1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,440 Welcome to the Potter's House Salmon Arm podcast. We are a Bible-Believing Church located 2 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:16,680 in beautiful British Columbia, Canada. We are proudly part of the Christian Fellowship 3 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:21,920 Ministries with 3,000 churches around the world. We are a church focused on world evangelism, 4 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:27,300 discipleship and church planting. Here we will share recent sermons from P.H.S.A. Church 5 00:00:27,300 --> 00:00:31,880 and other sermons from throughout our fellowship. I am Pastor David Bickford and I will be your 6 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:36,420 host for this podcast. I thank you for listening today and we hope these messages are a blessing 7 00:00:36,420 --> 00:00:42,240 to you and bring you closer to God. 8 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:51,620 Hey, welcome back to the podcast. My name is David Bickford and this is the Potter's 9 00:00:51,620 --> 00:00:58,920 House Church podcast in Salmon Arm, British Columbia. Today the message that I have is 10 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:07,520 called Vox Populi, Vox Dei. The voice of the people is the voice of God. But is it? 11 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:18,360 The text that we will be working from today is going to be 1 Samuel 8, 1-9. Basically, 12 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:24,400 we will look at this period of time in Israel's history when they were demanding a king. 13 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:30,380 So as we kind of jump into this, I saw an article that kind of made me start thinking 14 00:01:30,380 --> 00:01:35,080 in this way. This article is from a while back, but anyway, the article was, Elon Musk 15 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:42,000 reinstates his Trump Twitter account, ending the lifetime ban. So Twitter CEO Elon Musk 16 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:47,520 formally reinstated Trump this weekend after conducting a poll on the platform that received 17 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:54,480 more than 15 million votes. Reinstate former President Trump, yes or no? The poll simply 18 00:01:54,480 --> 00:02:00,120 asked. 52% of users agreed he should be allowed to be back on the platform, which has already 19 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:05,800 restored other subject to bans, including the satirical account Babylon Bee or Kathy 20 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:12,540 Griffin and Jordan Peterson. The people have spoken Trump will be reinstated, Musk wrote. 21 00:02:12,540 --> 00:02:20,920 And then he ended with saying, Vox Populi, Vox Dei. And immediately, as you can imagine, 22 00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:24,920 certain groups, liberals on Twitter fumed after Musk reinstated Trump to the platform 23 00:02:24,920 --> 00:02:31,500 saying, God help us, which I find particularly ironic. That being said, though, what I want 24 00:02:31,500 --> 00:02:35,960 to look at in that article isn't any of the context behind the reasons why someone was 25 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:41,640 banned or anything like that. No, what I want to hone in on is the term that he uses, Vox 26 00:02:41,640 --> 00:02:46,720 Populi. It sounds like some sort of thing it would have been commonly invoked in the 27 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:53,040 Roman Empire. But actually, the earliest known reference to equating it with the voice of 28 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:59,800 God or Vox Populi, Vox Dei, is in a disapproving way. It's attributed to a Saxon scholar and 29 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:08,880 teacher Alcuin of York who lived between 735 and 804 AD. The then master of the palace 30 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:17,240 school of Aken used this in a letter to the Emperor Charlemagne in 800. And he wrote, 31 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:21,360 And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is 32 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:29,440 the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always close to insanity. So 33 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:35,920 this kind of brings the context of the saying or the phrase into a different kind of light. 34 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:42,920 Now we're starting to see that this wasn't meant as an evocation of God's working through 35 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:50,440 man. Rather, it was an evocation of the madness of man working through the mob. 36 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:55,720 So let's look at our text in 1 Samuel 8, 1 through 9. This is when Israel demanded a 37 00:03:55,720 --> 00:04:00,720 king. And so it starts, When Samuel became old, he made his sons judge over Israel. The 38 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:05,680 name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second Abishai. They were judges 39 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:12,880 in Beersheba. Yet his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside for gain. They 40 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:17,680 took bribes and perverted justice. And then all the elders of Israel gathered together 41 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:24,720 and came to Samuel at Ramaph and said to him, Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk 42 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:32,200 in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations. But the thing 43 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:36,720 displeased Samuel when they said, Give us a king to judge over us. And Samuel prayed 44 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:42,520 to the Lord. And the Lord said to Samuel, Obey the voice of the people and all that 45 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:47,320 they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being 46 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:52,520 king over them. According to the deeds that they have done from the day I brought them 47 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:58,060 up out of Egypt, even to this day forsaking me and serving other gods. So they are also 48 00:04:58,060 --> 00:05:05,000 doing to you. Now then obey their voice. Only you shall solemnly warn them and show them 49 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:10,560 the ways of the king who shall reign over them. So this brings me my first point. My 50 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:16,480 first point is peer pressure. And then we're going to look at the second point being mob 51 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:21,480 rule. And then finally, we'll look at it our third point, which would be Christ is our 52 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:29,440 Redeemer. So let's look at peer pressure then and you give us a king like all other nations. 53 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:34,860 The situation here is that the Israelites desired to have a king that was both from 54 00:05:34,860 --> 00:05:40,080 a place of unbelief and envy. They routinely fought God's plan for their lives and that 55 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:45,340 opened them up to being filled with envy for what they believed other nations had. At this 56 00:05:45,340 --> 00:05:50,540 time of Israel's history, they had yet to have a king outside of God himself. There 57 00:05:50,540 --> 00:05:55,520 were judges who God rose up to help the Israelites in times of need. And there were priests that 58 00:05:55,520 --> 00:06:00,600 were meant to point Israel to the law of Moses and the covenant that they had with God. If 59 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:03,800 you consider the rights and privileges that were laid out in Levitical law, you could 60 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:08,260 argue that they were a constitutional form of government at this time. Each tribe fundamentally 61 00:06:08,260 --> 00:06:13,000 governed themselves, but was required to rule according to the tenets of the law or the 62 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:20,000 constitution given by God himself, the covenant. And then we look at their desire, the desire 63 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:25,520 to be like other nations springs up out of their lost faith in God. This happens when 64 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:29,200 Moses was too slow coming down from Mount Sinai. So they have a history of this happening. 65 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:34,760 But if we look at Exodus 32, we see the story of the golden cap in verse one, when the people 66 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:39,040 saw that Moses was so long and coming down from the mountains, they gathered around Aaron 67 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:44,380 and said, come and make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought 68 00:06:44,380 --> 00:06:49,140 us up out of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him. So then we also see today 69 00:06:49,140 --> 00:06:54,200 in Christian culture that constantly strives to bend the word of God to fit the secular 70 00:06:54,200 --> 00:07:01,420 world around us. We are called to accept ungodliness in our society as something to be revered. 71 00:07:01,420 --> 00:07:06,700 We are persecuted and judged for holding godly standards. We are told that times have changed 72 00:07:06,700 --> 00:07:13,640 and we need to reinterpret what the scripture and God's word really means. Our desire to 73 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:19,080 fit in is moving against our conscience and pressuring us to give up our belief in God's 74 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:26,120 word in order to belong and find friends in this world. So then we come to the warning. 75 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:31,240 This is what happened to the Israelites and it became their downfall. God's plan to govern 76 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:35,920 his people through his prophets, judges and priests, a theocracy based on the benevolence 77 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:41,920 of the covenant, on God's benevolence and the covenant. His plan did not include an 78 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:48,120 earthly king. Despite God's warnings though, the people of Israel would not relent. So 79 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:54,240 God allowed them to fit in and suffer their choice to reject God. So let's pick up again 80 00:07:54,240 --> 00:08:01,480 in first Samuel 8, 10 through 12. First Samuel 8, 10 through 12 when Samuel's warning against 81 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:07,280 the kings. So in verse 10 it says, so Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people 82 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:14,800 who were asking for a king from him. He said, these will be the ways of the king who will 83 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:20,420 reign over you. He will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his 84 00:08:20,420 --> 00:08:26,360 horsemen to run before his chariots. And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands 85 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:31,220 and commanders of fifties and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, to make 86 00:08:31,220 --> 00:08:35,500 his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots. He will take your daughters 87 00:08:35,500 --> 00:08:40,240 to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your field and vineyards 88 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:45,040 and olive orchards and give them to his servants. He will take a tenth of your grain and of 89 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:48,920 your vineyards and give it to his officers and his servants. And he will take your male 90 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:53,280 servants and female servants and the best of your young men and your doggies and put 91 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:58,720 them to his work. He will take a tenth of your flocks and you shall be his slaves. And 92 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:03,720 in that day you will cry out because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, 93 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:12,640 but the Lord will not answer you in that day. So Israel continues on here and their request 94 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:18,300 is granted. But the people refuse to obey. So we pick up in verse 19, they refuse to 95 00:09:18,300 --> 00:09:23,760 obey the voice of Samuel and they say, no, but there shall be a king over us that we 96 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:28,800 may also be like the other nations and that our king may judge us and go out before us 97 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:33,840 and fight our battles. And when Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated 98 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:38,240 them in the ears of the Lord. And the Lord said to Samuel, obey their voice and make 99 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:44,800 them a king. Samuel then said to the men of Israel, go every man to a city. Oftentimes 100 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:49,760 we can encounter peer pressure. We could seek out advice. Sometimes that advice is from 101 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:54,800 a godly resource and sometimes it's from the voice of our friends. This entire episode 102 00:09:54,800 --> 00:10:01,240 reminds me of a later incident in Israel when Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, grandson of 103 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:06,880 King David, had a choice to make. In 1 Kings 12, 3 through 5 it says, and they sent and 104 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:11,680 called him and Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came and said to Rehoboam, your 105 00:10:11,680 --> 00:10:16,800 father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and 106 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:21,400 his heavy yoke on us and we will serve you. And he said to them, go away for three days 107 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:25,960 and come again to me. So the people went. Now the rest of this story is the advisors 108 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:32,280 of King Solomon, his Rehoboam's father recommended lightening their load and dealing with them 109 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:39,600 in humility, stating that it would endear them back to the house of Judah. Rehoboam's 110 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:45,780 friends on the other hand had provided very harsh advice on how to deal with the situation. 111 00:10:45,780 --> 00:10:53,600 They recommended to threaten a heavier burden and harsher conditions and even punishment. 112 00:10:53,600 --> 00:11:00,920 This scenario did play out. He chose the advice of his friends and it had played out the way 113 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:06,840 God had intended in order to illustrate what had happened within the heart of the people 114 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:15,500 of Israel. Oftentimes even a king can be led astray because the desire to follow his friends. 115 00:11:15,500 --> 00:11:25,720 So rather than heed the advice of Solomon's advisors, he wanted to be buddies. He wanted 116 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:31,080 his buddies to see him as being the big man and making the hard choices and being a leader. 117 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:35,920 This choice immediately led to the splitting of the kingdom of Israel. All but one tribe 118 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:44,480 of Israel defected from Judah because of Rehoboam's decision. So this was an example of not seeking 119 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:50,600 godly advice again but seeking the advice of the crowd of his friends. Which brings 120 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:57,000 me to my second point which is mob rule. Whether it's Exodus 32 and the golden calf, 121 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:02,000 first Samuel 8 and the demand for a king or in our own life, it is dangerous to follow 122 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:09,360 the mob, especially when it is in the opposite direction of God. So let's look at man's 123 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:13,760 wisdom. Socialism can provide us with good examples of the dangers of the mob. Philosophy 124 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:19,240 is always able to sway people's desires for equality and equity. The reality is that it 125 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:23,400 always leads to the same disparities that it contends to fight against but in the end 126 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:29,200 everyone has less than when we started. Michael Frank who has held a number of positions on 127 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:33,800 Capitol Hill is the vice president of government relations at the Heritage Foundation and he 128 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:39,160 wrote writing in his diary the dire economic straits and self-destructive behaviors that 129 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:44,760 consumed his fellow Puritans. Shortly after the arrival, Governor William Bradford painted 130 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:50,280 a picture of destitute settlers selling their clothes and bed coverings for food while others 131 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:55,960 became servants to the Indians. Cutting wood and fetching water in exchange for a capful 132 00:12:55,960 --> 00:13:01,580 of corn, the most desperate among them starved. With Bradford recounting how one settler and 133 00:13:01,580 --> 00:13:06,360 gathering shellfish along the shore was so weak he stuck fast in the mud it was found 134 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:12,520 dead in the place. The colony's leaders identified the source of their problem as a particularly 135 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:18,120 vile form of what Bradford called communism. Prosperity and Plymouth colony observed was 136 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:23,160 communally owned and cultivated. This system taking away of property and bringing it into 137 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:29,000 a commonwealth bred confusion and discontent and retarded much employment that would have 138 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:34,040 been to the settlers benefit and comfort. This brought them to the brink of extermination 139 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:38,880 the most able and fit young man of Plymouth thought it an injustice that they were paid 140 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:44,960 the same as those not able to do a quarter the others could. Women meanwhile viewed the 141 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:49,880 communal chores they were required to perform for others as a form of slavery. On the brink 142 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:54,200 of extermination the colony leaders changed course and allotted a parcel of land to each 143 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:59,800 settler hoping to hoping the private ownership of the farmland would encourage self-sufficiency 144 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:06,080 and lead to cultivation of more corn and other food stuffs. As Adam Smith would have predicated 145 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:11,360 this new system worked famously. This had very good success Bradford reported for it 146 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:17,320 made all hands very industrious. In fact much more corn was planted that otherwise would 147 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:21,640 have been and productivity increased. Women for example went willingly into the field 148 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:25,800 and took their little ones with them to set corn. The famine that nearly wiped out the 149 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:32,880 Pilgrims in 1623 gave way to a period of agricultural abundance and enabled Massachusetts settlers 150 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:39,640 to set down permanent roots in the new world, prosper and play an indispensable role in 151 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:44,400 the ultimate success of the American experiment. A profoundly religious man Bradford saw the 152 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:51,160 hand of God in Pilgrim's economic recovery. Their success he observed may well evice the 153 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:57,320 vanity of that conceit that the taking away of property would make men happy and flourishing 154 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:04,240 as if they were wiser than God. Bradford surmised God in his wisdom saw another course fitter 155 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:09,200 for them. Amen to that. The reason why he could say this the reason why he can say God 156 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:15,240 in his wisdom saw another course fitter than them is when you look through the Bible when 157 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:20,880 you look at God's wisdom Levitical law provides us guidance on property rights a preferred 158 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:27,480 judicial system and even a sort of welfare rights. Leviticus 9.9 or 19.9 it says when 159 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:32,600 you reap the harvest of your land do not reap the very edges of your field or gather the 160 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:37,540 gleaning of the harvest. When you reap the harvest of your land it's so it repeats this 161 00:15:37,540 --> 00:15:44,000 again in verse 22 saying the same thing. But it goes on and it says leave them for the 162 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:49,320 poor and for the foreigner residing among you I am the Lord your God. So what you can see 163 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:53,840 though with the Old Testament is that there were parcels of land there was private land 164 00:15:53,840 --> 00:16:00,600 divided up amongst the tribes with the expectation that they would flourish on their land on 165 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:06,560 their family land. Ultimately though we are called to put nothing before God. He is to 166 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:12,440 be the center and he is meant to be the head of Israel's government. Humanity constantly 167 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:17,080 strives to put celebrities and these days to politicians scientists and doctors above 168 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:24,280 God there's a constant drive to supersede God in our society. We are called by the mob 169 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:30,600 to deny God and our Savior Jesus Christ to please the mob. In Psalm 1 1 through 6 it 170 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:34,920 says blessed is the one who does not walk in the steps or walk in step with the wicked 171 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:40,400 or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers but who delight 172 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:46,080 whose delight is in the law of the Lord and who meditates on his law day and night. That 173 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:51,980 person is like a tree planted by streams of water which yields its fruit in season and 174 00:16:51,980 --> 00:16:57,480 whose leaf does not wither. Whatever they do prospers not so the wicked they are all 175 00:16:57,480 --> 00:17:03,480 like chaff that the wind blows away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in judgment or stand 176 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:07,520 in the judgment nor the sinner and the assembly of the righteous for the Lord watches over 177 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:14,080 the ways of the righteous but the way of the wicked leads to destruction. This brings me 178 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:20,480 to my final point which is Christ is our Redeemer. Despite the sins of Israel God provided deliverance 179 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:28,760 to the nations through their kingly line. Saul was chosen to be the first king and he 180 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:36,880 was initially a good king. He entered into his kingship with humility and first Samuel 181 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:42,320 he was plucked out of obscurity and first Samuel 9 that's when that happened and first 182 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:48,080 Samuel 10 we see him being anointed to be king. But unfortunately even though he was 183 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:56,200 a good king in the beginning he quickly fell to the pride of man. So pride defeated Saul. 184 00:17:56,200 --> 00:18:01,480 Saul defeats the Ammonites the Philistines but he makes an unlawful sacrifice supplanting 185 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:09,120 his position of kingship but supplanting the rightful position that Samuel had as the priest. 186 00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:18,840 So he did priestly duties thinking that he was above God's law. This led to him to being 187 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:24,840 removed from having the anointing of God. God removed his hand from Saul's life because 188 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:32,520 the consistent choices that Saul made to feel that he was above the law of God. This led 189 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:40,840 him to insanity and in first Samuel 15 we see the Lord rejecting Saul. At the scene 190 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:47,600 where Samuel judges the king of the Amalekites Agag and then in first Samuel 28 we see how 191 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:56,440 far he's gone from being a godly king anointed found in obscurity. We see Saul now going 192 00:18:56,440 --> 00:19:03,600 to the Witch of Endor to seek out mystical advice because he can no longer tap in to 193 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:11,280 the advice or to the anointing of God. Well then what happens then is that we see that 194 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:19,120 God has chosen a different man a better king and David becomes the anointed of God and 195 00:19:19,120 --> 00:19:28,080 again he is plucked out of obscurity and he is anointed as king over over Israel in humility. 196 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:34,680 In first Samuel 16 David is anointed king by Saul as by Samuel and first Samuel 17 we 197 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:41,120 see the battles the battle of Goliath where David is anointed by God is able to defeat 198 00:19:41,120 --> 00:19:48,360 the giant Goliath and spare and then later on we see him go out of his way that even 199 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:55,080 though he's being hunted by a very jealous king Saul we see David having every opportunity 200 00:19:55,080 --> 00:20:02,400 to to kill his enemy which is Saul but David did not see him as an enemy and so he spares 201 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:12,920 Saul's life in first Samuel 24 and 26. This really shows the difference of King David 202 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:19,160 you know versus King Saul but he is still just a man and he does fall to his own pride 203 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:25,680 so at the time of the nations when kings are out to war second Samuel 11 we see David commit 204 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:34,300 adultery with Bathsheba but here's the difference with King David is that when shown his failing 205 00:20:34,300 --> 00:20:42,560 when shown his sinful nature he decides on a different route than what King Saul decides. 206 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:49,040 King Saul lifts himself up in pride even more whereas King David humbled himself and he 207 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:55,080 cried out for redemption and we see that in second Samuel 12 when Nathan rebukes Nathan 208 00:20:55,080 --> 00:21:02,800 the prophet of the kingdom rebukes King David and David stops in his tracks and he repents 209 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:08,760 and it's because of that repentance is because that King David had a heart that was after 210 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:16,160 the Lord that we see something very different happen in this this man's life. He is he there's 211 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:24,600 a covenant made with King David that it is his line that will be the Messianic line and 212 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:30,720 it brings us to the best of kings the King of Kings the Lord of Lords our our savior 213 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:39,800 Jesus Christ. He is perfect he is sinless and he is willing to sacrifice he sacrificed 214 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:47,280 his life he came to earth lived as a human but he sacrificed his life so that we could 215 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:54,220 enter back into direct relationship with our God all during the time of the Levitical line 216 00:21:54,220 --> 00:22:00,840 of all of the Levitical law there was always priests that had to meet that had to go before 217 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:07,760 us to have relationship with God but not anymore now we are able to have that direct relationship 218 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:16,000 with God through our Lord Jesus Christ and it's that salvation that we can receive through 219 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:21,880 the repentance of our sins and acceptance of Jesus as our Lord that makes him the King 220 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:26,800 for all time. It is through Christ that our relationship with God is set right again the 221 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:31,620 sin of the mob is to turn away from God's teaching and to look only at man's limited 222 00:22:31,620 --> 00:22:37,160 understanding we constantly need to turn our eyes back to the cross and to our Savior Jesus 223 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:43,280 Christ even though all of Israel's rebellions all throughout the Israel's history their 224 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:49,660 constant rebellion God had a plan to save the nations through the Messiah and bring 225 00:22:49,660 --> 00:22:55,320 us back to right relationship with God the Father the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ our 226 00:22:55,320 --> 00:23:03,680 Savior and King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He set us back into that that righteous path 227 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:12,320 of our Lordship being God not a king but being God and we get that through the Father the 228 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:19,040 Son and the Holy Ghost today so with that as long as you're not driving right you know 229 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:22,000 I like to every head bow every eye closed if you're driving I just like you to listen 230 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:27,680 to this because this is every single time I'm I preach a message wherever I'm at there 231 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:34,720 has to be an opportunity there has to be an opportunity to give your life to Jesus Christ 232 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:41,000 be like King David don't be like King Saul when when you're shown the fact that we all 233 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:47,020 are fallen we all have fallen short of the glory of God we all need salvation in Jesus 234 00:23:47,020 --> 00:23:55,720 Christ because we have sinned and fallen short but in that's we have all all need to do that 235 00:23:55,720 --> 00:24:00,600 and it is just at this moment this message is spoken to you at all turn your heart to 236 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:07,400 God let the don't let the conviction of the Lord pass but rather turn your heart to God 237 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:14,680 and accept him as your Lord and Savior. It's a very easy thing to do it doesn't take any 238 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:21,600 time really but all you have to do is recognize that yes Lord I am a sinner I know that I've 239 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:25,760 fallen short of the glory of God I know that I've lied I've cheated I've stolen I've done 240 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:35,160 all sorts of wicked things but I repent which just means turn I turn from my sin and I accept 241 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:42,320 you to be my Lord my Lord Jesus Christ and I thank you for the salvation that comes from 242 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:48,360 that knowledge and that's just a simple prayer that you can say so it would just be real 243 00:24:48,360 --> 00:24:52,200 quick it'd be like dear Lord God I know that I'm a sinner but I know that you died for 244 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:59,160 my sins I accept you as my Lord Savior Jesus Christ I repent of my sins I turn away from 245 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:04,840 them and I thank you for salvation through grace in Jesus name amen simple prayer if 246 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:10,160 you prayed that prayer send me a message let me know let me know if these messages are getting 247 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:14,880 out there if they're right if they're you know impacting you in any way because that's 248 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:21,080 the whole goal of this is to get the gospel of Jesus Christ out as far as we can and it 249 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:25,320 with with our Potter's house churches and Christ fellowship ministries we do that we 250 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:30,240 have three thousand churches globally roughly and we are trying to push forward the gospel 251 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:36,960 of Jesus Christ the undeleted gospel that you can get from reading the Bible so I thank 252 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:43,720 you for taking the time to listen to me today tonight whenever you're listening and I just 253 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:49,400 pray that these messages are impacting you and I can't wait for you to come back next 254 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:55,920 time thank you God bless thank you for listening to the P.H.S.A. 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