, oh, it's too big for me. I 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:40.119 can't do it, but I have a sling. I fought the 00:24:40.119 --> 00:24:41.980 bear. I fought the lion. He argued, right? He 00:24:41.980 --> 00:24:44.240 argued based on being smart. He argued based 00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:48.400 on being strong. But why did he defeat Goliath? 00:24:51.619 --> 00:24:55.259 Yep, that's true. Because the battle belongs 00:24:55.259 --> 00:24:59.809 to the Lord. The story of David and Goliath is 00:24:59.809 --> 00:25:01.589 all about the battle belongs to the Lord. And 00:25:01.589 --> 00:25:05.109 as Trina was just pointing out, he was chosen. 00:25:05.809 --> 00:25:07.690 So when he goes into that battle, he's going 00:25:07.690 --> 00:25:12.369 to win because he's chosen. Is that fair? Yeah. 00:25:14.349 --> 00:25:17.619 I mean, God is just. So we want to argue sometimes 00:25:17.619 --> 00:25:20.079 and say, I saw somebody on the internet arguing 00:25:20.079 --> 00:25:22.500 that they thought God was kind of unfair because 00:25:22.500 --> 00:25:24.740 he wouldn't let Adam and Eve eat of the tree 00:25:24.740 --> 00:25:27.619 and gain the knowledge of good and evil. And 00:25:27.619 --> 00:25:30.099 he was keeping them, the person said, he was 00:25:30.099 --> 00:25:32.160 keeping them in the garden naked and stupid. 00:25:33.000 --> 00:25:35.299 I'm like, no, not stupid, innocent. There's a 00:25:35.299 --> 00:25:37.799 big difference. And they were naked because they 00:25:37.799 --> 00:25:40.400 were unashamed. They didn't need clothes. That 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:42.779 was not a need. And then they were forced to 00:25:42.779 --> 00:25:44.480 need them, which then they were made out of animals, 00:25:44.660 --> 00:25:47.140 which was the first sacrifice, right? Which was 00:25:47.140 --> 00:25:49.019 pointing to Jesus in the way that God had made. 00:25:50.680 --> 00:25:56.279 My point is this. It happens the way it happens 00:25:56.279 --> 00:26:00.200 because God made it happen that way. Not because 00:26:00.200 --> 00:26:02.500 he's smart, not because he's strong, not because 00:26:02.500 --> 00:26:04.680 he fought lions and bears before, or even because 00:26:04.680 --> 00:26:07.049 he's courageous. I know we want to think like 00:26:07.049 --> 00:26:09.109 that, but if we think like that, then when we 00:26:09.109 --> 00:26:11.029 get to the point where he takes Bathsheba and 00:26:11.029 --> 00:26:14.230 has Uriah the Hittite killed, we're going to 00:26:14.230 --> 00:26:17.230 have a moral quandary. We're going to have a 00:26:17.230 --> 00:26:20.809 problem. Because if he defeated Goliath because 00:26:20.809 --> 00:26:23.529 he was courageous, then why didn't he just say 00:26:23.529 --> 00:26:26.190 no to Bathsheba because he was courageous? If 00:26:26.190 --> 00:26:28.990 he defeated Goliath because he was smart, then 00:26:28.990 --> 00:26:31.789 why didn't he just say no to Bathsheba because 00:26:31.789 --> 00:26:35.400 he was smart? Right? So if it's about his character, 00:26:35.579 --> 00:26:41.900 then his sin basically makes it so that God is 00:26:41.900 --> 00:26:45.460 unjust. Right? That God did something wrong. 00:26:45.940 --> 00:26:48.819 And that's not the case. Because God is doing 00:26:48.819 --> 00:26:50.920 something here that is a much bigger picture, 00:26:51.059 --> 00:26:53.779 right? I don't want to get too far ahead, but 00:26:53.779 --> 00:26:57.279 what is God actually doing through David? We 00:26:57.279 --> 00:26:58.960 know he'll make a great nation. David makes a 00:26:58.960 --> 00:27:01.200 great king. He wins a lot. But what is he really 00:27:01.200 --> 00:27:04.700 doing? What's the plan that God is working through 00:27:04.700 --> 00:27:09.539 David? Redemption. It's the birth of Christ. 00:27:10.220 --> 00:27:14.500 David is an ancestor to Jesus, right? And so 00:27:14.500 --> 00:27:17.140 ultimately we'll see on this very page that that 00:27:17.140 --> 00:27:19.759 promise comes and then is fulfilled much, much 00:27:19.759 --> 00:27:22.900 later, 500 plus years later, right? Oh no, that's 00:27:22.900 --> 00:27:24.440 a lot longer than that, sorry. Don't quote that 00:27:24.440 --> 00:27:26.220 number. Okay, it's a lot longer than that. All 00:27:26.220 --> 00:27:28.220 right, here we go. So we're gonna, now we're 00:27:28.220 --> 00:27:31.380 right where it says David. This is right after 00:27:31.380 --> 00:27:35.279 he defeated Goliath. And so Saul was super excited 00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:39.019 that David defeated Goliath. And so David was... 00:27:39.019 --> 00:27:45.720 Say it again. Nope, you're overthinking it. Say 00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:51.220 it again. A little. Nope, a little. You're kind 00:27:51.220 --> 00:27:54.160 of running on ahead. He does become revered. 00:27:54.200 --> 00:27:56.660 He does become renowned. But actually on that 00:27:56.660 --> 00:27:59.259 day, a lot of the people probably were like... 00:27:59.849 --> 00:28:02.049 Not so excited with him. But Saul was sure excited 00:28:02.049 --> 00:28:05.150 with him. And so David was rewarded. That's right. 00:28:05.250 --> 00:28:07.789 He was rewarded. And he was rewarded with two 00:28:07.789 --> 00:28:10.210 primary things that really kind of started off 00:28:10.210 --> 00:28:12.970 on the governmental side. He has the anointing 00:28:12.970 --> 00:28:15.650 of God and is chosen already. But now on the 00:28:15.650 --> 00:28:17.390 governmental side, the first thing is he becomes 00:28:17.390 --> 00:28:24.670 Saul's... No, look at the paper. It's an S. Actually, 00:28:24.769 --> 00:28:27.740 you almost can't fail to guess the word. Son 00:28:27.740 --> 00:28:29.339 -in -law. He becomes Saul's son -in -law. Saul 00:28:29.339 --> 00:28:31.700 gives him one of his daughters and he becomes 00:28:31.700 --> 00:28:35.480 his son -in -law. And then also he becomes the 00:28:35.480 --> 00:28:43.539 military leader. Now somebody mentioned he was 00:28:43.539 --> 00:28:46.259 a musician and that is true. He was a stellar 00:28:46.259 --> 00:28:50.200 musician. And before he fights Goliath, he already 00:28:50.200 --> 00:28:52.400 had some time in Saul's court. But interestingly 00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:54.119 enough, when he goes in to volunteer to fight 00:28:54.119 --> 00:28:56.200 Goliath, Saul doesn't recognize him. Even though 00:28:56.200 --> 00:28:58.480 he was the one playing the harp. That's pretty 00:28:58.480 --> 00:29:01.279 interesting, right? So that tells you how self 00:29:01.279 --> 00:29:03.559 -absorbed he was. That the guy that would play 00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:06.799 the harp for him was not even on his radar. And 00:29:06.799 --> 00:29:08.180 that happens a lot with people who have a lot 00:29:08.180 --> 00:29:12.059 of wealth. So David was rewarded, became the 00:29:12.059 --> 00:29:16.039 son -in -law and the military leader. But then 00:29:16.039 --> 00:29:19.599 he does a great job at it. And you'll notice 00:29:19.599 --> 00:29:21.960 in the middle there it says Saul grows jealous. 00:29:23.180 --> 00:29:25.720 Does anybody remember why exactly? I mean, obviously 00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:27.400 there's an evil spirit involved, but what was 00:29:27.400 --> 00:29:29.660 the sparking event of why he became jealous? 00:29:30.900 --> 00:29:33.819 The songs that they sung. They sung songs about 00:29:33.819 --> 00:29:36.539 Saul, and they said, Saul has killed his thousands, 00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:40.119 but David has killed his ten thousands, right? 00:29:40.259 --> 00:29:45.299 So the king is mighty, but the hero is mightier 00:29:45.299 --> 00:29:47.700 than that. And that was the songs that they sung. 00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:51.089 And Saul was embarrassed by those songs. And 00:29:51.089 --> 00:29:52.829 he didn't like it. And he already had a problem 00:29:52.829 --> 00:29:55.369 with evil spirit. And so he began to hate David 00:29:55.369 --> 00:29:58.430 and be jealous of David's position. But there 00:29:58.430 --> 00:30:02.230 was another person in Saul's court. And his name 00:30:02.230 --> 00:30:05.609 really attaches to the word there that I gave 00:30:05.609 --> 00:30:08.589 you. Loyal. So if I say loyal in Saul's court, 00:30:08.670 --> 00:30:12.410 then I'm talking about who? Jonathan is loyal 00:30:12.410 --> 00:30:17.490 to David. So Jonathan was Saul's son. And Jonathan 00:30:17.490 --> 00:30:21.400 was to be king. He was the heir. Jonathan would 00:30:21.400 --> 00:30:27.339 be king. So Jonathan finds out that David has 00:30:27.339 --> 00:30:31.880 been anointed king in Saul's place. You get this? 00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:35.119 So if you're Jonathan and you're going to be 00:30:35.119 --> 00:30:39.700 king, and you find out that someone else is going 00:30:39.700 --> 00:30:44.559 to get it instead of you, are you going to be 00:30:44.559 --> 00:30:49.240 loyal to that person? What's that? Say it again. 00:30:50.240 --> 00:30:52.299 Probably not, right? That's a rough spot to be 00:30:52.299 --> 00:30:55.119 in. Now, obviously, if you're loyal to God and 00:30:55.119 --> 00:30:57.059 God has chosen somebody else, what do you do? 00:30:57.220 --> 00:30:58.519 I mean, you're kind of stuck. You're just like, 00:30:58.619 --> 00:31:00.700 okay, well, it is what it is. I'm stuck. I don't 00:31:00.700 --> 00:31:03.440 want to not be king, but he was more than that. 00:31:03.539 --> 00:31:06.960 He was loyal to David, even to the point of protecting 00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:09.819 David, conspiring with David to protect David 00:31:09.819 --> 00:31:15.279 from Saul. And one time when Saul was out to 00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:17.279 kill him and probably would have got him, Jonathan 00:31:17.279 --> 00:31:19.359 went out and warned David and David escaped. 00:31:20.289 --> 00:31:23.690 Okay, so Jonathan is a hero in his own right. 00:31:23.769 --> 00:31:25.569 We're not studying Jonathan. He's not present 00:31:25.569 --> 00:31:27.609 in the story at the time of the revolt of Absalom, 00:31:27.769 --> 00:31:30.970 but he's a great... In fact, if you feel like 00:31:30.970 --> 00:31:32.809 you're trying to accomplish something in life 00:31:32.809 --> 00:31:34.430 and you're struggling, Jonathan is a great person 00:31:34.430 --> 00:31:36.990 to look at because you can learn in his story 00:31:36.990 --> 00:31:40.029 about how... He is not chosen to be king of Israel. 00:31:40.269 --> 00:31:43.849 He's not chosen for Jesus to be one of his descendants. 00:31:44.410 --> 00:31:47.269 But nonetheless, he is a man accomplishing things. 00:31:47.369 --> 00:31:49.109 He does some great things. And one of the great 00:31:49.109 --> 00:31:51.339 things that he does, is he's loyal to David. 00:31:51.740 --> 00:31:54.440 And you can read about that in chapter 18 through 00:31:54.440 --> 00:31:56.880 20. Okay, now we're going down the left -hand 00:31:56.880 --> 00:32:02.380 side. Because Saul grows jealous, Jonathan warns 00:32:02.380 --> 00:32:05.319 David, remains loyal to David, even though he's 00:32:05.319 --> 00:32:07.059 in his father's house, he remains loyal to David. 00:32:07.579 --> 00:32:10.000 And so then going down there, you have David, 00:32:10.119 --> 00:32:18.920 what? Becomes a, no, fugitive, right? Because 00:32:18.920 --> 00:32:23.750 Saul, Wants to kill him. David leaves. There's 00:32:23.750 --> 00:32:25.609 really nothing wrong with saying he runs. He 00:32:25.609 --> 00:32:27.430 runs. And then when he's in trouble again, he 00:32:27.430 --> 00:32:29.369 runs some more. And then he runs some more. And 00:32:29.369 --> 00:32:31.589 then he runs some more. Even though in a one 00:32:31.589 --> 00:32:33.829 -on -one battle, he'd have taken Saul five times 00:32:33.829 --> 00:32:38.690 easily, right? Even though he defeated Goliath, 00:32:38.710 --> 00:32:44.470 etc. But there is something about Saul. that 00:32:44.470 --> 00:32:47.250 David understands. Even though Saul is dealing 00:32:47.250 --> 00:32:49.509 with evil spirit, he's kind of nuts off his rocker, 00:32:49.529 --> 00:32:51.210 and he's hunting him all across the country, 00:32:51.390 --> 00:32:55.369 there's something about Saul. Okay? So first 00:32:55.369 --> 00:32:59.049 of all, David becomes a fugitive, and the next 00:32:59.049 --> 00:33:04.549 line is, Saul hunts David. That's right. Notice 00:33:04.549 --> 00:33:10.029 the order. David is first a fugitive, and then 00:33:10.029 --> 00:33:13.950 Saul hunts him. Because the first time he tried 00:33:13.950 --> 00:33:15.509 to kill him, he literally tried to kill him in 00:33:15.509 --> 00:33:17.569 his own living room, or whatever, where they 00:33:17.569 --> 00:33:19.789 were sitting there eating. I think David was 00:33:19.789 --> 00:33:22.369 playing the harp, and he got up and threw a spear 00:33:22.369 --> 00:33:25.529 at him to try to kill him. And then he left, 00:33:25.750 --> 00:33:28.170 and then he was invited back to dinner, and he's 00:33:28.170 --> 00:33:29.829 like, I don't think I want to go back to dinner. 00:33:29.869 --> 00:33:31.890 Last time I was there, he tried to kill me. And 00:33:31.890 --> 00:33:33.329 then they said, well, if he is going to kill 00:33:33.329 --> 00:33:37.109 me, let me know, and I won't go back. It was 00:33:37.109 --> 00:33:39.049 kind of a difficult, it was like a soap opera 00:33:39.049 --> 00:33:40.809 thing going on there, but with murder involved. 00:33:42.049 --> 00:33:45.450 So Saul hunts David then. And I'm just going 00:33:45.450 --> 00:33:47.410 to give you the next part in the interest of 00:33:47.410 --> 00:33:51.990 time. Three times David refused to harm Saul. 00:33:52.150 --> 00:33:57.650 That's in chapters 21 through 27. And here is 00:33:57.650 --> 00:33:59.910 where we should stop and say, what is it about 00:33:59.910 --> 00:34:05.970 Saul that David won't hurt him? Because he's 00:34:05.970 --> 00:34:07.950 the anointed one. Remember Saul was anointed 00:34:07.950 --> 00:34:11.670 to be king of Israel. And so if you're the chosen 00:34:11.670 --> 00:34:15.190 replacement for the chosen, here's what you can't 00:34:15.190 --> 00:34:20.889 do. Kill the chosen. You can't do that. You don't 00:34:20.889 --> 00:34:23.329 become the king by killing the king before you. 00:34:23.389 --> 00:34:25.570 If you're chosen to be king, God will do it. 00:34:25.570 --> 00:34:27.789 God will do it in his time when he's ready. And 00:34:27.789 --> 00:34:30.369 David realizes he cannot strike against God's 00:34:30.369 --> 00:34:33.269 anointed one and he refuses to harm Saul. Even 00:34:33.269 --> 00:34:35.389 though Saul's hunting him, they had him pinned. 00:34:36.409 --> 00:34:38.469 David's in a cave and Saul comes in to go to 00:34:38.469 --> 00:34:40.860 the bathroom. David sneaks up, cuts off a piece 00:34:40.860 --> 00:34:42.400 of his cloak, and then they go out and have a 00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:44.400 conversation outside. And Saul's like, I'm going 00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:47.139 to kill you. And David's like, well, I could 00:34:47.139 --> 00:34:48.739 have killed you, and I didn't. And he shows him 00:34:48.739 --> 00:34:51.159 the piece of his cloak that he cut off. And Saul's 00:34:51.159 --> 00:34:53.219 basically repentant, and he says, oh, I'm so 00:34:53.219 --> 00:34:55.380 sorry. You're a much better man than I am. And 00:34:55.380 --> 00:34:58.440 he leaves, right? But he continues to want David 00:34:58.440 --> 00:35:00.460 dead. He doesn't stop hunting David or having 00:35:00.460 --> 00:35:03.099 his men hunt David. But ultimately, God does 00:35:03.099 --> 00:35:09.489 deal with Saul, and Saul... Well, yes, but much 00:35:09.489 --> 00:35:13.429 more extreme than that. He dies. Saul dies in 00:35:13.429 --> 00:35:18.550 chapters 28 to 30. And so in theory, it's automatic, 00:35:18.869 --> 00:35:20.489 right? They already have a replacement king. 00:35:20.530 --> 00:35:25.090 He's already anointed. And chapters 1 to 6 of 00:35:25.090 --> 00:35:27.090 2 Samuel, which is where we have spent most of 00:35:27.090 --> 00:35:28.550 our time, so you know now we're getting close 00:35:28.550 --> 00:35:32.889 to the era in question. So chapters 1 to 6 of 00:35:32.889 --> 00:35:39.090 2 Samuel, we read about... Grief. Whose grief? 00:35:40.150 --> 00:35:44.190 Whose mourning? Who's sad? What's he sad about? 00:35:46.130 --> 00:35:49.889 Say it again. His king died. Yeah, Saul's dead. 00:35:50.050 --> 00:35:55.949 He's sad that Saul's dead. He mourns Saul. That's 00:35:55.949 --> 00:35:58.469 something. The guy that's trying to kill him, 00:35:58.550 --> 00:36:03.489 or was, and now he's dead. And so he spends some 00:36:03.489 --> 00:36:06.679 time in grief over the loss of Saul. Then there's 00:36:06.679 --> 00:36:09.380 war, quite a bit of it, in fact, years of it. 00:36:10.639 --> 00:36:14.360 He becomes king of Judah first, and then king 00:36:14.360 --> 00:36:17.099 of all 12 tribes. So he is the king king. He's 00:36:17.099 --> 00:36:21.039 the only king. The only king there is. So now 00:36:21.039 --> 00:36:25.119 he's on the throne. And we're in chapter 7. And 00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:28.289 this is... Huge. In fact, in the life of David, 00:36:28.369 --> 00:36:30.869 it is the most significant passage of scripture 00:36:30.869 --> 00:36:33.210 of everything. There's tons of it, right? There's 00:36:33.210 --> 00:36:34.730 tons of really good stuff in there, but this 00:36:34.730 --> 00:36:39.309 is huge. In chapter 7, the capital G is God, 00:36:39.530 --> 00:36:43.969 the Sunday school answer. What? Say it again. 00:36:45.070 --> 00:36:47.329 Yeah, but it's promises, right? He just makes 00:36:47.329 --> 00:36:49.750 him a promise. It's not a prophecy like he sent 00:36:49.750 --> 00:36:53.230 a prophet. It is like he's telling the future. 00:36:53.349 --> 00:36:56.860 So in that sense, it's a prophecy. So God promises 00:36:56.860 --> 00:37:04.199 David an eternal throne. And the reference is 00:37:04.199 --> 00:37:08.519 there. Chapter 7, verse 16. And we're in 2 Samuel. 00:37:08.780 --> 00:37:10.199 So I'm going to go there real quick just so you 00:37:10.199 --> 00:37:13.159 can hear it once in your ear on top of us talking 00:37:13.159 --> 00:37:17.559 about it. 2 Samuel 7, 16 says, And your house 00:37:17.559 --> 00:37:21.500 and your kingdom shall endure before me forever. 00:37:22.059 --> 00:37:27.659 Your throne shall be established. Forever. And 00:37:27.659 --> 00:37:30.179 the word forever means exactly what you think 00:37:30.179 --> 00:37:34.440 it means. Forever. Not a long time, not a century, 00:37:34.539 --> 00:37:37.820 not a millennium, not thousands of generations, 00:37:38.159 --> 00:37:40.659 right? So if it's going to be established forever, 00:37:40.900 --> 00:37:45.599 you're going to need either a king after a king 00:37:45.599 --> 00:37:48.559 after a king after a king until the stars themselves 00:37:48.559 --> 00:37:53.139 burn out, right? Or you're going to need somebody 00:37:53.139 --> 00:37:59.750 that can be king, Forever. Okay? And whoever 00:37:59.750 --> 00:38:02.309 that person is has to be in the line of David. 00:38:02.670 --> 00:38:11.929 Then we continue on. The promise. What? It's 00:38:11.929 --> 00:38:23.449 an R. And it's a verb. Nope. Nope. It repeats. 00:38:24.190 --> 00:38:27.030 The promise repeats. So we're going to see that 00:38:27.030 --> 00:38:31.530 in a second. But the promise repeats until... 00:38:31.530 --> 00:38:33.630 Now you've got to think. If you're going to have 00:38:33.630 --> 00:38:34.710 any chance of getting this, you're going to have 00:38:34.710 --> 00:38:38.530 to think big picture. When does the promise stop 00:38:38.530 --> 00:38:42.349 repeating that David will have a descendant on 00:38:42.349 --> 00:38:48.070 the throne forever? Say it again. Yeah, so it 00:38:48.070 --> 00:38:55.239 repeats until found at Jesus' conception. That's 00:38:55.239 --> 00:38:59.119 significant. It's found at Jesus' conception. 00:39:01.739 --> 00:39:04.440 So first, before we talk about the conception 00:39:04.440 --> 00:39:08.440 passage, I've given you some lists here, and 00:39:08.440 --> 00:39:12.639 I'd like you to check the boxes that apply to 00:39:12.639 --> 00:39:15.619 this promise. Was the promise made to David? 00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:18.679 That's an easy one. Check the box. We just said 00:39:18.679 --> 00:39:21.320 that. We even read it. 2 Samuel 7, verse 16. 00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:25.280 Was the promise made to Solomon? David's son? 00:39:26.760 --> 00:39:29.219 Yes. I heard someone say yes. Check the box. 00:39:29.820 --> 00:39:33.519 Is the promise in the book of Psalms? Yes, it 00:39:33.519 --> 00:39:36.940 is. In many places, in fact. Did the prophet 00:39:36.940 --> 00:39:41.699 Amos give us the promise? He did. Check the box. 00:39:43.179 --> 00:39:50.000 Isaiah? Definitely Isaiah, right? Micah? You 00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:52.820 know, but Micah is the famous one because out 00:39:52.820 --> 00:39:57.730 of Bethlehem. That's Micah. So yes, Micah. Jeremiah. 00:39:58.590 --> 00:40:01.190 Yep. And Zechariah. So you're right. They're 00:40:01.190 --> 00:40:03.090 all checked. Look at that. So check all the boxes. 00:40:07.130 --> 00:40:09.989 Check all the boxes. All right. And so now, if 00:40:09.989 --> 00:40:13.429 we're talking about the promise goes until the 00:40:13.429 --> 00:40:16.369 New Testament, until the conception of Jesus, 00:40:16.489 --> 00:40:21.570 the next line is the book. What book is it? Incorrect. 00:40:22.539 --> 00:40:31.239 Now the promise is there, sort of. The promise 00:40:31.239 --> 00:40:38.659 of the descendant. Of David. No, it's New Testament. 00:40:38.980 --> 00:40:45.960 Yep, conception. It's Luke. Luke chapter 1. Listen 00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:52.280 to this. Very clear. Okay? And the angel said 00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:54.400 to her, Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have 00:40:54.400 --> 00:40:56.800 found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive 00:40:56.800 --> 00:40:59.380 in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name 00:40:59.380 --> 00:41:01.239 him Jesus. He will be great and will be called 00:41:01.239 --> 00:41:03.480 the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will 00:41:03.480 --> 00:41:07.920 give him the throne of his father David. And 00:41:07.920 --> 00:41:10.039 he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, 00:41:10.239 --> 00:41:14.059 and his kingdom will have no end. That's very, 00:41:14.139 --> 00:41:17.360 very much the promise that God just gave to David 00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:23.670 in 2 Samuel 7, 16. Right? Now, obviously it is 00:41:23.670 --> 00:41:26.150 in the other Gospels, right, that Jesus was born. 00:41:26.869 --> 00:41:30.449 And I can't guarantee that everyone says that 00:41:30.449 --> 00:41:32.090 he's a descendant of David, but I think it does. 00:41:32.349 --> 00:41:37.869 Okay? Alright, almost done. Luke 1, 30 -33. Alright, 00:41:37.949 --> 00:41:40.469 so now we're down in chapters 8, 9, and 10 of 00:41:40.469 --> 00:41:45.070 2 Samuel. And they talk about David. And they 00:41:45.070 --> 00:41:51.420 talk about his... They told me they had a limited 00:41:51.420 --> 00:41:56.699 amount of time. Military victories. Or many. 00:41:56.800 --> 00:41:59.840 I'll give you many. Either one. Many or military 00:41:59.840 --> 00:42:03.960 victories. And then you see a reference there. 00:42:04.239 --> 00:42:17.420 2 Samuel 8 .6. I'm almost there. 8 .6 says, Then 00:42:17.420 --> 00:42:20.449 David put... put garrisons among the Arameans 00:42:20.449 --> 00:42:22.389 in Damascus. The Arameans became servants to 00:42:22.389 --> 00:42:24.389 David, bringing tribute. And the Lord helped 00:42:24.389 --> 00:42:28.070 David wherever he went. And so basically everywhere 00:42:28.070 --> 00:42:32.489 David went, God took care of it. Over and over 00:42:32.489 --> 00:42:36.070 again. Okay? Seems kind of like that's not the 00:42:36.070 --> 00:42:40.269 case with Absalom though, right? So things have 00:42:40.269 --> 00:42:48.190 changed by then. And in here, in 2 Samuel, really 00:42:48.190 --> 00:42:53.590 kind of like 11, we know why. And the story is 00:42:53.590 --> 00:43:04.929 D &B. David and Bathsheba. Okay? So from David 00:43:04.929 --> 00:43:08.510 and Goliath, well, from David and Samuel, all 00:43:08.510 --> 00:43:11.369 the way through David and Bathsheba, almost everything 00:43:11.369 --> 00:43:13.449 that David has touched has turned to gold. He's 00:43:13.449 --> 00:43:16.170 got the Midas touch. God has been with him. He's 00:43:16.170 --> 00:43:18.929 been doing things. It's been constant. Even Saul 00:43:18.929 --> 00:43:21.170 trying to kill him. Saul was never able to kill 00:43:21.170 --> 00:43:23.309 him. Saul pursued him with armies that were far 00:43:23.309 --> 00:43:26.110 large enough to find him and destroy all of his 00:43:26.110 --> 00:43:28.570 men and him, theoretically, and never was able 00:43:28.570 --> 00:43:32.170 to do it. Okay? And so all throughout all of 00:43:32.170 --> 00:43:36.409 that, he really never suffered loss. Except he 00:43:36.409 --> 00:43:38.969 grieved the loss of his greatest enemy, right? 00:43:39.070 --> 00:43:43.929 Which was Saul. Okay. So here we go. Then comes... 00:43:44.539 --> 00:43:47.400 In 2 Samuel 12, 10 -12, that's the reference 00:43:47.400 --> 00:43:54.500 on the bottom there. What? A terrible prophecy. 00:43:56.239 --> 00:43:59.179 The prophet Nathan comes to correct David after 00:43:59.179 --> 00:44:02.920 he has had the time of his life with Bathsheba 00:44:02.920 --> 00:44:05.920 and killed off her husband and kept it all a 00:44:05.920 --> 00:44:09.699 secret. By the way, who did he have arrange the 00:44:09.699 --> 00:44:13.539 death of Uriah the Hittite? Joab, that's right. 00:44:14.059 --> 00:44:16.199 So we still have a little bit of knowledge from 00:44:16.199 --> 00:44:19.119 our past lessons, don't we? Okay, so terrible 00:44:19.119 --> 00:44:22.739 prophecy. The reference is 2 Samuel 12, 10 to 00:44:22.739 --> 00:44:28.000 12. Understand that this prophecy does not reverse 00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:31.659 God's promise. David has sinned with Bathsheba, 00:44:31.800 --> 00:44:34.219 sinned in arranging the murder of Uriah, but 00:44:34.219 --> 00:44:36.500 he does not reverse his promise. He does not 00:44:36.500 --> 00:44:39.239 say you will now not have somebody on the throne 00:44:39.239 --> 00:44:42.300 forever. Instead, gives him a whole other set 00:44:42.300 --> 00:44:46.159 of consequences. Okay, and they are essentially 00:44:46.159 --> 00:44:50.139 the revolt of Absalom. And it says this, it says, 00:44:50.280 --> 00:44:55.699 now therefore the sword shall never depart from 00:44:55.699 --> 00:44:58.159 your house because you have despised me and have 00:44:58.159 --> 00:45:00.320 taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your 00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:03.079 wife. Thus says the Lord, behold, I will raise 00:45:03.079 --> 00:45:05.699 up evil against you from your own household. 00:45:05.719 --> 00:45:09.150 There's Absalom in the prophecy. and others for 00:45:09.150 --> 00:45:11.610 that matter. I will even take your wives before 00:45:11.610 --> 00:45:14.469 your eyes. Remember what Absalom first did when 00:45:14.469 --> 00:45:16.510 he was in Jerusalem, slept with all ten of David's 00:45:16.510 --> 00:45:20.170 concubines. And give them to your companion, 00:45:20.349 --> 00:45:22.469 and he shall lie with your wives in broad daylight. 00:45:22.929 --> 00:45:25.750 Indeed, you did it secretly. In other words, 00:45:25.750 --> 00:45:29.150 he stole another man's wife in private. But I 00:45:29.150 --> 00:45:32.269 will do this thing before all Israel and under 00:45:32.269 --> 00:45:37.869 the sun. And so David now... As we approach the 00:45:37.869 --> 00:45:40.469 moment in time of Absalom's revolt, we see that 00:45:40.469 --> 00:45:43.789 Absalom's revolt was a direct result of God's 00:45:43.789 --> 00:45:46.909 chastisement. God said, this is what's going 00:45:46.909 --> 00:45:48.590 to happen now because of what you've done. In 00:45:48.590 --> 00:45:51.190 fact, it's very correlated when you see David 00:45:51.190 --> 00:45:55.070 took Bathsheba in secret. God allowed Absalom 00:45:55.070 --> 00:45:57.389 to take all of his wives and not in secret. It 00:45:57.389 --> 00:45:59.349 would be possible to do that kind of secretly, 00:45:59.530 --> 00:46:01.789 to go into the concubines and not make it a public 00:46:01.789 --> 00:46:06.670 thing. But Ahithophel's advice was pitch a tent 00:46:06.670 --> 00:46:09.969 on the roof and take them all publicly in front 00:46:09.969 --> 00:46:12.289 of all Jerusalem because everyone will know that 00:46:12.289 --> 00:46:15.010 David is no longer king and Absalom is. See that? 00:46:15.630 --> 00:46:18.550 It's a pretty big deal. So God did all of that. 00:46:18.989 --> 00:46:22.949 And then in the day of Absalom, which we've already 00:46:22.949 --> 00:46:24.530 studied, the part we've already studied, David 00:46:24.530 --> 00:46:26.429 flees Jerusalem because Absalom comes in and 00:46:26.429 --> 00:46:29.389 takes over and we have the interactions on the... 00:46:29.679 --> 00:46:33.159 Brooke Kidron, where he's leaving and the priest 00:46:33.159 --> 00:46:34.760 come out and he sends the priest back with the 00:46:34.760 --> 00:46:37.840 Ark of the Covenant. We studied that. Then there's 00:46:37.840 --> 00:46:39.840 some other people that come out there, right? 00:46:42.199 --> 00:46:46.179 Mephibosheth's servant, people like that. We 00:46:46.179 --> 00:46:50.579 see the guy that was shouting curses at him, 00:46:50.639 --> 00:46:53.719 right? So there's all those that we studied all 00:46:53.719 --> 00:46:56.559 of that. But what we want to look at right now 00:46:56.559 --> 00:47:01.710 is David in the day. of Absalom's revolt. And 00:47:01.710 --> 00:47:04.090 that's the last section that we have. So we have 00:47:04.090 --> 00:47:08.769 two places where we see God's provision and David's 00:47:08.769 --> 00:47:12.550 reaction. They're both Psalms. If you look closely, 00:47:12.650 --> 00:47:13.809 you might be able to figure out what Psalms there 00:47:13.809 --> 00:47:18.730 are. You might already know. 32 and 51. Okay, 00:47:18.769 --> 00:47:20.510 so we're going to look at Psalm 32 first. So 00:47:20.510 --> 00:47:23.829 David wrote this Psalm probably in response to... 00:47:24.190 --> 00:47:26.730 what happened to him, what was happening to him, 00:47:26.869 --> 00:47:29.969 what he had done with Bathsheba and Uriah. And 00:47:29.969 --> 00:47:31.670 then we're going to fill in these blanks. You 00:47:31.670 --> 00:47:34.230 can listen for the blanks and try to get them 00:47:34.230 --> 00:47:38.090 as I read. How blessed is he whose transgression 00:47:38.090 --> 00:47:41.929 is forgiven, whose sin is covered. How blessed 00:47:41.929 --> 00:47:45.530 is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity. 00:47:45.530 --> 00:47:48.329 To impute is like to put it on them. And in whose 00:47:48.329 --> 00:47:52.130 spirit there is no deceit. When I kept silent 00:47:52.130 --> 00:47:56.800 about my sin, My body wasted away through my 00:47:56.800 --> 00:48:00.039 groaning all day long. For day and night thy 00:48:00.039 --> 00:48:03.480 hand was heavy upon me. My vitality was drained 00:48:03.480 --> 00:48:07.420 away as with the fever heat of summer. Selah. 00:48:07.820 --> 00:48:11.139 I acknowledge my sin to thee, and my iniquity 00:48:11.139 --> 00:48:14.820 I did not hide. I said I will confess my transgressions 00:48:14.820 --> 00:48:18.039 to the Lord, and thou didst forgive the guilt 00:48:18.039 --> 00:48:21.250 of my sin. Selah. Therefore let everyone who 00:48:21.250 --> 00:48:24.190 is godly pray to thee in a time when thou mayst 00:48:24.190 --> 00:48:28.349 be found. Surely in a flood of great waters they 00:48:28.349 --> 00:48:31.449 shall not reach him. Thou art my hiding place. 00:48:31.829 --> 00:48:34.710 Thou dost preserve me from trouble. Thou dost 00:48:34.710 --> 00:48:37.429 surround me with songs of deliverance. We sing 00:48:37.429 --> 00:48:40.469 that song too, by the way. I will instruct you 00:48:40.469 --> 00:48:42.829 and teach you in the way which you should go. 00:48:42.969 --> 00:48:46.030 I will counsel you with my eye upon you. Do not 00:48:46.030 --> 00:48:49.239 be as the horse or the mule. which have no understanding, 00:48:49.539 --> 00:48:52.619 whose trappings include bit and bridle, to hold 00:48:52.619 --> 00:48:55.280 them in check, otherwise they will not come near 00:48:55.280 --> 00:48:58.619 you. Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but 00:48:58.619 --> 00:49:02.460 he who trusts in the Lord, loving kindness shall 00:49:02.460 --> 00:49:05.840 surround him. Or another translation says steadfast 00:49:05.840 --> 00:49:10.260 kindness there. Be glad in the Lord and rejoice. 00:49:10.599 --> 00:49:12.619 I'm sorry, steadfast love is what it actually 00:49:12.619 --> 00:49:15.940 says. Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, you righteous 00:49:15.940 --> 00:49:20.610 ones. and shout for joy all you who are upright 00:49:20.610 --> 00:49:24.010 in heart. So this is David's position in the 00:49:24.010 --> 00:49:26.550 moment that he's going into Absalom's rebellion, 00:49:26.849 --> 00:49:28.969 knowing that he's happening to him because he 00:49:28.969 --> 00:49:31.849 sinned. This is his position. So right under 00:49:31.849 --> 00:49:38.090 where it's Psalm 32, it says, C -I -N. Anybody 00:49:38.090 --> 00:49:42.789 want to take a stab at that? The psalm was about 00:49:42.789 --> 00:49:46.780 David telling God that he had sinned. admitting. 00:49:46.840 --> 00:49:49.460 What do we call that when we do that? Confession. 00:49:49.739 --> 00:49:54.539 So David is saying confession is necessary. In 00:49:54.539 --> 00:49:58.079 other words, if you have done wrong and you aren't 00:49:58.079 --> 00:49:59.980 owning it, you aren't admitting it, you're not 00:49:59.980 --> 00:50:02.639 confessing it to God, you're not openly admitting 00:50:02.639 --> 00:50:06.960 it, you have a problem. David said, when I kept 00:50:06.960 --> 00:50:09.960 my mouth shut about my sin, it was eating me 00:50:09.960 --> 00:50:12.000 up from the inside. That's what he said. I'm 00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:15.300 paraphrasing. So confession is necessary. Then 00:50:15.300 --> 00:50:17.300 follow it up to the right before we do the bottom. 00:50:17.699 --> 00:50:23.039 You'll see a C, a P, and a B, F. So the top one 00:50:23.039 --> 00:50:27.659 is, easy, confess. This is what David says we 00:50:27.659 --> 00:50:30.840 are supposed to do. We are supposed to confess. 00:50:31.699 --> 00:50:35.579 Also, he says we are supposed to, super easy, 00:50:35.820 --> 00:50:40.679 pray. He said pray. He said it a couple of times. 00:50:40.840 --> 00:50:43.639 Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to 00:50:43.639 --> 00:50:46.860 thee in a time when thou mayest be found. We 00:50:46.860 --> 00:50:51.239 must pray. Confess and pray. And confessing and 00:50:51.239 --> 00:50:54.360 praying, then, we must be... I gave you the B. 00:50:54.519 --> 00:51:00.519 It's B. Nope. That comes later. Say it again. 00:51:01.199 --> 00:51:03.500 Forgiven. Yeah, we must be forgiven. And God 00:51:03.500 --> 00:51:07.559 will do that. If you would confess to God and 00:51:07.559 --> 00:51:10.000 pray to God and you're not forgiven, that's on 00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:14.519 you at that point. God always forgives when people 00:51:14.519 --> 00:51:17.300 confess and pray. Now, mind you, we do it in 00:51:17.300 --> 00:51:19.280 the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the reason 00:51:19.280 --> 00:51:21.679 that's true is because Jesus paid for our sins. 00:51:22.260 --> 00:51:25.159 So if a lost person who doesn't know God at all 00:51:25.159 --> 00:51:27.900 just says, God, I know I'm a liar or sinner. 00:51:28.019 --> 00:51:29.940 I'm sure sorry about that, but I'm not really 00:51:29.940 --> 00:51:33.070 going to stop doing it, so hey. You know, you're 00:51:33.070 --> 00:51:35.190 just going to have to forgive me. That's no prayer 00:51:35.190 --> 00:51:36.789 at all. That doesn't mean anything. It doesn't 00:51:36.789 --> 00:51:38.809 do anything. That's nothing. And if you say, 00:51:38.929 --> 00:51:40.570 God, I'm sorry. Or you go to your dad and you 00:51:40.570 --> 00:51:42.550 say, Dad, I'm sorry. I won't do that again. And 00:51:42.550 --> 00:51:43.769 then you just keep right on doing what you said 00:51:43.769 --> 00:51:47.329 you won't do. That's no prayer, really. It's 00:51:47.329 --> 00:51:50.250 just basically like lying. And so David was saying, 00:51:50.329 --> 00:51:53.369 you have to confess to God. You have to pray. 00:51:53.650 --> 00:51:55.909 And you have to be forgiven. And God will forgive. 00:51:56.030 --> 00:51:58.690 And he does that through Jesus. He does that 00:51:58.690 --> 00:52:01.829 because David says, Okay, hold on. Before we 00:52:01.829 --> 00:52:03.269 go to the left, we've got to get the words right. 00:52:03.349 --> 00:52:10.309 So BG, if you're forgiven, you will be grateful 00:52:10.309 --> 00:52:14.489 or glad. Right? That's what he said. Be glad. 00:52:15.230 --> 00:52:19.230 Or be grateful. Okay? Then we go to the left. 00:52:19.269 --> 00:52:22.289 The reason that we can confess, pray, be forgiven, 00:52:22.429 --> 00:52:26.929 and be glad is because of God's... Say it again. 00:52:29.309 --> 00:52:38.309 Kind of. Say it again. Kind of. Many are the 00:52:38.309 --> 00:52:40.489 sowers of the wicked, but he who trusts in the 00:52:40.489 --> 00:52:43.510 Lord, this translation says, loving kindness 00:52:43.510 --> 00:52:45.989 shall surround him. Another translation says, 00:52:46.050 --> 00:52:49.090 steadfast love. And the answer is steadfast love. 00:52:49.230 --> 00:52:55.710 What does steadfast mean? Perfect. Never wavering. 00:52:55.710 --> 00:53:00.039 Will not run out. Eternal. God is love, Peter 00:53:00.039 --> 00:53:04.280 said. God is love. And so, God is not going to 00:53:04.280 --> 00:53:07.199 fail to forgive you if you come to Him when He 00:53:07.199 --> 00:53:08.800 is available, which is to say through the Lord 00:53:08.800 --> 00:53:11.639 Jesus Christ, and admit what you have done. He 00:53:11.639 --> 00:53:16.159 is not going to refuse you. Did you know that 00:53:16.159 --> 00:53:17.280 Jeffrey Dahmer, I don't know if you know who 00:53:17.280 --> 00:53:19.780 he is or not, accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and 00:53:19.780 --> 00:53:22.599 Savior by his profession his last week on the 00:53:22.599 --> 00:53:26.039 earth. I don't know how many people he ate, but 00:53:26.039 --> 00:53:28.280 I know you're not supposed to eat people. especially 00:53:28.280 --> 00:53:29.860 not against their will, which I don't know how 00:53:29.860 --> 00:53:32.280 you could ever do it any other way. Which is 00:53:32.280 --> 00:53:34.119 what he did. He ate people against their will. 00:53:34.719 --> 00:53:36.860 And his last week on the earth, he confessed, 00:53:37.159 --> 00:53:39.480 he prayed, he said he accepted Jesus Christ as 00:53:39.480 --> 00:53:41.539 Lord and Savior, and people said they saw a complete 00:53:41.539 --> 00:53:44.099 change in him. Up until that moment in time, 00:53:44.219 --> 00:53:46.239 he was like he was demon -possessed, and from 00:53:46.239 --> 00:53:47.900 that moment in time, he was a completely different 00:53:47.900 --> 00:53:50.059 person. Less than a week later, they took his 00:53:50.059 --> 00:53:52.380 life. You understand that if you will not confess, 00:53:52.639 --> 00:53:57.420 pray, and be forgiven, you will not receive forgiveness 00:53:57.420 --> 00:53:59.960 because there is only one way you can be forgiven 00:53:59.960 --> 00:54:01.420 and that is through the God of heaven, through 00:54:01.420 --> 00:54:02.920 his son Jesus Christ. That is the only way. Jesus 00:54:02.920 --> 00:54:04.679 said, I am the way and the truth and the life. 00:54:04.679 --> 00:54:06.280 No man cometh unto the Father but through me. 00:54:06.559 --> 00:54:10.380 There is one way. Which means, if you don't do 00:54:10.380 --> 00:54:13.059 it that one way, and if Jeffrey Dahmer did, and 00:54:13.059 --> 00:54:15.139 I understand that's an if, but if he did, he'll 00:54:15.139 --> 00:54:19.199 be in heaven and you won't. So let's get it straight. 00:54:20.760 --> 00:54:23.619 David says, confess, pray, be forgiven. And then 00:54:23.619 --> 00:54:26.090 he says, Because of God's steadfast love, he 00:54:26.090 --> 00:54:29.869 will always give you reason to be glad. There's 00:54:29.869 --> 00:54:32.170 another glad. Okay? One left. We're almost done. 00:54:33.369 --> 00:54:36.269 I told you David was going to be tough. He's 00:54:36.269 --> 00:54:42.530 got a lot. Alright? So Psalm 51. This psalm is 00:54:42.530 --> 00:54:47.110 heartbreaking. Fair warning you. Especially because 00:54:47.110 --> 00:54:49.650 it could be any one of us writing or speaking 00:54:49.650 --> 00:54:51.949 this psalm. In Psalm 51, this is what David wrote. 00:54:51.989 --> 00:54:54.809 He said, Be gracious to me, O God, according 00:54:54.809 --> 00:54:57.110 to thy loving kindness, according to the greatness 00:54:57.110 --> 00:55:00.389 of thy compassion. Blot out my transgressions. 00:55:00.590 --> 00:55:03.050 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse 00:55:03.050 --> 00:55:06.230 me from my sin. For I know my transgressions 00:55:06.230 --> 00:55:09.269 and my sin is ever before me. You ever felt like 00:55:09.269 --> 00:55:10.969 that? Like the things that you're doing wrong, 00:55:11.050 --> 00:55:13.949 they're always there. You realize it. You know 00:55:13.949 --> 00:55:18.110 it all the time. And he's saying, God can and 00:55:18.110 --> 00:55:22.079 will cleanse. Not based on what you do right 00:55:22.079 --> 00:55:24.460 or wrong, but based on his loving kindness. Verse 00:55:24.460 --> 00:55:27.840 4 says, Against thee, thee only have I sinned, 00:55:27.840 --> 00:55:30.900 and done what is evil in thy sight, so that thou 00:55:30.900 --> 00:55:33.820 art justified when thou dost speak, and blameless 00:55:33.820 --> 00:55:37.500 when thou dost judge. Behold, I was brought forth 00:55:37.500 --> 00:55:40.440 in iniquity. Or in other words, he was born in 00:55:40.440 --> 00:55:44.539 sin. And in sin, my mother conceived me. So like 00:55:44.539 --> 00:55:47.340 when she conceived his birth, when it began, 00:55:47.699 --> 00:55:51.760 already sin was present. Behold, thou dost desire 00:55:51.760 --> 00:55:55.519 truth in the innermost being and in the hidden 00:55:55.519 --> 00:55:59.559 part thou wilt make me no wisdom. Purify me with 00:55:59.559 --> 00:56:03.599 hyssop and I shall be clean. Wash me and I shall 00:56:03.599 --> 00:56:06.440 be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and 00:56:06.440 --> 00:56:09.760 gladness. Let the bones which thou hast broken 00:56:09.760 --> 00:56:13.059 rejoice. Hide thy face from my sins and blot 00:56:13.059 --> 00:56:16.320 out all my iniquities. Holy cow. Create in me 00:56:16.320 --> 00:56:19.239 a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit 00:56:19.239 --> 00:56:22.159 within me. Do not cast me away from thy presence, 00:56:22.320 --> 00:56:25.739 and do not take thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore 00:56:25.739 --> 00:56:28.460 to me the joy of thy salvation. See what he had 00:56:28.460 --> 00:56:34.139 lost? And sustain me with a willing spirit. Then 00:56:34.139 --> 00:56:36.599 I will teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners 00:56:36.599 --> 00:56:39.280 will be converted to thee. Deliver me from blood 00:56:39.280 --> 00:56:42.000 guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation. 00:56:42.559 --> 00:56:45.440 Then my tongue will joyfully sing of thy righteousness. 00:56:45.880 --> 00:56:49.760 O Lord, open my lips, that my mouth may declare 00:56:49.760 --> 00:56:52.480 thy praise. For thou dost not delight in sacrifice, 00:56:52.719 --> 00:56:55.400 otherwise I would give it. Thou art not pleased 00:56:55.400 --> 00:56:59.139 with burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are 00:56:59.139 --> 00:57:02.940 a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart. 00:57:03.280 --> 00:57:06.239 O God, thou wilt not despise. I want to read 00:57:06.239 --> 00:57:09.019 that one again. The sacrifices of God are a broken 00:57:09.019 --> 00:57:11.980 spirit, a broken and a contrite heart, O God, 00:57:12.119 --> 00:57:15.360 thou wilt not despise. By thy favor do good to 00:57:15.360 --> 00:57:18.280 Zion, build the walls of Jerusalem, then thou 00:57:18.280 --> 00:57:21.199 wilt delight in righteous sacrifices, in burnt 00:57:21.199 --> 00:57:23.260 offering and whole burnt offering, then young 00:57:23.260 --> 00:57:26.659 bulls will be offered on thine altar. We have 00:57:26.659 --> 00:57:28.480 two things left to do. One is to fill this out. 00:57:28.679 --> 00:57:30.679 The other is to understand what we just read. 00:57:31.980 --> 00:57:34.719 It's a journey, okay? All right, so the first 00:57:34.719 --> 00:57:41.969 thing is Psalm 51. is a... Nope. I wish it was 00:57:41.969 --> 00:57:44.670 a prophecy. He wished it was a prophecy. It was 00:57:44.670 --> 00:57:49.210 a prayer for mercy. It's a prayer for mercy. 00:57:49.369 --> 00:57:55.750 Also, a prayer for confession. He's admitting. 00:57:55.829 --> 00:57:59.969 He knows his sin. He knows it's not... I mean, 00:57:59.989 --> 00:58:04.440 we trick ourselves, don't we? We pretend. That 00:58:04.440 --> 00:58:08.320 what we did really wasn't that bad. But it really 00:58:08.320 --> 00:58:11.880 was. But David's saying, I'm not playing that 00:58:11.880 --> 00:58:14.940 game. I'm going to own it. I know I screwed up. 00:58:15.380 --> 00:58:19.400 Right? Also, he says he was, I'm going to go 00:58:19.400 --> 00:58:22.219 fast, I apologize, born in sin. That's the next 00:58:22.219 --> 00:58:30.000 thing. And then it says he was reborn, delivered, 00:58:30.280 --> 00:58:40.130 which means brought out, Washed. And why all 00:58:40.130 --> 00:58:42.670 that was accomplished was to give him the one 00:58:42.670 --> 00:58:44.530 thing that God really wants so he can give it 00:58:44.530 --> 00:58:51.469 back to God. And that is a classic answer. A 00:58:51.469 --> 00:58:55.150 broken and contrite heart. So what is a broken 00:58:55.150 --> 00:59:02.809 and contrite heart? Does anybody know what it 00:59:02.809 --> 00:59:04.949 means to be contrite without looking up the definition? 00:59:07.030 --> 00:59:09.730 Okay, that's pretty good. Vulnerability and humility. 00:59:09.929 --> 00:59:12.050 And that's what a broken and contrite heart is. 00:59:12.489 --> 00:59:17.269 We realize we cannot do it ourselves. We have 00:59:17.269 --> 00:59:19.449 come to the end of our strength, the end of our 00:59:19.449 --> 00:59:23.650 ability. We must rely on God. And because you 00:59:23.650 --> 00:59:25.889 can rely on God because of his loving kindness, 00:59:26.130 --> 00:59:29.710 you do so. And when you rely on God like that, 00:59:29.829 --> 00:59:34.909 God shows up. God does what God does. Okay? So 00:59:34.909 --> 00:59:38.010 the one thing that we can give God is a broken 00:59:38.010 --> 00:59:39.889 and contrite heart. And you notice that there's 00:59:39.889 --> 00:59:41.610 kind of like a little swoop on the bottom there. 00:59:41.670 --> 00:59:43.269 It goes to a sign on the left that asks you the 00:59:43.269 --> 00:59:46.909 question, answer me now, what sacrifice can you 00:59:46.909 --> 00:59:49.690 give God? So if you think you can give God your 00:59:49.690 --> 00:59:52.829 money, you are sadly mistaken. If you think you 00:59:52.829 --> 00:59:54.869 can give God your time, you are sadly mistaken. 00:59:55.289 --> 00:59:58.150 By the way, when you give God your money or your 00:59:58.150 --> 01:00:05.199 time, what does God do with it? We had this sermon 01:00:05.199 --> 01:00:09.500 about two months ago, if anybody remembers, on 01:00:09.500 --> 01:00:16.780 Sunday morning. What's that? It is His. And when 01:00:16.780 --> 01:00:18.860 God gives it to you and you give it back to Him, 01:00:18.980 --> 01:00:21.539 He stores it up in the family storehouses. Revelation 01:00:21.539 --> 01:00:24.860 says that when the saints come into heaven, their 01:00:24.860 --> 01:00:29.280 good works follow them. Between the D and the 01:00:29.280 --> 01:00:34.980 A. Okay, we're going to, yeah, all right. So 01:00:34.980 --> 01:00:37.400 if you look there, there's a scroll that we didn't 01:00:37.400 --> 01:00:40.300 fill out up above DA, and it just says Israel 01:00:40.300 --> 01:00:45.599 becomes a great nation. And that is the story 01:00:45.599 --> 01:00:48.440 of David as far as most people are concerned. 01:00:49.440 --> 01:00:52.519 God said the borders of the nation of Israel 01:00:52.519 --> 01:00:55.099 and under David and later Solomon, they get as 01:00:55.099 --> 01:00:57.300 close as they ever get to really controlling 01:00:57.300 --> 01:01:00.039 the land that God said they would have. And they 01:01:00.039 --> 01:01:02.119 get as close maybe as they would ever get to 01:01:02.119 --> 01:01:03.280 really being the people that they're supposed 01:01:03.280 --> 01:01:05.940 to be. But there's still idolatry. There's still 01:01:05.940 --> 01:01:09.460 issues. Obviously, David sinned. There's revolts. 01:01:09.800 --> 01:01:12.639 There's war or killing each other, wiping out 01:01:12.639 --> 01:01:16.599 tribes. You know, it's never right. David's story 01:01:16.599 --> 01:01:18.940 is not really about making Israel a great nation 01:01:18.940 --> 01:01:23.619 in the sense of political. or army size. And 01:01:23.619 --> 01:01:25.360 David later counts the army. That's one of the 01:01:25.360 --> 01:01:27.739 things he does. And Joab confronts him about 01:01:27.739 --> 01:01:29.539 counting the army toward the end when he's about 01:01:29.539 --> 01:01:35.579 done. We studied that when we studied Joab. It's 01:01:35.579 --> 01:01:38.019 not about any of that. David's story is not about 01:01:38.019 --> 01:01:40.179 numbers. It's not about money. It's not about 01:01:40.179 --> 01:01:43.719 kingship. It's all about redemption. It's all 01:01:43.719 --> 01:01:46.119 about it. And so at the moment in time in which 01:01:46.119 --> 01:01:48.380 Absalom is on the throne and David has fled, 01:01:48.889 --> 01:01:52.690 David writes Psalm 39 and Psalm 51, and those 01:01:52.690 --> 01:01:57.409 psalms were all about confession, prayer, and 01:01:57.409 --> 01:02:00.510 being forgiven. He even went so far as to say, 01:02:00.650 --> 01:02:03.489 no one can sacrifice anything to you. Bowls and 01:02:03.489 --> 01:02:05.170 rams, it doesn't do anything. You're not pleased 01:02:05.170 --> 01:02:08.530 with that. But then he goes on to say at the 01:02:08.530 --> 01:02:10.650 end of Psalm 51 that they will do that. They 01:02:10.650 --> 01:02:12.670 will still. When Jerusalem is restored, they'll 01:02:12.670 --> 01:02:15.210 still sacrifice. What was the sacrifice representing? 01:02:15.849 --> 01:02:19.349 The ultimate sacrifice of Jesus. So all of that 01:02:19.349 --> 01:02:21.710 was meant to point to Jesus being the ultimate 01:02:21.710 --> 01:02:24.809 sacrifice. There's no sacrifice now. You can't 01:02:24.809 --> 01:02:28.190 sacrifice anything to God. The only thing God 01:02:28.190 --> 01:02:30.570 wants is a broken and contrite heart. He wants 01:02:30.570 --> 01:02:35.369 you to want him. He wants you to be willing to 01:02:35.369 --> 01:02:39.030 admit that you're a screwed up sinner and that 01:02:39.030 --> 01:02:41.989 God can make you better. In this lifetime, I 01:02:41.989 --> 01:02:43.809 would not even say perfect. I think we work closer 01:02:43.809 --> 01:02:45.769 and closer to perfect, but I would say perfect 01:02:45.769 --> 01:02:48.500 in the form of complete. He can make you whole. 01:02:49.860 --> 01:02:53.199 And that's what he does when we admit that only 01:02:53.199 --> 01:02:55.119 he can do it. If you're going to do it on your 01:02:55.119 --> 01:02:59.019 own, you can't have it. If you refuse to spend 01:02:59.019 --> 01:03:01.500 time with the Lord, then you'll be like David 01:03:01.500 --> 01:03:04.159 and you'll feel distant from him. And he said, 01:03:04.199 --> 01:03:06.380 when I wouldn't confess, I was being torn up 01:03:06.380 --> 01:03:09.980 inside. And he said, I've lost the joy of my 01:03:09.980 --> 01:03:12.710 salvation. And the feeling of God's presence. 01:03:12.789 --> 01:03:14.429 That's what happens when you sin against God 01:03:14.429 --> 01:03:16.349 after you're saved, after you've experienced 01:03:16.349 --> 01:03:19.250 him, is you lose the joy of your salvation and 01:03:19.250 --> 01:03:22.369 the presence of God. It's still there, but you 01:03:22.369 --> 01:03:25.449 can't feel it. You're distanced from it. There's 01:03:25.449 --> 01:03:27.949 a barrier that you have erected, which is your 01:03:27.949 --> 01:03:30.710 sin. And then, yes, that doesn't mean you're 01:03:30.710 --> 01:03:33.230 unsaved. It doesn't mean you're lost. It does 01:03:33.230 --> 01:03:36.329 mean that you will feel lost. You will feel unsaved. 01:03:36.469 --> 01:03:41.000 You will feel desperate. And that's what the 01:03:41.000 --> 01:03:44.699 whole story of David during the time of Absalom's 01:03:44.699 --> 01:03:47.940 revolt is about. Notice when David comes back 01:03:47.940 --> 01:03:49.820 into Jerusalem, which we studied this before, 01:03:49.960 --> 01:03:51.880 not as part of David's story. When he comes back 01:03:51.880 --> 01:03:54.179 into Jerusalem, there were those there that he 01:03:54.179 --> 01:03:56.440 could have punished. He could have killed. The 01:03:56.440 --> 01:03:57.980 man that cursed him, he could have killed him. 01:03:58.119 --> 01:04:01.800 And David said, God's making me king. I have 01:04:01.800 --> 01:04:04.159 everything that God wants me to have. I'm in 01:04:04.159 --> 01:04:06.579 exactly the place God wants me to be. Why would 01:04:06.579 --> 01:04:09.179 I want to do anything to anyone? And he didn't. 01:04:09.789 --> 01:04:14.789 He didn't punish them. Now when he's dying, not 01:04:14.789 --> 01:04:16.190 to get ahead of the story, but when he's dying, 01:04:16.230 --> 01:04:18.570 we studied last week, he does tell Solomon to 01:04:18.570 --> 01:04:22.690 clean up the mess. And Solomon does. Okay? Alright. 01:04:22.809 --> 01:04:24.289 So I'm going to ask some quick questions and 01:04:24.289 --> 01:04:27.070 throw candy at teenagers. If you can answer the 01:04:27.070 --> 01:04:35.389 questions. Okay. Alright. I have bags of gummies 01:04:35.389 --> 01:04:39.429 as well. I don't know how good they are. They 01:04:39.429 --> 01:04:40.809 don't have an expiration date, so that means 01:04:40.809 --> 01:04:42.110 they're perfect, right? They're good forever. 01:04:42.610 --> 01:04:51.630 Yep, they're good forever. Here we go. What is 01:04:51.630 --> 01:05:01.710 that? All right, here we go, here we go, here 01:05:01.710 --> 01:05:06.619 we go. All right, so... Because Saul grew jealous 01:05:06.619 --> 01:05:09.400 of David's many victories and the song's son 01:05:09.400 --> 01:05:15.699 about him, David became a what? Kishon. Incorrect. 01:05:16.340 --> 01:05:18.840 Jason. David became a what? He became a fugitive. 01:05:18.900 --> 01:05:24.519 Do you like gummies? Nice catch. They're big 01:05:24.519 --> 01:05:25.860 enough you can catch them. See how that works? 01:05:28.019 --> 01:05:38.510 Okay. The prophecy about Jesus being a descendant 01:05:38.510 --> 01:05:42.309 of David was last repeated in this book of the 01:05:42.309 --> 01:05:46.449 Bible that we read. Haley. Luke is correct. You 01:05:46.449 --> 01:05:48.429 like these? Okay, wait. Hold on. These ones are 01:05:48.429 --> 01:05:54.269 sour neon. Okay. I can't guarantee they're yummy. 01:05:54.510 --> 01:06:04.079 I can only throw them. Okay. All right. True 01:06:04.079 --> 01:06:09.800 or false? The baby conceived between David and 01:06:09.800 --> 01:06:12.559 Bathsheba the night that, while she was still 01:06:12.559 --> 01:06:16.199 married to Uriah the Hittite, was named Solomon. 01:06:17.119 --> 01:06:20.400 That is incorrect. That means the next person 01:06:20.400 --> 01:06:23.400 gets it. All right. Sorry, buddy. The baby died. 01:06:23.539 --> 01:06:26.679 Solomon was the second child. All right. That 01:06:26.679 --> 01:06:29.800 would have been a previous lesson, so it wasn't 01:06:29.800 --> 01:06:36.199 on this page. Okay. David received these two 01:06:36.199 --> 01:06:42.340 rewards for killing Goliath. I only see Jason. 01:06:42.460 --> 01:06:50.420 Go, Jason. That is correct. Hold on, I'm coming. 01:06:50.880 --> 01:07:13.280 Ready? Okay. All right. David defeated Goliath 01:07:13.280 --> 01:07:21.219 and was basically victorious in all of his military 01:07:21.219 --> 01:07:25.699 bouts up until his time with Bathsheba for this 01:07:25.699 --> 01:07:32.199 reason, because he was Chosen is correct. Do 01:07:32.199 --> 01:07:44.320 you like gummies? Okay. Now you know. If no teenagers 01:07:44.320 --> 01:07:47.000 raise their hand, I will take whoever does raise 01:07:47.000 --> 01:07:54.059 their hand. All right. Aha. Test the math in 01:07:54.059 --> 01:07:57.539 the house. According to this worksheet, the height 01:07:57.539 --> 01:08:01.570 of Goliath's head. Careful. the height of his 01:08:01.570 --> 01:08:09.030 head was approximately this tall. Solo. That's 01:08:09.030 --> 01:08:22.229 incorrect. Haley. You can't do the math. RJ, 01:08:22.310 --> 01:08:28.470 go. Say 18 inches. I'll give it to you. One and 01:08:28.470 --> 01:08:33.689 a quarter, one and a half feet. You've got to 01:08:33.689 --> 01:08:36.829 be able to subtract 7 1⁄2 or 7 3⁄4 from 9 feet. 01:08:37.609 --> 01:08:48.029 Sorry. You were right. Okay, I see. You like 01:08:48.029 --> 01:08:55.409 gummies? Oh, she's got them in her pocket. Okay, 01:08:55.470 --> 01:09:02.420 here we go. Three times. David could have hurt 01:09:02.420 --> 01:09:07.079 Saul, and he chose not to because Saul was Haley. 01:09:08.819 --> 01:09:22.119 Anointed is correct. All right, last one. Okay, 01:09:22.239 --> 01:09:25.220 this will be the last one, and it'll be easy 01:09:25.220 --> 01:09:30.140 for the second person. When Samuel was looking 01:09:30.140 --> 01:09:34.060 to anoint a new king to replace Saul, he interviewed 01:09:34.060 --> 01:09:40.960 a bunch of brothers. He interviewed all of David's 01:09:40.960 --> 01:09:43.779 older brothers and also David's younger brother. 01:09:43.960 --> 01:09:53.880 True or false? Kishon. Ready? All right, we're 01:09:53.880 --> 01:09:55.689 going to close in prayer and we'll be done. So 01:09:55.689 --> 01:09:58.970 next week, we'll look at the time where he's 01:09:58.970 --> 01:10:03.010 actually gone out of Jerusalem and forward. If 01:10:03.010 --> 01:10:05.130 I can get it all on one worksheet, we'll go up 01:10:05.130 --> 01:10:09.050 until his death, which much of his death we already 01:10:09.050 --> 01:10:10.789 looked at, so we don't really need that again. 01:10:11.670 --> 01:10:13.590 So I can really abbreviate that.